skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think alcohols consequences are more immediate or obvious to most people.

It's also much more physically addicting in that your body needs it to function at some point.

I personally know two people that are schizophrenic and were long term heavy marihuana users, of course that's also anecdotal and in both cases there were other drugs involved aswell.

I don't think alcohol is better at all, it's actually really bad and culturally much more accepted. People start drinking really early and pretty heavily. The long term effects are not that obvious to most people.
3. On prem managed by dedicated in-house team in multi-colo setup. (We really really want to be here)

another major advantage of this kind of setup is that it is possible to give far better (technical support) to your customers, especially if you provide infrastructure services to your customers.

having a competent technical team which can do proper indepth analysis of issues customers are having has a massive positive impact on customer relations.
Compared to most technical escalations i have seen at most of the cloud providers, which comes down too "it was an internal problem, but is is fixed now, don't know if this will happen again".
Not willing to "sign in with Google". Didn't read (just the comments).
I've always wondered if you could combine CSP with water distillation (i.e. you evaporate salt water to steam to power turbines and capture the condensate) so that at the end you get both power and desalinated water.
If you pour eight gallons of water on your lawn daily you deserve to pay out of your nose for it.
So you're saying Volkswagen sells more because they build more cars? Like Volkswagen's got expertise in car manufacturing or something? Maybe that's why they're the second biggest car manufacturer globally.
"the mechanized tomato harvester may have paved the way for both the industrialization of our food system and California's local food revolution (an early spark for the national farm-to-table movement"

Interesting article! I wonder whether any robotics startups will come up with a cost effective way to automate gentle harvesting of tomatoes that aren't "square"
Craft cloaking footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYsNJMCXHUE
> prioritize water bottlers like Arrowhead above agriculture

NO. The way to deliver water to humans is in permanent pipes, not in disposable plastic bottles.
also, the moment it does happen you usually have non technical systems which are even harder to scale. (customer support for instance, or your sales/billing pipeline).
Vim-jqplay: Run jq interactively in Vim
This article completely jives with my own experiences using democracy in the workplace.

My misc Yes and:

I've always struggled to articulate my ideas, experiences. Workplace democracy is a hard sell. I've only successfully used it when I had full control, like a benevolent dictator. Supremely ironic.

Focus on good structures and processes and the outcomes will take care of themselves. h/t Luke Hohmann and The Journey of the Software Professional.

Workplace democracy is about both empowerment and responsibility. I hired really good people. The answers we need are right here. The trick is creating the environment where the team can find and flesh out their answers. Together! Maybe this is called nurture.

My team members have always owned their processes and structures, and therefore they earned their outcomes. Using democracy instills emotional involvement and commitment.

My primary involvement was adjudicator, enforcer. If a team made a joint decision, I held them to it. No sniping, sabotage, withholding, backstabbing, and all those other icky personal political BS details. If someone wanted to, needed to, revise a team's decision, then it was handled democratically. So be prepared to be the asshole.

Democracy feels slower, more painful. That's only because the heartache is front loaded. It's one of those "go slower to move faster" things. If you stick to the process, there's much less rework, relitigation.

Trust is key. In that "disagree and commit" sort of way. In owning and learning from mistakes. In demonstrating that team decisions will not be capriciously or casually disregarded or overruled.

Like a magpie, I cobbled together goofy ideas from every where. Joint Application Development (JAD) for brainstorming, project planning. Approval voting for triage. Roman evaluation for hiring. Balance of powers between roles (Marketing, Engineering, QA) for governance. Streamlining from Goldratt's theory of constraints. Etc, etc. Books like Innovation Games are good sources.

Democracy is hard. Requires commitment. It gets A LOT easier once the culture is established (eg storming, forming, norming, performing).

Major caveat: Once you experience democracy, a high trust environment, it kinda ruins you for the rest. It's really, really hard to suspend disbelief.
On a personal level, get vaccinated. That seems to reduce risks by a factor of at least 1000.

On a social level: use the Aus model. Actually lockdown, get case numbers down to the 10s per million. The UK, US etc model is the opposite, it relies on having as many people as possible infected and not really engaging in any full lockdowns. So far that's meant more and longer lockdowns. It's also meant more variants. And it means the maximum number of people with long term effects. It's the worst of all worlds, even the economic one.
For people interested in building/fixing computers these old systems are wonderful. Even without training you can teach youself enough about electronics to reason about how they work, well enough to fix them.

Sure much of it is nostalgia and those who owned Amigas in the 80’ and 90’ now have the time and funds to tinker.

I still wonder about the custom chip. Could you just send a handfuld to China and have them reversed engineer? Sure an FPGA is easier and cheaper, but many want real hardware. The custom chips are almost the only thing you can’t get as a new part.
That's "translate c to rust" in the same way as translating English to Japanese by looking up the kanji for an English word, and replacing it word by word. Why not just generate bindings at that point?
With my DSLR I took many zoomed photos of airplanes over passing (not landing). The pictures were clear, you could see many details.
One word (okay several): CGNAT.

I've been self hosting happily on my android for years until I moved and my current ISP puts me behind a CGNAT. No way to get around it.
I’m a fan of the potential of these technologies, but I’m guessing that sadly FB’s subsidised/closed VR/AR systems will have a ‘hidden’ (& frankly creepy) cost that is unfortunately characteristic of their business model:
https://itif.org/publications/2021/03/04/balancing-user-priv...
https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/publications/reimagining-...
https://www.reedsmith.com/-/media/files/perspectives/2017/06... [pdf]
And the installation commander can keep it at 21. It’s not an inalienable right of younger than 21 service members.
Nostalgia for those of us that were there back then of course plays a big role, but knowledge is also important. Had Amiga won the race against the PC back then, today's personal computers would be the equivalent of flying cars. Not many people for example recalls that in the mid-80s we already AmigaOS software for creating GUIs (PowerWindows), that was years before the first Visual Basic was created.

Edit: I forgot that although the OS was fully multitasking, it lacked memory protection and management, so a rogue process could easily crash other processes or the entire system by writing parts of the memory that it shouldn't have touched. Also, there was no such thing as resource tracking, so if I malloc'ed say one kb, I had to remember to free it before exiting, or it would remain allocated until the next reboot. Those were limitations that I found immensely useful when learning to optimize things.
uLEDs would let us read outdoors without brightness throttling that makes OLED displays invisible with sunglasses on.

That would be a major improvement for mobile.
Banning travel from China was a nonsense response because US got exposed via Europe. Similarly, prioritizing investigating the lab leak theory without real evidence at the same time as tons of people were dying seemed messed up.
I've been using DDG primarily for about two years now.

It mostly works well enough.

Since I use Vimium, when it doesn't, redoing the search on Google is just a few keystrokes:

gi<Control-a>!g Enter

That's 'gi' for 'focus text input', Control-a for beginning of line, add the DDG "google this" shortcut, press return.

It's in my spinal cord, and I don't need it that often anyway.
In the UK were almost 70% vaccinated (adults, 2 jabs). So it's getting back to BAU here.
What Does God’s Grace Mean? – God's Good News
And USA is asymetric because housing is spread out. Same for Australia. But if services were locally-hosted, one wouldn’t need the big submarine cables to go back to USA.
Should You Use DynamoDB or MongoDB?
But why, yes. OpenSSL has seen vast improvements, not just in code, but also in processes, and multiple audits due to Heartbleed.
Very cool. Can you give some more detail on how you process the different images?
Yes, they control for various variables that they know about. I’m not convinced this gets rid of the bias (e.g. they don’t control for working from home, many others). It is not true that they discuss this obvious objection in either 2.4 or Table 1. They only discuss methods they’ve used that very partially mitigate the issue, without mentioning the problem.
This is my issue with self-hosting. I am so damn paranoid.

I'm not a sysadmin or a security expert.

I don't keep vital or sensitive stuff on anything I'm hosting but it's still frighting.
Ah, then I meant the AC/DC converter that supplies 12V to the LEDs.
Many distros ship hardened and patched kernels. As long as the distro provides packages it wouldn't really be any extra work.
Many Amigans stuck with their aging hardware several years into the early 00's, and I don't think the last of the real die-hards gave upon Amiga Inc. until fairly recently.

It took dedication and many now use it for creating the ultimate retro computer.
To each their own. I find Rust a huge step up from C and even C++...especially C++. I've been writing Rust for months and C++ for years. I still feel more comfortable and confident my Rust code has fewer bugs and does what I intend vs C++.
I see, thanks, I never tested the mentioned programs as a non-Admin user, though the mechanism (if the shadow copies are used) is seemingly the same, so if the BUILTIN/USERS are authorized, they may work as well (and not only on Windows 10).
Farming is essential, yes. But farming isn't the issue. It's wasteful farming methods and wasteful crops based on a lack of pricing signal for water.

Telling residential users to use less water will not fix any of the real issues leading to the water shortages, so it will continue to be a serious problem.
It’s not 7 points reduction for anyone who had COVID, I think that’s specific to cases which had to be on a ventilator.
On testing, linux does not come with a suite of regression tests.
Because your search isn't tied to previous activity by a human, you trigger the "bot-like search scraping detected" filter.
https://archive.is/gn2Gj
Depends on what you miss from 2009.
What's “Being Agile” About
The paper has a paragraph or two dedicated to the software used:

> All Cognitron tests were programmed in HTML5 with JavaScript by AH and WT. They were hosted on a custom server system (Cognitron) on the Amazon EC2 that can support diverse studies via custom websites. The server system was specifically developed to handle spikey acquisition profiles that are characteristic of main-stream media collaborative studies, fitting the number of server instances in an automated manner to rapid changes in demand. Here, maximum concurrent participants landing on the website information page was ~36,000, with this occurring at the point of the documentary airing on BBC2 in May.

Why wouldn't they also publish the source code? I took a couple of minutes to play with the test and I think I found some bugs. I would love to check myself. Isn't it quite important to audit the source code, given that it is the thing that collected the data?
It's not a bug! It's clearly a feature!
Since COVID will become endemic like HIV, I wonder if the average IQ around the works will experience a measurable downwards blip.

It’s interesting that this will likely contribute to further inequality as the rich had access to vaccines first and the uneducated are more likely to be skeptical of vaccines (note: everyone is skeptical, but the domain of skepticism is different for people depending on political leanings).
There's more that it helps with. For one example Rust's Enums and richer types allow fewer mistakes -vs- confusion where pointers and integers degrade to a common type. A random line: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/122fa8c588316aacafe7e...

> void crypto_aead_clear_flags(struct crypto_aead *tfm, u32 flags)

These are valid due to poor type usage, but make no sense:

crypto_aead_clear_flags(..., PAGE_SIZE)
crypto_aead_clear_flags(..., EBUSY)
crypto_aead_clear_flags(..., SOME_RANDOM_THING)

We can hope they would be caught in review if the code happens to do the right thing by accident, or use static analysis and hope it triggers in that case, or use a language with clearer types where it's much easier to use types preventing this issue.
As both the post topic and the parent comment topic are about domain changes, wouldn't that basically direct users of the old site on the domain to a totally different domain when they want to access the new site on the same domain?
Euler has a lot of math related questions that unless you have exposure to it, you won’t be able to solve.
In what way are you more limited by the compiler in Rust than with C? Just write "unsafe" and you're off to the races.

Writing correct C is very hard and most definitely not fun. It's like juggling with with 7 balls and if you drop one you'll be shot. C is defined for a weirdo abstract machine that doesn't match what computers really do, and when people apply their intuition and knowledge about computers to their C programs "because C is low-level", it's a crapshoot whether they will trigger undefined behavior and the compiler goes off the rails with wild optimizations.

If I designed a low-level language I would enable such optimizations by making it easy to communicate your precise intent to the compiler. Not by making the standard a minefield of undefined behaviors.
It really is a great presentation. I sent Damian an email after watching it and he was also extremely approachable and took the time to answer my questions and talk about the future of raku (at that time Perl 6).
When typesetting a printed newspaper, the leading (pronounced like “ledding”) is the space between lines of text, originally physical strips of lead (Pb).

The lede (“leed”) is the most important statement in the story. The word comes from “lead” (also pronounced “leed”), because it's the statement that everything else should follow. It's conventionally spelt differently to avoid confusion with “leading”.
Correcting a model is always a somewhat subjective process that can introduce bias, especially when it is done after the study is completed pre-publication.
I am not at all opposed to such adjustments and I was actually involved in a research project that improved on pure chance based randomized selection of trial participants into different buckets (substance/placebo) by weighing in the necessary adjustments in the selection phase. That is why I’m intimately familiar with the state of the art in academia. Novel approaches, such as the one I worked on, are unpopular with reviewers which makes them unpopular with researchers even though they would allow, for faster trials, with smaller cohorts or alternatively to find smaller effect sizes.
My criticism of the OP Study however is not the adjustments per se, which as you point out seem reasonable (although we don’t know what alternative corrections they could have made with the available data and what impact that would have had on their findings)but the fact that they had what was needed to conduct one of the rare properly executed longitudinal studies on this question and wasted that opportunity.
I dunno, I just have anxiety and the docs only feel safe ruling certain stuff out after either a CT or MRI. If I ever contract COVID I can look back through multiple years of history.
Has anyone heard of weight related COVID issues? I know of 2 people who’s weight ballooned immediately post COVID despite not changing eating or exercise habits and despite a year passing they haven’t been able to lose any weight and doctors haven’t been able to figure out why.
I'm not, JS is the most used language for frontend, and saying that using something else reduces the clarity of the article is perfectly valid criticism.
There are millions and millions of sharp photos; on all of them you see it's not an alien spacecraft (but weather ballons, light reflections and very mundane objects).

Independently of how good our technology is, there'll always be pictures of low quality that leave room for speculation.
Was about to buy one to play with, especially as they have new hardware (to me, I wasn't paying attention).

Then I noticed this on the terms of service when clicking 'buy':

Requires wireless internet access and a Facebook account.

And, uh, heh... no. Just no. I don't even need a Sony/PS account to use a playstation, and at least a PS account has to do with, you know, the playstation.

Meanwhile, Facebook has to do with a bazillion other things, has all this baggage, I've never had and ever ever want an account, and... what? I'm going to get an account for a barely usable piece of expensive hardware?

No.
Yeah but Bitcoins expected value is 0 as Nassim Taleb recently argued here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDnwT5h472c .
Gold has uses in industry, art which give it a positive value.

And BitCoin also has a often unacknowledged effect of planetary centralisation making crypto mining on other planets in our solar system infeasible.
If about 10% of participants followed up, wouldn’t there be a possibility of non-response/self-selection bias in the pre-post study?
If I suffered cognitive deficit, I’d be more/less (I’d think less) likely to follow up.
How long did it take for polio vaccinations to reach the target set for the Covid thresholds and are we willing to accept the threat of restrictions to our lives until then?

To meet these targets the majority of children must be vaccinated. Between the low risk posed to children and the governments (that's Australia btw) horrible mixed messaging regarding age groups and vaccination, a large portion of parents will be reluctant to vaccinate their children.

So whats the current approach to getting those vaccination numbers up? Just keep ramming home the fear of covid and restrictions while naming and shaming all who are ruining life for everybody. I wonder how that will go?
> negative consequences are more immediately obvious

I don’t think so since we are used to drunk people. You know how many people I’ve seen beating each other in a drunk rage? I have never seen that with smokers.
“his new landlord told him that the store’s monthly costs—rent, taxes, insurance, and maintenance—would go up an impossible 150 percent, to $5,000 a month.”

I’ve never owned or rented commercial real estate so I guess I never knew how much things cost. $2k seems cheap? I would have expected a storefront in a hip Montreal neighborhood to be much more.
Cargo != rust. They are different things for a reason. You don't ever need cargo to manage deps or build, it's just idiomatic to do so.

Nothing stopping you from building rust code with manual vcs, rustc, autoconf, and make, just like C.
Or perhaps, once someone installs untrusted software in the first place, you’re screwed anyway?

This is security 101. AFAIK, you can login as a local admin since forever and it’s never been fixed. I just used it recently to access a deceased relative’s computer.
Why keep insisting it's Acer's this, that and the other? I'm certainly under no illusion that Framework fab'd every piecepart in its laptop design, but it's logistically of little to no relevance. If Framework controls its interface boundary spec and the market wills it, what's to stop them from contracting with any display manufacturer to produce a functional equivalent, or purchasing someone else's parts for sale in their planned marketplace dedicated to the application?

I think Framework has put together something that they believe has the potential to be profitable and I believe has the potential to be sustainable.

Nothing---especially with respect to obsolescence of consumer electronics---is without lifecycle risk to both a business and its customers. I choose to put my money where my mouth is now because I believe the problem is nevertheless worth trying to solve and the offering is good enough for my objective usecase.

Whether Framework can truly make their long term vision happen in a way that doesn't disillusion the community is obviously yet to be demonstrated. If the idea ultimately fails in the market, then such an outcome is hardly any worse than what I perceive to be an already regressive state of productivity laptops being overshadowed by consumption-centric mobile in at least the past decade, none of which ever focused on maintainability as critical design paradigm. Where I think the Framework meta truly differs is it lays a notebook form factor foundation that openly invites the hacker community to fill in at their leisure. Such a brazen "go fuck yourself" message to every other laptop vendor on the market earns my respect any day of the week.

Is it the best of all possible worlds? Probably not and there's surely room for improvement, but unlike most entitled consumers who want the future now for pennies on the dollar, that's not what I'm paying for either. I'm paying to support a sensible start towards something that the marketing and design of big companies intentionally ignore, have interim utility during a period of transitory company growth with hardware features and software (non-)options that I actually want, and hoping the rest of the market follows through with qualifying the movement's worth in the long run.
>That still doesn't resolve the ambiguity of Ontario, which is in both California (CA) and Canada (CA). Moreover, the search is getting a bit unwieldy

"ON" or "CAN." And adding 2-4 letters is hardly unwieldy.
I couldn't agree more and I see that this is more prevalent in the US than most other countries.

I've lived abroad for sometime now and last time I went home to California to visit, I went to a restaurant to have a beer and dinner with my dad.

I've been gone for so long, I no longer have a drivers license or ID except for my passport, which I don't carry around with me.

I tried to order a beer and they refused. I was very upset as I'm 35 and obviously not a kid. I was just trying to have a beer and catch up with my dad.

Just a huge lack of sensibility in the US these days. They would never do this in 90% of the world. Unless of course you're obviously young.
> > Since most of our CVE type problems are usually programming mistakes nowadays, the lack of review could contribute to an increase in programming fault type bugs which aren't forbidden by the safer memory model.

> That's an odd statement. What CVEs aren't due to programming mistakes?

I guess they meant as opposed to higher level design mistakes.
Yes, performance metrics can be quantitatively measured with application performance monitoring/metrics (APM) solutions like datadog, new relic, grafana Prometheus, etc
I've wondered about the feasibility of using state run lotteries for laundering in a cash based criminal enterprise. The known odds of low cost/return scratch-offs and the need to only account for claimed winnings would make it tempting... if it wasn't so labor intensive.