skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mutation is random, but the selection isn't random.

If a mutation offers an advantage, even a tiny one, over time and generations is will be selected more than the non-mutation.
Case Study of a “New Media” Photo and Video Studio
Syncthing has worked flawlessly for me for years. Syncthing-fork on Android also works very well:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.cat...
Oh, no; I'm fully in favor of pay transparency. It's absolutely clear to me that pay opacity benefits only the employer.
Just out of curiosity where are you located?

Here in the UK his name is spelled “Adrian Tchaikovsky”, as well as his account on Twitter (@aptshadow), where aside from writing novels he’s insanely productive creating digital artwork (often including insect characters).
This article is quite interesting, but I don't think it's particularly applicable to COVID-19. COVID-19 doesn't kill the vast majority of the people it infects, and when it does, it happens several weeks later, when they aren't spreading the virus anyway.

And while the vaccines are "leaky", they appear to make people much less likely to spread the virus, not more.
> but postgres' support means I still can should I ever need to.

And since postgres supports indices on arbitrary expressions you can use CREATE INDEX for the json-queries in your WHERE:

CREATE INDEX ON publishers((info->>'name'));
It's not necessarily beneficial to plants from an evolutionary point of view, in that it doesn't necessarily help them reproduce. Evolution's 'objectives' (of course, they're not really objectives) are very different to humanity's on most food plants. Even ignoring genetic engineering, most of our current food plants aren't particularly similar to their wild ancestors, and the changes generally aren't for the better if you're only concerned with plant reproduction.
that is the definition of hacking. so sick!
The reviews on those Intel heterogenous cores were terrible in both battery life and performance. Intel gonna Intel.
I lost track how many times I have been bitten by the ok = ok && ... trap.
It was a great hack. ;)
The Flagbearers for the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony [pdf]
This format is referred to as third normal form (boyce-codd
3NF). Also referred to as "tidy data" in the hadley wickham world.
Just ask your new company to push your start date back one week so you can take a vacation and come in feeling fresh.
Measuring Creativity, One Word at a Time News
Contextually being skeptical of Mderna or Pfizer is usually more indicative of a political statement than a skeptical mind.

The risk of covid and the vaccination are now sufficiently well understood that being anti vaxx is just nonsensical.

If a sufficient contingent doesn't vaccinate most of the unvaccinated population will eventually get it. Up to 1% will die and most of the rest will experience substantial negative effects. For example the majority of asymptomatic cases have some damage to the lungs.

The same contingent who have the least to worry about as far as covid also have the least to worry about as far as vaccination side effects.

Everyone is at best choosing to have greater than average chance of lung damage and some substantial fraction of 1% chance of death to avoid a substantial chance of feeling poorly for one day and a chance of death that is so low it's difficult to calculate.

If I asked you to pick from a table full of revolvers one of which contained one bullet and half of which contained blanks that could still hurt you and fire at your temple or stub your toe I assume you could make the right choice.

Calculate the odds for yourself and do the same here.
Yeah, that's certainly a good point.

The analogy with cars is a bit tricky though as we have well defined rules that help us pack them very closely together on the surface. For example: roads, lanes, controlled intersections. Those things aren't quite the same when talking about orbits because cars and satellites aren't spread out the same way.

The other commenter made the point about some safety margin, which obviously has to be a part of the equation. The speed and error of orbits would play into whatever that number comes out to be.

Regardless of there being lots of space, there's still some limit, even if it's 1,000 constellations.

Some variables I don't quite know:

1. Acceptable altitude range for constellations

2. Typical positioning error of a satellite

3. Average failure rate and failure mode of a satellite

- ex. does a dead satellite automatically deorbit itself or do we need to wait for the orbit to decay? I'd imagine decay at that altitude is fairly quick. Would a decaying satellite in a higher orbit need to be accounted for?

4. Required satellite density in orbit and the number of unique orbits, their arrangement, etc.

I'm sure there are other factors, too...
I get such a chuckle when I look back on Tesla struggling to make their case [1] as to why Gigafactories were needed, only for legacy automakers to finally have to do the same (with less fanfare considering how Tesla sells every cell produced in either a vehicle or stationary product). People laughed at their estimate that they'd be selling 500k vehicles per year.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/g...
The only confusion I have is how Blizzard would release such a wonky press release... that's it.

I don't think the public reads press releases otherwise.
Syncthing is great, I've used it for years to sync all my stuff and it has always been solid. I even use it on my kindle fire tablet (there's a Syncthing app in F-droid).

My only annoyance with Syncthing is when I reinstall an OS on one of my machines. Let's say I'm syncing files between my main workstation, two laptops, a phone, and a cloud backup. Now I want to reinstall the OS on one of the laptops. When I install syncthing on that machine, it gets a new ID. I can make it join the sync swarm but all the other members will think it's a new machine and won't trust it so I have to go to each of the other machines and manually remove the "old" laptop and bring in the "new" one.
My desire for such a system is driven by wanting to have a fully interactive development environment that I can work with from inside the browser. Something like the Figwheel/Clojurescript setup without all the moving parts that is accessable directly from the browser console. Svelte fails in this regard since the entire system is not available at runtime.
Well, I think that has been somewhat over-rated. Looking at my physical desktop now, I don't see any little "X" icons on the beer bottles littering it, or anything analogous (wish there was). And I hardly ever use the Windows desktop, and haven't for many years, even though I use Windows almost all the time.
> Why are TikTok and YouTube excluded from "kids being kids" activities?

Poeple in general are extremely bad at generalizing situations to match their own experiences. People get old, see younger people playing differently (new toy, new technology, new societal framework), and fail to notice that the new kind of play is still mostly the same module/class of play they had, just with a different coat of paint.

E.G. In the 80s' we used to play with k7 recorders, recording singing, pretend news casts and comedy shows. Now kids are doing youtube and tiktok, and that is exactly the same module of play, it is not some brand new thing.

Having said that, I'd like to point out that, although for the kid it is basically the same kind of play, the fact that is more public (k7 had a limited reach, just neighborhood friends, but the internet has unlimited reach) means bigger stakes, so parents should be more vigilant, it is even more crucial now that parents get involved in the kids activities to keep an eye out.
Depends on your relationship with your manager and team. If you really will just be sitting doing nothing and you have good relationship with your manager, you can talk to them and ask to only quit with 1 week notice. Be ready however to be let go right away (at least in the US) as companies sometimes do that for risk mitigation. Would probbaly work better for you it seems like.

It all comes down to your relationship with your boss. If you are not really needed as you claim and I am your boss and I have good relationship with you, I wouldn't care if you want to give 1 week notice instead of 2. I would be happy for you to take the time off for your next job.
Producers want to sell more, therefore they select varieties that look pretty, that are uniform in color and shape, they will also select varieties that keep for a long time for transport, or that grow bigger and ripen faster for better yields, being measured only by weight. Lots of factors but none related to taste or nutritional value. The consumer has very little say in all this.
I wouldn't necessarily blame the recruiter for that particular one, since I'd guess the question was on a form that the org or manager required them to fill out.

The recruiter might've been especially metrics-driven, though. And maybe they were playing to metrics in a way that the org/manager didn't intend.

Or maybe the org/manager did intend your experience, and it was behavioral screen, for candidates who'll submit to whatever the emergent behavior of a corporate behemoth ends up doing to them. :)
I just read the review. The specific gripes they had are: (1) subpar battery life, (2) middling performance compared to others with the same CPU/RAM configuration, (3) loud fan noise akin to a gaming laptop, and (4) uncomfortably high temperatures on load.
A super simple service for generating different HTTP codes
As someone living in Belgium, less than an hour away from various places that days ago experienced their worst floods ever and with friends who lost their homes… I wonder what the hell China has to do with those. Go on?

The article may talk about China but this is a general problem.
Yeah but a Tesla isn't marketed as a computing device for "pros", while an iPad arguably is.
Fair, but infections is only a proxy measurement for the actual outcome we are trying to avoid: hospitalizations and death.

The fact remains that hospitalizations and deaths are basically only occurring among the unvaccinated.
Apple makes it surprisingly difficult to synchronize photos outside of their iCloud offering and I'm willing to bet that this is no accident.
I'm around 99% carnivore, plus salt and occasional exceptions like ready-to-eat meats with seasoning and maybe some minced peppers, or a caffeinated diet drink.

Largely I follow the advice in Paul Saladino's book, The Carnivore Code, and I recommend it.

I started this specifically to address digestive issues. I had chronic constipation and bloating that was consistently made worse when eating more fiber. Moving to a low residue diet resolved most of those issues in one day. I was never a big meat eater and resisted even trying that approach for many years. But the effect was such a great relief that I just continued it.

As importantly it has resolved my diabetes and the majority of my obesity. Veganism helped with those too, but carnivory has helped more and proven more sustainable for me. I think it's more important to move away from the toxic junk than whether you move toward meat or veg.
The machinations of the brain are as immaterial as the bytes of a hard drive; which technically speaking are both material given that the information there is an electrical property of matter.
One person’s tool is another person’s livelihood, the corner stone of their professional experience, and the basis by which other people will (apparently) judge their technical expertise
Weak men with no prospects really are the biggest threat to a society, huh? They'll adopt any position and'll do anything for a mirage of recognition or whatever abates their resentment and perspective of disempowerment. The San Bernardino mass shooter went after women cause girls rejected and emasculated him as he claimed in his video manifesto uploaded to YouTube.
It's an extraordinary claim with zero evidence.
A Step by Step Process for Turning Designs into Code
See the language around short-circuiting here

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#boolean-oper...

The expression is returned based on its truthiness
Modularity is a great feature, but modularity is a mobility killer.

Modular laptops, phones, etc.. will be always penalized in terms of either performance or battery life for a given size.
Also worth mentioning if it makes a difference, I only need to be able to transfer photos off of the phone (along with info about which albums they belong to as mentioned), and don't need to sync in the other direction onto the phone.
My experience is the most impressive people are significantly less likely to quit early. If they where doing a lot of interesting things in their free time they either become engaged with interesting projects at work or put in a solid work week and then go home to have fun with their own projects.

Albert Einstein for example worked for several years as a patent examiner while developing special relativity. Sure his contemporary physicists mostly worked in academia, but teaching is as unrelated to research as everything else yet they still did it.
normally the first 3 months you are in a new job you are on probation to see if you are a good fit for the company... but the company is also on probation from you! if the company is not a good fit for you it's ok to let them know.
In advance...

PS: the on example you put about the presentation wouldn't make me want to quit, but I'm sure there are other things in your decision.
> Random tweets, random blog posts, random personal web sites. Let them wither and die and be forgotten. Notable content by notable people? Sure.

Well, it isn't named the Internet Encyclopedia, for a reason.

> Without trying to be contrarian, I don't think that everything should be archived

It isn't contrarian. The deletionists are seemingly the majority. It is contrarian to in fact archive all. the. things.
My humble advice to you: start with reflecting on why you refer to women as “females”.
While I agree with your overall point regarding the importance of contextual history when looking at any design, one nit I would pick is your statement that there was no internet when Phil Katz created and PKWARE released PKZIP. First release was Feb of 1989, and I was most assuredly on the internet at that time, and in fact that is where I first encountered PKZIP.

The 80s BBS scene was built around things like ARC, LHarc, and ZOO. ARC essentially got killed by its creators SEA thanks to their suing PKWARE over PKARC. Many BBS operators banned the use of ARC after that lawsuit in protest (a similar furor would erupt 5-6 years later over GIF).
It had an interesting take on industrialization with a hivemind though. Manchester capitalism is not really bad if you are borg, after all its just a hand assigned to boredom.

Rainbows End explored a society which went full AR, but in my opinion most of the shots if fired missed the target.
> In 2010 there was another Swine Flu scare but not much was learned: Pandemrix was authorized and sold in Europe but turned out to occasionally create narcolepsy in teenagers.

A protein in the Swine Fly virus triggered narcolepsy in some people. You can get exposed to this protein both from the Pandemrix vaccine, and from getting sick from Swine Flu. China didn't vaccinate, but there was a spike in narcolepsy cases in China, from people who were infected by the virus.

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/294/294ra105

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/E368.short

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/health/23global.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ana.22587
It's just silly fear of change. Why is programming bad but reading books is good? Programming is fun!
Making games doesn't mean they're financially successful or making bank. Several of those I made were released as free Flash games back in the day, for example. And yet even those were more popular than some games I worked on professionally for companies while in the industry.

So now I do enterprise development for my day job and work on games on nights and weekends. And enterprise development isn't inherently boring either.

Programming is still programming, in both games and enterprise software there are times where you just need to power through easy boilerplate with some music or a podcast on, and other times where it's an intricate puzzle you have to mull over in silence, do some research or experimenting on, ask your colleagues for their opinions or insight, etc.
The reality is antivaxxers and nomaskers are to blame for the entire pandemic, its continuation, and subsequent variant evolution. Contributing factors are lifting restrictions too early, lack of enforcement in underdeveloped and developed countries, and lack of compulsory vaccination. If such measures were taken, the R number would be much less than 1. If gamma circulates worldwide, it might as well be SARS-CoV-3.
>> everything the financial system strives to be

This is a somewhat "loaded" statement, with assumptions about what the financial system strives to be. Some of that load is, IMO, monetarism. Some of it is adjacent to monetarism.

Though I suspect we have different views on what we're seeing, I reckon we're seeing a lot of the same things.

It's always easier to explain the past, so this is what it is. That said, I reckon these are a few factors that went into asset value appreciation during the crisis:

1 - As you say, a (correct) market prediction of loose fiscal and monetary policies.

2 - A (probably correct) prediction of long term, near-zero interest rates... regardless of inflation. IE, markets directly predict an end to CB monetarism, as it has been practiced for decades.

3 - (more speculative) ...Lockdowns and such accelerate digitisation and its associated centralisation. E Commerce over physical retail. Netflix over theatres. Etrc. Empirically, digital goods, especially in the hands of very large companies, produce much higher profit margins and/or growth rates. This translates directly into market cap. IE, if $10bn of retails spending/revenue moves from traditional retail to amazon, this is a (substantially) plus-sum game in terms of total market cap.

In any case, this isn't unprecedented. Wars & post war demilitarization have played similar, paradoxical roles before. Conclusions in the past have also been similar... that public spending and the health of the private economy are often complimentary, rather than competitive.

Moving forward, whether or not a majority of US spending is done by the government, all USD spending originates in government money printing. That much is no longer deniable. A view of the world where money originates in private markets, funding government spending via taxation is no longer viable.

IMO, a compromise that doesn't involve central planning is redistribution, either directly or via taxation. There just seems to be more reluctance around the latter than the former, once you get into specific policy cases.
In Germany, we have similar problems, just with crows. In Munich, many trash bins had to be upgraded to be crow (and pigeon) proof, and there have even been occasional attacks - due to covid restrictions, cities became more quiet so the birds nested... and then the restrictions eased and people invaded the areas of the nests.
Not an automatic rejection, but it certainly requires a conversation. I recently had to go back to a candidate to triple check that she really, really was fine not leading a team anymore, with no timetable on when that might happen again. After a few days, she withdrew. We were bummed, because she was great, but we had suspected it wasn't really what she was looking for.
It is not a vaccine skeptical article.
Hug of death? https://archive.is/836Jc
I thought most developed countries already have 5g deployments?

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_5G_NR_networks
Did you consider that China is just a recent example of flooding and the article is about flooding as such?
The floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands just happened last week.
I’m not advocating for any particular build paradigm but there are shops, at least in New York and here in Baltimore that will repair/replace soldered-on parts for you.
> Right, but you still can't easily look somebody up across the country - unless you pay for access to that data - which you could've done with phonebooks.

Sure you can, all the phone directories are online and aggregated now - for example: https://www.whitepages.com/

> I strongly suspect that Bell sold their phonebook data to companies, but even if they didn't, it wouldn't be particularly difficult to obtain phonebooks from all the areas your business is interested in...

Yes, but there's a lot more effort involved with (1) ordering a phone book from Bell for a city located on the other side of the country, and (2) looking up the persons of interest in the paper directory.

I wouldn't be suprised either if Bell sold phonebook data in the pre-internet age, but that's still a larger barrier to entry than somebody who can search for anything they want to know about somebody using a laptop in coffee shop. We've democratized open source intelligence to the point where the barrier to entry is a bored teenager that doesn't even need to leave their house. I don't think we've figured out the massive societal implications of that just yet.
The concept sounds more like "user serviceable" than "hackable" to me.

But still, knowing the physical dimensions of the slot and having the USB-C port itself providing retention, it should be straightforward for 3rd parties to design more peripherals.
I was asking more in general, not for this particular company. The numbers you cite does look like they'll find a way through this :)

I do hear it a lot of "your business should not exist!" for working class enterprises like restaurants.
That solution already contains one glaring fallacy. I wonder how badly the other points would turn out if implemented. There’s something to be said about human intuition or even just revulsion when faced with such boldly insensitive proposals, it’s more often than not correct.
UK gun sales website's CRM database breached, 111k users' info spilled online
Also: How much electricity is conserved by turning off the light bulbs for 200ms every few seconds VS how much energy is expanded by running a webcam + CV program constantly? It’s probably less energy efficient overall.
Arbitrage in Wazirx Crypto Exchange
You should check out the "sender only" and "receiver only" options: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/foldertypes.html

EDIT: added link
...is discrimination but not sexual harassment
It looks like there are a bunch of programmers who think that having taken the first year uni course on data structures is more important than having experience actually building product and having it used by millions.

It's kind of silly. Most programmers out of school have a lot to learn about building product and actually getting a big project done - which they are supposed to learn on the job. At a place like Google. Somebody who knows this part already could probably spend some time on the job learning about data structures.

It's like these conventionally-taught programmers think they get to look down on somebody who actually built something cuz he's self-taught. (As a conventionally-taught programmer who is very comfortable with data structures I find that attitude aloof at best)
Sometimes that's the case, though. I've led teams before, and I don't mind going back to just head down focused on code again. Leading people tends to be more lucrative but also dulls the coding blade.
Wages, particularly minimum wages, are just one component of inequality.
How much electricity is conserved by turning off the light bulbs for 200ms every few seconds VS how much energy is expanded by running a webcam + CV program constantly? It’s probably less energy efficient overall.
I suppose it will be for Facebook or any advertising firm that wants to push it to the next level of getting into your head.
China also got floods 2 days ago. (Hi from Hotton ! ...with dry feet now)