skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a drug is a drug, my dear friend

I don't think even you believe this, unless you're willing to bite the bullet of alcohol and coffee prohibition? They're the most central, widely-used psychoactive drugs in the world, and after all, "a drug is a drug".
In that case I'd stick an `if callable` check in if_then_else. But really... ternary is a nice way to draw attention away from simple pieces of code. If you have anything complicated (like functions with side effects) spend the extra 3-4 lines to make it readable
Don't modern body armors have ceramic inserts? - I think the idea is to shatter the incoming projectile, then catch the pieces while cushioning the impact.

Modern combat body armor, anyway.
I totally believe you, but I don't think that's laudable.

It's one thing to go after someone who steals from you or some other individual, but appointing yourself the vigilante protector of the grocer class is not about defending society, it's about your personal drives.

The food you returned almost certainly wound up in the trash (stores have no way of knowing you're not a weirdo who contaminates food for kicks), and the cost of administering 'rescued product' is more than that of just writing off the loss as a business expense, which you'd better believe they already budget around.
Obviously the problem is that they’re underground. Raise the tunnels up so they’re over the street level.
US Cyber Command warns of ongoing Atlassian Confluence exploit
Really makes you think why a trillion dollar corporation would want to severely undermine its most important asset, its brand, over something like this. It ain't "children" I can tell you that.
PowerKit owner is highly active[0] on GitHub (almost in private repos) last month, so you may create an issue[1] to ask actual state.

[0] https://github.com/rodlie?tab=overview&from=2021-08-01&to=20...

[1] https://github.com/rodlie/powerkit/issues
Brave is also developed by yet another ad based company, and is also Chromium based.

I’m not so sure if grass is greener on this site, as the money always decides in the end.
> The GPL does give users the right to verbatim copy works as they were originally distributed.

Yes. This is true...as it pertains to copyright. The GPL does not convey any other rights, including trademark, patents, the right to sleep on Torvald's couch, or anything else. If something is not copyrightable, it cannot be licensed with GPL.

Names cannot be copyrighted. They are covered by trademark law, which GPL does not address... because it is a copyright license.
Again with this nonsense?
From a month ago, they're working on some new methods where power tools won't work until they're activated at the register.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28035458
This is a very insightful and contrasting response.

Do you have any other articles/materials that we can reference for additional information related to this topic?
There's a lot of companies in the world where "vacation" is offered, but the managers will many times terminate those who take it. All it takes is for one or two employees to be terminated after just getting back from a vacation to send a message to the rest of the employees.

The right to use benefits has to be enforced by the CEO. If people aren't using their vacations (and effectively losing them), then that sets the culture off on the wrong foot from the start.
the diamond princess is especially poor evidence, as it was an after-the-fact investigation (with heavy motivation to find something and gain early notoriety), not a study per se. what likely happened was that there were multiple social infection vectors (not of the long-distance air variety but more the drunk chatting variety) and the crew and passengers distorted their testimony to limit their own liability exposure. the diamond princess case was also the source of the "virus lives for weeks outside the body" mistruth because pcr tests readily amplify partial, dead viral dna/rna just as well as live virus (it has to be 'killed' to be amplified, after all).

but yes, viral concentration is higher near an infected person, but it falls off rapidly (to something like the 3rd power iirc) with distance and time, especially the latter of which being why incidental exposure in public places is unlikely to be material. it's also something a small minority of people have at a given time (on average less than 1% of those around you). it's mainly socializing for extended periods of time where masks can potentially help reduce infection (that's when we're also most likely to let our guard down).

i'd go so far as to posit that sociability (via variables like social graph size/breadth) is likely more correlated to infection than (the lack of) mask usage.
Yes, critical race theory is being taught in public schools[1]

> Christopher Rufo reported[2] that 30 public school districts in 15 states are teaching a book, Not My Idea, that tells readers that “whiteness” leads white people to make deals with the devil for “stolen land, stolen riches, and special favors.” White people get to “mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and all fellow humans of color for the purpose of profit,” the book adds.

> There are plenty of other examples that prove racial essentialism and collective guilt are being taught to young students. In Cupertino, California, an elementary school required[3] third graders to rank themselves according to the “power and privilege” associated with their ethnicities. Schools in Buffalo, New York, taught students[4] that “all white people” perpetuate “systemic racism” and had kindergarteners watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “racist police and state-sanctioned violence.” And in Arizona, the state’s education department sent out[5] an “equity toolkit” to schools that claimed infants as young as 3 months old can start to show signs of racism and “remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness” by age 5.

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/yes-critical-race...

[2] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1413292881264005126

[3] https://www.city-journal.org/identity-politics-in-cupertino-...

[4] https://www.city-journal.org/buffalo-public-schools-critical...

[5] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arizona-education-ba...
For me a vacation, it's every day, every time I take my bike, go in the nature, it's something short and intense. I don't need to cut off several week from a job, take a plane to an exotic island. No, not only for environmental reasons, but I don't need it, just working less every day will be more efficient for me when I need to regenerate
1/Do you think there is a correlation between Asperger’s and successful founders ?

In its mildest forms, yes.

Dear God this. Imagine being a founder who (by all other measures) is smart articulate and friendly, but completely unable to form a theory of mind for anyone you interact with. Imagine this makes EVERY interaction with another human anxiety inducing and fraught with danger because there’s a company at stake. Imagine dealing with crippling depression and ADHD because it comes with the territory of “mild” ASD they say. Imagine taking this unfortunate mishmash of a brain and trying to be a fucking founder with it.

Being in combat in Iraq was easier. I’d literally rather get shot at and blown up every fucking day like 2004 than constantly fuck up customer and co-founder interactions because my mind is such a worthless broken tool.
You definitely impressed some random strangers on the internet:) It’s quite neat really.
Funnily enough, I’ve lived in a zero covid area (nova scotia) and eliminating it was actually a far easier way of living than the “learn to live with it” approach practiced elsewhere. You have less travel, and you have to react quickly to small threats, but in exchange you get months and months of essentially normalcy.

I think it would still be feasible for the rich world to do in spring 2022, when it is warm season again, if we get tired of this. It could then be maintained with border agreements. We don’t accept endemic tuberculosis even though that is airborne.

The other thing that would make it easier would be if we actually started acting in the knowledge that it is airborne. We have treated SARS-Cov-2 as a droplet and fomite disease. This has meant we avoid easy and effective solutions (HEPA, open windows, co2 monitors, N95) in favour of inconvenient and ineffective solutions (six feet rule, hand washing, no hugs, deep cleaning). You’re infinitely safer giving a hug and holding breath for a couple seconds (if you choose) than going into an unventilated meeting six feet apart.

(I wash my hands of course, but it is a colossal error to make that the centerpoint of public health advice)

Pretty much every country that aimed at elimination achieved it pretty easily! Or at least for less aggregate effort than countries aiming at mitigation. For some reason we chose the latter.
wow, that article is actually a really interesting take on the whole situation, and how there are no easy answers (both in this case and, i suspect, in many others (in sf and beyond)). these sorts of tragedies really highlight the need for a society-wide rethink on how to balance freedom/liberty with the ticking time bomb of negative externalities that certain, highly-justice-system-involved (especially when serious drug abuse issues are in play) offenders represent. at what point is someone "broken" enough from the pov of the rest of society that the humane solution necessitates a more interventionist approach? (not that forcible commission is at all a panacea, or even necessarily a viable/effective approach, of course). i think everyone would agree that letting these sorts of problems fester until they get bad enough that we can justify locking them up and throwing away the key is not a good solution for anyone.
except that shipping something with semi-broken infrastructure leads to losses down the line.

What if your mongodb database drops its data and now you have production impact? Are those losses calculated while making these decisions during development.
I think it's something like "if your ethics != my ethics, I must preemptively discredit and attack you to prevent you from criticizing me". A very natural xenophobic reaction when you look at it like that.
100% agree. Burn out for me has everything to do with what the work is, whether there are enough hands for it, and whether it’s being properly recognized/appreciated.

It has nothing to do with the hours; indeed some of my most productive and least burnt out times have been when I was happily pouring in 60+ hrs/week because I was having fun and so energized by the project and my team’s excitement and collaboration dynamic.
"Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off."

Exactly.

Yet most people mistakenly attribute the feeling to other causes. OP quote what people think are the causes of their own burnout, and took those at face value.

When you're burnt out, you're probably not in a good state to determine the cause.
I'm genuinely confused by this comment. Can you explain why you think speculation about the hardware costs of Waymo robotaxi is at all related to a complaint about silly jokes on HN?
Can we add 2014 to the title?

> Only a few years ago a large application had tens of servers, seconds of response time, hours of offline maintenance and gigabytes of data.

isn't quite true for 2021
Man, they really stepped in it didn’t they? Who would have thought “safe for kids” and “respectful of my privacy” could be enemies? But this is the position Apple has put itself in. There isn’t really a graceful way out of this.
>Why do you think the most tech savvy segment is the target audience?

Tech savvy doesn't equal hn users.

You think teenagers and college kids aren't using ad blockers or selectively clearing browser history?

There are tech savvy users across all marketing demographics.

>When it stops being true, it will stop being trotted out as the explanation

It's not really an explanation, though. It's a half-baked observation.

Movie theaters make money on concessions, but need the good movies to draw a crowd.

Dealerships make their money on service, but still need to sell cars to get that customer base.

Even if it's true by some skewed definition, it's mostly irrelevant.

It implies that it doesn't matter what they do to users, and have no interest in keeping them satisfied, and that's false. They might want to increase ad business, but that don't do that by allowing users to slowly trickle to alternatives. Look at firefox's fall from the top. There wasn't a breaking point, but a constant trickle due to usability and performance.
Why not both? 4-5 weeks is pretty standard for a professional job in NY.
Exactly. The Trump crowd is made up of bullies, trolls, middle class frat boys and other antisocials, while various influencers are feeding them ideas. And horse medicine.
> I invest a ton of energy into communication and empathy development as both of these things don’t come naturally to me. I know I’ve been set back in ways compared to my other peers, by being weak in these areas.

Any good recommendations? Any books you've found significantly helpful?
Not impressed unless you can play Doom on it
"i think they had some counterfeit $100 bills as well"
My issue is more that an individual work can't stand alone, in a legal sense. There is always the work, and then there is a an artificially-imposed, invisible framework around it that prohibits the free use of the work it supposedly protects.

I wouldn't describe it as public "seizure", more the omission of that previously-mentioned framework which in-turn allows the work itself to be free of encumbrance.

Does a U.S. government worker creating something public domain experience a "seizure" of his work? I don't think so. And in fact the government functions quite well with this rule in-place. Why can't we consider extending that to the private sector as well?

There is the old adage of, "information wants to be free". In a way, so does everything else.

But particularly in the digital domain -- which economically can be described as a land of plenty, where information can be freely copied, transformed, and executed with little-to-no-cost -- we should embrace this new economy rather than trying to force physical-world constraints where they don't belong.
I'm sure it's possible to have a system where this is easy, but giving HR more things to track to prove their value to the company does tend to make no incentive for them to make it trivial. I'm sure systems exist for that that we could buy, but we didn't, so we don't, so someone's got some ad-hoc something in some Oracle DB somewhere, and now taking vacation is an added hassle for my already overworked manager.
Would I ban them if Branson wasn't there? Absolutely. Unless it's a one way trip. What does the human race get out of Branson's vanity project? He wants to be able to send bunch of rich folks to the edge of space for a fee. All for kicks. Are helicopter rides not cool enough anymore? Fuck all of them.

Forgetting about fuel in the rocket for just a second, what about the vessel that them to launch altitude?

But anyway, I'm willing to bet that no matter what magic dust is used to propel the rocket, there's a co2 cost. If not in the burn, then in the production of the fuel.
One large brown delivery company also rarely drug tests. Drivers of school buses, semi trucks, and similar have federally mandated drug testing, non-CDL delivery drivers don't. Particularly when liability is transferred to contractors, the surprising part is that this wasn't the encouraged policy from the start.

Also, any shortage is entirely self inflicted from offering poor wages.
I'll consider myself warned and be more careful in the future, but it was certainly not my intention to flame here. All of my comments on HN have been offered in good faith, including the ones in this thread. The GP comment in particular was genuinely looking for clarification, because I had no idea what the poster I was replying to was claiming.

Thank you for taking your time to point this out to me.
An extended leave did nothing but make burnout worse by coming back to the careful planning left behind to mitigate my absence being thrown out days in by a meddling manager from another team who saw the vacuum as an opportunity to take over the responsibilities permanently. Looking to exit.
It never ceases to astonish me how people keep reacting to this while apparently not really caring to understand how the thing actually works and how it fits into the existing workflows and thus what are the alternatives.

I mean, I'm not surprised this whole thing backfired and that there was a strong uncanny valley reaction to the prospect of having parts of the workflow happening in your device ("a policeman in my pocket" I read somewhere).

I am surprised though that it seems impossible to resolve the issue (or at least making progress in the framing of) this with a honest and nuanced conversation.
I'm running the latest developer build and it still has this. It only shows number of cookies by domain and allows deletion by domain, and you'd have to use dev tools if you wanted to look at or delete a single individual cookie.
I was taught how to count in binary in grade 5, is this not a normal thing that kids learn in school?
Ivermectin: ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations (2017) [pdf]
I wouldn't say that. I hate Windows these days quite a bit too, I just hate it less than I hate Linux Desktop.

I also strongly disagree with the "limitless variations". Most Linux distros are just another distro (usually Ubuntu) pre-bundled with a specific set of packages. Almost all of them use the same shells, the same application distribution model, and roughly the same set of disparately developed software. The differences are largely cosmetic.

> I will always choose the freedom to configure over a set-in-stone approach.

Ironically, this is why I don't like package management and repos: I like to have complete freedom over what software I install and that model is restrictive. One of the things I like about Windows is that if I go to some rando's site where they've written some niche application, I have nearly 100% certainty that the executable I download from them will work without me doing anything special. In Linux I usually end up having to go through the hassle of creating a whole build environment (in a container because I'm not insane) to compile their github repo... after I hunt down and compile their dependencies that also weren't in my distro's repo of course.
Rust used to use lexical scope, but now uses scope based on the control flow graph.
And here is the commit https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/21b3e8786537fe05ba6f42...
And full-on nepotism is known to be bad. My bet is that blind recruits would perform just as well or better as the family and friends of the recruiting manager would if you'd run the experiment.
Robert Baruch has a good tutorial where he writes a 6502 nMigen here:

https://github.com/RobertBaruch/n6800
That opinion piece is from August 10th, before the current wave impacted TX and FL as much as they have been affected throughout the middle-end of August. In any case, you're looking at the current average, which is obviously skewed toward the states experiencing a current wave.

Texas has an overall COVID-19 death rate of 2,008/1,000,000 people, which is 1/10000th of a percentage point higher than the national average.

Florida has an overall COVID-19 death rate of 2,138/1,000,000 people, which is still much better than New Jersey (3,032), New York (2,823), Massachusetts (2,653), Rhode Island (2,618), and Connecticut (2,354), and is certainly impacted by the high number of elderly and retirees in Florida.

As for current rates, California has not-quite-twice the population of Florida (39.5mm vs 21.5mm) but a 3-day mov avg. death rate three times as high (119 vs. 39).

Obviously, statistics can be interpreted a lot of ways. Lies, damn lies, and statistics, of course. FL's 7-day mov avg (64) is more than half of CA's 7-day mov avg. (94), for example.

But the fact remains that the two states with the least restrictive lockdowns did not end up the two states with the worst COVID-19 death rates over the course of the pandemic so far.

At a minimum, that constitutes a reasonable basis to question whether the expert consensus is sufficiently based in evidence as to support unprecedented restrictions of liberty in the country that ostensibly leads the free world.

Sources:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/FL
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA
I wouldn't work for Amazon even if they gave me weed to smoke.
Virtual Burning Man dance party happening
> So AArch32 has a variable width decoder but it was too complex to build one into AArch64. That makes no sense at all.

This isn’t true. They had a MODAL decoder. It either grabbed 4 bytes or 2 bytes, but never both intermixed. This modal switch was actually the big reason why performance suffered so much with thumb. Such a switch means in effect that you just treat thumb as additional 32-bit addressing modes where the first 16 bits are don’t cares (and optimize to turn that half off in thumb mode).

Intermixed instruction lengths require looking at 16-bit chunks and deciding if they stand alone or if they belong together. It also causes a less dramatic multiple decoder issue where you can accidentally cut instructions apart in the middle and send half to two different decoders.

“Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.” CST looked to have huge performance gains, but when AMD actually bet everything on it, they nearly went bankrupt before they could turn things around.

ARM either had a solid delivery of their new ISA in 2011, or MIPS 64 was going to kill them. You may not remember, but at that time Google had first-class support for MIPS in Android and Apple was rumored to be in talks to buy MIPS outright.

Betting their tenuous dominant market share on risky propositions would be a fool’s errand —- doubly so for a soft IP company. It would also give a talking point to Intel that ARM was moving in their direction as proof x86 was a real competitor.

Instruction size advantages aren’t “back of the envelope”. There are papers on the topic if you care to look. Those papers compare real world instruction counts in non-trivial, real world software. The cache comparison is very real in those applications. The effects of increasing cache size are well studied and well known. You’re arguing that we don’t really know if gravity works the same on planets in other solar systems.

Sure, marketing copy isn’t everything. Intel’s not stupid and I’d say their engineers are easily some of the best. They could have gone with ARM any time they liked (they used to design ARM chips). They could have chosen one of several other designs or decided to wait for another generation. I may not trust their marketing copy completely, but I doubt Intel is just looking at marketing copy. I doubt Intel is throwing doubt about the future of x86 into the mix over a huge nothing.
Needing to delete specific cookies does arise occasionally, and we have dev tools or the cookie viewer under the lock for that.

However, needing to delete those cookies without first viewing the page due to side effects - that is a very niche use case.
You can say the same about any other human organization, though- a corporation, a government, a religious hierarchy. A nonprofit foundation. An open source project. What makes unions any more susceptibility to corruption or the problems of bureaucracy?

> I can see people leaving jobs in mass or starting a union quickly if industry conditions ever get worse.

There's some signs of that happening at some companies. Certainly it's a high time for video games tech companies to push for it, against the bad conditions unique to that industry.
Slightly off-topic question: how would you call these playable things embedded in HTML these days? I would like to use the word "applet" but it can be still confusing to those who remember Java Applets. Any idea?