skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that preventing people from causing harm is a core function of the rules of socie

Many would disagree with such statement. The core function of society is IMHO preventing people from infriging on rights and freedoms of other people. That is much more complex and multivariadic issue than just 'preventing harm'.

People generally cause harm to others in many interactions that are acceptable and resticting it would be oppresive. Situations where person A causes harm to person B can be classified to four cases:

1) No one is within their rights

2) Person B is within their rights, while person A is not. Examples are classical right violations like assault or robbery.

3) Person A is within their rights, while person B is not. In this case person B has to tolerate the harm, as requiring person A to abstain from that action would be infriction of their rights.

4) Both sides are within their rights, in this case society has to find compromise solution and weight both rights against other.

This vaccination issue seems to me like the fourth case.

One one side, there is the right of bodily autonomy, which is important and fundamental human right.

On the other side, there is the right to protection of health. That is also important right but it is relative based on threat level.

Before the society concludes that the second right is more important than the first, and vaccinations of adults may be mandated, there are several questions that should be answered:

Did we used enough non-forcible approaches to improve vaccinations rates (say financial stimulus)?

What is the quantified marginal risk of a small part of population not being vaccinated to others and how does this compare to other health risks that we accept as inevitable part of living in society?
This seems quite contrary to Brin & Page's original explanation of their (first) page rank algorithms, which was boosted as utilizing other people's linkage as the justification for a higher ranking. It also seems ripe (ruined, even!) for being completely weaponized. Another failure of the imagination, maybe.
I've found DDG to be fine most of the time, but I wish they'd up their game on advanced operators. DDG seems to have a "feature" where it will ignore quotes around terms iff there were zero results for the original query, but not tell you that it did so. It's really annoying to get to the second or third page of results and realize that this happened.
No, there is no DRM on any of the electronic formats—Kindle, EPUB, or PDF. If you buy it, it's yours. (But please don't upload it to any ebook-sharing sites.)
Thank you so much for all the work you put into this!
I always read their domain name as expert sex change.
Bought the PDF after reading the free web version, the work definitely has a lot of love put into it and this has to be rewarded.

I've skimmed the web version till the end, but thoroughly read half of it, still learned a lot. Especially the pragmatic approach to code generation via string concatenation. I went a bit further with a small dsl that also does string concatenation.

My C# and Rust implementations are half baked, but still I had a lot of fun doing them, and that's all that counts.

Can't wait to see Bob's next endeavor.
I'm not sure they can.. they have to allow workers to use company communications to organize per the NLRB.
> Internal time wasting meetings are the pinnacle of the art of not working and should be avoided at all costs.

I’m yet to experience a 100% black-and-white phenomenon in the Universe. We’re all not equal in how we see the work and how we process the information. That’s why we need to compromise and try to underhand why meetings are scheduled.

Ok, suppose programmers are 100% exempt from the internal meetings. Engineering managers and product owners then go ahead and just make every single decision there is. How’s that? The meetings are often used for people to sync on the progress and issues. Moreover, technical people can give their input and help non-technical ones to better understand the limitations, issues, etc.
These things have been around for a while. Back in the day, it was a major problem with yahoo. Every search you do would have 5 or 6 links to the likes of ask Jeeves which was in turn just showing you what ask would return if you put in the same search terms.

It's maddening.
The notes were already encoded as frequency and duration. The Huffman coding was required to get that down to an even smaller size.

RLE might have helped for repeated notes - but I guess Huffman coding kinda compensates for that anyway, in the repeated notes will probably end up with shorter bit strings.
The wording you quote, "Of the Germanic family, English is exceptional", implies English is a Germanic language. One that borrows heavily from Latin, but still, a Germanic language.

Also from wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_influence_in_English
"English is a Germanic language, with a grammar and a core vocabulary inherited from Proto-Germanic. However, a significant portion of the English vocabulary comes from Romance and Latinate sources."

English borrows from both quite heavily (for historical reasons listed there), to where I don't know that classifying it makes a lot of sense, but having dabbled with both, just from a language learning perspective, I'd say German definitely feels closer. Some simple counterexamples -

"What is that?" - "Was ist das?" vs "Que es eso". Same grammatic structure, but obviously very similiar words between German and English. Not so much Spanish. The Latin is "quid est".

"I see him" - "Ich sehe ihn" vs "Lo veo". English and German are very similar in both grammar and word; Spanish is very different from both, putting the direct object before the verb as it does, and not requiring the subject (yo). The Latin is "i videre eum".
I imagine the nutrient density is now even lower?
The book walks through two interpreter implementations. The first is in Java, and the second in C. The code has also been ported to many other languages:

https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/wiki/Lox-...
There is definitely an aspect of fear contagion, but nobody is 'in charge' of the media so these things are harder to pinpoint.
Small quibble: cgroup fs may be accessible at /sys/fs/cgroup, but it may also be mounted anywhere. Use `mount -t cgroup` to find out.
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Yeah, I remember playing Suburbia myself, vocals and all. Melted my brain at the time!
I'm somewhat sympathetic to this but Google is an enormously profitable company which also is a world-leader in software development and ML, which you would not know from looking at search results.

It also seems relevant that Google has actively removed features like the ability to report SEO spam or block domains — if they cared about the user experience, you'd think there'd be an easy menu with advanced 1990s technology like “Never show results from this domain” or “Report this result as spam”. Yes, there are lots of SEO spambots out there but there are also millions of people who would zealously report spam sites for the many queries which are basically useless now.

As a simple example, on the weekend I was searching for manuals for my discontinued refrigerator. There are a ton of bottom-feeder sites which will list any part number imaginable and some which are even using fake forum sites with templated exchanges between users where someone gives a link to a malware/phishing/porn page followed by several other fake users thanking them. Google has chosen to make reporting things like that almost impossible, so unsurprisingly they remain common. I suspect that's due to their desire to avoid paying humans to distinguish between valid complaints and fake complaints from competing SEOs but either way from my perspective the results are unambiguously worse than they were a decade ago and I have no reason to believe anyone will care about this unless revenue slips.
Worth nothing to the asker. But stack exchange is a two-way communications platform, and responders (and other readers) may want to know more context.

I, for one, am still curious why OP is running a test where they call `man` with no input and fail on different stderr.
Well... remember the hertz saga?
Decoding heart-brain talk during sleep to prevent sudden cardiac deaths
Not me. Waiting for the next hype.
Our CEO requires every meeting to have an agenda sent out the day before which goes over the background for the meeting, any metrics/dashboards everyone should be familiar with, and what should be discussed in the meeting.

If the person who schedules the meeting does this, it opens up a conversation where you can say "I read what you sent out - everything looks good and I don't think I'm needed for this meeting".
I agree. The original explanation is a good guess but it's not what is happening in the OP.

There is experiment to detect some sugars, that is somewhat similar to this alternative explanation (and unrelated to the experiment in the OP). More details in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollens%27_reagent

Random quick video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21PHoxlukME

NileRed video with more technical details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGmxHLHyUPc
Even the text of the article clearly doesn't support the headline.
It's the programming equivalent to the people who turn their houses into model train worlds. People dabble in it, or make a few toys of their own, but its rare to commit so hard.
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I thought about this recently, too, but it’s “correct” behavior.

Imagine you’re running curl. Do you want it’s progress in stdout when you’re piping it? No. You want the output, and you shouldn’t have to use —silent to get only that.
If you're curious there's a subreddit for a technique like this for building/breaking habits https://www.reddit.com/r/thexeffect
Interesting, so the balance is even further skewed when comparing with the unvaccinated.
Unions have a well deserved reputation for putting seniority over merit. If we ever figure out how to Unionize with meritocracy as the focus we can solve a lot of problems for labor.
Thinking the net cost of a meeting is just a sum of hourly wages is like complaining the iPhone costs 799 when the parts are 299.
Saved to Drive from https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab... because that link forces file download
I'm not normally a book person when it comes to learning things, but Crafting Interpreters was fun and easy to follow along with (getting to code something as I went really helped hold my attention)

I went through Part 1 towards the beginning of quarantine, and it spawned several really fun projects and I now feel like I have a basic level of skill writing parsers, which I've actually gotten to use a couple times at my day job.

I will say, I feel like it would be a lot harder to follow along with a physical print vs another window on my computer screen. But I may buy one anyway just to support the author.

Highly recommend!
> - We have 10 min standup every day

At my workplace we now have 90 minute daily standups because it was perceived the employees are not doing enough quick enough. It has obliterated any hope of progression in a single work day without overtime (unpaid!) since these typically will run over by a long margin, eating up what little time we had for actual development.
I didn't mean to sidetrack into democracy vs. representative government (separate discussion!). I may have used the term democracy in my above post a bit loosely, to mean the people's control of the government. It would be more accurate for me to say I'm concerned about the outsized influence money has over the government (corporations, unions, trade associations, and the rich) have over the government, versus the influence people have.

It seems that we enshrined political contributions as free speech in this country, and I'm not sure that right, allowing pac and dark money to buy mass media advertising to manipulate voters at scale. That just seems a way to subvert one person equals one vote. This seems to get worse and worse every decade. We're just starting to see what international companies larger than most governments in the world can do with petabytes of personal data and algorithms designed to take advantage of all that.

I may still misunderstand, but you used Toyota as an example, the political lobbying the company does on behalf of its customers and workers. When I read this I think that they are lobbying on behalf of shareholder profit, often to detriment of their workers (anti-union, for example), customers (less mandated safety), and the public at large (less pollution regulations). it seems more and more that the deck is stacked in favor of large corporations and the rich.

I know that our conversation has drifted around a little bit. I appreciate being able to refine my thoughts on this.

Do you think that some method of publicly funding campaigns would better than what we have now, more in the spirit of one person equals one vote? Also limits to how long campaigns last and how they are conducted? There are other countries that do this. In fact the U.S. seems to be an outlier in how we allow money to influence politics.

I grant that this would need to be done despite the establishment not wanting to change. I also grant, like you said, it may be near impossible to eliminate the effect of money on politics. But it scares me to think what will happen if we continue on our current course.
Just another congrats! I have been waiting for this day. Thanks for all your work!
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Suppressors (and other items) should be considered PPE, not some evil silent murder device.

Hearing doesn't come back and people are very lax about protecting it, or letting other people protect their own hearing due to unfounded fears about firearms and accessories.
Someone needs to ensure american owners get a profit. If not the American military, who else is going to do it?
People like plants and animals.

I made photo collection sites of creative commons images back when creative commons was a new idea. "Animal photos" played the best with people.

I ran with a pack of dogs when I was a kid and when I have been at rock bottom and thought about why I like being here experiences with animals, be that my cats or the battle I have against the beavers to keep my driveway from being flooded out, or other experiences with birds and wild animals are always meaningful to me. My wife teaches kids to ride horses.

Gardening is another widespread interest and even people who don't do that appreciate flowers, landscaping, etc. (Who doesn't like the queen's gardens in London?)
To me what was most surprising about Dwarf Fortress, given the complexity, is that Tad didn’t use git or any other code repository until more recently.
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I bought a couple of them and parked them in different areas of the city to make it easier to reach any location using the subway + bike combination. I choose the ones with flaws that would deter normal buyers but relatively easy to repair, or with a damaged part that I'd replace anyway. I asked a local repair shop if it's fine if I ask the seller to send a bike directly to them and they happily agreed. So I look for an occasion, buy it, they ship it to the repair shop, the shop guy calls me and we talk about what to repair/replace, and in a few days I have a nice bike that will last many years with proper maintenance without spending a fortune.
Honestly I’ve never used or even been intrigued by clubhouse. To me it sounds like ultra short-form podcasts, which is the opposite of what I am interested in for audio consumption.

Has anyone used it and enjoyed it? I know it gets a lot of hate on HN.
> People seem to want to believe big government and lockdowns can be beneficial

I'm surprised how many otherwise rational people aren't more inquisitive about the efficacy of lockdowns. Where's the proof that they have beneficial long-term impact and they're not just kicking the can down the road? It seems similar to "wonder diets", i.e. when you're not losing weight, then you're not following the diet strictly enough, and any weight you lose is magically attributed to the diet.
Many meetings are completely useless, full of checked out attendees. I guarantee that many people with their cameras off are doing this exact same thing. Some of them are just using this time to get stuff done around the house.
Or people like what they like. Imagine that.
It'd be interesting to see a remake of the Office on Zoom.
“Paved the way” is the common expression.
Haha, yeah - many years later, finding the .IT files in the original Unreal Tournament and downloading a tracker was what got me into composing music on the PC. It was wonderful having the music available in such a reverse-engineerable format.
Why are you scared of sharing SSN? In Estonia it’s called Personal Code and it doesn’t have any special status, just your unique digital name. We have left these days behind dozen years ago when banks used asking Personal Code as a security measure.
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Invite only is cool only if 1. People don't have to wait an eternity to get in 2. You have enough value add to keep the people who are waiting interested.
When 1 + 1 = 3
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How else can I send data from the middle of nowhere for $5?
Uhh yes they do.
>a ridiculously obvious attempt to associate with Tesla.

Nikola was building barely functional prototypes of their trucks years before Tesla was building barely functional Semi truck prototypes, for the record.

>What were they thinking? Were they being amoral and hoping to ride this pump and dump or did they actually buy into this shit?

Fundamentally, what have they done that's so evil compared to, say, the multitude of things Tesla has claimed over the past few years?

For example, Tesla claimed door-to-door cross country self-driving tests, oh, about 5 years ago. At what point is it aspiration versus indictable fraud?
I was also attempting to work out how a company called "Sane IT" was undertaking such myriad endeavors. It was an accidentally good hook to get me to read more!
We need to have a meeting about meetings that discuss the policy on policies to set some ground rules and then circle back...
> Anyone that feels it isn't their thing is free to make their own business, free of union agreements and see how they manage for themselves in the market.

In the United States this is not true. In many states once the union is established in an industry, it becomes illegal to operate a new business without the union.

We have bad union laws.
> We no longer have the problem of trying to fit “a wizard can only use a staff or dagger” into the type system of the C# language. We have no reason to believe that the C# type system was designed to have sufficient generality to encode the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, so why are we even trying?

Good point! Skimmed the blog posts, seemed to have useful enumeration of techniques with considerations.
> People need to accept the reality that spreading a disease is causing harm, and that preventing people from causing harm is a core function of the rules of society.

Mandating vaccines is going a step further - it's forcing people to do an action, which might reduce their chances of causing harm in the future.

If the sole goal was to prevent people to cause harm to others, we should prevent people from driving (they hit others with their cars) or we should stop people from being drunk (they end up fighting others, and also driving drunk).

So clearly actually, the more nuanced answer is that society is, amongst other things, a balance between protecting others and personal liberty (and these things often fight against each other).

(I'm personally vaccinated, and think as a society everyone should be encouraged to vaccinate, but that it has to be an individual decision and that we shouldn't force people to put things in their body that they don't want to put into it).
Could you please refer to where I talk about socialism? I don't seem to recall ever referencing it. On a similar note, do you need socialism to begin talking about tending to the wellbeing of the population?
There is NO SAFETY data because no COVID vaccines have finished clinical trails yet. That's what "Emergency Authorization" means - we give it to people even though it hasn't gone through the human clinical trials that every other drug normally does! Everyone vaccinated is legally and procedurally part of those clinical trials - it says so on the FDA web site. And those trials are not scheduled to be completed until 2023 - also stated on the same FDA web page.

So "safety" absolutely has NOT been proven or validated yet. Even minimal standard FDA processes have not been completed.
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I browse through a lot of niche investing social media groups. One of the more liked posts on a Nikola investment group was, "If "they" cared about the future, the earth and the renewable energy issue, they would let whatever Trevor did slide."

Surprisingly, I saw similar posts about Musk on the Thailand rescuer tweet and the price too high tweet. You are not betting against the fundamentals or the realities of the stock, you are betting against these people.
Speaking of, could we just not with calling meetings "ceremonies"? It is so pretentious and pompous sounding.
I think Brazil sends much of their agricultural exports to Asia.
> this was much more true in the long ago era of regulation

It's still true. We just haven't had, in close to a generation now, the sort of bear market that permits the enforcers of fundamentals to re-emerge: liquidation and bankruptcy against overvaluation; M&A against undervaluation.
And I remember around the time Tesla-the-car-company first emerged, rolling my eyes at the name. Like "Oh here we go, another EV startup using the guy's name without permission because his estate isn't set up to sue anyone who speaks it the way Edison's is. Best we can hope for is they do something cool and don't dishonor his legacy."

There are times I'm glad to have misjudged someone.
Most importantly, searching through Google generally gets me to my intended destination faster than loading some site and doing a search. Like you say, the URL bar in any browser I use also defaults to searching in the default search engine, so if it's Google, it's faster just to type it in there. So, from a new tab, I can just type in "wiki handball" to find the wikipedia page for handball and click to get what I want faster, instead of going to wikipedia.org, waiting for that page to load and then searching for handball and clicking.

DDG has the bang searches though, so typing in !wiki handball is faster still.
Whatever you think of them, the Tesla fanboys have been proven more right then wrong and the likes of Matt Levine (and Bloomberg) are just bitter at this point.

A lot of EV startups like NKLA are going to come and go but very few if any will be able to replicate Teslas success in the long term. Retail investors are not always stupid, many of the same Tesla investors have been shorting NKLA since it came on via a spac offering.

Personally I don’t always love everything Elon does but I view him in many ways as a modern day Edison. It’s always funny to me to go back and read stuff said about Edison while he was alive. I very much color my view of Musk by historical perspective and try not to get lost in present day minutia.
AZ should be the booster for mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) because of its greater apparent efficacy against gamma and lambda.

Also, we have to consider the interests of big pharma to sell more vaccines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzdnUZReoLM