skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never Use Semicolons (JS)
Yeah the colors are really not great for color blind people, I rather have some symbols or similar on them
No. Just edited to clarify that.
No. I am not a US citizen and there is no such notion for EU tech workers.
I think the Arduino example might be stronger on the “they finally made it easy” than you give it credit.

I had done some electronics and micro-controllers work in college, so I wasn’t starting from zero, but the simplicity of the open an example, click upload, and watch it succeed was pretty magical. I’d tried with only modest progress to do some PIC development (as a hobbyist) a few times in the years in between. Arduino was an undetectable amount of effort to get the examples to work.

That, in turn, enables a bunch of GitHub and YouTube style of collaboration among regular, non-wizards who can hack something to a basically working condition, share it, and have someone be semi-confident that they can do it too.

Professionals sneer at the Arduino IDE (and its inherent removal of gatekeeping), but it’s massively popular because it’s easy. (It’s not because it’s a great IDE for sure; it’s the least pleasant program that I use somewhat regularly.)
"As I get older, the less I identify as my current state and the more I identify with the person who transitions through states."

This sounds neat, but once you set the states aside - what's left? :) Who's that person? Our identity is a sum of these states. The rest (navigating through states) is an illusion. Just like movement in a video is an illusion created by consecutive frames. The sense of continuity is a magic trick.

I could agree that some (perhaps most, who knows) self-identifications are unnecessary and burdening, toxic even. And possibly cost more than the value they bring into our life, especially since we tend to cling on to them for too long.

"This too shall pass", if meant as a universal motto, isn't an attitude that would inevitably stem from this observation, though (in my view).

Say, being a parent is also a phase, in a way, it's just a state of my life and personhood. Not the essence of myself. But I do care about my son nevertheless. This makes me more vulnerable and potentially frustrated, but well, that's what constitutes being a person.

"What we are angry about tends to be a reflection of ourselves more than the current state of affairs"

That's no different from what we're happy about, etc. Without personhood all is just an enormous cloud of elementary particles floating in the dark
> There's is not a labour shortage of lorry drivers. There is increased demand, reduced supply (due to a pandemic on both counts) - but plenty of people who can drive a lorry and are licensed

Not sure what you mean by that, BBC mentiones a lack of 100.000 drivers just a few days ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/57810729

That's a shortage, no matter how you turn it regardless if people are not available or simply don't want to do it.

Sure, pay can increase but so will the price of goods and components, having a knock-on effect on the rest of the economy and making UK less competitive as a result. Companies want to move stuff and they see no profitable means to do so.

I'm in The Netherlands, there's a driver shortage here too but it's mostly eastern europeans filling the void. With an unemployment rate of 3% why bother with a boring away-from-home job? Unless Trucking is your hobby essentially. I imagine most people in the UK feel the same way; there's better jobs available now with the economy opening up.
> A mutation that's more easily transmitted but less deadly (which jives with the lower death rate count lately).

The lower death rate in highly vaccinated states is mostly due to vaccination. Delta might be more or less deadly ceteris paribis, but it seems wildly implausible e.g. that the reduction in the CFR in the UK by about an order of magnitude is solely due to the dominance of Delta (see coronavirus.data.gov.uk).

> In all likelihood the delta variant came from someone vaccinated and the vaccines do next to nothing to stop transmission.

Delta was first detected in India at a time when very few people were vaccinated.

It is not true that the vaccine does next to nothing to stop infection. The least optimistic analyses are from Israel and give ~40% efficacy against infection which is quite far from zero.⁰ It was widely reported that viral loads in people with breakthrough infections and the unvaccinated were similar, but this ignores the question of when a test was taken and viral loads appear to decrease faster in vaccinated people.¹

> The solution we're told? More vaccines of course (no I am not making this up).

Well, yes. First of all, you seem to ignore the possibility that efficacy on endpoints other than infection might matter. Efficacy against hospitalisation and death is still high, and that is a good thing. This is such a common argument that I’m surprised you aren’t responding to it.

Second, therefore, it is prima facie a good idea to ensure that as many people as possible have that protection.

And third, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t research new vaccines which could give sterilising immunity so I’m not sure why you're so incredulous about that possibility.

> prove natural immunity from a previous infection is more effective than the current leaky vaccines.

In weighing up naturally acquired v vaccine acquired immunity you also have to take into account what happens at the start i.e. when being infected or being given the vaccination. It is preferable to be vaccinated and then reinfected than to be infected unvaccinated once.

The logic of this is a bit silly: people who successfully commit suicide are 100% successful in preventing themselves from committing suicide again. But this also shows the problem with the following reasoning:

> natural immunity superior to artifical or vaccine induced immunity, it might be our only way out of this mess.

Unless we succeed in finding a vaccine that gives sterilising immunity, Covid is probably going to be endemic. So the question is whether one wants to be infected for the first time completely Covid naïve or not (i.e. via vaccination). Only vaccines make naturally acquired herd immunity vaguely palatable in terms of the number of deaths and hospitalisations, knock-on effects via reduction in healthcare capacity, &c.

0: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...

1: https://t.co/YEm2D790kW?amp=1
I am wondering if 50cm depth for the electrical cables is enough. Due to frost, I would have put them at somewhere around 80cm deep under ground.
I personally get the best results (Ie fewer headaches) if I get up and pace a little and look around every 20 minutes. It gets annoying, though.
> I think the UK both wants to think of itself as world open, but a huge part of the population does not like it. Now it's conflicted of what it wants as a country.

Yes isn't it great that we live in a democracy, and have the population decide which direction they would like the country to go in.
I think in practice PGO for native C/C++ binaries is not that different from a JIT warming up C#/Java code, especially since llvm+clang is so good at optimizing code.
For the most part, these types of researchers don't publish in venues their claimed beneficiaries can't read:

* It sets up horrible power dynamics in advocacy (parents with journal subscriptions can't advocate for their kids or engage in civic discourse)

* It prevents kids from less affluent populations from having even the possibility of engaging with real research

* It prevents a crucial check-and-balance of public review by the people written about.

There is a long British line of research ABOUT other cultures, without treating those cultures as partners or equals, and most education research follows these lines.

The author of this paper is white, has a Western last name, and studied in American schools. He writes a lot about minorities, but without them involved in the process. Education is a place where, objectively, representation is important.

I'd like to read the whole text too.
And numerous more. [0x0] Plus nuclear power was never found to be cost-effective. Maybe this decade. I understand reactors will be more uniform in new designs.

[0x0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiatio...
You need to clarify it a bit more. You're getting paid in dollars, you aren't in the US and you're using the terms location and nationality interchangeably.

A company taking location into account is very different from treating you differently based on your nationality.
I got that problem too.
I live in the Uk, i’m not British, and speak with a foreign accent. I was extremely surprised to see people complain of the « racist abuses »... until i read those few posts explaining that the « racists abuses » in question were the mere fact of being asked « what’s your accent ».

Ok, if being asked what your accent is, is a « racial abuse », then yes, i guess i am a victim and should whine and maybe ask for money? Stop being snowflakes.
I can see that. I don't feel like I'm the target audience of almost every ad that I see, but once in a while I read blog post or news blur about some tool and knowing that tool is out there make my life easier.

That's more promotions than actual ads, but I don't think I would have been less positive had these been actual ads.
Yes, that was weird for a language with such a high focus on performance. My guess is that the compiler couldn't inline the "idiomatic" operations and had to fall back on generic implementations, which will be painfully slow in Swift due to the overhead of being ABI independent.

You could do all this in other languages too, but it wouldn't be the "idiomatic" choice during development; it would be clear that you're giving up on performance for the sake of flexibility.
Off course the so called "social issue" documentaries are nothing more than propaganda often created by think tanks or publicly funded "opinionators", these are very rarely not a waste of money and attention. It doesn't take away the fact that nature/science documentaries (if produced well, with sufficient funds) can capture imagination of a general knowledge of the layman public.
Yep, I’ve been there, I was a consultant in London charging 700 pounds a day, and my hands were tied because of a silly 50 USD license expense and couldn’t work for a month.

I asked if I could just pay it myself, but was told that would violate the IT department guidelines and possibly an SLA too, so I just sat there for a month, reminding everyone at the daily stand ups I was blocked. I couldn’t believe it.

I was not the only one who was tied in red tape there, it was indeed normal.

This company was making 600 million a year in profit.
How so? Religion is still central in many countries in Europe, eg Croatia, Poland, etc. It's even getting stronger as the populace is leaning more to the right every day. Plenty of religious people in the media here raving against covid vaccines etc.
Checking Google Scholar, I found this 1962 paper by King titled "Table Look-Up Procedures in Data Processing" - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800198.806120

> It is not generally known that to provide seven- decimal accuracy of the sine function, allowing third-order interpolation, only 15 entries are required [*] ...

The following commentary is interesting.

> In spite of these developments in table construction, it turned out two decades ago that the technology was such that table look-up was too slow for arithmetic. The stored-program type of machine displaced this approach. By this method the value of a function, such as sin x, is computed afresh every time. One cannot but wonder how many times such a number has been re-computed in the last decade, and inquire whether technological developments may make tables efficient again.

> Over the years the emphasis in machines has slowly changed from the central processing unit to memory. From the point of view of table look-up, the memory is the central feature of a machine. Indeed the central processing unit is unnecessary.

The [*] is Krawitz. E., "Proc. Industrial Comp. Seminar," IBM, p. 66, 1950. I cannot find this publication with only a simple search.

See also https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sdt=0%2C5&as_yhi=1990&... which finds titles like "A rapid lookup table method for trigonometric functions" (1982) at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.43801210... .
On a tangential note, Java doesn't even have a decent documentation site these days. The documentation page feels like its from 2002.

In fact its more like non existent.

I'd like to think that's a non starter for some one new starting a project in Java.
EUV lithography is a strange beast. It requires extremely clean rooms and a lot of practical know-how and skills from the humans around it. Few companies are in position to actually use EUV machines to produce chips.

So, in practice, ASML and the few companies are dependent on each other and probably found local optimum of coexistence. ASML does not want to push several top-level tech companies into search for alternatives and the top level tech companies do not want to waste their talent on replication of an already existing product unless necessary.
> gtk!3898 fixes #6426, and probably the other two too because they seem to all be manifestations of the one root cause.

I hope the fix lands on my desktop soon because I'm still facing those issues if I enable scaling. Even when I don't enable scaling and just use the Zoom option in Firefox, it starts behaving strangely for dropdown menus in Firefox settings. The menus aren't where they should be and sometimes flicker.

> (Incidentally, remember Firefox uses X11 unless you manually turn on its experimental Wayland support via MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1)

Yeah, I've exported this as a user environment variable and confirmed with xeyes that Firefox runs natively in Wayland.

> Tooltips are working in all the Wayland Qt apps that I have (marble-qt, zeal-git, musescore, telegram-desktop).

Please let me know if it works for you on Qterminal.

I'd also love to have Spectacle working on Sway. It starts natively in Wayland but fails to screenshot anything and tells me to open a bug report.

Gwenview looks broken on Sway/Wayland. The colors are all messed up.

> If you have an AUR helper, replacing {sway,wlroots,xorg-xwayland} with {sway,wlroots,xorg-xwayland}-hidpi-git is really easy and not at all slow, though at least sway and wlroots do interdepend so that if you upgrade one you should rebuild the other or things may break (happened to me a couple of months back, there was a .so version bump). I decided that I’d rather have not-quite-perfect scaling and any package management concerns, rather than having XWayland content always look terrible. And remember that’s true of any scaling factor other than one.

I'm not really using any XWayland programs at the moment except rofi so I don't think installing those packages from the AUR is worth it for me. I'd be happy to use them if they were available as official precompiled binaries.

Any ideas why these patches aren't merged to master? Some disagreements among devs?
I'm one of the kickstart backers and I'm OK with this move. In the end of the day, what we all want is the language and its ecosystem to be healthy so we can use it to develop our applications. After eight years of the FOSS version, very few users contributed to the codebase, and many of the customers moved to the FOSS version. LiveCode is still a business, it needs to pay its staff.

I've seen that most of the backers are actually onboard with this move. Many of us have been using this language for more than 20 years, we'd rather pay for our licenses and have a good product, than have a FOSS version that no one is working on.

Keeping a non-VC-backed programming language company alive is not a trivial job. FOSS is not the way towards sustainability for some companies.
It's living in the browser and this feature is mostly useful in complex CSS. Most definitely not a premature optimization.
I cannot be more specific otherwise my identity would be obvious. The EU is not a unified job market, and the equivalent of those $20K is a massive improvement for me.
I hacked your Facebook account and posted hate speech on it. Your employer fired you. Am I innocent?
Kudos for having managed this: you just added a word to my vocabulary!
"Brexitania" sounds perfect, also more precise than the erstwhile "little England"!
> The idea is attractive as a paradox but it is beyond absurd to consider in practice - in fact it is barbaric.

Agreed, it would definitely be barbaric when it comes to contemporary forestry or other industrial environments. It can be, though, that since those 1980s-or-so workers couldn't even imagine getting a pair of extra safe logging boots, they were somehow (subconsciously?) more attentive about their bodily coordination and movements during chainsaw work. Because of the laymans' boots, there was absolutely no way you could allow yourself to saw towards your feet, for example. These days, you should never do it, but when it happens, you'll probably get away with a fright thanks to the protective footwear.

In other words, to a considerable extent, maybe humans do adapt themselves to the safety level they have at hand -- or what they could have in theory?

That said, using a chainsaw these days without protective boots would surely be really silly to my mind (why take the risk when these boots exist and are easily available). I don't think anybody who's serious really does this either.

Thanks for pointing the discussion to survivorship bias in this regard, though. You got me.
Indeed. This 'success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") stating that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.

In France nuke-power is backed by gas (which produced 10.3% of gridpower in 2017).

Aging reactors more and more become a threat:
https://www.liberation.fr/futurs/2016/03/03/il-faut-imaginer...
The majority of Europeans do not work on lorries or in supermarkets. EU citizens in the UK earn significantly more than locals and are significantly better educated. The real problem here is not lack of undereducated supermarket clerks (we can easily replace them with locals), the real problem is that software developers and lawyers and doctors and accountants and whatnot won’t cross the Channel anymore. Special visas may work for seasonal workers and cleaners, but I wouldn’t move to the UK with a 1-year visa to earn just 70K£ pa (which is more than twice the average salary of a local).

I would stop spreading the fake news of Europeans being the servants of the Britons.
Are you me? I had the same reaction. I've finished mine last weekend, but haven't had time to start with the actual art part of it. Perfect timing
How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security
By « racist abuses », i guess you meant the simple fact of being asked what your accent is ?! (Cf. Previous posts)
Oh Stavros you flirt.
The biggest problem on television is lying, and that problem is prevalent not just on German TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlMH1RfnF0
Many of those caveats have been improved since C# 7, blame Unity for not keeping up with .NET versions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...
Seconded. I've only watched the first five or so, but they are absolutely worth it. They changed a lot about how I think through certain situations and have proven their worth many times.

The man is also just an incredible lecturer, too.
I suspect the flood of visitors from HN exceeded the hosting account's quota.
To expound on your bike helmet comment, growing up in the 70s skating, skateboarding, and biking, we didn't have protective gear. We quickly learned to fall and roll to prevent broken bones. I was rollerblading in NYC streets and Central Park in the dance circle in the early 90s, and watching beginners with protective wrist guards, helmets, elbow pads, and knee pads fall again and again was telling. They relied on their wrist guards and other equipment to prevent injury without learning how to fall. I have friends who take spills at high speed on skateboards, and roll and stand up without more than a few scuffs. I saw people with pads still break their thumbs and sprain their wrists. Sometimes you need a bit of both skill and protective gear, otherwise, you are an accident waiting to happen.
Well couldn’t that be the result of the remainers doing Godwin points and trying to force the narrative that Brexit vote was racist?
I spend plenty of money and hate ads with a passion. There are good ads. Doubly so if it's an ad that appeared when I was searching for something I want and the product advertised fulfilled the expectations.

The problem is that the vast majority of ads does not fall into this category. They are actively trying to make you want something and manipulate you into buying things. We can't have nice ads, because the system almost invariably falls into a local minimum of plastering everything with carefully crafted ads that play into people's reptilian brains. The sociopathic and amoral part of adtech will invariably drown out the ones who try to play nice.

Perhaps I'm too jaded, but I just can't see how to change the status quo outside of strong regulation to break apart the existing adtech oligopolies. Unfortunately, even that is a gargantuan task because said adtech oligopolies wield incredible lobbying and political power.

And therefore I hate ads and hate what the adtech industry has become. We vilify the military industry, the oil industry, the finance industry and countless other industries who have often downright negative value contribution to society. And yet the adtech industry is still somehow innocent in the public eye, even though they are just as corrupt as the rest, it's just that the damage they are causing is more insidious.
Quick tip: leave Mensa off of your resume.

I skip any resume that I see where someone "brags" about how smart they are -- I care about teamwork and how open to new or different ideas someone is, and both of those are orthogonal axes to "intelligence" in my experience.

It's ludicrous for you not to accept a pay cut if 10-20k given your lack of experience. Get off your high horse!
This is so opaque even the Cour des Comptes wrote in an official report that their is no clear accounting of nuclear investments.
https://ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/Rapport_th... (page 270)
Semantic Search for FAQs with Haystack
I would extend this and say anti-vaxers and covid-deniers are also a symptom of this. The "freedom of speech" group are clearly just as easily upset, but about different things.

The fact that parts of some governments in some countries support and enable these views suggests we're already quite far down the path to a neurotic society.
Thanks for sharing. I wonder if it's legal to live in an allotment in the UK (I doubt it)
I'm not making an argument as to whether nuclear energy is good or bad, cost effective or not. My prior on that is "it depends", but I don't know much about it, so it's a rather weakly informative prior.

I was specifically addressing parent's point. Chernobyl had a disproportionate effect on the public perception of the matter. I hadn't even heard of half the disasters in that list, for instance.