skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I'll have to ponder those. Specificity seems closest. Whatever it is, it's not a rational critique. Despite the discomfort, I'm also fascinated by it because one should not have an emotional response to specific types of math, but I very much do.

Something about the homework in Real Analysis left me feeling angry. Not because it was difficult or presented poorly, but because it was somehow... untrustworthy? As if my betters had decided which ideas were the good ones and the only thing left for me to do was optimize along the one dimension that they had assigned me. I realize that this is nonsense, but I can't seem to shake it.
At least in my eyes: The downside risk is already so high in a startup that a marginal decrease is simply not worth the loss of the upside.

About 90% will fail. You should really be assuming that your options are worth basically zero. Basically zero ~= Basically zero with better downside protection.

For high performing tech companies - you absolutely don't want the loss of upside in the current market.

I think there is some legitimacy to this in a long-term company that experiences boom and bust cycles, though - things that come to mind for me are airlines, auto manufacturing, agriculture, etc.
>Quick collation of threads worth reading if you want to know more about the new B.1.1.529 variant identified in South Africa

https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/146401292663384064...
Or just replace the z with an a. That's what I mainly use.
Emacs, Gemini, NetBSD, 9legacy.
Had a turkey at a friend's place the other day, it was moist and delicious. They did a 20 hour brine.
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It's funny, I'm fairly skeptical of homeschooling due to my experience being homeschooled. Not that my mom did a bad job, she did the best she could, but the curriculum we followed was, to put it lightly, incredibly conservative and Catholic. Like, there was an entire chapter of one of my American history books dedicated to the oppression of Catholics in Colonial/early America. To focus so heavily on that instead of the other oppressions of the time is...not great. There were some good things in the curriculum as well - I spent a lot of time reading and memorizing Shakespeare and great poems. But those bright spots don't make up for brushing over evolution and an incredibly skewed perspective of history.
> If you want to strengthen friendships with games it’s important to pick the right games.

A lot of the new school border games have very little interaction with players just calculating the optimal way to increase their score.
>Completely fucked up their response to covid, mostly of of a fear of Xis ego.

No global agency can work if countries don't cooperate or report false information. We don't have a world government.

> The world has fought famine by economic growth, not charity

False, millions are supported by WFP feeding programmes. This isn't even difficult to look up.

>The UN Security Council?

Again, the UNSC is just a venue where the world's most powerful countries can cooperate. It's not an independent agency with its own army. See point 1, of 'we don't have a world government', above.

All these things you're blaming 'the UN' for should actually be directed at the world's major powers, because they're the ones making all the key decisions. Not UN bureaucrats.
The title is confusing. It reads like the film industry purposely decided to allow unauthorised downloads for some reason.
> Why would anyone even attempt to contribute if their efforts are likely to be dismissed in this way?

I think most people who can make positive contributions are aware that they can do so. There are also a bunch of people who can't but think they can, which is fine, but they need to be understanding when their PR gets feedback or turned down outright.

Contributing to someone else's project is both a gift and a burden for the maintainer, so contributors need to have humility about the net value of what they're contributing. If code isn't up to the maintainers' standards, the imposition on the maintainers may exceed the value to the project. If this isn't a risk a submitter can tolerate, it's unlikely that their contribution would be a net positive.

Most communities have healthy expectations about participation in certain activities being contingent on a certain level of experience/skill so that participation does not impose an undue risk or cost on the community. Open source post-2010 has a very abnormal and unrealistic ideal of encouraging everyone to be involved at all points in the process at every skill and experience level. It's perfectly reasonable to have a feedback mechanism where you tell people to get good/lurk more/work on their backhand/etc. before engaging with the community at a certain level, so as to prevent the cost of managing their contribution from exceeding its value.
>Describing some code as "bug-ridden garbage" betrays a negatively judgmental frame of mind

Or an accurate depiction of reality.
I have heard that soaking the Turkey in brine for 24 hours beforehand can reduce the notorious dryness of the bird.
I was disappointed to not see more discussion of how the certificates could have been falsified. It looks like a pretty elaborate system, hopefully they will be able to revoke only the fraudulent signers and have them stand trial.
> and do not recommend that any parent send their kids there who can afford private school.

This is one of the most dangerous threats to a well functioning society.

Whenever we have two-tier systems inequality grows and the closer a society moves to a caste system. Those who can't pay will receive sub-par education while those who can, will receive the best education available according to the means of their family. The issues of public school will be invisible to them and they will feel no need to properly fund it.

This is the same with public education, public funding, public security, public healthcare. Wherever a private system exists that competes with the public (as in "it belongs to everyone") one, it'll consume resources and deprive the public one.

In time, most elected officials will not have experienced it and will neglect it completely.
or to pardon on the white house lawn.
No, we skipped turkey and did a Wild-mushroom Shepard's Pie.

I understand this comment is not necessarily helpful to OP, but I would just suggest that given the stress and energy of cooking turkey that people consider creating new traditions.
Speaking as a historically pedantic person, correctness is often a form of perfectionism. Just gussied up.

Unless you have a verifiable system all the way down, you will always have bugs, crashed, and race conditions.

Going all the way to 11 on trying to make it correct usually results in negligible improvement in correctness for a lot more time spent. Depends on the system of course. This is a terminal emulator, not a rocket ship.

I'm not suggesting you should just have totally bug ridden code, but if you are putting people through years of in-PR iteration on a thing to achieve "correctness", either
1. Close it because you won't get what you want
2. Accept it and improve it prior to release.

I'd point out: If it is really this hard for reasonable programmers to get it "correct", do you really think the people on the other side of the PR are so good at programming that they are getting it all right too?
> Woocommerce doesn't rely on dedicated tables for orders or related metadata, it's all stuffed into 'posts' and 'post_meta'.

While I agree this is an antipattern it appeared to be the recommended way when I first got into WP plugin development. IIRC because one cannot guarantee hosting will backup all tables of the DB, and some DBs mix other non-WP stuff.
Use standing desk, and take good care of your neck.
Or perhaps you share the same social network platform - time to leave?
I just watched that too. Must have read the same comment. Anyway I agree with the first YouTube comment. It's only partially Linux's fault. SoC vendors would never want to give up control of the software that runs on the SoC to just anyone, so there's not really anything Linux can do about it even if it wanted to.

"Build your own SoC" is not really a viable solution for most people.
Wait, if that's true its not impossible to perform targeted search to find out who is under psychiatric treatment... that's not ideal, to say the least
How is Bill Gates more competent to talk about vaccines than anybody else here?
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I agree, but only partially. Anyone doing anything in public opens themselves to criticism, but the criticism has to be well-intentioned and valid.

In this case, requirements about code quality and even refusal of code likely to introduce bugs is being called "gatekeeping" which is complete nonsense.

If you refuse a merge request for good reason, you don't deserve to get shit on by some salty contributor who doesn't want to bring their PR up to your standards. This article seems to indicate that any PR intended to be helpful must be merged, whatever the cost in maintenance, because otherwise you're gatekeeping.

If you refuse a PR for bad reasons ("I don't accept contributions from Chile because I had a bad holiday there once" and more racist/sexist variants thereof) then you definitely deserve criticism. What's happening here isn't really criticism, though, it's childish ranting about other people not putting in enough free work for the author and how that is somehow damaging to the volunteers, disguised behind polite words.

I think the world owes maintainers no protection from real, useful negative feedback, but a lot of negative feedback is just people being angry that they don't get their way. In a civil internet, that kind of behaviour has no place being called "criticism" and being assumed to just be par for the course of open source.

I've decided I never want to be an open source maintainer exactly because of the entitled people who write these articles, and I don't think I'm the only one being pushed away from open source for this reason.
The new website and branding looks great. Congratulations!
There's a new variant of a deadly virus where vaccine effectiveness isn't confirmed, but hey, get on with your life, worst case you just die.
I don’t work in streaming, so take this opinion with a grain of salt, but my impression is this problem will solve itself in a few years.

Right now the video industry is in land-grab mode. Everyone knows there are too many subscription streaming services. In five years there will be three, maybe four winners, and everyone else will sell content to them.
I'd ignore that particular individual's comment. A full case study should include a qualitative discussion of the competition, and the more granular, the better.

Far from unethical, it's a best practice.

Source: I wrote a lot of papers like this for business school.
this looks great! I think I'll give it a read. I am curious to know how pandas stacks up against matlab; like what where the semantic decisions the pandas folks made, the tradeoffs, etc.
It's a harsh reality. The best team can't be welcoming to sub-par players. At least not on game day.
> Pretty much real-time results.

This to me feels really underrated nowadays - at best, you shouldn't always have to reason about your code inside of your head and try to figure out how it'll work in detail, or read API docs for all of the obscure frameworks that you're using.

Test things in real time at first and in the cases where they don't, continue doing so, but with a debugger and stepping through everything bit by bit, or read the docs, or whatever the non-trivial cases will demand.

In my eyes, that's the exact same thing as autocomplete in IDEs - instant feedback, to free you from having to think about yet another mundane level of abstraction or API details, instead letting you solve the actual problems that you're faced with.
> I was also surprised [...] to realize that our sanitary pass allow(ed) vaccinated people to attend mass events or restaurants or places where that pass is mandatory even if they have covid symptoms or are under quarantine.

Unfortunately the bureaucratic apparatus has chosen to overplay the vaccines hand and build up a convenient scapegoat for when the vaccines prove to be less effective than originally claimed. The correct and ethical course of action is for everyone to undergo the same level of social protection measures.
Who's to say that the person who harbored this mutation wasn't vaccinated? The only thing we know is that they suspect it developed in an individual with HIV.
This isn't specific to Rust. PRs are hard, people want different things, nothing is free, etc.
OMG this. so this.
That's a similar problem though. Yes, the community may benevolent, or it may be tyrannical, and if you're a kid in the latter community well it just sucks to be you buddy. Maybe you'll get luckier in your next life.
I work in publishing, and it is still hard to get management to understand that convenience and a reasonable price is more effective than drm for fighting piracy.

On the other hand, Spotify also solved the industry’s problem of having to pay artists.
I'll be honest, if they're using an automatic coffee maker (one where the puck is ground and processed internally), this very well could be the case. Also keep in mind that flavor profiles are generally targeted for espresso (either a double shot of something slightly watered down).
> The cost of a high end burr grinder is crazy and I don't understand what's going on but you can do simple comparative tests.

Some Taiwanese folks crowdsourced a bunch of manual grinders in this forum thread to measure and compare grind size distribution [1].

It's usually my go-to thread whenever someone asks me for grinder recommendations, and care mostly about the end result.

[1] (link in Chinese) https://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=640&t=5747652
Wowwww this is lovely! Have you written anywhere about what you've done on the projects you've maintained along these lines? I think we'd all benefit from hearing more about what you can do in a project to make contributors more capable and helpful.

After all, it seems like their incentives should align? Like, why wouldn't they want to make a contribution that actually helps? Making that easier to actually do seems like time well spent for everyone.
What an interesting story! I was wondering if you where you also working in the quantum computing field back then, or if you just worked on this as a hobby. 6 years ago the entire quantum computing field was not hyped as much yet (this was just about when the ibm quantum experience started?).
According to §2.5 from the legal text [0](it was a draft that I linked to earlier. This is the real thing now), an attestation, in textual or digital form, of a previous SARS-Cov2 infection confirmed via a PCR test or similar test (not antibody-tests!) in German, French, English, Italian or Spanish language is accepted as proof of recovery. It does not include restrictions on where the test was taken.

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/schausnahmv/BJNR612800021...
My turkey is never dry. I debone it, make stock with the bones, roll the legs together and glue them with transglutaminase, roll the breasts in the skin and glue them too. I cook the breasts and legs in two sous-vide baths. Finish them by roasting them in a pan. They're juicy and delicious and the homemade stock makes a better gravy!
My turkey was not dry! Brined it overnight.
Unless I'm missing something, this law is in line with the current standards of best practice. Complying with it is not that hard.
Not a particularly useful point of reference but the International Space Station's secondary bus (that powers all the devices) is 124Vdc. Stepped down from ~160Vdc provided by solar+batteries.

Worth noting that 120Vac goes considerably higher than 120V. 120 is supposed to be the average, root mean squared. This implies to me we might be able to have lower currents if we wanted to go even higher voltage DC, without having to rewire.

One other note, usb-c defined a locking connector in 2016. There's a m2 screw 6.8mm above the flat of one side of the jack.
I agree it would require a great deal more discipline to implement then the alternatives. I can do it by myself, just takes about twice as long to do over the normal way, but with a team it would be a nightmare.
Ah, Alacritty. Reminds me of one this issue which I created a few months ago.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/4731

EDIT: I used it for a while in Windows before I switched to Linux where I use Kitty
A helpfully non-alarmist thread from someone who worked on the vaccine: https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/146422268073182004...
Yeah, odd comment by parent. Counterpoint: Library Genesis.

Every book I've read in the last few years I've discovered from there. I download them in mobi format, send them to my Kindle app and read on iPad.

You can find any book and download it instantly. There's no real difference between reading in paper and an iPad. I've had Kindle Paperwhites and physical books, and I always end up preferring the convenience of the tablet.

This is a huge lifesaver for broke students like me. It opens so many doors and learning opportunities.

One final note: support your favorite authors. Piracy is not cool. I always make sure to buy the ones I enjoy, so consider the downloads really a trial.

*tip: download any book title that catches your eye: this is possible with libgen. you don't have to read them all, but you'll always have some new material to discover once you finish a title. having a giant but unread library is better than a small but finished one :)
Chess faces stalemate in its match with machines
https://archive.md/AAdOf
Worth it, but no need to get fancy with it.
I don’t think anything has fundamentally changed, piracy was a response to content owners shortsightedly trying to extract maximum dollars. There was a brief interregnum when everything switched to streaming, but it didn’t have anything to do with studio execs coming to their senses.
Show HN: My little pet project to visually display mathematics
This is a very small project I built last year called Compute. It's a svelte app with two math visualizations, one for Ulam Spirals and another for Game of Life. I'm looking for suggestions on math or physics concepts that would be fun to visualize or animate. If there's anyone looking for a project to contribute to I've just made the repo public https://github.com/rwest202/compute.
> You need at least one of the three: patience, skill, experience.

I had a boss who was a self-admitted terrible programmer. I witnessed some of the worst practices ever while working there.

His quote was, "don't underestimate a persistent idiot (programmer) with a lot of time on his hands. He'll get it 'almost right', eventually"
According to Carmack subroutine calls are also disallowed. See https://web.archive.org/web/20210226152857/http://lambda-the...

This sounds very much like programming a traditional Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).
Is it a valid reason to ignore known and found problems?
This isn't a ban on default passwords, merely on non-unique default passwords. It's just as easy to laser-print a unique per-device password on the device label as it ever was.
Parent is joking
It's not the ultimate thread, though, until someone mentions that ThinkPads are made by Lenovo who got caught including spyware in their laptops. That reply will get at least 2 replies that say, 'yah but never in the thinkpad lineup'
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> A quick Google search of ceramic vs steel burs also seems to indicate the ceramic offers better longevity.

I have a theory that people who start with a Hario Skerton or its clones (all of which have ceramic burrs) tend to be turned off manual grinding because of how bad the grinding experience is.

Steel burrs supposedly cut better and faster.

Admittedly, I've tried my friend's Porlex Tall, and it wasn't unpleasant to use.
A) copyright should be lowered to 10 or maybe 20 years.

B) content owners have the right to ask for however much they want for content if copyright lengths were reasonable
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> a more complicated and higher quality product [...] those junky nespresso buyers

It was inevitable that a thread on coffee would attract the snobbery.

I was literally raised with moka and coffee from Italian bars, and Nespresso is absolutely fine. For me, like for loads of other Italian migrants in "barbaric" Northern lands (where "baristas" couldn't make a decent cup to save their lives), it has been an absolute lifesaver. I know plenty of Italian foodies with absolutely no qualms about it. You can criticize the environmental impact (sure), the cost (eh), the commercial model (you in SaaS too?), the tax-dodging, whatever. But when it comes to quality, it's really just the worst hipster snobbery that stops people from accepting that it's actually pretty good. The machines can last for ages with minimal maintenance, and the coffee is good and consistent with zero effort. The rest is just audiophile-level bullcrap.
Bill, like many CS people, doesn't understand biology well enough to couch his statements. We could do what he said, and not have that outcome. In particular, I really doubt that some sort of magical herd immunity shows up when; that's been a wild guess of some scientists for a while, but it's not really a firm prediction.

BTW, with some of the newly designed vaccines, if the virus mutates, the vaccine can be rapidly changed to respond to that (because it's sequence based). That changes things a lot.
It's time for me to leave when all of my stalkers start getting professional certification.
Exercise every day.

Meet one new person everyday.

Nurture your older relationships and don't let it falter.

Spend an hour learning everyday. Newspapers, courses, skills.

Travel regularly to see new places and people.

Be open minded. Don't imprison yourself in your beliefs, values, judgment.

Write a one-page journal every night before sleep.

Find joy in simple regular everyday things by practicing mindfulness. Food, sleep, nature, hikes, music, play.

Meditate 20 minutes a day.

Save half of your money and invest in all-world diversified stock market and never sell.
> This _should_ be exactly the type of project where people can get their first OSS programming experience.

It is 100% up to maintainer of a given project, they are not obligated to do this.

People are 100% free to pursue sky-high reliability and bugfreeness in their project, no matter what it is.
> the West is stockpiling jabs for people who essentially don't want it.

...and also don't need it (boosters for healthy, young people). The WHO has repeatedly begged the western world to stop prioritizing boosters for healthy people, but the west continues to do this, instead of getting shots to the rest of the world:

https://archive.md/BnEtn#a-scandal-who-says-the-rate-of-boos...

This all seems to be a tragic attempt by politicians to appease their terrified base, coupled with incompetent scientists who continue to pursue eradication as a goal.
I think it is almost certain that China has successfully controlled the virus up til now.
The problem isn't that there are too many, but that they are too expensive, especially since one needs to subscribe to several of them to get enough diversity/coverage of content ala cable.
How Dropbox Replay keeps everyone in sync
It runs on more than just the PinePhone, enabling reuse of older smartphones.
Yes, these things eliminate people who are sympathetic to the core cause but in no way want to be associated with these actions.
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I stuttered well into my high school years, didn’t have many friends and genuinely had to learn. Some amazing people helped me and it’s amazing getting to pay it forward. Thanks for the kind words friend - it’s amazing knowing some of my crap is helpful. :)