skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American public schools have been using metric for decades. Science classes in American public schools use metric exclusively since the 80s at least. When you meet an American who makes a big deal out of not knowing what a meter is, 9 times out of 10 they're putting on a performative patriotic display mean to get a rise out of you. That, or they're quite elderly.

Incidentally, .22 LR is nominally but not actually 0.22 inches in diameter. It's very slightly bigger than that. In the domain of ammunition, there is often a mismatch between actual diameter and nominal diameter.
They unfortunately use both domain and ip based reputation scores. The problem is there are effectively an infinite number of usable domains. Even after eliminating the sub-domain problem the fact is there are simply too many possible domain names that can be created and discarded on the fly for less than $5 a pop. Given the fact that bad reputation decays, they can simply rinse a repeat that process practically forever so long as they manage to make more than $5 per hour from thier spam. IPv4 addresses however, are far more scarce which is why most spam email opperations try to take over existing legitimate small email servers (commonly small businesses with thier own domain get targeted) in order to send out thier spam. Every time they succeed they use it not only to send spam emails, but Trojan viruses to all users contacts in the hope of infecting other businesses. They can even achieve this without infecting the server itself, but simply getting recipients to unknowingly run a script that tells Outlook to send the emails from whatever addresses the users has access to.
Yeah, it’s not a constructive approach. I would not want to work with anyone who pulls stunts like this, no matter how “clever” they are.
Theranos indictment when
I also think it’s overvalued, but the company distanced itself from the criminal founder long ago.

The company also has about 3/4 of a billion dollars in the bank. It’s basically an extremely well funded startup with a bit of a head start on the EV market at this point.
This is incredibly passive aggressive lol.
Congrats! Can't wait to get my hands on a copy.
Nikola is one of Crystal lang largest sponsors[0]. I wonder if this is going to have repercussions. It's no fault of the Crystal community but might cast a shadow nevertheless.

[0] https://crystal-lang.org/sponsors/
$5 DO running a database I manually add could probably be great
Also just to note how extremely unwilling the uk government was to lock down, when they closed schools in January they didn’t close them directly after the winter break. Instead they allowed all kids to go to school for one day in January and then decided to lock down when the numbers looked bad on Monday evening after all the kids had already been to school (which obviously caused a lot of spread for that one day).
> I just bought a copy, mostly to reward your effort

Thank you!

> did you consciously decide to turn off tagged PDF

I did not. I did export an interactive PDF from InDesign and took care to make sure that the table of contents and internal links work, but I have zero experience in PDF accessibility. I'll take a look into it and see what I can figure out.
It's interesting to compare the Spanish Flu pandemic timeline from Wikipedia with this pandemic:

2.1 Timeline

2.1.1 First wave of early 1918

2.1.2 Deadly second wave of late 1918

2.1.3 Third wave of 1919

2.1.4 Fourth wave of 1920

Though COVID-19 appears to be substantially less lethal than the Spanish Flu [0], the overall trajectory of the pandemic has not deviated much from the historical one, even in countries with high vaccination rates.

It's seeming increasingly possible that many lockdowns were ill-advised and will have very poor "health outcome" returns on the astronomical economic costs they imposed. Except in areas where the hospital system was actually under threat of collapse, it appears lockdowns are really all pain and no gain.

[0] https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210329.51293....
Congrats, Bob, and thanks for all of your time and effort. I enjoyed the illustration videos that you included in the earlier blog post [1] (under "Illustrating by Hand"). That post landed at a time when many of us were badly stressed, and I remember it being very soothing.

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-craft...
The Beatles in Spatial Audio: Producer Giles Martin on How It All Works
Congrats on the print version, Bob! I appreciate you taking the time to share everything you've learned about the writing and publishing process.

I look forward to reading this!
So, corporate-backed gaslighting that also acts as a surveillance mechanism?
...aaand one day later the CDC says the direct opposite in order to justify a new mask mandate, citing unreleased but super scary and definitely trustworthy data.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210729042140/https://www.washi...
Seconding `mo`. It's pretty nice
It's missing a (2020).
Copy / paste from elsewhere but here's a recent list of speculative investing bubbles and their outcomes:

The Japanese Nikkei is still down 40% from 1989. That was 31 years ago. The Shanghai Composite index is down 45% from 2007. That was 13 years ago. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index is down 10% from the peak in 2007. The German DAX is a “total return” index that includes dividends. So it cannot be compared to the other indices here, or to the S&P 500. The German index that is not a total return index and therefore can be compared to the S&P 500 is the DAXK. Despite its red-hot surge in recent months, it’s still down 8% from the peak in the year 2000. That was twenty years ago. The London stock exchange index FTSE is down 13% from 1999. 21 years ago. The Italian stock index, the FTSE MIB, is down about 60% from the year 2000. 20 years ago. The French stock index, the CAC40, is down 24% from its peak in the year 2000. 20 years ago. The Spanish stock index IBEX 35 is down 58% from its peak in 2007, which was the peak of the Spanish housing bubble that collapsed with devastating results 12 years ago.
Idunno... I guess what I was trying to say was that if it's just the "delivery", but the actual contents are actually correct, then can that really be called "toxic"?

I mean, if what he is saying is not "Black people / women / poor people are all inferior, and deserve to suffer!", but just "Hey assholes, black people / women / poor people are not inferior, and don't deserve to suffer just because they're black / women / poor!", then "toxic" doesn't feel like the right word to describe it. IMO. To me that feels like it should relate to the actual content of the message,as in "White supremacists are spreading their toxic views online" etc.

But but, guess I'm just arguing semantics, YMMV, so never mind.
An infrastructure test that ensures man built and installed correctly.
Programmers often think the technical aspect of the work is the most important. I’ve met many developers wannabe entrepreneurs who were convinced they had to spend as much time perfecting their app as possible instead of talking to prospective customers. We all know that doesn’t end well.

What I realized over my relatively long IT career is that maybe developers just don’t get why meetings are necessary. Not saying all meetings are equally useful, many of them are in fact a waste of time. But many engineers are narrow-minded and outright reject all the benefits of getting into the same room and discussing a problem.
My ability to succeed in approximately deciphering an arbitrary sentence conveying meaning A is lower than my ability to communicate that approximate meaning myself. The odds are made much lower if communicating with a new person not already aware of my exact vocabulary.

Of course, I can decipher much fancier sentences than I can produce (especially in a controlled environment as I originally mentioned). My produced sentence will be much more awkward than the sentences I can decipher, but it will work.

From my perspective, this makes listening harder than speaking - I will not be fluent in a language until a decade of practical use, so the only metric that matters to me is whether something had practical application and acceptable understanding. In that sense, removing parts of a sentence you can't produce before you say it still passes as a success, but not understanding anything or most what a person is trying to say to you is not. Most people are not able to sufficiently simplify their speech as they do not know what or how you have been taught. If you are already able to have the meta-conversation needed to inquire about and discuss meanings of words and sentences comfortably, then you are already an advanced speaker.

Note that this is very subjective. I am expressing my current state of learning as it is, and claiming that this is wrong is silly. On the other hand claiming that you will experience the same would also be silly, but it's none tell less worth sharing experiences.
I had discussions about vaccines with relatives and there I've tried to make a case where I think it would be beneficial for them. I've dropped the topic for those that don't want it, perhaps only jokingly bringing it up every now and then, but they do have to test before if they come by.

What I don't understand is this obsession about the vaccination status of strangers. The only time that I felt upset about somebody else's vaccination status was with (our) teachers that said they won't get it. Because kids can't be protected by the vaccine, I think it's justified that the teachers are asked to vaccinate and the manufacturer/gov must compensate them for any side-effects.
Other than that everyone has a right to decide what they put in their body. The state of the pandemic does not justify violating this right.
Looked at the first name, not look at the last name too!
The PCR tests are too sensitive [0], experts are saying that it looks like 90% of positive people may not infected or infectious and should not be counted as positive.

They are running too many cycles for these tests, making them something like 100 times more sensitive than tests for other viruses.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/experts-us-covid-19...
Using fraud to support interesting open source work – I'm kinda conflicted.
So you want to analyze Scheme programs with Datalog?
With the number of companies (from Tesla to Chevrolet) with large volumes actual EVs sold and on the road, I don't see how Nikola has a head start?
There's nothing like walking around and seeing the constant, physical, and, in the case of this book, beautiful reminder that you're not doing what you want to do.
Exactly, working at a low level still means that “the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas”. The different people are just hardware builders instead of library writers.
it speaks very poorly of the unix ecosystem that nothing to replace m4 with a more sensible syntax has become widely available.

If the unix CLI isn't going to slowly rot away, it needs to pick up improved versions of tools like this and start getting them into wide distribution.
I think you just proved his point. NKLA was an outright scam, and Tesla wasn’t, but the way many people talked about Tesla was as if it was a scam selling vapor ware. It took a very keen eye indeed to tease out fact from fiction. Tesla may have “mediocre growth” as you claim (I strongly disagree) but the number of Tesla cars I see on the road are a testament that the company is no scam.
Meritocracy in Academic Labor Markets: A Comparison of Three Fields
Please don't assume that I don't know what I'm doing, that's very impolite.

I seasoned the pan exactly as recommended: Very clean pan, stripped of previous seasoning, super thin layers of oil, barely visible on the surface, heat for 1 hour, cool for 1 hour, then repeat oil and heat/cool. And I used high-quality fresh flaxseed oil, not some old oxidized stuff.

It's a complete waste of time, when frying up some potato peels takes ~15 minutes and gives a sturdier result. It may not be as pretty or uniform, but it works, and how cast iron/carbon steel pans are prepared in every professional kitchen I know of. They don't have time to faff about, seasoning pans doesn't pay the bills. Cooking does.
Thank you for these links, I thought it had to be some kind of spoof or art project, this is really… Strange.
Congratulations, this looks amazing! I enjoyed reading the web version over the last few years and learned a lot from it. Now I'm looking forward to owning the hard copy as well :)
Some for sure are (i.e. some really just are stringed-together sentences comparing numbers), many probably are just really low quality manual work.
Agreement from me, although I'd avoid double booking. Double booking means that other people are expecting you to attend, they may wait to see if more people join, or need to reschedule if the right audience isn't able to make it. I think it's best to pro-actively reject meetings versus only showing up for one.
Also related functions tend to be close to each other in the binary.
Apple solved this problem for me - the built-in camera on my MacBook Pro stopped working, as well as my Apple monitor, and no USB webcam will work either (even ones that are working on other Macs). I think it might be WebEx - when I installed WebEx on my personal MacBook Pro it's camera stopped working as well. I had to uninstall WebEx and reboot to get it working again. So I can't use a camera even when I want to!
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252759
ah yes. Because there is a direct and clear road ahead from requirement to implementation. Requirements don't change and if they do it doesn't have any impact on existing parts of the software. /s
So what happens when one of these beetles makes it into the foam?

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/beetle-larvae-can...
If you're not UK resident or otherwise excused, the NHS charges and therefore does have a price-list. https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/overseas-patient-upfr...

And even residents are charged prescription fees for drugs given in A&E.
I think this was much more true in the long ago era of regulation, (mostly) autarky, and limited market info/trading barriers.

I've looked at "Security Analysis" and it's very much a historical piece - railroads and (practically) buggy whips. Things change relatively faster these days. Yesterday, Kodak was the bluest of chips; today, pretty much a joke. Heck, look at Buffett in the last decade - I'll bet he fully Grahamitized IBM, which didn't make it any less hollow. That sort of analysis, or even certainty (a false premise by definition) just isn't worth the effort for the average ownership span.
"/29 Subnet (5 usable IPs)"

When will these dumb large companies stop wasting TWO addresses per subnet?
That's going to look awesome next to my copy of Game Programming Patterns! ... What do you mean "Temporarily Out Of Stock", amazon.co.uk!?
Don’t have to listen to CDC then, can trust the data that is already published.
I just finished the first part of the book (building the intepreter, but I did it in typed Python).

The book sent me back to the college days where I remember doing similar things.

Can't wait to start working on the bytecode virtual machine.

It's really an excellent book.
I'm waiting for the meeting that helps engineer fight back against pointless apps
Deli was being turned into an acquisition vehicle to take a foreign company public. It’s a common way for a foreign company to access the US capital markets.
A good way to learn game engines is to build a series of games that only require you to learn a few new things with each iteration. The same way you wouldn’t roll your own game engine that has all the features of Godot on your first try.
If you are the browsing type, you can dip into anything interesting you see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cultural_references_...

You may like this also:

https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-virgils-ae...
I think our society needs to revisit ideas about not just collective responsibility, but collective guilt. Any one of us struggles to see living our normal carbon-intensive lives as an act of violence, but the consequences are nevertheless deadly. We've understood many of the impacts of our behavior for decades, but our carbon intensive activities only intensified.

At what point can we talk about collective guilt, and appropriate measures of a justice system? At what point do we say that, like PG&E killed a couple of towns, that a larger collective like a country or group of countries has killed people?
I think what you want here is a radar chart, not a 2-2 matrix. I suspect most people embody these different types to varying degrees over time, topics and circumstances.
Woohoo, congrats Bob! I’ll be picking up a copy (is there a difference in your cut for Amazon vs Barnes & Noble?) and am excited to work through it. I’ve been referencing the web version here and there but waited on working through it entirely til I had a physical copy :D
For certain populations (ie young women) the risks from AstraZeneca vaccine outweigh the risks from covid.

Old people shouldnt be scared yes, but young people should approach it with caution. And isn't that what the government is saying anyways- confirm with doctor and then get it?
Yes you are right; though stainless steel woks are pretty common too. Either way, you should season them.
> I find that without a face to read, I have a very difficult time navigating conversations.

I hear this a lot, and in my long experience I find that most people are terrible at reading others in the business world. I've seen so many misunderstandings because of people reading into others tone, body language, etc, instead of just listening to the words and interpreting them.
there is no "denialist" preventing acts, only rich people lobbying to be able to produce and sell as much garbage as the people can consume. denialists or not.
Paperless-Ng
Are startups funded by public venture capital different? Evidence from microdata
It's a lot harder than giving an employee a laptop and having them shadow someone for a couple weeks before kicking them in the deep end.

Structured training may be straightforward to implement, but it takes many more man-hours than just letting the new employees sponge up knowledge on their own.

That said, remote work is here to stay, and you're right to criticize companies for being extremely lazy with remote onboarding. Companies that can quickly ramp up fully-remote new-hires will probably have a huge competitive advantage in the coming years.
My web services company built an eBay/Craigslist clone for Milton about 10 years ago. Trump level bullshitter but with an indomitable drive. Despite being a returned Mormon missionary Trevor has a loose ethical screw.
I say it time and time again Google is an ad company not a search company they just happen to be doing search
It appears you didn't read my comment in its entirety. Nowhere did I claim there was no legal justification for US citizens to keep firearms - rather I listed several such justifications.

I also never claimed no one is "coming to take your guns," although I do believe that is mostly just right-wing propaganda, and was referring to the propaganda value of that threat as being the only useful vestige of the revolutionary principle of the Second Amendment remaining, because the actual disparity in firepower between the populace and the US military renders the practical utility of it irrelevant.
In my state, and I assume most/all(?) others, it's all electronic. When I had to replace a lost license a few years back, it was very easy. Go to a website and pay $25 or whatever. But there's no new photo involved.
TempleOS is the one pure operating system created without any debates. RIP Terry A. Davis.
It speaks more to the quality of the results you can expect receiving non-personalized Bing results.

From my experience, it isn’t very good, and I’ve had DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for years, at first to give DuckDuckGo the old college try, but now primarily to be able to replicate a feature I had in Firefox in Safari and iOS Spotlight (being able to redirect a search to any search engine with a keyword).
Not sure I'd classify 100% year-on-year growth to revenues of $12 billion as mediocre, during a year when the production lines of two of their three cars were shut down for almost an entire quarter and we also went through the worst pandemic since 1918.

The valuation is still steep by earnings and compared to likely competitors, but it's not based on speculation devoid of observations.
Thank you for your comment. This icon set consists of a lot of icons in a certain style (line, solid, duotone). It is very helpful for UI designers. Also Figma support and free updates.
fraudulent? yes.

“full self driving”? fraud.
I'm half curious and half afraid of this being an actual thing. Do I try it or not? I feel like doing this on a remote VM spun up just to do it would be wasted with no speakers. Do I spin up a VM on my local machine? Or screw it, where's the fun in no risk?
Debouncing in TypeScript
I'm using DuoLingo (unpaid) successfully to learn French. It is only good for building vocabulary. My advice:

a) Use the "tips" (not available for all languages) on the DuoLingo website client for every exercise. They are very well written and give you crucial insights.

b) Use Tandem every day to chat with/talk to native speakers as soon as you have some basic vocabulary. Spend some time to find people who are eager to learn. You can often spot them because they only want to learn one language and not seven...

c) Buy a grammar book with exercises. Learn conjugations. Learn the grammar to ask questions. Learn prepositions. DuoLingo will not teach you grammar.

I went from A1.1 to A2.3 in 6 months doing this and I'm super motivated to keep going.
The scorn you read here is not against all management, but against the notion of "we can't manage remote employees effectively". Your results above show that it can be done even when you hate it, which most of us assumed was the case all along and we've been suffering the "back to work" talk track needlessly.
I don’t know how copies of my ID being made turns it into a joke? There isn’t anything secret on my ID, and just knowing the information and having a picture is to impersonating me as putting on running shoes is to drawing an owl.
From our experience, live cursors positioning depends on the use case and the content behind them.

For a "canvas app" (like Figma), the positioning will be absolute with an offset depending on the panning.

For a responsive website, if it makes sense to add live cursors, it depends on how the content "flows". For example, if your content scrolls vertically and is centered horizontally, you can use percentage on the "x" axis and absolute on the "y" axis. That's what we're doing it in this example: https://liveblocks.io/examples/live-cursors-scrollable-page

Sometimes, cursors are not the best way to show what users are doing on a web page. For a form, displaying an indicator close to the focused input is more valuable.

Because there is no perfect solution, we're not shipping any UI with Liveblocks and only provide guides. In the future, if a common abstraction appears, we will create some package to make the integration easier.
So he made billions on lies and he's going to keep those right?
In the Army they say for every person in the field there's 10 people behind the scenes handling the logistics of keeping that person fed and supplied with what they need to be effective. Those people behind the scenes are every bit as important as that person in the field. That's what we do. We're the "behind the scenes" people that makes everything possible.
yeah except for the tens of thousands of software engineers they employee that have worked from home this entire year. iphone app devs don’t need expensive hardware
People know what the bolt looks like, but the wrench is missing.
are Americans producing the most emissions per person? I bet no - so why Americans are singled out?
You want to be productive. Software wants to help