skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I place zero stock in it as far as decision making or understanding myself/others goes, but it also doesn't really make me angry in the way that it seems to for a lot of other people. I think it's often quite fun to compare astrology charts or ask someone their sign as an icebreaker when getting to know them, etc.
I bought a top-end T460s for $220 a few years ago. Insane price for the specs, I went ahead and maxed out the memory and ran all sorts of crazy stuff on it. It was a champion Hackintosh for a few months, but I decided to leave it on Linux like the rest of my devices after a while. Really solid machine for the price.
> Astrology as a contemplative and epistemological practice has deep roots

I've never understood this as an argument for veracity. There are lots of ideas and practices with "deep roots". Blood letting has "deep roots", yet we've pretty thoroughly debunked humor balancing and good medicine.

Astrology, like other psuedosciences, seems built on the notion that if you add enough lingo it becomes valid. Yet a quick skeptical consideration of "Ok, what does the position of a rock in the sky have to do with my day to day life" seems like it should readily debunk it. Why does the position of Jupiter, for example, have more effect on my life than say the position of the moon? Or 624 Hector? If I throw a rock over someone's head does that have an appreciable effect on their "luck" or how their day will go? Does the composition of said rock impact a person's luck?
Mom was diagnosed 13 years ago and passed away two weeks ago.

Go to her oncologist appointments.

Chemo sucks. Make sure your mom is doing everything nutrition and fitness related she can to be otherwise as healthy as possible. Check out the recent research regarding fasting + chemo. Oncologists will wince the first time you mention fasting. Explain that you’re not telling mom to stop chemo, just that you’ve read about studies showing good results when combined with chemo or radiation.

If appropriate for her type of cancer, push for genetic profiling.

Find out who is doing immunotherapy for her type.
fascistcunt.com
Chinese Scientists Say They Can Turn Emissions into Animal Food
Can't speak to the validity of the explanation, but they claim there's a bug in their SDK that is keeping them from distributing the app in the newly required .aab format (as opposed to the .apk they had previously been updating).

Then there's also the possibility that they either don't feel like being beholden to an app store or there's some part of the app that wouldn't pass muster on the Play Store. No idea, really. I don't have any DJI products, but it would be interesting if the reason has something to do with app functionality (as opposed to just being too cheap/lazy to update the SDK or wanting to bypass the approval process).
Dying, not hospitalization.
> I choose not to spend my time reading texts by known con artists

And yet you have the time to impugn other people's character here? I propose to you that your time might be better spent on your reading backlog.
I hardly think criticizing astrology is a generic tangent for an astrology company as per the rules.
On other init systems, if you hit ^C it cancels the current task. On the one systemd machine that I used, ^C did nothing while waiting for DHCP, and no gettys had started yet either, so as far as I could tell, there was no way to get the system to respond other than wait for the timeout (minutes) or reboot and maybe reconfigure in single user mode.
I knew a cryptographer who did their entire job in Mathematica for years and only rarely ever touched a common programming language. The output of their work informed a lot of other people's work. I don't know if their brain rotted, but they got a heck of a lot of work done with minimal effort and time.
Trouble is, unless more of the industry starts doing them so they're unavoidable, I'm going to skip companies that put these anywhere other than at the tail end of their process.

I'm not putting in half a day of work for zero pay to help you with your first-pass weed-out phase before we bother to make sure we align otherwise and this looks like a good fit. Thanks, bye, next (employer) candidate.
I'm not arguing that Rust should be a Common Lisp like, Waterfall style cathedral. But for something a little less unwieldy that _could_ be specified without the collaborative effort of a hundred people. (Even more relevant now that Mozilla is no longer paying for those people.)

Rust has a lot of great ideas, but it feels more like a prototype that got out of hand, than a focused safety oriented tool. Combine that with a healthy dose of over-optimistic marketing and wishful thinking and you got yourself a bubble.

Rust is way too much cathedral than bazaar. Does it really have the need for a Macro system yet? Except for C++ template envy, JS has shown that transpilers are a workable alternative. Is the complex module system with access control necessary yet?
Does the Std library need to be this comprehensive?

> but why is Zig in this discussion?

Simply because it's simple, and is perceived to target the same niche as Rust.
I would have used Carp as a stand-in, but that's even more esoteric.

I'd argue that neither Rust nor Zig actually target that niche properly, Rust is too complex to get the implementation and models right, while Zig is too conservative and not having the right model as a goal.

Yet if I had to bet on either, it'd be on Zig simply because:

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

-Tony Hoare
Indeed. We all know hiccup[0] style is the one true way to do it.

[0] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
> Does it actually lead to higher sales? If not, nobody is going to care about our wish for more companies to do this.

I think this is a really, really interesting phenomena: the human brain (perhaps when sufficiently institutionalized) exhibits some sort of fundamental bias toward disruptive UX that breaks flow and productivity, and this approach must be proven wrong, every time, on a case by case basis, and doesn't fundamentally internalize.

It's crazy: because it doesn't lead to higher sales, it's seen as a bad approach. WHY? "Just because."
Oh so you’re the one who insists we keep taking shoes off at the airport, and throw our toothpaste that might be a bomb into the trash receptacle next to the crowd of people.

Yes there are collective actions we take, and the first two weeks of covid response might’ve been justified. But nothing since then. Maybe having to get tested to get on a plane.

Natural immunity does lower your chances, but you’re saying nope for the collective good (the good you’ve decided on) you must do xyz.

Bull crap. The emperor has no clothes.
Add Santa and the tooth faerie to the list.
California largely does not have the same kind of gifted and talented program as NYC, which was recently discussed. Rather, students have multiple chances to move forward based on their performance on standardized tests.
Amazing.

Brings me back to the Mac 1984 days,

Gonna have to pay these guys.
We had a problem (many years ago!) choosing a name all the various relatives could pronounce (between the two sides of the family there were half a dozen languages and no one person spoke them all). We had to throw away phonemes that not everyone could say and ended up with a single syllable name that everybody could at least pronounce one way or another.

Another is “is this name a rude or funny word in one of these other languages?”
Miscellanea: Reflections on the Sands of Dune
You may disagree, but I read this comment as a gendered microaggression and I hope you will reconsider your stance to be inclusive of this sort of content on HN going forward.

I see astrology as an entertainment product. Some folks take it way too far, and it's fine if you'd prefer to abstain. But I think that it is the same as with other vices (porn, casinos, gatcha games, etc) who, otherwise, can have very interesting technical problems.
In my untrained eyes (from an edipemological point of view), it depends on many things. It's a slippery slope anyway ... But I sort of view it from a "practical ethics" point of view if you will ....

First thing I noticed is these result actually select people who had the antiviral administered to them within 3 days of the symptoms appearing. I have personally known people who unfortunately died in a week tops after contracting the virus (they had pre-existing conditions, namely hypertension and diabetes).

Which brings me to my next point: Suppose the antiviral exists and is viable to even beyond 85%. How much will it cost ? I'm not a US citizen, but I'm thinking insurances will rush to trying not to cover anyone who's not vaccinated or some shady shit because they always do. And how about 3rd world countries like the one I come from. We can't even get RNA vaccines, let alone an experimental drug like this.

And now my final and target point: Suppose you don't want to get the vaccine and you can afford the drug. We do have proof that even if the vaccine doesn't protect you from the virus completely, even in the unfortunate case where you do contract it, you'll end up infecting less people. Now if you choose to not get vaccinated, then you really do risk potentially contaminating more people that will either have no access to the antiviral within a reasonable effective timeframe(and that maybe not vaccinated either) or just plain infecting more people overall.

Not the cleanest reasoning, and not a mathematical proof by any means, but I believe it's one of those "mathematical" problems where the proof is finding an edge case (sorry studied in french, really don't know how they say it in english).
When I visited the streets were fairly dark at night. Albeit beautifully renovated houses. My cousin who lived there said that everyone rented Appartments that would not face the street because there were much more appartments available than renters, the apartments facing the street were mostly vacant and thus dark in the evening.
The hardest kind of attack to protect against is a security hole that is deliberately introduced by an employee who is actually a mole for a state actor. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that an attack like this has not yet been discovered because it would not be that hard to do (relative to the capabilities of state actors).

(This concern also applies to secure comms apps, BTW.)
Potbelly sculpture: new life or the dead?
We don’t do coding tests at all. We do one 30-60m interview that covers some general tech questions and motivation.

So far we’ve hired 7 decent and 3 great people. No truly bad people have made it through that pipeline yet.

I can’t say anything about why, and I’d be prejudiced in any case.
Yes, there is information asymmetry. For sure.

But the market for lemons does not describe the labor market. Good companies grow and need more employees. Good employees do not get market-competitive salary adjustments and thus look for different jobs. It's the complete opposite!

There are exceptions, without a doubt.

EDIT - and let me also say that if the market for lemons accurately describes the labor market, why is it that tech is the only industry with such broken hiring practices?
> at least we still have act of God coverage

Many (most? maybe all unless you pay significantly more) insurance policies explicitly waive responsibility for natural disasters and other “acts of god”.
You didn't need to mention it. It was already baked into the discussion long before you ever replied. It is not like the subject would have magically changed beneath us.

That you seem confused about the subject now is... strange.
>If you hear about Plausible these days, it likely comes from one of our 4,802 paying customers. People who use and enjoy using Plausible help us spread the word to even more people.

>We have a $0 paid advertising budget and we don’t have an affiliate program either. We pretty much ignore all the best marketing practices.

This is very impressive, but I am not sure it generalizes to the average bootstrapped startup.
https://engineering.fb.com/2015/06/26/security/fighting-spam...

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/phooqo/haskell_rol...
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/oee437/job_ad_seni...
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/nug8mw/haskell_job...
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/nn11sm/haskell_job...
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/n642ve/haskell_dev...

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8io3uk/job_work_on...
Xfinity provides internet while Comcast screws customers

Trickle down is a euphemism for peeing on people from the top

It’s all obfuscating semantic games to conceal their application of agency, not literally, but cognitively
I am interested in functional programming. Without a CS background I was wondering, if Haskell can provide these guarantees, why is it not more adopted?

If, on an enterprise scale, you can avoid the majority of bugs, would that not be a clear win?
For comparison, take a trip through Leipzig ~1990, After 40 years of socialism: https://youtu.be/_cDOqb53Kfk
You don't trash perfectly operational cars, you sell them. The people who buy them are themselves replacing older, more worn out cars, which they in turn sell for a lower price. Thus it ripples down the line, with the net effect being an increase in supply in the used car market and therefore a reduction in price, which encourages people driving the very oldest, most worn out cars to scrap them and get something better. Those cars are probably not "perfectly operational", but falling to pieces, in constant need of spares and repair, and very likely less efficient. The running cost, and therefore almost certainly the environmental impact, of an old banger is higher than that of a new cars - and for the people driving them, the capital expense of a better car is likely a significant barrier, even though they'd save money in the longer term. So it's not clear that having the richest people upgrade to electric isn't a net positive all the same.

tl;dr rich people upgrading to electric is like a privatized "cash for clunkers" scheme.
sex.com was registered really early on. I remember registering 5ex.com in the mid90s as a runner-up prize.

Funny enough, dotcoms weren't as prized in the early 90s as they are now. All the c00l kids on the Internet had dotnets, so my first domain registration was eschaton.net.
If only someone could have predicted this
This immediately jumped to mind (Contergan):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal

The total number of people affected by the use of thalidomide during the mother's pregnancy is estimated at more than 10,000, of whom approximately 40 percent died at or shortly after the time of birth. Those who survived had limb, eye, urinary tract, and heart defects [...] The severity and location of the deformities depended on how many days into the pregnancy the mother was before beginning treatment; thalidomide taken on the 20th day of pregnancy caused central brain damage, day 21 would damage the eyes, day 22 the ears and face, day 24 the arms, and leg damage would occur if taken up to day 28. Thalidomide did not damage the fetus if taken after 42 days' gestation.

So ~280 days for a pregnancy, minu 21-41 still leaves way more than half a year after taking the drug for when death occurred. And I wouldn't say the non-lethal effects are to be dismissed. If you ask me they're way up there for making sure something like that doesn't happen again. The system today (hopefully) is better than back then. And yes, personally I think it's a good thing when the approval process for drugs assumes that "every new molecule should be treated as if it were a prion".
'El Hipopótamo Blanco',Teatro, HEBE Serebrisky, Teatro Escuela Central
> We are all logical people

That's a bold claim. In my experience the vast majority of people hardly try to think logically or apply critical thinking skills in most opportunities, and no human does so anywhere close to all the time. Humans are deeply irrational creatures, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.
> Possibly the US would be silly enough to get in the way but many other countries certainly wouldn't, including China.

As an American this is accurate and depressing.
> (what stops a competitor from walking through the aisles of a Walmart or Costco?)

That's a significant portion of Nielsen's business model.
I think you don't realize how much a billion dollars is. That's an insane amount of money.

I'm not sure what the year of incorporation means here? That they have clearly been profitable for a long time and been making a lot of people a lot of money for that time? I'm sorry, everything you've been saying just keeps suggesting to me that this is profitable and good business.
Magic Leap's “Metaverse” Patent (2019)
Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)
Man, I wonder what that shuttle went for when the Soviet Union collapsed...
ipadshatter.wav
Small detail: the group/ungroup icon is really well done.

Also, I like the name; glad they didn't call it "Drawify" "Charitify" "Whitebordify" "Thinkify" ... you get my drift.
Not only that, but it still works in exactly this way. I would have thought they would have fixed this "feature." But an unauthenticated user can still provide GitLab with tiff/jpeg images and have them reach ExifTool.
Always go with the science.

It is basically an optimization problem.

Provide human comfort.
>and that would break large swaths of the web.

I'm thinking that might not be as bad of a thing as you might be making it out as. Sometimes, you just need to light a match and watch certain things burn. Allow their ashes to be fertilizer for the regrowth period.

Unfortunately, in the world of today, I think the underworld of slimey devs would fill the void faster, and implement "new" that appeals to their needs.
> the phrase that gives you superpowers

"I understand"

"and how does that make you feel?"

Honestly I was using the 2nd one as a joke for the longest while but people take it so seriously and will really open up to you. All people want is to be heard, and when you make that happen you get a new best friend/customer for life.
I really cannot bring myself to use LXQt, even as someone who really likes the QT framework. KDE runs surprisingly fine, even on 13 year-old hardware, so it's hard to justify using such a stripped-back DE when there are better alternatives just around the corner. MATE and XFCE will do 99% of the things you want them to do but faster and more stable. I still have hopes that LXQt hits a degree of usability, though. I've been surprised before with desktops like Budgie.
> e.g. it's pretty tiring to do cardio at the gym with a mask

Those restrictions are on their way out:

https://abc7news.com/amp/face-masks-mask-mandates-bay-area-i...

> Parents aren't allowed on our school campus, we don't have any in-person school events, kids get tested once a week, kids have to stay at 3 feet from each other at school, no wood wind instrument classes.

Not sure where you are but in my very urban CA city, except for testing which is a very good thing IMO, none of these rules are in place.

This morning, the parent community met for donuts at the elementary school campus, where kids were playing close-contact basketball. The local middle school jazz band - with plenty of wind instruments - played recently at the local street fair as a fundraiser, and it's clear they had been practicing.

Then again, around here vaccine and mask wearing rates are extremely high, so we basically had very little in the way of outbreaks and community transmission. It seems like when a critical majority of people are civically considerate and voluntarily mask and vaccinate, life can go on pretty close to normal.
No, of course not, she's making it all up. /s
I don’t see any disclaimer of copyright for the license text. If another organization took that license text and promoted it as if it were their own, would Creative Commons have grounds to pursue infringement against that other organization?

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
I'm happy to thank people when they give me a reason to thank them. Having personally met Sam I feel confident in my assessment he does not merit your gratitude. If the founders of Helion pull it off and actually usher in a new era of plentiful cheap energy I will be ecstatic to congratulate them on their success.
I think it can be really damaging and there's a substantial proportion of the population that actually believes it and spends a substantial amount of time obsessing over it.

I hear the couple next door to me in SF get in shouting matches through the wall about how she doesn't feel like he takes her seriously because he doesn't believe in astrology, about how there are some things that science doesn't understand, etc. etc. And she's like a PM at Stripe or something.
I also use Iosevka on my Linux desktop since a couple of days. Subjectively a very aesthetically pleasing monospaced font.

My aesthetics skills are 2/10, and I usually don't care about UI feel much, but for some reason I really dislike "not nice" (R) fonts. But recently I switched to the combination of the default Windows 11 font (Segoe) for desktop, and Iosevka for consoles, and this feels good.
Ah gotcha. Saw the title and thought more philosophically about it. Missed that line. I mean, for me, 100% remote is more or less reality (choose not to take a job that restricts me geographically, have some side hustles).
There is no score or measurement. The task is to write a stopwatch in any technology you want and explain it along the way. Then we put in some bugs and ask for troubleshooting. It's all about the approach to the problem.
Do you enjoy eggs? :)
PostgreSQL is not in the game. Completely different purposes. PostgreSQL is great for what it's meant to do. Analytics is not it. Reads are too slow.
I've been a Linux user since before PulseAudio came onto the scene, and it's starting to get better. But, applications still have issues with new audio devices being connected or disconnected, and not detecting the change. Teams for Linux is a big offender here, but also OBS Studio.

Bluetooth headphones work too (which, with my previous experiences, I never expected to work beyond a tech demo), but they sometimes get stuck in HSF/HFP mode and have to be switched manually. But, at least there's a good GUI for it.
Valencia, Spain. Amazing weather all year long, great biking, great beach, and beautiful old city along with beach city all in one place. Oh and they Turia is a giant park that runs through the middle of the entire city and is sunk into the ground.
Is that in line with what Ivan Illich coined "convival technology"?

Not being encroaching would be a nice to begin with.
> The mRNA vaccines do not, and never have, reduce the spread of the virus from one infected person to someone else

That's simply not correct.
If I can work from anywhere in the world, why in all flying hells would I work from a city?
"they never address what solution they want. Communism?"

As much as I enjoy hackernews, is it economically illiterate. There are 50 different economic schools of thought, and 'Capitalism/Communism' are not among them, they are vulgarities.

'Capitalism' of 1800 was mercantelism - it was protectionist, featured slave trade, etc.

'Capitalism' of 1980's was Keynesianism, when income tax was 70% in the top bracket, high inflation, cheap housing, we could build infrastruture effectively, etc.

'Capitalism' of today is 'Neoliberalism', and it's the pinnacle of laissez-faire approach to economy.

There is also Shumpeterianism which proritises technological development, Austrian school, and countless others

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought
> the tiny GPU will have a hard time

If you move up to the X230, which your X220 keyboard can bolt right onto, you'll get a Vulkan-capable HD4000 iGPU.
Or if you really don't want to have to deal with the overhead, choose macOS or Windows.