skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least she wasn't insulted using her own tax dollars! [0]

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/cbc-apologizes...
Perhaps because they don't want to encourage everyone who thinks they were misrepresented in drama or documentary to try their luck. I mean, imagine what would happen if the British Royal Family decided to kick up a stink about misrepresentations in The Crown, of which there are very many.
France Recalls Ambassadors to U.S., Australia over Submarine Deal
I'd say the existing app stores plugged on distribution repos (apt) provide a very large amount of free software, thus reducing the incentive to look for paid software.

For the seller, being able to sell is one thing, having to run software in a tiny and extremely fragmented market (a large bunch of slightly different distros) is another one. Then osx happened, and the linux desktop never happened.
Ooh, good point! Another example is auditing, where you substitute regular, frequent disruptions (being audited is disruptive to normal operations) for infrequent, less predictable, bigger disruptions.
It is possible to "wash a title" by moving it through different states with different salvage title requirements/systems.
>That is what we call "pushing an agenda". It is awfully tiresome. Seriously "forced" when what they describe is gaming of the system. It is downright disingenuous and it is goddamned everywhere from media conglomerates.

Would you expand on this? It's not at all clear to me who you believe is "pushing an agenda" or who is "gaming the system."

That may very well be my own reading comprehension issue, but I'm still a bit confused. If you'd help me out, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
> So, maybe age-ism is a thing, but I'd also argue a lot of age-ism can be reduced to "I never even tried keeping up and hyper-specialized myself into a dying corner even when the signs became clear I'm becoming outdated, so why doesn't anyone hire me?"

My experience has been exactly this. I've read many such complaints in the last 20 years of working, and in every single case the author has pigeonholed themselves into a long obsolete corner of the industry. There is a difference between 30 years of experience and 5 years repeated 6 times.

It is important to get onto the right team to have a long lived tech career. Your business domain should be big enough so you organically have to move with the rest of the industry. By 20+ years, you should be in a senior enough position to help lead the change.

I've never met a tech guru who was up to date and didn't retire or move on to other things on his/her own terms.
>that people who have previously tested positive for COVID-19 as well as receiving two vaccine doses have the best protection against future infection.

No mention of natural immunity on its own compared to anything else.
But then for various reasons the prettier and linter become a tool to measure the difference between expectations and reality. Metrics are collected, performance indicators are established, and goals set. Pretty soon the tool is no longer helping the developers, but is instead judging and evaluating them, feeding results into stack-ranking and PIP systems.
Definitely not. I heard the NT kernel codebase is actually beautiful to work with.

There's definitely code rot in Windows, but that's probably due to compatibility reasons with third party code rather than actual bad design.
Chicken, egg. I am sure finance videos with super expensive credit card ads would make more money for YouTube
If youre seated, you can remove the mask to eat
The quick Axios analysis: https://www.axios.com/france-recalls-ambassadors-to-us-austr...
This looks amazing, but it isn't 3 full degrees of freedom is it? I feel like there are some orientations that wouldn't be possible with this, but I am really not sure.
I agree, except the issue with banning speech is that there’s no fine line. When does “covid misinformation” go from conspiracy theories (5G microchips) to skepticism (“does [X measure] really slow the spread”) to hard truths (the vaccine does cause adverse side effects in a small subset of the population).

I have no problem censoring blatant misinformation, but i’d rather be more tolerant than censor something that might be true or modest.
I really hope Google bans people based on their conduct and not based on lazy generalizations about their race or religion.
OTOH I think there was a Penn and Teller's Bullshit about anger therapy that claimed therapies designed to harmlessly let out anger actually raised anger levels. Anger and frustration clearly have social phenomenons where they build without any additional rational information.
Heads up: click "Use Planck's constant", otherwise Wolfram Alpha assumes h is hours.
> In a July survey, 849 percent of respondents were unsure how the bitcoin project would go;

That's a lot of people.
As you can see, he doesn’t take himself seriously—most of the time.

What’s more puzzling really is his appearance on Who is America?[0]

Everyone of course delighted in portraying Mahbod as a douchebag tech bro who was easily fooled, proceeding vilify him further. At the time that was filmed, he was likely already experiencing his second brain tumor that would require surgical removal just weeks after the air date of the episode.

I’ve always been a fan of Sacha, but you’d think they would’ve dug into the dude’s past a bit more before deciding to crucify him.

[0] https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a22709637/sacha-bar...
You should stop using the word nazi. It’s disrespectful to those who lost loved ones in the holocaust.

Separately there is nothing wrong with people who have opinions different from yours.
It's not evironmentally expensive, but it is currently money expensive due to a combination of implicit subsidies of the fossil fuel industry and small scale of production.
Congrats to the Gitlab team! Very happy on-premise Gitlab user, for both our relatively small scale SAAS and our digital agency. Our growth mirrored Gitlab's, so we started with the basic git hosting + issue tracker, and have added CI and other features in our workflow as time went by. Nice thing to know is that we've upgraded our instance for over the last 5 years and never had to do a backup/reinstall, which shows something about the general software quality.
Egypt isn't that far away, isn't it possible that there was some technology transfer between those that built the pyramids and the area that has the rock?
Ah, it's so good to have an adult back in the WH...
> But the "market's invisible hand" relies on people being more motivated by their wealth stash than their behavior.

Nobody has found a better way, though they often try.

> "The economy" is in reality a giant standoff where every member of the standoff would just stop maintaining society unless they get paid for it.

That's an immutable fact of human nature. Even cradle to grave propaganda doesn't change it. It's much better to swim with that current than against it.
Translation: "I don't have the ability either."
They then approved it for people with 25+bmi, which is 73% of the adult pop
Like an Aptera?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22358355/aptera-ev-three-w...
On the one hand, yes of course the economy is all about specialization and then exchanging the fruits of specialized production between people. This last can happen via money, or barter, or a dictator (benevolent or not) confiscating everything and redistributing it, or some mix of the above, and maybe other methods.

One of the hard problems here is what to specialize in and to what extent. This is a hard problem to solve even in a static economy, and even harder if circumstances keep changing...

The "standoff" description seems to assume a static economy. If circumstances change, maybe we as a society need a grocer for only 4 hours a day but could use an extra half-shift truck driver. But how to discover that?
> Only .4% of bitcoin transactions are used for illegal activities.

And you know this... how?

Did you know that 96% of statistics are made up on the spot?
At least in the US, people generally aren't all that price sensitive about their car. They spend a lot more money on cars than they strictly need to and I don't expect that to change. There are exceptions though (NYC is a big one).

If anything, the kinds of personalization you will be able to do with something like the car in the article are pretty big. I could see people buying them like they buy their phones. Pay $200 / month and get a new car every two years.

> Why would you personally own a car

For me, it's because shared cars are usually nasty inside. Plus, the pandemic has me thinking about the safety of shared spaces. My car is an extension of my home and I feel safe in it.

> what happens when all cars are controlled by 2 massive tech companies

Why would the car companies even sell cars for shared use? Setting up a company like Uber has never been easier and it's getting more easy all the time. Why wouldn't the car companies create their own car share services?
eBay leaves the return policies to the individual sellers, so some sellers absorb the cost of returns, some require you to pay postage, and some don't accept returns at all. Naturally some of this probably gets absorbed into the listing price.
It is not fair to clippy to compare him to current web search engines.

His results were way better because they were not choked with spam. Google has no reason to take action on spam ‘cause the worse the results are the more likely you click on an ad.
Aptera EV Car in GTA V
I wish more people would self host their instance in the fediverse.

Your posts can be traced back to you, your feed is chronological and moderation is back in your hands.

Propaganda is a HUGE issue, and I’m sure anyone won’t be able to spot every case of misinformation.

But everything could be back in your hands. Nobody can _FORCE_ content on you, you are in control of your own experience.

https://joinmastodon.org

https://pixelfed.org

https://pleroma.social
Gitlab does have some features like rules and triggers that can do medium-ish complexity flows. Still not where Jenkins is, but there's some framework pieces there.
> it sure is frustrating watching Hertz sell off their fleet because their board is more worried about its share price than it is about whether or not Hertz

More like worried about bankruptcy and going out of business.
zozbot has it right.

Reference counting is a form of GC to use when performance doesn't matter. Performance never matters except where it does. But automated memory management without reference counting is usual practice in a modern non-GC language.

Freeing an array of objects only involves a series of calls to a deallocator when the array elements have pointers in them. That is typically unavoidable in Java, but not in non-GC languages.

Arena allocation, where memory in a subsystem is allocated using a specific allocator object, deallocation there is an in-line no-op, and all of subsystem memory is reclaimed en bloc at a chosen event boundary, is a common alternative where more control is needed. It is still not "manual memory management"; memory for objects is managed invisibly, and still without reference counting.

The usual advertising for GC is that it means you don't need to think about managing memory. The actual experience is that, where it matters at all, you have to think about it a great deal more.
Wrong page. Means to add drupal to that wiki page in my comment, since it's missing.
It's scary to think such a great project could have perished at some point in its infancy. It's not perfect yet but it's an incredible resource and alternative to GMaps.
If GP is like me, it's related to buying used higher end and/or "luxury" brand vehicles. In my experience, my previous 2 vehicles were 2 and 3 years old respectively and cost roughly ~60% of sticker price.
From your link:

> Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19. Clinical trials assessing ivermectin tablets for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in people are ongoing.

From https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00449.asp

> Ivermectin is not authorized or approved by FDA for prevention or treatment of COVID-19. The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel has also determined that there are currently insufficient data to recommend ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19. ClinicalTrials.govexternal icon has listings of ongoing clinical trials that might provide more information about these hypothesized uses in the future.

Those are "we don't know" stances. Or at least, "we're not certain".
At the time android phones were suffering the same problem. The nexus 6p would randomly crash at 30% charge.
> The problem is, when pretty much anyone brings up Bitcoin's issues , they've got an axe to grind

Or it could be that rational people look at incredibly slow and energy expensive security with no fundamentals and no applications after a decade and are skeptical.

I mean, why would someone have an axe to grind? Bitcoin stole their girl?
> Far more productive, is going to YouTube for something SPECIFIC. Use the search function to find what you're looking for

I'd sometimes forget what I came for based on the recommendations from the homepage. Not that I was logged in and saw interesting stuff -- not even -- just the sheer uselessness of what people apparently watch the most (clickbait titles, soccer match replays, gasping surprised face with all-caps title, you know the type). Adding that part of the homepage to the ad blocker, using the pipette tool in uBlock Origin, helped a lot. Or add the youtube search to your address bar (firefox: add keyword search, or go via ddg bang commands) so you don't have to open the homepage to get a search box.
Maybe not all the stuff, but I have seen many use Gitlab's docker & package registries, I think Gitlab's merge request discussions are miles ahead of Github's (threads without line discussions, can compare versions, etc), the test result integration is okay, we do use the issue boards a lot. We kinda use the deployments, but only for review apps. Merge trains are great too. There might be more cool stuff, that I either don't know about or have no use for, but in general they do provide some great stuff. (Not that Gitlab doesn't also have bad stuff.)
I prefer to be employed by the government because then I don’t have to actually do any work.
Studio Drift Drone Art at Burning Man
This reminds me so much of a Christmas present hack my sister and I invented when we were kids. We used to open all our presents on Christmas morning.

Then we begged "Can't we open a couple of presents on Christmas Eve?" So we got to open a few that night.

Next year was "Well, how about Christmas Eve Morning? Maybe just one or two?"

And the next year was "The 23rd is practically Christmas Eve, isn't it? It's just a few hours apart. Can't we open all our presents on the evening of the 23rd?" And we did!

We didn't push it past that: we were already so happy that we got our presents a day and a half before all our friends!
"Who do we cheer for in this situation?"
"Oh we don't recommend that."
I watched the video and there wasn’t any sound. Definitely a step by step graphical explanation helps a lot.
> 9 mothers can't birth a baby in 1 month.

This is one of the stupidest stock examples ever invented. The idea is that one of the most parallelizable processes known to mankind, characterized by its rapid growth and perfect scaling, is the paradigmatic example of a process that bottlenecks itself.

It takes one woman more than 30 months to have two babies. Two women can do it in 9 months.

When someone says "9 mothers can't have a baby in one month", you have to wonder whether the lesson they want you to draw -- that some other process can't be parallelized -- applies to that other process any better than it applies to the process of population growth.
Rocket prior to 0.5 was not async and thus does not really preform well in those benchmarks.

0.5 however is async and is currently in rc, when it is released I would expect it to climb up the list a little bit.
I picked up and returned at Dulles International Airport outside Washington DC, which was pretty busy. My theory was that maybe the airport had an excess of rental car inventory on that weekend (being the weekend after Labor Day weekend) and that they were happy to get some inventory off the lot even though I was picking up and returning at the same weekend
> You also learn as a pro tip to let the car push its limits and let it do what it wants to do like doing something dangerous then realizing that it would correct itself after your "comfortable" zone.

That's literally "trusting it".

As a human, you are attempting to learn the situations under which the car operates safely. You could be very conservative and say "it never works". The big problem is that the kinds of errors that occur in these systems are very different from the kinds of errors that humans expect. Even designers of autonomous systems can be surprised by emergent behavior. You say you can quickly learn the good and bad sides of it, however, that's not true. How much reliability do we expect from a system that, when it fails, leads to sever injury or death? ASIL-D is something like one failure in 10^9 hours [1]. That's 100,000 years.

You do not have that much experience with your Tesla, sorry. In principle, you might drive every waking hour for 10 years, never witness an accident, and you still not have an argument that passes even the most basic scrutiny for safety for critical systems. It could make a fatal mistake in the 11th year and that would not be a big surprise.

No one has that much experience with the ASIL-D components of any car. That's why I we must rely on regulation and standardization to help keep us safe. Safety isn't just "well I tried it a bunch under these conditions and didn't get hurt". And that's why what Tesla's strategy is reckless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_Safety_Integrity_Le...
SPACs are publicly traded. The announcement that Soaring Eagle was taking Ginkgo public was made in May. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ginkgo-bioworks-to-...

No special access is needed to trade SPACs, just need to follow the news. That being said, I think that most SPACs are pretty bad deals.
Life Sciences New Frontiers
Most don't have the knowledge to make an informed choice (how many people have enough medical knowledge?)

You could say this about anything: camera lenses, frozen food, airline flights. How much do you really know about how these things operate/are made? Prices externalize that information that allows people to decide whether it’s worth it. Also most people are far smarter (especially when it regards their own bodies) than the assumption you’re making here…
> I applaud Tesla for being so open about what their system is thinking with their visualisations

How do you know that what is on the screen matches what the system is 'thinking'? What reason or obligation would Tesla have to engineer accurate visualizations for the real thing and show them to you (remember the definition of accuracy: correct, complete, consistent)? Would Tesla show its customers something that would make them uncomfortable or show Tesla in a bad light, or even question the excitement Tesla hopes to generate?

I think it's likely that the display is marketing, not engineering.
Again, it sounds good behind a computer or to an engineer looking for a solution, but nature has a way of connecting itself with itself.

Waste would have to pass through the shallows of the borehole which is a risk, and then the well remains a high permeability conduit for the duration of its existence. If/when the well collapses, the infill is likely to be high permeability on a human/civilization timescale.

That’s not to mention the volume of material that would need to be placed downhole, which I would imagine is significant.

Re: duration of harmfulness, doesn’t uranium have a half life of some 10^9 years? Not an expert in nuclear chemistry, but I wouldn’t want that stuff in concentration anywhere near me, or beneath my feet, and neither does any state in the US it seems.
> I treat the side-bar as basically an ad-bar and my peripheral view just ignores it.

I just now realized that I do this too. So much that I've never actually paid any attention to the contents of the sidebar at all. My brain just automatically filters it out.
Can you elaborate on the “filter bubbles” concept?
Ah, yeah...sorry. There is a history tab where you can see the users that last updated it. Though the page appears to be untouched for a couple of years, so that may not pan out.
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I've done three production apps with React Admin and its predecessor ng-admin. They do what they say on the tin. Integrating custom components with React Admin works well and is a tremendous affordance.
I love Django but it seems like such a limitation for certain workloads. You can often work around some of these issues with Celery but still…

.Net already offers a kitchensink with async, it’s growing a lot and is much more attractive than a decade ago.
> nobody can promise anything, and anyone who believes any promise is a fool.

IDK, can people ever really promise something in perpetuity? People and circumstances change over a lifetime. To me it is healthier and more realistic to understand this.

I wouldn't say anyone who believes a promise is a fool, though. I would say to believe a promise is to believe it that the person is sincere in their intent, and that they will make a strong effort to continue that intent going forward. But to believe that person can actually stop time and guarantee to never change is not realistic to me.

Note that I'm speaking cosmically here. In the world of business, I would say it always eventually comes down to contracts and money. Those are what business is about at its core, and to expect otherwise is madness.
The position "it is better to be harmed than to harm, if you have to choose between the two" is certainly worth discussing, but it would be such an uphill battle that Sisyphus would probably prefer to return to his boulder.
I was bearish on crypto and games for years. I was wrong
In case folks don't know what d8 is: https://www.popsci.com/science/delta-8-thc/
You’re right. We’re in some weird limbo state where:

1. A persons height is in feet (except when the doctor measures it)

2. A persons weight is in stones and pounds (except when the doctor measures it)

3. Travel distance is in miles (even road signage)

4. But races are run in metres

5. Flour is measured in grams

6. Sugar is bought by the kilo

7. Water is bought by the litre

8. But drank by the pint (in some glasses)

9. Milk is always bought by the pint

10. As is beer in the pub

11. And fruit is by the kilo

12. Cocaine is sold by the gram

13. Or by the ounce in larger quantities

14. Weed is either by the gram or a fraction of an ounce

15. Temperature can either be in Fahrenheit or Celsius depending on how we want to complain about the weather

I’m not sure if there’s much rescuing such a dire situation but I doubt this move will help matters!
Rust Belt City’s Pitch for a Hot Housing Market: Free Homes
Help with decoding Zoom ultrasound protocol
The cost of a battery replacement is less than 10% of the cost of the phone and it is something you only really need to do once for a phone. Of course it costs more than some bottom tier android because you are paying someone first world wages to swap the battery rather than having a child labor operated factory in India pump it out.

Replacing the battery with a smashed screen is almost impossible without also replacing the screen because you need to use a suction cap to pull the screen off. If it is smashed you need to scrape off all the chunks which removed what is left of the screen. These days the glass on the iPhone is much stronger than it once was so I don’t know anyone with a cracked screen.
The Drinker Paradox