skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YES. I can listen to things w/lyrics while doing CAD work; with any task requiring language, text, etc. it is too distracting, although some calm instrumentals are tolerable.

When I really get focused on a bit of work, whatever music is playing literally disappears - if you came to me 3min later and offered me $millions to tell you what song just played, I'd get nothing.

Cats are even more amazing - I can't find it right now, but I remember in reading studies in some of my college neuroscience classes where electrodes were put on cats to track their audio system with a clock/metronome sound in the background. You can trace the signal processing up through various nodes of the system at successively higher levels. When a mouse was let into the area, the metronome click trace disappeared from the data of almost every level of processing - it was entirely filtered out almost at the raw audio stage when the mouse showed up. That's focus.
> Funny how that works? You write the laws so to favor muni-bonds by making them largely tax free, and then suddenly the free-market takes away the advantage lol.

The advantage is still there, it just goes to the municipalities issuing the bonds (where it gets passed on to taxpayers).
Calling exceptions "Go envy" or a "mistake" seems like naive criticism. Ignoring the fact that the Rust is as old as Go; there is a lot of time spent in building language features with an, from my point of view, academic level of rigor.

There have been a lot of RFCs discussing exceptions in Rust[1][2][3], and the tradeoffs and design have been discussed thoroughly. If you have a design in mind that is safe, robust and performant you are welcome to submit one - as my understanding is the Rust team does not have an ideological slant against exceptions.

I've never understood the hard-on by some C++ fanboys to rush exceptions. You can build (IMO) more reasonable code without abusing ~~gotos~~ exceptions, and a bad exception design (like Java's) is strictly worse than even Go's error handling.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243

[2] https://github.com/glaebhoerl/rust-notes/blob/268266e8fbbbfd...

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0243-trai...
Mortgage Payments Are Getting More and More Unaffordable
I don’t buy this. My impression was that the slowness was sustained during the entire outage and then instantly let up once Facebook came back online.

I’m really curious why this was the case.
I find myself excited about starship for other reasons. It seems like there is a large range of outcomes for the starship development program—maybe the difficulty of having an effective, durable, and serviceable heat shield really will kill the fully-and-rapidly-reusable goal. Even in that case, though, a stripped-down stainless steel upper stage could reduce the costs of access to Earth orbit such that space-based solar power or sunshades to buy us time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions become feasible, even if the dreams of humans in space/on the moon and Mars colonization don’t pan out (I’m skeptical of the value of those human space presence goals anyways).

Edit: I have no idea if the more modest capabilities of starship/super heavy justify the current valuation, but they at least seem like they would be useful capabilities to maintain.
I've been out of the scene for a couple years now (essentially since I switched from student to full time), but it's mostly the goals.
wlroots is the de-facto standard library used by almost everything but the big 3 DEs. But it's still designed and intended to be mostlyl bare bones, and doesn't have a scenegraph or other nice things.
OTOH it got stuff like damage tracking and I think there were plans to add an optional library on top for some scenegraph stuff.

My main idea around persistance was a wrapper core code, that loads the higher level library. So we could switch out the library as object inside the main code.
At the same time, I'd have used this chance to experiment with hot-path loops that avoid the Haskell runtime, but run in native code. To avoid the previously mentioned GC stalls.

Though in practice, that gets closer to the X model, where we split the display server and window manager with a proper API.
We'd still have more control on what we want async and what we want sync. And it'd be up to experimenting how much of the display manager should be exposed as library functions or just driven from the outside.

Other ideas like serializing state and passing that in some way could work to some degree, but are probably not worth it. Maybe with some help from CRIU stuff, but I'm unsure about OS portability of that.

In general, the big learning I'd like people to take, which is mostly unrelated: don't try to do multi-seat. xmonad has a neat design, and the attempt to add multi-seat broke so much stuff. It's not worth it for a probably <.1% feature.
Looks like they only started counting Visual Basic in 2010 which accounts for it's steep rise it seems. But it's obviously very popular otherwise.
It's the hairs of hairy caterpillars (and, rarely, hairs on some adult moths) which cause dermatitis, rather than scales on adult moths' wings, so its wise to avoid contact with hairy caterpillars. For a list of species to avoid, see https://ccsuniversity.ac.in/bridge-library/pdf/Biology-Paras...
Show HN: ModBundler, a simple ES module bundler
Isn't 99.3% enough for herd immunity? I really wish the US would recognize natural immunity from those recovered from Covid instead of filtering out everyone who doesn't want to subscribe to a endless 2x/year vaccine passport program, which seems to be more beneficial to Big Pharma than the average person.
I stopped working for money a few months ago in my late 20s. I still do occasional light consulting (0 - 2h/week) for old clients though, but I can live off my savings indefinitely.

Before quitting (and before COVID), I was working remotely and living out of my backpack in places all around the world. I lived in Central America for a few months and learned Spanish to a conversational level. I experienced what it's like to live in a conflict zone in the Middle East. I couchsurfed in strangers houses in lots of countries and places off the beaten path and got a glimpse into many very different lives. I took time off to do multi-week hiking trips in high mountains and wilderness areas, often solo. I did some workaways housesitting, petsitting, helping out with construction and/or gardening.

Now that I no longer have to work, I'm doing more of that plus spending more time learning things (languages, dancing, etc.), getting more fit, volunteering with youth, and so on. I'm hoping find a more impactful way to help people suffering from things I've suffered with in the past, we'll see what I end up doing on that front beyond volunteering.
Slack Is Down Again
Their system hasn't reported any issues yet (https://status.slack.com/) but downdetector is (https://downdetector.com/status/slack/).

At this point - why don't status pages just post the downdetector status too...
I was in the post office the other day. Understaffed and security cameras bigger than a shoe box. I did see a newer WiFi enabled webcam there, but it looked out of place.

I think the Post Office makes an excellent choice (in theory) for banking. There’s almost one post office in every town, it can have better rates than traditional banks (through legislation or rules), and could be just as safe as a traditional bank.

Then again the government will kneecap this somehow and fail the program.
I tried using the site and used it for a while, for what little non political and non flame war content it had. It got boring.

I don't particularly like some of the UX decisions and features, but overall it is a pretty well built piece of software.

I don't believe ruqqus federates, so "instance" would be the wrong word. It's a standalone server.
Not quite endless, but plenty of programmers out there grinding it out in 'unfashionable' languages.
Sum and product types are easier to reason about in total than exceptions. For errors they just integrate into the return type and can be handled as monads. They don’t require additional syntax and can directly be passed into other functions.

They have existed since (at least) the early 70s.
That works more like your brain feeding in a few words, and typing itself is muscle memory that requires no active attention. If a word doesn’t look right, it “throws an interrupt”, and you will look into it with active thought, and then quickly returning to your speech — which yet again can talk “automatically”, while it has a full buffer.

Pretty much the exact same way as modern hardware works.
> This is the opposite of how you should want any knowledge worker to think.

Some of us don't choose our beliefs based on what is most convenient or most beneficial to us. Instead, we try to see the world for what it is, truthfully (or as close to a true representation of the world as it's possible to get, anyway). If having a realistic worldview hinders my ability to learn, then so be it. Not everything is about maximizing productivity.
How do you handle having to change a function's parameters, for instance?

In vim, you just have your cursor inside the (...) and do `ci)`, which is (c)hange (i)nside `(, which instantly deletes all the test inside the (...) and you can type that stuff out easily

For a trackpad, don't you have to manually select all that text, hit delete, then start typing again? Or is there a better way I'm not thinking of
"But these mechanisms work only if officials consciously activate them."

I wonder what is harder to maintain, a corrupt system for a few people, or an equitable system for many?
I agree. Multiple monitors (or one larger monitor) facilitate cross-referencing more than anything else for me.

As a side note, I've lately been using a hi-res monitor which my company purchased for a vision-impaired individual (who has since retired). It is really nice! Until you use one you don't realize how much fine resolution reduces your eyestrain.
I guess that's true.

As someone who'd like to buy more munis however, I'm frustrated that I don't get a "piece" of the tax-savings. But you're right, the perspective is about reducing the %rates that cities / states pay, not about increasing the $$$ in my pocket as an investor.
Really? Where do you get that statement?

According to [1], 63.4 million or 53% of American households own dogs.

And why do you think it's a study within "intervention type = mechanical" ?

The studies I looked at subsume "tablet" within "computer, smartphone, or tablet" so I'm not sure what we're comparing here.

[1] https://spots.com/pet-ownership-statistics/
I've never seen or heard of a technical manager with an MBA... I've seen plenty of technical people, with an aptitude for it, move into management and pick up the ropes, so I'm skeptical that an MBA provides anything but a neutral or even negative signal in these situations.
> why ignore natural immunity?

Why avoid vaccination, after infection? Apparently it's quite beneficial to get vaccinated then.
Why insinuate I was instigating a pissing match?

I answered sincerely and in some areas corrected you. Thats it.
I didnt attempt to "out credential" you. Your post felt like it was insinuating we are shady and so I answered. Correcting you isn't a pissing match.

Had I wanted to engage in a pissing match I would have let you know that I did 18 years in prison and became a software engineer afterwards. I intimately know what it takes for our mentees to do what we are trying to help them do. I did it. I grew up in prison and then later became a developer. All that is true but I was just answering your questions and felt no need to tell you why I think I have the perspective and knowledge to do what we are doing.

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=De...
IMO the best moba out there right now, well balanced, the art is great and the mechanics are fun

if you are fan of blizzard games then this is your game, most of the known heroes are in the game trying to gank each other
They have a monopoly over letters and your mailbox. See: https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-bulletin/privatizing-us-post....
Ask HN: What tunes does this doorbell play?
Welcome back to the world of early 00s monophonic cellphones :)

Circa a half of the tunes were recognized already, but the rest remains a miracle.

https://0x0.st/-gNY.ogg

I believe, all of them are royalty-free already: classic, old musicals, folk, campfire & nursery songs and so.

· 00:02 — Big Ben

· 00:10 — für Elise

· 00:17 — "Please, open the door"

· 00:23 — Minuet in G Major

· 00:35 — Cancan

· 00:51 — Cats Musical — Memory

· 01:03 — My Old Kentucky Home

· 01:26 — ?

· 01:40 — "ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ"

· 01:46 — ?

· 01:55 — ?

· 02:09 — ?

· 02:20 — ?

· 02:30 — bird whistle

· 02:33 — Alle Vögel sind schon da

· 02:42 — ?

· 02:50 — Подмосковные вечера

· 03:01 — ?

· 03:18 — Johannes Brahms — Guten Abend, gut’ Nacht

· 03:32 — ?

· 03:46 — ?

· 03:58 — ?

· 04:20 — ?

· 04:33 — Happy birthday to you

· 04:44 — Old McDonald had a farm

· 05:06 — ?

· 05:18 — ABCDEFG, you are hiding far from me

· 05:28 — ?

· 05:33 — ?

· 05:49 — London bridge is falling down

· 06:02 — plain ding-dong

Please help.
Correct. It’s a cycle I know they will adjust to if that happened. I don’t make the rules there.
Once it’s a habit, it is automatically executed without active attention, so the majority of your daily routine is simply not an activity you “partake in”.
If too many people decide to withdraw their money from any financial system (e.g. banks, brokers, exchanges, etc.), you can expect there to be liquidity problems. These are not Ponzis.

This distinction doesn't even make sense though. The Tethers aren't redeemable directly from the Tether company. People redeem Tether for USD by market transaction. As these Tethers are just USD IOUs, it doesn't seem to matter much whether they are fully backed by USD, as long as there is liquidity to buy and sell them for their full USD value as required.
My friend lives in Fairfax and her school district feeds into TJ, so I assumed it was in Fairfax. This is a front-and-center issue for her.
Its kind of cool seeing this reality become known by more and more people to the point where I think most people kind of understand this now. Just a small piece of evidence for this is the resurgence, and regaining popularity, of the one monitor workflow.
Friendly reminder that the purpose of the vaccines was to reduce death and severe disease, which all of the approved vaccines continue to do, even as “immunity from infection” wanes.
Norvig wasn't given a random problem that he then solved quickly. He picked the problem to work on. I'm sure I can give him problems of similar complexity that I work on for my job and he wouldn't do it that quickly. Quicker than me, for sure - but it wouldn't be hard to find someone who does it quicker than he did.

I'm sure I can find problems that I can solve quickly and amaze people. Being able to pick your own problems makes for a bad metric for identifying 10x programmers.
Kinda feels like putting types in the comments like JSDoc or Dialyzer. I don't use Rust enough to comment otherwise.
I absolutely agree, but this sort of tragedy is a bit unavoidable. What language would you choose to have that ecosystem instead? The next thing right now is probably JS which is even worse. Every language has plenty of issues. Python's worst IMO is how C extensions and other stuff are tied to an interpreter definitely unsuited for it's popularity. Parallelism shouldn't really creep in considering how most code is written. The only language I can think of being better is Lisp if somehow the lisp curse wasn't a thing.
We seem to have an inherent disagreement on how critical social justice (CSJ) activists use the Motte-and-Bailey tactic. I think we need to resolve that first, so that we are standing on solid ground.

I'll restate what I believe is your position: The moderate Motte of DEI, let's make sure everyone gets along and are treated equally, is compatible with the equity-based Bailey of the more radical DEI activists. It is just a matter of level of moderation.

How do you reconcile the liberal individualistic Motte with the CSJ radical group-based equity-model Bailey?

This is the problem I see with your position:

My opinion is that the CSJ adherents withdraw to the symmetric enforcement mechanism of a liberal individual Motte to defend the asymmetric radically group equity-based model of the Bailey. Because the asymmetric model is incompatible with the symmetric model this makes it effectively a lie covering up for their true radical position, a lie that provide cover until high resistance has abated.

Once the Motte lie has served its purpose to weather the high resistance, the true position of the Bailey is used to affect change.

--- examples in context --

Here are this claim put into context, annotated with the enforcement mechanism.

DEI:

- (group asymmetric enforcement) Radical Bailey of DEI is to seek Diversity (hiring activists of all identities - a black conservative is not diverse), inclusion (censorship of people resisting CSJ DEI initiatives), and Equity (redistribution of outcomes based upon identities and adherence to CSJ).

- (individual symmetric enforcement) The Motte lie is to claim it is just trying to "make sure everyone gets along and are treated equally".

Whistleblower claim:

- (group asymmetric enforcement) radical Bailey of whistleblower censoring "hate speech" not compliant with CSJ using a ministry of truth

- (individual symmetric enforcement) Motte lie is to claim it is just trying to "make sure we all get along and behave well" .
How is it easier to move your hand to a trackpad than it is to keep your hands right on the keyboard, do `ci)` which is (c)hange (i)nside `)` to delete all of a function's parameters and instantly be retyping them?

I don't understand how you can speak so authoritatively as if I'm accessing a completely different part of my brain when I'm using vim modes when I'm telling you that having to navigate a cursor to click, drag, and select all text is so much more context switching

And also, that ci) command? It's a language. You can do `ci"`, which is (c)hange (i)nside " to instantly change a string without having to hold the backspace button or manipulate a cursor.
Yes. My role in the company is dealing with employees directly. It’s really slow for my team and I on Fridays.

I’m almost at the point where I’ll give them alternating Friday’s off individually. One person will get a Friday off, then the next Friday the other employee, etc etc.

It’s slow for us.
Hmm. I'm guessing we're not talking about playing Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Half-Life, STALKER, etc here.
I haven't really been able to play it since, although I think that has been more about the evolution of the series turning into a more ... teen drama as far as maturity goes.

It was never drama free, lots of personal stories and reflections, but it felt like those topics were somewhat more balanced against a larger story / mature / etc. After a while everything seemed to get more immature / sappy / etc.
>I think the only time I've found people this far off the main track is users that only know C#/mono coming from Unity Engine.

Damn, almost direct hit. I was a game developer for a year or so about 10 years ago. We were using xna.
We don't have to, we just need to keep the numbers low enough that hospitals function properly
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel. This prize was created in 1968. It is not a Nobel Prize, and should not be called a "Nobel Prize".

This should not be interpreted as a judgment on the work of Professor McCloskey, which I am not as familiar with as I would like to be.
Yes, and they use keywords, wich is basically another flavor of curly braces.
How best to achieve this? I'm considering Astronomer or AWS hosted airflow, with a benefit to AWS having the compute components easily accessible within the AWS ecosystem.

Starting out with a smaller scale and lower commitment to Airflow, so I'd like highest reliability with least hassle.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-managed-...
Wonder no more: https://i.imgur.com/DGuoj9p.png
I tried this but it rules out doing antialiasing in the fragment shader.
Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or a way home
Some white dwarfs are older than they look
Is it possible to create a free speech reddit alternative that doesn't immediately turn into a right wing extremist site? My mind immediately turns to the Paradox of Tolerance, and I think the answer is no.
The military contracts that a company whose CEO has huge ties to China is expected to get?

I realize the US security and military apparatus has gladly been turning a blind eye to Musk's ties with the CCP, but at some point reality imposes itself on you. You can only ignore it for so long, much to the chagrin of the Trump and Biden administrations.
+1

Xterm.js is really impressive in what it can do, but it was pretty tough to get started with as someone who just wanted to pipe shell input/output over HTTP requests to a server. I realize streamlining that usecase is probably out of scope for the Xterm team, but I think there's a space for either some tutorials or a higher-level wrapper library
Capturing values, which isn't really obvious with functions.
If you're paid weekly and make 12 bucks an hour, your paycheck will be about 350 bucks after taxes.

BofA charges $6 or $8 (sources vary) to cash a non-customer check drawn on them, paychecks might be waived, or might not be.

Wells Fargo charges $7.50 again, paychecks might be waived, or might not be.

Chase charges $6 or $8 (sources vary) again, paychecks might be waived, or might not be.

Citibank is free for checks under $5000, Capital One is also free, SunTrust is free for Personal Checks, but $7 for business checks.

US Bank is $5, again paychecks might be waived, or might not be.

PNC Bank is a whopping $10, again paychecks might be waived, or might not be.

This is on top of having to get to the bank during 'Bankers Hours' if you have a service job, or are working poor, thats a hard proposition sometimes. While I'm no fan of Payday lenders, their rates are usurious and prey on the poor, for the underbanked, they provide a vital service. I got lucky, even though I was in ChexSystems and couldn't open an account anywhere, I had an account with BofA so I could do banking.

2-3% plus a small service fee seems like a pretty good deal comparatively.

It's a good impulse to want to crack down on these practices, but until you fix the supply side issues of making banking available to everyone, you're just hurting poor people.

Thats the issue often these days, we target the symptoms of the problems in society without targeting any of the root causes, so we just end up squeezing the poor tighter and tighter. You can only ratchet up the misery so much before something gives.
They are supposed to, that's what's causing the problem.
The acid in cider will aggressively dissolve any iron or copper it comes into contact with, giving it a blue/green color and corresponding taste. One thing I ran into with my old press was some paint finish flaking off, exposing the iron beneath- is it possible that you had something similar, allowing inadvertent iron exposure?

For this project, every single screw or sheet of metal that touched the cider is made from food-grade stainless steel to prevent this issue.
After 2 years you still felt that way? I've been using it for ~5 years and felt that after a year or so having to think about vim melted away and it just feels like the natural way to edit text, I barely think about the modes I'm in anymore

It's that line in the Matrix where he goes "Eventually you don't see the numbers. You just see blonde, redhead, brunette"