skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> In 1984 I began writing for PC Magazine, which led to a full-time freelance career that included writing for Microsoft Systems Journal and MSDN magazines.

> My book Programming Windows was published in six editions between 1988 and 2012

> In 2014 I began working as a full-time employee for Xamarin (which was acquired in 2016 by Microsoft), where I wrote a book and documentation
> you definitely do expect being able to enter at any moment and purchase something if it advertises itself as "24/7"

But what’s an acceptable delay before purchase. I have definitely spent more than 45 minutes waiting in the line for events etc while their currently open.

It’s all kind of moot as it’s clear what I meant is exactly the underlying reality, but I can see why you object.
Here is what helped me kick two major addictions in my life:

I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 6 years straight. It started to take a huge hit on my health and I quit.

I smoked marijuana every night for 4 years then quit and have just smoked it occasionally.

I started doing vipassana several years ago, everyday a little bit of a good chemical balance accumulates in my brain and body to the point where a lot of cravings start to disappear and you feel good in your head and body even without drugs like caffeine.

I wouldn’t say I’ve beat all my cravings but they’re 90% better ..
Certainly. And I have been perfectly happy to engage with such comments.

That's not what the dead comment was doing.
Right, though usually commit 2 would be placed before commit 1.
How do you know the WiFi is never turned on?
Most doctor I've seen will either underestimate these kinds of problems or assume I'm having another depression-induced over sensitivity / psychosomatic problem. They'd rather treat the usual diseases or send you to a specialist in case of more critical issues.
I agree but it’s exceedingly rare that this is because of political reasons - usually, it’s because of music rights issues.
The way I understood it, Scottish distillers had widely adopted the extremely productive Coffey still and were quite willing to use non-barley grains, which allowed them to produce a LOT of quality whisky for export so they went on to dominate world consumption of whisky. This was to the detriment of Irish producers, who at the time stuck to the more traditional pot stills and barley (some point after they got a bit more flexible). To distinguish their own product from Scotch whisky the Irish chose to start spelling what they sold as "whiskey".

It's actually not so cut-and-dry as you might think regarding the USA. Even some bigger brands like Makers Mark call theirs "whisky"

But anecdotally as a Scot, the only people who really get upset about that extra "e" are non-whisky drinking Scottish people :D Those who drink it are, in my experience, generally pretty chilled out and understanding.
You might also try your question at workplace.stackexchange.com
Edge comes with a paid OS, right? So in a sense, you did buy it.
Oops, looks like I overlooked an "also". But I still can't think of a protein poor and energy rich waste stream in whisky making.
Yeah wait until that happens when using windows:

"Computing with Windows 11. Would you like to consider this book "1984"".
I think this makes some sense for food storage at least, esp. wrt aluminum and glass (though it creates a burden on people who often can't physically afford it). It gets a lot harder for medical stuff where individual things need to be in sterile packaging until point of use. We're not gonna be individually packaging needles in glass for diabetics to use, for eg. The logistics of that are staggering, and the cost would be very high, yet the economies of scale are not there for it.
What group two should do is far more interesting IMO given this evidence.
Ah, vapordecisionware. But that might be confused with regular management.
I have some strong, perhaps knee jerk feelings about the idea that addicts can come around to become healthy social drinkers, smokers, etc. I feel like some probably can, but most probably can't. As someone who had major addiction issues for about a decade and has been clean for 12 years, I have no desire to test those waters, and feel a bit offended at the notion that my life would be better if I figured out how to be a functional user. I have everything to lose and very little to gain.
I think the main thing it brings is a portable compiler target that actually stands a chance at being widely adopted.
> Attaching a beam at one end requires a more rigid structure which is more weight

Not really because that allows you to omit other parts of the original self-supporting "fanned" structure which formerly had a similar role to that beam. Furthermore you wouldn't be building this structure to withstand 3g like the "stock" UltraFlex/MegaFlex arrays but you'd build it specifically to withstand static 0.16g in one axis for deploying after landing on the Moon. Consequently I very strongly doubt that this would give it "more weight" than the current UltraFlex/MegaFlex arrays already have because you're assuming more weight for a flimsier structure and that just doesn't make any sense, unless you'd assume the use of inferior materials for some reason.
What I find ironic about google's position is they believe implicit unconscious bias permeates all of society, except when it comes to their programmers who are clearly majority democrat....

It should not be ironic, because Google has a history of seeing itself above any flaws, and as the Arbiter of Truth
Please bring more toolchains to target WASM, and please have some options to interact with the dom!
Note that these two are different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_(mathematics)

"parity check on a string" tends toward the former interpretation of "parity". You don't do parity checks by looking at only the least significant bit of every code word.
No. In fact most websites don't need HTTPS and pointless data transfer. Wish we could go back a few years on this zeitgeist.
I'm not aware of a browser I can buy.

To be even more specific - a browser that I can buy and get a guarantee that they will not turn me into a product later, when they're offered lots of money to do so.
"How is this iCloud specific?"

In case you didn't the topic, what is specific (for now, for now...)to iCloud/apple is the "we're scanning your photos on your device and maybe reporting them if they're bad" approach. So you get the local hashes on the supposedly encrypted files and you get the situation of local files trigger global effects like the police swooping down and arresting you. So that's why despicable and hair-brained scheme in specific produces a greater "attack surface" in multiple ways.

And again, sure, Apple doing this quite possibly will set a precedent for Google et al to answer the other ambiguous meanings your ambiguous comment has.
That's not where health is though...

Health is balance.
Pretty sure Malwarebytes blocks all the nonsense, but I should probably test this. If anyone else has already tested it, let us know.
Is it really worth pointing this out? Why?

This is (mostly) a non-sequitur to any modern discussion about climate, the atmosphere, and its effects on human life and civilization.

Life, at this point is used to a particular equilibrium. Sure, life has existed at different equilibriums. But we also know when those equilibriums are massively disturbed (via a great oxygenation event, massive asteroid, major volcanic eruptions, etc.) much of the life dies out (obviously depends on the intensity of the disruption) and it takes many years for life to adjust to and make a new equilibrium.

Humanity should be deeply concerned with how deeply we have disrupted the equilibrium, as this disrupts the world and biosphere that sustains us.

It might be useful if you're building an argument that humanity will be better off after the current mass extinction event is over. However, I tend to find this point more often leads to a George Carlin-esque cynicism and nihilism about earth being better off without humans (or human civilization) anyways.
> You aren't following. Without raw patient data, you can only study: 1. The data given to you by a government

Again, the phase-III trials for the Chinese vaccines were not done by the Chinese government. They were done in other countries, by various institutes. In Brazil, for example, the Sinovac study was conducted by the Butantan Institute, which has a very good reputation. Are you accusing the Butantan Institute of hiding data?

> Again, measuring a vaccine's effectiveness by giving it out and measuring outcome has so many variables it's almost useless.

Many countries carefully monitor real-world effectiveness of vaccines. This is incredibly informative data, and in the case of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines, real-world data is matching the clinical study data.

> The only standard that would apply is a study controlling for variables, done by its manufacturers. Which, for the millionth time, authoritarian countries won't share.

China has no control over the phase-III data for Chinese vaccines developers. The studies were all done internationally. And once the vaccine is out there and is being widely administered, national health agencies can do their own studies, completely beyond China's control.

> You surely must know that the surge in the US is due to UNVACCINATED individuals, which has absolutely fuck all to do with the discussion we are having about vaccines.

In Chile and Mongolia, the epidemics were also heavily concentrated among the unvaccinated population. We know that because of the solid follow-up work that those countries' health agencies have done on the vaccines.

When it comes to US vaccines, you get it. All I have to do is change "Chinese" to "American," and you instantly recognize how outrageous the NY Times' headline is. The NY Times should not be using anecdotes about breakthrough infections to sow doubts about vaccines, regardless of whether the vaccines were developed in the US or China.

I'm not okay with anti-vax propaganda, regardless of which countries' vaccines it targets. It's upsetting that the NY Times will publish anti-vax propaganda for nationalistic reasons. That should upset you too.
> Worth noting that the developers of searchguard which the Opensearch / Opendistro security plugin is based on is also being sued by Elastic.

Huh, didn't know that. I really doubt their "threat" is in any way comparable to AWS. This really doesn't help whatever goodwill they had left...
Oh yeah, Bigloo was also on my list of promising Schemes, and I tested with it.

At the time, Bigloo looked like one of those projects that seemed to have a lot of energy, and didn't seem to be as well-known on my side of the pond as it should be.

(Another time I experienced a kind of geopolitical diversity: I was working with a Web-native language, Curl, which started in the US, but took off with some industry in Japan, never in the US. I suppose that "tech" not being fully homogenized is a very good thing, but we do very often have the situation of some group A missing out on goodness that B has discovered, and vice versa. I think is just another reason to embrace diversity in general, to learn and benefit from goodness others have found, while also letting that diversity machine keep finding new goodness in parallel.)
Solomon Hykes, author of Docker: If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn't have needed to created Docker. That's how important it is. Webassembly on the server is the future of computing. A standardized system interface was the missing link. Let's hope WASI is up to the task! cf https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1111004913222324225?l...
Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Scala, Groovy

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages

It accepts any language that compiles to JVM bytecode. Java is just one of them. Just like an x86 processor accepts any language that compiles to x86 instructions.
Agreed with a lot, but for many companies I think cleaning up git history is more effectively accomplished by cleaning up PRs than actually trying to clean up the commits themselves that developers write.

"Good commits" are one of those things that benefit the whole, but no individual developer is incentivized to do. Because of that, it's easier to enforce at code review (rather than hope developers just do it). Many companies do this by squashing changes, so a developers' commits and the commits on trunk are decoupled.

I think the best way to make changes (and therefore commits on trunk) understandable is to split them up into series of dependent changes; something supported by the code review tooling used at places like FB / Uber / Google, but not super well in GitHub... Which leads to large PRs with a lot of unrelated fixes.

Disclaimer: I work at a company trying to bring that dependent change / stacked diff workflow to git and GitHub (https://graphite.dev).
The article tortures its subject, while never really defining irony.

If we go by the dictionary, we see that regular people are using irony quite well:

(1) the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

That's a hipster wearing a hillbilly stgan t-shirt ironically, or someone lauding Epstein as a paragon of virtue, and so on. This kind is well undestood and people usually don't argue over its semantics.

(2) a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.

This is the kind of irony the article is preoccupied with.

The key, I think, is the situation being "wryly amusing".

I'd say that this kind of irony involves some kind of a "cosmic joke" (a kind of soft or heavier prank the universe plays on you/us). Not literally of course: it's just how it feels.

This definition fits the dictionary definition (2) above, and the article cases, like the diabetic going for his meds and being run over by a sugar (or insulin, even better) truck.

And, let's say that contrary to popular "de-bunking", finding a trove of spoons when you're just looking for a knife (as in Alanis' lyrics), qualifies. As does "winning the lottery and diying the next day" or "a death row pardon two minutes too late" (also lyrics from the same song).

A lot of the semantic arguments against cases of (2) is mostly people expecting irony to always involve an element of (1), or to be necessarily much more than "wryly" amusing case of (2).
I'm not sure I've observed a lot of folks in the JavaScript world using Map. I agree there are occasions when it's very useful, but for my money those have more to do with cases where you need non-string keys. For everything else, as far as I can tell, Objects remain entirely idiomatic despite their idiosyncrasies.
Respectfully, GF quite explicitly also dismissed the claim that it is agave.

Meanwhile the article states that there is established scientific evidence that it is (probably the Sesalana species), in the form of an 89% DNA match, but more likely the trunk part of the plant rather than the root (as initially claimed by vendors).
This isn't really true in a world where it's trivial to reverse engineer and decompile binaries.

For example, we already now have a tool for generating NeuralHash hashes for arbitrary images, thanks to KhaosT:

https://github.com/khaost/nhcalc
> No clicking around

Every modern graphical editor I'm aware of lets you jump around in tabs/windows/panes etc. exclusively with hotkeys.

I don't know why people keeping talking about clicking around. They are all completely operable without resorting to clicking. Maybe not with IDEs, but with VS Code / Sublime / Atom, you don't need a mouse for anything I'm aware of.
The Web3 Sustainability Loop (2020)
I do think there is some real signal in this article in addition to the survivorship bias.

1) Noting that the stock market was boring I think is real indicator of the mass psychology of that time. There is definitely a inverse correlation between enthusiasm for markets and future returns.

2) Noting the returns of standard Oil is a reasonable take. There was a massive expansion of combustion engine production in the preceding two decades and inferring that this would be correlated with increased demand for oil based products is not hot take. Also it doesn’t take a genius to understand a oil is better business that automobiles, recurring revenue and all.

3) Tax rates have historically influenced valuations.

4) I’m not sure how to extrapolate the the German currency situation but I think looking at the relative attractiveness global markets makes sense.
My dad says the same. But it's been five years since I quit tobacco, and I do not get the cravings anymore. I might get faintly reminded of it, still, connected to certain situations, but nowhere near what I'd call a craving.
Ok, I'm not saying that the exact same molecules of O2 from the GOE were preserved until today, rather that the presence of O2 in the atmosphere is related to the emergence of plants and photosynthesis. This is what I meant by "O2 comes from prehistoric plants".

For the record, the "memory" if you want to call it like this, would be the (unoxidized) carbon buried underground and/or segregated in the plants body.
I'm betting it's fatigue from dealing with so many stupid people. Can't say as I blame them.
We don’t cut the bottom 10% each year. We just ask managers to identify 10% as eligible for layoffs.
To power pianojacq.com

In essence it allows you to upload a two-handed midi file (or a single track if you trust the splitter ;) ), and then to use the UI to practice the piece. It's slowly building up a following of people that use it for daily practice, and I've built up a small repertoire of suitable files (basically at the speed that I practice the pieces myself).
Do you think the author had an unreasonable expectation that a browser won’t suddenly start analyzing his buying habits and offer alternatives?
You seem to be hung up on users and passwords, I am talking anonymous public accessible sites.

If you publish content on a website that willingly provides data to anonymous users of your site, even with a TOC on the site, the TOC is not enforceable if you cannot prove that the user explicitly agreed to the TOC. If you don’t know who the user is, you can’t prove that they agreed to your TOC.

Having a TOC is basically legal theater if you allow anonymous users. The implied threat is basically “IF we find out who you are” and you use the site in a way that is contrary to our published TOC, we will take action against you.

Your only recourse in that case is to pursue sites that are republishing your copyrighted content…because only at that point can you actually identify the party that may be misusing your site and it’s content.
Unless you pick examples from the famous song by Alanis Morissette
https://youtu.be/Jne9t8sHpUc
Well it's fitting in that JavaScript is a pretty poor name too
It's unclear whether this is a monetized feature. I can't get the feature to trigger to check if there's e.g. any affiliate codes. (Maybe it's US-only feature?). But my guess would be that at least to start with it is not monetized in any way.
I often wonder while reading an academic paper how the writing could be as hopelessly bad as it is.

This type of manipulation and plagiarism may be partially to blame, but the academic writing style has also gone completely off the rails to the point that half the journal articles being published today read as if written by some kind of paper writing AI robot even when I am quite certain that that isn't the case. And no, I am not talking about cases where the author is writing in a non-native language.

I have a theory that it may have to do with imposter syndrome and a need to sound smart. The author, fearing that they don't really belong and at any moment will be found out, therefore never making tenure, starts jamming academic sounding words where they don't belong and stretching sentences with commas and semi colons until the whole thing is just as insufferable to read as it was to write.

There is also the possibility that there are just a lot of terrible writers out there.
Many side projects on Github that aren't updated often seems to know the thresholds for not triggering such methods but as I user I often have to pass those stupid verifications.
I dont donate to PAC's or campaigns..

However I have a problem with pretty much all FEC regulations because I am a free speech absolutist, and I view these "campaign finance laws" at minimum to be a spiritual infringement on the principle of free expression even if they pass legal challenges.

They also rares accomplish their stated goals and often end up being an advantage to the incumbents in power who have access to more "free media" as part of their official duties...
Really highlights that the actual phrases don't make any more sense than the tortured versions, other than the fact that we've been hearing all of them for years so they now sound normal
I think my father needed his sleep. I think that was his main goal: Getting enough sleep so he could function.

There likely were other benefits. As another comment here notes, alcohol is also a blood thinner. My father was on blood thinners for many years after being diagnosed with a heart condition and did have a large clot at one point that he could have lost his leg over.

But I think the fact that he apparently began winding down his drinking when he left the military means his primary reason for drinking was likely to manage his fear of being sent back to the front lines. That's not the same thing as avoiding bad feelings per se. It's more like moving stage fright out of your way because your paycheck depends on your performance and you need to perform in the here and now regardless of how you feel.
Yes, my comment is specific to US (where, additionally, it's somewhat uncommon to have a masters degree prior to starting the phd).
I'd like to hear your opinion about the following vision of language comparisons:

Lisp as a language is much more malleable to the problem at hand. This will mean it will attract a small group of smarter people, but create code which is harder to read and hence harder to give to other people. Hence, lisp programs tend be smaller, more creative, better quality, faster to create, but also to stagnate when their creators leave.

Java, more recently Go, and maybe even Cobol, attract a bigger group of more average people. They'll write in a simpler, more standardized style. The programs tend to be more bureacratic, average, less optimized, but also much more readable. They are the better choice when you need maintainability over a long time by a varied group of programmers.

I don't remember where this came from, it's certainly not my own idea. It doesn't sound completely bollocks, but have no idea if its true or not.
It’s important because otherwise you keep getting the “white people made everything” argument.
Zimbabwe could have implemented a land value tax on farmland to achieve its goals to undo colonization, instead they violently drove farmers away and then they could no longer feed themselves. Zimbabwe was just another victim of Marxism, to be more precise anti colonial Marxism.

Imagine if the president of the USA decided to solve the homeless problem of the black population by pointing guns at white homeowners and forcibly dragging them out of town. It's clearly unsustainable.

There might be truly disgusting capitalists like martin shkreli on this planet but they don't attack you directly, they merely deny you your fair share of the wealth you have created.
It was in the original Edge as well.

I use the feature, beats the hell out of installing Honey and going to bing/google shopping which is just paid adverts vs catalogs they used to do...
GitHub actually keeps these in the pull request indefinitely if you delete the branch. You can also restore the branch at any time if needed. We have the branches set to automatically delete when a PR is merged.
Is Sinclair oil a famous brand? Where I grew up there was a lot of Shell oil petrol stations but I never got the impression oil came from crustaceans.