skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay that changes things a lot then. I'm sorry for everything you had to go through, and I'll try to respond to your main points, but just note that I don't fall neatly into whatever side of the issue you might imagine (regardless of what it might look like from my brief replies here):

> Where I live masks are required indoors under all circumstances regardless of vaccine status.

I assume there are extremely reasonable constraints you haven't mentioned (e.g., I don't imagine you have to wear masks in your own house, nor would I guess the government is forcing you to wear masks when you visit your friends' homes), so with that in mind:

My own take on indoor mask mandates is: no I don't like them, and yes fogging glasses is annoying, but I could say the same thing about red traffic lights. I hate them so much and find them frustrating, yet I still understand & respect both of them regardless, and try to move on with my life. In neither case do I find there to be so much burden that I can't tolerate living this life anymore, though I can understand that for people with e.g. breathing difficulties the case might be different (and I hope/expect they would have been able to been accommodated accordingly).

> there’s talk of introducing restrictions again.

I'm not sure preventing people from "talking" about restrictions would result in a better world, so I'm not sure what alternative you're proposing here. Yes it's frustrating, but that's what we get with democracy and free speech. All I can suggest is that tuning out the news would probably be helpful if you're finding it overwhelming.

> It’s not so much how it is today, it’s the damage yesterday had done.

Vaccines became available to most adults around April/May, and by June states had started lifting many restrictions. I think it was literally beginning of June where even in liberal Massachusetts a ton of people took off their masks in (crowded!) malls as soon as the mandates lifted. So I'm not sure during what time period you believe the government imposed unjustifiably onerous restrictions. If you're talking about those few weeks in the span of those few weeks, I don't think a few extra weeks made the difference here. If you're talking about afterward, I'm not aware of particularly onerous/lasting restrictions (see above). And if you're talking about before vaccine availability, no, I don't think many people liked that world, but I don't find it at all obvious that letting the pandemic just burn through the entire population would've been better, or that letting potentially infected people walk into ERs amidst other patients with compromised health would have been a wise decision. I know >700,000 people have died in the US so far due to the pandemic, and that number would've been far larger if they had let it grow exponentially, so that factor needs to be considered. (I'm sorry for your loss; I realize this is probably difficult to read. I'm just trying to reply since you were requesting that.)

Of course, if we had the same restrictions today as we had pre-vaccines, that would've been quite a different story.
I don't know much about Nix, although it has been on my radar for some time. The claim that the language performance is bad pops up time and again, and I'm sure many people would be happy to have a faster alternative --- so props to them for trying to address this clearly important problem.

That being said, in perusing related issues on GitHub such as [1], I have found no serious attempts to even profile the damn thing. The typical attempt seems to be throwing a random idea at the evaluator and crossing fingers. The example of a "performance experiment" [2] from the article is self-described as follows:

> Add an alternative impl of the now-abstract Bindings base class that is backed by a std::vector, somewhat similar but stylistically a little superior to the array-backed implementation in upstream nix.

I fail to see how that is a performance experiment when it does not mention performance at all.

The post also mentions issues with the general Nix design and a desire to modernize it, which I am unqualified to comment on, but seems a worthwhile endeavor in and of itself. I do hope that they won't end up writing a new evaluator for the Nix language without a proper understanding of what makes the current one slow and a clear plan not to repeat its mistakes, or the new one risks being just as slow as the old one.

[1] : https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2652

[2] : https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/1123/
Wow, I missed that, it's great!

"The past has finally arrived"

"Numbers. Colors. Eyes."

They could have totally reused the same, respectable jokes from the product description in the video, but they did something new. This is art.
Eh, I don't know. There was spam but search was useful.

Now there's still spam, and search is useless.

Also, I don't think people remember how much interesting stuff is on the internet. There used to be tons of results from small sites of blogs which are still there, but not listed on Google anymore. Modern Google has made the internet incredibly smaller. Everything is still out there, hidden from our searches. It's like their algo has been tuned to favour silos, spam or content silos that is, to the detriment of the long tail of small, hobbyist websites with high signal-noise ratio.
> Who thought designing this page and actually publishing it was a good idea?

Somebody who read "I wish webpages today were as simple as they were in 1999" and then did their best to emulate the Geocities pages that they found from that era.
When you try to write this kind of thing quickly, it's hard to beat something like `sum(lines[i:i+3]) > sum(lines[i-1:i+2])`. You get points for time of submission, not for the code.
Whenever a cathedral suffered fires or collapses, or simply when a section went out of fashion and they had plenty of spare money from trade, they would indeed rebuild entire sections in a contemporary updated style; so I think that answers your question.
For the second puzzle, there is no need to calculate a sum of three elements. I only realized this myself after having thought about it a bit longer.
I think I see where you are coming from. I think "responsibility" is a human social construct, but there is a concept that can be generalized for any living system. Plants have a role in the ecosystem with their photosynthesis. So even though they might not have the same kind of agency and volition as humans and photosynthesis is something plants _do_, nevertheless, a plant's relevancy to the ecosystem it belongs to is with their photosynthesis. The ecosystem would not function without it -- or if it does, it would be an entirely different kind of ecosystem.

I think in Carol Sanford's talks on living systems, the unique contribution a living system has for the ecosystem it lives within makes it non-displaceble.

Whether that should be recognized in our legal system, and something that helps humans participate in the ecology ... I don't know. The idea of legal personhood, at least, acknowledges that a living system is its own whole (if we are not just using it as a legal fiction), and it seems to me a stretch to say that a river "wants" legal representation. That sounds like the kind of stuff pre-modern tribal shamans do. That's not necessarily a bad thing in my book, but I don't know if our modern society is ready for that.

On the other hand, it could work as a balance to corporations having legal personhood.
I mean, even if it wasn't property of the church it wouldn't be as simple as that. You could ask this question about everything - if a museum receives substantial grants to operate, is it still within the decision of its owner to do with it as they please, or not? If the money was given without any specific restrictions then I'd say yes, it is entirely within their view.
If the design for this didn't create negative reactions like this they would have probably considered the design a failure.
it's hard to imagine that there are zero poor people

Of course, but that's OK. "Poor" is a relative term that we measure against "rich". It's OK to be poor.

I don't believe the rich should give to the poor simply to equalize how much wealth each person has. The concept of rich people is fine. One day I'd like to be one. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk could marry and form the world's first half-a-trillion-dollars power couple for all I care. The issue is people having that much money while at the same time people on their doorstep are starving, homeless, and dying because they have to ration their medicine. The fact that corporations and the elite refuse to pay taxes means the structural issues in society aren't being addressed (taxation is part of the issue; how the government spends what they raise in taxes is the other half.)

We could live in a society where no one is homeless, everyone has enough food and warmth, and everyone gets a good education and hospital treatment if they need it, and everyone would be able to work to buy the best Ferrari or to travel or to make art. 21st century human society is capable of that. We choose not to.
How I Generate App Ideas
I’d say Amazon and Facebook have very aggressive recruiters. Their process might be selective, but their recruiters are not.
The 'police procedural' crime drama has become very popular on British TV in recent years. There's probably too of much it to be honest.

The most popular is a BBC series called Line of Duty about corruption in the police force ("bent coppers"). There are seven series (seasons) so far and the plots are far-fetched but entertaining. Every episode features police interviews or interrogations which make up much of the drama.
The most important points:
- Improvements on mandatory warranty (Gewährleistung)
- Warranty for "free" (pay with data) contracts
- obligation for function-maintaining updates and security updates
- platform operators are obliged to disclose the essential parameters of the ranking of search results and their weighting before the conclusion of the contract
- providers will have to disclose if a price has been personalised on the basis of an automated decision

Furthermore contracts will be cancelable every month after the initial (max. 24 month) period from 1st December 2021 (yesterday), however that is not part of this source as it is another law.
Why would you use node, if it wasn’t for the vast package exosystem?
Obviously the controversy is not regarding any sort of changes made to improve fire safety.
But a centralized stablecoin has.. basically none of the benefits of Bitcoin?

At this point it looks like a bait and switch. We were promised a decentralized currency and we just got a get rich quick scheme.
People ‘microdosing’ on psychedelics to improve wellbeing during pandemic
This could be turned round - are you implicitly assuming a human with limited ability has less value? Mere skill isn't the same as being a "good person", after all.
They've been doing that to cathedrals for 𝚝̶𝚠̶𝚎̶𝚕̶𝚟̶𝚎̶ seventeen centuries, why would they stop doing it now?
Linux and OS X are officially supported

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/supported-p...
Hey Tazjin, i see you are around that one.

Quick question. Can you expand on IFD and integrations? That is one thing i would love to know more about your plans.

Also i hope it works, the nox code base is imho the biggest impediment to the nix model being more used.

Small advise: please consider making it really easy to contribute to through wll the tooling. This is one of the reason Nix codebase rotted
> This is why I choose to be a contractor and an engineer. If I work, I bill. I never understood how anyone in good conscience can work 15hrs while the others at the company work 40hrs and still collect full-time benefits.

If they are working 15h/week and delivering what is expected from them, who are you to guilt those into working the schedule you judge as "right"? My employer pays me to deliver them value, if I deliver the expected value for my salary in 10h instead of 40h am I in the wrong? Should I be forcing myself to work harder just because? Nah.

> I am probably also culturally biased from working class roots that overpraises hours worked and that mindset is admittedly self-defeating.

Yes, you are. I came from the same roots, had the same twisted view about "hard work" and judging others when I worked my ass off and saw some other people relaxing. After 17 years of career, this is all bullshit. I'm being paid for my expertise and my results, if my employer is happy with my results why the fuck should I bust my ass longer than needed? I have a life outside of work that I care much more about.

I do have a work ethic, I do my work with a lot of care, craft and thought, I deliver value and improve products and processes. I don't fucking care if I do that in 10 or 40 hours a week, it's a motivation for me to allow my laziness to be a driver for being more and more efficient and effective, so I can work less hours while delivering more value, being paid more per hour in the process.

> Preparing/eating a meal during a meeting is admittedly perk but it doesn't affect my focus or participation.

It's also a perk to have enough time (1h-1h30m) in the middle of the day to go enjoy your meal fully, to prepare it with care, without multitasking in some bullshit meeting just because you feel you need to be hyper-efficient.

The best perk I have of being a software engineer is that, comparatively to many other fields, our careers allow us to take back a lot of control of our own schedule and time.
I'm not sure if we're talking past each other here. Going to clarify my opinion on this a bit.

- Facebook is generally considered in colloquial terms, a "platform".

- Expectations by the users are thus that Facebook (the entity) does not dictate opinion, but instead provides an avenue for hosting and discovery of individual opinion.

- Thus, to the userbase, Facebook is not a Single source, but is instead a aggregation of multiple sources of "information" (or opinion; Scare quotes were intentional)

- One-sided enforcement of opinions on topics breaks the above assumption, converting it from "platform", to "publisher".

- This represents far more centralization of information control than the previous "platform" state. I think "centralization" captures my intention here more than the previous "top down" descriptor.

One of the assumptions of a free democracy is that people, as individuals, are permitted to discover their own opinion from available information. It's imperfect, but it's pretty important. If we severely restrict the pool of available information to just the slice amenable to whoever is in power, that's in effect the same as forcing their opinion. After all, you can't form the opposing opinion on something if everything you can find supports it.

Addendum:

On the gotcha of "Facebook's right to free speech". I'm of the opinion that this must be taken in light of scale and the subsequent threats to the individual right to free speech. Here, I declare (unilaterally, agreement may vary) that the individual right to free speech should be held above that of the corporate right, especially when scale is considered. I very much consider the largest digital spaces the closest analogue to the modern public square (some would disagree here) due to their scale and ubiquity.
When I was a freshman at MSU in 1970 I was a member of the MSU amateur radio club. One day the faculty leader recruited me to help a Phd student with his Slow Scan TV experiments. The Phd student had a technicians license which didn't have operating privileges on the HF band.

So we operated in tandem and I got to learn all about the then brand new world of SSTV. It was really jerky video but you could send it all over the world. Remember vividly talking to an Egyptian ham who did a live broadcast from the pyramids with camels walking about and it was all live, hot stuff for the time.

The SSTV community was pretty small at the time, no more than a dozen leaders in the U.S. One of them was a fellow by the name of Don Miller from Indiana. Even after all these years I remember the name because there was earlier a rather infamous ham by the name of Don Miller who was an MD, who quit to travel the world putting rare nations on the air.

https://www.amateurradio.com/the-don-miller-enigma/

Shocked to learn a half century later that I was speaking with the greatest archeological thief of all time. Guess both Don Miller's from Indiana were scoundrels.
Categorically false.

She was literally one of the first employees.
> How can I come up with solutions to puzzles more quickly?

If that's the goal, an obvious solution may be to not write useless comments, typing and verbose function names :) Solving day 1 in Python is 10 lines of code without even trying to golf it.
Lmao. Absolute perfection. Software that exists has way more value.
That is surprisingly less bad than some of the stuff my company has pulled and thought it was excellent while patting themselves on the back.

Usually it is a sign that the greater spotted MBA is insufficient on its own to produce effective business strategy and marketing. It requires a combination of two other mysterious forces; talent and clue, which are unavailable at business school.
Why, after he realized his own PayPal account had been hacked and used to hack his own company, would he then become a whistleblower and accuse his company of not investigating the hack?

He should have been spending his time finding out how his PayPal account and home network got hacked, not talking to journalists accusing the company of not handling the hack correctly.
Title is editorialized by submitter. Actual title: "Google Removes Pirate Bay Domains from Search Results Citing Dutch Court Order".
Ask HN: Who doesn't want to be hired? What you upto? (December 2021)
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29073996

Instead of talking jobs, what is everyone up to otherwise? Any interesting going on in life or with your hobby project?
Unfinished and novel ideas are of course most interesting, so feel free to share anything you're thinking about!
> Why is indirect Internet access less of a problem for C than Rust/Go/etc?

Because C codes tend to have less dependencies and shallow/more "clustered" dependency graph.

To be fair, that's more or less due to dependency management being a 100% pain 0 fun experience.
https://youtu.be/tZxMvAArHBw

Short video on youtube about this: FBI Seeking Owners in Cultural Artifacts Case

Only 7000 items were seized from the collection of 42,000. I wonder what will happen with the remaining items.
I am aware. The JA37 has thus been one of the extremely few models in a position to both escort an SR-71 to safety and get a missile lock on it (although would with almost certainty have been unable to shoot it down).
I would also like it if the language itself can be decoupled from the build and package manager system, so that it can be embedded in other software that would benefit from a language like nix. I think that might be a worthy goal and could attract people outside of the nix sphere.
As a Chinese-American residing in the US, I really have to smile when white people think they can "stick it" to China. Westerners, in particular white people, are threatened by Asian faces gaining power in the Far East, and so they demonize my country and countrymen and make up ridiculous stories about how much of a scary Orwellian hellhole China is. And of course they indulge in their white savior narrative and try to portray themselves as sooo much better than China. They are not so noble. If Westerners think they can keep goading my country one day they just might regret it. I used to think that China should continue being pacifist (not waging war) but I think it is now necessary given the rising hostility from the USA and other white/white-adjacent nations that are threatened by Chinese/Asian dominance. Given the rising tensions I wonder if the party leadership should just say "f it" and do a rapid reunification Taiwan as soon as possible and risk the economic damage. They have the nukes, afterall.
This is actually the investor relations tool they're using (Q4). If you follow the "powered by" link you can see that Q4's corporate website has the same thing
I am quite keen to research/trading engineer role in Singapore. I applied before and got interview for ops dev role. are they within same department or research engineer role demands higher skillsets?
That's exactly my same thought every time I need to use one of those!
I try to do that all the time to disable or modify annoying JS features but it's so hard now that everybody minimizes their libraries. Any tips to deal with this?
You should include your location, I assume you are talking about the USA because this isn't reality in the countries I've lived in my life.
The trouble is, how do you prevent Sybil attacks? The spammers might vote for their own sites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
> Facebook aside you really see this across the board on almost any platform, that once the product reaches it's 1.0 stage, (where it is good, does what the users want it to do, and has realised its vision) it begins a process of gradual decay, as the focus of the product managers (now panicking to find some statistics to improve to show their bosses) shifts from "building functionality" to "increasing engagement/retention/active users per month".

Best example for me: Revolut. The app and product as a whole was so simple and good.

One year ago (or maybe 1.5 years ago) it started going downhill, fast. The app got so complicated that I often simply cannot find what I'm looking for (my card or the balance in a specific currency). Everyone I know using Revolut has the same complaint, especially older people like my parents or in-laws.

I don't get it and it makes me sad.
From "Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses" at https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... :

> A zip code corresponds to a single city

> Mike Cohen reports zip code 33334 covers 3 cities: Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, and Fort Lauderdale, all in Florida.
Because he literally already told it what he wants it to provide in his existing solution, which you can see in the tree pane on the left. This experiment means nothing.
> Then of course it falls to humans to determine what the best interests of these "persons" are, and to actually pursue those interests, and to judge whether those humans acting on behalf of these "persons" are actually acting in good faith (and what do we do if they aren't?).

No it doesn't. All we need to do is to acknowledge that non-humans are not lesser than us, and that our most important responsibility as humans is to not abuse our mental and technological advantages.
What? "Chaotic good" and "lawful evil" are common terms. Why are you trying to split up the grandparent post's wording in a way they very obviously didn't intend?
You're interpreting incorrectly. I never used the word "more" in my response.

My points are:

(a) "merit based" scholarships are not everywhere. The vast majority are financial need based - which is not a bad thing.

(b) You mentioned "bad schools" and "elites" - nothing about the middle class. My point was to assert that just because someone can afford to live where there are decent public schools doesn't mean they can afford college. These people are not "elites." The cost of California schools was a data point; the problem is nationwide.

(c) A charity which chooses to help kids who need help is still doing good, even if some of the kids are not the most disadvantaged in the country.

At no point did I indicate that "middle class kids that can't afford California schools" were somehow more deserving than those with a poorer SES. I simply pointed out that they exist, and that some do need help, and they frequently fall into a gap of being neither rich enough or poor enough to get help.

First you accused the charity of elitism, and now you accuse me of elitism. I find that interesting and curious.
But not if you use 02-12-2021