skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess maybe I could clarify. I do agree there's a difference between a person who asks a lot of questions and one who just asks questions out of laziness. There's a difference. If a person is asking a lot of questions, especially the same ones over and over without any clear signs of gaining understanding, yeah there's definitely a problem, that person is dragging down work then.

But I do think there's a difference. If a person generally asks a lot of questions, but there's clear signs of improvement and they're trying to pull their weight, then I really don't see it as a bad thing.
"Politics" in general is how groups of people make collective decisions. If you move that decision-making out of the realm of government, those decisions will still be made, and still be made by politics, but will typically not involve some of the affected.
I am not sure I understand you. I am not going to cut off anybody, not everyone driving an expensive car is a douche you pictured. I can safely turn right in a much shorter gap than a budget SUV with underpowered engine could without cutting off anyone. All other maneuvers are not getting safer if performed at half speed.

And sure, technically you can take all the time you want doing the left turn even when the light turned red, it will be of a little consolation when a distracted driver t-bones you.

As far as suspension and brakes go - there is no constant need of course but in the extreme situations it can be life and death. Stuff can happen: animals jumping in front of you, stuff falling from trucks, your tires cut or blowing out for whatever reason, other cars not driving legally and safely etc. etc.

Also, I believe you, you notice bad drivers in expensive cars and have the class hatred for them. So do I, when I see stoners in the beater civics driving like maniacs, yet I figure that it's not the Honda problem, somehow.
I 1. showed you the OP gave a reason for wanting to use testers and 2. Gave you my experience with having had testers. What else would you like?
Similar to how life-threatening depression often doesn't look like life-threatening depression
Suggest changing 'raid' to 'inspect' in the title since it seems that the NSO Group was not forced to comply with a thorough search as would be implied by a 'raid'.
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Sure. You're used to being able to manage people so it's a probably a bit of a shock when you can't. My personal perspective is more of the opposite and your complaint may have touched a bit of a nerve. Your experience is fairly normal to me but I see it as my own lack of ability, not anybody else's responsibility for helping me to manage those angry/selfish/etc. people. I would like it if there was some authority that managed them for me, but that never works in practice because people can outsmart the system.
This is a whole other topic, but if you are choosing what words to use, the words are no longer random, and your password (sorry, “passphrase”) is no longer as secure as mere word counts might lead you to believe.

If you insist on choosing words, you must compensate for this by choosing more words; i.e. having a longer passphrase. Exactly how many bits of entropy you lose by manually choosing words is hard to say without knowing your exact criteria for choosing, but it can be calculated exactly if these are known.
If you're ok with Pyhton then Matplotlib might work for you on the viz side.
My intuitive response as I started to read this was a sort of "gentle-art" thought: Would it be helpful for someone to start their question: "I don't know if I should know this [already]..." ?

If the answer is [in context] indeed "yes", then that could help tune their threshold for when learn-by-self vs learn-by-others will be appropriate [again, in that context].
Ok but the question is assuming they have a concept of species, presumably with a bright line, and then are using that to determine whether or not to have sex. Which is circular (as well as absurd on so many levels).

That said, I'm sure they had some concept of "differentness," which would lie on a spectrum, rather than the black and white way the above poster described it.

Humans may, for instance, find people of different races to be less attractive in general. But exceptions can be made. I imagine if you are desperate enough, you widen the pool of acceptable candidates. I have no reason to think it was very different back then.
This sort of thing is one of the more disturbing things to me about COVID-19, and why I wish there was a less exclusive focus on death in talking about the pandemic. Clearly that's important but there's these hugely significant problems not captured by focusing solely on death.
You can have a good understanding of most T&C by just having basic understanding of the law and using common sense. Obviously you’ll miss one thing or another due to not being a specialist. Also, a lot of these contracts have very standard clauses that you can pretty much skip once you realise you read it before. If you’re used to always reading those it’s not really an effort, it takes 10 minutes or less.
Hi, we have some customers left running things on our EC2 classic shard at Heroku. Mostly related to having dependence on customers doing things to migrate them cleanly.
I just 3D printed a little clip that holds the scroll lock key down. Or, there’s always the mechanical or electronic mouse jigglers you can buy off of Amazon.
I probably would have watched it at that age, but then again, apparently I really liked watching the world news on the local PBS station at 6 years old. I haven't seen Arthur since the 90's, but my guess is it's probably better for kids between 8 and 12. It wasn't really my favorite show, but I do appreciate how it presents morality to kids.
Making a claim that matches centuries of experience carries virtually no burden of proof. It's not remotely a "spurious" claim.
I agree it's all about the cadence. How can you get into a rythm with multiple people potentially veering in different directions? Sometimes this is an org chart problem (we're a team but not working on remotely connected stuff), sometimes this is a management problem (giving in to the chaos), and sometimes it's a personal problem (one person's focus pattern is different than the next).

What Paul Graham said that resonated with me was WHY he worked late nights...that solitude gave him that focus time.
you should really use a test account when experimenting with random matrix clients. meanwhile we’re looking at adding OAuth 2 to Matrix by default so your server is the one that auths you, rather than a random client: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2964#issuecomm...
But with lead you have both neurological/etc damages and DNA damages! These lead derivatives are classified as probably carcinogenous!

So, you see? The comparison ends up easy!
Nope. They are still around.
May I suggest a "categories" option. Ebay and Amazon have categories one can restrict searches to, for example. Just that will go a long way.

Keywords tend to have multiple meanings, and advertisers won't really know what keywords to use to represent a particular category. For example, I'd like to specify

"books and programming"

so only ads that are for programming books would appear.
Iron-air batteries: green-energy breakthrough, or just a lot of hype?
Without any qualitative data to back this up, these are merely the feelings and intuitions of some random web developer. While these feelings and intuitions may be largely accurate, without any actual evidence to support the hypothesis "These tactics lead to higher conversion rates" there's no reason anyone should take them remotely seriously. Just reads like a list of things everyone else is doing, and as we should all well know by now, conventional wisdom is often conventional, but seldom as wise we might think.

Now show me hard data from a properly designed and controlled experiment where you assess the objective conversion performance of websites before and after implementing these specific tactics and I'd take you a lot more seriously. Instead of just saying "Do these things" you should be saying "I did these things, and here's the data that show's how they affected conversion rates."
I think there are two big flaws in PGs essay.

1. This problem of constant interruptions through email, slack, etc affects everyone. It's extremely arrogant to pretend that it's primarily a problem for the special engineers. (I'm an engineer).

2. The idea that you can't be effective if you don't have half a day free everyday is frankly bullshit, and it gives people a victims mentality if they accept it. Yes, people need uninterrupted time. I assure you that I can code effectively in blocks of 2 hours. It may be slightly less efficient if the only thing that matters is coding, but a lot more matters that pure coding.
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I have one that's just chainmail, but I agree 100%. I think it's made the biggest difference of anything for my cast iron pan care.
Opt out of global data surveillance programs
PRs are welcome against github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org to list clients :)

(it looks like cinny is built on matrix-js-sdk, which also powers element web, so inherits the e2ee support and could inherit voip etc from there).
> When you shoot messengers, expect to receive fewer messages

Most modern organizations don't have pure messengers. The king is his messenger. That can blur the line between accountability and transparency. For example, in this case, the messengers were the senior managers partly responsible for the mess.

Good managers clearly delineate that boundary. Bringing bad news isn't punished. But making bad calls alone may be. In practice, this takes discipline to do.
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I think speaking up is fine. It is when ANY engineer is lazy and doesn't bother to:

a) do any research before asking the question,
b) trying to understand the answer given or
c) doesn't follow the answer given.

I will help anyone that asks but if they are just using me for quick answers and never learning anything then eventually they will use up their credits with me. I cannot do their job and mine at the same time...
What Are We Even Arguing About? – By John Duffy – The Devil Makes Three
The article doesn’t blame the underlings that report a “rosy picture”, but rather blames the culture that heavily incentivizes reporting a rosy picture regardless of the facts on the ground, and punished everything else. And the people with the most power over this culture are the ones at the top, making them the most culpable for the thermocline.
but if management/product view something as easy or hard

Yep. My job involves a fair amount of coding but it's geared toward data analysis. I might create something in a day with dozens of data points and look like a hero, while another project might take a week and the output is a single number.

Actually, yesterday it was two numbers, X & Y. (Upper & lower bounds on something). Deceptively simple in appearance to anyone consuming the information, but behind the scenes it took an order of magnitude more time to make it a dynamic model based on latest available data instead of a static hand-crafted analysis.
I'm just happy it's not contagious. Yet.
It really depends on what you cook, and when you clean it.

If you can stay on top of it, you can usually just wipe it down with oil cloth while it's hot, and presto, like new.

If you run it too hot and dry and start burning something, and let it sit and cool...get the hammer and chisel.

I usually don't preseason my pans, as just cooking will take care of it over time. I do however take an angle grinder to the inside to get it glassy when new. Much easier to cook eggs on than that sandpaper Lodge gives you.
That sounds a bit simplistic. The common cold is also a viral disease, and people get it relatively frequently. AIDS is a viral disease with famously peculiar properties, constantly mutating and masquerading. Not all viral diseases are the same.
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Sounds just like many places that handle prions in the US. Bad? Yes. Normal? Yeah, pretty much so.
They could pick up after themselves after scavenging. You don’t need a home for that.
Well, I remember reading a blog post from someone who analysed IPv4 address pricing, and concluded it was increasing quadratically (ah, here it is https://www.retevia.net/address-pricing-2019-and-beyond/). The noise is so high it seemed such certainty seems a little out of place, but clearly it is going up and it's growth rate is at least linear and much bigger than inflation.

Given that's true, what happens next is not so hard to predict. The price will continue to go up for a while, but then it will hit an inflection point. It's an inflection point because what makes IPv4 attractive is better connectivity. Network effects in other words. But once the real migration starts, connectivity will swing in towards IPv6, so an IPv4 address will be worth less than an IPv6 address. Which is to say it will be worth nothing.

That translates into a rapid rise in price presumably artificially inflated by speculation, then the bubble will pop, the bull will turn into a bear, and the price will drop off a cliff.

In other words, you will know the transition to IPv6 has happened when you see that price crash.
Except you don't need NAT. You don't even have to get external ipv4. Use ipv6 for external ip and internet access.
Think of it as classic with customizable internal network.
VPC is a superset of classic.
The standard trick that I've seen used for removing a Yubikey Nano is threading a paperclip through that little hole, and tugging.

Incidentally, you can also use a paperclip (a chain, even) to trigger a touch without having to touch the key directly.
If you can reach the Steam website to buy a game and then you can't install it, because the site has IPv6 but the app doesn't, it is much worse.
Thanks, and yes I totally agree (OP here). I looked into it for a brief minute: I'm using Ghost Blog to host my articles and I didn't see an easy way to attach the media there directly. The available options seemed to involve embedding a Souncloud link or so, which was enough to deter me at the time.

If anyone has ideas for simple audio clip sharing in a Ghost blog, I'd love to hear
Because real businesses that generate real revenue through software processes usually require more than tinker-toy websites built on a teetering pyramid of dependencies.
They used a simile. If it were a metaphor it would be "metaphors are cockroaches".
It’s probably because the average American wasn’t watching Sandmännchen while they were growing up.

And I’m sure there are radio shows in Germany not paying attention to American media.
I'm confused by this game - did the original panel have lights? I was hoping this was a logical model of the original bomb, but switching #5 seems to set it off. The article says that #5 was known to be dummy.
it's better to be a firefighter than a maintainer

Oh this is very true. I've achieved a pretty good reputation in my org getting called in when things have gone wrong somewhere. Not so much for typical day-to-day work.
honestly, I doubt it. Prions do go away, exposure to oxidizing acids (nitrous, sulfuric), oxidizers like car exhaust ozone, sunlight probably damages them, random environmental proteases that are extremely hardy (because they are designed to work outside)... Also we don't really know of a way to make large volumes of prions; IIRC nobody has made a de novo infective prion, you could seed a folded prion protein to become infective prion using a biological source, but that level of biotech requires a significant lab with large-scale fermentation, or I suppose you could just grow flocks of sheep or cattle and harvest their brains, that would probably get noticed too.

We also don't really know what the population penetrance of prion is. It's possible, for something like british mad cow disease, basically everyone got exposed, but only some people got sick due to a random high infectious load, or a weakened capability of the body to clear the prion...

There are proteases in the body that are capable of clearing amyloid forms (insulin-degrading enzyme, e.g.) and it would be hard to believe that for a sufficiently small dose it wouldn't get cleared before it got to the brain.

strange, I just looked it up, but no one has investigated if increasing IDE expression in mice has a protective effect against prpSc infection (when the infection is not administered directly to the brain)... If there are any prion researchers here... Might be an interesting experiment.
That's what the person you're replying to is asserting as well.
Taking a step back, I don't see how we got from a government's role is to protect citizens from foreign invasion to determining what kind of computers gamers can buy through some byzantine energy scoring system. If you mentioned this as a possibility ten or twenty years ago as a slippery slope argument, most people would have thought you're crazy.
Blame is a strong word, it's massive shifts in consumer behavior.

I assume you know news rooms got decimated? When I grew up, every household had a newspaper subscription, costing the equivalent of perhaps 200$ per year.

Virtually all that revenue is gone, replaced by extremely difficult to monetize internet users.

News organizations typically are tiny and poor now, not rich and powerful. The ecosystem of smaller local news organizations nearing extinction.

Ads combined with maximizing views are the last thing to leave the lights on.

Are consumer to blame? No. But they stopped paying for news for sure.
He is not the "inventor of the mRNA vaccine"

https://www.logically.ai/articles/who-is-dr.-robert-malone

You are spreading disinformation.
One drink of alcohol is unlikely to lead you to become unstable. I don't know about the others.

I didn't call for a blanket ban. LSD may have therapeutic uses (other debilitating drugs like paracetamol do), but the self-dosing that people do 'for fun' shouldn't be tolerated.
hands Israeli government NSO-collected data "Your winnings, sir."
Thanks! Oh yea, such a rabbit hole.

I started trying to synthesize a snare as part of this library and blog post and got lost in the weeds so quickly. I ended up skipping it for now but will surely come back to it eventually
You do realize that those female characters are largely modeled after his wife Virginia? And they are portrayed as extremely competent and capable because their rolemodel, Dr Virginia Heinlein, was a lieutenant during WW II, and a working biochemist while married to Robert.

You may be offended at the stereotype. And he'd be dead wrong to say that this is what most women either are like or would want to be. But it is an archetype that describes what some women really are like, and really do want. That's reality, and there is no sense in being offended at it.

For the record, I was argued into this position by my wife. At first I had rejected Heinlein because of how he treated his female characters. But she (engineering degree from CalTech, working software developer for 20 years) made that point that she should have the right to decide what she wants. And what she wants happens to match what Heinlein's women try to be an archetype of.

Nobody should be pushed to fit that or any other stereotype. But they should be free to choose it. And anyone who wants to read a fictionalized version of it, should be free to do that as well.
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It would make it much easier to get away with than bombs and spread way more fear. If it would work (I have no idea) it would be a very intelligent choice of weapon.
i worked with code that could be broken by a wide range of things, anything from a change in tensorflow, XLA, device drivers, firmware, a support library, to cluster software upgrades that happens async (sometimes months after checkin) from changes in the repo.

I used to update a major numerical python library periodically, and sometimes the global test would show that some Java code broke. at first, I assumed it was just a false positive, but some sleuthing showed the Java code had embedded a python script that ran numpy to compute something over an array (whyyyyyyyyy) and numpy just happened to start outputting some slightly different values for that computation.

These are the perils and promises of the monorepo.
Food for thought: Raising the minimum wage does not help the bottom class. Raising it directly reduces the volume of wealth distributed to the bottom class and solidifies monopolies by reducing the ability for small businesses to compete with them.
Probably has to do with our brains preferring instant gratification over long term payoffs.
mRNA is not new, dates back to the 90’s or even earlier I think. Vaccines are safe and very well established dating back to the 18th century. I think it can be argued vaccines are one of the most successful medical advances ever, having saved millions from horrible diseases. So we are not exactly dealing with completely unproven science here, and I would much more readily trust the vast majority of the scientific and medical community on this than some quack on the internet, or some random articles.

Yes big pharma should be looked at suspiciously, but that’s primarily an outgrowth of out of control capitalism. Most scientists get into this to cure diseases and help people.
Understand. Did some quick tests myself and see what you mean.

Here's a version that doesn't use "here string" and so doesn't create temporary files.

#!/bin/bash

shopt -s lastpipe

string="Los Angeles, London, Belfast, New York"
echo "${string/, /,}" | readarray -d, -t arrayA
echo ${arrayA[0]}
echo ${arrayA[1]}

Also, the lastpipe option runs the readarray in the context of the current process.
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> I'm not too familiar with Substack aside from reading a couple "columns" (can't think of a better noun) from there but is there any reason why it wouldn't be a useful platform for journalism, aside from it being so associated with opinion pieces?

Compared to opinionating, actual journalism is more expensive, is more specialized, takes more time, and often elicits less of the strong emotional reactions that drive "engagement."
Compared to the regulation stating it may not use more than 11w while suspended.
An Amiga 4000 was not powerful enough to even play Doom in.... 1999 when HL and Unreal existed.
But, yet, with a 68040, they were able to play MP3s and some low res videos!!!

And today you can even install modern TLS libraries and some modern (JS less) browser.

So you coudn't play Doom but you could comment into HN just fine...
My understanding is that "invention of the printing press" generally refers to movable type, the thing that caused a revolution in the mass production of written material. Other techniques like block printing or indeed any other method of applying ink in a fixed pattern, came earlier but were not as generally useful.
> There's a whole nonsense mythology that has been built up about how to treat cast iron (and carbon steel).

Yes but sorting out the sense from the nonsense is effectively impossible. You can find arguable authorities/experts that will say whatever point of view you want to find and validate: Soap is bad, soap is okay in small quantity, soap is fine; Use salt and oil to rub it clean, don't use salt and oil because you'll dig into the seasoning; you have to strip it down to re-season it, no you don't. It goes on and on. Literally everything about cast iron care is contested, and by people who are professionals in the kitchen/cooking business and "use them all the time and get great results" so they must be right, etc etc.