skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There really isn't such a singular thing.

The Perl Foundation is a non-profit that handles grants and conferences (and I'm sad to see their work on the latter has regressed since I helped get a code of conduct in place for american perl conferences close to a decade ago).

It has no authority over core development - that's the Perl Steering Council.

It has no authority over conduct in core development spaces - that's the perl5-porters code of conduct which has its own moderation team attached (of which I am not a member but respect the people who are as effective moderators and also nicer people than I am).

It has no authority over irc.perl.org in general or libera.chat #perl - those are handled by the irc.perl.org code of conduct with a moderation team that I helped recruit after taking the lead on the community consultation part of the code of conduct adoption process, but is far from only me and intentionally includes more than one person who will disagree with me quite vocally on the (sadly more common that I would like) occasions when I fuck up.

What we need to do going forwards is to get conduct enforcement at the TPF/CAT level up to the standard the rest of the community has been reaching for years.
My naive guess is that this is in response to the recent release of GitHub Copilot. There was a lot of surrounding discussion about whether we were approaching a future where human developers are unnecessary. Feels a bit late to be responding to that so I’m not sure.
Yes we have a proof (in the classical case). It is called the Picard–Lindelöf theorem. The "dome" in your example is called an unstable equilibrium: the ball starts rolling because of an unpredictable perturbation. Small motions are amplified according to the Lyapunov exponent, which in the unstable case is large. Hirsch and Smale and Devaney's book on differential equations and dynamical systems is a good place to learn about this.

In classical mechanics we model a zero-diameter point at the top of the dome, but a real physical dome would be made of molecules vibrating randomly and that starts the ball rolling. At the end of the day, classical mechanics is nonphysical: it doesn't describe nature except as an approximation. Quantum mechanics on the other hand is non-deterministic. Is there a deeper, so-called superdeterministic reality underneath quantum mechanics? Some people think yes, and it has not been disproved, but it is pretty far out of the mainstream from what I can tell.
If you live in a low vaccination rate state in the US, you'll probably experience a severe shortage of medical care for the next few months, especially if you need to go to a hospital. My wife is a nurse in an ICU that is at 100% capacity (the majority of which are unvaccinated COVID patients, and a few vaccinated COVID patients too).

I imagine in many other countries there will be massive shortages of medical care as delta burns through earth's population.

This is probably the worst shortage we'll experience as part of the pandemic, because staffed hospital bed shortages means people will die of conditions they normally wouldn't die from.
Kinda interesting how big this problem is. They're only scanning the photos you're putting on iCloud, which people should already expect to have lesser privacy on.

This whole debacle comes down to a problem of trust, where people aren't believing Apple to keep to their word that this isn't a slippery slope to privacy problems in the future. And well, Apple fans tend to be pretty diehard in favor for their company, yet they're (Obviously not all of them) not trusting them on this end.

Whether Apple is right or the critics are right, it's good to see even the diehard Apple fans question the company, though there's A LOT of disinformation going around about this.
WHT – FFT for the Poor
Of course it is work. You need to at all times have an understanding of what is happening in the codebase you are working on. That doesn't mean knowing every nitty gritty, but it does mean being able to jump in and maintain that code if needed.

Some organizations treat code review as your personal guarantee that the code is "good" and it is your neck on the line if something goes wrong. That is absolutely the wrong way to handle changes in the codebase. It promotes delay, overthinking, kneecapping behaviors, etc. Instead, my preferred criterion for things that do not involve life & death level changes is "can the reviewer feel comfortable enough maintaining the code as written?". There will always be bugs that only pop up in prod ... If you feel comfortable enough diving into the code to fix whatever shows up, ship it.

Focusing on maintainability tends to steer conversations in the direction of "do we have good tests for this?", "is there a way to simplify this?" etc
>loads of other things I don't understand.

also you can have multiple instances of yaml trees in one file, each one separated with -- . I think this makes it very confusing if used as a configuration language (they like to use yaml for configuration in kubernetes)
Why does the bag have to be made out of polyester?
Afghans Need a Humanitarian Intervention
A program that can handle an OOM and continue to function normally is more reliable to the user than one that crashes and must be restarted potentially losing work.

Memory allocation can fail, network connections are not reliable , opening a file may fail, writing a file may fail and so on. If your program simply crashed because some operation failed it would only be reliable at crashing.
It’s like going back in time. How long has it been since you needed to worry that your phone bought in one part of the world might not work in another?
That's called a conspiracy theory.
> Apple’s policy as described is reasonable.

Apple is performing warrantless searches, and somehow people see it as okay because Apple is not the government (even though it functions as a state agency in this regard).
> Using aluminum as our source, we can ‘store’ hydrogen at a density that’s 10 times greater than if we just store it as a compressed gas.

The point is that it is beneficial to store the energy as Aluminium instead of hydrogen gas.
Can you tell us some things you like about San José?
I certainly hope this doesn't happen. Tires are a huge part of cars being so much safer than they used to be, and we could take a major step back if tires started being optimized for taxes instead.
While you're missing the point,

What was the $ damages/lost due to the recent grid failure vs the $ for the winterization of the wind & nat gas plants?

Don't really care about exact numbers, ratio of the two is fine. I'm sure an obvious statement will be seen in said ratio.
If you are an experienced programmer, well, and experienced programmer who is actually good at programming, companies won't care if you know language X, because they will expect that you could just pick it up on the job.

PS: I have tons of open Elixir roles at the moment: https://ctd.mbta.com/
No, the comment above meant there's no explicitly marked disable button. People who don't follow tech news won't hear about this.
I wish these studies would include additional metrics such as daily smoker, drinker, etc
This is true overall, but graphics cards are still basically impossible to get unless you pay 2x-2.5x MSRP. A bit more than a little worse but thankfully relegated to a non-essential product.

I was impressed that I had no trouble getting an iPhone 12 Pro within a day, and my friends had no trouble getting M1 MacBooks. If anything it’s the Apple supply chain that might be the most resilient of all.
Cool, confusing but cool. It'd be really neat if for us non-music people that it could help us select blocks that all "worked" together, like all pentatonic scale or whatever.
Maybe we should just let it burn down if we're going to halt environmental progression on the basis that people will be too upset that they can't drink out of a small manufactures cylinder. Fuck me
The complexity of Victoria II makes it one of my favourite games out of Paradox's library. I am super looking forward to Victoria III. I hope they expand the scope and modding somewhat (i.e. like EU4 has an "extended timeline" mod that spans all the way from the Roman era to the modern era)
I cannot agree or disagree with that paper. Unfortunately I don't have time to read the whole thing. BUT, I do have time to read the section you referenced. So I should be more clear with my words: The paragraph on the first part of section 2.1 does not apply for all cases.

>If they collide, there exists a unique solution up until the time of collision.

If you believe your own words, than it disproves determinism of this mathematical model. Your statement implies there is no unique solution past the point of collision. So you actually agree that that the problem is not deterministic.

We've already both arrived at a conclusion here.
>This kind of thinking will just lead to more misery than COVID its self. Lockdowns are causing poverty, drug addiction and suicides of young people. Its taking decades off their lives, unlike COVID which mostly is deadly to those in their last year of life.

First of all, none of the above misery is exclusive to young people. None. You seem to think young people are suffering more than most and it's not clear why.

I don't want to go through line by line here because I truly feel like you're not thinking this whole thing through. So I have a proposal for how we continue this debate.

Let's imagine a scenario: Covid restrictions and vaccines are halted in Canada... What happens next?

Do we still treat the sick? If so, what happens when the healthcare system reaches its breaking point? Do we cut back on treating other illnesses? What do you think will happen to our taxes, the national debt, the economy? What will happen to international trade and personal travel? Will Canada be blacklisted?

Will being thrown out with the trash by the younger generation be an inevitable part of growing old? What about old people who have devoted their lives to this country (ie. veterans)? And how will ignoring the elderly affect families? How will the millions of Covid deaths affect families? Will there be more misery and depression or less? Will suicides go up or down? Will doctors and scientists just stop caring because we ignored them? Will they stop giving us advice? Will anyone even want to be a doctor (or nurse)?

This is a genuine question. I really want to understand what people such as yourself think will happen if we abolished these things.

Side note: for the record, yes it is (very) illegal for someone with an STD to have unprotected sex with an unknowing partner in Canada.
The data suggests western countries _are_ leading the way on plastic waste disposal. It's high time we started helping others, don't you think?
You might be interested in this post from today on the racket-users list:

https://groups.google.com/g/racket-users/c/hP1hZDWnj7Y

It is about "social contracts" and seems to kind of address some of what you are saying here. Basically, the community comes to an agreement on what some good common contracts should be. I wonder if there are any other social problems in the lisp languages that we could think of that can be developed by consensus this way.
Lye is fairly common. In my childhood you could even buy, as a child, things like potassium nitrate at the drug store.
Art Does Not Exist
It turns out measuring aspartame consumption by country is not simple and that there aren't good sets of equivalent studies across regions to draw from. I browsed some papers in the National Library of Medicine[0] and it seems like, at least as recent as a decade ago, it's generally accepted the USA has a higher intake than the rest of the globe, by 15-25% per capita, but it's hard to know for sure.

I agree there should be an epidemiological case for a link, but alternatively maybe the link is that there is no strong link to cancer.

Everything in moderation, as they say.

0: search "aspartame intake", I can't easily cite anything right now.
Besides the above (especially comments), YAML also has one huge advantage for configuration files and that is clean diffs.

JSON's lack of support for trailing commas messes up diffs.
It really depends how you define automating. I tend to think of writing higher level languages and even libraries and functions as automating the repetitive low-level parts of programming
I don't think you understand what you wrote. What specifically is your argument? That we shouldn't ban things because people use them and therefore find value? What does value even mean? You know there are countries with unpottablr water and you've decided to die on a hill about people finding value in plastic waste. Strange
I think a lot of these niche products target that market - lots of disposable income and an interest in random gadgets.
I'll see you a 4-wheeled passenger vehicle and raise you a 2-wheeled motorcycle. It's bad enough that tolls are based on the number of axles. Makes me wish I could ride a wheelie through the tollbooth.
Not a naive question at all!

One of our early partners has over 250 million lines of Java code alone. I don't think they're unusual. Every large scale organization we've worked with has a similar situation though the circumstances are different.

For Netflix, the easy answer is probably "microservices", but also there is more going on behind the scenes than it seems. They had to become at least partially their own content producer, so there is a great deal of tech around the studio itself. There's a rich data platform. There are 200+ repositories in Netflix OSS, 100+ in Netflix Skunkworks, and then there are the larger projects like Spinnaker (50+ repositories).

Software engineering has reached a level of industrialization, it's not cottage industry anymore. And that's why I'm so fascinated by this project -- software supply chain activities are masquerading as technical debt, and engineers are left with the responsibility of it. It's time we start applying automation where we can.
TIL. However, it seems like there are attempts at making lithium ion rechargeables to fit standard sizes. If not by well known manufacturers.

https://www.amazon.com/KENTLI-Rechargeable-Battery-Lithium-i...
Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1263/
MRI machines run Linux? That's really cool. Linux literally saves lives. I'll never forget that.
Well if specifications are sufficiently well determined I don't see why it can't be automated in principle.
Privacy Preserving Engineering
>sounds like sci-fi now

if you actually want the speculative fiction version and the concept taken to the extreme, you're in luck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City
> hysterical screaming

Ah, I see you work for Apple, given the language ("the screeching voices of the minority").
Specifically, neither YAML nor JSON are configuration formats (despite everyone's desire to use them as such).

TOML is a very good generalization of a simple, straightforward configuration file format which was the "best" until TOML came around. If a service you are using needs JSON/YAML, you can generate it. But, stick with a configuration file format that is suitable for humans for actual configuration.

Also, PSA, neither JSON nor YAML files are good places to embed logic.

Also, another PSA, the fact that Pipfile is just a TOML file is just silly. Another point in Ruby's favor.
Narrative skill is often overlooked even in people.

1) The kind died, then the queen died of a broken hard.

2) The king died, then the queen died.

3) The kind died, then the queen died of a broken arm.

One is a story, two is not, three is written by AI.
It seems the person agrees with you by saying "true" instead of "false dichotomy"

I don't, it's funny that the decision to stop __eveything__ to "save lives" can be done at a finger snap, no due process, yet banning __just__ guns (or replace it with just tobacco, fastfood, teflon... other things that kill) seems impossible to get pass debates.
To be fair to the operating systems out there, GUIs are part of the program, not part of the operating system. If a menu is unresponsive it is far more likely that the writers of the software messed up and put some heavy lifting on their event loop or misused the GUI framework that they choose rather than any fault of the OS.

That having been said I do agree that it is disappointing how sluggish some apparently-straightforward applications have gotten despite the hardware performance increases over the years.
At least two people were offended by the comment that 1% >> 1% of 1% ?

Comparing to the CFR distinctly implies a scenario where Ivermectin is given to 100% of the population. Nobody's suggesting that...are they?
I am not trolling against these unnecessary anti-covid measures by providing 1. statistical evidence that shows the fear of covid in children is disproportionate to the risk covid poses to children, 2. logical arguments for why mask-wearing should not be mandated for children.

Calling it trolling is exactly the kind of intolerant hostility that prevents a debate on the issue and puts society on autopilot to never-ending restrictive measures that are wildly disproportionate to the danger posed to children.

>>Perhaps there is some data on how harmful halloween masks are to kids. Or on pubescent Muslim girls/teens... (/sarc)

We don't wear halloween masks for most of every day, every day for months on end.

The vast majority of Muslim girls who wear hijab don't wear a niqab that covers the face.

This a bad faith effort to find comparable situations.

Facial expressions are extremely important for communication. Forcing children to largely make do without them could very plausibly - I would say highly probably - harm their social development.

This is not far-out speculation, and your smug dismissal of it is reckless and irresponsible.

>>The burden would be on you to show actual harm from wearing a mask when thousands do it without harm all day every day (for work and for disease prevention)

We have never had children wear masks for much of every day for months on end.

Even medical professionals - who are adults and have already had normal childhoods without their faces being covered - don't wear masks all day at work on a regular basis. Masks are only worn in specific situations that don't encompass most of their work hours, like time in surgery.

>>Also it is not just about the kids whom you wrongly assume to be invulnerable

The evidence shows they are no more vulnerable to covid than to the flu. Masking the entire population of children is not a proportionate response to the risk covid poses to them.

>>it is about not making another petri dish to both further spread the disease to those whom the kids come in contact.

Children should not be burdened with daily masking to protect adults, and in any case, children are not known to be a high-risk transmission vector:

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/147/4/e202004...

The disappointing thing is that your responses to my arguments have been very weak - like comparing daily mask wearing to once a year Halloween mask wearing - showing you actually don't want to have a good faith debate on this issue.
Just about every outcome of this would be good. It would reduce miles traveled, give the chance to charge people for the damage they do to the road, and encourage more compact development patterns. We know by the way people choose to use or forgo toll roads that drivers place very little value on their time compared to small amounts of money, so they'd theoretically be very responsive to per mile charges. We'd then get more direct feedback that would hopefully demonstrate where actual demand, rather than extrapolated theoretical future demand, exists. The funds could go back to the places where the driving and consequent road damage occurred, too.

But I don't know how you implement this in such a low-trust environment, since it amounts to everyone's vehicles being tracked. I guess you could just make all the data move like credit card bills (e.g. data transmits weekly, so my upload for this coming Monday covers from 2 Mondays ago to last Monday.) That would prevent government entities and, in turn, everyone who has compromised those government systems, from having real time dragnet tracking.

Then there's massive incentive to cheat on the part of drivers, so you need this system to be perfectly secure despite the device being in the hands of the the would-be cheaters. Then, what happens if the device breaks, failing to report the data?

*Edited to clarify what's good about it.
could also be a response to the more recent OpenAI Codex model.
I sanctioned him for the original cpan upload.

Not because I necessarily thought he was racist himself (I knew basically nothing about the dude back in ... 2018? I think it was), but because his behaviour was bloody stupid and going to hurt people and cause problems down the line.

He was, unfortunately, unable to understand that my goal was to avoid the "bloody stupid" continuing rather than to accuse him of any particular bigotry, so he got lizmat to force me to revoke the sanctions.

He's now in a far worse position as a result, and the "problems down the line" have, indeed, happened.

Frankly, as a relatively young developer, full of testosterone and even shorter on wisdom than I am, he deserved better friends.
This sounds a bit Orwellian to me. The whole charging to a credit card or an account, it really penalize as a person for driving a car. Maybe that’s not the right wording I should use, but this just feels like a terrible idea. Why can’t we add a tax to each kilowatt per hour that’s charging an electric vehicle, and then use that as the fee? We already have the technology to know when an EV is plugged into the grid. Why not add a tax to each kilowatt per hour, if the electric company collects, gives to the state, who then gives to the federal government, who then gives back to the states along with the gasoline tax fund.
> If You See Something, Say Something®. Report suspicious activity to local law enforcement or call 911.

... Big Brother is trademarked.
> My understanding is that the consent decree that was the ultimate result of U.S. v. Microsoft added significant legal friction to the development of new IE capabilities.

Not sure where you got this impression, but not the case. The IE team was largely retasked to work on OS features that actually did have DOJ oversight.
> more than server-side scanning

False dichotomy. How about they leave people's data alone?
But if Amazon employees can see what the top secret customers are doing...isn't someone doing something very wrong?
Actually you have a point. Hollywood plots have been about as coherent as GPT output since CGI became a big thing.

But seriously, no GPT is not going to be writing movies any time soon. Why? Because it does not have anywhere close to the coherence of human written plots. Why? Because GPT is not "AI." It is rather fancy statistical extrapolation.
Most everyone I considered a friend who "made it big" simply moved to a different social circle.

Self-correcting problem, I guess. ;-)

It's not surprising in tech to have co-workers who are fabulously wealthy. Usually if they're still working then it's no different than working with anyone else. One thing I like about rich tech workers is they often buy cool cars (like a McLaren I saw a day or two ago) and park them at their companies or around town.
> A lot of people won't be updating to Monterey.

I’m quite sure this won’t be true, HN threads full of uninformed complaints notwithstanding.
Sorry to say this is bad advice and essentially misleading.

"You have sold your previous business or already own a very successful one."

This is of course very true, and probably the #1 factor which will help you raise money, but that's an authentic reason to invest in someone.

No serious fund will give you money because you 'know them' or are the 'son of an important client of some investment bank'.

Graduating from a Top School will be beneficial but it's neither sufficient nor necessary.