skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to your point: on Mobile, taking a Screenshot is also

1. Really easy
2. Uniform across Apps

I've noticed that college students don't really know how to use e-mail anymore, and they will send screenshots of e-mails instead of forwarding them. Kind of makes sense, though, when only some Apps have "forward" and each one has a different way to do it.

Why fuck around with that (or copy/paste, which is a nightmare on Mobile) when you can Screenshot.
An Enormous 3D Calico Cat Greets Passersby at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station
It's more like you get scrawlings from toddlers on your desk every day and the boss says "these were supposed to be the blueprints to the next skyscraper. I paid a lot for this so you can't throw it away" and then you need to work with crayon scrawlings and somehow get the job done
fwiw, I've always found the PureData/MaxMSP family of languages really difficult to wrap my head around.

SuperCollider is another alternative, but that's a whole other discussion, really.
Maybe take a variation of the old COBOL playbook to number things in an extensible way - prefix repo names so that they are organized by it.
> That's not really relevant to the question asked there: You don't need to own an Apple product to buy music trough iTunes.

I wasn't aware that iTunes offered downloads via a website back then, because iTunes certainly does not run on the OS which the people that I'm thinking of used at the time (and still doesn't).
> You cited the CDC, but now that the figure you used has been cleared up, you no longer like the CDC as a source?

You seem to be conflating numbers reported to the CDC with investigations conducted by the CDC themselves.
If you're working on very slow network connections, or the network just dies entirely, it's not uncommon for Emacs just to hang entirely. You then have to kill Emacs from another terminal. At the time I was running exwm (an Emacs window manager), which made the whole thing even more painful. Emacs is powerful, but polish is not its strong point.

That said, this was a few years ago now. Things may have improved in 26.1 when threads were introduced, and async got even easier.
It doesn't seem like a huge surprise: https://samharris.org/podcasts/254-mating-strategies-earthli...

It can come out in different ways, but I suspect it's not that divorced from the above. It's not very attractive to be unemployed and not very ambitious. Maybe the introspection of why is missing, but I suspect that's the reason.
Hi Googlers! I loudly criticize you all the time but this time I think you are on the right side.

Just leave the French alone until their citizens hound their politicians into learning internet history ;-)
The odds go up dramatically if you practice sparring against multiple opponents and know how to leverage a bit of social psychology. Still, not something I would like to go through on the street. If I do manage to get out relatively unscathed I still don't want to cripple someone for not thinking with their head one night out of their life. The best solution to a fight is always to try to avoid it.
Yeah, it's synonymous with "freedom of criminals".
I believe what I wrote is a fair summary of the blog posts, which were written by someone in the field who competed at CASP.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... for more details for anyone else curious
I've had a 401K since I was 21 (30+ years investing) and put the max in every year following the "normal" investment strategy (balanced mutual funds). And had company matching almost every year as well. This means I invested through the tech boom of the 90's and the recovery of 2008. At one point I left jobs and rolled the 401K into a managed IRA because I didn't have a job for a brief period. Now I have another 401K with another company, but I chose not to roll my original one into the new 401K because my IRA has better investment options.

TL;DR: Start investing as soon as you can, and by "investing" I mean the Warren Buffet way on the diversified mutual fund grid (cap vs valuation), and not this memestock/crypto B.S.
The short and unsatisfying answer is - Because the funding for infectious disease research has been shrinking for decades. The focus shifted to cancer and lifestyle diseases in the developed world which generate more income.

'move fast and break things' is not applicable when it comes to the human body. :)
> 1.10. Emojis. Do not use emojis in titles, artist names, lyrics, or other metadata.

I read this and thought that surely, in the year of our lord 2021, there must be a song or album title or even an artist name which is all emojis, how do they handle that?

But it seems like this is a pretty standard limitation across the industry[1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnforde/2021/05/19/emoji-na...
Yes, this is the sort of distinction I had in mind when I commented before that MMA is still a sport and for "real" fighting you might choose to add other types of training as well. The possible presence of weapons is one huge difference. The open environment where you don't have an octagon wall to limit your opponent's movement and a conveniently flat floor is another.
It made it easy to create latex documents without having to type latex code. It was especially handy for creating equations and tables. I don't know that it's missing anything today, it just doesn't provide a lot of value over something like LyX (that is open source and doesn't cost anything) or even a good markdown editor.
Building polling infrastructure is substantially more complex than setting up a GET endpoint to handle webhooks.

If you need strict consistency guarantees, sure. Otherwise, don't piss off your API consumers, webhooks work just fine.
Number of U.S. Video Gamers Hits 227M
Because when you’re implementing a new spec that is still in “draft” status and constantly being updated, things could have changed drastically in 7 months and 4 major versions?
I've used both recently, here's my thoughts.

Reaper's non-destructive editing is bloody priceless when compared to Audacity's.

Plugins for reaper are... less well integrated into the application as a whole. Audacity makes for a great ACX mastering tool because of the open source, purpose made, plugins they have available.

Reaper's ability to add SFX chains to tracks without modifying the track directly is pretty incredible. You can both live preview SFX changes, and change settings without having to undo between changes.

I miss spectrograph editing when in Reaper. Word is there's an external plugin, but... see point 2.
No, that's bad! The article makes it clear that China banning bitcoin and bitcoin mining is good, so other countries making more use of it must be bad.
Now I'm imagining an alternate history/sci-fi planet where a neolithic society manages to effectively harness swamp gas (and eventually develop anaerobic digesters to produce it) as an energy source, instead of relying on timber/biomass.
Compare Bitcoin's energy consumption to a country like China. It's not so devastating to the planet. Bitcoin currently consumes around 110 TWh per year — 0.55% of global electricity production, or roughly equivalent to the annual energy draw of small countries like Malaysia or Sweden. China as of 2019 was ~39,000 TWh, with the China ban the energy consumption can only improve. As miners move away from coal and on to more renewable sources and countries.
Any particular books you'd recommend?
95% effective does not mean 100% effective.
Because we don't have decades at our disposal to combat this pandemic.
> it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that they did that to try to gain traction and cross-sell other services, such as managed hosting.

I sympathize with that, and would say that they took this chance and lost.

But again, what rubs me the wrong way is that AWS is not just selling a "packaged" version of ES for more money, the same exact thing that Elastic sells. They're selling the service around it. Which they built themselves. My client runs an ES cluster on a bunch of fairly fat EC2 instances, which would cost an arm and a leg if they went through Elastic Cloud. Are we the friend who's still there ten years later?

I probably still wouldn't agree with it, but I guess I would have less of an issue with this line of argument if it weren't just about ES but about every [Thing]Service that AWS sells, in particular RDS.

Hell, why is there no outcry about them selling EC2 instances with Ubuntu? Or even "worse", their "custom" distribution (Amazon Linux). Are they sending a check regularly to Linus and / or to the Linux Foundation (or whoever is in charge of Linux as a "product")?

This, to me, looks a lot like a sore loser situation. ES tried to take on AWS selling a service around a product and lost. I understand it stings even worse that said product is their product. But maybe they should've stuck to building an awesome service around Lucene that they could sell for profit. Wait... this sounds familiar, doesn't it?

I'm not saying this is a great situation for Elastic to be in. But I don't like the way they're trying to dance around it and not assume their errors. They wanted to build a second product (Elastic Cloud) around their first (Elasticsearch) and it failed to attract the expected success. Instead of asking themselves why that is, they decided to change the rules of the game. Now, they're of course allowed to do this, Elasticsearch being their product and all. But they can't expect for everybody to be on board with it. Maybe their product sucked compared to AWS' or simply wasn't good enough to warrant the hassle of going through a second supplier or whatever.
Standard use cases for stream processing are:

1. Enriching event streams. Say you have a stream of log records with an IP address field. You want to enrich with a geo-location before sending the logs to Elasticsearch.

2. Windowed aggregation. Maybe you have an application that is emitting "login" events and you want to to detect login attempts from different IP addresses within X minutes of each other.

3. Joining multiple event streams. You have multiple different event streams and you want to join them together using some common join key (maybe session ID or something like that) to compute a metric that aggregates all of them.

There are plenty of more esoteric use cases as well.
Couldn't you just set fire to a few tyres after getting vaccinated ?
I used to mod what is now a huge subreddit, and when I started it I made strict no memes/images/blogspam. It was lovely for a few years but then when it became big enough to become a default Reddit basically said you can't do that anymore. Now I see it commonly referred to as one of the most toxic subreddits on the site...
Maybe this can be generational: people of my generation and up used to think that MD5 hash distinguish two pieces of information, kids these days can’t tell between texts and a screenshot of said text. Which isn’t fundamentally an issue I guess, maybe the whole concept of document files and file-systems are just quirks that are slowly moving towards obsolescence.
Only after being left with no choice or when politically convenient. Too little too late.
Its a choice, at least for me there is a lot of thing in life that a lot more worrying than 2/10000 risk of preventable death
lol yeah! I seem to have to fiddle with the input source, but it could be any number of things, including my linux installation.
It takes like an hour a year to request a USB stick from Backblaze, browse through it and return it. Validating backups on top of rolling your own would take a lot more time (i.e. the value proposition is more complex.) There’s really no “it just works” in backups of data you care about unless you have people you can delegate the restore testing to.
it's very weird when people take correlation and present it as causation. I feel there are at least few steps in statement that people with that gene mutation are more susceptible to burn out. Like people with that gene mutation "like to be independent", "like variety", and therefore lack of those in regular 9-5 software development leads to burn out. How it is presented as a causation has only one practical application. Gene xyz is bad, don't hire people with gene xyz.
I agree with your points, which is why I think people should almost never be sure of one side or another. Necessarily, they should have some self doubt, just because it would be impossible to do all of the above. The only stance I think is indefensible is to think that one side is definitely correct (outside of extremely well defined problems).
Looking inside of myself just makes me more restless. It's about the worst thing I can do if I actually want to sleep. Exercise has been a great help in shutting off my mind at night.
In the article, he writes about what he is striving for: to be able to do things that he wants to do rather than what his employer wants him to do. So from his perspective, he would be living his life while others just work instead of living.
The key here is "while Firefox is not running." They have a maintenance service now that can check for updates when the browser is closed.

Personally, I wish they hadn't done that. First, because my browser is always open. But also because I don't need another service.
I didn’t say I “didn’t like the CDC as a source”. I did indicate I’m skeptical that all investigations of vaccine related deaths have been sufficient to determine causality.

For instance, it’s well established that the Pfizer vaccine may cause cardiac problems. It seems entirely reasonable to me that in some cases that resulted in a fatal cardiac event.

I have the luxury of not having to associate with others much. That certainly colors my risk analysis, along with the absolute fact that the long-term side effects of the mRNA vaccines are unknown.
Given that covid is entirely treatable in 99.9+% of cases (read the studies & physician anecdotes who have been treating it effectively since last March), it makes more sense to me to take the path of being proactive, healthy, and unvaccinated until it reaches Approved status. To each their own.
No dirt to hide, just trying to weaken the machine that Reddit has become.
For more context, I believe Luke Plant summed it up best in "Why I’m Leaving Elm" (https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/). This title should be searchable on Hacker News for even more discussion.
Might just be you're doing too much exercise. If I over-reach too far, I end up not being able to sleep all night.
I think you're apologizing for Apple.

To Apple, this is a business to keep more of their customers locked into the Applesphere. As long as they're retained, they can tax all commerce associated with these people: apps, subscriptions, payments, media, etc.

They're operating like a machine with a glazed and polished process.

Apple doesn't love music or musicians. If they did, they wouldn't pull this shit.
Great future ahead for Pvt prisons in the land of freedom
Bitcoin is the most amazing thing ever. Seems that no matter what happens, it's great news for Bitcoin :)
> evolve more virulent strains of COVID.

More virulent virus does not always mean worse disease. It maybe that more virulent variants will be also causing less severe diseases. Hints of this are present now (low deaths/day) but we will see what the variants really do in the coming months.

> That's how evolution works. The more chances the virus has to replicate, the more likely it is to become more virulent or even worse learn to evade the vaccine.

Yes but this process happens in the whole interacting population, you can't blame just the unvaccinated people for this. The virus is likely to mutate towards variants that are better at infecting vaccinated people. Realistically, we can't stop this process without isolating everyone all the time.

Vaccination will protect most people who chose to get vaccinated from getting the severe disease. It won't stop evolution of the virus.
I actually think modular is the best way to learn vs an all-in-one synth unit. Instead of "Ignore 99% of what you see in front of you, we are going to isolate an oscillator," you just give them an oscillator. Hook it up, hear it. Now change the tone by altering the cv input. Now add a filter by connecting the output to the filter input.

I just think it's a lot easier to learn what each component does independently (as much as possible...can't have a filter without something to actually filter) and how they interact without adding the complexity of everything at once. Kind of "additive learning" which is easier than "subtractive learning" :)
> One idea for Stripe and other API platforms: support long-polling!

It’s great that we’ve went full circle. But make no mistake that this only means one thing: that servers are cheaper than ever. We can now afford to entertain previously extravagant ideas.
Check constraints are just SQL expressions, so in pesudocode it would be something like:

(SELECT COUNT(*) shape JOIN square JOIN circle) = 1

How conveniently this can be expressed depend on the database system in question.

But if we are talking about adding features to SQL, it could have built-in support for such a constraint, just as there is built-in support for say foreign key constraints.
That's not how it works, actually. The checks are done by a scheduled task.
Mutations are random, but the factors that result in a mutation leading to improved reproductive success are not. An organisms environment helps select for beneficial mutations.
It's an incentives issue. Webhooks or for when the service provider is aiming for the bare-minimum functionality with the least overhead. If they have the incentive to maximize your consumption of the data, then they should offer both, and may even overnight a physical copy.
Yes feel free (kurt at fly dot io)! But low priority, we have to solve "how to actually get flights and things booked" too.
From the small amount of grappling I know in comparison I fully agreed with you. One can't hope to effectively control two bodies at once. Focusing on person one makes you a great target for the other(s). However knowing some good ground game to supplement striking would at least help knowing how to avoid being taken down.
Pagan big reptiles weren't nice either, were they? Tiamat, Nidhogg, Jormungandr, Hydra, Fafnir.
From guidelines:

> Don’t be snarky.

You should have known this after being here for a decade.
That would be an extension or fork of Set-Cookie.
Could be related to the isTrusted[1] property to signify the event is caused by an user's action.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/isTru...
I saw "FIRE" in several comments, had to look it up:

> "Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) Definition

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-independence-...

Followers of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) plan to retire before the traditional retirement age of 65 by dedicating up to 70% of income to savings while still in the workforce."
It's insecure by default, the TLS-enabled version has never been widely adopted, never been supported by browsers and has some horrible security problems of its own (see alpaca attack).

Removing FTP thus fits into the strategy of browser to prefer HTTPS.
A millennial’s view: ICBMs are ridiculous
See this is still blaming the problem on some kind of externalized illogical other you aren’t willing to understand (just replace “partner falling for Instagram lies” with neckbeardy EvPsych) rather than empathizing with the other person’s opinion.

Like if your partner directly tells you they are unhappy because of XYZ, rather than thinking it’s stupid/some part of how the woman brain works (eye roll), it seems pretty clear that not doing anything to fix XYZ - in this case working again and living more luxuriously - is being a bad partner. Doesn’t matter what the genders are or what XYZ is.
We are sampling a Bernoulli distribution for measuring burn out. A software developer could be burnt out/ not burnt out.

The variance of a Bernoulli distribution is P(1-P), which is (.83)(.17), since 83% of the respondents answered that they were burnt out.
Yeah, this line:

> And she wasn’t trying that hard anyway, because she had acquired, somehow, New Life Dreams, which had to do with Conspicuous Consumption and Keeping Up and being Visibly Awesome — dreams which are at odds with my own.

The desire to be seen and take part in society is fundamentally human. Yes, you can overdo it, but you can also underdo it. There is nothing wrong with going to nice restaurants, posting about it, discussing it with your friends, etc.

My guess is that they simply stopped having a social life with their peers (he hinted at such). That sounds horrible to me.

There is a reason that retirement communities exist. Just because you retire, that doesn't mean you exit from community.
The future is effect systems, not monads. The next ML will be more similar to Koka than Haskell, and yes, it'll be strict.

Maybe it'll even be named OCaml if the efforts to bring effect typing into it are eventually merged :-).
Sure. I'm pre turbo. The electric water pump is undoubtedly better for long term, but had initial issues (on the other hand, it has a clear engine code and is easier to access)
There are lots of reasons to want to immediately respond to an external event besides building an eventually consistent data syncing system. Polling an API endpoint works fine for the latter case, but not much else.

A good platform should offer both of these and more (for example Slack does webhooks, REST endpoint, websocket-based streaming and bulk exports), and let the client pick what they want based on their use case.
I did it: I retired at age 40 with a net worth of about $5M. That was eight years ago. I diversified most of it, but I made two concentrated bets with a fraction and both of them were home runs. Now I'm above $5M. I have enough money to do whatever I want and my withdrawal rate is less than 1% annually. (I don't have expensive or flasy taste.)

One of the things that I didn't expect (but that this article and some other sources hint at) is that I would fall into a trap of consuming a lot of alcohol. I recognized my problem and dealt with it. Now almost every day is alcohol-free, and I only drink when with other people who are also drinking. (For anyone struggling with a drinking problem, I urge you to try something called the Sinclair Method, which involves taking naltrexone or nalmefene. [1][2])

I don't really have much of a fixed address and spend 95% of my time abroad. I usually like to stay in a place for several months or more at a time. This sometimes involves long-term visas. Throwing money at immigration attorneys will solve a lot of those kinds of problems. Many countries have visa programs for self-employed or self-sufficient people. If not, you can always enroll in a language program and get a student visa to study the language of your host country.

I also spend several months a year just traveling around to new places and visiting old friends.

I enjoy my life. Sometimes at moments I miss my job in Silicon Valley. Then I realize how much grief and pressure it was, and I'm thankful for the life I have.

At this article's author states: you have to know what you are going to fill your life with once you leave the working world. If you don't fill it with something positive, negative things will fill in.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Alcoholism-Medically-Eliminate-A...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts
proverbs == sloganeering

the focus on "simplicity" also is both a good thing, and a great way to shut down any discussion.
It was an Evil Bit becaut it didn't have the force of law behind it. Now we have cookie laws.