skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I had later realised that I was living with this fear of: there's a failure tiger, professionally, that's chasing me. And eventually it will catch me. And my job is to just stay a few steps ahead of it long enough to survive.

And what I only realised a little bit later was two things: first, that the failure tiger is my own creation.

And second, and maybe we could talk about whether this is still true today, but: Silicon Valley is very tolerant of what I call “smart failures”."
people who pay for a product get customer service prioritization over those who pay nothing, who woulda thought.
Interesting to look back on this in a world where Clojure has carved out a space for itself
> No one is forced to look at their phone, the reality is that people have trained themselves to want it.

Not quite. Tech and social media companies have spent billions to make their devices and apps as addictive as possible.
I wonder if Portal also works; it's only $100.
We're not talking about literally killing them. We're talking about leaving them to their own devices. They can get vaccinated at any time. Why should the rest of us be locked down, now that we have effectively ended the overrun of hospitals?

Wasn't that what this was all about? Who cares if people get the coronavirus? All that matters is not developing severe SARS-Cov-2.
You said it already: On a better chair. This is the thing that keeps your body upright while you work all day in front of your computer. So like the tires on your car that keep you attached to the road, cheaping out is a not a good option. Unlike the tires of your car, a good chair is also a more long term investment. You don't want to have to replace it every year or two.
I like how you conveniently gloss over the $100/month folks.

And the $1k/month folks are still having a hard time buying a $300k house to get married and have children, while taking care of the elderly parents. Meanwhile they know about the party princelings driving around in lamborghinis and buying fendi bags to show on social media. Oh yeah, the $100/month folks know too. And they know about the yearly flooding that kills.

You think people struggling now is going to remember the bad times before? Nope. That’s not how human natures like envy, anger and disgust works.
Amazon tends towards larger quantities, which is what people have trouble affording. I am happy to buy in bulk for things that I use -- as an example I take Zyrtec every day, and buy a 365-count container every year for $15. Dollar stores aren't competing with that, they're for people that can only afford $1 right now, and so they end up with a 14 count container for that. Those people will pay $26 for a year supply, but the important part is that they have $14 right now and are still free of allergies.

That is the problem that people have with dollar stores. They have a cheaper cost of entry, but are more expensive overall. Those of us that aren't living paycheck to paycheck have the liberty of buying things a year in advance to get a better price, and Amazon is great for us. But most of the country isn't doing quite so well.
> Now what options do we have left?

KDE, git, and FreePascal / Lazarus.
As someone who self-identifies as Hispanic, I find NPRs insistence on the term LatinX offensive.
I’m a middle of the road New Yorker but NPR pushes their way out of journalism and into advocacy any time gender or sexual identity enter the conversation.
And due to the risk of being labled anti-Semitic I’ll stay away from their coverage of anything Israel related.
Proton isn't really about sandboxing the blob though, so it's not any better in that sense than running the blob natively.
Edit: free version mentioned in TFA
So you're saying that computer algorithms are classifying based on correlations they've found in the data?
Is there a way to check Android devices for infections yet?
> the more protection it needs, the more important it is for them to get out of the way of projects like this.

That's a non sequitur
Programmable videos or "event driven" videos is one of the core functionalities of our platform, especially with the API. We have product teams that are sending out videos based on events taking place on their platforms and it leads to such a cool experience!
This is probably just me, but I always tend to write a bigger number in the right, so that I can picture a number line in my head.

(Which means I rarely use > and >= operators. It's always < or <=.)

Now, come to think about it, this might have something to do with my native language (Japanese). In Japanese, where the verb always comes at the end of a sentence, you can say "a < b" and "b > a" using the same order and same adjective.

a < b ... a -than b -toward bigger (a よりも b のほうが 大きい)
b > a ... b -toward a -than bigger (b のほうが a よりも 大きい)
> Dollars leaving the community is a good thing. Those dollars don’t just go into a black hole. They go to other towns.

I really don’t think that’s true.
WireGuard does not use Ed25519. Indeed, it does not use any public-key signature algorithms at all. The long-lived static key (the peer's public key, their identity) is a Curve25519 ECDH key.
The question isn't whether life could exist in a reversed universe, but whether this universe could exist in slices within ours like in the movie Tenet.
What does Google Trends have to do with a programming language? PHP is trending, and Clojure is not, perhaps because Clojure gives you a lot fewer reasons to google stuff up?

I myself rarely use Google to find a solution to a problem, and certainly almost never have to google shit like: "how to open a file in Clojure"...
Pinging me again sometimes makes sense (if we have a relationship and it's important) but it doesn't scale well. As someone who gets a lot of outside requests to do things, second and third emails to ask "did you miss my email?" get tiresome in a hurry.

(Sometimes I genuinely missed something interesting but this is rare.)
It's in the article. (Free) FB users locked out of their accounts are buying Oculus just to get access to FB support.
Leap seconds are the right thing to do but people didn't realize all the bugs and costs they would trigger. Now that we understand these costs we can and should change our minds.
I am equally stunned at the level of "pesimism" in your comment. We used to do things just because, just for the thrill of exploration, and pushing the limits of human civilization. If Elon wants to spend his money on this, and the government as well for their own reasons, why are you so frustrated? Plenty of money gets spent on fixing problems on Earth.
For one thing, if I had a paying job to write code in that language.

I have rarely had a problem jumping languages. For instance with a lot of Java experience I got a C# job. With experience in the semantic web I got a Python job which got me ready to get more Python job, etc.
So is most of NPRs “analysis and context”
Censorship is a tool. The goal was to prevent Daesh / ISIS from recruiting Americans into dying for their cause in Syria / Iraq.

The number of US citizens flying out to die in a forsaken war on ISIS's side are miniscule to none. Believe it or not, American citizens were doing this back when the surge was happening.

We successfully disrupted their information campaign and their recruitment. And ISIS / ISIL / Daesh is now fighting for relevance (albeit unsuccessfully, mainly on GETTR).
As far as I can tell, they're not.
Yes, so it should absolutely be avoided at all costs.
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The number of cases of reinfections in hospitals is tiny, so the natural immunity looks like a given to me by now, you don't need a study (now it may be that re-infections are asymptomatic, but even if it is the case, that's a good enough protection).
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I grew up near Amish country and it wasn’t unusual to see a horse and buggy hitched to a light post at Walmart.
For me, I have to open my email browser window to see new emails. No notifications. (And no client which I would set to 100% DND if I had one.)
Thanks, the second image was by far the clearest demonstration of rendering issues that are well-beyond just aesthetic preference and verging on actually changing the meaning. The first character of "口周辺" looks as if someone cut out an entire row or two of pixels from where the top stroke is, and once I'd seen that it was easier to spot similar flaws - the first character on each of the lines after the first almost looks worse than the character above it!
Can someone explain what I am looking at here?

https://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum/astronomy-pho...
> Surely such code would be caught by some other tool

This technique was invented back in the 1980s, back then compilers have no static analysis capabilities that we take for granted today. I think the reason of keep using it in 2020 is a matter of habit.
You can't automate justice.Minority report explained it perfectly, yet the decision makers, out of laziness, choose to ignore this.
Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Quote aside, I haven't found the heavy industry statement you seem to be talking about. Is it about that Bezos tweet or whatever? There's some great promising manufacturing techniques in zero-g, but it seems incredibly obvious sending anything in space or low orbit now and in the near future requires expending more energy than whatever its refinement or manufacturing will be worth. Furthermore, no, you can't fix Earth now. The only possible way to achieve that is eradicating humanity. Don't start talking about war, famines or whatever without imagining the disastrous consequences they may have (overpopulation, et cetera). The best humanity can do is continue experimenting and developing new technologies to at least improve the lives of the majority of people.
It's caught by the compiler since you can't assign to a constant. Why would you need another tool?
This argument would have a lot more merit if Earth and Mars were similar, but they're utterly not. The difficulty, expense, and risk of setting up life on Mars absolutely pales in comparison to cleaning-up life on Earth.

Suppose there were a Mars colony. How many years before that colony could go on indefinitely if it didn't have support from Earth?
Do you mean you don't understand why American's would think that America has done incredible things, or do you not believe America has done incredible things?
Not sure.

Basically you start as a baseline or perhaps an average, and your own behavior influences who you get matched with.

So in dating apps, matching indiscriminately in frustration to getting few matches will ensure you get thrown into the less attractive bucket. As you match with mostly other people already in that bucket. You can delay or prevent this from happening by being more discerning, not dissimilar from trying to chat up everyone in a cried. But you can get the algorithm to only show you other people considered attractive by a large population.

Note: if your ranking is too low, people you see are not actually seeing you. So they aren’t really expressing an opinion on accepting or rejecting you. So keep it high. Apps are different and they update alot, but just assume this is happening behind the scenes.

The sad or sadder part of this is to not match with unattractive people. Keep them in pending forever even if you rarely get matches. The algorithm also has to learn to show you to people that are widely considered attractive. Takes 3-7 weeks and then its a gravy train (in the cities), or time to reevaluate other aspects of your profile.

Its not really that complicated, just counterintuitive.

Last thing I’ll add is that attractive people have the same anxieties or “awesome personalities” or other attributes as unattractive people. So you can prioritize your time accordingly.
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As someone who doesn't want to deal with home ownership and invests excess capital into equities, what's wrong with more homes being available for rent?
This is a very well written article about search engine technology.
Honestly this would be pretty hard to imagine. Even if we had no concept of fish (which I find extremely unlikely given other evolutionary pressures, physics, and mechanics of life, but let's not go there) we would think "birds, but in a denser fluid." I don't think this would be "absolutely shocking" to biologists of that planet. Similarly like how biologists here have predicted methane based lifeforms. Now if we were talking about a fluid like sulfuric acid then yeah, that would be absolutely shocking, but not for the reasons of breathing (it's about electrons).
Does this help? https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
This is more of an alternative statement for anyone interested since your statement didn't give anything concrete.

Oculus is far far ahead of where any VR developers thought it would be in 2021. In January of 2019 the Rift was still running on cables connected to a $2000 laptop and confined to a 5x5ft square play area with 7 foot tall poles holding scanners on each corner,also plugged into the same computer. If you wanted to experience VR, you had to have all those things and set them up.

Now for $300 I can (and have) experience VR on a beach with no Internet or electricity for a couple hours.

The opinion of most VR developers I know is that Facebook have unequivocally advanced VR headset progression more than any other company and better than we couldve ever hoped.
Yep. The device tree and kernel modules are actually two seperate concepts - the former is just a data structure that describes the hardware for a system and the latter is a way of delivering the drivers independently of the kernel.

Just make sure to run `depmod -a` after copying it into /lib/modules.
> I could (and should) write my own implementations for things like logging and date formatting.

One of my biggest pet peeves when working with Go, is the multitude of logging libraries with disparate interfaces. That can't be configured easily (if at all) or at a desired level of granularity by the end user.

One of the things the Java community got right is SLF4J for a standard interface.
There are many employers who feel they can contact you at anytime.

When I had a smartphone, I never told my employer. I told him I only had a Landline, and I had a chatty roommate.

On the days I felt they might call, I just took the phone off the hook.
>> It may also be the case that those inclined to be skeptical of vaccines were also the ones who exposed themselves to infection most during the pandemic, through disdain for social distancing, mask-wearing, etc.

I anecdotally am finding this to be the case
It’s like an ear worm. The fix is more music, but of a different type.
Because Microsoft slowed down the development of tablets? Sorry, I’m not familiar with the story of the Surface
>Closed, proprietary software by definition prevents "more eyes" from looking

But we were talking about the general case of monoculture, not closed source monoculture. Even for closed source software, where more eyes are prevented from looking "by definition", having a monoculture can in theory allow more code audits to be done, because of economy of scale.

> large number of people using the software doesn't imply there is also a large amount of people reviewing it.

Right, but roughly speaking, the number of reviewers should monotonically increase given an increase in users. Whether that produces better security overall is anyone's guess. My point was just that there was a counteracting force to consider.
I am struggling to understand the comments here that seem to not think that what SpaceX has done isn't more than the natural rate of progress.
Although I understand what you saying about big shifts and kinda shared your opinion, specially about hooks, I started a new project from scratch last week and decided to give hooks a try (and, for reference, I've been using React on a daily basis for 5 years).

Oh boy I was wrong.

Hooks are way more easier and intuitive than what I thought. It makes code so much more readable and easier to reason about. Especially when before you had to wrap your components into x number of HOCs to inject the props your component needed, risking props collision, making it really hard to debug and use with TypeScript, and eventually making it a nightmare to understand and maintain your component. I'm not surprised that every React library added a hook API to its core.

At the end of the day it makes me more productive, so I guess that big shift was also a big win.
That's a fair point, however the other programs use less memory out of the box without any need for tuning, so that's a win for them.
>We can extend modern medical care to the entire world

What do you mean by "modern" medical care?

Do you think that will make a significant difference in life expectancy?

The difference between, say, Rwanda and the USA is less than ten years, I believe. Comparable to the gender gap in some countries like Russia.

What about the gap between countries like the USA and UK versus Japan at the top? Is that important to close?

(My info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...)
I thought SpaceX was based near LA and more recently doing a lot of work in Texas? Is it really a Silicon Valley company?

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

> SpaceX was first headquartered in a warehouse in El Segundo, California. By November 2005, the company had 160 employees.

> El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California,
You always have to be on guard to not fall into single variable thinking. "They did it because of X, not Y!" It is always at least x, y and z.

I would think this is a smart move to not fall into this trap we have and kills two birds with one stone as far as a powerful rivals go.
react is api stable, but not api stable if you know what I mean. with react, the ground is always shifting underneath you, which something like wikimedia probably don't have the resources to keep up with. even, as someone who has done react professionally, I can advise any small nimble teams, out there react ain't for ya. it don't love ya. however, for the big enterprisey apps, yeah react is good.
Indeed, the smartest people I've met are the nicest people to chat with and always ask questions instead of affirming themselves. As you point out, skills + attitude is the smart way since everyone wants to be around a nice and skilled person.
Even brand new ones.

On my Windows 10 system, Katamari Reroll wouldn't even launch. Just a black scfeen.

In Proton on my xUbuntu desktop, it runs flawlessly.

I tend to expect older games to run better due to Microsoft depreciating older Windows libraries and apis, but a native newly released title was surprising.
If you say “I don’t use Instagram” without the spyware spiel, does it go any better? Or is not having Instagram alone enough to have things go south?
The shape of the curve in the UK[1] is very unlike most viral transmission models.

Most models predict initially exponential growth of rate of infection per day, before a flattening off to a steady number of cases per day,and eventually a declining number of cases per day.

Yet in the case of the UK. there is exponential growth, followed by very sudden exponential decay, with no gradual flattening off phase.

It appears that the sudden "switch" is likely caused by a large unmodelled effect.

Possible causes I see:

* Schools stopped on that day, and >half the transmission was occurring in school age children mixing with their peers. That would cause the graph we see.

* Schools stopped that day, and lots of people were only testing themselves as a requirement for attending school. Now that school is over, they have stopped testing. That would also cause the graph we see, but real infection rates would now be higher than suggested by test results. this hypothesis is backed up by the daily number of tests done seeing a big shift (previously few tests were done on friday and saturday, now it's more even).

* The weather changed and now people are spending more time outdoors, reducing transmission.

* It's summertime and a lot of people are taking summer breaks rather than working.

* Another variant, or maybe a totally different virus, is spreading which isn't picked up by current tests (and displacing the current one by causing cross-immunity).

[1]: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases
Facebook is a steward not a dependency. React has been free and open source and largely driven by the needs of the community. Right down to that time when the community cried out about Facebook's odd license clause regarding patents. And they changed it.

But I can't imagine modern technology being where it is without big shifts. Perhaps that is not good for very long term projects. We'll see how Vue fairs in the long run if they never make any big shifts, I suppose.

Then again, none of the big shifts in React broke anything permanently, did they? I could be wrong about this, I haven't been paying attention since the very beginning…
> Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I find this level of optimism completely unwarranted. Plenty of people have died trying to go places they hadn't gone to before, or if they simply had to leave where they were. Explorers, places with overpopulation, refugees, I mean, the list really goes on.

> Furthermore, no, you can't fix Earth now. The only possible way to achieve that is eradicating humanity.

I disagree, and I think this is far too pessimistic. Food security, climate change, politics, all huge, huge problems, but there's real progress being made on all those fronts.
> To the positive spin for China, they tend to target only their fellow citizens and have some internal coherency and moral.

This is a terribly disturbing comment to me, who cares that they "tend to only target their citizens?"
Are there actual hard numbers on whether open-to-all-eyes is beneficial at all scales?

For example, do public eyes actually catch and did more Linux bugs than three letter agencies? And would this situation be worse if Linux were a very well funded, closed source Windows?

I’m ignorant on whether the open source security mantra is founded upon religion or evidence.
> you had to wrap your components into x number of HOCs to inject the props your component needed, risking props collision, making it really hard to debug...

What kind of application are you developing? Do you have complex UI? Or just lots and lots of pages where you reuse components a lot?
Wow, the in app questions are pretty politicised to say the least.

Is that something that really matters in dating these days?