skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody that lives in the downtown of a large city (Toronto) I disagree, though it will obviously depend on the city. There is so much for kids to do. My kid has access to museums, an aquarium, several parks/playgrounds, children's programs, community centres, etc. All this is within a 15 minute walk.
> I think this is the real problem. Git is actually really simple. The mental model is not even difficult - you can describe it in a sentence or two.

Being simple and being easy to use are two different things. Brainfuck is simple, but writing a hello world is hard. Python is superficially easy at the beginning, but I wouldn't call it simple. There is a balance to find between simple and easy, and git is on the simple side, at the cost of the easy.
More nuanced TLDR from the actual article:

> We can see a correlation between GPU prices and the value of crypto currencies, but correlation does not mean causation. A causation is plausible in this case.
Personally, I don’t think so, but I do think it’s worth asking the question and exploring the space a little bit. There is a certain hypocrisy to refusing to accept safety measures from the government while expecting emergency treatment from the same people when not abiding by the safety measures causes predictable and avoidable harm.

There are cases where people are injured while accidentally not having a seatbelt on, and there are cases where people dogmatically refuse to wear seatbelts and refuse to accept the safety statistics. Maybe it makes sense to differentiate between those kinds of cases somehow? Maybe people who consciously choose to refuse safety measures should still be treated but should be prioritized lower than people who are accepting safety measures?

One of the problems with people who refuse to accept safety policies is they make emergency treatment more expensive for everyone, and they reduce the probability that someone who’s been safe can get emergency treatment in a timely manner. Part of the question is why it’s fair for people who’ve accepted the safety measures to have a non-zero chance not being able to get emergency treatment because someone who refused to be safe got hurt and is already in the only ER/bed left in the hospital.
the problem is

1. infectious disease that can kill others. it's great that they are remote, but they still interact with others sometimes. no one requires them to wear warning signs. as numerous others have pointed out, it's like drunk driving. drinking while driving is not just personal choice, even if it seems like just you minding your own alcohol.

1a. even if the disease itself is not sufficient to kill people but causes them to seek medical attention, beyond the capacity of the healthcare system, this means worse outcomes for those who could not have avoided ending up in the hospital.

2. ask what doctors think about treating them when they get polio or things we havent seen in many generations.

even intelligent people are terrible at assessing risk in areas where they are not professionals. see how many doctors are antivaxxers, how many security professionals click on https://chase.myaccount.com links, etc.
you can check https://refined.blog you can sort by category and hn upvotes.
Does vaccination still offer a public health benefit?

To be clear vaccination is good, people should be vaccinated, I have been vaccinated three times, etc, etc but does vaccination still offer a public health benefit vs just being a good idea for your own personal health?
Interested to know if there are other legacy pieces of software in any industry having similar bugs
we also have multiple cases of players lying about vaccination status
Your ambiguous phrasing suggests that your references provide "wide documentation" that "mistrust with medicine" is "a key factor" in black people not being vaccinated. Your references 2 and 3 say nothing of the sort. All they document is that blacks and latinos have lower vaccination rates - not the cause. After my random sampling of two of your citations, I assume that the others are similarly unsupportive.
Living near Hamburg, Germany and working in the city (pre Covid) I saw it quite often when it approached for landing at the Airbus facility.

Compared to all other air traffic going to the regular airport it definitely looks quite interesting, when in flight. I actually enjoy seeing it as something of engineering ingenuity.

When my SO and me bought our house the seller was working at Airbus and told me that he found it pleasant to fly in as a passenger when he needed to visit the French facility for work.
He reminds me of the character in the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oLoNGRVeC7Y

Burgess Meredith is a bookworm and is bothered by everyone (including his wife) interrupting his reading. After a nuclear detonation, he seems to be the only one who survived because he was hiding in a basement, reading, during the explosions. After discovering the devastation and his aloneness, he is about to kill himself when he notices the ruins of the Public Library.

This is his best possible outcome: lifetimes of books to read and no one to interrupt him while doing it. He is overwhelmed with joy.

But I won’t give away the ending.
Almost as if reducing mortality/hospitalization is an irrelevant metric to you.

Almost as if an abstract social construct as “rights” is more important to you than actual health.
This looks great. Some takeaways from looking into the documentation:

They're promising 10x - 100x better performance (since vim9script is typed and will be compiled). Also -- you can mix vimscript and vim9script in a function, a file, or a module. This will let legacy modules or scripts stay mostly the same but port some of the slower-running bits to vim9script to gain the benefits without a giant effort to port the whole thing.
Well, when you invent a slur and define it to mean whatever you want you can find many examples of it.

I have had three coronavirus jabs. I think mandates are hysterical and counterproductive and I resist surveillance.

Being anti lockdown, anti surveillance, anti discrimination... generally just anti hysteria, is the only correct choice.
The HN title says it was a "coding error" but the article title is "Bank accidentally deposits $176 million into people’s accounts on Christmas Day" and the article does not say it was a software error:

"The bank said the duplicate payments were caused by a “scheduling issue” that has now been rectified."

It could have been a software bug but it could also have been a human error.
Whatever your experience with the virus was, it would’ve been a lot worse if you were unvaccinated.
Do you mean vaccination isn’t effective in your circle or as a population level? Or do you mean a different definition of effective? The study I linked to shows there is at least an effect.
Moving to Thailand I haven't missed having a car. I bought a motorbike and that works really well without taking up as much space (though are louder than I like and there's no infrastructure for electric alternatives).

The part that rubs me is in both Thailand and Vietnam, despite Bangkok and Hanoi being dense with inexpensive and comprehensive public transportation, even the current youth generation still want cars. When I ask "why?", it's still about status and other reasons are secondary.
I followed the analogies and the problems you point to and I do agree it's no easy feat to reproduce but I think it doesn't address the question of patents of the many steps: do we need patents to the kitchen sink, a kitchen sink we absolutely need to cook the meal ?
“There’s no evidence” is the official weasel words of the pandemic.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
From personal experience, this is Epic.
If you're putting the copyright date on a website, shouldn't it be the year of the most recent content/code change? I'd expect it to be similar to publishing a second edition of a book, which would get a new copyright date from the first edition. Older revisions of the website (e.g., in the Wayback Machine) would be subject to older dates, but the date on the page should be date of the version of the site the user is accessing, not the date of the first version of the website.
Not necessarily. They could be performing a “lower case” function on all passwords before hashing them.
It is unbelievable how true this is . Ive almost got some sort of trauma where living in cities gives me a lot of anxiety and Tokyo is the only exception
But you can add and subtract dates.
Pedantic - but you aren't really "paying" that amount.

You're investing in something easy to liquidate which has a history of not losing value.
The English punk band the Clash answered this succinctly: Should I stay or should I GO.
I think it’s kind of crazy that vim9script is even a thing, especially when neovim has proven how much more viable lua is as a scripting language. Lua is way more beginner friendly than vimscript or vim9script, with luajit you get killer performance, lua has an awesome language server implementation, it’s a saner programming language imo and so much more going for it. There’s even transpilers to convert typescript / other languages to lua. There’s plugins written in lua today that just wouldn’t be possible in vimscript or vim9script script.

Vim9script on the other hand seems like an exploration in PL, which I’m all for generally but not in a software like vim. Like, just imagine writing and maintaining something like magit or org mode in vim9script. It’s a large complicated piece of software, you'll have to write it using without any linter, formatter or language server (at least for the foreseeable future) and your skills are not transferable to any other tool. Just the sheer probability of better plugins existing and thriving in your ecosystem drop significantly once you choose to have vim9script as the scripting language. I’m curious to see how this all pans out but I’m not optimistic.

The worst part is that it doesn't appear that existing plugins will work in vim9script. Even the syntax for commenting is different:

set number " This is a comment in vimscript

set number # This is a comment in vim9script

See https://vimhelp.org/vim9.txt.html#vim9-differences

And to get any performance improvement, plugin authors will have to do a LOT of work that is not compatible with their existing plugins.

I for one am glad neovim exists, and I encourage people to throw a few bucks their way :)

https://github.com/sponsors/neovim
And what’s worse, half the time you get an error loading the tweet! I assume it’s partially an issue of not being logged in but it boggles my mind that it happens so often.
And again, if there are no negative versions, they should have used an unsigned int, not an int.
It's amazing that the unvaccinated are being blamed for the vaccine not working.

I mean, look at BC in Canada where the most at-risk people have a vaxx rate of 99%+ and overall rate of ~90% for the rest of the eligible population, the government still saw fit to shut it all down 3 days before Christmas. Compliance doesn't ensure freedom.
Poll: Are you happier than a year ago?
Less happy
The body's immune system may be keeping viruses in check, in part why after the COVID mRNA vaccine there's been a reported uptick of other viruses being able to take hold - e.g. bypassing and brute forcing to overly focus on directions of mRNA seems to have unintended consequences, and I'm also curious how or if these "unrelated" illnesses were observed for and kept track of in the official clinic trials or not.
> people like to share things they like.

People like to share things they hate, especially on the Internet of the last decade

My national subreddit was a perfect example of that, most of the posts were posted by people opposing what was said in the linked article and willing others to rage about it too.
The crux of the author's idea seems to be this:

> Intellectual loneliness is a challenge that many people feel, but nobody talks about. It’s built on a paradox where you feel alive when you’re learning on the Internet but soul-crushed when you try to talk about those same ideas with friends and family.

The author doesn't say, but it would be very illuminating to know, what happens when the author meets with the authors of the books and internet works they admire so much? Do they hit it off instantly? Or does the whole thing feel disappointing in the end?

Also, I don't see the "paradox" in preferring the Internet. It's part of a pattern when you zoom out a bit.
Um… I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what sources of information we cite! Do you have non-governmental sources of information we can mutually agree upon to discuss instead? Thank you!
Do you mean this [1]?

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mackron/miniaudio/master/m...

Holy moley, yuck. It would truly suck to have a project that used that header in more than one file!
What "stats" are you looking at? For instance, 2nd paragraph of this article about Omicron talks about vaccination being protective: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/world/europe/omicron-hosp...

If South Africa ended up fairing far better than a country with similar demographics and higher vaccination rates, it would be relevant, but there's not data to make that comparison, because other countries are much earlier in the Omicron wave.
This is an inflammatory comment that doesn’t add much to the conversation. Care to revise it?
Where do you derive your right to consent or not? I could say I have the right to not have my body put in jail, but I have no basis for that.
Oh, Twitter definitely fits. There's a reason Twitter is dominated by professions like academics, journalists, and writers: They have a lot of time during their work day/ work time to spend on Twitter. They're allowed hours of access to computers + their work performance is judged on social metrics in addition to quantitative ones.

Each social media's most active class is a group of people that has more free time than the average person (for whatever reason). Twitter's is just 'highly educated people with the free time and autonomy in their (likely WFH or unsupervised) jobs to fuck around online.'

My friends who work at academic institutions and who do creative work for a living have way more free time than your average office, retail, or service worker. That's why Twitter is such a cesspit when it comes to anything around social class.
Not correct. Here is the official source:

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2...

Please cite your sources.
Noting that you asked for company blogs and not personal blogs: I think the most interesting ones are among startups since at larger scale there is still great technical content but it's more of just a random collection of great writing and no coherent story-telling tied to the company itself.

Like Microsoft has awesome random blogs all over the place (Raymond Chen for example). Etsy, Netflix both have good ones. They just don't tell any single story about the company any more.

So among smaller companies with strong technical+narrative writing I think of Tailscale, HoneyComb, Memfault, maybe Oxide Computer, maybe Trail of Bits.
Finally a blog post that respects my time and delivers the message despite.
I'm using it daily, and while it does crash occasionally (but recovers fine after restart), all the features in TotalSpaces 2 seem to be there (including instant transitions and the overview). As a plus, it doesn't require SIP to be disabled anymore.

I have a feeling the problem of making it work was a bigger one than they expected, version 3 has been in the pipeline for a LONG time.
Small talk is a protocol for simultaneously discovering the social capabilities and topics of interest of the conversation participants.

Just as a computer that doesn't support HTTPS is functional yet un-networkable, so too can a person choose not to support the small talk protocol (or to offer only obsolete versions) thereby forcing the other participants to degrade or refuse the connection.

Everyone has things they're deeply interested in. If you want deep conversation you just have to muster curiosity about what they're into (and not fail the social capabilities portion of the protocol). Rarely you'll get really lucky and the person will share one of your niche interests, but it's an unreasonable expectation so don't make it your goal.

I'll explicitly highlight "appropriateness" as part of those social capabilities: participants balk at philosophizing in dance clubs or slasher flicks at funerals or topics that exclude or are obviously uninteresting to others in a multiparty conversation (since 3+ participants is common at parties).

Practicing the protocol makes it less draining (assuming that's what's actually draining you).
We are able, I think.

Say, my bank calls me and ask to call back with an extension#. I look up their phone # on their website, call that number, and provide the extension.

They know who I am via The extension # I gave back to them, I know who they are via their phone # confirmed by their website SSL certificate.

Alternatively, I call them back on the phone number at the back of the credit card.
Yes, really. Everyone has biases. The only way to prevent those biases from infecting science is to ensure we aren't assuming them a priori. That means you can't discriminate based on where the question is coming from.

In your example of "overwhelming evidence," how many things have there been overwhelming evidence for that are just plain wrong? The speed of light as a constant? Newtonian physics? And so you can see that the idea something has "overwhelming evidence" is itself a bias.

If questioning things for which there was "overwhelming evidence" wasn't "okay," then Einstein would have been shunned or locked up. A world where it isn't "okay" to question anything and everything is not a world worth living in.
It's neither a phone number, zip code, nor model number. It's a version number. And version numbers don't multiply or divide, but they do compare. This kind of code has a decades-long history:

#if BUILD_VERSION >= FIRST_VERSION_THAT_WORKS
...
#endif

And in fact if you look around, almost every large C or C++ project has a WHATEVER_VERSION token (c.f. LINUX_VERSION_CODE for the kernel) that packs the version into a comparable integer literal.

The bug here is that they picked an encoding that was obviously going to overflow in a Y2.022K bug, not with the technique.
Pretty arrogant of you to assume that liberals aren't arming themselves to protect against people that have been threatening violence and advocating for coups to overturn democratic results.
Cloud / data center GPU consumption has also gone up in the past couple years.
https://developers.google.com/time/smear :-)
Your first line has some auto-correct line noise in it, but I think I get the gist of your post.

Moneyball to me was a lesson and framework on how to make great teams, not great [individual] players. Focusing on under-valued qualities allowed the A’s to build a pennant-winning team on a low budget, by selecting free-agent players the baseball operations groups at other teams were over-looking/under-valuing.

Coming back to software, I think many of us know the three people we’d go form a startup with and the 50% of people who might be okay but we’d never sign up to start a company with. I don’t know if that is amenable to a Moneyball-style spreadsheet analysis though. If it is, VC firms would pay billions in aggregate for a working system.
> Everyone there is trying to push its personal fight

Unfollow those people.

Twitter can be a good place for discussion, but you have to take control of your follow list. I think a lot of people end up following the most prolific Tweeters in their domain rather than the most interesting (who often post infrequently). The prolific Tweeters reach for drama to bait people into engagement.

If you don’t make a point of unfollowing the empty drama-producing Twitter users, your timeline will eventually fill up with their drama.
I must say I want to give you some support! One could start to think about the audience on HN when one sees this thread where so many people are disagreeing with you, when you are so obviously right.
Need to get that propaganda out into the smallest corner.

My parents in laws don’t have running water, but they got cheap fiber.
You can spread HIV by having sex with someone and not using a condom. You might not even know you have HIV, so using a condom is essential in any case.
You also have to run a datacentre or server room with the on-prem version
Play Around with StyleGAN2 in the Browser
I built a little page to run and manipulate StyleGAN2 in the browser.

https://ziyadedher.com/faces

It was pretty fun learning about ONNX and how to port GANs to web. You can play around with the random seeds and also distort the intermediate latents to produce some really wacky results. You can check out a GIF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ziyadedher/status/1477161436635795463?s=...).

Let me know if you come up with anything cool!

The source is kinda trash, but you can check it out at https://github.com/ziyadedher/ziyadedher.
I had a weird kind of epiphany when I was watching the fireworks over Sydney last night.

The harbour bridge has lights on it.

For what financial benefit?

The fireworks display itself, I can't understand where the financial benefit is and it costs millions of dollars. ($7 million as far as I'm aware)

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I think that you could make a financial motivation statement for making good software (it makes it less likely for people to switch, for example), but my broader point is: why does everything have to be financially motivated?

Because, a lot of stuff that we enjoy doesn't seem to be primarily financial in nature.
Interested to see how this will impact the plugin community, as the Neovim maintainer mentioned he wouldn't implement vim9script there.
It’s funny you should bring up other situations in which people in the know manipulate “less sophisticated” actors for their own benefit.

And that you think the alternative you’re arguing away from is investing in gold and silver is kind of hilarious. Precarious metal “investors” are just a different generation of poor fools.
Well, "self-hating" can happen to Indians too...
Are you trying to tell me that the price for a thing is affected by its supply and demand? The horror!
The vaccine is not mandatory in Canada.
I don't think I know any other workflow but the PR based one.
It not just emails where this happens. Some idiot has been giving out my work mobile number as his own. I got a call from his aunt to wish him happy birthday (she was incredulous when I explained that no, this isn't X's phone, and I don't know x). I get random texts from I assume his friends, and calls from collection agencies.
I think designing "useless" things is actually a really great exercise that forces you to challenge a lot of your biases/assumptions and really flex your muscles.

I help teach some people intro-level coding and we practice on "useless" code all the time, like text mangling to do meme-posting, writing some data-moshing tools, etc. It's practical in that it teaches some fundamentals, but the output is ultimately silly but observable. (e.g., there's not much value to the program but a successful output is clear)

Useless inventions are pretty fun for a lot of things; theatre/home movies are filled with such things as CG is typically too much work for an individual, so practical effects need to be used. For a movie I made for a friend, we had to figure out how to make a puppet "blow" into a party noise maker, and came up with the strangest contraption involving straws and a lot of tape; a overall "useless" invention, but turns out there's a lot more going into making noise with a party noise maker than you'd imagine.

Useless inventions are a great exercise of creativity and logic, blending the practical side of our minds with the emotional/fantastical parts that just want to make such fun and fantastical things work.