skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are, for lack of a better concept, tiers to climate change actions.

Eating less meat would be something very personal, and I think you're right on there being an aversion totally unrelated to news, or propaganda of any kind.

On the other hand, there are measures like increasing investment in climate research, green energy, carbon capture, etc. These have a much smaller personal effect on each individual.

These two categories both, on Fox News and contemporaries, exist under the same umbrella. If the demand was really going from ground-up, then we might see segments about how eating meat doesn't really contribute to global warming next to segments about how we could create jobs with green energy investment. But we don't.

Instead we see a widespread denial of climate change itself on the top level, falling back to denial of man-made climate change, then to some idea that climate change isn't worth fixing, then to climate change is real and dangerous but it's the plastic straws & personal responsibility that we need to think about.

This, in my mind, strongly implies that it is not a bottom-up demand for climate change denial, but a mix of bottom-up and top-down demand, but with a heavy lean towards top-down. And much of the bottom-up demand has been created artificially (in the Manufacturing Consent style of "artificially")

To be clear, I agree with the narrow point you actually made, I don't expect Fox News has some controlling factor over how many people want to be vegetarian. Vegetarianism isn't even a majority in deeply left-wing communities. Fortunately there's a lot of ground to be gained on switching to bird meats, or even just dodging the issue entirely with cultured meats. It's a shame Fox News disdains these options too.
Do you think it would help if I make a "sandbox mode" where you can skip onboarding and plan creation and jump straight into a scenario pre-configured to model one of several selectable templates / personas? That's something I've been debating about building for a while but haven't had a chance yet.
It depends on what you define as a number. For example reals and complex have different properties from integers. Is there a mathematical reason why both are considered numbers? You can count (with) integers but not with reals. Thus one appears to be a number while the other appears to be a measure.
Fights over Covid-19 vaccines are spilling over to other types of shots
If you run serverless NoSQL on NISC before the rooster crows, you must go outside and weep bitterly.
> Not what you had in mind, but that dirty trick compiler did give Intel and advantage.

You can only pull off that trick if you already effectively own the market. Otherwise nobody would use your compiler, at least not exclusively.
I'm curious how much manipulation people think is involved in terms of buying things you didn't want. Enough to absolve someone of their financial responsibility for buying?

Why or why not?
So? It's the standard. Anything else starts with -1000 points. Something like hg might be better, but not better enough to be worth the cost of breaking uniformity in the industry.
hey man, sorry I already closed this case for me personally. If anybody else is interested in it thats fine!
Wow, amazing how well you integrated the feedback from the last time this was posted, especially architecture level stuff like storing everything client-side by default. The stock/bond allocation curve is really well done too.

Awesome stuff, I just signed up for premium. I assume for people that are not single you're meant to add their expected income and expenses as well? That could maybe more clear
Well, you don't need to know a person's name and home address to advertise. A profile could include a list of interests. The trouble is that identifying the user across different websites to build the profile requires, you know, an identifier.
It seems like the code/system browser has essentially stayed the same since Smalltalk-80. See Figure 17.11 on page 298 (PDF page 320) of the blue book [1]. I've often wondered about "modernizing" it, or at least exploring other options for interacting with the source. Have there been attempts at this? This is pretty far down on my list of things to fund even if I were to win the lottery some day. But I like to think about it anyway.

[1] http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....
Then you cannot guarantee that when you change the first digit of the second number, what you get is not the first number.
Anecdotally, this strategy does not work on Reddit: I've blocked u/madebygoogle and still get shown ads by that user account all the time.

Gonna try it on Twitter though since you say it works...
Don't worry, there was quite a bit of that. He was asked to tone down the document and remove some of the most ridiculous parts (including for example the antisemitic conspiracy bit) and refused.
By your own words, those events triggered mass extinctions. Like you, I think the most probable outcome is that climate change results in a mass extinction event. And like you, I think humans will survive in some form, albeit at significantly reduced levels. If that provides you comfort, then have at it. But I personally consider that outcome to be an epic failure on our part. Especially considering we have the knowledge and the technology to prevent this.

And if you think our geological history provides the answers to what our future with climate change will look like, I implore you to get familiar with the anthropic principle[1]. We have never significantly altered our atmosphere this fast before, there is no precedent. And using our geological past as a dataset is inherently flawed. In order for us to observe that data, we necessarily would have had to survive/emerge from that history. How many other planets had similar geological records but then took a different turn? If you can show me that data, I will re-consider you anti-fragile position.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
I had a similar problem and couldn't use keyboard/mouse for a week when it reached the tipping point.

Definitely start with the ergonomics of your workspace.

This solved my issues:

1. Use trackball instead of a mouse - Logitech M570 is amazing.

2. Use wrist support or a really slim keyboard like the Apple Magic keyboard. Your wrists should not be bent.

3. Use keyboard without numerical keys at the right. Reaching too much to the right to use the mouse was also causing me the issues.

Also don't forget about ergonomics of your desk, chair, and display.
I just hired a junior UX designer in part because of their really cool side project. It's not something I was asking for or expecting in the job req, but I for sure looked at it when it was on their resume.
I've been to Austin. I felt trapped in a flat plane of existence in Texas. I need mountains to escape to on my time off. But as a native Californian, I hope a lot of people move out to Texas. Several million would be a good start.
What has helped me is gas. I can talk I can talk in front of a lot of people, socialize, etc. Having a dentist growing up who was more jigsaw than dentist caused some ptsd for me and now I have a great dentist and the gas has helped me calm down so much. Just had a root canal and had to go back 6 times and each time it was fine. The chairs are all pretty uncomfortable all things considered.
That’s an interesting claim considering Google, Facebook and Microsoft run monorepos. Heck Apple does too internally although just for the build team (snapshots of each project submitted to them, but it all goes into a mono repo)
That's what I thought. I'm looking forward to Saxon doors.
Since we are all about curbing misinformation these days, when are we going to start censoring government officials for misinforming us about the dangers of misinformation? After all, it was government health officials responsible for "...confusion and lead[ing] people to ... reject public health
measures such as masking" in the critical early days of the pandemic. No need for conspiracy theorists when we have our very own super-spreaders running things.
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>So full legalization with a lot of counseling (like in Portugal, my current residence) seems a good avenue to try out.

Yes 100% this is in my view the best approach.

>In NL we already had (have? It was that way when I was young) The needles and the police checking dope quality at parties, why not go the extra mile? I am afraid this is not the good of the people but the money made from drugs somehow or is that too cynical?

Yes take the money out of the cartels. All profits from state run facilities go toward drug rehabilitation and/or mental healthcare in general.

Sourcing of the drugs is the part I am unsure about. Seems like they have to give production to a pharmaceutical company(s) (creating a new cartel). Buying from cartels is not an option as you are just pushing the misery out of your back yard and into Columbia, North Africa, or Afghanistan.
> Facebook is tracking users of other, non-Facebook apps.

For example?
The adafruit documentation is top notch! I've been working on a project for a thrust vectoring rocket using the same chip that's on the feather m4 (the SAMD 51)

https://github.com/AdamMarciniak/CygnusX1

The schematics on the adafruit site helped me design my board and wire it all up properly!
I doubt if they are mostly H1B immigrants but, yes, they could mostly work anywhere in the US. But many went to school in CA and decided to stay there or, to my other point, they like living in CA for whatever reason.

I don't and never have lived in CA but I've spent a lot of time there and I do see the attraction other than CoL and some other downsides. And there are certainly areas of the US that for me would heavily weigh against any employment opportunity offered there. (Though I'm full remote at this point anyway.)
Technically people have the freedom to move to a different country too. You make moving to another state sound trivially easy.
That's why there's git-lfs[1] (large file storage)

Keeps the binaries out of your repo, replacing them with pointers

[1]https://git-lfs.github.com
This is called retargeting. Aside from possible repeat purchases, my guess is that enough people browse a site or never complete their checkout that advertisers are happy to take the chance that 50% of people who see the ad might no longer be interested because that's still higher interest than you can get from almost any other channel.
Almost had to do this too. Luckily the part of the app that was in violation was just a web view and the plan was to just hide that part of the page until after it went live. And with OTA updates apps can get a surprisingly large amount around the review process. Although you risk being banned if they catch you!
Perhaps "life ruining" is an exaggeration but losing your job for discussing the effectiveness of different protest tactics is an insane knee-jerk reaction made by the people who fired him. He clearly agreed with the movement and ostensibly wanted to help it be as effective as possible.

> in the wake of a tragedy he seemed to only care about getting blue votes

That's a baseless statement. I would argue that caring about getting votes means he cared about trying to actually help the movement capitalize on its energy at a critical moment. Right or wrong, if people can't even discuss data-driven strategies for your movement without being shamed and ostracized, your movement is dead in the water.
Disclaimer: I studied media theory and publishing, but well before the Web became the all-decisive factor. Meaning, I have some idea about those things and have still an interest in them. (Also, I actually programmed ad embedding mechanisms for ad networks, but quit this field, when things became too invasive and ads too aggressive and I couldn't justify this any longer. – At this time, tracking was commonly done for multistage campaigns only.)

That said, I've never come upon a study that showed significant gains due to targeting, rather to the contrary. – So, after a decade, I'm still waiting for any proof in favor of targeting. (The suspicion must be still that targeting is rather a lazy alternative to media analysis and its perceived advantage is rather rooted in minimising efforts than in effectiveness.)

Regarding "Facebook has created the most sophisticated ad targeting engine", this is a rather biased proposition. It has enforced Facebook as a broker, made advertising cheap, while less effective, and has driven ad revenues for content providers downhill. (Google is to blame, as well.)
Running advanced C++ software on MCUs
Concur, I was ahead of the curve and fled San Francisco and California in 2018 for Nashville, TN and don’t anticipate ever moving back even though my immediate family is still in Cali. I don’t want to give California a cent of my tax dollars ever again.

I absolutely love Nashville and Tennessee and even bought a house at the height of Covid. The people and southern hospitality are amazing (though I am seeing a lot of California plates lately around which frankly is making me nervous). Nashville is a such a beautiful city, opportunity is unlimited, amazing night life, food, culture, and of course music. Southern is way more my style and speed.
Huh. What is the right term them... just "analogue TV broadcasting"?
Looking inside Roguebook game demo
At first I thought this was a simple list of lists, but clicking through the link, they are all wikipedia articles of list of lists.

Therefore, this is indeed a list of lists of lists!
The technology of killing someone and making it look like an accident or a suicide reached a state of high art at least 42 years ago. Here is one illustration.

http://drnissani.net/mnissani/revolutionarystoolkit/DartGun1...

The nearby photograph shows the late US Senator Frank Church displaying a Central Institute of Assassinations’ (CIA) dart gun that, depending on the poison used, either causes an immediate heart attack or a belated cancer. According to Congressional 1975 testimony, the gun fires a frozen poison-tipped dart. The tiny dart can penetrate clothing and leaves a barely-visible pin-sized red mark where it enters the victim’s body. In the heart attack version, once in the body, the poison melts, gets absorbed into the bloodstream, and causes cardiac arrest. The poison then denatures quickly, so that a routine autopsy is likely to ascribe the heart attack to natural causes.

In passing: Church probably paid for his courage–and for his progressive record–with his life. By 1984, at the early age of 59, he died of . . . cancer.

Bob Marley was also likely murdered by oncogenic viruses placed on a nail in his shoe which led to his brain cancer and ultimate collapse a few years later. He was not intimidated when his house was shot up and didn't back down. He too paid the price with his life.
> including for example the antisemitic conspiracy bit

I don’t recall hearing about this at the time. Do you have any links to what this was about. I tried to Google, but just got results related to more recent Google removals.
SpaceX launches are the best reality TV show. I'm so glad my children get to watch history being made like this. My dad remembers seeing the moon landings when he was a kid and thinking, "Wow, this is HUGE!" My generation didn't get that experience. But I'm glad my kids do.
We don't ensure any of that currently for any of our politicians. In fact the system we have in place now has perverse incentives to ensure exactly the opposite, both on intelligence and self-interest.

So a purely random selection would seem like an improvement at this point.
Yea it would be OTC if you take some mandatory drug education and learning how to be safe about things. Maybe attend some group meetings about their problems. Some would also need social education to get back into society.
Good point. In addition to customizable income tax brackets, another idea I've been mulling over is a custom investment type with more controls to model a wider variety of investment vehicles. Perhaps I could add more templates as well, and show/hide some based on the localization settings.
The answer is FOMO which the millennial generation has heaps of. That’ll keep them coming back for a while at least.
I have secure dns on my pi hole, but on my Android phone I did nothing at all. Just use it as-is, and when I'm on my home wifi all ads get blocked.
I’ve been watching Bitcoin for like a decade. Bitcoin is the scam that will just keep on going. I have no clue when it will crash for good.
They already do, and Google complies with those laws. See China. It is quite telling that Google seems to put more effort into complying with the CCP than German law, however.
So? Lots of things cost money. It almost sounds like you're advocating for a cheap short-cut. It's bad in code, it's bad in legal dealings
I've favourited this comment. Why do some accept mediocrity when it comes to the achievability of a comfortable standard of living? Perhaps it would help them to frame this in the language of a SaaS company, since I know so many HNers strive for excellence in that area: Our company is failing to deliver value to many of our customers; how can we do better?
A non trivial amount of strong immigrant engineers are in SV. Ask me how hard it is to hire hundreds of engineers without faang funding in a tier 2 city.
I don't think there's an "agenda" here.

There were dozens and dozens of articles in every publication over the last decade or longer about the decline of SF, COL is too expensive, homeless, dodging shit on the street, etc.

Then the pandemic and exponentially more articles about the flight from SF, NYC, etc. people are now fleeing for good.

Of course the actual statistics show a tiny fraction of people left SF. I think an article which focuses on this reality is well warranted.

If anything the people criticizing this article have an agenda in their belief that SF is awful and everyone should leave and anything to the contrary is of course biased.

Not that I should have to say this but there is of course plenty to criticize about SF and the Bay Area. The reality is the overwhelming majority of people are not leaving anytime soon. Only a tiny fraction are leaving.
I had one of these as a kid (got it from a friend) and managed break and then lose it. Found out only years later what people squeeze out of it :)
Even without modification it was a kid's dream.
If the production of those goods entails human rights abuses then yes, that's an analogous situation and buying those goods signals tacit acceptance of those crimes. I think applying that to buying anything (for example) Chinese-made is a bit more of a grey area (not to mention almost impossible to avoid now) but I personally try not to because a proportion of any money going in that direction ends up in the hands of the Chinese government.
(a^2-1)=(a+1)(a-1).
I would guess a return-back-to-the-office agenda, but then again, I've been told here on HN that the NYT is not of 'one mind' and/or is diverse and impartial so what do I know /s
Whatsapp is the main form of communication in many countries.

Not only to communicate with friends and family, but also services like takeout, the plumber, etc.
I just ordered one for subsaharian africa (expected availability 2022).
The day they cover subsaharian africa, i will buy a hundred devices in a heartbeat.
This is an incredibly huge untapped market. At a 100$/month cost they will kill the local telcos/canal + monopolies.
You don't ensure any of that anyways.
Better dead than prison
It took many years to understand that!

It’s not a flippant question at all.

The answer is, it doesn’t matter. And that’s the joy of it.

It wasn’t until I got into ML that I learned the value of doing unimportant work. When you’re free to think about inconsequential matters very seriously, you end up discovering so many useful things. It was how I independently rediscovered what is apparently called the Discrete Hartley Transform.

You have a vague notion that what you’re doing might be important, but it’s not the focus. It matters because it’s fun in a way that nothing else can be.

Of course, the more serious folk won’t admit it’s fun. It’s serious work. And they’re not wrong; nobody’s fooling around. Our time is every bit as precious as an executive’s.

But their goal is to change the world. Ours — or mine, at least — is to know the truth of a thing that most people don’t know.
Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s true random number generator
TL;DR: Combination of brushing scams and forgotten, delayed seed orders.
How the Birth of the Influencer Led to the Death of Hobbies
> I call it a foot gun because of how many times I've seen people shoot themselves in the foot.

I understand what "foot gun" means. Explaining what "foot gun" means is not helpful. What I don't understand is the problem that "shooting yourself in the foot" is a metaphor for.

> My assertion is that the "build and deploy new code with updated downstream users" only works in a minority of cases.

There are two main cases here: libraries and services.

Libraries can be atomically updated no problem, most of the time. You change a function and fix the call sites.

For services, you have to add to the API, deprecate the old thing, refactor the clients, and then remove the old thing after all the clients have been rebuilt and redeployed. At least two steps.

What I don't understand is how this would be different for multirepo or monorepo setups. In either case, removing some old piece of functionality requires waiting until the clients have been redeployed. Using new functionality requires waiting until the server has been redeployed.

> Now, I grant that this could be due to the micro service nature of where I'm at.

The teams where I've used monorepos are also the teams with the most buy-in to microservice architecture. One team I was on ran a service that consisted of something like twenty different microservices. These interacted with services run by other teams. Everything was in the same monorepo. It worked fairly smoothly, as I recall--we spent most of our time solving domain problems and working on our team's core mission, and I don't remember any problems arising from the monorepo setup.

It sounds like your experience is different, and I was hoping that you would share some of that experience.
Did you spend any time in the hill country on the south/west parts of town? They have a very different feel than the flat parts.
No other DVCS is as popular. Git has a vast ecosystem of tools. No one wants to drop that.

Its certainly not against the design goals as official tooling supports shallow and sparse checkouts, they're just experimental features.

We should just strive forward and continue to make these features good.
Creating a company requires capital. Freelancing does too, without necessarily offering more control.

Smaller companies can easily be more dictatorial than big ones, small business tyrants are common.

Non-commercial organisations aren’t necessarily any better. They also often don’t pay enough for survival.

I’m asking something fairly simple: why is it moral that the people that do all the work have no control over their working lives?
50 Years of Text Games: Andrew Plotkin's “So Far” (1996)
Give animals more food than they need and they will share it with their friends. This IS reproducible and points to sociopathic behavior in the wealthy.
Isn't the owner one of the engineers actually working on that rocket? I thought he was very involved in that piece?
> Most recruiters and hiring managers will never even open your GitHub profile.

Tech hiring, and most hiring really, is broken.
I tried the Wayback Machine Downloader and it works great if I want to download the whole page or the index of all versions. But in my case, the page has been taken down and this version has been archived and is downloaded if I just use the tool without any additional commands. Alternatively I can download the index of all pages, but then I am missing all the images and the websites are just text files. How can I download a whole older website with this tool?
Obviously yes there is.