skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that's a bad decision while sober, before taking anything, though. Different category.
This is weird but I’m ok with this myself
We, in Iran, have both a Yule (called Yalda here) celebration and the new year Nowruz holidays, none of which are religious.
Further corroborative article to Wikipedia that gives a truer picture of history surrounding USS William D. Porter. Unlike the anecdata in this post, this counters with actual ship logs, recorded conversations, and ship schematics:

https://uncommonsenseok.blogspot.com/2020/02/uss-william-d-p...

OP's article is a spiced up, gossip laden naval lore - the types you expect from navymen banter in pubs & watering holes.
As someone else said, there is no way to anonymize movement data. If I spend from 8pm to 8am at some place 7 days a week, you can figure out which house that is and who I am.

Anonymized movement data is a fiction.
Probably just a setting in someone's IDE or a bot that they didn't understand what it was doing.
Contact tracing isn't about you. If you were on that flight beside that guy then you now likely have it either way. Tracing is about allowing you to know that you have been exposed so that you can prevent yourself from spreading it to other people. It is about sacrificing some personal privacy in order to protect other people.
To people in the US: does Biden's approval get influenced significantly by the Taliban taking control? The chart shows they are correlated, but I doubt a large causality.
For me, what helped was paying attention to what I liked about my work and leaning in a direction that emphasized those kinds of tasks - though it was kind of just luck that I found a job that let me do that.

I got my start in web development because I had picked it up as a hobby and (at least at the time) it was a good way to get reasonable money without a degree. But my favorite parts were learning new techniques/technologies (I started out without a team to steer me toward best practices so I did a lot of experimentation, self-teaching, and reinventing the wheel - probably made my projects take longer but meant I learned a lot more) and then using that expertise to help my colleagues (once I did have a team, my deeper understanding meant that I was the one to go to when something didn't work right in IE6 or something).

At one point, I was having dinner with a friend at his startup and happened to meet one of their product support engineers. She explained that the role involved becoming an expert in their highly-technical, fast-growing product and then using that expertise to help customers (internal and external ones). I realized that was an entire job made of my favorite parts of my previous job. I applied to join her team and I've happily worked in product support for tech startups ever since. Before this point I never would have considered product support, because I just had a stereotypical vision of it as sitting in a phone center reading from a script. The ideal field for you might be out there without you realizing it exists.

I still try to identify the things I like doing and spend more time doing those things. Sometimes that means spending time working with folks on other teams - not all companies are flexible enough to allow this, but I think healthy ones will because the added perspective usually will make you more valuable to the company as well. Making sure to have these varied experiences and keep learning new things has been a great way to keep up my engagement over time.
> I can’t see why the U.K. would not be allowed back in.

I don't see the UK being "welcomed back in" any time soon. I see the UK being allowed to align rules with the EU, i.e. economic openness, enjoying the benefits of alignment, but not full membership and a vote on on serious matters with the core EU members. Maybe a decade or two later that would happen.
The other issue with Sheldon is that Sheldon is actually abusive guy and his friends are actually enablers. With best friend being mix of enabler and victim.
I lead the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office team. I'm sorry this happened.

We have merged a pull request that restored the correct LICENSE file and copyright, and are in touch with the upstream author Leśny Rumcajs who emailed us this morning. We'll look to revert the entire commit that our bot made, too, since it updated the README with a boilerplate getting started guide.

The bug was caused by a bot that was designed to commit template files in new repositories. It's code that I wrote to try to prevent other problems we have had with releasing projects in the past. It's not supposed to run on forks.

I'm going to make sure that we sit down and audit all of our forked repositories and revert similar changes to any other projects.

We have a lot of process around forking, and have had to put controls in place to make sure that people are aware of that guidance. Starting a few years ago, we even "lock" forks to enforce our process. We prefer that people fork projects into their individual GitHub accounts, instead of our organization, to encourage that they participate with the upstream project. In this situation, a team got approval to fork the repository, but hasn't yet gotten started.

To be as open as I can, I'd like to point to the bug:

- The templates we apply on new repositories live at https://github.com/microsoft/repo-templates

- The bug seems to be at this line of the new repository workflow: https://github.com/microsoft/opensource-management-portal/bl...

- The system we have in place even tries to educate our engineers with this log message (https://github.com/microsoft/opensource-management-portal/bl...): "this.log.push({ message: `Repository ${subMessage}, template files will not be committed. Please check the LICENSE and other files to understand existing obligations.` });"
Psychadelics famously impact people in vastly different ways. Anyone who hasn't tried them before will probably have the best time doing a standard dose (1 "tab" of lsd or ~1.5g of mushrooms) around friends with nothing else scheduled during the day.

That said, many people have nonlinear responses to these substances. I know folks who hate lower doses of LSD because they just get an anxiety-generating body high, but love the experience above that. Generally, on a per-dose basis, LSD and mushrooms are inexpensive and so experimentation is cheap (even though it's also time consuming because of the ~8hr trip duration). Though, again, if you take lower doses (below the standard I mentioned above) most people will have no trouble doing chores if you must get something done (as long as that chore does *not* involve driving).

Edit: mushrooms are hard to dose consistently, the dose I listed might be high or low but it will probably not melt your face off or do nothing. More info here: https://erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_basics.shtml
https://twitter.com/Stutsies/status/1474748979326111751?s=20

Looks like it's a DNS attack, not a ban.
A phone?
Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
Nope no animations. I think that functionality would come from extensions to the scripting language i mentioned, but that would of course be a different format than original ansi animations.
As weird as it looks I's probably a bug in microsoftopensource bot.
A company is merely a useful legal and organizational fiction. It's all people all the way down and those people don't act in a different moral context when they act on behalf of a company.
Remember that the internet as we know it today is young. At the peak of BBSes, you called actual phone numbers to connect to places. If you've ever seen Hackers or War Games, the hardware wasn't too far from reality

If the phone number was long distance, you had to pay more - just as it is today. Local calls were usually free. Hence the GP's comment :)
In my opinion “essential worker” is a very blurred line. People depend on technology and the internet. There are real consequences when things stop working.
"You don't read much about "death by misadventure" associated with them though"

When stories do come out, they tend to be over the top. For instance-

https://globalnews.ca/news/4735129/thomas-chan-guilty-mansla...

People with certain conditions should stay away from psychedelics.

Having said that, as others said a normal experience does not include hallucinations of the cliche "see weird crazy things that aren't there" variety. Instead you get more of an experience from patterns, music seems richer, colours deeper, etc.

Our brain dulls reality for us as a evolutionary benefit to allow us to focus our brainpower only on changes/unique things (e.g. the predator sneaking up in our periphery). Shrooms roll that back a bit so suddenly the pattern on a blanket, the branches on a tree, or the backing track in a piece of music, or even the varying white points of lights, comes front and center. In many ways it's like experiencing things with fresh eyes and ears, and that really is the delight of the experience, de-jading our senses.

This can be a disadvantage if you're doing something safety critical and suddenly you're amazed how you never noticed the features of some thing, distracting your attention. No one should ever drive or do dangerous things under the influence. The evolutionary benefit allows us to focus attention in a way that keeps us and those around us safe.

But from a judgment perspective, I am a fairly average chess player (I mean among active players), and under the influence of shrooms I play at the same level as not. I manage time as well, etc. I have programmed some critical code that I later marvel over on shrooms. This is wholly different from under the influence of alcohol, for instance, where my ability drops precipitously.
My wife had already delivered one baby by the time I had tea this morning, fewer than 2 hours into her 24-hour shift.

I miss her today and am also very proud of the work she does (Nurse Midwife).
Thankfully, things are not too crazy at the children's hospital at present. Of course, the kids still there are the ones too sick to be sent home :( . But the staff bring them gifts and there's a holiday meal for everyone: patients, their families and staff :)
In a time when technological progress has peaked, the only "innovation" money can target is marketing innovation. Thus, a preponderance of confidence scams.
It will be really interesting to see how the EU battle with Poland plays out: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/...

Can the EU override the constitution of a country?
Don’t you have several dress uniforms for different occasions? Like three different ones? Combat, normal, and formal?
SpaceX is not a public company so almost nobody is able to buy shares
Understood, and I'm willing to be wrong on this. My point is, over time and technology we accumulate restrictions that may no longer be as necessary as they were when they were put in. What if we don't need isolated stairwells so much anymore due to materials and fire suppression(sprinkler) regulations, for example? That's my point.
If you think of the use case of forks, sure.

If you think of employees creating new repos in the org--- smash the correct LICENSE in there ASAP.

The problem is that forking a different repo into the org triggers the logic of a "new repository".
Folks who work at mega corporations with outrageous amounts of power have a correspondingly large responsibility to the communities they interact with. Their mistakes have a much larger impact. Honest mistakes by hugely powerful entities are not mere trivia. They have an effect on the rest of the world commensurate with their power. Thus they should be held to a much higher standard than everyone else.
Fair enough, but I would disagree on the point about taking an unknown amount (unless I misunderstood?). In my view correct dosing is one of the best ways to achieve a safe experience. One of the biggest issues with such substances is that most users will have no idea how strong the dose is, or if it is even what it says it is.

Courage is one thing, but overdosing is not a pleasant experience, even if it is usually not (physically) unsafe. Cannabis edibles are famous for this since most people have no idea how strong their brownies even after they make them. It was one of the main reasons I made an online calculator as a side project (http://www.scientificedibles.com) to help people to estimate dosage, rather than "take one" and end up on the floor.
I though US maintains list of black listed companies
Which national parks did you go to? You would have had to travel out of state because New Hampshire doesn't have even one.
I enjoyed support when I used to do it - I’m pretty sure my social skills suffered when I started working in isolation on dev tasks
Striking out on your own and being successful at it is impressive and congratulations for that. It doesn’t seem to be evidence to me in any direction about whether you were discriminated against in prior companies. The outcomes, whether good or bad, are concentrated when you own the company.
Tell me, where does magenta lie on this proposed light frequency spectrum? What about black, or white? Brown? Is the dress black and blue or white and gold?

There's much more to colour perception than just light frequency + psycho-cultural constructs.
If the only way for you to deal with Black skin charitably be that they be some exotic Other "over there", that're 'different', who 'actually have it bad', and that you don't need to ever run into again, then you're part of a problem and don't know why.

Africa won't want for charitable aid labor in spite of this sentiment, it just can field those grunt work jobs from people who're, you know, from the area itself rather than Western tourists looking for a story to tell or a CV to pad.
The comments on that post are deplorable. However, I’ve been working in web development for many years and I have to say I am not surprised.

I started my career working in paint stores, then moved to home renovation for low income families. I feel like I have a unique perspective on qualifications and worthiness that have been hard earned. I’m an engineering manager now for a large enterprise company; I worked my way up the ladder one rung at a time.

I feel like I’ve earned my position and that I’m good at it. I also feel like basically anyone can do what I do with just a little bit of support and training.

The idea that delivery work is beneath a developer is infuriating to me. It shows a lack of respect for an essential part of your business, and a lack of empathy for people who are realistically just not quite as lucky as them. Because that’s the major difference between the classes most of the time, luck and privilege.

I don’t know why I felt the need to type this out, it just makes me so angry to see people show such contempt for each other based on trivial bullshit.
Because better than spending alone time at home sometimes.
In fact, it's not really "scientists": scientists "search" (put together puzzle pieces, check hypotheses), they do not climb on pedestals claiming close social relation with The Truth. It's political agents looking for excuses.

You appear, with that formulation, to have missed the paragraph just above:

> And scientists have been attacked in new ways and with new methods by politicians who are exploiting social media and long-tested methods of indoctrination to undermine scientific authority on issues ranging from vaccines in the midst of a pandemic to the impending devastation of climate change

In a stub (unfortunately), the author claimed that the role of science is under political attack.

Very clearly (in some regions), there as been a devastating blow against civilization attempting through narratives for propaganda to make of science a fideistic sect, a doctrine - its opposite.
only reason for 10 years is fuel, I think they are working on a robot to refuel it to increase the lifetime.
Oh wow. I’m from Portugal. Never really thought about what the name of the sweet actually means. My sisters love this thing.

It’s just too sweet for me
> Are you a shareholder when you short it?

No, and it doesn’t matter if it’s naked or not. You borrow a share and then sell it. The person you sold it to has shareholder rights. The person you borrowed it from retains them, albeit in limited form. You have no shareholder rights as you are not a shareholder.
> If you look at banking, the EU has failed to make any major dent in London as a financial centre

The EU is in no rush, but it's clear that EU banking is going to move to EU centres in the long run of a decade or so. They have said as much (1) This is no act of charity to London bankers, it's in the EU's best interest to move, but move gradually to sites in the EU.

1) https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/global-financial-industry-u...
The thing I found the most funny about project hail Mary, was that the bits that most broke my immersion were the political bits.

(WARNING: minor spoilers follow)

In a story about someone travelling to another galaxy and investigating other life forms, the thing that I struggled with the most was that the entire planet unilaterally put their faith in one person and there wasn't a giant amount of infighting and countries at each other's throats.
Things look like competing groups, just as they do now with corporate control over web 2 infrastructure
> then they could (however unlikely) change the license on subsequent revisions to no longer provide the software free of charge,

You don't need to change the "ownership" to do this. MIT licensed software can be put under more restrictive licenses for subsequent revisions by anyone.
Honestly, my personal Year of the Linux Desktop was 2018ish, I prefer Linux's current state to Win/Mac.

Is there really no way to do that on Mac?
I thought it was more; thanks for the information. Although 15%, or say half that after subtracting the people who actually need to be physically at work, is still significant. Also, note that 15% of miles will be more, probably much more, than 15% of the pollution, because those miles are the slowest ones that people travel.
Well... the set of things we find self-evident today are not the same as those from the 70s... but once, he did realize that he shouldn't be driving. So he pulled over, and climbed down a 50' cliff down to the beach to walk home. Which, I kinda find incredible: last time I was tripping near a cliff, I noticed that the height appeared to be getting short enough to jump down, so I advised my sitter that we should change locations.

Oh, and it bears mentioning that folks who do drugs recreationally tend to mix hallucinogens with other substances. LSD on its own is comparably clear-headed, but I've known people to mix it with weed, cocaine, mdma, etc... and who knows what's going to sound like a good idea.
Approximately. Moral hazard typically refers to sins of commission. Deliberately taking on more risk because you're insured. Here I'm thinking more of sins of omission. You just forgot to do something. You didn't have enough attention to devote to the task, so you rationally apportioned the attention budget to the areas most likely to be checked by others.
Big thanks to Arianespace for lifting it up there safely in one piece.
The Great Eastern has a cool history and was critical in ushering in the modern age. It was the only ship that existed that could carry a single cable of telegraph line the length of the Atlantic. Not having splices in the cable was quite important for them to function and survive in the early days. The ship was mostly a financial failure until it started being used all over the world to put down long ocean-spanning telegraph cables.
I remember oncall during Christmas for cloud provider almost no pages all day, easy money
> There's not one scientist alive that can explain how proteins fold from their amino acid sequence.

As a biochemist, what I understood from this editorial was totally reasonable:

- scientists understand that electrostatic forces guide protein folding, and steric factors limit the conformations a protein can take

- scientists understand that the primary structure determines the secondary and tertiary structures of proteins

- scientists know that protein folding is aided by chaperone proteins

- scientists understand how thermodynamics and entropy affect protein folding

Despite all of the above, scientists cannot solve protein folding de novo. New tools now allow us to make better, cheaper predictions which are testable.

Sounds reasonable to me.
The US gave land and money to tribes. They held fair trials and often lost. Just recently half of Oklahoma became tribal land because of a lawsuit.
The decentralized nature is immaterial if actual useful data/computations can't be performed by the network.

Ethereum's chain is about a terabyte and the total compute power is less than a single raspberry pi. So you can't store a meaningful amount of data on it without insane fees nor can you do much in the way of processing. This means anything interesting exists off-chain.

If interesting things exist off-chain...there's not much utility in having a blockchain at all. It's just a slow expensive ledger with no off-chain authority. Even if a transaction points to some content addressing P2P resource (IPFS etc), that content only exists while someone is hosting it from some machine(s) somewhere. When it stops being pinned (or conceptual equivalent) the record on the blockchain is worthless.
I don’t know a great “how to lay out” guide off-hand, but I’ll take a stab at helping with the confusion.

Rake is a Ruby equivalent of Make. Many Ruby gems will include rake tasks (Makefile targets) that can be used to drive pieces of an application. Most of the time your test framework of choice (rspec typically) will include “rake test” as a target for running the tests.

The tests usually live in a folder named “spec”, while application code lives in “lib” and your driver code lives in “bin” or just a top-level file… without some of the Rails initialization glue, you’ll have to do a little work to require files via relative paths or set up the $LOAD_PATH variable, etc.

Bundler is the package manager, and you’ll often see commands like “bundle exec rake”, this is similar in spirit to a virtualenv. Bundler will use the libraries defined in your Gemfile to run the given program (in this case, ‘rake’). The command “bundle” will read the Gemfile and resolve dependencies to concrete versions of libraries and write out a Gemfile.lock for you with all the versions explicitly defined.

For debugging, there are a number of tools out there, but I’m partial to ‘pry’. You add pry to your Gemfile, require it, and then can add a breakpoint by putting a call to “binding.pry” in your source code wherever. This will drop you into a REPL within the context of the program at that point.

pry is useful, but there are some other gems and settings files out there that can make it a little friendlier, pry-byebug comes to mind as having saner keyboard shortcuts iirc.

If you need help with overall file system layout, etc, the best place to look is going to be existing trivial gems on rubygems.org. Granted these will have a couple of minor differences from a “plain” application because they’re packaging as a library (*.gemspec file instead of Gemfile, and usually has a version.rb file somewhere).
Euro, yes. Metric, yes. Switch to the right, no. Ireland hasn't switched either.
iOS and shareplay is easily the best solution to help friends and family.
I think a lot of people miss this very important yet ~subtle (easy to completely miss) aspect of what can be learned from psychedelics.
I have been studying Mandarin and reading about China for years. I suspect that China is so big and diverse that the average Chinese person cannot speak generally about China. I wouldn’t expect someone who has only lived in Alabama to be able to describe America generally. Yet we fall into that trap often with other cultures.
My point of view is that if you program in C you most likely care about being in control of what happens.

Your approach makes perfect sense within that context.