skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems totally opposite of what old people say on their death bed.

You should nevze give any weight to whatever strangers say on their deathbed because they actually could have done things the way they wanted but every living day actively chose not to do it. Regrets are bullshit.
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At least in Washington state, unvaccinated people have Covid at 3x the rates at minimum (the most robust cohort). This effect is more exaggerated the older someone is. Deaths are similar. Depending on your definition of benefit, it might be beneficial still.
Fortunately for my comment above, I wrote it with a second paragraph characterizing available data, data that contradicts the claim about the vaccines hampering immune response.
Agreed! Some things do just need a certain minimum level of gear to do decently, but no amount of fancy gear will make up for a lack of skill.
You need free time to come up with it
Well motivated choices though. Polymorphism reduces lines of code, which are correlated with bug count. Reliability is essential for critical system software.

Specialization eliminates nearly all overhead of polymorphism so there's no disincentive against using it.
Miami Herald Report on the Surfside Condo Collapse: House of Cards
This is an excellent presentation of the engineering analysis of the Surfside Condo / Champlain Tower collapse in Miami June 24, 2021.
EI has always disqualified those who were dismissed for misconduct. This just clarifies that refusing to be vaccinated is considered misconduct.
I feel like vim should really be focusing on other, less shiny things. Users that primarily want a shiny editor are already using VS code and the like.
I completely agree. Bones heal faster when you're young!
IANAL: As I understand it, dotcom domain names are leased rather than owned.

Either way, if squatting of high value domains were illegal, you could make the case for some form of (civil) asset forfeiture, or eminent domain if the taker is a popular open source project. Not sure how I'd feel about this, though.
> All this is clearly against the western values that i often hear quoted when I hear the same people talking about "China". But Japan seems to be ok for them.

I think you're jumping to conclusions here.

Are people in Japan disappeared for criticizing the government? Do they have their organs harvested / altered for believing the wrong religion?

I'm OK with a society with very different defaults than my own. In fact, I prefer it - real diversity doesn't come from mixing (like we do in the West - the mix of all colors is shitty brown), it comes from people being strongly different, yet managing to coexist.

So Japan is OK. It works as a society. Also for the "different" (well... somewhat - there are problems with overworking, herbivore men, low natality etc. but the West has analogous problems). China doesn't work; people aren't free; it's a repressive regime.
Yes I generally use a similar strategy of avoiding dependencies and writing my own small library that does what I need. I also appreciate learning exactly what’s going on.

> Now if another dev inherits my code I doubt they’ll see it my way. . . . I don’t know yet if I’m being foolish or if I’ve stumbled on some ancient programmer wisdom

I have the same fear here. Lately I’ve been trying to keep a similar api to popular libraries so it would be easy to swap in the real library if ever needed.

But yes “at least I’ll probably never run into a leftpad issue.”
Instead of just looking at the front page, they're supposed to use the search feature before (necro)posting - most forum FAQs have this front and center.
Contributing to the spec, creating a very widely used set of CMake utilities, and being a widely enjoyed speaker not enough for you?

With the condescending airquotes and demeaning comment, one might think you had done some research. Clearly you hadn't. A Google search can tell you all of this.
> That is not the same thing as banning all public debate.

It is throwing water on discussion at critical times simultaneous to strong government intervention which resets the discussion to the new overton window. You don't need to ban public debate you just play talk to the hand and call anyone who disagrees with you probably racist and or russian dissonance.
Is unemployment in Canada an insurance as it is in the US? Can you opt out, are premiums taken from your paycheck?
If there was someone selling this, I would buy it!
Indeed. A quick search shows chip supply side issues are a big factor. Increased demand, reduced supply.

https://www.pcgamer.com/why-you-still-cant-buy-a-graphics-ca...
There is an overview here: https://vimhelp.org/vim9.txt.html

I do question if a breaking change for a custom language is the right way to go.

Built in Lua support in Neovim (with LuaJIT) has done wonders for the plugin ecosystem.

There is a lot of activity, and a lot of pluings with great quality have quickly replaced older ones.

That's no surprise. LuaJIT is fast, much easier to write, has a has a sizeable ecosystem and a good LSP server.

Even an overhauled Vimscript won't be anything more than a odd niche language with worse performance.

I would have loved for Vim to also adopt Lua and the Lua API from Neovim to prevent a complete ecosystem split.

I just don't see how implementing a new language makes sense in this context, except for fun.
Overwhelmed ICUs and hospitals beg to differ that reducing transmission rate is useless. Reducing virulence is absolutely worthwhile even if eventually everyone will get infected at some point.
Item 1 of the Nuremberg Code.

"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be
so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that, before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject, there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person, which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment."
> Many of the smartest and most high IQ people are perfectly capable of relating to normal people without making it obvious how bored they are.

Why would they be bored? Normal people can be just as interesting or uninteresting as high IQ people.
Breathtaking amount of ignorance in these comments. EI has never and will never cover voluntarily leaving a position. Don't want to meet basic sanitary requirements? You're free to leave.
Does anyone know what kind of payloads this plane is used for? Something relatively light but requiring a large volume?

As there are only 5 of those built, there doesn’t seem to be a big demand for these, and the payload capacity is the same as the standard body version.
I'm building a gig economy / play-to-earn content moderation tool where people earn crypto for moderating content on social platforms. Contact in bio.
you’re continuing to ignore “more contagious variants”
> Old people on their death bed are telling us what they want to do now…

Are they? I assumed they were telling you what has given the most fulfillment, what were their wisest decisions now that they can Monday-morning quarterback.

When I tell my kids my home has been my greatest financial asset and I wish I had bought a home earlier, I am not wishing to buy another home now.

> But they made the decisions they did for reasons that seemed good at the time…

Agree, but the point is that they have hindsight now and, had they this knowledge 50 years ago, they believe the calculus driving those decisions likely would have been different.

I wish I had asked my older relatives more about their younger days before they died and took those experiences with them to their graves. I am very much into recording our family genealogy for my children and future generations and I have lost a trove of valuable narratives because I turned to genealogy too late in my life.

I use it as another example of legitimately wishing I had made different decisions earlier in my life.
A local Exchange server has vastly better uptime than Office 365, works when cloud services and the ISP is down, and costs drastically less. Hilariously, the standing advice has usually been for Exchange Online customers to still install and operate a local Exchange server too, which means switching to the cloud didn't even reduce your management or hosting burden at all.

Sure, you get the occasional bug like this, but it's less often than Microsoft screwing up the entire cloud.
> It's just the author acknowledging all the code written belongs to some company or organization, and often, can't even be used as a showcase. It was work for money, plain and simple, but may become a hard sell later

That's not at all the point being made...
this is the hn entry (Curated list of personal blogs) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27973836
I used to, 25 years ago, do “game AI” for Nintendo games, and I still enjoy having strong Chess and Go programs to play, but I have mostly fallen out of spending much time on games.

A few things have changed that: having an Oculus and an Oculus 2, and also getting Apple’s Arcade Games as part of the Apple meta family bundle. I now find myself spending 1 to 2 hours a week very much enjoying games. It is good to be back.
Edit: Whoops, Privacy Badger had deleted the embedded video. Check that if you're not seeing it.

OK, so he said that we all know people who are hesitant to get the vaccine and we'll be considerate of them, but there is also a small group that is unequivocally opposed to the vaccine (who don't believe in science, who are often racist, mysoginist etc). About them we have to make a choice: Do we tolerate them, or do we say look, most people are vaccinated, we want to go back to the things we like doing, and these people are blocking us.

So yeah, throwing in the racist and mysoginist thing was in poor taste. Hardly Watergate material, though.

Edit 2: Whoops, deleted the video link, but it's already in another comment. https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/12/trudeau-calls-the-...

Edit 3: I had originally said there was no video to look at. Please don't downvote the respondent.
We need null-terminated binary-coded-decimals as a standard datatype for cases like this. "Numeric String".
Assuming everyone commenting here has read the post, if it is 'cryptocurrencies' 'like' Bitcoin and Ethereum that use PoW? Then, that is an undeniable, and an undisputed; Yes.

However, if you are talking 'cryptocurrencies' that means you are talking about all of them. Not all cryptocurrencies are like Bitcoin, and Ethereum and not all of them use PoW. So the title should be:

'Is Bitcoin, and Ethereum to blame for High GPU Prices?'

or

'Are cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and Ethereum to blame for High GPU Prices?'

Rather than generalising for 'ALL' active cryptocurrencies in existence, which everyone knows isn't true but continue to attack anyway.
There have not been extensive studies. The original long term safety studies from the vaccine trials were stopped. There are huge issues in the original trials, they were not done with the rigor that we've come to expect from previous vaccines.

There are plenty of examples of people who have disagreed with current vaccine policy and them being censored or destroyed- and have the bills to show for it! We even have emails from leaders of the federal government that show they engage in these tactics routinely. Honestly I don't know how people don't see these tactics being played every day.

Your "side" is led by a man who claims "he is science" and anyone who disagrees with him is "disagreeing with science." Give me a break.
> suggestions on different tools welcome

"Can You Losslessly Increase the Volume of MP3 Files?"

https://www.howtogeek.com/280739/can-you-losslessly-increase...
This site is sweet and I don't really know what I'm looking at? I think it's business card holders for things besides and including business cards.
Even in omicron, vaccinated people are less likely to catch Covid than unvaccinated people. It can be simultaneously true that vaccinated people are less likely to have Covid and that Covid vases are rising due to a highly infectious variant.
I've avoided neovim because my current vim setup justworks™ and i trully depend on it for being productive on my job. As time goes by i really feel like i should switch based on how the two projects progress. Do you know of a resource that could hold my hand?
The author contributed to the spec. They have very strong opinions about language design. If you don't, fine, but don't drag down and dismiss those people who are on the front lines creating the tools you use.
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I am a former game dev who worked for one of the top AAA game studios in the world in a lead programmer role. At my first FAANG job, my compensation was like 2x higher than game dev. Now it’s many times higher still but admittedly I have been out of gaming for 15 years and have a senior leadership role. I generally do think that for a given talent/experience level the rest of the industry pays much more with way better work-life balance, it’s a combination of supply/demand and business model (at least for AAA) vs SaaS. You can strike it big in games if you are lucky (e.g. create Minecraft) but it’s much easier to do that at a startup or big tech.
Full second payment, that’s why I was happy with it. Personally, I would have thought they’d have just not clawed back the money and then only paid/clawed back money at the of the year to adjust to exceeding/undershooting the target (the company is cash rich).
No. People are stupid along many different axes.

I am not in favor of sentencing people to death just because their stupidity happened to lie on the vaccination axis, while other stupid people get to live.
I fail to understand how a format that limits 'discussion' to a few sentences at most per post can be a good medium for anything other than dumbed-down one-liners.

Even the most basic format for expository discussion, the simple paragraph, structured as introduction - content + examples - conclusion, won't fit on Twitter. It's a format designed to eliminate nuance and discussion, not to promote it. That means using Twitter constantly makes people dumber, i.e. less able to follow a complex argument or look at an issue from multiple points of view.

Someone who'se been Twitterized and Facebooked is someone whose communication skills have been reduced to one-liner blurbs and who lives in a closed siloed environment.
Add March 5th to June 2nd...
There are definitely some areas were biking is amazing, such as Shimanami kaido, Biwa lake and Kasumigaura.

Cycling in Tokyo is a bit of a mixed bag in my experience, some streets have bike lanes, some have a bicycle strip on the main road (though this is often shared with temporarily parked cars), sometimes bicycles need to share space with pedestrians. Signage is often unclear.

I guess calling it bicycle unfriendly is a bit harsh, but at the same time it often feels that bicyclists rank third behind cars and pedestrians.
It might be worth your time to try `xubuntu-desktop`. Like my sibling comment says, it's not pretty, but it is highly functional and avoids the Gnome-esque candy to which you allude.
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> vaccine gives stronger protection

Maybe if youre boosted and its been 14 days but not greater than 45 days. But citation needed anyway. Natural immunity was not totally bypassed. South Africa kicked Omicron's ass with regard to case fatality rate.
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ok now where’s the link that provides evidence of this happening with covid? or are you just guessing?
Learn a new language just by browsing the internet
You should never use clustering/subtraction on Danish zip codes as a source of "how hearby". To quote https://www.postnumre.dk

2400 Copenhagen NV (North West)
2412 Santa Claus, Greenland
2450 Copenhagen SV (South West)
...
3790 Hasle (close to Roskilde)
3900 Nuuk (Geenland)
3992 Dog sled patrol "Sirius"
4000 Roskilde
There are tools out there that attempt to provide a simpler and/or more powerful CLI while letting you collaborate with others on existing Git repos. Gitless has already been mentioned here, but there's also my own tool (https://github.com/martinvonz/jj) and git-branchless (https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless).
The linked article goes into quite a bit of detail on why these planes were developed and what they’re used for.
Rust is not a solution in every case. It makes me personally want to use it less since everyone shills it mindlessly.
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This would show up in the CPUs. But their prices are stable.
Putting all preferences aside, American suburban living is fiscally unsustainable and supported by massive borrowing.

That’s one major reason American infrastructure is so bad. Towns have to balance their books, and that means they cannot afford to maintain their infrastructure until the federal government, which is not legally required to balance its books, borrows a ton of money to give away for basic infrastructure to be maintained.
Read the article. The author corrected for the overall market trends using linear regression.
Anything you do will take 3x the memory, so yes... I cant see why anyone would store as a string internally, you have to decode into a number anyway so just extra work. Strings are only useful to humans.

Edit: reading all the comments here, I get the feeling high level programmers don't fully understand how things are represented at the low level, there is no purpose in storing a version/serial as a string.
There is a video in your first link. Trudeau does in fact say that, though in French (and as someone who speaks French and has just listened to the first-hand recording, yes, the translation is more or less correct).

I'm inclined to give him more leeway than the rest of the commenters here, as I think the unvaccinated do need to be censured, and in developed countries where information is abundant suggesting that it is safe and everyone should take it, it is increasingly unforgivable and intolerable for folks to be unvaccinated. As someone below quite aptly said: "If they want to ‘protect’ themselves from the vaccine they have that right, absolutely, but the rest of us also have the right to protect ourselves from them."
They sprawl because people want space. If you're from Paris or Tokyo or London you really just don't know what it's like to have a quiet, detached house with a nice garden, maybe a pool where your kids can play randomly without needing to plan a trip to the community center, space for a garden, knowing everyone within 200m of your house by name...

It's a completely different way of life that is not possible without lots of space. Some people want that and so they will pay to buy it. It's not like city planners are laughing in smoke-filled rooms like, "haha! this will be our most sprawling city yet!"
So routers should inject DNS for LAN devices, that's how mine is set up. Admittedly it can be a small pain with some browsers defaulting to DNS over HTTPS and bypassing the router's DNS, but that's pretty recent and fixable.

I go to `router.localnet`, not some IP I have to remember.
bash has a history search feature you can access via control-r.
Indeed. Here is an animation of the cumulative emissions starting 1750:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx85qK1ztAc

The US come in first, my home country Germany takes the fourth spot.
Yes, personal freedom is to me infinitely more important than the health of others.
Although they aren't "towns" (in Northeast US parlance), a lot of people want a large town or "city-lite" lifestyle. Walk to a market, hardware store, cafe, etc. Maybe some local low-level cultural events.

But also low crime, low noise, not too crowded. And you can hop in a car and head off to relatively nearby nature of some sort.

Many don't want to live in Manhattan which, while an extreme example, means really committing to the urban lifestyle. Doesn't mean you can't go somewhere else for a long weekend but it's not a trivial undertaking.
Here is a confident statement, very similar to the one I made:

“The long-term effects on the developing brain and on mental health disorders in later life of chronic use of methylphenidate is unknown. “

It comes from Wikipedia, which presents nowhere near as rosy a picture as you do. In fact it supports my position that we are nowhere near as clear about the effects of these drugs as you confidently claim.

Here’s another one:

“A 2008 review found that the use of stimulants improved teachers' and parents' ratings of behavior; however, it did not improve academic achievement.[56] The same review also indicates growth retardation for children consistently medicated over three years, compared to unmedicated children in the study.[56] Intensive treatment for 14 months has no effect on long-term outcomes 8 years later.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactiv...

If you think this is harmful Medical misinformation, perhaps you should edit the Wikipedia page rather than asking people to read it.
> Maybe worry less about languages

Why should someone who contributes to the development of the language specs themselves "worry less" about languages?
I've changed my mind on this idea. Being surrounded by very intelligent people (or, similar ones to myself) has never made me feel any less lonely than would other people. I think our expectations qua relating to others are out of step with reality, and I also think we're mistakenly attributing some of these feelings to there being too few like-minded people. Ultimately I've come to find that little differences make others interesting and fun to be around.

Notwithstanding that people have different social needs, realistically, meeting them is not the hard part, provided you aren't withdrawing from engagement. I meet most of my social needs just by having a romantic partner, and I was profoundly lonely on and off for over a decade.

There are other factors at work in my view. When we're in a bad spot it is difficult to parse and make sense of what is wrong. We view the world through the lens of our emotions and feeling depressed doesn't seem practically distinguishable than feeling lonely. This is a vulnerable state because we can get stuck in loops informed by cognitive distortions, by untruths. A matter-of-fact approach to improving wellness -- a foundation of CBT principles, healthy regimen (including sunlight and D3) and diet -- I think quells these pangs enough to allow more mental clarity in working through it. In my case, a better foundation as described did most of the work, but I subsequently resolved to kick a porn addiction (can lead to lower baseline levels of dopamine, which makes you unmotivated), and find a bit more meaning in projects and work, rather than allocating as much time to social media / consumption.

All of which to say, particularly if you are single, it's important to get out there and talk to people, but don't expect that to be a silver bullet for dealing with that sense of loneliness and lack of meaning. At the least it can offer moral support, but in those cases when other people aren't making you feel better, I expect that a lack of social contact isn't the problem to fix (or, not the only one).
FYI, Canada does not have a president. Trudeau is the prime minister. However, you are right in that his quote (which I think was in French originally) is just awful name-calling.
Considering storage/memory requirements for modern desktop/mobile apps, I wouldn't mind if developers would occasionally think about optimizing them.