skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you mean the civil war, that wasn't to "keep them together": it was one side forcing the other to get back in line and give up its slaves. It was not a conflict where two somewhat equal partners work out their difficulties, it was a war where the central government fought down an insurrection and during witch the south got utterly devastated and was under occupation for 10 years.
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The most charitable interpretation: Rootability tends to be inverse to hackability. There's incentive for companies to increase security, to prevent their IoT stuff from getting turned into botnets. But there's nearly no incentive to preserve rootability. So it's just locked down to an increasing degree.

Less charitable: they don't want you to root it for various corporate reasons
I've moved to a work from home arrangement so I can have my own office.
To quote our vice-president, "The right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is not negotiable. The right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is their decision, it is their body."
Many PC UEFI builds from mega manufacturers are heavily customized, but a lot of them are also just based on TianoCore, including the modern RPi UEFI firmware builds. Nothing very strange about it. More specifically, the distinguishing thing here for RISC-V is the standardization of SBI, which will be a requirement for either UEFI or U-Boot to target it. U-Boot works on the million ARM devices it does today thanks to absurd effort from many people, not because ARM made it especially easy; with SBI in theory that can be made easier.

Aside from that people can argue whether UEFI is bloated and how their favorite is the perfect alternative, but as a user who would want to boot a RISC-V based desktop platform (and someone who has supported RISC-V, implemented their own designs, etc) I don't care and it doesn't matter; it actually does the job, and is a known quantity to aim for i.e. familiar and at least nominally understood by developers, users, and manufacturers. And I say that as someone who actually likes U-Boot and has patched it on a few occasions myself for my own targets.
Yeah there is a lot of interest in knowing what dumb models exist for 4k
Currently you can assume that if you receive a packet with a higher sequence number, earlier packets were probably lost, and resend them. This heuristic won't work anymore with a LIFO buffer.

LIFO sounds annoying for bursty traffic, since you can only start processing the burst after the buffer has cleared.
Can you not just define an async static function that returns an instance?
I asked for FULL hospitals. There are none apparently. 97% is concerning but not full and that is what these beds are for...looks like everything is fine. I also think it is interesting how I get voted down for just asking the question.
Has Joel blogged lately? I would like to hear his thoughts and experiences with WFH, but he's probably not involved with the day-to-day of a software company like Trello anymore.
>Your threat model for ubiquitous cheap sensing tech is nation states? I'm not overly worried about being spied on by nation states. In general, my feeling is that if a nation-state decides I'm important enough to deploy hardware against, I have no real defense.

Nation states worry me precisely because I'm uninteresting. They wouldn't deploy hardware against me, but I'm under no illusion that they wouldn't use every mass-surveillance option available to them, including mass exploitation of commodity hardware.

I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post.
The secret is to store the bottle upside down in your fridge.

Also works well on honey bottles
> will hinder future vaccination efforts

Eh, we’ll just see a split in the population between the vaccinated and disease riddled. The Amish similarly split in the industrial revolution and they’re, for the most part, doing fine and not ruining it for the rest of us.

Given the current research paths and traction, that future list of preventable diseases looks likely to include most STIs. That will motivate young people such that it cleaves off the current voluntarily unvaccinated generation.

Long story short, this is likely to be a temporary phenomenon. That, or a hard split for a self-selecting minority. (We’re already seeing economic effects in skilled labor hiring.)
That's the Captain Cook approach. To get his crew to eat sauerkraut, which was thought to prevent scurvy, he started out by only serving it at the officers table. The crew then asked if they could have it too.
The real question that one should ask the higher ups is how much time do they expect us to be collaborating. The only way you can justify open floor spaces is if the collaboration is the most important element of the majority of the people's time and effort and the majority of the people need to be both aware of and contributing to that collaboration. I very much doubt that leaders believes that developers should be involved in every conversation in the space for the majority of the day.
You don’t know this. We don’t know this.

We have to stop making these statements so casually about things that haven’t been studied.
That was a really interesting read, thank you

I guess we have Elizabeth Dole to thank in part for near ubiquitous air bags and seatbelts.

I hate to think how many would die every year without them.
You really think those death numbers are accurate? There are a ton of incentives present (read: federal $$$) for hospitals and others to exaggerate death counts and case numbers.
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This is very cool. I am curious about the workflow, about how many work hours would you say it took from the moment you decided to ditch the HDRP to the time development for the fog solution was completed? Or if that’s too precise of a question, is this several weeks or many months worth of work, including time to compile and test, etc?
How is taxing soda, beer related to mandatory vaccines?
Just the raw parsing is a solved problem from a user's perspective, the issue arises when you ask yourself "into what" you parse or rather what the semantics of the tree is.

It even might not matter whether you parse it programmatically or not in some cases. Typically when looking at a given XML (or other data structure text representations) you can pattern match the semantics of what you see, but that is not always true, because everyone uses it in a different way, relying almost completely on schema and documentation to convey semantics, which in turn makes the format strictly inferior to JSON, which also doesn't have rich semantics but is simpler.
I am open to hearing a coherent description of the specific "cost to freedom" of taking one of the widely available COVID vaccines.
Ignoring libraries does not demonstrate anything about their reliability.

{
auto p =
std::make_unique<type>;
...
} /// no oops.
Yeah, so many people see boogeymen around every corner, living in fear of deep conspiracies like chemtrails and nanobots and others. It’s amazing how much they’ve let fear overtake their brains.
Human beings are really funny.

Ask someone in a neighborhood about how many houses should be built and virtually all of them will tell you that theirs should have been the last one.

Ask someone about what is left and right in politics and they will move the middle around so they aren't either on the far left or right. As if their personal political opinions are some sort of core fundamental property that the universe is organized around.

Looking back in history, humans did the same thing with the solar system. We just tend to assume that we are at the middle of things.
What happened on January 7th?
I never bother with them personally. What you're giving up (I think, not a lawyer here) is the right to sue the defendant for the same thing privately. Although it's unlikely you would ever do that, you're not really getting much in exchange for giving up that right, so why bother?
I thought this was more a result of increasing health/environmental awareness.
I do this, with plastic bottles. It's a dangerous game with glass bottles and kids opening the fridge.
I worked at a place with open offices and lots of conferenc e rooms, C-levels were notorious for 'permanently occupying' them.
At some point you have enough money, as a famous beloved man once said, and issues like agency become far more important (he didn't say that last part).

Mississippi might be a poor state, but its GDP is still higher than most European countries.
Virtue signaling is when an entity does something expressly to show they support a cause or extol a virtue, without actually helping.

Disposable cloth packaging is a great example of this. Plastic production needs to be reduced for a large number of reasons, but cloth production takes an exceptional amount of energy and resources to produce while not generally being reusable or recyclable, and the extra durability and/or protection of cloth is almost never needed.

(There was a NYT article about this, but I'll link directly to the study <https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...>)
Software "engineering" repeatedly goes through the same loop:
- something simple, easy to learn, easy to use
- doesn't cover edge case X
- lacks rigour
- lets add a bunch of features
- and committees and processes to manage that
- this is really complicated and hard to learn and use, we need something simpler ...
> As the manager of the Observability team at my current company, I find myself in a rather unique position. As part of my job, I get to define the “golden path” of Observability here.

Alarm bells ringing.

Be careful when you give teams single remits, for they will execute on them to the exclusion of all else.

I feel like the world would be a better place if architects were bonused on company project completion.
The rule is "K.I.S.S (and add more RAM !!!)"
Everyone has different requirements. For many things, I'd take a quick JSON file configuration over having to write everything from scratch again and reinventing the wheel.

Like it or not, the whole low code movement is about this.
Absolutely true, if we do not do the KYC dance, we will be accused of illegal money transfers.

Image how easy it would be come to launder money with anonymous payments.
Your study, while pushing the large droplet theory, asserts that masks are useful which the official science denied in the beginning of 2020.

Droplets themselves are being questioned now:

https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)00869-2/full...

Have fun following the science! Reading might help.
You say it's time to speak up, but you're using a throwaway account. You could very well be a Russian mis-information agent.
For those of you arguing against getting vaccinated, please go volunteer at a local hospital.

I'm currently in the hospital in the "red" part of my purple state. I had an acute appendicitis, and had to wait in a temporary, crowded, understaffed holding area in the ER for over 18 hours before getting admitted for treatment. My roommate in the hospital has an infected foot, and waited over 24 hours to be admitted. He may now loose his foot. The nurses on this non-COVID floor are on a skeleton staff to shift resources to care for COVID patients, the majority of which are unvaccinated. Around the country, some hospitals are pausing "elective" treatments, like cancer surgeries due to the flood of unvaccinated critically ill COVID patients.

I almost wish that the anti-vaxxers would just stick to their science-rejecting principles and reject all health care, not just the vaccine. If they were to just die at home instead of clogging up the health care system unnecessarily, the vaccine would not be such a big deal.
One of the unfortunate parts about colds is that the range of experiences seems to be fairly large for different people. It sounds that like me, you've never experiencd a "24 hour bug," and a cold is at minimum a one week affair. Not sure if you've looked into it, but there is some research starting to develop around why this is the case, namely, it might be bacteria that inhabit our nose that take advantage when our defenses are down from a cold: https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20181001/colds-espec...
json-schema.org is the place where the JSON Schema working group at IETF publishes its work.

They also publish on IETF infrastructure. Example: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bhutton-json-sch...

Ben Hutton who is the author of the blog post is also the editor of the latest publlished IETF drafts.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/ben@jsonschema.dev

Do you need some more authoritative source?
The flu doesn't overwhelm hospitals in recent history. Covid-19 regularly causes governors to declare state-of-emergency in order to care for the massive number of people who need medical attention due to the disease.

I can't help but think like your comment is more intended provoke heated responses than encourage constructive discussion.
The US is not alone in that. Laws should always include a cost benefit analysis and a declaration saying how they will be enforced and how they will be financed.
The version my Linux distro supports is always helplessly outdated. But with conda I always get the latest version of youtube-dl.
Pretty much all online games have community-run websites like this and it's been tradition for over a decade. It's legally murky of course but I'm not aware of developers doing something like this very often, and in some cases the developer will actually help the community - ArenaNet provides hosting for the Guild Wars community's wiki, for example.

IANAL but it seems like it would also be an interesting legal question as to how much of this sort of thing is fair use - you can't copyright a phone book for example, and it's not as if publishing raw numbers from a game's systems like drop rates or dice roll chances is that different.
> I'm mystified what this "memory training" even is.

Modern high speed links are very finicky, to the extent that various parameters (timing, etc.) on each end of the link can't be hardcoded. The link training is part of initializing the link where the FW on each end of the link try out various parameters in order to enable full speed operation.

> Where's this memory training fit in?

I believe it happens even before POST.
It is utterly foundational to modern C++. You could not leave it out and even make sense.
> I think JSON Schema could have been a bit simpler, but it's still nowhere near to making the same mistakes as XML Schema.

Agree with every single one of your points, and this in particular. Thankfully, there are some heroes out there developing excellent tooling to make working with JSON schema easier. I've been making good use of Ajv[1], and highly recommend it to anyone having to deal with JSON payloads and schemas in a javascript environment. (I'm not affiliated with Ajv in any way, just happy with it.)

Working without a schema is much faster when getting started, obviously, but once things solidify in my experience a schema will help more than it costs and excellent tooling goes a long way in easing that transition from schema-less POCs to stable high quality implementations.

[1]: https://ajv.js.org
Could a reboot make social media a nicer place?
A lot of people recognize that nationalism is toxic to peaceful civilization and prefer to avoid those who promote it heavily.

Nationalism is in some cases legal, but it’s not respectable and we need not dignify it as such.
But that is not "from the ground", it's just repeating the same mistakes people did in the past. It's just putting a lot of effort into learning something, only to be told over and over that it's wrong. That can be very demoralising.
An interesting element is my choice vs choices put on me. There is another angle people talk about...

The building I work in was designed and built by others. Regulations mean they can't cut corners in their impact of me.

A vaccine that protects me from getting the virus or getting a serious case.

It's a difference between others work impacting my safety and my own choices impacting my safety.

This is an area worth pondering.
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13 of those activities I almost always do with my family and friends.
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Lots of examples.

Typically the issue was caused by garbage collection. You can twiddle with the parameters to meet your 99% latency goal, and then fail your 1% spectacularly.

Similarly, anything involving the network would slowly be optimised to meet the "typical case" requirements, while the extremes would be terrible.

If I remember correctly, this was a talk by someone working in a real-time trading firm, where latency was a critical metric for all of their systems designs. He had a lot of charts with very visible upticks in latency at the "nice round numbers" where the requirements were set.
It depends the (complexity of the) JSON schema to mainpulate.
The academic job market is brutal compared to tech, especially the “two-body problem”: https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/academia-s-confound...

I completely agree we should be defining better abstractions! I more meant it gets a lot harder to do so near the cutting edge.
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I made a very simple youtube-dl front-end that runs locally in a browser (flask, no javascript):

https://github.com/dvolk/lo2#readme
I don't know the reasons for this, but when I hammer my Cloudflare Workers with a stress test, some requests take 10-100 times longer than the majority.
I don’t think most people have an issue with voluntary vaccination. The problem is when nefarious actors use the situation to create a surveillance state, social credit system, and then exclude people from doing simple human things like eating at a restaurant.

Australia is the future of the Western world.
I don't think it will be a surprise to you that people creating and managing companies take an active part in the company's vision and direction.

Just like medias owned by far right or far left entities will put a far right or far left spin on everything they treat.

I never said it was a crime, I'm just saying that the park creations shouldn't be interpreted as factual nor accurate depiction of historical events.

It's like arguing that Jesus did XYZ because that's what you saw in the movie "the passion of the chirst". As I said in another comment, as long as you don't pretend you're providing historical facts it's all good, but it's not the case here.
But looking at studies out of Israel and the UK/EU we are seeing 9 to 27 times the protection from acquired immunity.

Therefore this protective layer you describe would be most quickly and effectively formed by letting people at low risk all contract the disease.
The Danish study assumes that plastic bags are incinerated. How likely is that in reality? I have no idea if my trash is incinerated in bulk, sorted with part incinerated, or 100% dumped in a landfill.
Take university classes - it's the same material, you just won't get any academic credits. MIT Opencourseware has Single Variable Calculus (18.01), Multivariable Calculus (18.02) and Linear Algebra (18.06). That's plenty of material to get started with. Watch the lectures, follow along with the textbook, do the exercises.

If you're concerned that you don't have some of the prerequisites like high school algebra or trigonometry, Khan Academy have a pre-calculus course - start there.

I switched to data science from an unrelated field and had to do a lot self-study like this to catch up on my math.
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From my own personal, subjective experiences, I've found this to be the big one. I've lived in 8 states now, in all regions except the Northeast, from big cities to smaller towns (SF to towns of ~30,000) and the rural vs. urban divide seems to be the most pronounced to me.
Indeed. At the time I was a rabid purchaser of PDAs and I wished desperately to get Palm OS with PPC hardware. Probably every color PDA Palm ever built had an LCD that buzzed like an angry hornet. Palm ergonomics were next-level, though. The Lifedrive is probably the best-feeling device of any kind I've held in my hand.
When I was in high school (the Swedish version of it) in the early 2000, the introduction to programming course used was Ada. When I then later entered university their introduction course to programming was C.

As a beginner language I recall it being quite nice compared to C.
Agreed. The best format might be one specially defined for the job.

I built a GUI-builder ages ago (in Python, compiling to Python which calls Tkinter to build the GUI). Here's a sample of what the UI-definition language looked like: https://github.com/cabalamat/parrot/blob/master/simple2.par
Antitrust doesn't require a monopoly, only a large enough share where you can unfairly manipulate the market using your market share. The smaller the market share, the harder it is to prove it.
I'm working on a similar domain, music transcription. The challenge is to estimate note values (how many beats is a note supposed to be as represented in the score?) and I'm not sure what would be the a good way to measure transcription accuracy. The naive note error rate cannot capture whether my model successfully detects certain musical structure, syncopation, dotted rhythms etc
Dichotomy between product first and code first is non sense to me
I'm a nerd and love to share about complex and technicals subjects about coding but I never forget that my job is to deliver a value for people (B2C, B2B... doesn't matter), there's no point coding for code unless you want to show off that your solution is best than your fellows'. So to me, elegant code is just an ego trip
> Maybe the next gen model will have a Button Button^TM

Please, make it a switch. A touch button will never work there.
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You see the sibling comment to that one, about how the UK's "very high vaccination rates" means that we've been out of lockdown for a while, are returning to normal life, and have very few hospitalizations for Covid? Well, we've only vaccinated 65% of our population, barely more than Israel - and I think we have demographics which lean more towards age groups at higher risk from Covid than Israel as well. The headline government figures are higher, but they're for over-16s which are the only group eligible for vaccination here.
It's also possible that the dissenters are aware and knowledgeable of the history of compulsory vaccines. The question in their minds might be how society determines which vaccines should fall into that mandatory category and what level of force the government and others should use to enforce it.

For example, should flu vaccines be mandatory to attend school? Historically they have not been in any large degree (to my knowledge). If you look at the IFR for those age groups for flu (varies somewhat by strain) and covid, then you'll see that they are generally very close. So we have to ask what changed, because it doesn't appear to be the value proposition.
> it was one side forcing the other to get back in line and give up its slaves.

This is a hilariously skewed understanding of the civil war. Do you also believe the south seceded over states rights?
I would be totally okay with treating it like a driving accident. You're free not to get the shot, but in the case that you contract Covid you then open yourself up to civil liability to everyone you came in contact with.
Getting a vaccine after recovering from covid would be along the lines of getting a booster shot. You'd develop some new antibodies, and strengthen your immune memory for the disease. It'll offer you better protection no matter what.