skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t say anything useful about short-form email (I have never been comfortable with it, to be honest), but in IM the termination requirement feels to be already satisfied by the built-in separation between messages—in longer messages, I frequently end up using periods as statement separators rather than terminators. The only reason to use a final period, then, becomes to attach a feeling of additional abruptness or finality to the last sentence, which easily reads as (passive-)aggressive or dismissive. (I’m not saying “offensive” as that’s really more about the perception of the recipient, but these two are about the intent of the originator.)
The worst part is most of the people covid takes down have already reproduced, disqualifying them from Darwin Awards.
>I think “woke” became pejorative because woke people refuse to debate

Quite the opposite, the anti-woke are in the process of obstructing debate. In the US the response is the ruling class banning the teaching of certain parts of US history in large states like Texas and Florida.

Most of the US "woke" are pro-police reform and reparations. If they are "anti-debate" (this claim doesn't ring true) it should be easy for you to name one prominent "woke" commentator that has refused to debate history.
Hah. I have a love/hate relationship with the FAA. Funny story: a building was something like a foot over spec, about a mile off the end of a regional airport and the FAA found out. I do not envy the builder.

I've known some FAA people and they're some of the more interesting types I've come across.
Maybe you just haven’t realized it’s being used that way?

Examples:

“It’s fine!” (It is indeed fine.)

“It’s fine.” (It’s not at all fine.)

“K, thanks” (Got it, thanks)

“K. Thanks.” (Cool. Thanks for nothing.)

“Bye” (See you later)

“Bye.” (Fuck off)
You overeating doesn't give everyone else around you diabetes.

I'm never going to buy the attempts to equate getting a personal preventable illness with willful and malicious disregard of the health of everyone surrounding you.

We're pretty understanding of a person who struggles with alcoholism. We're a whole lot less understanding when they choose to get behind the wheel.
Does this writer genuinely think they are the first to think of convincing people to get vaccinated? And all we needed was a little facts and logic?
> You could just read it yourself and see that it does say he was there to wipe out the Kshatriyas.

I have skimmed through the article several times and I could not find anything suggesting that. Can you please quote the relevant sentence/paragraph from the article?
I think the feed I use is the front page, but I don’t visit the front page (much) via a browswer. When I click a link in my feed reader (Newsify iOS) it brings me to the comments page of the post.

Newsify is great but it’s been crashing a LOT with iOS 15 beta (not complaining, I know it’s beta). It’s a great reader for iOs devices.
In smoking, drinking, eating too much, there are pleasures. Thus, making it difficult for people to stop. Stopping them requires fighting real urges. That's why they deserve sympathy.

In not getting vaccinated there's no pleasure. Only stupidity and ignorance.
case numbers of course matter, because vaccines do not guarantee you will not end up with long covid, or many other consequences of a rough viral infection.

Countless millions will live with a permanent disability their entire life.
Switzerland never had curfew. There were (soft) lockdowns only.
Stop telling people to stop doing things. It's very rude.

Explain to us why the behavior is bad, instead.
> What behind the scenes context would make it impossible?

The MD context. One first needs to train AI to perform the job of a general MD before you can get into stuff like radiology (that is, their real job, not what some novice CS grads, or not so novice AI experts like Hinton imagine it to be - I.e. not segmenting things into funky shapes or running some funky black box magic that spits out "tumor/not tumor" with no context whatsoever, no. Actually diagnosing real people, where a life is on the line, and if you fuck up enough times, your career).
It's amazing how years of anti-vax nonsense went nowhere.

But, in a few months, all of this shaming and politicizing have done so much damage.

Public health rests on trust, not mocking, not shaming, not coercion.
Reddit has a subreddit dedicated to this. I understand the justifications and the frustration, but so much of that is people being hateful. I've seen everything from race, hair style, weight, religion, etc mocked because the people deserve it. I think it's the most toxic part of humanity.

I hope reddit closes hateful subs like this. Here is a similar article about that sub.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/herman-cain-awards
Well, yes, it's a community endeavor. But if the majority of the community want to keep it, they will have no problem doing so - most jobs and media would be in that language. OTOH if you find that everywhere you go, you have to use English because other people do it - well, those people are part of the community, too. If most Irish want to speak English in most contexts, why should they be forced not to for the benefit of the minority that wants to preserve the language? If the minority really feels so strongly about it, they can organize as a separate insular community, so that their children don't have to interact with other languages etc.

This equation is different when the dominant language is spoken by the minority, but that minority can overpower the majority for historical reasons (e.g. historical concentration of economic or political power in their hands) - a good example of that would be Quebec. But the proper solution to that is to prevent or fix the concentration of power, not to force anyone to speak or not speak what they want.
How do they avoid liability for erasing my only copy of something I licensed?
Still out there, but only used in special situations. The ARM microcontroller I'm working with has an asynchronous prescaler on the real-time clock crystal input before it gets fed into a second synchronous prescaler which you can then read the output of directly.

This is all about reducing power consumption down in the nA range when the CPU is turned off but the RTC keeps ticking over.

Multiple clock domains definitely tricky though!
Brilliant short story about this concept:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

Kind of a black mirror vibe to it, highly recommend.
Totalt agree, I personally took up valuable hospital space after a biking accident.

I feel not taking the vaccine is a bit different but cannot really express this in an objective way so I guess it is not.
>Not to mention barrel distortions tend to be much more prominent as focal length is shortened.
>Considering the area of focus of human vision, along with the fact that we don't see in rectilinear terms, trying to reduce all the aspects of human vision to one factor: field of view... seems foolish at best.

If you can cherrypick to distortion, I can cherry pick to compositional element-gathering ability, of which a wide field of view is objectively better at, and which is actually more important to documentation-oriented photographers. To revisit the impetus for this conversation:

>Some photographers feel the shorter focal lengths feel "more authentic" somehow.

>Considering the area of focus of human vision, along with the fact that we don't see in rectilinear terms, trying to reduce all the aspects of human vision to one factor: field of view... seems foolish at best.

The wideness is precisely why practiced documentary photographers/photojournalists choose 28-35mm for their more authentic representation; it is a better representation of the messiness of the world that takes a trained eye to organize. Empirically and experientially, experienced portrait photographers will use normals and telephotos for pleasing-yet-detached proportions, and experienced street/snapshot photographers will continue using wides for the authentic drop-the-viewer-in-the-world effect. To say that they should actually be using 50mm is... foolish at best. When someone pays me for portraits, I will use a 50-75mm, but when I want to remember what it was like to be somewhere doing something and living, I and many others will use a 28mm or 35mm.

I will now go photograph grass with a 28mm and you should too.
I feel your pain, as it's my pain too.

Right now we have a pool of gitlab runners running as dedicated virtual machines but on the to-do list I have to test whether rootless podman + gitlab runner cache + $DOCKER_HOST pointing to podman's sock file can let developers use plain old docker-compose and the general docker tooling... Within a dumb pod in a kubernetes clusters, with all the bells and whistles (especially cluster autoscaling).

A man can dream.

Edit: we are a bit advantaged because we run on openstack, run our own registry (harbor) and our cloud provider doesn't charge us for bandwidth...
Why don’t I just screen shot the ape and use that?
There are definitely cases where the benefits are greater than the pay for many employees.

> The enhanced payments create a tricky situation for restaurant owners, especially in states such as Georgia and Alaska that are looking to restart businesses in the coming weeks. Nationally, median hourly pay in food-service occupations was $11.65 in 2019, or $466 for a 40-hour week. In some states, restaurant workers could be receiving double their usual pay on unemployment benefits.

Natural experiments and studies are very difficult and easy to manipulate. So I think we can use first principles to tell us that if you pay people not to work, they will be more inclined to not work. I think you would need to definitively prove this not to be the case

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-relief-often-pays-w...
Dumb phones can also be geolocated.
They removed some instructions and added some instructions. Check the pandocs - https://gbdev.io/pandocs/
I haven't been able to prove this well yet but I got the dyson air purifier and it seems to have done really well at reducing my hey fever. Even when leaving home it seems to be not much of an issue. Possibly just reducing the allergens in the air for most of the time makes it not an issue when I experience them outside for short periods.
Ask HN: Why do Amazon MTurk refuse to provide support?
I just don't understand. Their site issues 404 errors to the workers. We contacted them but got a response that MTurk is a self service and unable to handle technical issues. I am like WTF!! After repeated messages, they blocked us from submitting further support requests.

The workers see the failure at following mturk endpoint

POST https://workers.mturk.com/projects/REDACTED/tasks/REDACTED/submit 404 (Not Found)
I hope not, economic warfare on a country should be frowned upon.
None of these groups speak as one voice. People project meaning based on their own worldview.
I for one teach kids to hack and lockpick every chance I get.

When you can pick every lock around you it changes your worldview forever.

Kids should not avoid something wrong because they are physically stopped by a lock.

They should avoid it because it is wrong.

Better they learn these skills from someone that will teach the ethics to go with them.
> Stop telling people to stop doing things. It's very rude.

> Explain to us why the behavior is bad, instead.

The words after the headline (attempt to) do that.
Remember, we are talking about thought crimes here, not terrorism.
The apple harassment and discrimination claims that related to a manager providing feedback that they thought a presentation was better when it didn't sound like every sentence was a question? Does someone have a link to that. It was pretty recent I think.

The employee was female and was very offended.

The manager may have intended to be helpful.

It looks like this is called tone policing so maybe it is offensive feedback in fact:

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1422380335703101443
But we won't put those redundancies back in, at least not at scale, because the economic benefits of not having them for each individual economic actor means those who don't chase efficiency as ruthlessly as others will get eliminated. These redundancies somehow have to be mandated for everyone in a particular economic space so no one is disadvantaged for being robust against such supply line interruptions.
Quitting smoking and losing weight are incredibly difficult and take years. Getting a jab takes five minutes and no effort whatsoever. You even get paid to do it at some places.
One of the few ideas out of an "employee handbook" that has ever stuck with me is the idea that you should always interpret messages like in this situation - in a professional setting - with vast assumptions that the author isn't trying to offend or upset you. They're just conveying information.
The Gameboy CPU is signifigantly less capable than a full z80. It's missing key features like the IX and IY registers (and thus addressing modes), most of the 16-bit ALU, the second set of "shadow" registers intended for interrupt handling (instead, almost all gameboy interrupt routines start by pushing all the current registers onto the stack), and a bunch of other things I forget.

There's also some stuff it adds, such as the swap instruction (swapping the upper and lower nibbles of a byte) and the stop instruction (puts the gameboy into a low-power state until it is woken by a keypress).
I don’t think this applies to side projects as much though. There more risky makes more sense
I've been attempting to communicate this to places I've worked at for more than half a decade (since the trend seems to have taken off). I've only been met with skepticism, and cynicism, on behalf of management, implying I'm too lazy or something.

There is a good analogy in science - theory vs. experiments. Software applications are theories, and testing them are the experiments that confirm that the theory works. It's important to separate the two in order to minimize bias, but also to allow each side to specialize and optimize accordingly. The best developer experiences I've had, was when there was a clear delineation, and the testers had the ability to optimize their environments to catch even the slightest change or deviation in software behavior.

Now, engineers are expected to do almost everything, at times even design as well. I don't understand this about the industry. Chefs aren't expected to be the host or run the tables. Commercial airline pilots aren't expected to check in the passengers or serve the food. There are of course exceptions to roles, but overall, most industries have defined roles. Somehow the software industry (at least web, in my experience) has blurred the lines and increased the number of responsibilities on the engineers, not to mention having the strange expectation to steer away from coding as you gain more and more experience.
I think the originally submitted HN title was something like “flights grounded after New Yorker article” instead of the article’s title.
https://archive.is/68csV
This is why I use emoticons :)
I don’t think the unvaccinated
mind the shaming as much as the threats - to be denied health care, sent to camps, fired from their jobs, forbidden to buy food, forbidden freedom of movement, etc. those things matter a lot more than “shaming”
small note, I think it's R#RS ...
There is nothing habitual about stuffing food down your throat to the point of obesity.
Seeing as virgin galactic is currently a private experimental endeavour not open to the general public I don't see what the big deal is about this inside baseball. The ship may have strayed from its flight plan but the chance of collision with something else is pretty close to nil since 3d space is big and white sands test range is in a very remote area.

It also does not smell right to me for a reporter to be taking sides in internal HR issues and siding with terminated employees.

All that said commercial space tourism will never work out in our life times and it is basically just a vannity project for billionaires like self-driving cars.

Nothing fundamental has changed since the 1970s. Space is big. It is empty. It is dangerous. And last it is very expensive. If Virgin can bring the cost of human space tourism flight down to $100,000 for example, that is still just a way to separate rich fools from their money. $100k for 15 minutes of flight and nifty view. Humans belong on Earth. There is nothing out there besides a nice view and a whole lot of empty space.

Wait until the competition perfectly simulates space flight using an isolation tank and a VR headset. Woah same experience on the ground but with no risk of burning up on re-entry and much cheaper too.
>The meat of the idea being that for city employees

Which is actually pretty bad because the city and administration is literally the one place where a Finnish citizen should be guaranteed to communicate in the official language.

I don't mind as much what language requirements private companies have if it works for them, but it would be pretty comical to go to my municipal office and have someone work my case who doesn't speak his own country's language.
I read it completely differently. I see a sentence without punctuation as disinterested, as if they don't even bother to complete the sentence. Maybe acceptable in an IM, but not an email.
So I would only need to eat a million hot dogs to erase myself from existence? Guess I'd better get started, then.
Even when you tell yourself that you do not care, it still has an impact on your mental state. I used to have a dump of a room with junk like this stacked up and after getting rid of it all, I just felt so much better while being in the space.
I wish instead of HTML+JS we had just… Lisp.
Or Government job.
"A real brain can and likely does have self stimulating loops"

This is what I understand causes epilepsy.
At least when they are out of control.
https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/CPU_Comparision_with_Z80

They added/changed/removed instructions to fit the system more closely, e.g. IN/OUT is now done through MMIO in the FFxx area and thus there are dedicated instructions to access that address range.
Yeah, I’m just a poor enterprise developer, but now suddenly I cannot use docker desktop any more, and it was already a very PITA program.
Riding a motorbike? Does nothing for anyone that cannot be done in a safer way but kills people and sometimes others.

Drinking alcohol?

I think making fun of someone dying is way too harsh.

All that being said I think vaccine certificates should be introduced with some ways of testing out for people that cannot take the vaccine.
New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad
>"The problem with modern C++..."

Every language has its own share of problems

>"Plenty of shops are more than happy to keep coding like the world has frozen since C++98"

And if they're comfy then good for them.
All XBLIG titles are XNA, Braid was a regular XBox Live Arcade game (XBLIG being 'Indie Games', self-published)
ZoKrates: A Toolbox for ZkSNARKs on Ethereum
The article has examples. It's not about emails "sounding" one way but "actually" not being that way, it's about how different people perceive the same email (the recipient versus outside parties).

> We asked them questions about the email and then asked objective observers to read the same messages. We found people who had received the emails directly rated the messages far more negatively than did the observers.

> Many were outwardly civil and even polite: “We acknowledge that our request has a very short timeline and certainly appreciate that you are very busy.” Or, “Just wondering why no update has been received. No news is good news hopefully!”
No, I assure you that, if there are peer groups that use periods that way, I am not part of any of them.

And it's a mistake to assume that your manager must follow the same weird typographical conventions that you do. Odds are he's never heard of them.
With containers weighing up to 30 tons? I don't think so.

And even if you do... great, now you have it on a different ship. You still have to get it on land, typically onto a truck. So you need some kind of a crane. And those are pretty busy these days...
> IPv4+NAT does not remove any more classes of problems than IPv6+firewall

NAT is automatic and works out of the box while most users, even tech-savvy ones don't bother configuring the firewall on their own laptop, let alone on the router/gateway.

And by the way, I'd like to see you explain that firewall thing to the average senile pc user (grandma/grampa).
Well, no. A lot of businesses would store spare parts save the fact they are taxed quite heavily in some jurisdictions.

My experience with lean/JIT in the manufacturing space shows when it is actually done at every level your business starts hemorrhaging money waiting for parts to arrive. Each step of the process unless perfectly foretold adds 1-3 weeks in a good quarter. It is actually the local preference that we keep more spares than we do, but accounting says no.

If you read the fine print with how Toyota implemented lean you find out that they made their partners contractually obligated to keep inventory, not themselves. Inventory was still kept but who paid the tax bill and who paid upkeep changed.
Even with your clarification it's terrifying.
They are basically just a little oven. They don't seem to create anywhere near the smoke level of frying on a pan.
> Hello _Adam,

> The x project - I think it needs y and z aspects. Let's meet Monday and discuss.

> Boss

Since context is important, let's say this is the message you received after a largely successful demonstration of something you've been working on.
> "This prompted a lot of concern about whether Copilot would plagiarize code and violate copyright licenses. So by including 'q rsqrt' on the bad word list, they basically broke an embarrassing demo without addressing the real problem."

So if you don't want your GPL code to be included just use some words on the list, apparently GitHub thinks this is how it should be used.
"Replacing them with AI would seems like a straightforward process."

And yet....
It’s worth noting that, even if you think shaming encourages people to get vaccinated, these stories are still bad because they are almost never seen by the people who you’re trying to shame.

Unvaccinated people don’t like and share stories about unvaccinated people having a tube shoved down their throat and then dying alone in a hospital.

The more outrageous the irony, the less it actually appeals to someone who hasn’t gotten the vaccine yet.

Similarly, many of these stories focus heavily on the most crazy, most irrational reasons to not get the vaccine.

Most folks who don’t get the vaccine are coming from very understandable places.

- They may believe that they already got COVID and think that, because they already got it, then they’re “immune” (which is wrong, but reasonable to assume)

- They have heard people they consider smart and reputable, like Eric Weinstein, claim misleading or false statistics about deaths from the vaccine. (Again, wrong, but understandable)

- they may still think that the vaccine is “not FDA approved”, due to poor messaging from the FDA. (It is approved by the way, not just emergency authorization)

- they may not have time to go get a vaccine. Not everyone can take time off work

- they may be afraid of needles, or the side effects, and are unwilling to admit it. I was afraid of the side effects before getting my vaccine (though it turned out fine)

All of these are irrational reasons, since COVID is super contagious, absolutely awful to get, and puts many people, even those who survive, alone in the hospital with a tube shoved down their throat. But they’re reasonable fears; understandable fears.

And shaming people for entirely reasonable fears does not get more people vaccinated.

A lot of people seem to care more about their anger towards unvaccinated people, and their desire to shame them, than actually stopping the pandemic by taking strategies that would actually get them vaccinated.