skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, what you say is pretty typical for a lot of North American cities--and elsewhere as well. (Although many/most don't have the nature and recreation options.)

There's nothing wrong with them necessarily. But unless you specifically value living in a city for some walkable access to a few restaurants, markets, etc. there usually are not a lot of unique entertainment and other options that aren't available pretty much everywhere that isn't very rural.
The pleasure of Shawn’s company

Is what I most enjoy.

He put a tack on Ms. Yancey’s chair

When she called him a horrible boy.

At the end of the month he was flinging two kittens

Across the width of the room.

I count on his schemes to show me a way now

Of getting away from my gloom.

[context: in Mission Impossible 3, Tom Cruise coerces Philip Seymour Hoffman into reading a poem containing all English phonemes to train the model to clone his voice. We are literally living in Mission Impossible now]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/literalminded.wordpress.com/200...

Original clip:
https://youtu.be/CgX4uJSj00Y
How get invite to nomad slack?
I wasn't looking for something fast, as I'm happy to write some code in C anyway for something performance-sensitive, and most of the stuff I was going to write in Janet would be for interactive use. I was more interested in having a simple VM and a language that wasn't piling on new features every release like mainstream blub languages.

I also wanted a language that gave a straightforward mental model without an opinionated philosophy that tried to protect me from mutability and other real-world things (hence I didn't really want to go with Haskell and ~purely functional languages).

FWIW I also think the syntax errors in Janet are somewhat hard to grok.

> So I feel like my time is better invested learning Racket instead?

I think it depends. If you want a language you can always rely on for 99% of use cases, something that covers many bases makes sense. For me, I wanted more of a fill-in-the-gaps language where neither C nor /bin/sh scripting make sense (e.g. stuff I may run on Windows or something heavy in string-handling).
Yep, 50% fail rate there. And arguably even Darwin too, so make that 75% fail rate. I lose.
I think the easiest solution is to stop providing access after the free trial until they opt-in to a subscription. That way there’s no surprise charge if they forget.
Correction, one of Hotspot's GC implementations, there are plenty of Java implementations to chose from.

Including ones with soft real time GC for performance critical deployments like PTC and Aicas.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm

Anyone picking a traditional JVM for such workloads is doing it wrong.
Finra is DOWN Access denied – www.finra.org used Cloudflare to restrict access
If you want to blow your mind more by a few orders of magnitude, Voyager 1 is currently 23,143,000,000 km from Earth. Its taken 44 years to get to that position.
> Usually when you get to the end of "false" claims, you find some tidbits that make you wonder... such as:

Could you please explain what exactly did you interpreted from a statement that boils down to "no one showed that this actually works"? The fact check looks pretty cut and dry to me.
> we allow people to cancel anytime and have refunded everyone that has forgotten to cancel

Probably not, because your users are people who will forget to cancel and then forget to tell you about that.

> Some people also like having the subscription because it is a pay per use model

What does this mean? It sounds like users are complaining that if they download the app and don't use it it charges them $100.

> Would love any suggestions on how to improve this.

Howabout when the free trial ends, at that time the user has to approve a charge before continuing to use the app.
I don't know what you mean by "you're dead", but as to your comments, people are indeed "free" to practice ignorance.

Compassion for it sure, but at the intellectual level tolerance for mistruths is a kind of relativism that I don't think the Buddha would abide.

It is not "oppressive" to state this.
I knew about nomad (and it makes sense given it has from the start a more corporate, on-prem audience), didn't know/remember about KubeVirt. Hopefully I won't have any use for it in my scenario but thanks for the link!
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
I would argue that, if the scope of impact on a change is that large, then, by definition, you have not encapsulated your implementation.

(That, or you should not have made the change that way in the first place. Much like best practices for API changes involve shipping a new version in parallel and then slowly migrating everything over to it, a breaking change to the behavior of a class that really does have a legitimate reason to be used pervasively - say, a collection - shouldn't be done by just suddenly breaking all the code that uses it.)

Which speaks to exactly the distinction I'm trying to draw when I say, "a tendency to favor explicitly state-oriented idioms over properly encapsulating state." Note that simply sticking getters and setters on your state is not the same thing as encapsulating it.

It's kind of hard to explain the difference except by example, so I'm not really prepared to dive into it here. To be honest, I think the best way to get a feel for it is to read and understand the source code of an early Smalltalk system. Smalltalk-80 is small enough that one can get a decent feel for how everything works in an evening or two.
Not available in Germany either
I polled HN a while back : https://imgur.com/qdSltlM

Looks like a perfect normal distribution around 4-8 hours a day, not affected by seniority.

The original poll: https://strawpoll.com/47x15cf1
Show HN: Atomd.py v0.2.5 – Markdown Lexer and HTML Parser
The purpose of this project is to provide "atomic" control over how the markdown is parsed.

This is achieved by allowing the developer to have direct control over what the tokens are replaced with.

I apologize for the lack of documentation, but if you take a look at html.py it's pretty self explanatory.

Would love some feedback!
Appreciate the feedback and we're working on potential solutions to this. We do refund everybody who requests one and send reminder emails and notification within 2 days of the free trial ending.
Isn’t that begging the question?
As bad as both scrum and safe are, they’re miles better than the old waterfall methodology. At least with corporate agile you usually ship something.
Yeah, it’s a great point. I always assumed that there was so much tool churning just because of the nature of the front-end itself as a target for building software.

However I think the “Cambrian explosion” point here makes a lot of sense.
He's basically a professor with (>>>) 20 years of professional speaking and comedy experience (regular professors mostly just speak with people who have paid to agree with them).

I can pretty much guarantee you that if the wizard decided men should take over the world (HA, good luck) you would have a surprising amount of fun debating that position with him. You would do well to understand that he's pretty subversive and might never know if he's actually on the side he says he's on or not (possibly asking really nicely would do it).

A lot of people who talk to the "wizard" are a lot stupider than the wizard.

I cannot believe those idiots at the city council do not understand the value of what they have. Even if the guy starts to lose his marbles he'll still be able to provide directions for Americans and maybe if it gets really bad he could be given aspirin or assisted suicide pills (properly labelled, obviously) to hand out to the Dutch.
I'm not talking about allowing responsible gun ownership.

I'm talking about the fact that a person whose ostensible role in society is enforcing laws and ensuring public safety told a psychologically stressed out person facing death threats to take an action that increases their risk of death by suicide by 3x.

This is not a criticism of responsible gun ownership. This is a criticism of the idea that "owning more guns will solve public safety problems," which is demonstrably false.
What textbook would that be? Fascism is a political ideology, not just another word for being an asshole.
The low-hanging fruit have been picked over. The easy wins of SaaS and consumer web tech have been won already, but they still have an obligation to generate the same levels of profit (have you ever seen a company gracefully shrink with its industry, especially a financialised company?), so they will start to both go for niches, and go for exploitation. Growth is always most rapid at the introduction of a new industry, and if you're a hypercapitalist (as VCs tend to be) you're going to be under pressure to see continued profit levels long after the industry can sustain them healthily.
'scientists' are not a homogeneous group. Some are good, some are bad. The world would be better off with some dead, and better off with others living forever.

Few would wince for example, had someone wished an early death to mengele, while many would wish Einstein or Feynman were still around.
Avoiding Recursive Invocation with Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda
My housemate's family grows wild rice in California. But, some land is now too dry. So, he is thinking of putting up solar panels.

Other farmers are experimenting with grazing animals like sheep. Intensive grazing (as per Allan Savory) may prevent, or even reverse, desertification. The shade helps mitigate the intense noonday sun in a warming climate.
Oh yes, refuse. I'm sure no one will try to force you.
All-cause deaths are also now running well above normal in Germany
Ah yeah, trying to get out of this pandemic is none of society's business, except for the last 18 months...
So many people are losing their jobs in this pandemic, it's very sad.
The massive difference that you are overlooking, however, is the fact that ADHD Brains are neurologically and/or biochemically incapable of defense against this.

That inner voice telling you what to do or what not to do? ADHD brains have... well, let's just say "something else".. in its place.
That is effectively what is being proposed by OP. The pro-vaxx side should 'take the high road' 100% of the time and only engage in good faith debate. Speak the truth loudly and proudly, but don't you dare criticize those who peddle 'alternative facts.'
So after watching Bob Nystrom's talk: I have actually seen it before, its a very good talk and I definitely agree with him and with his solutions. But, as he even says himself, its not a replacement for ECS if you need that kind of complexity, just that for what he was doing its overkill and that depending on what you're doing it may also be overkill, and that his simple solutions solved those particular problems really well for him, in a way that is much simpler than ECS. I completely agree with that.

Of course, he didn't go into much detail about when you might need an ECS other than "when you have something graphically complex" (paraphrased), I would extend that to include: 1) when your entity modelling is becoming a performance bottleneck, 2) when your entities are becoming complex enough that you want to have anything become anything; you could build on what he proposed to make this work by making more complex and flexible components but at some point using an ECS may well just save on effort, especially if you use an existing one like what Bevy has or EnTT in C++, 3) your logic can naturally decompose into systems that operate on sets of components and you have a lot of components to operate on.

In all three of my additions, scale is a factor. If you only have 10 entities, then you can solve all 3 with less effort in other ways. Similarly, if you only have 10 components or 10 systems, its not such a big deal. If you have tens of thousands of entities, a hundred components and a few dozen systems, then an ECS is probably the right choice.

For me, I like the ECS style. I also like the solutions proposed in his talk. I'm also not planning on writing my own ECS ever but using existing ones (I've tinkered a lot with EnTT in C++).
Indeed, but the same could be said about therapy, or anything really. Therapists don’t charge you a year up front as far as I know.
When it comes to managing your git repo's support for releases, you might like our alternative to git-flow, which we jokingly call "git-ebb":

https://gitlab.com/northscaler-public/release-management

It's a fairly low-tech set of shell scripts that implement a release management strategy that is based on one release branch per minor version. All it does is manage version strings, release commits, release branches & release tags. You can hook your CI/CD into it whenever you're ready for that.

We've used it to great effect on many client projects.

The workflow is pretty simple for a new release (assume a Node.js project in this example):

0. Your main ("main", "master", "trunk", "dev") branch is where all new features go. Assume our next version is going to be "2.3.0", so the version in the main branch starts out at "2.3.0-pre.0". If you need dev prereleases, issue them any time you'd like with `./release nodejs pre`. This will bump the version to "2.3.0-pre.1", "2.3.0-pre.2", etc each time.

1. Ceremony: decide that you're feature complete for your next release.

2. Use the release script to cut a release candidate ("rc"), say, with `./release nodejs rc`. You'll end up with a new branch of the form vmajor.minor, so v2.3 in this example, and the version in that branch will be 2.3.0-rc.0. Appropriate git tags will also be created. The version in the main branch is bumped to 2.4.0-pre.0, for the next minor release.

3. Test your release candidate, releasing more release candidates to your heart's content with `./release nodejs rc`. Meanwhile, developers can start working on new features off of the main branch.

4. Ceremony: decide you're bug-free enough to perform a "generally available" (GA) release.

5. Perform a GA release with `./release nodejs ga`. This will tag a release commit as "2.3.0", push the tag, then bump the version in the release branch (v2.3) to "2.3.1-rc.0".

6. If you find a bug in production, fix it in the release branch, issue as many RCs as you need until it's fixed, then finally release your patch with `./release nodejs patch`. You'll get a release commit & tag "2.3.1", and the version will be bumped to "2.3.2-rc.0". Lastly, cherry pick, (often, literally "git cherry-pick -x <sha>") the change(s) back to the main branch if the bug still applies there; 99% of the time, it will.

7. Repeat ad nauseum.

This allows you at least manage your versions, branches & git tags in a sane & portable way that's low-tech enough for anyone to work on and understand. It's also got plenty of idiot-proofing in it so that it's hard to shoot yourself in the foot.

Further, it's very customizable. After years of use across lots & lots of projects, we recommend using "dev" as your main branch name and as your main branch's prerelease suffix, and using "qa" as your release branch's prerelease suffix. The defaults are "pre" & "rc", and too many folks are using these scripts nowadays for us to change the defaults.
Thanks, I appreciate your response on this, but I'd be interested in your thoughts on the following two points specifically:

- Why have you chosen to make users opt out of a subscription when the free trial ends, rather than letting them opt in?

- Why is the annual payment option pushed so hard, in favour of the monthly payment option?

I'm reiterating this because promoting an opt-in, monthly payment model (thus giving more opportunities for any unintentional ongoing payments to be noticed by the payer) seems to me to be the kindest approach to subscriptions for users with ADHD, and a model that would be most empathetic to their condition.
Given a sufficiently advanced chip which included all chemical interactions (or effective simulations), why wouldn't they be?

If after the transition is complete we determine/decide they aren't conscious, then we have to argue about at what point the 'hybrid' brain ceases to manifest consciousness, and why. Maybe the organic parts would start to change their prior functionality in response to the synthesized parts... but that would suggest we just didn't have a complete enough model of the neuron and we're back to square one. Once that model is complete, there should by definition be no problem, unless you want to argue it can never be complete, for which you then need evidence to convince everyone.

I say it's worth continued study.
Yup, there's a lot more bootstrappers who think the opposite: "why bust my ass doing 20jobs at once trying to get a business going when I could just show up and do plumbing and earn 10x more at FAANG."
> Single-Page-Apps can be amazing.

> You can make a great Single-Page-App with a User Experience that a traditional site will never be able to close to matching.

What is actually meant by this? What is an example of a feature that can be far better in a SPA than in an MPA?
What if Facebook sued? Then would it be SLAPP?
I have found myself increasingly interested in understanding the reasons behind what motivates the people making these threats.

My interests aren't really in the threats per se, but rather, the hostility towards science.

Do they have poor critical thinking skills?

Why are they so angry about the scientists? Do they consider science some sort of a threat ?

Maybe there is a mental illness at play? Maybe not in the generally angry people, but at least in the minds of the people who actually make the threats. I suppose one may take anti-social action without being mentally ill, just immature.

Fundamentally, I'm curious about how their brains work. By what thought processes do they reach their conclusions?
It's a correlation with poverty and gangs. If you take out gang on gang and suicide, assumung neither is relevant to you, it's true that the numbers become much better.
Sure, I guess my point is that it's not a simple equation.

Personally, I think the plastics in the ocean are probably more harmful than the emissions required to clean it up, but it's not as simple as saying "look, we cleaned it up and now there's x-amount less pollution".

I probably shouldn't make such brief, inarticulate comments.
honestly not if it gives facebook control of the VR market.
Borg is what k8s could be if there were any kind of ground rules and people were willing to call out some use cases as being legitimately stupid. Compared to k8s, Borg is a model of usability and simplicity.
Bear spray.

Also, increased monitoring on a vulnerable person with known death threats against them.

Also, if it were available, counseling.
We played Calvinball [1] instead. It was certainly fun, but not particularly profitable.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/05/27
> Magnetic scanners. Strong evidence in my opinion.

> I think you shouldn't start with steel, you should start with chemicals that produce nervous signals.

The idea being that none of this is direct evidence of consciousness. These give you evidence for answers to soft problems, a block of steel cannot see because it does not have eyes to see. If you attached eyes it would not see, because it would not have an optical cortex. If you gave it an optical cortex it would not see because it does not have... etc.

You can solve all of these soft problems, but they would never tell you how the block of steel experiences the color red, the "qualia" of vision. That's the hard problem. All of the soft problems are "minor" by comparison.
Molnupiravir seems pretty good. I think in the trials eight people died in the placebo group, zero with the drug.
This distinction isn't quite so clear-cut. At least in Ontario, any form of documentation listing the voter's name is sufficient [1], which they explicitly state can include a credit/debit card. The more stringent voter ID laws in some parts of the US (e.g. Texas) tend to concern government-issued photo IDs [2].

EDIT: Note, in particular, that a utility bill (e.g. a gas bill as mentioned in an ancestor comment) is sufficient in Ontario. For the purposes of this comment thread, this would fall into the (allegedly) laughable situation of lacking voter ID.

[1] https://www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in-ontario/id-requirem...

[2] https://www.votetexas.gov/mobile/id-faqs.htm
The closer to the equator that you launch the more of an advantage you get from the rotation of the earth. Your starting velocity is higher launching from the equator than from a point closer to the poles of the earth.

It is launching on an Ariane 5 rocket which has the launch facilities in French Guiana (for the reason I mentioned above).

Edit: Vandenburg is also even worse from this perspective because in order to launch out over the ocean, you are launching against the rotation of the Earth so you have to overcome that velocity. But Vandenburg is often used for polar orbits where the rocket launches almost due south from Vandenburg over the ocean.
Wow, that’s pretty good hah! (Well, in a misleading the consumer but quite clever way anyway)

A decade plus ago I worked alongside a team of writers, and they always kept alcohol in their desks. I totally understand why now.
- Opt in free trial without putting in card details
- Longer free trial
- One-off purchase vs subscription
- Web sign-up

In addition to these we also send email and notification reminders before the free trial ends and refund everybody who requests one.
Insulting people publicly for their support of legal rules is socially acceptable only in the Facebook age. In other times, the person on the receiving end would have challenged you to a duel.
Main metrics to measure developers productivity
Study: 'Sociability' hormone didn't help kids with autism
'Contact Tracing' for COVID:

https://www.9news.com.au/national/wa-police-stand-by-decisio...
I'd guess: because it's easy and it works, and it is far from the most important thing to work on?
> In fact if you remove a single demographic from gun violence statistics, the US becomes one of the top 5 or so safest nations, in spite of the highest rate of gun ownership in the world.

Did you also remove "a single demographic" from these other nations gun violence statistics?

If you remove the poorest segment of the US population form all statistics, I'm sure the US is going to look a lot better in many ways compared to the full population of other nations.
But wouldn't that cause problems with disclosure of patient data?

I.e., if you want to explain ML decisions, you'd have to provide the training data, which is sensitive data.
I don't think free will matters at all for consciousness.

How is a world where your will is decided by quarks randomly zagging instead of zigging any more open to free will than a deterministic world?
I like that option. You don't have to find something that would give a hard border between "conscious" and "unconscious" entities, nor claim qualia doesn't exist, nor claim a rock has a level of consciousness equivalent to that of humans.
Becoming a Hacker in Missouri
> But users don't care about any of that. Users don't have the mental model to differentiate search terms and a URL. Chrome's decision was correct. It's surprising how long Firefox stuck with their bad (IMHO) design.

I think you're making the mistake of thinking of "users" as a monolithic, lowest common denominator group. There are users who think like you describe, and there are users who do not. Also catering to people's existing (perhaps oversimple) mental models ensures those models never change.

One of the PR issues with Firefox is that it has/had many features that suited the latter group, but decided to drop them to ape Chrome.
My question is simply "why am I me?" Why and how is my personal point of view fixed to this particular lump of meat and I never wake up one day as you?
I agree. VS Code is a perfectly nice general purpose IDE but for Python work there’s really no comparison to PyCharm.