skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t find the browser example particularly compelling. In the case that Firefox/Chrome would have been closed source (but free to use), the web browser history might have been largely similar. Flash/ActiveX/Silverlight would still have lost even if they were open source.
Yup! Not everyone will jump at it, but most will. I let some connections lapse for 10 years and then reached out. Ended up with some great conversations, good advice, and two job leads (from the hiring managers themselves.)
That's fine, let them care about that. Let the rest of us that care about the education quality find that where we may.
There ultimate treatment has arrived in the form of prevention. The urgency to develop covid specific therapeutics has dissipated for the same reason "your chance of getting it is lower."

Though even that is highly dependent on where you live, who you interact with, if you travel, etc. Lots of vaccine skeptics tend to share views and group, which makes conditions ripe for mini-outbreaks.

"Other people got the vaccine so I don't have to" is logic that looks sound on the surface but I think recent skepticism has shown that enough people all playing this card has the potential for disaster/devestation that is easily avoided.

Anyhow, you should talk your physician about this stuff, who is an authority who can give you information and help diffuse worried in a meaningful way.
Misleading: pretty much all expenses incurred by a US business are "tax deductible" in the sense that you subtract expenses from income to arrive at profit and it is profit that is taxed. So an expense needs to be explicitly prohibited by the IRS as legitimate in order to make the equivalent amount of profit subject to tax. They didn't prohibit ransom payments.
Git scraping: tracking changes to a scraped data source using GitHub Actions
I’m a beginner in ZFS, but copying the modified clone and then destroying the clone and the snapshot would solve your problem, wouldn’t it?
I never asked the herd to do anything, thus I am not in any way obliged to them morally. They did it for their own protection. I was willing to accept the 1% of dying, even if no one was vaccinated.
I'm in non-AWS and things aren't any better here. It is very much dependent on the manager and team, and I've been optimistic (~3 years now), but it gets harder as time goes on.

> I'm just not 100% sure about the whole PIP scene. Our service was extremely critical and we were extremely understaffed. So I don't think it applied to anyone in our org but I know of other teams who would have no issues in taking in a fresh college grad, making them do work for 6-12 months and then just randomly putting them on PIP.

Our team is over-worked and has a large ticket queue, constant sev-2 pages, understaffed, etc. - and yet they still PIP'd (and then fired) someone last year who didn't deserve it IMO.
Maybe you could use one of these to carry your purse dog around for you.
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Thanks, this looks really cool. I wonder what kind of algorithm and tilesets are needed to achieve what we see in the first two animated gifs on right side.

The second gif seems to be sort of 2D LOD -- once the designer zooms out a different layer is shown instead of the tiles. I think this can be achieved by preparing one set of tileset for detail editing and one for zoomed out views and switch between them.

However I'm not sure how to do things in the first gif. Looks like you have to prepare a few different (but visually close) tiles for one "group" (say grass/dirt/sky/etc.) and when the designer drag the mouse the editor randomly chooses one tile from each group. Still I think it's a lot more complicated than I thought.

I think "Tiled" does a lot of those cool things too, just wondering where we can find tutorials on those algorithms (I don't even know their names)
The royalty setup is gamed by the studios. "Hollywood Accounting" is a whole thing.
Emacs includes a book, or maybe it's in the list of installable packages called An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp (I think the package is called 'eintr') that does a pretty good job as an introductory lisp programing text and then gets deeper into the internal functions of Emacs.

By the later part of it I felt like I had a decent handle on Emacs Lisp and could read the code for packages I was interested in reasonably well.
> Rather than injecting yourself with mRNA which will create long-term antibodies in your organism which will be reactivated any time something like COVID19 appears again in the nature,

That's... supposed to be bad?
I don't know if those types of articles have any effect. Salaries are much higher in SE than other fields. That has a much larger impact of driving people towards CS than any articles could have.
I'm not seeing this connection that you and others are making between private schools and tutoring or homeschooling. When I say private schools, I mean it in the sense most people think of private schools: large institutions requiring applications, charging tuition and hiring teachers not related to the students, not "any form of education not provided publicly". I don't think homeschooling fits this definition.

The point is to move the bar for removing yourself higher - systems are complicated, there are no perfect solutions. Of course, people will always find a way - at the very least, they can move to another country. Right now though a significant number of people opt out of the public system and I think that's a huge problem.
Simplistic explained they are sequencers that can use samples.
Trackers were used in the day to make old school Jungle/D&B songs.
I feel the same about bitcoin sometimes. I heard about it on /. when it first came out. If I'd gotten into mining in the early days I'd be rich by now. Assuming, of course, that I still had my wallet and everything.
There are rules about what is taxed. If a rule says that something is not taxed is that the same thing as "taxpayers are footing the bill for that thing"?
Linux on the desktop is fine. 80% of Windows software runs carte-blanche, and the native ecosystem kinda embarrasses Microsoft's attempts at making Windows feel like a cohesive experience.

Of course, that's just my N+1 anecdata. I've been using Linux on my main PC for two years now without much issue, but ymmv.
Who is going to enforce the law? How would anyone even find out?
As these systems rely on trusted hardware, it's straightforward to do things like require the device be plugged in and in some low-level diag mode for 72 hours before allowing the root signing key to be changed.

Trusted hardware could be interesting if companies actually developed it to be legible to the user-owner, rather than their current approach of doing the bare minimum to bake in their own fixed root keys.
This should accept exactly "me a sandwich" or "ME A SANDWICH" on the GNU Make command line and do what's expected. And has the advantage of no repetition. But it is a tad more complex.

[A-Z] := A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[a-z] := a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

tr = $(if $1$2,$(call tr,$(wordlist 2,$(words $1),$1),$(wordlist 2,\
$(words $2),$2),$(subst $(firstword $1),$(firstword $2),$3)),$3)
toupper = $(call tr,$([a-z]),$([A-Z]),$1)

COMMAND := me a sandwich
ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),$(COMMAND))
fixcase = $1
endif
ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),$(call toupper,$(COMMAND)))
fixcase = $(call toupper,$1)
endif

ifdef fixcase
.PHONY: $(MAKECMDGOALS)
UID := $(subst 0,,$(shell id -u))
$(wordlist 1,2,$(MAKECMDGOALS)): ; @true
$(lastword $(MAKECMDGOALS)): ; @echo "$(call fixcase,$(if $(UID),\
What? Make it yourself,Okay))."
endif
If the release/rollback process is fast enough, and your detection of anomalies is fast enough, you can still have great productivity, and few relevant outages, when testing in production. Hell, there are situations where testing outside of production is never going to cut it, as generation of sufficient load of the right shape would take you a whole lot more of engineering time than the consequences of failure.

That said, the tradeoffs are different for different companies, and different services in the same company: Within the same team at $large_company, I owned code where testing in production, via deployments and an amazing feature flag system, was better than unit tests, while there were other areas where the build system would dedicate many CPU-hours to testing before any release. To be able to have that flexibility though, you need to know your systems, know your problems, and have great tooling for both testing in production and extremely parallelized test suites. Small and medium sized companies might not have either alternative, and we had both!

So what I'd say is that any general rule on what should be the primary means of testing code correctness is going to not lead to optimal productivity, and even more so if you don't have top quality of tooling across every possible dimension. It's perfectly OK to argue about specific examples, but without judgement of this kinds of things without having the entire story of what's there is just hubris.
I find these superficial debunkers even more tedious than the aliens are here crowd, since they selectively focus only on evidence that supports their POV whilst conveniently ignoring everything else.

Given eye-witness testimony by trained pilots there are two possibilities that I see:

+ Pilots are telling the truth, the phenomenon is real, the actors unknown (could be the US, foreign adversaries, ..)

+ Pilots are lying and this is some sort of prank or government propaganda / psychological operation.

What's not at all probable given the facts, are the explanations that fakenous.net put up.
I'm sure I could have done it. It just seemed more trouble than it was worth.
Hard to say that nobody would buy these, when they had already sold half of them before the project was finished. I don’t think I’d enjoy it, but obviously there are some people who thought this would make a nice vacation home.
Quoting the issue that the creator opened on the original repo (https://github.com/SweetIQ/schemats/issues/127):

> I figured having one that upgrades all the dependencies and uses some of the newer JS features would be a nice win.

Is this "fork" also going to address all the other Postgres-related issues of the original?
Pedestrian impact is an explicit design feature in modern cars. That's why bumpers and hoods have the same general shape on nearly every modern car. However, trucks and SUV have become extremely popular. There's only so much you can compensate for when the mass of the car is increased.

IIHS is changing tests now to incorporate pedestrian safety tests. NHTSA is also considering the change.
You change the target lean angle based on RPM. Let's say there's a side wind from the right, the wheel keeps spinning faster, so it'll set the desired lean further to the right until the RPM starts dropping.
You can tie floss into a loop. It's way better than strangling your fingers and faster too. Look at the last picture in the first post of this thread: https://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=2013.15

You grab and twist a doubled-up line, then pull the small end through the new hole. This takes just a few seconds and now I don't mind flossing daily.
I work in fintech and have a coworker that made a similar deal (4 day weeks for 6 months a year for slightly less pay).

My company treats it the same as vacation time. On the occasion there's something that only he can do but he's not in, it'll have to wait.

He is a "regular" salaried dev on a medium sized team.
New hoods often are, actually — Euro NCAP tests pedestrian collision safety. Notably the VW ID.4 at least has a hood designed to collapse inward in that case; I assume other cars have this feature as well
Yeah I've got enough money, and I don't buy brand new vehicles (expensive depreciating assets) so I don't bother with collision or comprehensive and I "self-insure".

I also have never been in an accident which has written off my vehicle -- staying situationally aware and driving defensively helps a lot.

So what I do is max out my liability and uninsured motorists insurance up to something like $250,000.

I never get insurance for things like phones.

A lot of insurance is tax on poor people and the mathematically illiterate.
well… you’re being downvoted.

first: if you were truly homeless and in danger if starvation you’d work there. it’s also not cool to diminish people because they’re homeless.

second: having Amazon on your resume is not bad. It shows that you can work hard and if you managed to survive in there you’re probably thrive in other environments.

third: overall I agree with the sentiment you are expressing
There were two people, a husband and wife. It was also reported after that police were investigating her for homicide because she was actually very much anti-Trump and had a history of brutalizing her husband publicly. Appears that she gave him a large dose that killed him and took a tiny one herself likely to create some sort of weird alibi.
I think you're misunderstanding the point of this. It's not meant to be a device that people directly interact with. It's meant to be a local server that anyone nearby with a wi-fi connection can tap into regardless of broader internet availability. In that way it's likely to last much longer since it can be placed somewhere safe and not run the risk of being stolen/fought over/dropped/smashed/etc. and the end point used by the local population doesn't matter - a chromebook, second-hand android phone, whatever.
Yes, IF thought of as a long term solution, and not a stop gap.
I'm mostly interested in this post because the contrast he draws between AWS and z/OS deeply resonates with me.

What if someone built an OS to deal with cloud-scale problems at the ground level - in the kernel? This isn't to say the likes of S3 or DynamoDB should be implemented in kernel space (far from it). But the mishmash of services AWS does offer seems to be more about solving cloud-scale problems without implementing an OS, while creating a lot of DevOps jobs and a ton of vendor lock-in.

At this point, AWS reminds me a lot of Windows Server: lots of UI, object-heavy scripting, a huge suite of expensive vendor-specific products, and a sheer inelegance about how the whole thing is built.

I also see a lot of personality similarities between Windows admins in corporate IT of the 2000s and today's AWS DevOps professionals.

Linux finally took down Windows Server because it had superior qualities as a development OS and was cheaper to run on server hardware. It also had a long history of people just building cool stuff on it...

I have no idea what innovation will finally take down AWS, but perhaps mainframe OS's are a promising trail to go down (if infrastructure-as-code could be applied).
Yep, now it's much better, 1200 W/h sounds like "normal" for a small portable unit.

About the channeling of the hot air inside:
>The other day I modified my air conditioner to channel the hot outside heat right back at the compressor to heat up the outside air instead of the cooler inside heat. Compared to last year, I don't really see a difference. Last year I didn't have this system and couldn't get below 22C/72F either. So I probably wasted my time optimizing my air conditioner.

Having the conditioner be fed continuously the hotter air should be less efficient.

A house (normally) is not air tight if you suck air out of a room, pumping it outside, the same amount of air will re-enter the room by all the leaks of windows, doors, etc. (if this was not the case, think of bathrooms without windows with an aerator, people don't die in those bathrooms because of the vacuum).

Let's say that your portable conditioner can treat a given amount of air (let us assume 1 m3/min) and that temperature lowering is linear (it isn't) i.e. that unit can lower the temperature 20° C.

If the room you have the thingy installed is 3x4 mt and 3 mt high, it contains 36 m3 of air.

If the air was treated "sequentially" (i.e. imagine a square pipe 1m x 1m 36 m long) it would take 36 minutes to lower the whole amount from 40° C to 20° C at full power.

In the meantime (assuming that your house has a minimum of insulation from the outside) there will be only a partial re-heating of the air, so that each of the 36 m3 of air (still imagine the sequential treating) is at a slightly different temperature, 1st m3 will be (say) at almost the same outside temperature, but still lower, 35° C, last one (the one just treated) will be at 20 °C.

Now, if you re-enter the "loop", that 1st cubic meter temperature can be lowered to 15 ° C, so the loop is a "virtuous one".

In reality, if you expel the hot air from a room, the same amount of hot air will re-enter the room from the leaks, what you are doing is using the volume of the room to act as a cache of sorts, i.e. the air that enters (at 40 ° C) will be "diluted" and in theory that will contribute only to 40/36=1,11 degrees warmer air.

BUT, and here is the nice part, the hotter air will go towards the ceiling, and since you are not 3 m tall, you will be living in the cooler 2/3 of the room, and the air that the conditioner treats will be cooler (assuming the unit is on the floor and not suspended), and as such it can be made even more cool with less energy.
Royalties are a form of ownership of the work. Stock options and other equity grants give employees an opportunity to take ownership shares of the work, which more or less accomplishes the same thing.

The reality is that a hit show may have 7-10 core writers and reach hundreds of millions of people. Software engineers working for a few years as part of a company with 1000 or more other engineers doesn't isn't really going to produce comparable upside per engineer.

Given the choice, most people would prefer higher up-front pay over lower up-front pay with an option to have more royalties on the back-end.
I might be in a minority because I write a lot of .NET which in production is almost exclusively deployed on Linux. It's absolutely viable, performance is great, and tool support is fantastic. We agree so far.

However, I have to point out that .NET does have a Windows-only heritage, and as a result, a lot of lower-level APIs (files, processes, signals, pipes, terminals) still have some painful Windows-isms. Fortunately, the situation improves every year, and for a typical server application that exclusively communicates over the network, you're completely fine (and have been for several years now).
This + side-effects not going away as advertised. Finding some longer term side effect studies is not that easy in general search engine, due to slew of regurgitated basic information about side effects.

Would be nice to have some data, instead of a ton of articles that say the same old "most symptoms go away within a few days". How does one decide whether to vaccinate or not based on such information? What is most? What is few days?

Some side effects are extremely common, like shoulder pain. Acceptable if it goes away in a week, let's say. But if there's a risk I'll have it for 3 months or forever, I'd like to know how common is that to make a calculated risk assessment. < 1% probably acceptable. >2-3% probably not.

And this will only be more apparent with time and more studies. The study I managed to find tracked people only for 8 days, had a nice graph of symptoms fading away with time. Mind calming exponential decay. :) Good, but 5% still had some symptoms at day 8. How many do have them at day 60?

I don't understand why such information has to be so hard to find for normal people, who don't spend days searching around on google scholar.
Is that a blanket policy on any foreign national? or only specific countries? For example is a Canadian treated the same as a French and are they considered the same as Chinese?
The answer to "why is there such a diversity problem in tech" is always "it's a pipeline problem." But when folks try to directly address the pipeline problem, that's racism?

What problem does your whites-only platform aim to solve?
You're weighing a real possibility against an unfounded one.

P(Complications|Covid) has a calculatable probability.

P(Complications|Vaccine) is not, because we don't even know if they exist. And further, we strongly suspect they don't.

In other words, I think you're trading one hand for (at best) one in the bush.
Instead of looking up the original video (e.g. by using the watch id), you immediately write it off as "crackpot claims" because some unknown authority at YouTube removed it, citing broad community guidelines.

Maybe we should stick to your words from 4 days ago:

"Science reporting is terrible and the general education system doesn't teach rational skepticism, it teaches unconditional trust of intellectual authority."

Is this really a skeptical, discussion-friendly behaviour or an unconditional trust in some kind of authority?
And if, in your hypothetical, assisting philanthropists in doing proper research into the usage of funds takes less than 5% of their time, then it’s a net benefit.

What is the appropriate balance? Luckily you nor I get to decide. People donating their money get to choose what level is appropriate for them. And the overwhelming number of experienced philanthropists do research into whether or not the organizations they donate to are doing what they claim to do.

Again, I hope you apply this same flippancy to the possibility of human misbehavior in the rest of your life. Do you buy Dell computers with no research because they claim to be the best? Do buy whatever item on Amazon has the highest rating? Do you invest in bloodwork startups because they say they have nationwide deals with Walgreens? If you do, then cool, you’re just a really trusting person. And that’s fine. But if not, you’re giving a free pass to some people and not to others, and I cannot fathom what makes some organization formed around a non-profit structure inherently more trustworthy than one formed around profitability.
Again, "killing off all humans" is not the only concern. We already know about the mass extinction event that's being caused by our current activities. (This is only partly caused by global warming, of course). Ignoring that is unconscionable. And we can see the effects of the climate change already happening to humans even in the US, with rare floods happening almost every year and record setting heat waves and droughts causing power problems and water insecurity. So clearly there will need to be some behavior modification or big actions to tackle the new normal.

Anyway, it doesn't really seem like switching away from fuels that spew poison into the air and periodically facilitate catastrophic harm to ocean wildlife is going to, uh "cripple or destroy civilization." As for costs:

> Global warming comes with a big price tag for every country around the
world. The 80 percent reduction in U.S. emissions that will be needed to
lead international action to stop climate change may not come cheaply,
but the cost of failing to act will be much greater. New research shows that if present
trends continue, the total cost of global warming will be as high as 3.6 percent of gross
domestic product (GDP). Four global warming impacts alone—hurricane damage,
real estate losses, energy costs, and water costs—will come with a price tag of 1.8
percent of U.S. GDP, or almost $1.9 trillion annually (in today’s dollars) by 2100. We
know how to avert most of these damages through strong national and international
action to reduce the emissions that cause global warming. But we must act now. The
longer we wait, the more painful—and expensive—the consequences will be.

1. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/cost.pdf