skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think those are all very good questions. No one should be shouted down for asking them.

I think it is very important to be critical of media controlled by a political party.

These are all very natural feelings, and as context they are important.

However, there is more context that is important. For instance, there are many many examples of viruses making the jump from animals to humans, some recent examples are Sars-COV1, MERS, and H5N1.

The questions you ask sound like the ones raised about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - Saddam Hussein certainly was motivated to lie and cover up, but even with all those red flags, no WMDs were found.

In other words, to make a real case requires more than red flags.

The motivation of the people raising the accusations should also be examined. In the case of Iraq's WMDs, there was a desire to remove Hussein from power. In the case of China, there is a desire to discredit and diminish China's power on the world stage.
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Do we need an update of free software licenses to specifically address this?
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I could imagine a scenario where the target server has more capacity and thereby a better place to do the transforming steps.
Where in the US do you live? Can you share some stories of how you've secured your personal safety using a gun, where you had no other viable options?
The water is just there for thermal mass to conduct waste heat away from the condenser. The water that gets heated by the reactor core and turns the turbines is isolated and highly purified, since many of the internals can only be accessed during refuels. Some designs go further and separate the reactor coolant system from the steam generator to prevent contamination, but AFAIK there isn't a single commercial design that allows outside water to feed into the reactor cooling or power generation systems. The parts of the condenser that touch the external body of water are basically just blocks of metal that have to be scrubbed on the outside from time to time.
This! You nailed it.

Actually, the best practical example is environmentalists-crawled Germany vs. energy-exporting France.
Upvoted because these are all great points that I agree with but code review is still worth the trouble in many situations. On my team it helps us keep a consistent style and forces more people on the team to stay up to date with changes. Code quality is improved because of our review process. Pair programming would accomplish some of that, but not all team members would have a voice. Further, reviews are asynchronous.

Sure, reviews are a time sink. No one likes them. We are still better off having done them.
There seems confusion caused here and in those reddit comments, mostly from two senses of the word "see". The reddit instructions say

> Close your eyes and imagine a red star. Which image do you see? I see 2, but most people see 5 or 6.

It seems some people are (a) reporting what they actually see with their eyes closed, i.e. mostly nothing, a 1. Others are (b) imagining a star and reporting what that looks like in their mind's eye.

I didn't think that aphantasia meant the (a)-type literal seeing, so I just read up on it again, and the descriptions seem to refer to (b)-type imagining/visualization, like imagining a giraffe then being able to describe what you see in your imagination. It doesn't mean you can actually see it, with open or closed eyes.

It seems this test convinced a lot of people they have aphantasia, as it seems most people are a 1. And I suspect most of those who say 6 are talking about what they imagine, not what they physically see. I'm a 1 in sense (a), but in sense (b) a 6, well, I can imagine any kind of red star, like most people, I believe.
This is the real problem. Unfortunately big business has politicians by the balls, so this is unlikely to happen.

Billionaires get tax breaks while the lowest-paid workers buying power goes down every year without fail.

And no guillotines because they're all too busy trying to keep their head above water. GG billionaires.
Taking objection to “FANG”

Netflix engineer here. We’ve been hiring remote during the pandemic and have a permanent WFH policy in place. The policy includes pay tiers depending where you live, but the pay adjustment doesn’t take place until COVID WFH is lifted.

I work on a team that, post covid, has engineers in two countries. I personally live in PHX and won’t be returning to the Bay Area. My salary is currently 100% what my Bay Area was, and will be adjusted down to 80% once the offices fully open.
At work, I've been writing a word document to explain every part of a program I've written and how each element interacts with the rest. It's been very helpful to find things that don't make as much sense as I thought they did when I wrote them, and revealing old code that is no longer used anywhere in the application. And I've caught a few places where outdated .txt / .md / inline-doxygen documentation lies, too.

Writing a summary document really forces you to get to the nitty gritty and catch things that a casual review would miss.
If you look at the chain of comments, I'm saying that you can do with vanilla JS what you can do with Vue, so you don't "need" Vue. You're free to use it of course, but it's not "necessary". That was my main point.

> I'm even less sure that they have any valid reason to care besides a knee-jerk "bloat" reaction.

I totally agree! Especially if the team is already used to Vue or React or whatever and it will help them produce a higher quality product than going with something they don't know. I do value light software, but not to the point of stupid light [1], and not implementing feature because "Vue is bloat" would be an example of stupid light software.

[1]: https://www.arp242.net/stupid-light.html
Hilariously enough, I imagine people are getting more done this week :laugh_cry_emoji:
This book is excellent. If I've had read it when I were a junior developer, I'd have advanced years of my understanding of software.

Ousterhout is the inventor of one the most important unsung principle of software development: the Ousterhout's Dichotomy.

"Ousterhout's Dichotomy, proposed by John Ousterhout as a software development paradigm, asserts that the world of application development is divided into two languages: a compiled language focusing on disk access and efficiency such as C, and a higher-level, typeless or loosely-typed scripting language with a simple, basic syntax."

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Ousterhout%27s+Dichotomy

All your pandas, numpy, R belong to his
> devs were just testing what they changed and never noticed something horribly broken somewhere else.

There's your problem. If they broke it but didn't test what they broke, then they changed it but didn't realise they had. "Horribly broken elsewhere" sounds like the sort of thing that should show up in an automated test, no?

If the problem is "we don't have a good enough automated test suite and our architecture doesn't limit the blast radius of changes" then I can see how throwing QA headcount at it might look tempting.
You're right, as a whole it's not trivial. I remember reading the search part and found it not particularly hard, but I missed the big picture. Thank you for your work!
Economic empowerment is the single greatest strategy to improve the climate and that is the entirety of the Republican platform.
I love the idea of public transport. The reality doesn't match the idea though. Same as "drive vs not drive" for climate change, the rules have to change for most people to consistently prefer public transport over using their own car.

Plane vs train? Two different use cases which people would rate differently depending on benefit vs risk/cost.

I can easily see people happy to use a plane to travel long distances with a known set (to the carrier) of people but not want to use a public train with strangers getting on and off at each stop.

Here in Australia where we have limited number of COVID+ people and track'n'trace is feasible it makes a huge difference.
I saw that the dosdude patchers were downloading those (or similar) .sucatalog files but they're pretty large and I had trouble figuring out which URLs in there corresponded to the OS installers I needed, or whether the installer was maybe broken up into parts or something... so after a brief period of desire to figure out how that file was organized, I downloaded all 3 patchers and clicked the Download button, heh.

That gib tool looks helpful, and... wow, I haven't seen that word since the Quake days!
This is very true.

A great product manager is as priceless as a great developer.
Everyone has to buy Heath insurance. I think the issue here is that only gun owners are paying this new tax.
Jonathan Blow: Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation
This sounds true on the surface and many people have argued that e.g. Kubernetes is "OTP but for distributed nodes" but I remain skeptical. The devil is always in the details and I haven't heard many people being very pleased with Kubernetes.

Admittedly Google's Cloud Run is very easy and nice to use though. And fairly cheap.
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We’re talking past each other. I’m in favor of ending companies that wantonly break the law.

Corporate death penalties reinvent the wheel for zero benefit. It gets, at best, to the same place as fines or revocation. It adds the needless step of creating an unprecedented and politically-charged term with major constitutional flaws in respect of the taking of private property. If I’m a lobbyist trying to gut antitrust and the threat of those stronger measures I just mentioned, corporate death penalties are an almost all-too-perfect red herring. It severs the left from the centre-left so cleanly that I’m about 10% sure it came out of the right.

If you like the idea of ending companies for bad things, skip fabricated steps and push for specific crimes being punishable with fines equal to a substantial fraction of enterprise value and/or license revocations. You would have to do that anyway with any corporate death penalty rules. Go straight for the kill.

Unless, of course, the aim is rabble rousing. In that case, fight for corporate death penalties. It’s effective at turning out certain voting blocks.

> [corporations] shouldn't have the same rights as real people

Corporations don’t have the same rights as natural persons.

They have many of them, but those are mostly severable through legislation. Incorporation does have broad support. Taking the evil lobbyist from the previous example, if she sees a list of ten corporate reforms she doesn’t like, adding ending corporate personhood to the list guarantees opposition from small business to multinationals, NGOs and unions to trade associations.
> (Free tax filing for incomes < X)

It's free period. There is a threshold, but cost isn't what changes. Here's the entrypoint: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...

* <= 72k provides a wizard and includes state taxes.

* > 72k requires you fill out virtual versions of the paper forms (with some limited automation) and doesn't include state taxes, but it's still free.
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US military spending dropped by about half when you look at GDP between 1982 and 1999, so your statements about the Cold War ending not affecting spending is just straight up incorrect. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...
direct link to PDF of injunction: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.37...
I'm no data scientist but many statistical methods rely on prior knowledge and even computed inputs.

Two examples I can think of are doing linear regression on the square of your input. For deep learning, people have improved visual representation by taking samples of the colors at various frequencies. [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.08934.pdf
I suppose in the same way that a poll tax does or doesn’t abridge voting.
of course. of course!

it’s k8s clusters all the way down
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Back in the 80s, TOPS-20 had a bug in the OS which allowed the output of a batch job to exceed the user's disk quota. If the batch job resubmitted itself recursively, the entire system could come to grinding halt pretty quickly as all free disk space was used up.
The lawsuit is decidedly not referring to dynamic memory allocation. There's no way to "request" a runtime-specified amount of memory dynamically here.

The memory in question is a tiny, fixed-size block of RAM inside the chip that's directly connected to the various logic blocks. There is no way to allocate or request anything -- that memory is all you've got, and all of the bits have been spoken for by the time the chip is taped out.

What they seem to be describing is something resembling a C union mapped directly onto that RAM block. That's not dynamic allocation, that's "these bits are interpreted differently depending on which logic blocks are active, so that we don't have to have a separate RAM block for each functional unit, because that would be a waste of space."

Every legal combination and order of configuration structures in this RAM block is specified and tested, that's why it's not dynamic allocation. If anything, it's a really big list of possible static allocations.

I agree with you that the SRAM/DRAM distinction is immaterial, but that's just how patents are written.

But of course, all this is a complete tangent. Nothing that SparkFun makes has anything to do with any of this.
Exactly - right now investments function as a tax-deferred account with no maximum, which allows billionaires to accumulate wealth without any taxation.

They also strongly incentivize the wealthy to push for policy changes that reduce gains and estate taxes, because the payoff for even a short-lived reduction in gains taxes is massive when you have $500M in yet-to-be-taxed assets accumulated.

If net-asset-gains in a year were treated as income, the actual tax rate could be cut by 80% and we'd still have increased tax revenue.
Do they normally have trouble with that? Seems like anyone new to the workforce would at least try a job at a FAANG if they're offered it in a heartbeat unless you're totally full of yourself or somehow have better options. With the exception maybe being deeply held ethical concerns regarding any of them.
I don't think the point of lowercased's comment was that devs don't underestimate tasks to the same degree that "outside-of-technical-people" might. They are saying that "outside-of-technical-people" don't have the experience to understand how difficult it is to give an accurate estimate or how much pressure is put on devs to agree to a deadline and take responsibility for making something happen by that date. This is compounded by the fact that stakeholders are unwilling to define or commit to a detailed set of features or acceptance criteria. The bigger the project, the more painful and difficult this becomes. Stakeholders say "Make it faster!!!" then engineers say "We agree!!! any ideas on how?".
It's something I've noticed in modern peer-review practices, too. And some have gone as far as creating fake papers to study whether or not they get published: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-...

There's a human instinct towards laziness. If there are no outwardly-visible reasons to distrust something, it doesn't get evaluated. It's why a hard-hat and a clipboard can get you backstage, and why you don't spend 2 minutes scanning every bush for crouching predators before you walk past it. In everyday life, a "lazy" tendency saves time by avoiding needless work. In engineering, academia, etc., it can create dangerously low standards.
He's just being imprecise - he must really mean asset appreciation. (Reinvested dividends are still taxed, but lots of people aren't aware of that)
it starts at Nintendo 69.
This can absolutely be learned, enabled, and encouraged by the right guidance and, if necessary, training at the dev-team level. It's just part of the job.
Taking objection to the N in “FAANG”

Netflix engineer here. The portion of the company I work in has been hiring remote during the pandemic and we have a company wide permanent WFH policy (well guidance from HR) in place. The policy includes pay tiers depending on where you live, but the pay adjustment doesn’t take place until COVID WFH is lifted.

I work on a team that, post covid, has engineers in two countries. I personally live in PHX and won’t be returning to the Bay Area. My salary is currently 100% what my Bay Area was, and will be adjusted down to 80% once the offices fully open.
Which would likely lead to exactly this outcome?
Fish sauce is another kind of fermented fish. While it is definitely pungent and is disliked or an acquired taste for some, it isn't nearly as intense as what you describe and is loved by many. Southeast-asian-style fish sauce does not have an ammonia smell.

Perhaps not all fermented fish is the same. I doubt the Japanese one discussed here is similar to that Swedish dish, or has an ammonia smell.

> Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_sauce
Your use-case is a bit novel, so it might be worth asking in our forum to make sure I haven't misunderstood your requirements: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/discussions

I think we have all the pieces in place for you to use:

- a Postgres database with PostGIS
- a Realtime listener for listening to database changes

I don't know if you need realtime though if you are constantly sending the user's location to the database. It might look something like this:

- Turn on PostGIS
- Create a Postgres function which takes in the user's location and calculates radius results. eg: get_objects(lat text, lng text, radius smallint)
- Call this function from the client every XX seconds using the client[0] `supabase.rpc('get_objects', { lat, lng, 10 })

Hope that gives you a few ideas!

[0] RPC: https://supabase.io/docs/reference/javascript/rpc
Wasn’t there a SCOTUS case recently that said this isn’t the case? The fine is $0.
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The use of the coconut is real eerie:

https://youtu.be/mFP_AjJeP-M?t=741
The latter would be a very useful code commit message, (the line #55 may be excessive), both for the author and the reviewer.
This is it, for companies that are not generating money, it's free to join too.
"slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

The trick is to keep moving (doing).
To be fair, even the UK natives feel miserable with their weather. But also try to see things on the bright side, at least you will not get arrested for complaining about the weather like in Kuwait :)
Most firearm deaths are suicide or a family member injuring themselves. The main victims of gun owners are gun owners.

This isn’t a case of externalities.
From Wikipedia:

> Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, Harold Coxeter and crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation.

I had no idea he thought that of himself. I would at least call him a mathematarchitect...

I thought this was a neat video of him working on his last project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmLaM6NkTDs

Lovely web gallery, thanks for sharing it.
> Just have two people do the work together, and lose the need for constant context switches and wasted time.

What kind of PR process do you have where reviewing the PR takes as long as writing the code in the first place? Because that's the only way pair programming is as efficient as code reviewing.
Yep. IBM is definitely #1 when it comes to selling vapor to clueless top management. For everything else, they should leave it to professionals.
There are no estate or inheritance taxes in most states. Please elaborate on the trusts that avoid federal estate taxes! I used to be a corporate tax attorney, and worked in one of the leading international law firms for estate law, but have never heard of such a thing.
Well if you really read my profile I quite openly state I live in Los Angeles. A rather, shall we say, "affordable" section of it. I luckily haven't needed to use my firearms defensively. But I don't really need to answer to you or ask for you approval, that's one beautiful thing about this country. I've seen plenty of violence in my time here. A few times firsthand. My girlfriend is rather petite and physically defenseless, and has a career that would make her an easy target for someone with a chip on their shoulder. I'm not sure why I'm even typing this out - I honestly don't care what you think. Stick to your safe, semi-rural, "red" (how abhorrent!) community and worry about yourself.

edit: stop editing your comment so I can address it. and stop worry about what other people think how you dress. I assure you they care less than you think
The thing I've never understood about memory palaces or location reminders is: do you reuse the same locations all the time? If so, how do you mentally distinguish between your current memorized set, and the set you remembered a dozen times ago with the same palace?
Snow Leopard did have fewer new features than prior releases, with a focus on stability and polish, but "0" was only ever a marketing line. Snow Leopard added QuickTime X, Dock Exposé and exchange support in Apple Mail, to name three. Plus, major new under-the-hood technologies like Grand Central Dispatch absolutely would have been touted on stage in other years.
A library[1] small molecule drug that reverses dementia by acting on a calcium channel based on mouse data?

Press X to Doubt

[1] https://www.tocris.com/products/sak-3_6239
Huge props to your team. Making this tax credit readily available is what, 20 questions of CRUD… So 2,000 lines of code that 10 million people could use to make $3,000 dollars, that’s so $30b of value.

Please make this happen. We need open source code driving this kind of value proposition. Frankly the gov’t should be funding you to make this happen.

Are you blogging your progress and documenting the pitfalls and roadblocks along the way?
Questions.

> "We discovered the novel, disease-modifying therapeutic candidate SAK3, which, in our studies, rescued neurons in most protein-misfolding, neurodegenerative diseases."

Grepping for Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (cjd) and prion yielded nothing. And yet we also have research [1] [2] claiming a function for beta amyloid, implying that the protein's folding is a favorable outcome.

For those more well informed than me on these topics, could this mechanism present value against prion-driven misfolding? And is there a rift in consensus over whether beta amyloid is a misfolded protein? I recognize that both of these cases are very, very different in that prions perpetuate the misfolding whereas beta amyloid isn't known to do so.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5505565/

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/harder-evidence-b...
Also, why did they need 100K+ test ballots?
I'd really appreciate a a MOOC for this book.