skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget the actual slaughter. They live their entire life in a torture cage, smeared in excrement, ears filled with the screams of their suffering family.

We are clearly demons.
> - "export already_imported_variable;" - why the HECK is this not in the specification? Having to declare new variable names for exports makes the creation of "index" files so damn painful. This syntax could fix this.

You can do:

export {already_imported_variable}
Anecdotally, I suspect that there is a large enough super premium market for Linux laptops/workstations that look nice and just work.

I love Linux, I haven't touched windows in 10 years. My last two forays in linuxhone computing were massive time sucks. I bought a razer blade and it took 1 year for the kernel to catch up with how the razer laptops manage lid closures.

I love the system76 and pop is strategy of chasing a great experience for those who need Linux. I can't wait for them to release an in house laptop.
Just clicked through and read his blog post[1] about identifying the genetic disorder his child has. Jesus, that was an emotional read :(

1: https://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/
A chance lunchtime discussion with Packard helped set the direction of Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan's focus on making instruments(?) for the biotechnology industry. During this lunch, Afeyan learned that Packard started in the electronics industry at such an early time that the best opportunities were in inventing and building the tools (like the oscilloscope) that would be needed in the field.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1044644976/moderna-and-flagsh...
> Cats play with their food

oh my cat don't even eat the animals it brings back inside the house. Birds, baby rabbits (these ones survives for it can catch them but not kill them), lizards by the metric ton, spiders, mice...

It brings them back to me and let them in the living room.

Sometimes I get two animals a day.

I don't know: maybe the cat understood we do the cooking and somehow thinks we're going to cook all it brings back.

I remember an old blog where some coder who also had a relentless cat (I'd say at least 10 years ago) set up face a webcam and face recognition for its cat inside the pet door and wouldn't let the door open if the cat had something in its mouse.
Again this demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the origin, meaning and reality of "apartheid".

Black South Africans didn't choose to be black. They couldn't choose to be white to escape the segregation, loss of rights and brutality.

No one is being held down and forcibly vaccinated. Even in the military, which is pretty strict about this, your choices are to comply or to face disciplinary procedures, possibly including being discharged from the military.

That's a choice.

Side note: military service members already have to comply with all sorts of medical requirements including shots. Why Covid is being singled out now is the only interesting part to this.
It took me a long time to realize that these weren't CoL adjustments.

Companies want to be competitive in your local market so they can retain you and so they can "hire the best".

Where this gets murky is now everyone is remote so is there really a local market?
Crazy to me how often I see gross profit or gross income erroneously used instead of net profit or net income on HN.
Where I’ve worked what you’ve describing is called a reorganization.
I'm also (as well as OP) in the UK, but mildly disappointed to read it on HN. Bit of a pet peeve of mine (as a capital E Engineer I suppose) the absurd things we accept having 'engineers' sent out for, things that are barely even trades.

I had a dishwasher engineer fit a replacement plastic piece where you put the tablet; a quote for an oven engineer to replace the glass door.

That sort of ridiculousness makes me more sympathetic to bonafide tradesmen using the term (or rather having it used about them by customer services) - boiler engineers, ISPs' 'engineer visit' to set up a new line, etc. - despite that probably being what started my peeve initially!

I don't know how widespread it is, I know in Germany for example it's a protected term. In Canada I think if unqualified (i.e. not 'software engineer' or 'boiler engineer', but just 'Engineer') it is too. We have chartered institutions that can bestow 'CEng', but it doesn't affect whether or not you're allowed to be called 'an engineer' or anything.

(This whole comment probably makes it sound like I'm a lot more annoyed by it than I am.. I just mean it's sort of 'heh ok sure' chuckle/eyeroll when they say it. Like if it started to be normal to refer to pharmacists/nurses/phlebotomists as 'dispensing/assisting/blood-taking doctors' I suppose.)
These tricks ate necessary due to lack of property assignment syntax in languages such as Java. C# does not have this problem and they may start pointing fingers.
I still can’t get over the pay people are willing to put up with. I worked at a busy Central PA Red Robin location during high school in the late nineties and usually bused tables. Often the dishwasher would be MIA and I would offer to cover, but only after the restaurant slowed down for the evening (so I could collect on the tip-out from servers) and the rate was $10/hr. I could make a few dollars more bussing and the servers could clear $20/hr or more on busy nights. Over 20 years ago!

I saw a NY Times article about garbage men who make only $15/hr in southern states.

Who in the hell wants to do any of these jobs?
I just encountered this. FYI You can use v2 which still retains commonjs support.
Who won the encryption against quantum computer?
> lawyer

> My friend we....

> lawyer

The police and justice system are never your friend irrespective of innocence, anyone with enough money and no infamy can just walk away, get a lawyer always, the justice system is irrevocably broken, don't fight that.
How your personal data is being scraped from social media
I have the opposite experience. PMs who are technical that are clueless about people management or management in general.
Don't take the model itself too seriously - its a helper for our brain to conceptualize a few situations, but like all other models, it has its limits.
I've found this article/report showing it halves the chances (note that it halves the chances of long COVID amongst those infected, which means, since the vaccine also lowers the risk of getting infected, getting the vaccine will lower the total chances around a factor of maybe 4-10 (depending on which vaccine and strain of virus) compared to unvaccinated):

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58410354
(the study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...)

Do you have any link to other studies (esp. those that showed there was no change)?
I wouldn't trust any minimum wage research in today's politicized academic climate. These are all models of a complex nonlinear system, it's trivially easy to build a model that will back fit your selection of target data while simultaneously outputting any future results that the modelers want (intentionally or otherwise).
Yes, true in the narrow sense, but it’s misleading, I think, or at least it’s avoiding a really good opportunity to educate people about the role of hydrogen in our industrial processes.

I don’t think it’s irrelevant minutiae. By not mentioning hydrogen but mentioning by natural gas, you reinforce the mistaken impression people have that the process we use to make fertilizers requires fossil fuels in particular. It actually uses hydrogen, which historically was, technically can be (and is today on a modest scale), and in the future likely will be made using electricity.

It also avoids context that the Hydrogen Economy is something we have today, but it’s almost all fossil fuel reliant. So a hydrogen car or hydrogen heating or whatever is not intrinsically fossil-free, not even close.

And ammonia is actually a really good use of hydrogen as the actual process itself uses hydrogen, so unlike for heating, where a Joule of hydrogen gives you the same as a Joule of natural gas for heat, a Joule of hydrogen gives you more ammonia than a Joule of natural gas would. AND you can avoid the capital cost of the on-site steam reforming.

Anyway, I just think such articles should say something like “Fertilizer production, in which nitrogen from the atmosphere is fixed by combining it with hydrogen, is the largest industrial use of hydrogen—almost all of which is today produced on-site from fossil fuels like natural gas.”

Or even just “nitrogen fertilizer, which uses hydrogen usually made from natural gas…”

The idea that hydrogen is largely green but fertilizer intrinsically requires hydrocarbons are two really common misconceptions that we could easily fix by just mentioning “hydrogen” in these news articles.
You can remove “modules” of the management engine but it’s responsible for booting the x86 cores so you cannot entirely turn it off.
Idk I think you are describing a way a modular approach can fail, but I'm fairly confident you could find a way to modularize game development to a much greater degree than is currently achieved.
Hardware, internet connections, and software is better now.
Yeah. Like sibling comment said. You are already in your own wild bubble. You’re taking your anecdotes and having them explain why people are or are not doing things in general. When in reality things like Facebook, Oculus, iMessage/FaceTime are all popular.
That’s plenty of information. Thank you!
Most people who cry about CoL adjustments don't realize that the developers working in India are doing the same job for 1/5th the salary. In a remote-first world, there is going to be some averaging of pay as the pool of the talent accessible to companies increases.
All I see is a spinning three-quarter circle.
Our whole intellectual/scientific/technological culture is founded upon our ability to focus our attention.

And the flipside of focus is blindness. Ignorance.

One thing is focused upon, seen and controlled with vast depth and clarity. While 1000 other things are obliviated away.

That obliviated part. There's a lot of bad stuff going on there. (And a lot of good stuff too, no doubt)
The programmer's brain in the lands of exploration and production
> The only significant cost tracing has these days is in memory footprint.

And that's not insignificant. The top-of-the-line Pixel 6 Pro has twice as much RAM as the top-of-the-line iPhone 13 Pro. Maybe the Android camp is just more eager to play the specs game, but I've long speculated that iOS simply needs less RAM because of its refusal to use tracing GC.
Perhaps it's coming from a perspective of others who feel that they are being abused as well, treated unfairly and hate their job and would very much like to get paid to do nothing, so if then someone "less deserving" (at least from their perspective) would get the thing that they themselves want but can't have, then that leads to strong feelings of resentment and unfair treatment.

"If I can't have it, others shouldn't as well" is not constructive, but a quite widespread, unsurprising perspective.
80% of my Bay Area salary is significantly higher than the local payment for my area. I’m just hoping these inflated salaries last. I’m nervous to buy a home because even if I make $$$ now, if I ever get fired and need to find a local job I won’t be able to meet my previous salary.
Not that relevant since at UCSB the "winter" is a chilly 60 degree's...

And FWIW I went to school in a similar climate to yours and was never "stuck in a room for days". How did you get to class? How did you get food?
Human social interaction is also something built into their neural networks through thousands of years of evolution too. They have a neural network that reacts to certain input with this output that evolution created as well.

Of course, biological neural networks are self learning too, so the output gets tuned and optimized in situ just a little. But there's really no difference in that sense.

Sure: you shouldn't anthropomorphize lest you end up drawing completely wrong conclusions; this was drilled into me as well.

However, a strictly mechanistic view of something that is clearly software++ (biological neuroplasticity) might be overcompensating a bit too far in the other direction again.

I guess what I'm trying to say is try to treat each organism as their own thing. Don't overestimate or anthropomorphize; but don't take an over-linearized super-mechanistic view either, since that can lead you astray just as much.
> We're talking about how you should learn to use the tools you are using.

I don't think there's any difference between using javac and using an IDE. They're both tools that you configure and the press a button to run. What's the difference?

And the danger with saying 'you should understand it at the lower level' is anyone can challenge you if you understand the tools you use at a lower level, and at some point you won't, because nobody understands it all, and then they can point and laugh at you like you're pointing and laughing at others.
That doesn't strike me as being entirely true, unless I misunderstand your needs? Hubspot does this - my sales guys send emails via Google, I see everything in Hubspot. Prior to Hubspot we used Close.io - same thing. Every email sent (and every reply) showed up in Close.io in the context of the contact(s).

As for IMAP tags etc. - yes I've never seen that. Although you can probably use Streak for that (streak.com)
Risk is relative.

For my age/health group, I view this risk of Covid to be less than the risk of the known issues with the vaccines and the unknown long term risk factors that aren’t yet fully known.

Do you fly on planes with a known safe takeoff statistics but no one has ever landed it before? It’s hard to quantify unknown risk, and I don’t trust people that safe don’t worry about this shot and we aren’t liable if there are side effects!

And yes, I ride a bike and gave up driving!
Interesting!

I like bcc because it has minimal footprint and you can setup most popular clients to automatically bcc an address if you want all emails to go there. I've just added my bcc mailbox as a contact since I don't want all my email in my CRM :).
The vaccines reduce transmission but saying they are “very good” at this conflicts with basic logic, since that descriptor can’t be applied to both the efficacy in March (when it was very good) and the efficacy today, which we know is far less.
I want my devices to have a soul. Computers these days are so sterile and boring they won't even become tsukumogami given enough time.
Sama’s next cryptocurrency.
"What is it about my work that is somehow less valuable in a different location?"

That person is either incredibly naive or dishonest. If she's naive, she should start by asking herself why is she paid multiple times what someone doing the same job in Hyderabad is.
The article doesn't say anything about it, but I wonder if this sea eagle could hybridise with any local nearish relatives.

On checking, this page suggests that the individual could pair with a Bald Eagle:

https://www.aba.org/birding_archive_files/v40n4p28.pdf
yeah, fuck that guy sideways.
To clarify when I mention impact on brain, I mostly mean brain fog and neurological symptoms. Here are some, I would have to keep a list somewhere to provide this though.

Risk factors and disease profile of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK users of the COVID Symptom Study app: a prospective, community-based, nested, case-control study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Six-month sequelae of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection: a retrospective cohort study of 10,024 breakthrough infections
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265508v...

Anecdotal reports for covid or vaccine long term symptoms
r/covidlonghaulers and r/vaccinelonghaulers

Post vaccine long term symptoms
react19.org

Israeli study talking about breakthrough infections and long covid - claiming 19% had long covid. Unclear how many had neurological symptoms.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072

The Neurological Manifestations of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (just infection).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11910-021-01130-1
Fortunately the US was able to reclaim control of the C
The main problem is manpower scarcity. Every time fragmentation increases, typically each project gets a bit weaker - from a situation where they are already very very weak.

> When one project stalls, another can take over.

Desktop environments are too big an effort to see this sort of dynamic. And it shows: the two major projects after 25 years are still the very first two. Around them we have a plethora of little projects who typically die as soon as their main sponsor dies, and contribute very little "R&D" to the main two - in fact, KDE and GNOME more often than not push experiments that the minnows then implement or reject.
I haven't used Fusion360, but I have to say the screenshots of the UI make it look appealing and pretty straight forward (more so than say Solidworks).

My assumption is that it and other standard CAD packages would have a greater learning curve for a programmer who mostly wants to print simple but custom objects. Granted, I have a background in non-CAD 3D, but OpenSCAD was incredibly fast for me to pick up not just because it relies purely on code but that it eliminates a lot of concepts that you are forced to learn otherwise.

In OpenSCAD, there are no units (though STLs seem to come out in millimeters), no object hierarchies, no sketches, no key combos, etc. All you have is code, in a domain-specific language, that describes what is being built. This can be difficult or unappealing, especially for someone who isn't a full-time programmer, but it can also be freeing to just deal with code and not have other things potentially get in the way or cause confusion.

Of course OpenSCAD probably doesn't scale the more complicated a project gets. But for Arduino/RPi boxes, replicating parts, screws and bolts (given a 3rd party module), it's a powerful and handy tool. However, it might be horrible for someone with limited coding skills.
> I wonder why this needs approval anyways.

Why does having universal trackers on people need authorization? I wonder... Also, what does it mean for those who don't wear trackers? If you are invisible to those automated cars, is it "normal" that they run over you?

> Will animals like it or get confused?

Depends on the actual frequency, but it's quite likely that it will negatively impact other animals, as most signals do.

> The environment can adapt with more sensors.

Why? This is a wrong answer to a wrong problem. The initial question is about climate change. You cannot seriously argue that putting more electronics in cars and equipping people with beacons will solve any environmental challenge: it will, as always, create more pollution. All the while enabling deeper surveillance for the State apparatus.

> I find it odd that is so focused on pedestrians or bicyclists

There's a few reasons for that:

- "smart" cars are dumb (AI is a lie, it's just really fast math) so they're bound to fail to recognize humans, and cause stupid deaths ; a universal beacon would "help" in this regard

- pushing for more useless electronics everywhere will boost the chip industry, which is the opposite of what we should be doing for the environment but aligns very well with "green capitalism" psyops

- modern cars are basically transportable surveillance devices: the psychopaths in power would love to extend this situation to pedestrians and cyclists so that they can make sure we stay trapped in this dystopian nightmare forever until the collapse of industrial capitalist civilization

So yes there's reasons. They're just not reasons focused on improving life for people, unless by improving life you mean "increase pollution", "surveil everyone", and "make industrial bastards even richer".
>Is it extremely rare in your experience?

In my experience yes but I live in small country in western Europe that's never on the radar of recruiters from the US, unless they're looking for a holiday destination :).

I never found US tech jobs open for remote candidates that were not some off-shore sweatshop kind of slave work looking to undercut the local US market wages with candidates willing to work longer hours for less pay than the local talent.

The good US tech companies never put their crown jewels in the hands on remote workers from abroad they haven't already known before or gotten through some internal referral.

I'm sure there are a few exceptions and glad to be proven wrong though but that's what the market looks like from my PoV.
I love KDE to bits, but it always looks like it only needs a bit of work, 10. and then its developers put in a fuckton of impressive work, and they release the next Plasma with ginormous changelog of fixes, fixes, and fixes, and you start using it, and find that it would need a little bit of work… GOTO 10.
FedEx using the name FedEx for Express (employees? more highly paid?) and Ground (contractors? Cheap labor?) seems stupid to me.

Fedex has come up in conversation over the past year as the worst logistics company, even from people who know nothing about logistics. All they see is that if it is coming via FedEx, then it very well might not come when it says it will.

Why would you want to tarnish your entire brand image like that? Would you not want FedEx Express to be a different name than FedEx Ground so that people still think to go to your more valuable product than just thinking screw it, I am going with UPS or USPS?
> If they were big enough they would kill you and your family without any hesitation or emotion.

That's how predators act. Yet, we have no lack of love for birds and cats.

Anyway, don't group spiders on the "have no problem cannibalizing their offspring and mates". They are much more complex than that. Besides some vertebrates also have no problem doing that.
> I am firmly anti-mask and pro-vaccine. It’s absolutely insane to continue with this mask stuff when anybody can get a vaccine. There is zero reason for a vaccinated individual to continue wearing a mask in any circumstance at all. Zero.

Ok that's just nonsense.

Both vaccines and masks are effective at lowering the likelihood for people getting and spreading COVID. Layered defence / defence in depth is a completed normal approach for pretty much anything serious.

Apartment building have both fire alarms, sprinklers and fire hydrants. Cars have both deformation zones, airbags, seatbelts and ABS. Airplanes have so many redundant safety systems you can't even imagine. When you go to ER with chest pain and shortness of breath, they do both ECG and measure your troponin just to be sure.

Masks (or rather KN95 respirators) are cheap, readily available, and the only negative side is they are very slightly uncomfortable. Why would you not do that?

"I'm anti-mask but pro-vax" makes very little sense. More like a troll post.

> They know full well that kids are at basically zero risk of serious covid.

They do however go to school where they sit in a room in large group perfect for spreading it and then can bring it home and kill their grandparents with it.