skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I went to college my only friends at that school were from HS, both were Presbyterian. I went to their campus group (they had a building, some students lived there). About half of the people there were Presbyterian, the rest of us were just friends with them (some religious, others not). So while the community ostensibly formed around the particular church, it had a more diverse group and we all had different interests. The common thing was that we mostly enjoyed each others' company, and then smaller groups formed around specific kinds of activities. Some of us were more video game nerds, or anime nerds, or we formed intramural sports teams, etc.

I also joined the IEEE student society and, later, the ACM student society. While they formed around the technical disciplines, they weren't as specific as a movie watching club. This offered similar opportunities to the other environment.

These broader groups have general social activities and events that are good opportunities to meet people without there being a specific focus. Another element of these groups is that you often don't need to be a member to go to their social events. That church group had cookouts every once in a while. People could just walk up and eat and talk, we didn't care if they were properly part of the group or not. If you see announcements for things or pass by an event, join in. You may meet people you like, or not, but you have to take the chance.

As far as setting up activities, start simple. If I were in college right now, this weekend I'd want to see Dune. I'd invite whoever I knew and suggest dinner and a movie. The movie is the impetus to get people out, the dinner is the opportunity to talk. Do it in either order (dinner then movie, movie then dinner), though the latter is nice because it means there is no clock on the dinner (c'mon people, we've got to go or we'll miss the movie). Then you can branch out from there. Whatever you're interested in, start inviting people but try to have a social component, a chance to just sit and talk. Learn their interests and if you see or hear something that may be of interest to them but is not high on your own list, still suggest it.

Like, I enjoy white water rafting, it's fun, but it's not my thing. I've had friends who would do it every weekend if there were no cost or travel time. So I still threw it out as an activity sometimes because I knew that it would be of interest to some of my friends, even if it was a take-it-or-leave it thing for me.
That's where I think browsers are failing us (slightly).
For me the best way to use RSS would be directly along bookmarks. The browser would should next to the title the number of unread posts and that's it! That would be amazingly simple to use and efficient.
I endorse everyone in wealthy countries who pushes equity movements to be driven to the global median income. And while we're at it force their children into median schools.
It's WCCFTech. They're well known for clickbait.
Fine, break it up and let the chips fall where they may. So many people on HN like to tout that if businesses don't have a market, or a product people want, or whatever, then they should fail. Why should Alphabet's numerous companies be any different?

There would be a net benefit to the world that would absolutely outweigh the collateral damage of that relatively small handful of people losing their jobs.
The modern version of it is still being sold today as ClearPath MCP by Unisys.

https://www.unisys.com/news-release/uk-unisys-takes-flagship...

One of the marking features is its use of memory safe systems programming languages, initially ESPOL and then NEWP, about 10 year before C was even an idea.
I just read “ Lorem ipsum dolor…” everywhere in the page.
There is a problem with this, and that is the amount of time required to truly develop expertise in a weapons system may be significant.

I estimate I have fired > 5,000 rounds of 5.56 and > 100,000 rounds of 7.62, and, I have worked as an armorer, and while my weapon handling may have been safe, it would be insufficient to create a safe environment, because that is inherently an organizational function

You personally need the training with each of the firearms you are handling, as well as the oversight of safety personnel, and a safety culture with strong processes. You also need the safe equipment since a mechanical failure can easily cause one of these accidents too.

People, processes, technology, and leadership.

On a low-budget film pressed for $, & time, neglecting safety, I think it is much easier to understand how this tragedy occurred.
> When reporters lie then there careers should be over.

hahahahaha ... no but really, were you born yesterday?

I am kind of curious what the reporter who covered for dear leader thinks of all this, if she's even aware of anything (they rarely are).
Felt like a legit update... Looking forward to putting these units up against the Surface line we currently deploy... I believe they have a good chance at crushing competition!
But that's not what happened according to the article. It says Baldwin was practicing pulling the gun out of the holster. Do you have any sources that say he deliberately fired?

A blank has a normal amount of gun powder. Brandon Lee was killed by the tip of a dummy bullet that was propelled by a blank charge. Unless someone snuck live ammo on set, then it seems like something like that must have happened here.
Unpopular opinion: Webflow and CSS docs.

Webflow will teach you every pattern for building pretty things and docs will let you match the buttons to code.
Quickly guys and gals. The only way to really keep this feature and allow an incentive for VS team to develop the software is to figure out a business plan for MS. There's no big progress without VS designers and tools for new features, and there is no big step forward without .net cross-platform adaptation including all kinds of devices. They are not going to provide all tools for all platforms, but they still have to have their playground called VS to push new features (like the mentioned Azure support). Quickly guys and gals, give them a sustainable business idea.
Go to events for people that have the same interests you do. You're likely to make some friends at events like this if you go to a lot of them.
No thanks. Last thing I want is to be carpet bombed with un-targeted ads...
While Tesla knows more info about how you use or operate the car, the big piece that matters to your privacy is arguable the vehicle location and that is not at all unique to Tesla. Many (most?) vehicles produced in the last decade have a GSM modem that pretty much continuously leaks your data at least to the cellular networks, and likely the vehicle manufacturer/operator. I used to physically remove the modem from my cars were possible.
Less repetitions. Instead of

roo(X, W) :- zut(X, Z), pum(Z, Y), tos(Y, W)

we could write something like

roo/2 :- zut . pum . tos
Same in Southern Germany 40 years ago. We would carve faces into turnips. After dark we would put a small candle inside & place them in front of a neighbour‘s door. We rang the bell and hid. If the „turnip-ghosts“ were to the neighbours‘ delight, they would put a few coins or treats next to them. We did this for the whole neighbourhood.

Once a guy who moved in only recently from a different area in Germany wasn’t aware of the tradition. He took them inside! We were probably equally offended by this reaction as he was by what he must have thought was a very strange way to say „welcome“ from his new neighbours in this godforsaken place he got stranded for a job :D
I mean we might as well shut down electricity to all of our homes if we want to make this argument. And we could argue with each other over snail mail.

But I suspect that will actually be worse from CO2 emissions perspective.
They take very good care of their staff.
Sounds like the low-commitment option of going out for food might make the most sense then!
This is too narrow a view. Social events are widely advertised, the offer does not need to be directed specifically at you.
I don’t intend to sound harsh, genuine question: what are you bringing to the table besides an idea? I feel ideas are not worth much — the only time they attract money and talent is once they become into being and their value prop is plain to see.

In lieu of that it’s a lot of rhetoric (not unimportant; valuable in many contexts), but not exactly a talent attractor.
The example chart of a "highly optimized game" shows games systems being multithreaded (in addition to physics). As far as I am aware, this is still pretty rare in games, unless I am wrong. I know Unity is trying to parallelize gameplay code (rather than just networking, I/O etc) via DOTs, to mixed results. Are there other games[0] or engines that are attempting to do this? I know their are GDC talks from Naughty Dog and Bungie about how they parallelized their engines, but the Bungie one about Destiny still made it seem like the gameplay logic was still largely single threaded.

[0] I believe Noita (a falling sand type game) parallelizes the falling sand update loop by breaking the screen up into different regions with "dirty" rects and splitting that work out amongst multiple threads.
It's a kind of a weird move from Microsoft. Is Satya Nadella
- the man that pushed Microsoft towards Open Source - still Microsoft's CEO or the position was take over by bad guys and girls like Julia Liuson? It's kid of a Dr Jekyll vs Mr Hyde.

You can not have the cake and still eat it. I guess the push of .NET and other tools towards Open Source would yield motre bennefits in the long term than trying to castrate it in the hope they will sell a few more Visual Studio licenses.

The company I work for is developing a big product using .NET. But it does it because it runs on Linux and it can nicely be integrated with many open source tools. If .NET wasn't open sourced, I guess they wouldn't have used .NET.

I used Visual Studio until now because I genuinely prefer the experience, not because I was forced into it because some features were taken off from open source .NET tools. I do understand that people want to develop on other OS-es than Windows and using other IDEs than Visual Studio. And Microsoft has to understand it too if they want .NET to continue to be successful.

NET only has two paths: to continue being open source and to flourish or to die. >NET running only on Windows and/or with only good tooling available on Windows will die. If they push .NET towards being closed - it's their right, they pay for the development - they might win a small amount of money on short term but they will lose everything in the long term. I hope they aren't idiots.
My thoughts as well
Given the adoption and direction crypto is going with decentralization, we can imagine some new/future incarnation of the technology to exist, possibly on new mediums.

In short, blockchains don't die. They may become zombies, but they never die. Tokens and profit keep them alive; without, they just go dormant.

Therefore, I would suggest a blockchain called Arweave that delivers the permanence for your website:

"Arweave is a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to truly store data forever – for the very first time.

As a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets, Arweave allows us to remember and preserve valuable information, apps, and history indefinitely. By preserving history, it prevents others from rewriting it."

https://www.arweave.org

And Akord offers the product for your children and grandchildren:

https://www.akord.com
Don't forget that you need to use OAuth for everything so even if they have a simple API, they can shut your whole app's access down at any time, not just individual users.
>Was my rejection of the durian, Southeast Asia’s King of Fruits, a betrayal of my cultural identity, of my life in Singapore?

No. There are Japanese people who don't like sushi. There are Koreans who don't like kimchi. (I only mention these things because they are foods I've had before that I really like.) And we can catalog people from all over the world who don't like certain things they are assumed to like because of their cultural identity.

It's bizarre that we have these strong ideals of not stereotyping people and yet these reverse stereotypes are so common. You're not rejecting culture because you have preferences.

But hey if it was just her not liking Durian for some other reason and learning to like it, that's great.
Did you go to Harrison Bergeron High? /jk
'New React Docs' GitHub Issue is interesting and shines some light on the changes.

Significantly, note that it took a litle bit more than a year from the formulation of this issue to the Beta version. Knowing that there were some holy wars to be fought on the way, I don't think it's too long. Congrats to the team who worked on it!

[1] https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/issues/3308
It's ultimately going to be a race to the bottom if you allow companies who engage in those practices all over the world into your market on even terms. That's honestly what tariffs are for. Tax your citizens for engaging in commerce with companies that gain efficiencies through operating in ways that disagree with local values.
There are more than that: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-10-22/...
>Better dead than enslaved.

and

>I advocate for nothing…

are incompatible statements. Either you are stating that you would prefer that people (other than yourself) die rather than being “enslaved” (having an employer exercise at-will employment) or you’re not.

The irony of literally calling for the deaths of people that don’t adhere to your specific set of beliefs while decrying “slavery” is genuinely hilarious.

What other bits of “slavery” do you think justify murdering people over? Seat belt laws? Age of consent laws? Prohibition of trading human organs?

Edit: I literally laughed out loud when I read the implication that I’m a communist because uh, I don’t think it’s a moral good to indiscriminately harm people as some sort of temper tantrum over a vaccine.

I genuinely hope that every person that chose to become unemployed because of their Facebook-informed selective definition of inflammatory words like “slavery” remain unemployed indefinitely. This will create more positions for vaccinated people.

Ironically, the “live free or die” folks really seem to think that the state owes them jobs and money, and the average citizen is obligated to suffer under their arbitrary rules that they make up on the fly. While you feel righteous, that feeling doesn’t actually mean that anybody has to listen to you or your ridiculous opinions, let alone act on them.

I understand that only Big Brain Geniuses ever arrive at fascinating unique positions like “everything I don’t like is slavery”, but even that caliber of dazzling wit doesn’t actually mean logical people will naturally agree with your Completely Objective Philosophy.

Real slavery is when I can’t force somebody to give me a job!
The policy against live ammo on set seems wise but a little difficult to enforce (unless you put everything behind TSA-style checkpoints). The sheriff's department has said yesterday that they can't rule out live ammo and expect to have more forensic info in the coming week:

https://deadline.com/2021/10/alec-baldwin-fatal-shooting-bul...
> Google also uses a large amount of resources besides electrical energy, so claiming to be neutral is a scam unless they actually sequester co2 permanently.

I am going to have to ask for a citation for this. They claim to be carbon neutral, not that they don't use any resources at all.

>> > Google's data centers are primarily powered by green energy.

> But not since they declared themselves carbon neutral

Nobody has made this claim

> Note the original claim was 'carbon neutral since 2008'.

Which is true.

> But I do argue that EVs are not carbon neutral.

That is obvious
I agree. It is indeed a bit worrying. I am guessing everyone is quiet because Microsoft wants to give a single unified response. And needs some time to prepare and make a decision.

I just hope this will get resolved soon without any issues and we can move on.
> The result is that smaller companies either evaporate or move to marketplaces because they can no longer acquire customers at acceptable rates.

I am a bit stuck here, what do you call smaller businesses?
Rolling out effective targeted advertising is hard in the first place. It's even more so in an environment like Europe where potential buyers are fragmented across countries with different languages, cultures, and so on.

If anything, effective privacy laws levels the playing field. That's good for companies that can't afford a large marketing budget.
Buy XLNX if you decide to buy. Once the merger goes through XLNX shares will be converted to 1.723 AMD shares.
That’s exactly what an NPC in MY universe would say :)
According to the article he accidentally fired the gun while practicing pulling it out of the holster. Maybe more will come out but that seems to be the story at the moment. Yes still people shouldn't have been in the line of fire when he was practicing, just clarifying.
Hacker News for remote jobs
Consider that without a good tool it can be hard to think about or discuss certain subjects. (And thus they become, to a degree, invisible.)

For example, I have seen conversations where altered states of consciousness are discussed. Drugs, meditation, etc.

I've seen it characterized various ways via cartoons, impressionistic drawings, frames from movies. But never really well done.

Such an important subject. But really no good tool for talking/thinking about it.

Such a tool would be a class of invention. A variety of technical writing.

Consider the creative metaphors used in Physics for talking about strange subjects like time, space, gravity. Consider the "Feynman Diagram".
Calculate Arrays of Objects in JavaScript
shouldnt itself manage fuel logistic or it is contracted away?
Except for those unvaccinated and relying on natural immunity. Those people don't need any shots for each variant.
6 individuals listed as produces in imdb pro, Alec Baldwin as first entry.
If you are introverted (not saying you are), or just having difficulty connecting to people the way to go is to do some sort of shared goal directed activity that you can talk about with said other people. Join a club, or take up an activity - learn to do something that can serve as a topic of conversation. Most places where people do something like social like rowing or dancing have well developed programs for converting beginners into participating members of the community - start with beginner lessons in whatever it is. Don't be afraid to try a number of things before you find something that "fits". You don't have to be perfect at something in order to enjoy doing it with other people (who may also be imperfect at it).
Bragging/national pride. NL things.
> There is a good MDN page on CSS selectors that takes about 5 minutes to read.

I've read that page! In fact I reviewed it while reading the book, along with many other MDN pages.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...

That page is actually part of an MDN module, which is sort of like a book. I actually considered going through that MDN module methodically, but ultimately chose a book I thought was more suitable for my needs.

For me, developing a sense of mastery over selectors meant studying all their variations and practicing with all of them. I also had to understand that "selectors" were a thing in the first place — a coherent and scope-limited topic that I could study and master. I didn't really get that from all of my CSS practice — the book gave me an agenda I wasn't able to develop on my own.

> Sorry you wasted time reading a whole book! You can't get that time back.

It's not like it was an entire book on selectors. I don't need that time back — it was productive, and I learned a lot about many aspects of CSS.

Of course, it would have been less productive if I had not
already accumulated a lot of knowledge via the "learn by doing" method. I'm certainly not opposed to that... it's jarring to see someone so adamantly opposed to books.

(For the curious, the book was Architecting CSS by Martine and Michael Dowden. It's not really a beginner book. I chose it because I needed to understand how to organize CSS in large projects to get more predictable behavior and reduce time spent on maintenance and debugging).
It's now extending into the very infrastructure of software development with kubernetes.
VSCode extension are written in Typescript but most of them rely on a language server for things like refactoring, type hints, code completion etc. These language servers run as native process (written in Go, C# etc), so are (roughly) as fast as your machine is.

If these operations take over a second it may be an issue with your machine or install of VS Code
He's one of 7 producers or something. But he's the face of the film and probably could have just paid the film crew out of his own pocket if needed.
Exploring a Digital Euro, Dr. Jens Weidmann, Deutsche Bundesbank President
We had a set of proprietary incompatible email-like services.

AOL and Compuserve — let’s use numeric addresses so it’s kinda like phone numbers, right?!

Also, whatever MSN tried to be when it first escaped from the lab.

Didn’t Novell have some kind of email-substitute messaging product that they tried to jam into their proprietary TCPIP competitor, as well?
Exactly. When a new variant comes out, all vaccinated people become unvaccinated all over again.
You can do this with definite clause grammars (DCGs), which are available in virtually all Prolog systems:

roo --> zut, pum, tos.

Note the use of (-->)/2 to define a grammar rule. Use phrase/3 to invoke the DCG. DCGs are currently being drafted for inclusion in the Prolog ISO standard:

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/#dcg
We have peer-to-peer digital cash now. It's no longer a choice of advertising vs. monthly or yearly subscriptions through a credit card payment processor.
Blanks and dummy rounds do not look similar. If your job involves handling functional guns maybe you should take five minutes to learn the difference. If you're putting guns in peoples' hands you should make sure they know how to take three seconds to check if they're about to murder someone. It's about layers of safety.
my initial read on this wasnt in terms of typical countries-printing-money hyperinflation, but more about a growing cost of goods & materials.

i do tend to believe there is a "great adjustment" underway that undoes much of access to cheap resources, & less so cheap labor. rather than being a question of central banking & economic policy, this is to me more a question of sustainability of the ultra competitive vast resource extraction pipeline society has built itself out of.

we're also finding that the operational costs of society & the infrastrucutre we live upon are rather high. im not sure how or this factors in to a decrease in consumer access but itcs part of the readjustment.

i was disppointed to find such resounding & often crass & hostile rejection of the premise (& jack as a person), such perposterous questions repeated like "where is the proof?" as though this is something the school of economics has ever been able to say for certain on. it took me a couple passes through to even understand that i see the proposition differently, that i have my own preconceptions that i fit the term hyperinflation onto. i dont know what jack meant. but i don think some forms of hyperinflation are quite likely in the cards, alas. we havent market resillience or sustainability to keep an endless series of mini crisis from dogging the business-as-usual daydream that made up the past couple decades, and the result is a change in the value of money.