skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I detest this mindset. It is incredibly counter productive.

"Our tests are bad, so lets not test" is not a thought worthy of respect. This states that you know about a problem but want to continue to ignore that problem. Reprehensible.

No, we should take the exact opposite approach. Test everyone constantly until such methods become both cheap and powerful. So yeah we all have some cancer load but if the diagnostic or treatment systems can't deal with that reality then those systems need to change.
a browser based multiplayer game you can access with a link
I also know people who work in banking.

¿Some? ATM machines have hard disks, and are certified with specific models.

You would be surprised what a hard disk with 1/100 the capacity (or even less) of a $100 one costs.
I wonder if certain genre's are seasonal and other's ever green? Like, there hasn't been a new RTS that penetrated my radar like starcraft in awhile. Maybe there'll be a bump in sales for Crypt Of the Necrodancer.[0]

[0]https://braceyourselfgames.com/crypt-of-the-necrodancer/
Holy shit its like this author just experienced his very first 'cultural wave' phenomenon and then decided that literally every small detail around it was some critical reason for its success.

There are probably labs out there they have figured out how to send 'viral waves' out into the economy and profit from it, but thats all this is. Game of Thrones was an example, The Walking Dead was an example, Fortnite was an example, and Roblox was an example. Those examples highlight two very different viral culture waves. The kids playing games and the grown ups watching tv, but they highlight the exact same phenomenon.

As for this game itself its probably exactly like Among Us and the million other little indie games like it that shot up in popularity 'out of know where' except it wasn't out of nowhere at all. It was a couple dozen HIGHLY interconnected Twitch streamers all getting into the same space and then 100's of follow along mid tier twitch streamers hoping to ride the new bandwagon to higher viewership.
From their FAQ [1]:

Q: How does the AI in Canvas work?
NVIDIA Canvas uses a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) to turn a rough painting of a segmentation map into a realistic landscape image. 5 million photographs of landscapes were used to train the network on an NVIDIA DGX.

Q: Is Canvas related to GauGAN?
Canvas is built on the same research core that NVIDIA showed in GauGAN.

[1] https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5105
That's not an appropriate analogy for more reasons than I care to relate here. Suffice to say that if you believe that the engine check light is the equivalent to a positive cancer test that you probably should stay out of medicine ;)

And maybe out of your garage as well...
Practical Common Lisp lives up to its name as the most practical of introduction texts, covering all the core topics and including many small example projects.

Touretzky's Gentle Introduction is popular, but targeted more at people entirely new to programming. The nice thing about this book is it is more like a college textbook in that it has many homework questions with answers in the back, so its great for structured practice.

Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp is still my favorite introductory text assuming the reader has knowledge of an existing functional language (using Javascript functionally for example). The books is a firehose of information, is short yet somehow manages to cover even more material than the other books, includes a full reference to CL, has a section on performance tuning I haven't seen in other intro texts, and still fits in meaty examples like a raytracer and a prolog-lite DSL. It's a real shame this book does not get a reprint, you'll need to buy a used version to get it at a decent price, however I'm finding myself using it as a reference so much I'm considering buying a new copy.

What I've found with learning CL as opposed to other langauges is that I get a lot of value out of reading multiple beginner texts. Rather than having a small number of core concepts like an OO language, CL just has a massive number of functions. This makes it nicer to work with IMO but just takes more repetition to learn.

An alternative approach I would love to see somebody try is to learn straight from Norvig's Paradigms of AI Programming. The book has a brief introduction to the langauge at the start, then goes into writing actual very interesting code, then ends with a section covering some of the more detailed topics. If you're the kind of person who learns most by example of real-world code, it could work.
>There are three principles of public relations:

> repeating

> repeating

> repeating

> much like the

> location

> location

> location

> mantra in real estate.

My favorite are the three most important things in sales:

honesty

honesty

honesty

If you can't fake that you're lost.
It's clearly tied to this research, and the purpose of it is also pretty clear. Technology is technology. It doesn't care about morality and what's right or wrong.
I stopped using Google when they started showing me captchas for the crime of using a VPN…

Switched to Duck but I’m giving Brave Search a try as well.
Same. I have been using DuckDuckGo for over 4 years now. There is not much reason to go back to Google. DuckDuckGo ticks all my requirements:

- General search.

- Prefix search with "\ " to jump to the first result. (often use it for those links that I am certain of ranking first)

- Bangs for site-specific searches. Use it for online shopping.

- Quick currency, temperature conversions, math.

On the mobile side of things, the tracker blocker functionality with one-click-erase functionality are neat.

There's nothing really to not like about DuckDuckGo. If desired results are not available, Google search is one step away. Just prefix with "!g"

I briefly considered Ecosia but the lack of first-result jumper and bangs were a problem for me.

Brave Search is something I want to try but the large amount of space between search results is slightly bothering.
Changing Your PS1's Prompt Based on the Previous Command's Return Value
Two (plus a space) for me. if you’re on iOS - and I think Android - if you hold the “123” modifier and then _slide_ to the “!” and release, it inputs the character and then switches the keyboard back to alpha. one touch.
>It's extra silly since there's always a robust aftermarket for any reasonably popular car.

One difference is the difficulties in making some 'parts' now. It's one thing to make a fuel pump for a 1950's car, quite another to duplicate a controller board, often with obsolete parts and secret software, that runs the convertible top.

Another is that a lot of parts are more monolithic than they used to be and harder to design/build. Look at headlight assemblies.

It doesn't help that with the increasing amount of software and electronics in a modern car (a Tesla being the leading example), the auto industry is acquiring the product lifecycle times and forced obsolescence of the PC industry.
You mean without all the SEO spam? Doesn't it still use Google's indexes/algorithms so the results would be the same?
>The only argument except all the ethical ones.

Those are ethical arguments!

If your hours are cut, or you can't find work or small business goes bankrupt due to enforced minimum wage, then whether or not to implement this policy is an ethical consideration!

>Like workers being able to afford food?

Minimum wage doesn't fix that. Minimum wage does not show any measure of improvement on any metric we care about like poverty rates. And that's in the best case scenario. In many cases, it has a demonstrable negative effect.
My friend read that two years ago and now works for a small F# consultancy that sounds like a great place to work. He really recommends the book.
I’m in a similar boat where upper-management is completely out of touch.

For us WFH is an option because it boosts productivity: People often end up working later.

Leading a high-performance team, I should be able to do team-wide things as a reward to boost morale and combat burn out.

Yet here I am, seriously contemplating leaving.
>PC hardware isn't ideal because you lose the benefits of specialised offload capabilities.

Just so you know, this isn't true. Nothing stops hardware offload from being put in a PCIe slot (that's where it tends to have started actually). And indeed that's a fairly standard thing on decent NICs, which don't have to be particularly expensive if you buy used. I've switched to OPNsense for routing functionality at all sites I manage, and have had no issues with hardware offloading for CRC, TCP segmentation and large receive offloading, or VLAN hardware filtering with Intel or Chelsio NICs. Both are very well supported under FreeBSD. I suspect a Linux based solution would have an even wider range of options since it tends to have more hardware support, so something like a Mellanox card could work.

At any rate though it works well, and running on a PC opens a vast array of useful options and flexibility, all the standard tools are there, and one can get something enormously more capable then a typical pre-made gateway/router for cheap.

>I moved to router, switch, AP (Ubiquiti gear).

I did this as well way back, and still run the switch and APs as UniFi for now. But I'd caution against depending on them for routing, it's always been a weak point and they've really, REALLY gone down the tubes on development there long since. UniFi gateway/routing and most network services that they've decided to make dependent on it (DNS, DHCP etc) is frankly complete crap. OPNsense (probably pfsense would work too but I didn't want to go to another proprietary solution with a worrying concentration of asshole at the top), VyOS or the like aren't quite as nice to manage, but it's so nice to have normal capabilities and something kept up to date again.
Eyes on Frost Giant to deliver us the spiritual SC3
SETI could have never worked as it presents itself. Our digital signals are too weak for interplanetary distance. Even our analog signals are too weak unless amplified and directly broadcasted at an intersteller target.

If aliens bothered to directly contact us, they could easily broadcast strongly enough that SETI wouldn't be needed at all, and why wouldn't they? (Even if they didn't, military systems would have picked up the signal before SETI did).

OTOH, SETI is very good at what it's actually doing, redirecting resources to radioastronomy.
It's not out of the form. It's out of the email fields.
So if you press tab to go to the next field, the email is send somewhere without notice.
I don't have a good number on this, but its a more risky issue than "my infotainment display died" or "my backup camera stopped working".

Basically, the unknown unknowns for vehicle manufacturers is skyrocketing since they are now working outside of core competencies be that EVs, software driven power trains, or backup cameras.
I mean, targetting musl means pretty much using a different operating system than GNU/Linux. The ELF linking semantics pretty much enforce that you're using the same libc implementation for your whole program.

That's like complaining that, say, a program built against cygwin on windows, can't work on a system without the cygwin dll (and all its dependencies also compiled against the cygwin dll).
I remember when downloading 10MB would sometimes take multiple tries.

Maybe the internet felt so much more exciting to me back then because it was so much slower.
I keep waiting for one of these stories where the journalist writes, "We tried contacting a labor economist for their take on this trend, but they all quit." Or even better, "Editor's note: we assigned this story on people quitting dead end jobs to our journalist, but he quit before he finished it."
Yeah my old place didn't give a shit, features were our success criteria.

PMs don't usually care about security really, they also just want to check off boxes. Like my old PM wanted to load test the CDN (AWS) we were using just so that we could check off a DDOS proof box.

I said that load testing AWS was pointless and that we should load test our supporting infrastructure instead and he just dismissed it.

Kinda makes me feel a bit depressed about the state of the industry tbh
A mall across the street pretty much universally increases the value of existing retail in the area due to increased car traffic. But the mall across the street shutting down or converting to non-retail use would fit.
Same here, I'm on the GSuite
DCF77 is still going, I have a clock that syncs with it.
Your point is interesting. Can you cite some literature that supports it?
If you can even get non-Smart TVs.

Last month I gave our nice SmartTV to a friend and bought low quality non-Smart TV from Walmart for $199. Really low quality but running it with just a new Apple TV box is a UI delight. My wife is unhappy with the downgrade, but I love it - much more private, no unwanted SmartTV apps and having the UI driven in ways I didn't like, being forced to have the old device on the Internet, etc.
The free market soluton:

Market experimentation is necessary for innovation. Now we've learned never to buy a product from WD (in case you forgot that last year they intentionally sold unfit SMR hard drives and lied about it).

Also, always have backups (not just syncs!).
I paid $45 for a ship a long long time ago. The "game" was as buggy and incomplete as they get. I had an incredible time playing around.

I'm still in awe at what they have achieved. You really do feel like you are in space. I can float around the station for an hour and not get bored. I walked into a space ship and got lost inside of it one time. So much if it is realistic. Nothing compares.

Sadly, it's just a great tech demo. That's all it will ever be. I wish RSI would be more honest.
I like how it goes from rather simplistic ideas to rather nuanced ones as it gets to the last section. Reminds me of some of the fun philosophical chats one would have in high school and college.

Also seconding cbsks’ comment about the rest of this site being a great resource and a work of love, which appears to be still going from the Web 1.0 days
yup, and on a steeply declining trend, looking like a classic mountain profile of a bubble chart, headed back down to the long-term trend.

So, yes, you'd still be in the profit zone had you invested in long-term futures pre-pandemic, but left a lot of money on the table by not selling in the last few weeks.

perhaps it will change and continue up again.

Are you putting any money on that trend? I'm neither long nor short
You’re correct in that this is a prevailing view in epidemiological/Public Health circles. But Medical Science is not only the macro but also the micro level perspective. Individual Practitioners of medicine might well appreciate more and earlier Data. A first principals based argument is a complementary approach that might uncover things that an empirical view might hide.A good example of this is the Australian Noble Laureate Barry Marshall (https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank...). As long as the hypothesis can consequently be validated in controlled clinical studies, a theoretical argument even without existing foundation in empirical literature can still make for good science.
SICP takes _ages_. I'm working through it myself but have realised it's going to be a background project for the next year or so. No idea how MIT freshman do it so quickly!
I am not surprised by this, of course if there is a deadline to get the app out, they are going to have to release it. But if there are any critical vulnerabilities, they could always be patched with an update.
"...for a man in my age group, with no significant savings or other safety net, this is extremely scary"

I'm sorry you are in this situation. I applaud your self-awareness, and suspect you have enough skills and discipline to turn this around in the next few years. You may never get to the point of having millions tucked away for retirement, but do hope you can get to a point where you do have 'significant savings'. I'd measure that by your measure of 'extremely scary'.

My wife and I have no kids, so 'saving' has been somewhat easier 'by default' than some of our peers. That said, it's not automatic, and I know plenty of folks who are high earners who will manage to spend it all without 'significant savings' to speak of.
And the browser’s autofill may fill in the email address without the user intending to, conceivably.
Where I live, the $300 from the federal gov’t continues until early September but the $300 from the state ends this month, I could be wrong but I assume it’s going to differ moderately from state to state.

At any rate, a lot of people I know that quit have already found or started looking for a different job. Most people aren’t looking to keep living off the system so much as they are looking to find a job that doesn’t pay them _and_ treat them like dirt. Social services companies around here are literally offering $1000+ referrals because they can’t keep group homes staffed or run any community interactions. I think it’s pretty clear at this point that it’s not just about the handouts, it’s about people realizing how atrocious their working conditions were and not wanting to put up with it anymore.
https://www.cleanthinking.de/wp-content/uploads/Batterie-Gig...
You totally negated your point with that last admission.
The problem is not my mindset, but your understanding of the subject material. Patient outcomes have very little to do with the quality of the tests, even a 100% accurate test would not necessarily lead to improved patient outcomes because these are defined independent of the tests.

You are treating this like a software problem, but it isn't, it's a medical problem, and medical problems tend to be complex because they have a ton of confounding variables that make it hard to have a one-size-fits-all method for dealing with medical issues.

What needs to change is that people need to realize that they have a field of expertise and that the medical domain has its own experts who typically dedicate a lifetime to their profession, their general consensus is that improved tests are welcome but in and of themselves are not enough to guarantee improved patient outcomes. Yes, this is unfortunate, but it is also a simple reality, you can either accept that or not, that's up to you but if you want to make a change there than you probably should join the medical profession. Most likely by the time that you have completed the requirements you will have shifted your viewpoint away from the software domain's mindset that all bugs can be found and squashed by the next sprint. Which by the way judging by the general quality of software out there is also something that doesn't work out in practice as we believe it should in theory.
Probably an awful lot for them to want to pay a developer to do this.
They’re dropping VR support in the new expansion. That sucks. If there’s any game perfect for VR, it’s space sims - as the prior release of E:D showed.
> While it may have some negative aspects, Canada is actually a beacon many positive ways - largely because of what the Colonialists have managed to create.

Canada is a positive beacon in many ways in spite of its origins as a colony, not because of them.

> All citizens of Canada live immensely higher standards of living than they would otherwise under the Colonial umbrella - including aboriginals.

What is "the Colonial umbrella" you are referring to here? Canada's standards of living are attributable to a number of factors, including an immense land area with plentiful natural resources, a highly industrialized economy, a robust system of law and government, etc. Like Japan, the UK, the US and the other G7 countries (only two of which were originally colonies).

Secondly, I challenge your assertion that the native peoples of Canada would have lower standards of living were it not for colonialism. On the contrary, I think the evidence is clear that colonialism has been an unmitigated disaster for indigenous peoples. Unfortunately we will never know what standards of living the indigenous peoples of North America might have achieved in the 21st century had Europe respected their sovereignty.

> Paradoxically, even for the aboriginals, of the 'solutions' ahead amount to ... 'more colonialism'.

I take your point in the sense that many of these measures are "interventions" in a sense; they are initiatives imposed (or presented) by the federal government. I think they are fundamentally different from the original acts of colonialism, however, in that they seek to confer rights, status and resources as opposed to taking those things away.

Where this goes beyond my understanding of the issues is in trying to determine who wants what, who speaks for whom, and so on...for instance you point out "problems with allocating land ownership and control to individuals". Of course that is problematic when, as I understand it, in many indigenous cultures the idea of owning land is considered absurd. It is, indeed, colonialist to insist on answers to questions like "who owns this land?" without considering that perhaps, no one does - and perhaps no one ought to.
I agree wholeheartedly; it's also much harder and not very economically rewarding on average
That was then. Going forward, after the legal minimum expires, DRM will prevent replacement parts from working.
Is My Sore Throat Covid-19 or Not?
Larger teams ship faster?

My experience is that in most situations larger teams ship slower, precisely because of the collaboration costs you mention. There are ways to reduce the dependencies, but most organizations can't get there.
'Crafting Interpreters' by Bob Nystrom is such a joy to read.
Great explanation. LiveView is such a life changer for building fast and interactive interfaces without having to build a separate client-side application.
You will tend the robot instead.
Home Gym Ideas to Help You Create the Ultimate Workout Space
This has to be a record for the most number of times someone plugged their startup in an article supposedly having nothing to do with their startup.
Possibly beneficial and useful features can still be dark patterns. Whether or not there is any potential user-value is irrelevant to the ethics of design decisions like these.

If you're dealing with user data you should never compromise a basic respect for that user's intent. Designing for implied consent where consent should be explicit (e.g. sharing personal data) is unambiguously a dark pattern.
>> treatments are not necessarily an improvement over having a mostly dormant cancer.

This is true today.

But if we could detect cancer at a really early stage, relatively reliably, maybe this means we could develop new and effective treatments that are low risk and low on side-effects ?

And if we had that, early cancer detection will also have a totally different meaning, so that could help with the mental health aspect too.
By that logic let's monitor their clipboard for email and phone numbers. Let's tell them that they should enable notifications so we verify they're not a robot. Let's ask them to download a little executable to see if we can find helpful ways to reach them.

We'll provide an unsubscribe link, I promise.

... But let's just record they clicked unsubscribe because that means they're engaged. I mean maybe they clicked in error? Let's ask them to confirm.

... But maybe they confirmed because they were confused and didn't understand the great value we provide.

We can beat around the bush our way to full-blown scammers all day.

Saving emails from a form NOT submitted is bullshit, and you know it. The user never intended to submit.
I’m on a slack channel with other startup founders and just this week I was seeing chatter about how asking rates for Eastern EU devs were skyrocketing lately