skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Once you know the term you start to see it everywhere. Perhaps most obvious is the notion of defunding the police, in which overwhelmingly wealthy, educated people who live in safe neighborhoods call for a policy that would leave lower-class people living in high-crime neighborhoods vulnerable."

I stopped reading right there. It is getting easier to spot disingenuous right wing talking points. The term "defund the police" of course got hijacked by these people as they do for every kind of left wing proposal.

There is a legitimate case that the police are overworked and asked to perform more and more as a method of cost cutting.

It is not a radical idea to explore asking the police to do less and instead allocate funds to social workers and other resources so that every problem is dealt with appropriately instead of with a mallet. The argument being that this mismatch is where a lot of social strife is coming from.

Do people like Bari ever discuss this? Nope her and her ilk just promote the slogan without appropriate context so that a certain percentage of the population drops support for things like Black Lives Matter. This is only going to lead to more problems down the road as the social fabric continues to crumble.
I worked in a place that had two very different machines with two very different functions that used the same colloquial name “Photocopy Machine” and “Photo Copy Machine”. I have to say, I would have been obstinate about which was being referred to in that case if disposed.
I've always heard that story as a soccer team, and I'm just now realizing it was probably because someone down the line didn't want to explain Rugby to Americans in the 70's.
Welcome to JavaScript, where everything's made up and the points don't matter.
> 1952-01-01:01:02:03 as a datetime, to signal "uncertainty"

I instantly thought that least significant fields are used to indicate uncertainty range (10 days around 1952-01-01, or 10 years around 1952?). After all, the older the photo, the less sure we can be about its timestamp (usually), so we can use even/odd seconds as a flag to indicate exact time or uncertain period length (log scale). It would be quite an evil hack of a common fixed timestamp format.
I'm not seeing this on my M1 Mac Mini
vimtex is so nice. At every new LaTeX project I have, I find out something new about its capabilities; I had never heard of the concealment before.

EDIT: this seems to actually be vanilla vim. vimtex is still great, though!
>Of course, none of these desires relate in any way to your personal happiness or true desires.

This is where it lost me. I can't agree with this statement.

Many people are savvy enough to know that they're influenced by the people around them. The natural response, of course, is to choose the people in your life, as well as be aware of the pros and cons of having those people in your life.

Most people who have a big impact on the world don't do it alone. They surround themselves by people who help them make that impact. This can be done intentionally. You can choose the "social norms" in your life, simply by changing who you're surrounded by.

So, no, I can't agree with the statement quoted above, for the simple reason that I can (and do) choose the people who influence me. (As do most people, at least to a certain extent.)

Do people choose who they're surrounded by? Of course!

Should people make these choices more consciously? Of course!
There are so many theories like this ("all human behavior is explained by mimetic desire" or "mimetic desire is the primary driver of human behavior," replace "mimetic desire" with X). They're all convincing and there's no shortage of evidence for each of them.

But there can't be many things that are "the primary driver of human behavior". This leaves these theories in an awkward position: "mimetic desire explains everything" is mind-blowing but clearly wrong whereas "mimetic desire is one factor among many" is a truism.
This is a wishful idea and on the surface very captivating. The problem is that of doves and hawks in the social dynamics and evolutionary theory. Referencing Richard Dawkins' thesis, population comprising of only doves - this internationalist world view - would lend itself to extremely high probability of hawks rising to exploit. A single hawk has so much advantage that it leap frogs the doves in population growth. The total equilibrium of the population shifts from mostly doves towards a hawk-dominant population. This balance oscillates over evolutionary periods.

I suspect something like that is going on in the world of nations. 1970-2010 enjoyed great success in globalisation. It bankrupted American manufacturing industry, created the rust belt and asymmetrical trade practices exploited the dove-dominanet globalist society. Remember, even today, China does not allow western companies to exist independently. They're forced to work with a domestic 50/50 joint venture to operate in China. We're seeing a huge rise in authoritarian regimes and I suspect aforementioned imbalance is the reason.
In all honesty, the easiest solution is to save more frequently than every few hours. OneDrive is definitely an option as there are some autosave features though.
I was in crypto for part of the run earlier this year, but ended up selling it all as I reached a very similar conclusion to the author.

Basically ask yourself this. If there is a market panic, or people just decide to sell for whatever reason, what is the logically lowest price bitcoin can go to?

The answer, of course, is 0. There's 0 intrinsic value or math you can do to justify one price over another. Can you explain to me why Bitcoin should be worth 50k and not 10k?

The stock market can crash too, and prices can fall below intrinsic value for a time... but you have plenty of math and formulas you can use to assign an intrinsic value to equities. Sometimes the market bubbles up, but in the long run it always tends to revert to some mean of fair valuation. There is no mean of fair valuation for cryptos.

Another thing that's difficult to get around is application of the block chain. I can buy that there could be an "open source" ecosystem of finance, but where is it? Almost all Defi stuff only makes sense in the context of crypto... e.g. get interest on this coin by lending to somebody else, but the coin still has inherently 0 value. Would be nice to see some inkling of any value that can be directly tied to the real world. Anyone aware of meaningful projects with an actual substantial impact, that can't be solved better through other means? Not toy projects, but an actual gamechanging application in finance?

I can buy that Bitcoin could act as a deflationary sort of money. But the value of bitcoin can't really be stable unless it's actually used as a widespread medium of exchange. I don't buy OPs arguments about central banks... central banks are a large part of why cryptos are so popular. They've horrendously extended the scope of their mandate and abused their powers. Part of bitcoin's popularity is to try to escape the overreaching central banks.

The closest analogue is Gold. Gold actually has many powerful chemical properties, but is too scarce to use for industrial production by and large (outside of trace amounts). Yet people have used it as a store of wealth for thousands of years. Because of this, I think bitcoin could have potential long term.

But gold is physical, so it's not prone to panic selling. You have to physically transfer it to somebody else, so it's more protected from flash crashes that crypto is prone to. Yes, there are gold derivatives that are traded, but they reflect a real good underneath.

At the end of the day, why are 90% of people in crypto? They're doing it to speculate and make money, not for practical reasons where holding crypto actually tangibly improves their lives (via some utility of it). I don't think prices will ever be stable while that's the case.
Miniflare is an amazing piece of software, I'm so glad Cloudflare is taking an official role with it.
They could have just made a hash of the 4 values and indexed on it...
That's not the burn you want it to be lol.
I think that part is pretty easy to understand, but if the author's intention is to have every single one of these issues addressed they're going about it the entirely wrong way.
"Perfect is the enemy of good enough"

I'm not sure why we aren't implementing wartime-style emergency measures for our Human Resources Management. The Army can produce Combat Medics in 4 months. The Navy produces Hospital Corpsmen in 5 months. Take all that money wasted on the fraud-prone Paycheck Protection Program and offer $200,000/yr salaries for anyone who signs a 3-year minimum contract to serve as an Enlisted Emergency Hospitalman in the United States Public Health Service (which currently lacks enlisted ranks). Leverage the existing military schools for training infrastructure. The resultant Hospitalmen should have enough basic healthcare training to take some of the burden for menial tasks off of the experienced nurses, effectively growing (or at least maintaining) our national healthcare capacity.

We don't seem to be taking a "whole of government" approach to solving this emergency. A lot of assets are being left untapped, IMO.
Most bundlers:

- have more sophisticated dependency tracking and will split a separate chunk for a/b

- can produce some kind of a manifest to allow you to preload and avoid nested waterfalls

- provide some mechanism for greater control over what gets chunked separately or combined, for the usage/caching scenarios you’ll undoubtedly know better than a general purpose program
More importantly, I'd like to be able to use the resources of my computing device like a computer. I have bluetooth for kb/mouse and a USB-C display. There's no reason to restrict it to be an infinite scrolling social media consuming device.
https://archive.md/75FYK

http://web.archive.org/web/20210812195124/https://www.typero...
For sure. I'm also explicit that the goal of the process is to see them at their best. So they should ask for accommodations. Split it into two parts? Sure! Specific time or day? Sure! Video off or on? Whatever suits you. If they want to look something up, they can look it up. I also try to give them open-ended questions so they can steer toward their strengths.

And their strengths are what I care about. Everybody has weaknesses, so finding them in an interview is uninteresting to me unless it's something truly fatal. I want to see them shine, as a) that gives me an idea of their capacity for growth, and b) that's what I'm going to play to when pointing them at work.
> The other "half" of population can't stand that

There will always be, I think, people who don't like whatever way you choose to do software job interviews, because they're not good at it, and then, some of them don't like it.

> Take home small project

Hmm yes it's unfair that some people don't have the time. What if everyone got to start at the same time, say, 12:00 UTC the 1st Saturday each month, and everyone got exactly 2 hours. Maybe that could work also for people with kids -- after all, 2 hours isn't much more than travelling to and back from an on site interview (in the same city).

Time and days could vary, trying to make it work for everyone
From your reasons, opening school is extremely unsafe since kids cannot be vaccinated.

So, what is with the contradictory actions?
There is, no question, such a thing as too much preoccupation with a national culture. But, the article posits that a national culture more or less evaporating, is not a problem. All of the nations you mention ("Europe" is not a nation) have had to fight to maintain their identity (and both Europe and Japan have relied on US military protection for a couple generations now). It should not happen often, and if you have too many enemies you are probably misusing or ignoring "soft power". But, if you have no national culture which you find important (enough to defend), then another nation will take advantage of that fact.
No, the intention is not to map it 1:1 to a hierarchical filesystem. My intention is to select a starting point, squint your eyes a little bit and then pretend it can be traversed from that point, the same you do when you search for a page on Wikipedia and then try to move around by clicking on links on pages.

On Wikipedia you can choose any starting article and probably traverse entire Wikipedia. Your traversal tree will be different depending on what you select as starting point but the end result will be the same -- you will have traversed entire Wikipedia. When you see an article you already saw -- you just skip it for the purpose of traversal.

Another way to imagine this: Windows Explorer

Select your starting article as root.

Then articles that are reachable directly from the root as first level nodes, then second level nodes are articles reachable from first level nodes, etc.

This is infinite depth tree because any cycle will cause an infinitely long branch.

But it is fine for a manual traversal (as a human you will notice you are repeating).

And if you are traversing automatically there are easy ways to detect you have already seen the node (just detect the node you are visiting has id that has already been registered somewhere else in the tree -- maybe put all ids in a hash set?)

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I just figured out while trying to answer your question that the better description of what I would like to achieve would be "hyperlinked filesystem" except that hyperlinks also carry additional information about the link itself. In a filesystem there is only one type of link (parent/child folder/file relationship). In a hyperlinked filesystem you would have possibility of many types of relationships.

On a normal filesystem Emacs could create a file with a tilde appended to its name to express it is backup of a file without tilde.

On a hyperlinked filesystem Emacs could create an explicit link between the files with a suitable role.

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A filesystem like that would probably need multiple other ways to locate the files but it does not have to bee a tree-based structure. A tree-based structure would require the user to find a place for the file which misses the point of the filesystem (being free from having to find a location for the file). For example, additionally to graph based searches you should be able to search for properties including full text search on properties like names, descriptions, etc.
"I write for a magazine and web site called MacWorld, yet I'm unable, unwilling, or both, to really look in to the problem. Let me complain and hope someone from Apple reaches out."
People are taking this whole "get your opponent out of the opening prep by playing bongcloud" way too seriously.

One of the first things you learn as a beginner chess player is how to play against awful openings. It's not like good people have forgotten their opening principles.
>What I do get, is some bluetooth issues (e.g. affecting the mouse cursor. If you start the bluetooth deadmon it fixes itself for a day or so.

Can you elaborate on this? I think i was hitting this as well. Specifically when I scroll or type, it "halts" for a split second every other second. Originally I thought it was a video card failing or something but after a long time I finally traced it to Bluetooth. Since then I have been using wired connection on my keyboard and mouse.

What do you mean by "If you start the bluetooth deadmon"
> I don't find myself with the time to luxuriate in this type of writing much any more and typically gravitate towards more terse material.

Same.

Unpopular opinion, but I really can't stand _why and his imitators' style.

I would have started using ruby a bit earlier were it not for the cute "zine" style that was so popular with that community in the mid aughts.
hah someone did this to me, developed their rooks while I took over the center and dismissed the guy, I got destroyed. obviously I still live in blunderville but man I learned a lesson that game.
> Sure it meant they missed out on the collective brain damage that was design patterns and object oriented--but it also meant that it missed out on good things, too.

The "collective brain damage" and other similarly derogatory epithets that OOP regularly gets slammed with is AIUI actually Java "collective brain damage"; it doesn't necessarily apply to all forms of OOP.
You are who your friends are.
++ correct answer here
For sure. The upside, though, is that an unempathetic interviewer is a hint that it's not a good place to work at. So if I ever walk out of an interview feeling it was awful or unfair, in some sense it's a blessing. Better to know in the interview than after you're hired.
It is hard.. My take is that you can't solve it, and shouldn't try to as it's effectively impossible. It's better to accept our minds nature and that we postfacto rationalize 99% of our decisions rather than rationally decide them. Instead accept it, and use that 1% that we do rationally decide to influence how you want the rest, including ambitions or emotional desires, to be over time. I mean, we're all basically toddlers on an emotional level, but with more sophisticated wrappings.
Targeting the spike protein (as part of the overall virus) literally attacks the virus preventing it from infecting cells and thus reduce both the spread of the disease and its symptoms. Not sure why you are saying it only acts on symptoms?!

I asked in good faith. If you have arguments, present them. Otherwise don’t presume to know how much I read or I understand on this subject.
I thought this was incredibly important & revelatory at the time, & then it kind of fell out of view.

But for the past ~6 years it's been an incredibly defining, clear dimension to assess myself, people around me, attitudes of the world. I'd never heard anyone talk the different places we come from when we think about work & quality & objectives like this, and it really helped give me much more perspective reading this. Thanks again Steve.
> the average children's risk of serious illness is relatively low

There you go. As I mentioned, when pointing out about school reopening, now covid isn't a huge deal.

But unvaccinated 20-29 years old is like the biggest deal ever.
Unfortunately it’s comments and religious defenders like this that allow Apple to get away with selling broken products for years, and then issue recalls for products sold 4-5 years ago when people are not using them anymore, like they’ve done with multiple Mac laptops that had graphics card and screen issues.
I switched after seeing PRs improving Pulseaudio get shot down pretty dismissively, and iirc the would-be contributor getting fed up, abandoning it because well whatever, Pipewire.

But actually, since switching the AV sync is off using my Bluetooth earphones, at least in Firefox.

Curiously, I can fix it with latency adjustment in pavucontrol, but it only has an affect when the 'advanced' drop down is revealed in that tab of the menu. Close it, and it's off again. Open, and the value has persisted, and it works again. Haven't really dug into that because I've been hoping the (presumably) underlying Pipewire issue will be fixed.
This showcase in particular is what inspired me to pick up vim and LaTeX, and later pick up emacs. I could not have come back to my degree again without these tools. Many thanks to the author for the inspiration.
> Honestly, Bluetooth just isn't that good.

I think you're right about this. I have a pair of JBL headphones and it will just randomly become completely garbled during a video conference under Windows.

I have to disable/re-enable Bluetooth to "fix" it. It's a mess.
The left calls it Misinformation, the Right calls it Fake News.

One of the problems with fact checkers, articles are not normally a binary true/false, and a rating system depends on a bias of the author.

Remove descriptive words and just use basic facts and it gives a better view. Its common to slant articles by the author/reporter, they will pretend to know the speakers motive and agenda, and influence the article.

The knife was a great site for tearing through the news, removing descriptions and getting to the primary facts. That NXIVM cult bought "The Knife of Aristotle" and renamed it "The Knife Media". I'm not sure if the cult was only funding or ran it, but they hired accredited reporters that boiled down articles to bare facts, gave a very good bias check.

What they exposed was news that made the other political parties did spin news. If it was a neutral news story, both sides would spin pieces that made other side look bad by interjecting observations from the reporter.

Even Media Fact check rated it rather high on factual reporting. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-knife/

An archive of an article to show how they rated "spin". https://archive.md/0WyY4

I keep hoping some great programmer would create a program to strip away descriptors in news articles, and try to boil an article down to the bare facts. But I won't hold my breath, only sensationalization of news is what makes the cut, people only share the most vitriol of articles now.

Take Fox News, Fox News local is rather factual on reporting, Fox News Cable is mostly right leaning talk and opinion. And you know what is shared the most? Opinion talk news clips.

It's like reporters don't care about the real facts, just "gotcha" against their political opponents. If the article doesn't get shared, the reporter doesn't make a name for themselves. Shared articles drive traffic. So you can see this is a race towards the bottom in factual news, over opinion "gotcha" articles.

Take the supply chain issues, the left blames truckers, the right blames covid closures. When you look into it, you see epa issues, ab5 in california issues, port issues, its way more complicated, but each side picks a piece that makes the other look bad. That CEO transport twitter post the other day on ports was a good example that neither the left or right news is fully factual.

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543776992845834
> Just make the API call to write to the disk. If that returns "disk full" let the user know. Don't "check" first.

idk. Things don't always behave super gracefully if the disk is actually entirely full, this could lead to data loss as other applications can't persist their state as they expect to be able to.
Mass Effect 1 is the best game in the series, and these guys deserve wholehearted praise for their efforts.
Every time these kind of articles come up, either from people for or against the mandates or vaccines, I want to remind everyone that you judge veracity by considering the circumstances of the source, never the source itself. The exact same words coming from someone working for a cigarette company versus someone working for a renowned research institution cannot be construed in the same way, even if they are the exact same person at two points in time.

Even if they do work for a cigarette company or a research institution, they also have their own biases separate from the organization that they work for.

Their title is only a minor consideration.
That’s your definition of “too verbose”?
Things are done about them in cases where people feel there is strong reason to do so. It just that breaking backwards compatibility might not be worth it many cases.

Personally I never understood the complaint. The standard library is pretty decent and well documented. Sure there is lots of historical cruft and inconsistencies but I would be way more annoyed if it got changed.
Do you by any chance have the base model? I'm trying to see if folks think it's sufficient for their needs. It's hard to calibrate memory needs coming from Intel.