skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent the last week doing exactly this after going over a decade without making a web page and having never done anything java related. The key thing for me was finding an existing website i liked that was hosted on github pages and used that as a template/example to see how things fit together. The learning curve at the very beginning was brutal, but once you get a few toeholds and can iterate things quickly start falling into place. The problem with the textbook approach is you don't know what you can skip until you already know it.
I'm the OP, and I'll go first: I'm quite lucky on many fronts, but there's a close family member who is very extreme in their views on SARS-CoV-2 and related stuff. Let's call her Alice.

Alice is very intelligent, she's a bit old but not too much. She spends a lot of time on the Internet, and follows pretty much every nut novaxxer you can find. She believes crazy things like "vaccines are made with fetuses from forced abortions", or "Covid is just a common cold", or other conspiracies.

I'm not asking for solutions here. Just sharing this. When I did recently, a friend was almost relieved to know that he wasn't the only one suffering from something like this.

Thankfully, most of the rest of my life is going quite ok. Hope it lasts.
Do you understand that your reply proves my point?

There are 200 odd countries in the world, but you belive your country is the best, well, because some number from over there want to come here.

You want to belive your country is the best, your whole life you've been told by your authorities that it is the best, that everyone wants to come live here, and you've heard this as so often you've come to believe it.

This is fine - you are not alone, most people in most countries are perfectly happy with their system. Most people don't want to immigrate - whatever they have, wherever they are, is the home they know.

Unfortunately believing we are the best prevents us from being better. We cannot fix it unless we admit it is broken (whatever It is) and if we start from a position of "we are the best" then it's hard to admit some stuff is broken.
It’s a good lesson in the importance of picking the right things to measure/optimize for. Queue length is not a good thing to optimize for by itself.
So far, Germany excelled only in funding fringe security like finding open ports and nagging admins all over the world about it.
For me it was starting my own business. Just coding away is not interesting to me - even though coding is the thing I enjoy most about my work.

To me it's important that I get to decide what I want to work on and what direction I take with the business. A big part is also that I own the code I write.
I've read a few of his articles, they remind me of Fox News. Britain sailing on to renewed glory after shedding the shackles of the EU that only served to slow it down from its rightful ambitious path forward.

Just one example:

"It will take time, but with regulatory divergence the UK will steadily pull ahead of rivals such as France and Germany which you would normally expect to perform as well as, if not slightly better, than the UK. We will be more innovative, attract more capital, and our companies will seize markets more quickly, than they otherwise would have done. We have seen the United States do that in technology, and now Britain will be able to match it. That is a prize worth having, and it has been secured."
I'm glad that my assumption proven to be wrong, by Microsoft itself, nonetheless. However, is being wrong is always equal to being a knee-jerk? Does the reputation of the company in question doesn't play a role here?

Or, shall we be stateless, and evaluate every events without any prior experience? I don't think that holds a lot of water in real world, either.
Releases of all open source things Apple uses, by OS: https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

These mostly link to repositories under one of their GitHub organizations: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/

Apple's open source projects: https://opensource.apple.com/projects/

Which mostly link to repositories under their main GitHub organization: https://github.com/orgs/apple/repositories
> The Holocaust lies at the feet of Europeans, not merely the Nazis.

Why stop abstraction there? You should continue on with all humans, then all life... that would be logical; this isn't.
European diaspora is an accepted term[1]. Yes there's a redirect, but the word "diaspora" is used in the very first paragraph. It's ok, Europeans are people too. There's nothing offensive about the term. Plenty of "colonials" were sentenced to transportation, they didn't choose it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_diaspora
I keep my cat indoors because the birds would pick on him.
Interesting, can't imagine going down over 1000ft of stairs without sliding on my ass, much less going up with a fire hose in heavy gear.
The visa scheme just leads to disenfranchisement of New Zealanders as they are slowly priced out of everything. Farm land is quickly being bought by foreigners in both Australia and NZ, which is having negative impacts on both of those countries. The countries are essentially being sold out from under their citizens.
>This is going to be controversial and take some getting used to, but I think eventually everyone will love it

It's saving a single character in your example. I can see liking it as solving a minor inconvenience. But love? I don't see that. To me it's just another thing to learn.
Diagonally across from there was the old Cross & Blackwell factory, they found jars when prepping for Crossrail.

I’ve tracked my ancestors to living in the Denmark Street Rookery in the 1880s, history becomes more vivid when you have skin in the game.
I know Jeff personally and he's great. This happens all the time at Microsoft though. Teams try to do OSS themselves, haven't a clue how GitHub or licensing works (e.g. they think the CLA transfers copyright), and after a slap aside the head, I send them to Jeff for guidance and all is well.
Try something further afield?

I have talked to lots of people who were trying to find their passion and had limited themselves to looking in an area where they felt they could be "well paid." This isn't too surprising because surviving is first, passion is second.

However, what they often don't consider is that compensation is just a part of the picture. If you're making $X and living in New York City you might only be able to rent a room, but making $X in a small town in Minnesota and you can buy the best house in town. Not that I'm advocating you move to Minnesota, rather that one's "Quality of Life" is the complete circle of income/cost of living/friends/opportunities.

Now I have no idea what you're looking at so this might be completely useless but oddly enough, reading people's biographies can give you insights into other choices made and their impact and effect. If you can imagine yourself in those other choices, you can sometimes discover something you would like to try before you've "wasted time" trying something you didn't like. Reading non-fiction for exposure to other life experiences can be helpful in other ways as well, it can help you understand others from a perspective that isn't your own lived experience.
A person shorting an equity (borrower) is not a shareholder, only the share lender is
Do you mind addressing the reason why an employee did exactly what you are claiming the bot did in error?

https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...

Again, this is a person, not a robot. How does this play into a "software bug"?
Not particularly mainstream, but I remember Ballerina having this:

https://ballerina.io/1.0/learn/by-example/taint-checking.htm...
> After reading the above, is it really that edgy to be assuming the worst?

Yes. Neither of this are particularly damning.

> doesn't that speak to a systemic and/or cultural issue

No, not particularly. I think it says more about the person jumping to such conclusions considering the evidence.
That's still a cul-de-sac, just one with a loop.
The block-diagram level breakdown of the different sections of silicon is really a wonderfully helpful way to look at this. It makes the zoomed in view of each section more meaningful. Then seeing the die photo of individual transistors or groups of them, next to schematic level interpretation, really drives it home. Thanks for making something so instructive.

Have you decapped other sound-making devices? The greeting card chip makes me think of the ubiquitous "laser noise" chip from countless 80's kids toys. That or one of the many kid's keyboards or baby noise console devices, that have all of the function inside a single epoxy-blobbed die. It would be pretty fascinating to see a similar breakdown of which sections encode samples, note values, rhythm and sequences, control inputs, etc.
You'd be setting the stage for Civil War, round #2.
Email, blogs, forums. Pretty much the whole internet in the 90’s. But then centralisation turned out to be more profitable, so they could hire UX designers and attract all the users...
It's not just bots, it's real people: https://github.com/microsoft/cups/commit/8100595a3a3a6d5c7d0...
I would like to see it from a source other than The Sun before thinking there could be anything to this.
+1 for the Patrick Stewart version
People drink alcohol and then try to do things like catch a subway train to get home - possibly while still drinking more. Psychedelic users don’t really behave this way. If you’re planning to trip so hard that you can’t actually see reality anymore, people plan for this and do it in a safe space.

People also dose their trips - they know how much they’ll be taking that day. With alcohol, it seems people just keep pouring more down their throats as they get drunker.
Usually your right, with this new post covid lifestyle i find christmas is not really jammed down my throat anymore. No office events, minimal shopping so im not spending time in shopping districts anymore, and it helps i dont have cable so im not getting commercials or anything.
Not OP, but on the spectrum and also diagnosed with ADHD and sometimes I'm not certain where one ends and one begins.

I have hyperfocus for my "special interests" (spectrum) and very little focus for anything that does not intrigue me (adhd) but to my eyes these are the same thing: I just don't have much deliberate control of my focus.

There's some other areas where it doesn't map so cleanly to thinks I am interested or disinterested in. Jigsaw puzzles don't interest me, it's incredibly mentally painful for me to focus on one, but I also can't walk away from one. I have the hyperfocus that I get with my special interest combined with the pain of ADHD where you wish you could control your focus (in this case, focus on literally anything else.)

Another area of overlap: I associate my extreme social anxiety with autism, but if I take ADHD meds it goes away almost entirely, and my social skills also improve. I think this is again a matter of focus: I stop focusing on social hypotheticals which reduces anxiety, and I also go with the flow rather than work consciously on social interactions, which makes them smoother and less awkward for the counterparty.
I'm the type that likes to learn from some real, existing codebase. This is frustrating in the JS space, as you would have to have the right version of a bunch of stuff to do that, and how to use it. Libraries, packers, packagers, frameworks, minifiers, and so on.

Other languages have some of that sprawl, but none quite to the same level, and none with the same pace of change.

If you learn like me, my advice would be to have a list of potential candidate projects to learn from and move on to the next one when the tool and dependency hell proves too much.
Spectrum is just imagery for a continuum, which autism is. Would you prefer diapason[1], as in the full range of a thing's sound?

[1] Through bad spelling (and not synesthesia) I typed "diapasm" first, but it seemed wrong. Turns out it's smelly and not soundy.
The “Cash for Clunkers” program was actually instituted over a decade ago in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
How good is `debug.gem`? I'd be excited to try it if I was still using ruby ...

I'm not using ruby anymore but the debugger experience I had from vscode via the rdebug-ide library a few years ago was _mostly pretty_ nice aside from very performance limitations ... a massive performance improvement on that front must feel great!
Thank you for the ideas / links / mentions! I had not seen them and will check them out. Always looking for improvements!
The curly braces in Ruby do an awful lot of work (blocks, procs, lambdas, hashes, interpolation) and I wonder if part of it is because it helped bring Smalltalk and Lisp-related concepts to people who were mostly familiar with C-style languages.

Arguably it was the right call considering where Ruby is now.
Exactly, I don't get how that would increase throughput.
I think that the last time I worked on Christmas I was a busboy, likely at a Holiday Inn. That really doesn't compare with work in health care or public safety, but I'm sure that the customers--some of them probably employed in critical work--were grateful for clean tables and coffee refills.
I would love to learn more about the app - what problems did you solve? What sorts of workflows did your customers complete through the app?
Ask HN: Equivalent of Docker-compose for managing team knowledge services?
I would love something like a single text file spec/yaml file where you specify the knowledge ‘services’ your team uses. Eg:

gdrive:
folders:
- eng
- notion-sync
- symlink: notion/notion-sync

notion:
workspaces:
- notion-sync:
permissions: allow-all

slack:
integrations:
- gdrive

Something to that effect. Do docker-compose type configs exist to put all these things together?

The real value-add would be being able to expose this information in a processible way, eg allowing documents that can retrieve information from within other sources of knowledge (as well as keeping copies of prev state)

Why? Because what if today I have all these sketches of proofs or diagrams or things that don’t really map onto any feature that currently exists in these existing apps, but in a few years some awesome app just for this use-case emerges. I would like to continue sketching w the hope that in the future the work I’ve already done is likely to eventually become integrated into the existing meta-level system.

There may be a lot of forgotten/lost/never-pursued knowledge that could eventually become extremely useful to a different person; simply because the conduits to create that expectation of the eventual free-flow of any medium of knowledge didn't exist at the time.
Oh totally. Plus you were using your cash on minutes so there's only so much bad behavior you could do.
I previously used TeamViewer but had issues with them false-flagging me as a commercial user and kicking me off constantly.

I've now got a shared google account on my Chromebook and their computer, Chrome Remote Desktop is installed on their PC and I have the PIN, with that I can just go to remotedesktop.google.com (on the shared account) and join their computer whenever they ask for help.

I was originally planning to use the system where they generate a code first, but they're nowhere near the technical level for that to not become a nightmare quickly, so now it's just flat remote desktop.
I was curious to see if anyone had tried the coal mine bit. This is the closest I could find, a business plan to sell coal attached to carbon credits. Not sure what’s happened since 2016.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/business/energy-environme...
I've read the Bhagavad Gita and it spends a significant amount of time talking about karma and reincarnation. Not sure how you could see it as non-religious unless you did to it what Thomas Jefferson did to the Bible.
https://jalopnik.com/what-you-find-when-you-look-into-rich-e...
Another clue that it's knee-jerkism is that the accusations make no sense. It's hard to see what Microsoft plausibly stood to gain by modifying an MIT license. I suspect a lot of the accusations here are being made by people who simply don't know what an MIT license means. For that matter: even with a restrictive license like the GPL, it's hard to make sense of this as a heist, especially since it's right there in the public git log.

I don't think it's going to be possible to salvage the torch and pitchfork comments on this thread. For lack of a better way to put it: they're pretty dumb.
Using Obsidian: Notion vs. Vimwiki is not a question anymore for me
I don’t know why people assume the more money you make the more infallible you are. Trust me that every FAANG engineer has written code with some similar pitfall that seems so obvious from the outside.
> Alas, the Landsburg rule can only be imposed in controlled environments such as a theme park, perhaps. But you might consider applying a dose of Landsburg’s logic to your own “to do” list: don’t add a new item to the list unless you’re willing to do it immediately.

I've got to ponder the to do list example though.
I saw your comment on the cups repo. Please don't feel horrible about it. An honest mistake is an honest mistake, as long as the issues are remediated. Merry Christmas
The soviet Union collapsed because Russia under Gorbachev stopped subsidising all the other countries, which were dependant on Russia for money to buy basic things like food from the west.

It becomes harder to convince people of your position while they are starving. So yeah people stopped believing.

But there's a Long time from 1917 to 1990. And for the bulk of that time people believed enough for the status quo to be maintained.

And plenty of people in Western societies belive adds, and the evidence for this is that companies and parties keep making them...
Bellard spelled backwards is Bourbaki.
I'm in the same boat, no family or friends to share with. It's been a wet and dreary day here in NJ, spent all of it outside.

The sun came out for a few minutes, and grabbed a steak from the freezer. It's gone away again now, but too late. Screw it, I'm barbequing myself a steak for Christmas.

All of you out there alone today, enjoy. Get out that (perhaps metaphorical) steak of yours and enjoy.
I've written in-depth about that particular experience before on here, if you're interested here are the post links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991744 (See chain of replies too)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993060

Short-term side effects were acute + severe panic attacks, triggered by flashbacks and feeling as though I was physically back in the same situation/it was starting to happen again.

Even though entirely illogical and not being in the same place it happened, in my mind I felt dead certain that the events that had happened were starting to replay themselves and even physically I was reliving the sensations.

This made me dysfunctional for a period of months, slowly over time the severity + frequency of this tapered off. It took about ~2 years for it to become what I'd call "mostly subsided".

Even now though, if I am under a lot of stress or if I don't sleep well and am slightly sleep deprived, I will start to have flashbacks + panic attacks, but I know how to handle them better now and can force logic through a bit better.

My vision is permanently altered, though it's minor. If you're not familiar with psychedelics, when you take a low dose of them, it makes everything have a sort of "oil-painting" type look to it, and textures are crisper.

The bark on a tree is a good example of something that looks much more intense.

The intensity of this has also subsided a fair amount, but even now I choose not to wear glasses most of the time because if I put on my glasses, everything is too "High definition" and visually intense. I prefer things to just be blurry, to be honest.
Could you elaborate? I've built some Causal CNN's but never used a transformer for time series data. What are the challenges?
The default autoplay option is too eager, I had ace of spades but 2 of spades was hidden. I couldn't move 3 of spades anywhere to reveal the card under it as the other stacks were autoplayed up to 5 already.
> The chip has 3 pins, but there are 8 pads on the die. The other pins appear to be used for testing. By activating one of the pins, the chip can be put into a test mode. The test mode runs through the songs at 512× speed so the chip can be tested quickly without waiting for the tunes to play. The other test pins appear to expose other internal data for testing.

This makes me wonder if you put one of the other test pins on a scope, if you'd see a pattern representing the song or sequence, allowing quick verification of the chip. I think at 512x speed, even a more limited storage scope of the era of these chips could capture the full output on-screen. Each flavor of the chip probably had an expected pattern based on ROM which could be checked.

I'm imagining a technician sitting at a test bench, having to do verification work on these all day, thankful for having a test pin instead of having to listen to the same dang beeping song over and over :)
We are not equating missed targets with atrocity... A terrorist attack does not miss the target of benevolence. It is something that should never, ever happen but this planet is such a soul-crushing clusterfuck that it is like water under a bridge.

Human life has value. It's not effective value or an estimate of value. It is absolute.
> most people i know that have worked in a kitchen (myself included) have, at some point, mentioned their initial shock with how disturbingly gross kitchens are.

Same here, this matches my experience exactly.

Thanks for the pointer, I'll check it out!
> ...from my point of view, they are currently the most open out of all the big companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, etc)

I'm curious to know how you're measuring openness. I agree Apple is the least open of the group, but Facebook and Google owe their existence to FLOSS, and were always in harmony with it from their origins.
Hopefully you can claim back the vacation days.

(I don't know if this is all of the EU/EEA/UK, or just some countries.)
I was diagnosed over a year ago and have yet to "come out" for fear of the exact things the author describes ("but you don't seem autistic", "yeah we're all a little like that", etc.). It's hard to understand what someone struggles with when they've spent their whole lives being trained to hide it.

Imagine having tremendous back pain since birth, so that multiple times a day you need to lie down for an hour. You tell people about it and they just say "you don't look like you're in pain", or "yeah everyone has back pain", and they imagine you weak for being so affected by it. As a child you were raised that it's taboo to manage your back pain, so you often have to make up excuses to go secretly lie down.

You even believe yourself that you are just a failure for needing to do this when everyone else can soldier on. You have to turn down hikes, trips, even relationships; if a friend invites you over you need to make sure there's an exit strategy, or at least a place you can secretly take a break if you have a spike.

This is what my life is like. I have been trained to look like I'm not in pain -- to hide my shutdowns and meltdowns and hypersensitivities, through willpower or through physically removing myself. It affects my work, my relationships, and my daily life, but the worst part is just the pain itself.
If environmentalists made major impact shutting down mines, the price of coal would go up incentivizing new ones or at least to increase the output of existing ones - demand hasn’t changed. Just the same with buying gas stations and shutting them down, too.
In general, spectrum is an infinitely-dimensional vector space.
For each frequency, you get a value.

Using "spectrum" for a "scalar" is a misnomer.
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