skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not just about price, but i think market saturation. Apple is selling expensive phones that competitors are selling for a fraction of Apple phones, but Apple expects an average lifespan of 3 years for their phones. Which means, every year someone is upgrading their phone.

In fact Apple got some issues around this with iPad, whereas people are not upgrading their tablets (or laptops) as often as their phones.

If you have sturdy moka coffee pot, you will most probably get one in a lifetime. Same goes for other long lasting products (my mum has still her pressure cooker from Lagostina from a couple of decades ago).
Most people, or just you?

Clearly we both have differing subjective experiences, why do you assume yours more accurately represents the majority view of the community?
reminds me of the old email interface run by network solutions when they were the sole registrar for everything that wasn't government.
Narrowness of immune response:

>The mRNA and viral vector vaccines induced ONLY spike protein antibodies in the inoculated test subjects

>In comparison, whole inactivated virus and natural infection induce antibodies to many parts of the virus

Original antigenic sin:

>Subjects injected with the old formulations have locked their immune response to only a few antibodies

>Any new formulation of the injection will amplify those antibodies rather than inducing new ones

Antibody-dependent enhancement:

>Omicron may have mutated to take advantage of non-neutralising antibodies to the injection spike protein

>This would mean that the virus can more easily latch onto the CD147 receptor and enter cells in the vaccinated
If you haven't read it https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks beautifully describes this and has both made me want to quit and start a farm and want to stay and improve things depending on the day.

If you (the collective you, everyone reading this) haven't, read it.
The number of viable versions must number in the thousands though, they are just less viable than the previous generation and that's why they'll die out almost immediately, for a new strain to become the dominant one it has to work 'better' than the old one.
Of course it’s illegal [1], but it’s also an uphill battle on three fronts. First, you’d probably get fired. Second, you’d immediately get branded as something like a white supremacist or privileged asshole by your coworkers and the online social justice mobs. Third you’d have to get a jury to actually side with you (if you could afford to bring it that far in court).

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/youth/racecolor-discrimination-faqs#Q6
> This submission is flagged

What a shame that we can't discuss this topic that affect all of us in very concrete ways.
> The lab was filled with expensive equipment, some of which was unique. More than 180 superconducting detectors cooled by liquid nitrogen alone cost more than 24 million yuan (US$3.7 million)

> authorities awarded Zhong and four other students 120,000 yuan (US$19,000) between them

...well, better than nothing but less than $4k each for saving $3,7M hardware doesn't seem very adequate.
Why do you start every reply with "Hey"? This thread reads like astroturf promotion.
My best sleep period is 5am to noon. Always has been. I only need ~7 hours if I can sleep during this period regularly. I have kids and 9-5 job, so that’s not really viable for the next 5-10 years.

The way I deal with this problem, is first and foremost, drop all screens and house lighting to 2700k at least 3hours before you want to sleep. I was expecting a difference when I started to do this but I was skeptical that it would help. It was a big change.

The other big one is no work at least 2 hours before bed. This includes anything that will keep you awake problem solving all night. I even had to give up guitar hero years ago since it was invading my sleep. Any games that may produce adrenaline are also dangerous within 2 hours of bedtime. Boredom is a huge motivator to go to sleep early.

30 minutes (an hour might be better). Turn off all screens and dim the lights to almost nothing. Change into pajamas, brush teeth, use toilet. Take your time. If I’m not quite ready to get into bed, I sit in my comfy recliner in the dark for 20 minutes.

I’ve added to this in the last 6months, no liquids 4-5 hours before bedtime. This has drastically reduced the number of mid sleep pee breaks I need
A 5-10 year old used high-end device of any make is going to be better bang for your buck than any new low-power device. Aside from SSDs, screen resolution, and battery efficiency, laptops haven't gotten that much faster, and the "is not brand new" depreciation is steep.
> The virus would need to completely diverge from SARS-CoV-2 in order to fully defeat

Yeah, you shouldnt be making these claims if you don't have specific background or understanding of what you are talking about

All current vaccines target few/couple specific proteins and protein groups on the virus spikes which interact with our cells, if these couple spikes/protein groups change then the vaccines stop being effective, you don't need a complete divergence of the vaccines to stop working as the vaccines don't target the "whole virus" to begin with, just specific parts of it, that was the worry with Delta and is the worry with this new strain
The CMakeLists.txt is very poor. Just use find_package(Threads REQUIRED) and do target_link_libraries(... Threads::Threads), and use target_compile_features or target properties to set the C++ version. Right now the CMakeLists.txt requires the user to set that, at which point you might be better off with a Makefile...
It is not legal, and if the OP has sufficient documentation then an EEOC complaint would be justified. Of course, in doing so the OP would also likely need to find a new career.
It's cool that there are more of these around; I remember I just kind of went to a few universities' CS program Web sites, looked at what courses you'd take to get the major and what books they used, and went from there.
I will repeat most of a previous comment:

At this one job, we had only two remotely viable candidates for an open position. I was on the hiring committee, as I often was in those days.

Candidate A: Had worked in the industry, had all of the qualifications, already chock-full of some interesting ideas I wanted to hear more of from the interview alone. Excited at the prospect.

Candidate B: Had never worked in the industry, had only a handful of qualifications, barely responsive. Seemed indifferent to getting the job. Additionally, not too fluent in English, to the point where it was more than a little difficult to communicate.

Candidate A was a white man, Candidate B was a recent immigrant and a woman. The immediate supervisor for the position -- a woman -- wanted Candidate A, as did most others. However, the person running the show said, out loud I might add, that our group already had "too many pale males." I would like to repeat that: too many pale males. A significant glance was then cast at me and the guy in the wheelchair on the hiring committee, both being not-particularly-dark men. Presumably by "virtue" of our disabilities we would automatically be down for the Diversity Squad.

Candidate B was hired and turned out exactly as she was in the interview: disinterested in doing the job, lacking even some bare understanding of how to accomplish many things, always trying to find ways to do her grad school homework while on the job and pushing off her duties on someone else, rather than trying to learn her tasks. Her poor English was a significant barrier. She remained a leaden weight until she went off to be someone else's problem. She wasn't a drag due to her skin color or sex, but she was hired because of those things.

This was over ten years ago, in academia. A friend who worked for pharmacy chain was bluntly told that as a white male, he was not going to get a manager job, no matter how long he held on. Something something equity.

I am not even a little comfortable with it, I know it is there. Frankly, now it is part of the calculus -- if I see a white man in a position, he probably had to work pretty hard to earn it. Anyone else? Welllllll ... they might have been diversitied into the position. And so the cycle continues!
Interestingly, SARS-CoV-2 does have error correction - but the essence of your comment is correct.
Answering directly to your questions, I don't have any religious background on this, I just see hijacking of our primitive vices for personal profit as immoral and shun-worthy. I think prohibition is bad (just creates Shadow markets) and the main thing to stop is running profitable gambling houses and advertising/incitement - if nobody could make a profit off of it, people would still gamble, but at least it would be intrinsically motivated and you don't get the consolidating and exploitative effects that arise from privatised gambling. Same with all other "sins" - don't stop the sin, stop the profiteering and the exploitation. The sins are fine and fun
The news has a financial incentive to keep you anxious - just look at how many websites you've visited on this bit of anxiety alone.
> You're part of the problem.

Not actively pushing back against something doesn't make one "part of the problem". It makes one a bystander, and no, bystanders are not part part of the problem they are neutrals. They could be more "helpful" for our cause if they where not, but they are not part of the problem, they are "untapped potential" if you will.

This kind of rhetoric bullies people into action and even tough I agree that we should push back in this case, this kind of bullying is not okay.
> These discussions, sadly, will have to happen behind closed doors.

Even HN doesn't tolerate the discussion as the topic has been flagged.
BoksOS: Experimental project to develop an operating system, written in Zig
Ugh, who ever would have thought 2021 would have come to this.

1980's cyberpunk writers
> finish your side projects. It takes a lot of dedication, especially in the home stretch, but it’s much more satisfying to be able to point to one finished thing you made than a dozen abandoned works in progress.

This feels so true. Right now, and for the last few years, I've started so many projects only to not finish them. And as I don't have professional experience, I point to my projects on my resume. Sadly, most of the projects worth putting on aren't finished, and the ones I have finished are junk! It's been a slow, painful lesson.
Well, artists only have to sell if they don't think their copyright value is worth the price, so they would be getting nice payouts. Don't really see how it could be a loss for artists, unless maybe they undervalue their own work.

Also it would mean that large corps pay for their copyright enforcement, unlike now, when a 1 man book is given the same protections as disney's stuff for the same cost, despite the fact that it costs 1000x more to protect disney.
Sorry about your service provider failing at their job and squeezing you for $$ cert services! But I'm not nearly convinced this is big enough to stop encrypting the web.
Similar timeframe. Used PL/1, Pascal, and Modula-2 in three successive semesters IIRC.
Linux exports the concept of threads in it's user facing ABI. You can see this in "Thread Group ID" and "Thread ID" values.
If both get a "1" on the table, then can you please the explain the comparison you made to reach that conclusion (that they're both equal)?

I'm just confused as to how diversity relates to the competence of an individual/team.

I am myself considered a "minority", which I have always felt quite patronizing (let alone the fact that it's incoherent: I'm a North African arab, the US Census considers me white but Canada considers me Arab...). The last thing I want is for my achievements to be seen through the lens of Race than for what they are.
As a layman I see it as FUD. Scientists will draw conclusions not journalists.
Thanks that made me smile :)

I actually really like Tcl, I like the simplicity of its command argument nature.

The thread "Why is Tcl syntax so weird" was posted a couple of weeks back, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29143346. The first comment on the page includes "Tcl is still a wonderful language and I often lament how it’s mostly died out". Happily, for me at least, it's still going strong in HDL land :)
For perspective depending on how you count Disney+ is Disney’s 4th streaming service. Their all about making people pay as much as possible at the cost of convenience.

Avengers infinity war isn’t an exclusive on any of their streaming services making it’s cost to produce meaningless. Disney is all about milking content with ultra cheap sequels / derivatives and old content, that’s what’s going to be included on Disney+ not a new 100+M dollar film. Remember they have had several Cable channels for years they know how to make cheap content.

That said, they could easily pay for several big budget movies per year as Disney+ exclusives without upping it’s initial price. Instead they have zero interest in being good value for money rather than maximizing profits and minimizing risks.
There is such wild idealization and blind faith in mass education as we know it. Teachers are underpaid saints who are raising the next enlightened generation. Education itself is, of course (wink), an absolute unquestioned good. But is it, really? To me it just looks like 18–30 kids being herded and lectured at for 6–8 hours a day.

What’s enlightening about that?

We really ought to question mass education as we know it.
Most people bought very few records in the past. FM rádio and cassetes where extremely popular because of that. I think that there is far more today between Spotify and Apple Music than there was between all labels during the CD era
You can sell fake ones to retards who are scared of the vaccine.
Some might be stupid enough to pay good money for it.
Omicron Variant: Early Analysis
I've often considered AS/400 a "road not taken" in systems engineering, one that would have been much more influential had it come out 15 years sooner (though if it had, the hardware would not have been performant enough to run it), particularity the abstraction between memory and storage being handled by the OS rather than the application. The machine independent codebases, and other features and bonuses and have allowed it to continue to live on at minimal cost.
A classic trick. Works, too.
A difficult issue with equity in hiring is that companies do not hire the _best_ applicants. People tend to think about hiring like that, but it can't actually work like that. Hiring is not a tournament; you have some (high) bar and just find enough people who can pass it, and then you stop looking! even though there might have been better people out there.

I believe this is one of the very problematic factors that drives lack of diversity in tech hiring; for example, a historically black college might pump out fewer extremely high caliber students as a result of centuries of marginalization (and not as a result of the race of the applicants); this makes going through the new hire application stacks from some schools more expensive, so companies just don't do it -- even though if they _were_ to go through that _entire_ stack, they _would_ find some candidates who meet their bar.

Relatedly, the cheapest way to find candidates are through referrals, but referrals are very likely to reinforce whatever dynamics already exist in the organization (whether that's in education, favorite sports, intro/extravertedness, race, religion, language, school, city, former experiences...)

So if you have, e.g., a referral program, or you go to college career fairs for the colleges where most of your employees went to, etc, there are already plenty of people who you are not interviewing who would pass your interview bar. And that is unfortunately already based, albeit indirectly, on race, religion, sex, etc.

Seeing it happen in the "affirmative" form is kind of like a trolley problem; you can intervene (decline to interview overrepresented groups) and cause a still deontologically problematic but potentially better outcome (intentionally decline to interview potentially qualified candidates, but increase equity and diversity in your org), or do nothing and claim absolution of responsibility, but cause an avoidable worse outcome (by passively refusing to interview essentially entire underrepresented groups).

But in practice, things are more complicated. If you have to look in more diverse places for hires, you might need a more robust hiring system (e.g., less emphasis on coding tests or less emphasis on extensive system design experience and more emphasis on figuring out who can grow into roles, which is much harder to interview for; going to more places; having more avenues for finding applicants), and you might need to interview more people. That makes it expensive, and so the natural impulse might be to lower the bar just so you can maintain your hiring at the same cost.

I don't have any explanation of the perfect way to do it that actually is equitable. It might be nearly impossible; hiring is already a really hard thing to do right. But I don't think its correct or reasonable to think of doing nothing as a "neutral" and purely meritocratic approach.
You can't tell from the signature itself, but one big group of people got caught with a vaccination record entered into the system from a company that exclusively takes tests.

I don't know the exact methodology the government uses to catch fraudsters, but from someone who just scans the certificates there's no way to find a fake record.

That is, a fake record that matches the person's ID card details. Here in the NL, that's your initials and your partial birthday. Most abuse is people using other people's certificates, which can trivially be caught by checking the necessary identification, as you're told to by the scanning app anyway.
Crock Pot. Cheap and makes cooking feel easy.

https://www.amazon.com/Crock-Pot-SCV700SS-Stainless-7-Quart-...

OP-1. Expensive and makes music feel easy.

https://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Engineering-002-AS-001-OP-1-S...

LG Tone Flex HBS-XL7. The best earbuds with the worst name. I really like this form factor. I often forget that I'm wearing them and this particular model is the most comfortable of the ones I've used over the years.

https://www.amazon.com/LG-HBS-XL7-Bluetooth-Wireless-Neckban...

Kindle Paperwhite. I have the older model. I've heard the nooks are good too. The simpler the better. Nothing to break or distract. Don't use the backlight and the battery lasts ages. I know a lot of people are partial to physical books but I've read hundreds more books than I might have otherwise read since I started using my kindle. It's probably my favorite thing I own.

https://www.amazon.com/All-new-kindle-paperwhite/dp/B08N38WQ...
Samsara is not just “world”... The etymology is Sam/Sara, “through/motion” and the idea is that it refers to an endless going-through-the-motions, an endless cycle of dying, and re-dying, and being reborn as a slug and suffering as slugs do, and re-dying, and being reborn as a human and suffering as humans do, and re-dying, and being reborn as a god and suffering as gods do,and re-dying. You've “been there done that” for anything that you now think is some great aspiration for this life.

A proper translation of “Samsara, Inc.” might be “Weariness, Inc.” or “Ennui, Inc.” ... It's not just the world, but the world with specific reference to this way that everyone is just going through the motions.
It depends on which part of code will clear stack after call. If caller is responsible to clear stack, like in C, to support variable arguments, then called function must return to the original point of call.

If called function is responsible to clear stack, like in Pascal or Forth, then yep, multiple return points are easy to implement and useful to implement something like switch operator. I used it in Pascal, when I was in school. Just pop old return address from stack and push new one.
Yeah I definitely agree that it's domain specific, and I was really talking about front ends (hence "checking your page").

User interfaces, data science, and security/reverse engineering work are three domains that really require tight feedback loops. The work I did on parsing shell [1] is basically a kind of blackbox reverse engineering, and was done with < 100 ms feedback loops.

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=parsing-shell#pa...
Become a Full-Stack Web Developer in 2021: A Guide to Success
Why do you think it is good thing we waited so long?
The carbon budget to not go over 1.5C is now pretty much used. Without aerosols, it is even likely that we have already overshoot 1.5C. Adaption and reduction would have been so much easier if it were better anticipated.
This looks really cool--I'm interested to try using it. On signup, Firefox warns me that you'll share my email with Facebook. Do you know what's up with that? Is there any way to opt-out?
Sure, my point is that expanding ICUs isn't really a great plan A.
The funny thing is that it references Vietnam, while the Afghanistan exit happened just a few months ago.
a bic (cristal) pen
Stuttgart vs. Mainz – Bundesliga Goals and Highlights
This begs the question of where one can exit to when the arbitrary decision-making extends to every corner of society, including many of its most fundamental institutions.
Optimize local dev environments for better onboarding
Why not just charge the unvaccinated with attempted manslaughter or reckless endangerment and put them all in jail? /s
I read THAT article, and found that it neither affirms, nor refutes the claim that universities shelter violent revolutionaries.

The thing it says about education is that it’s harder to get into a college now than before. That is a change, but it can occur with or without also acting as a retirement home for “the shock troops” that was mentioned in GPs article.
> number of people who'd accept a relatively comfortable life

Congratulations to those who have achieved that level of spiritual enlightenment.

Of course we "accept" what we have since it is what we have. What you're gonna do file a complaint?

People in need think they would be more than happy to "accept" a "relatively comfortable life". Who wouldn't? The point is the word "relatively". Once they achieve that level then relatively happy will mean the next thing.
Why would you listen to a podcast on a proprietary service when you can access it over RSS?
Not exactly. Dark matter might reasonably considered a label for observations that are most easily explained by matter that only interacts with anything gravitationally. That’s really a quite strange property compared to all the other matter we see, but it does seem to explain a lot of things rather well.
does not surprise me, in the future there will only be two governments in the world, polarization will become the norm. each party will think they are right. it will be an umbrella me echo chamber. but it will only exist online. it will manifest in real life but people who dare or who are brave enough to understand someone outside of their comfort zone will quickly realize that we are not 1’s and 0’s within a machine.
A 2011 era 27” iMac, that never booted to OSX, instead was installed from new with Windows.. Sheer, and unexpectedly, pure blissful experience..
Good thing this isn’t a forum for software engineers.
The artist sold their distribution rights to the labels. What do you think could be done differently from Spotify side that was still legal?
I don’t understand how this is supposed to relate to the OP. The OP claims that education was always about social control and domestication of children (so that they may become domesticated adults). I guess it’s a bad thing that public education is not working out in America, but that’s just a worse outcome for an already bad model—the classroom was poisoned to begin with.

The idea that education as we know it is an unalloyed good—as long as we fund schools enough and appreciate the teachers etc. etc—is just false.