skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In these cases, I’ve elected to write queries using a templating system and describe the tables using the ORM. I get the convenience of an application level description of the table with direct use of SQL. It’s a lot less trouble than anything else I’ve used so far."

This has been the best that I've encountered myself.
Non-pandemic history is a bad predictor of pandemic future.

Consumer sentiment is likely artificially lowered by anxiety about the Delta surge. It took many people by surprise, and it's may be hard to believe the pandemic will really "end" now.

The ongoing labor shortage should tell us that the economy is still doing well.
If you bought pets.com stock after their IPO they lost your investment.
Great work! It is a better alternative to cmake.
Thank you. I’ve been saying this for years. He could very well have been some listserv lurker who followed the prior art, and just went ahead and solved the outstanding problems on his own. There are far more brilliant programmers out there working quietly, than those who are known. Everybody reaches for a name they know because that’s all that’s available to reach for.
“Bold” strategy? Canada had no option if they wanted to vaccinate quickly. Unlike the US and Europe, Canada dragged its heels on pre-ordering vaccines. Once it was apparent they couldn’t control the case numbers without vaccines, they took what they could get, prioritized first doses then realized they had different vaccines delivered for 2nd doses.

The fact the mixed vaccines gives good protection is more luck than anything. Canada was forced into that decision before there was any solid data.

But hey, i do the same thing when I do interviews. My mistakes becomes “prescient” when they just happen to work.
I use it professionally since wsl1. Wsl2 and docker play nice together, it just works. Pretty good for Web development.
I think it’s important to remember the issue with Facebook isn’t speech it’s amplification. Algorithmic amplification of content that drives engagement. This is what folks have an issue with.

Further bear in mind that “free speech” refers to the government not precluding your speech and Facebook ain’t government. Unless you’re proposing nationalizing it.
It's fine to use he/him for a male pseudonym.

However, in an article in which you speculate about the real identity behind a pseudonym, suggesting any possible gender or plurality, you should use /they/, this being the whole point of what your doing.
r/programming is pretty solid, from what I recall, although I don't go on there often. I used to frequent r/scala when I was actively using that language, as an example of a niche. My reddit front page, with my idiosyncratic collection of subs, often produces a comparable amount of joy to the HN front page, but in a different set of verticals than here.
IUP's Cocoa port is unfinished, but there was enough complete that it was accepted into the official SVN repo.
Is “Twenty years ago today” a reference to something?
Infection rates are, by definition, adjusted for population. In a pandemic, you may want to talk about rates given population density, but California is in the middle of the pack there (even Florida is more dense.)
I wonder about presbyopia though. Would imagine that’s the holy grail of age-related vision decay? anyone knows of any promising research in this area?
I consider all of this a consequence of the Post Eich regime at Mozilla…
That the new reddit. They really want people using their app, despite the website work ok.
First it says "denying climate change", then "contradicting scientific consensus on climate change", then "makes misleading or false claims about climate change". These are not the same.

Very few people "deny climate change", so that's not going to affect very many ads.

Suppose it turns out that it's scientists or scientific organizations wanting to run ads that "contradict scientific consensus"... then is there actually scientific consensus? Keep in mind, science is not even conducted by consensus.

"makes misleading or false claims about climate change," that's begging the question. Google's not in a position to evaluate that itself. Or if it is, what need is there for other scientists? Just let Google tell us what's going on. Google is at least selecting which scientists to listen to, right? On what basis? How is it able to judge which scientists are correct?

This is not science, nor in support of science. It's anti-science. Strong theories don't have to be protected like this.
I definitely do not like how big platforms are imposing their morals on users. The issue is how would this sort of system (assuming this is possible) protect against CP and other things that really do need to be blocked?
We might look at these stats and think that they demonstrate a safe and effective vaccine. But there is still a very real risk that won't stop the government of Canada implementing a full China-style surveillance system tracking system that monitor where every citizen is, when and sets up all the necessary infrastructure to block someone's ability to travel.
Thanks! I update their README.
I don't, but I can provide a likely explanation - ad revenue
In related news, did anyone see the turnout tonight at the Texas A&M and Alabama game? Second biggest turnout on record — 106k people
Games from this era are easier to play than games from the early 2000s. All thanks to ScummVM. I replayed Toonstruck on an Android tablet a few years ago. Incredible game, and it ran perfectly.
I understand. The trick is that a person can believe and practice all that and still not actually be any sort of meaningful political or ethical challenge to their coworkers, even though they imagine so. Leaving the only available challenge to be trying to work with someone who doesn’t understand themselves or their environment.

Companies are publicly committing to a priori support of one or the other of the conflicting views rather than do the more difficult work of helping someone get past this, in the US, but in other parts of the world it seems possible for culture to exert itself and heal the misperception over time.
Singling out Trump a bit here?

Bush did it.
Obama did it, while slowing down economic recovery
Trump did it.
Biden is doing it, and the economy is stagnating.

Looking farther back, every president since before FDR allowed debt to increase, although it wasn't really until the welfare state kicked in the 70s and 80s that we started hockey sticking.

It's hilarious to pin _all_ of that on Trump.
There's some cool but not very ready tech called surface wave transmission lines that use horn like "launchers" to establish surface waves on single conductors like power lines. They have very low RF losses up to the tens of GHz as long as stuff stays a few wavelengths away from the lines.

In way, if you try hard enough, most powerlines could act like inside out waveguides for high data rate RF backhaul.
As far back as the Irish potato famine, there was plenty of food - the problem was caused by the political power structures and rent seeking which would not bend an inch to help the peasantry.

In the modern era, we have more then enough food to feed everyone: no one goes hungry because there is not enough.
I have always disliked the assertion that if you fake it then you will make it.
> the copyright model was beneficial for the society maybe up until 300 years ago.

The copyright model is more recent than 300 years ago. It cannot have provided any benefit to any party before then.
Certainly not. Lego has floating models (the ocean explorer or coast guard ships in the Creator series), but they have a large single hull piece.
2000-2005 Internet truly was a dirty Berlin aircraft hanger deep house rave
Don’t trust Microsoft extends to GitHub as well. Same company and same issues. GitHub probably has even more of developer mindshare and should get equal outrage as this. At least VS Code is open source.
If the disruption is the mass distribution of antivax and antiscience propaganda that kills 1000s of people, the manipulation of opinions by hostile foreign state actors, the flaming of genocide and the utter division of nations into completely antagonistic sides, then I'm sorry but maybe the elites have a point.
You could trace it back to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Lebanon supports the Arab states, the Palestinians spill into Lebanon, and fighting continues over various decades (50's, 70's, 80's, 90's), including a civil war that took 16 years, after which point it's sort of Syria, Israel and Hezbollah grappling through Lebanon, of course with the other usual cast of characters (US, UK, Iran, Saudi, and a dozen different rebel groups).

But probably the majority of the current crisis stems from the 2006 war.
You'd think Israel would step up here. Sure, there's LOTs of history between the two, but having a failed state as a neighbor is kind of an own goal. It'd make much more sense for them to assist with the rebuild and build an ally.
Free college and healthcare aren't really free. You just pay later through taxes and/or lower salaries because of business taxes.
Is it much more affordable than Austin? They seem to be within the same range (for comparable locations and all) and that the gap has quickly filled in, just my observation but I look at TN stuff way more than TX.
Biden doesn't seem to be doing much better.

The antifa actors that were paid by Leftists to burn cities down did their part - they forced the electorate to keep their heads down during the Big Steal.
You know how in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z the Saiyans get stronger every time they're almost killed? That's antifragility. Now think about how many times Goku and Vegeta still die in spite of their antifragility.

Your bones are antifragile, but they can be broken. Cities and civilizations can be antifragile, but they're still susceptible to collapse given the right forces.
I have been slowly rewriting my static blog from Hakyll to Nix + Soupault to simplify the tools used, remove Stack, and make the outputs reproducible. The maintainer is quick to respond to any questions and suggestions as well.
I don't need Mozilla, I have been compiling garbage out of it for nearly 6+ years while adding stuff of my own. I would rather, at this point, they dissolve. Which will create a vacuum and allow for space for a fork to evolve without all the garbage coming in constantly from upstream and compete for resources for (for those who have no interest in pursuing alternatives with a chromium dependency and do not care that the latest and greatest™ google features aren't in servo).
Has anyone else kinda decided they're done doing technical interviews? If you *really* want me, then just give me an offer and let's negotiate.

I'm getting to the point where I'm just going to say if my work experience doesn't provide you with enough information about my technical ability then you can go hire someone fresh out of school who's done l33tcode 24/7 for the last few months.
Maybe it's best if Lebanon splits up? It's like it's not happening all over the region...
One issue that I've run into is that if you only bind to IPv6 in WSL, then you will only be able to access the service using IPv6 on the Windows side (i.e. ::1 works, but 127.0.0.1 doesn't). OSs usually automatically bind to IPv4 whenever you bind to IPv6, but that's not the case with WSL (actually, it does bind to both, but only inside WSL, not on the Windows end). Lots of programs (like node) bind to IPv6 by default, so this can catch people off guard and they wonder why 127.0.0.1 or localhost isn't working.

Here's the github issue about it: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4851
Somebody at Dice.com probably still has satoshi's IP logs.
So we should rid it from existence? Or is this a suggestion to delete the repository?

Does Atom exist if you never need it again or the project is never maintained?
It seems this is the same engine as ESET antivirus scanner:

>As applied in Chrome Cleanup, ESET’s technology is used by Google to alert users about unwanted or potentially harmful software attempting to get on users’ devices through stealth, for example, by being bundled into the download of legitimate software or content. Google Chrome, using ESET’s security technology, then provides users with the option to remove the unwanted software. Chrome Cleanup operates in the background, without visibility or interruptions to the user. It deletes the unwanted software and notifies the user once the cleanup has been successfully completed.

https://www.eset.com/int/about/newsroom/press-releases/compa...
It is a reference to both the 20th anniversary of ScummVM and the opening text in Maniac Mansion, the first SCUMM game.
Those with one track minds tend to excel specifically at the one track they dedicate themselves to while failing at other things. There are also those who are good at many things. Both have valuable skills (and both are actually well compensated and highly necessary for companies, IME). But if you want to be that guy who can just crank out code for any problem, then I believe this ability is based on the amount of time you've spent coding, which, for those who have one-track minds, is naturally going to be a lot more than the average programmer. It takes all types. There is no value judgement in my descriptions.
This has been my standard advice for a while:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I'm glad to hear you think we should refer to people by their chosen pronouns! Perhaps there's some woke to you after all? ;)

I still would love to hear how you think people should refer to you, especially if you have not asserted your own pronouns. It seems, in reference to you, this is a classic, centuries-old case of singular 'they' being perfectly acceptable.
> Listen... if you're at Facebook, you've personally made a decision that you'd rather collect your paycheque than stop contributing to the beast that surrounds you. You're fine with the pervasive corruption and rampant disinformation and hypocrisy because you're making bank. Don't be shy. Own it. Say it with a full chest. At least it would be genuine.

I think it's also on us to stop holding facebook at such a high level.

People are proud to have facebook on their resume, maybe they shouldn't be. Maybe facebook should be seen as an embarrassment. Maybe facebook should be something you want to hide from some employers because they're going to judge you for accepting a job from them. (Exceptions for h1b, first job, etc apply)

It's kinda how if you tell me you were a cop I'm going to immediately see you as a power hungry and abusive thorn in society. The burden of proof is on you to...show me that's not true. Some decisions have consequences I suppose.
Those services don’t, but as a Mastodon user, it doesn’t seem such an unlikely suggestion. I have been impressed with fediverse since I joined about a year back, and love the that the feed isn’t manipulated, and that censorship is often the choice of an individual not wanting to see more from a user they find objectionable or from a community/server level when say your server doesn’t want pornographic posts from some other server on fediverse, which frankly reflects sincere human interaction much more than Facebook moderation and their feed algos, and if you did want to see what your community doesn’t, you can both stay and also create an account on another server if you wish.

Federated social media for me has been much less toxic in terms of discussion quality and is much less addictive, I love checking it but I don’t doom-scroll to oblivion…

But server doesn’t get payed to make me doom scroll to oblivion so incentives are much more aligned.
Thank you for sharing; your insight is human and approachable.

I'd like to ask, though: looking back, what were (or have become) the best resources to you - read: books, articles, conference videos, etc. - which have unequivocally helped you in the years since?

Thank you
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Facebook is not the public square. It’s not even a public square. It’s not a bulletin board or a newspaper or a telephone. There’s no analog analogy. It’s a site run by a private company that you send content to, they analyze it, then they decide what to publish and in what order. The closest analog thing I can think of is Letters To The Editor in a newspaper. They aren't “deciding who gets to talk” or “shutting down speech.” There are plenty of non-Facebook ways to talk that don’t involve sending your message to them and hoping they decide to post it.
I know I can't convince you.

I think it's because we have different expectations for the future and our understanding of Satoshi's design is different.

When the first 10MB block was created, even when the 100MB block was created, people still did not believe it.

For now, 1-2 GB blocks are created. Nothing has changed.
If a 1TB block is created and processed without problems, would it be acceptable? I think maybe not.

And even if 10TB and 100TB come into existence, there will still be people who believe that scalability is impossible. But by then, it seems that we are already using it widely.

Thank you so much for not treating me as a scammer.

PS. I was delighted to discover so many new things through discussion with you.
back when even pg’s handle was green
EA hasn't really been tearing the fabric of our society apart, the comparison isn't really there. They're just a run-of-the-mill psychopathic company.
The browser extension also gave you a way help verify as well as giving you the ability to send an encrypted DM which is more secure than most of these social platforms. (But had it caught on, it would not have been fun to deal with spam and moderation)
He's that guy. He did almost everything except the kernel
While I think its interesting to point out how assets have risen in value recently, and how this doesnt effect everyone equally, the way this is phrased is intentionally misleading.

Wealth increased 50% from March 13th, 2020 - but the stock market decreased 25% from February 2020 to March 2020. Since February 2020 to now the stock market has increased about 32%, which is a lot for 18 months but not a crazy amount especially given a bit higher than average inflation.
Ensuring patients are able to access the treatments ordered for them, or at least trying to do that, qualifies as part of the practice of medicine. That's why medical practices have billing departments to deal with insurance on the patient's behalf, rather than requiring cash up front and letting patients figure their own way through the reimbursement process.

The problem isn't that I'm misrepresenting your arguments, such as they are. The problem is that, instead of finding out how this stuff actually works and understanding why it works the way it does, you prefer to continue insisting on your opinions, which are as apparently uninformed as strongly held.

I don't see what you hope to achieve by this save wasting someone time, and my test suite just finished running, so it'll have to be someone else's time from here.
If you want even more speed for Lua, Lua's new experimental sister language, Pallene is really exciting.

Pallene is Lua with strong types, designed for the purpose of being able to (AOT) generate faster and native code.

It's compiler design also has deep knowledge of the Lua implementation, so it short circuits the formal Lua/C API so crossing the Lua/C language boundary in Pallene is even faster (and Lua's is already good...much less overhead than crossing in Python).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038619
Haha, it's not about games. It's about remote device management, employee tracking and less "bytes _you_ own", more "bytes corp owns". I actually quit my previous company over this. Now they all work on windblows, their open windows tracked, their hours accounted. And I laugh in linux.
I think you're extending the metaphor a bit beyond what is useful. The original comment says "If Apple is known toxic and you still go to work there". Other comments then criticize this as victim blaming, but it's not. If you know a company is toxic and you choose to work there then you are not a victim, you are willingly exposing yourself to a toxic company the same way a boxer exposes himself to the blows of another boxer.

My comment doesn't say it's okay for Apple to be toxic, fighting with employees is a norm, or that she did know. My comment is differentiating the hypothetical "If you know it is toxic and you work there you are not a victim" from the victim blaming "You shouldn't have been wearing that".
Allot is a perfectly cromulent word.
Not a Lua developer here, what is the problem with nil? Just curious.
"Unlike the US and Europe, Canada dragged its heels on pre-ordering vaccines"

Canada was one of the first countries to pre-order vaccines, signing massive agreements with just about every candidate maker. I'm aware of literally a single deal happening with another country prior to Canada's orders.

What thwarted Canada's efforts was that the US defacto nationalized the medical establishment in that country, while Canada had basically become beholden to larger centers courtesy of an over reliance on free trade. With the US production nationalized, Canada, and truly the rest of the world, had to rely upon manufacturing in Europe. The EU at times lurched towards protectionism but never did, and Canada is in its debt.

Though in the wake of it Canada has committed to no less than four vaccine manufacturing plants, including mRNA vaccines. Lesson learned.

`"Bold” strategy? Canada had no option if they wanted to vaccinate quickly.'

Yes, it was a strategy. The manufacturers were dictating a timeline for shots that would have meant that the number of people fully vaccinated would be quicker, but the number of people partly vaccinated would be much slower. People much smarter than you or I did an analysis and decided on another approach, including mixing shots. And yes, of course it was because of a supply constraint (for reasons mentioned elsewhere, but having positively nothing to do with Canada "dragging it's heels"), otherwise such approaches wouldn't be necessary, no?
I always thought that staring at monitors with blinding brightness is what causes retinal damage, not just blue light specifically.

That's one of the reasons I created Lunar (https://lunar.fyi): because having to lower the brightness of the monitor throughout the day, using its hard to find buttons, was such an annoying endeavor.

I’ve always used f.lux and now Night Shift simply because I like warm colors. I have all LED bulbs and strips in my house adapt automatically to <3000K after sunset just because it gives me a sense of warmth and coziness.

But now, thanks to your comment I stumbled onto the “intense red light” cult. I had no idea about this effect, I thought all intense light is bad for the eyes. But I hope someone tries to reproduce this study. Usually, bold claims like these can be the effect of cumulative small errors in the study process.
Nintendo Switch game contains fully-working SEGA Saturn emulator
its a new term form the company to earn money at the name of air filtration to sell their products
I experienced people who are 10x better than me through Google codejam.

I looked at one of the problems of the final round, looked at the solution, read it for hours, and I couldn't implement it correctly.

Then, there are these top 3 who came up with their own solution and wrote correct code within 20 minutes.

For comparison, I can consistently be in the top 1000 of Google codejam. So, I consider myself a fairly good coder.

I experienced this with topcoder as well. There are some people who are way too smart.

10x programmers and engineers are very much real. It is just rare.
I think Satoshi is a Stone Soup.
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