skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s just not true though. Configurations that still require terminal commands on Linux are on par with stuff you’d have to use regedit for on Windows. And I’d take a config file over the windows registry any day.
This worked well on iOS Safari. Nice job! At the end I wanted to know the distribution of other users’ preferences.
Gotcha! Thanks for sharing.
I was going to post this Mathologer video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaasbfdJdJg) based on e being "the most irrational number" -- but I misremembered. It's the golden ratio, phi.

But its still a really interesting video!
Well, you can exchange in non-legal ways even in person. A simple wink pattern could convey lots of information about your hand shape or desire for game/slam. Even with the players unable to see each other visually using cross blinders, there are timing tells or hand placement tells that you can use to indicate some information as above when laying down your bid cards. They already removed talking during bidding because it could be used the same way. If it is possible, someone will try to cheat. The more beneficial it is, the more people will try.

For in-person play, there could be a review of played hands by looking for lines or bids that seem "weird" and then going back and looking at the video for discrepancies. If caught, ban them and their partner from competitive play for life. Obviously this is cost prohibitive and could only happen for the highest level championship type events.
Naomi Wu has had poor experiences with western news outlets - Vice news outed her against her will in a piece they wrote on her, and she lives in a country that doesn't have an especially liberal attitude towards homosexuality. So there is understandably some salt on that basis, but also...

In this case plenty of other news outlets have covered her in their articles about Martha: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iron-lung-maker-community

As far as "tech/white/male", you really only have to read the comments people post in any thread about her on Reddit to figure that one out. I can't even imagine what her inbox must look like.
The Milky Way according to Anton Pannekoek
Permanence of the status quo adjusting would make more sense. Even if the Patriot Act technically expired, I would think a lot of the extra powers granted have had staying power. I’m not saying I’m right about this for sure.

I think of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act together. They were both reactions. Homeland Security isn’t going any where. It’s likely Space Force isn’t going any where even while it is still considered a punch line
Non-mainstream news sites erode people’s interest in politics
This is why I believe the real inflation is higher than the official. When the price remains the same but the quality degrades it's inflation.
No, I am much more aggressive online since I want to point holes in things. I doubt many people talk the same way online as they do at their job. It isn't like you expect a sales person to be all happy when he is at home.

> What would you say characterizes a "toxic" discussion style, or "being so bad at talking to people"?

People who can't talk normally due to some of the following reasons, if these are issues you have to deal with at your job instead of they dealing with it themselves then you work with people who lack social skills:

> People are people and many don't understand or are actively afraid of technology. They have jobs to do and if they don't know you, they may be skeptical about what you can do for them. They might even have been burned in past by developers who promise but don't deliver.
Rulesets more complicated than tictactoe have edge cases, holes, exploits.

That's why market design is important.

Open markets require boring stuff like properly aligned incentives, contract law, property rights, transparency and auditing, fair & impartial courts, right to appeal, and so forth. Your basic sanity checks.

Maintaining and protecting a balance is never easy. We can only hope to minimize cheating.

All the alternatives are much worse. The popular criticism of market failures are often because the obvious safe guards were eliminated or ignored.
In the context of cybersecurity this term has a specific meaning and refers to an adversary that has the highest level of resources usually attributed to a state.
Sorry, I just searched for the domain of this pdf and not the others.
I try to create new types if needed instead of passing to a function too many parameters. Also say a function needs the user email you don't pass it the big User object you pass only the email.

The issue I hit though is with code that evolves over years, it starts simple and then each team member had to add some new feature and the simple functions get larger and alrger , the number of parameters increases etc , the solution is to take the time and re-analyze the updated problem and refactor or rewrite the solution to be again composed from simple parts that do one thing.

let me know If I misunderstand the thing you said about types, or you referring mainly about REPL
The Indian government is democratically elected, the supreme court is a closed club.

The Indian government investigates citizens with shady international activities.

The (undemocratic) court wants access to state secrets.

Not happening.
No it isn't. That's extremely bad advice, please don't tell people to get vaccinated if they don't need to. The vaccines can have nasty side effects and if you've had the disease you are hardly at any risk of being reinfected, let alone actually suffering disease. The data on this is quite clear, there are many studies that look at the testing data to find this.

Example: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.06.21253051v...

"Out of 149,735 individuals with a documented positive PCR test between March 2020 and January 2021, 154 had two positive PCR tests at least 100 days apart, reflecting a reinfection proportion of 1 per 1000"

So that's really incredibly low. Note that this paper, like so many others, assumes a false positive rate of zero: with such a low number of reinfections they could easily just be testing errors and thus the reinfection rate can easily be even lower still.

Remember - COVID is a mild disease for the vast majority. Having been infected reduces your chance of infection so low that it takes you from a very low chance of having serious problems to "you need scientific notation to express the probability of having problems". Vaccines can only make things worse for those people, not better.

Unfortunately our society has completely lost all rationality over vaccines. Your so-called infectious disease expert is a great example of that. Firstly, he's dead wrong that vaccine-induced immunity is longer lasting. It lasts months at most, which is why even vaccine-pushers have given up claiming it stops you getting COVID. And antibody titers are not the end goal here! The goal is to avoid getting sick. They've completely substituted the means for the end, which is the sort of contempt-worthy irrationality that makes people reject the vaccination programme.
Like the Facebook timeline (and I don't think that's a coincidence!), newness is a big factor but not the only factor. They publish their "top stories" section as an RSS feed (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss), and you can see it's both not strictly chronological and clearly has editorial topic selection, as opposed to their "most recent" feed (http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_latest.rss) which seems to be a true chronological order of everything they publish.
Excellent analysis. People forget the economics of things from the state / people's perspective.

Also, a certain number of people, very small but not zero, will get sick and die. All of those nasty diseases that come from any mine operation, especially something nasty like lithium.

Those sick people will go on Maine's disability / unemployment insurance / LTC / Medicaid / Medicare's system. Some of those people will live decades with cancer, their medical care paid for by the state (as it should).

At current prices, like you said, it might literally cost Maine more to open the mine than to leave the lithium in the ground, especially once you factor in environmental cleanup and healthcare costs.
I thought it had been laid to rest by Mozilla a few years back, looks like I was mistaken.
I use "a" but I've been doing it so long I can't tell you if it's custom or not.
There is a distinction between inflation and hyperinflation. An analogy would be someone saying that a modest reduction in caloric intake is healthy for most people, and you responding that it isn't, anorexics die without enough calories.

When inflation is present, but less than 3%, there isn't an incentive to hoard it, because simply sticking it in a bank account means it will be slightly less valuable a year from now than it is today. For poor people, who are spending most of their money on necessities, it won't mean much (unless their employers don't match incomes with inflation, which IS a problem). But for rich people, it offers a powerful incentive to spend today, or to invest their money with hopes that the returns will offset the inflation. A rich person's money flowing through the economy, be it through exchange for goods, or through investment, is far more valuable to society than it is sitting under their mattress.

Debts are also easier to pay off. With inflation, your debt of $X is easier to pay off in the future than it is today. Poor people struggle to pay off debt more than rich people, and governments are more likely to rack up debts to pay for public works and infrastructure, knowing the bill will be easier to pay down the line with inflation.

Compare that to deflation. With deflation, your money gets more valuable over time, not because you invested it in something useful, but simply because it exists. Now if you are rich, why do anything at all with your money other than stick it under a mattress? Why spend it, or take the risks that come with investment, when you are guaranteed it will be worth more than you have now in the future? Poor people don't have this luxury. They have to spend money on their needs today, which means they are missing out on even more value tomorrow.

Deflation is just as toxic to the economy, and especially poor people, as hyperinflation.
The traditional model of plant for 5 years and harvest for 5 years is dying/dead. Seed investments are getting larger and bleeding into Series A. Companies are staying private for longer. Liquidation events can be pushed further out without compromising growth. Sequoia Productive Capital makes the 10 year cycle less important. This allows Sequoia to focus on sourcing deals and reallocating capital accordingly to deliver results, which they have been consistent enough to keep acquiring capital from LPs. We are also seeing outsized returns on existing investments so sticking around for Series D/E/etc. and multiple years post-IPO might be key to get the 50-100+x returns.
Mint isn't really a beginner's distro, but instead a striped down distro. It's for the people who pine for the early 2000s Linux experience.
Did anybody actually read those researches?
> Web is capable of other protocols.

“Web” is pretty tightly designed around HTTP as the central protocol and HTML as the central format and that's generally part of the meaning of the term as distinct from “internet” or “hypermedia” or “REST” (for a set of things that are each like “Web” but broader in one or more dimensions) more generally.

Semantics aside, there's a positive feedback loop between “chokepoints on the internet (corporate firewalls, etc.) tend to let HTTP/S through to where it needs to go but often not other things” and “almost everything gets done over HTTP/S”.
Hasura is great. GraphQL on its own, unless you're offloading all of it to something well-maintained and capable like Hasura which will (hopefully) automagically save you from the time cost and risk of GraphQL, is almost always a bad idea.
And Erlang (mainly in WhatsApp)
I've been loving all the new rust-based CLI tools; you can find a lot of them here [0].

So far I've used ripgrep, fd-find, sd, exa, bat. I care less about speed and more about ease-of-use and beautiful output. Another bonus is standardized tooling between Mac and Linux; little bsd differences have been driving me nuts since I took a job that forced me into a MacBook, but these tools solve that issue and are easy to install with Homebrew.

[0] https://lib.rs/command-line-utilities
Seems I might’ve been office step doesn’t leave China as hydroxide then.

It’s actually really crazy but your green vehicle battery has to go from Australia to China to Japan to Nevada just to got one more place for final assembly.

Agreed on the if-ever. There is a lot my company is forced to do outside of the US and given the costs, we would never break even with buying from China, literally never.
Sorry, I bit it. Plugged a mouse just to test it: the procedure is EXACTLY the same. And Ubuntu is not a hard for beginners distro.

You're parroting outdated false comments.
> I'd argue like 90% of searches for Linux help have an answer which contains 'run this in a terminal'.

Why is this even bad if 'run this in a terminal' actually fixes the problem?
> the bottom line is that this summer in Florida, people did not do as well as they should have. Why? Because far too many of them died. The raw numbers alone are staggering. In all of 2020 — before vaccines essentially eliminated the risk of death for most recipients — 23,384 Floridians died of COVID-19. Now nearly as many — 21,000 and counting — have died in the past four months alone.

The phrase "kill the patient to cure the disease" has a long history.
While it's true that the article indicates FB views comments as positive signals, that's definitely not the primary focus of it, which is about likes vs "higher intentionality likes + other emotions".
> The vaccines can have nasty side effects and if you've had the disease you are hardly at any risk of being reinfected,

This is wrong, the vaccines are safe and effective - much moreso than getting reinfected with COVID-19. As a former medical professional who works with medical professionals today, you are completely misguided. Please don't repeat this stuff.
The NSA mirrors all of Wikipedia and Stack Overflow once every 24 hours from the public Internet to the classified Internet, so developers of classified applications can have references without needing to pivot to a separate unclassified workstation that needs to be at least six feet away.

I never found it to be a big deal. Once a day updates were perfectly fine for reference usage.
> I think they need stronger motivation.

I've been using `exa` for over a year now, and I use it as an alias for both `ls` and `tree`. I don't really notice any benefit compared to using `ls`, but I really prefer its tree mode over the default `tree` command. It's nice being able to use the same CLI args and have a similar output format for both `tree` and `ls`.
Exactly. Having the opposing team read out the cards prevents information transfer. Bridge has controls like this already.
You aren't allowed to lie about what your bid means, for example. If a player is confused about a bid from the player on their right, they are allowed to ask the player on the left what it means and they have to honestly answer.
Oh yeah, I remember all that. My partner had a joke "can I have a review of the bidding, with the original inflections?"

There was a regular game in Google Ads. No one was over 60. But I'm sure eventually no one will play anymore.
There's an interesting documentary about this Alabama studio "Muscle Shoals" available on Netflix & Amazon Prime. Seems an awful lot of good music came out of there. Combination of excellent studio musicians, production and maybe a magical local vibe.
Actual information on how it's done is here:

http://www.acoular.org/literature/index.html
But IPs are network-based so inherently unstable.

Why are names better wrt stability than URLs?

i.e. why is ref <myFooService> better than www.myDomain.com/service/myFooService ?

Unlike IPs, URLs can be just as abstract as names, no?

> it also allows hierarchical structuring

This is what I meant by "the only thing you can change is the top-level stuff" - is this important enough to require the extra level of abstraction? For whose benefit is the restructuring if the stable names all share the same namespace anyway.

> you can discover more URLs

Is this a manual user hitting these API endpoints, or a client? Why is it useful that a client can be given different entry paths?

> where your devs are now messing with nameservers

current service discovery solutions don't require this. The name server just points to a single proxy.
Also these people are the experts and often you're the novice in their domain. Understanding that part of the relationship is important.

In my experience, people are very happy when I automate some bullshit part of their job. However, you are going to waste their time getting that automation done. So you have to sell them that it's worth making their job worse in the short term to make it better in the long time. If you're a terrible communicator, they're not going to trust that it's worth it.
Covid-19 mRNA myopericarditis: intravenous injection likely cause?
The reason people get sucked into conspiratorial thought is because the human mind is highly susceptible to believing what it is told is true, based on not great reasoning or evidence.

We are surrounded by this phenomenon, we just don't notice because if everyone agrees on not-actually-true "truths", it is *normal, and therefore completely bypasses our intuitive filter....and if someone is to point out imperfections in popular mainstream narratives, intuitive responses like "That's different!" or "That's just a conspiracy theory!" will be typical responses. If one was to actually study this phenomenon in journalism and social media, I suspect the abstract variations of these responses would be a fairly small list, so similar is intuitive thinking between individual human beings.

As long as our humanity (and science) continues to not expose the varieties of extremely important patterns of behavior in the human mind, these exploits will remain unseen, and can be used for good or evil. If we want conspiracy theories to go away for good, expose what makes them possible, and in turn give up the magical power authorities have over the public. Sometimes you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Anyone have a good solution for syncing Google contacts? The extension I used stopped working a few versions ago and, last time I checked, wasn't planning to support Google accounts.
It had the nice side effect that I got a brand new battery every time I had a single janky keyboard key. My battery is always nearly-new! :)
In cybersecurity, and in the attribution of cyberattacks especially, nation-state actor is a very specific technical word. Words mean different things in different fields, and in this case the word is very clear and obvious in conveying what is intended, which is a government backed threat actor.
I took about 8 minutes typing out the cliche long-winded gripe about the modern web being ridiculously over-engineered, bloated, and cluttered. Which is true, but stated too often.

So I'll change it up and say: the lack of keyboard-driven functionality taken into account. There are many people (me included) that would love to almost never touch their mouse. Emacs? Never use it. Terminal? Never use it. Browser? There are very few pages I can operate without using it.

Thankfully, groups like DuckDuckGo have thought about it. I can navigate DDG without touching my mouse, which I utterly appreciate, and is the reason it's my primary search engine. Not just the privacy aspect.
A lot of comments seem focused on the incentives to apple and what's motivating the change. All fair questions. To me, though, it feels like just a radically different approach this year.

2016 macbook felt like leadership got in a room and said "okay, let's make a list of all the sexy things we can think of that would make the macbook unique". This netted things like thin-beyond-practicality, touchbar, removing all the ports, etc.

2021 macbook feels like leadership got in a room and said "okay, let's make a list of all the top things everybody is complaining about most." And they just fixed everything (well, most things) on that list one-by-one.
> It's very interesting to see how humans naturally tend to craft identities for faceless, nameless adversaries, which I think is very interesting from a social standpoint.

It's quite simple: you need a name (preferably unique) in order to refer to it in communication.
I'm not sure what is supposed to be an improvement? I replaced a MBP 2015 battery myself, and this did not require removing the touchpad.
How do you deal with search? Faceted search is driving me insane (always need to have an extra click to show as list, then another to view without threading).
Migrating to Hack from PHP was huge undertaking requiring years to conclude, and that almost kept the same syntax and semantics where possible.

What would the benefit of spending thousands of engineer years (read: billions of dollars) on a rewrite be? Especially when it would nearly certainly come with a huge performance regression compared to continuing to use HHVM which has come with years of optimization for working especially with Facebook's web codebase.

In addition to the need to rewrite a gargantuan codebase and loss of the optimized runtime, it would mean throwing away a huge amount of expertise, tooling, and basically all of the source control history context.

There really isn't much to gain.

That said, the fraction of Facebook's code that is Hack continues to shrink, thanks to the continued growth of backend services and the clients being written in Hack (before there was server-rendered XHP, but now it's predominantly React).
The post links to an inexpensive array at the end. I don't really get why the 16-mic one he used is so expensive, those smd mics can't be more than $1 or so each...
I'm impressed that you dignified that post with an answer.
Maybe we need a class-offensive suit?

Basically allow suing a class as a whole, where if the class loses each member (named in the suit up front) gets a lien?

Or perhaps if you can identify the tree of dissemination, you can roll up all the harm from each individual actor and apply it against a higher level instigator to get the entire pyramid (up to that instigator’s level) worth of damages out of one actor.
You took out a part, why would a developer ever need to say this except to calm a toxic manager?

> He will make it clear that this is a partnership, and that getting the job done is high on his list of priorities
interesting. i've cycled through some projects with and without PMs. I've not found 'good' PMs to make a huge difference compared to 'without', but definitely 'bad' PMs impact things negatively. It's hard to define what the 'bad' is, but micromanaging, forcing process where it doesn't need to be, arbitrarily enforcing rules when convenient, etc are all just negative impacts. It would be more beneficial to just not have that person at all. I've had some good PMs, and while I didn't notice much difference in my own performance/delivery/stress/etc, I think it gave some other folks somewhat more confidence/assurance.
Think about it this way - there is no practical way you can make a website today without resorting to either CLIs or online solutions. That is the void we fill.
Jinja is great, and you can dig deep into all the features it provides, but you can get real far with just including external templates or using template inheritance, which are very basic.
Kit55 works on top of your file system, so your workflow can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be.
To give you an example, we use git to sync projects across team members, then we use Kit55 to work on the site, and then firebase to deploy, and the process feels very light.
And what enables this is that there are people who will pay for the certificate instead of taking a free vaccine. Dumbest black market I've seen.