skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I lost a finger tip in a mandolin making potatoes lyonnaise.

I had to look this up because I only knew of mandolin the instrument and not mandolin the cutting tool. It did give me a very interesting mental image, though.
If it had kept up with inflation a 45c bottle including 10c deposit in 1980 would be $1.52 including 33c deposit today

Instead it’s about $2
The price of obviously stolen goods is usually significantly lower, sometimes a magnitude lower, than not stolen goods.
From an IDE point of view, I reckon it's hard to tell for a Emacs user, but the sure thing is that LispWorks the editor has more graphical widgets. The graphical stepper for example is for sure easier to use and discover than the rest. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/lispworks.html LispWorks the implementation has a bunch of features.
Ahhhh, I remember this one.
Hats off to the author! I've long been a proponent of the colon command due to its no-op properties, but this just takes it to another level. One would definitely have to provide add comments to the ":" function as there seems to a good amount of esoterica contained within.
I instantly recognized it !
It is more that these days everything is a video. Even things that should be two to three paragraphs of text or maybe a picture or two.
You know the Federal government contracts out running prisons and the acquisition of execution materials to private entities right?
> I could take a different example number for a wildly different result.

The actual point of contrasting a constant reduction with an exponential increase is that no, it does not work like that. You can take some quite different example numbers and get a broadly similar result.

Top comment here has it right (put in the language of computer science): "Even if hospitalisation rates are a small constant factor lower, doesn’t everyone remember from CS101 that O(k^x) is bad news ... constant factor ain’t gonna save your assignment once the problem size grows just a little more." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29622438

> And so, if Africa is doing well because of prior infection, why the hell are we madly rushing to vaccination

because population immunity gained through a huge number of prior infections, is gained at a far higher cost in lives ,than population immunity gained through a huge number of vaccinations given. That's an obvious given.

> (and there doesn't appear to be reports of widespread mass mortality in Africa to date

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially with modern media bubbles. How deeply have you looked for this data? Don't expect this to be a top story in the US or Europe, it never is.

FYI, here it a bit of it: https://twitter.com/tomtom_m/status/1472561150097342464

Whole thread is good.
Any company that has a lot of data in an SQL system that they want to make sense of. The idea would be that business intelligence people, analysts, the CEO, anyone who needed answers could ask a question in plain english and hopefully get a response.

The success rate was just not good enough, even for relatively simple queries. You'd probably need to adjust the query 90% of the time, and the other 10% you couldn't even really trust that the answer was correct.
My experience is the same as GP.

Signs take attention looking at. They often don’t point to where you want to go, but some other major destination along the way, or road names. Junctions can be confusing.

When I can, I like to drive without satnav, it makes me appreciate the geography more.
A non-realtime one with no PvP.
Blogs are perfectly capable of embedding media as appropriate, including videos.

On the contrary to your suggestion, blogs (or more specifically, webpages) are what can do more than anything else, since they can also feature interactive media. See <https://ncase.me/trust/> for an example.

Whether or not this is expected, standard, or the author thinks it's worth the effort is another thing.
Last year at the beginning of the pandemic I started implementing a devops infrastructure at work where I work as a lead developer. Initially the idea was to allow developers to run anything (or a selection of things) required for production on their local machine (k3s, kind etc) with added tooling for development (consistently working tools inside the container, but even outside by the use of binding). All I needed was a simple way to run containers and the requirements. Docker soon proved to be inadequate, it lacked certain features and I soon moved to k8s for local development and a devops pipeline.

People commit their changes, I (and sometimes another dev) review them and they are pushed to the test environment, from there to staging and then production (with a way to easily roll back). This is all done automatically with out-of-the-box solutions (fluxcd, flagger, kilo, kaniko etc).

At work, Kubernetes is not considered too difficult to manage. Much can be done in a very consistent and complete way unlike Docker. What am I overlooking that makes k8s to be considered snake-oil by so many?

Edit: Forgot to add. I am so happy with k8s that I even run it at home and on my external servers.
Here is a story of a man who collected cans and bottles for cash and invested the money he got in the stock market, he died a millionaire.

"Curt Degerman, known to many as "Tin Can Curt," Degerman spent nearly 30 years roaming the streets of Skelleftea in northern Sweden collecting tin cans and bottles for cash. Those who passed him by simply assumed he was another ordinary street bum.

But to the surpise of many, when Degerman died in 2008, he left more than $1.4 million to his cousin. In between collecting cans, Degerman spent a lot of time in his local library reading business papers and studying the stock market. "

He knew stocks inside and out," said his cousin.

By immersing himself in an education of thrift and smart investing, Degerman used his tin-can earnings to purchase mutual funds. He bought 124 gold bars and also expanded his cash with a savings account. By riding a bicycle and not having a mortgage on his house, his savings were made even easier.

But in 2008, Degerman died of a heart attack, leaving his entire estate to a cousin who had visited him regularly during his last days. He died a millionaire."

Sources:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/tin-collector-dies-mi...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WHB-2895

https://archive.md/kB5F4
Doesn’t matter. The redemption cost is paid by the consumer when they buy the can—it is literally added to the bill, like a sales tax. Any recyclable value is extra.
I think it is a 100% valid statement.

Are the authors parents, or is the author even valid to reside in the USA permanently?

And before anyone cries "racist", my background is 100% similar to the author in question. It's a shame that in the USA we have people who never really learned the Spanish language or culture and go on with "latinx" which is mocked even on twitter, to people who protect people that may have entered the United States illegally.

Migrating for work or school are very valid routes, but as the author stated she was "12" when she started collecting cans with her parents, it paints a picture that she migrated to the United States sometime during middle school. With per parents not having a support network in place, being illiterate in English, it seems highly unlikely they migrated here for work or university. Same for the author being 12 as well, highly unlikely that she migrated to the United States and sponsored her parents.

Nothing veiled about it, very legitimate questions. Many other families come in the country legally and are able to sponser themselves, that is one of the main focal points of immigration services. Are the people who are changing their nationality, able to survive, prosper and adapt to a new environment? Alongside liability, why should the United States have to socially assist someone that is new or even potentially an illegal alien over a "real" USA Citizen?

It is 100% appropriate, and matches the context of the story of the author - or more specifically why can't the authors parents support their child?
So I was a little confused about the definition myself, because when I looked it up a while back my iPhone dictionary suggested both as a definition.

Is the key difference that in an infectious disease expert context, virulent means severe and infectious means contagious?

I always thought virulent was ability to spread because that’s what viruses do, but that was way before the pandemic.
To be honest, I never understood how this "DevOps vision" could scale up to an engineering department bigger than, let say, 10-15 people. At some point there are enough things to do to keep the platform working by itself to move dedicated hours from business code to platform/infrastructure code. So you can decide if you use developers time or bring in someone dedicated to this.
But maybe all the developers like the OP are 10x developers that can just do everything without skipping a beat.
I think the slowness of the videos is for non-english speakers. Meaning people who can understand english to a point, but aren't using english every day.

Some years ago when I used to play games there was these awesome guides to some hard challenges a guy made where he was speaking pretty fast because there was a lot to cover and it was narrated over live footage. It was perfectly understandable to me, but the comment section was full of complains about the speed and how it was too hard to follow. This to me suggests that most of people would prefer if you paused the action to make your point slowly and after that continued with the footage.
> Listening to audiobooks at 3x speed is born out of a flawed model of learning

Also out of a flawed model of writing books which mostly are bloat and take hundreds of pages for what could be explained in a page or two.
If you deprioritize money, getting part time work is always an option.
Tin-Can Collector Died a Millionaire
I'd love to know if there's any knowledge sharing across these self organising teams; how does the larger org ensure that the work produced is consistent to some baseline; is secure, maintainable, observable etc without having massive tool and platform fragmentation issues.
So, the problem is not the naming, but autocomplete in Xcode?

Or is it impossible to write a good auto-completer for Swift because Swift is rather unique in splitting function names into multiple strings?

IIRC, Xcode uses LSP; is that a bottle-neck?
https://archive.md/kB5F4
For one, it would increase the attractiveness of fraud where the same bottle is sold in multiple jurisdictions with different deposit rates. Instead of collecting trash across the border, buy cans there by the truckload, bring them back across state lines, empty them and redeem them for the "deposit" you never paid.

Of course, there are some plausible technological or political solutions to this. But it does change the economics.
Even if it's slightly milder, the sheer number of cases will probably offset that easily.
Not the first one I would say, but with the simple layout a good way to find a React JS Job
Not quite sure. Many things clicked while I was either idle or doing something completely unrelated.

But then applying that insight and playing with it in various dimensions is what built an intuition.
> But I hope it makes that decision make more sense.

It does but it's rather unfortunate that the only choice we have when it comes to DEs is either GNOME, which is built by a group of arrogant developers who think there is no downstream for GNOME and GTK, and KDE, which has technical issues that prevent widespread adoption.
> Suing Americans can be awarded enough money to pay for their medical bills in some cases

That's compensatory damages you will be awarded that in both systems.

The main difference there is that in most European countries medical bills are cheaper, public health care will cover most of the costs and most people are insured for the rest. If the costs are important, your insurance and the insurance of the party at fault will negotiate. They will only involve the justice system if they can't agree.
ObjectiveC is slowly dying [1] I think it will flatten out and not go away for a long time but it's going to eventually become and adjunct to Swift 'outside' of Apple.

Within 5-7 years Swift will rival ObjC within Apple, and from then on it's hard to tell.

There are no foreseeable plans to rewrite the OS, and so ObjC has to stay around, but that's in a clearly limited capacity.

[1] https://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-language...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
Sure, but I don't think that classroom layout dictates that passive listening is the teaching method in use, personally. One can have the kids facing forward but still be engaging them with exercises and active learning.
It doesn't matter. The question is whether we will continue to see high inflation.

Whatever the current perceived cause, if we do see massive inflation then it's not a bubble.
MPW was certainly Unix-inspired, but its multitasking was seriously deficient compared to a real Unix. Its runtime environment couldn't run more than one binary executable ("tool") at a time — not even using `system()` — so MPW's Make couldn't actually run anything, but merely printed out the commands. Only the user and MPW Shell scripts could execute other programs.

I wrote about this at length in part two of this article on MacRelix:

https://www.metamage.com/text/relix/origins.html
Anyone can choose to learn new things or not

Until the management starts asking what are the pros and cons of new tools to be introduced into the stack and nobody can answer them, they will hire new experts to join the company and who knows who else is going to be obsolete anyway
Fish balls are great street foods
Replying to myself - Zod seems a better TS side library for this.
The big difference here is the cost:

> In the particular example of (/=), there isn’t even any cost. There are ~50 packages that define (/=), and the solution is just to delete those definitions. Yes, it’s churn, but I personally am willing to send a patch to each package. If you’re the maintainer of such a package, email me and I’ll just go fix it for you.

The author also developped a semi-automatic tool for this migration: https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/comby/. While as some people said, breakage is breakage, having a very easy migration path helps with that.

However, there's one point that isn't talked about here: code that doesn't get update often. Lots of small changes like that can be very annoying for code like that, but I don't see a good solution here (except to never deprecate anything).
I tried Joe Manchin - didn't work. I ended up in a loop.
So how much do you want to pay for bottle collecting? When you say "the US has the resources to reward hard workers", in this case you mean everybody who buys a bottle should pay more. Or how would you envision it to play out?
Interesting that many comments against this blatant racism are dead and remain dead, while blatantly racist nonsense claiming asians should be limited to their population proportion is still alive. How does it feel to support a community of racists, dang?
> video formatting is also inclusive to text

Are we talking slide shows on a youtube video here? Because to me those are probably the worst of all worlds. Low information density and not searchable.
The interferences are part of those things that we observe and exist.
In French cuisine fish sausages ("quenelles") exist since a long time, though I expect they might taste quite different from the ones described here.
I won’t even the remember the exit name if I use a nav app.

And I’m someone that can walk around randomly and perfectly keep a mental map of the whole area.
The recycling centre's costs per ton of aluminium collected likely go up, though, from dealing with more physical cans.
The number of developers who believe that operations is a support channel for development is truly amazing. How am I suppose to know why your software is broken? You wrote it. In reality it's easy enough most of the time, if you can read logs.

Still, there's a weird expectation that operations is a bunch of elite developers, knowledgeable about all programming language, who just choose to do operations because they enjoy getting calls at 3AM
Yeah we don't know if the parents even ever tried to find better jobs, or if they just found the one job and kept at it.
I don’t think you’re talking about the same thing. It appears that you are not a fulltime exclusive salaried “exempt” employee of any one company, and you have not been for many years if ever. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
>Despite all the information he’s sped through his ear, he’s never actually built anything. “Someday,” he insists. “Right now, I’m still learning.”

It's similar to political hobbyism, by consuming politics as if it’s a sport or a hobby. Following politics obsessively without ever engaging. Being well informed and knowing details but never using them in action except voting.
From your statements it seems to me you haven't really given Rust an honest evaluation.

I've been using the Rust stm32 HALs offered by the open-source community and they are stellar. People are doing some really great work so people like myself can come along and knock together a highly performative bare metal application with relative ease. Obviously not all features are supported and some chips are more supported than others but its a work in progress.

Regarding library support, Rust has crates.io and a first class package manager with native support for heapless environments which means that I can easily add a package designed specifically for embedded development to my project. Its pretty awesome not having to mess around with a million linker flags, copy-pasting directories etc to try to get a library to work.
Ontop of that with Rusts language features there are standardized traits for peripherals like I2C, SPI etc, meaning that any library can easily consume any HAL's peripheral implementation. Basically I can install an LCD library and have it running with 1 line of code.

Obviously there will be more C libraries out there and it will take time to port them over to Rust but the foundation is very very solid.

That's a rebuttal for your HAL and library criticisms and I still think there are vast safety and ergonomic improvements to using Rust over C which would undoubtedly lead to more reliable code and quicker development times.
I wouldn't hold my breath, mainly because Google has already stiffled Mozilla from publishing in the Play Store due to, apparently, downloading addons constitute "malicious behaviour" back in Firefox 68.

So the restricted addons is specifically because they reviewed that subset personally and thus is, at least for Goog's policies, okay.

(Yes, I'm aware of Kiwi browser. Says a lot about app store moderation.)
Stephen Baxter is one of my absolute favorites when it comes to SciFi literature. He incorporates hard physics with great storytelling in amazing settings few other authors dare to touch. No one manages to imagine the end of the universe better than he...
Ah, crap -- let me see what I can do. Thanks!

I guess I can't edit above -- try this instead: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbuV2RJYsZvnVw5-MX-Xy...
Of course they should have a role to play and input. They should be part of the discussion.

It's a question of responsibility for delivery. People in those positions shouldn't be the owner, who is accountable to the business for features being delivered.

The person responsible for features being delivered should be technical.
When x trends to infinity, which is irrelevant in this case since you're limited by population numbers.
Totally OT, but these old school stuff (I was part of the demoscene) just gives me a lot of nostalgia. It was so much fun, so much creativity, so much freedom.

How do you old guys cope with these memories ? Personally I miss that a lot, mostly the freedom aspect of it. How do you go with your life in a way that nostalgia is not that bad ?
The right wing view on it is not illogical or inconsistent. It just comes from different values. They believe that you can kill someone if they deserve it by breaking the rules in significant enough way. They also believe children are innocent so you can't kill them and it's your moral duty to take care of them when they are vulnerable.

It's consistent and logical. The values it comes from are just different then yours or mine.
Why Isn't Ld.lld Faster?
I would love to see a (rough) breakdown in bytes of code, and then by new libraries vs old libraries (maybe split out by iOS version)

That would require distinguishing the code emitted by the swift compiler from that emitted by clang. I don’t know how hard that is. Are function prologues and epilogue different, for example? Can we semi-reliably infer that from function names? Do they prefer using different registers first?
I have never understood the decision to abandon the name "Lightspeed C". The same folks also missed the opportunity to ship "Blaze Pascal". :-)
I have many dozens of frames next door and I am into woodworking myself. The frames are definitely planned ando/or sanded. I also lived until a couple of years amongst a large community of beekeepers and never met anyone that harvested propolis systematically. I am sure others do as it is a vaulable product but I suspect that most just process the hives for honey.
Could you expand on your actual argument beyond "exponential growth bad, we are all doomed"?

Are you suggesting how lethal it is when someone gets it is of no consideration?
'Omnibus' may be more familiar, but 'charabanc' will likely be challenging to younger native speakers too. And then in this category there are the 'brougham', 'phaeton', 'trap', 'hansom', and 'dog-cart', the latter of which can of course refer to a cart pulled by a dog, but often means yet another type of horse-drawn carriage.

I fully expect most readers nowadays will just go 'ah, they got into some conveyance pulled by horses' rather than having a clear image of the specific carriage referred to.

Reading works by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, etc. really expands your horsey vocabulary.
Omg I listened to this track hundreds of times as a preteen! One of my earliest influences as a musician. Thanks to the author!
> I know you're insinuating that the restrictions work. That's a very bold claim.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0

And that's just the most cited, most exhaustive study on effectiveness of restrictions. Some work, some don't, but certainly most do.

Do you have any study at hand that indicates that restrictions generally don't work?
Post-Quantum Signatures in TLS will be challenging
How do "corrupt members of the government" force these people to collect cans?

What other job do you suggest they could be doing?
The certificate of jsdelivr is hijacked in China and is inaccessible
Perhaps if you didn't worry about reading so much, you could write more. Than you would have more essays about how you write so much, eh David?
Why doesn't this solve the whole problem? I would intuitively assume almost any given person has already been either vaccinated or infected or both by today so severe cases should be rare.
My hometown is a small one, so I have to remember which (bigger) cities are prior to mine. Also it's not just going on a single highway to reach my destination it's a combination of 2 different highways and several motorways and even roads that lead through villages. There are also often detours because of construction and whatnot.

Maybe important to note, this is Europe. Going from one's country big city to other's country small city. It's not just straight single highway.
Sean Carrol’s mindscape sometimes can be very good.
Games Workshop have their own publishing arm called Black Library, so ace reading but not published by Ace.
What's the meaning of natural if not old growth?