skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible I was vulnerable to this flawed thinking before this. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter too much to me if the chicken or egg came first. And in the long run I don't know if it helped or hurt me due to the butterfly effect. But I do know I regret it and if I had the choice to go back in time I would have stayed away from psilocybin.
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I've often assumed HN is brigaded by some of the larger corporations. Whenever there is a negative article about google, the comment sections seem to fill with glowing reviews and whataboutsisms. During the Roku Google battle, the comment sections were chock full of the same critique of rokue over and over again. It seemed fairly obvious there.

I just assume that's what's going on here.
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Also, the article mentions an MIT professor's safety concerns, but, upon reflection, given the conditions some of these drugs are meant to treat, the error rate would have to be very high to make it worse than no treatment.
The last 4-5 years of "progress" have been pretty unacceptable.
I don't get this complaint. 4.5M people did quit, that's the fact they're reporting on. You are the one that seems to want editorializing about what people did after they quit, in their headline, to push your agenda.
There is a good workaround for the "eat vegetables" feature that so many desire. Introduce the french style "3 course meals".

Always start with the vegetable course, if the child is hungry, they will eat the vegetibles. Keep other courses out of sight, otherwise it leads to distraction. Then the next course is something filling. This tends to improve performance metrics and overall ability to function. Finally the third course is something they really enjoy eating(desert)
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854895 [nov, 2016]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19772322 [apr, 2019]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22700365 [mar, 2020]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683669 [oct, 2020]
List of Computing Mascots
if the study was done in a population that is elevated in obesity (for example in the south) then you wouldn't be able to generalize it to the national population.
My favorite from that collection on map generation is by Herbert Wolverson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLIOgWYVpI He goes over 5 or 6 different techniques that are easy to implement.
__This__ __looks__ __very__ __interesting__!
The problem is "something that shows on paper that you know how to program" is so easy to fake that this amounts to basically no filter at all. Literally anyone could go on linked in and copy+paste blurbs from other people's job histories and nobody would know the difference between them and a viable candidate.
1. I would love some actually citations rather than a hand-wavey claim that sounds like conspiracy theory. This sounds like you’re talking about hydroxychloroquine.

2. None of this matters to the claim I addressed. Long COVID it’s not something that would be treated in an ICU. It’s also not something that even had a name “when COVID hit”.
10 months in the pit is no joke. I'm on 13 and often wonder how I made it this far.
I honestly have no idea.
What's the company across the lake - Microsoft?
Couldn't you just package your favorite regex library and expose it through a JS function binding in your app?
I've been looking for teaching Python to middleschool kids as well. Most of them are commercial, few free. We ended up starting with Minecraft Educational Edition, Python 101, since the kids already loved Minecraft.
https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/resources/computer-sci...

I'd like to see a Python course for kids using Google Colab, so you don't have to install stuff and jump straight to the lessons.
People on this forum are usually too good to find problems within. With folks here, usually the other party is always at fault.
Maybe I'm a pessimist, but with high-stakes standardized testing I can't see this ever working. Teachers need to optimize their time with students to ensure they are prepared for the test questions.
People use it to muck with the host OS in any possible way, unless one bothers to do the necessary code audit.

Besides that was just one example, there are plenty of them with turing complete languages.
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I personally formed a three person reading group with 2 friends (one chemistry PhD and one retired tech CEO that's a longevity genius) and we read a stack of these papers end to end and even attempted to fumble through a recalcution of a meta-analysis following the retraction of one paper.

Before personally taking the medicine we spent 1.5 weeks reading everything we could find. Straight from Google Scholar or pubmed. Respectfully, I disagree with you. But that's based on my own reading and I'm not an MD or medical professional.

I would say, a) it is very common in certain countries, and like hey, they awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine partially for it in 2015, but b) we have to agree to disagree here, were just too far apart on tone. But respect your point of view.
for all you German bikers: check out weg.li. it's a website facilitating reporting of cars parked on bike lanes.

(https://imgur.com/a/XgeuGb7)
That would be true if you get plans, materials and labor for free. What you do is to pay for it under mutual agreement. So you do not contribute the last bit. You contribute in all the chain, because each of those people got what they wanted so that you can build what you wanted.

Your argumentation is incorrect.

By the way, what is equity? If you come spoil me because I make money, what kind of equity is that if you do it to me just because I make money? Equity would be to not spoil anyone. Trying to punish them on the basis that they make money (or that they make little, I do not care) is not equity. It is something else.
> Experts speaking publicly are often warning of risks rather than saying "don't do X."

> The restrictions in your original post aren't what I've been hearing, for example.

"Avoid crowded, poorly ventilated spaces." - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/gather...

Not sure how you can misinterpret that. Indoor concerts, sporting events, bars, parties, etc. all fall into that category.
@afeiszli congrats on the launch.

@vertis, if you are looking at multi-region or multi-cloud, you may be interested in how Ozone solved this for private k8s https://ozone.one/blog/ozone-zitifies-private-kubernetes-dep...

disclaimer: i am founder of a company which builds saas on the openziti open source which Ozone used in their solution as well. however, doesn't seem competitive with this solution from vertis - openziti being built for different use cases.
and if a mgr is not there to defend his team...
Controller Topology Project: Visualization experiment
With the right clay mixture, rammed earth can be made more or less waterproof like brick, or you can make actual fired rammed earth bricks. Adding graphene flakes can significantly improve the structural qualities, and added carbon black can increase thermal conductivity (heated flooring) or provide em shielding.

There are lots of materials to play with and mix up for structures.
The government of China does not want non state-owned companies to become so large and powerful that they can push back against the government. They don't want any institution powerful enough to push back - not a religion, not a publisher, not a political movement, not a business. All of those have faced breakups and shutdowns for years.

The humorous version.[1]

The network effect is so strong in some areas that you tend to end up with a monopoly or near-monopoly. This isn't good for either a communist or a capitalist society.

The US tends toward oligopoly. Three big banks, three big cell phone companies, three big drugstore chains, four big meat packers. In tech, the magic number seems to be two. Two big search engines, two big smartphone platforms, two big desktop systems, two big auction providers, two big social networks.

[1] https://twitter.com/lillianmli/status/1478742997839740928
> Crypto things however seem a whole other level of energy waste.

According to the New York Times, Bitcoin uses a little less than half a percent of all the electricity consumed in the world [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/03/climate/bitco...
I mean, for Julia?
I have no idea how common it is for the light color to matter. There are some places though where it does make a difference.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/transportation/2020/01/01/answ...
Yes, as long as the amount you repaid exceeds $3,000.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2020_publink1000...
According to the article linked above, it may have come from Jean-Jacques Rousseau Michele earlier, when Marie Antoinette was 10, and living in Austria. The actual quote may date back to the 1660’s.
Check out the book "Great Demo" if you haven't already. Much of it seems obvious if it's how you already demo, but if you feel like you're struggling it's worth skimming at least.

The most important things are preparation and understanding what your audience wants and expects.

The worst demos I've seen usually fall into one of two categories:
- the "harbor tour", stepping through every link in every menu to show off every feature.

- presenter ignoring the audience, e.g, early on someone says "I've already seen X, I'm interested in Y" but presenter dives deeply into X anyway
integrated over millions of rides their accounting should indeed account for that?
dnslib author here - wasn’t expecting to see this so thanks for the reference.

Key thing I learnt writing dnslib (which was originally to provide a DNS API for an application) is that DNS is actually a very dynamic protocol but the complexity of mainstream servers like BIND makes it hard to do a lot of the things that you can actually do. There are a lot of problems (in particular in the service discovery space) which can be solved much more easily using DNS rather than inventing something separate.

As an aside if you want an authoritative DNS server I would look at KnotDNS [1] - you can avoid all the zone file cruft and interact with it using a sensible API. If you want to write a dynamic DNS app I would look at @miekg’s excellent Go library [2]

[1] https://www.knot-dns.cz/

[2] https://github.com/miekg/dns
I rather prefer the software engineering mind to use binary libraries for what they were designed for.
To get my bluetooth adapter to work I had to find a third-party driver, compile it, and manually setup DKMS so it'll update whenever a new kernel gets installed.

That's a much more complicated process that either macOS or Windows.
This does generally work, but it requires a lot of manual effort to setup the environment correctly with Xcode's SDKs to satisfy the compiler / linker.
A slightly worse headline: "The standard of modern employment is to pay a premium for new unskilled employees you need to train up on your system and then stagnate their wages so they're force to go elsewhere."

This is the new norm and it's extremely short sighted and inefficient for most employers. If your cost of living increase (or combined "merit increase") is below inflation your company is doing something wrong.
Some people are genuinely hired above their level or have been coasting so long the don't realize they are coasting, and so there are legitimate uses for PIPs. That being said, I hear it's a perverse shadow of that at companies like Amazon that use quotas to go looking for reasons to fire people.
If you are more of a text than video person, this survey paper might be interesting as a starting point:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/3144605.3144638
According to Tauri's documentation (https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri) minimal app:

Tauri Electron

Memory Consumption Linux 180 MB 462 MB

Note Tauri is full fledged Client/Server with WebView (client) running in separate process with RPC between UI process and Rust code (Server).

For the comparison:

Standalone Sciter (scapp.exe, https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/bin) takes ~8 MB of RAM (with minimal Cairo and GDI backends).

That's 20 times less than even Tauri.

WebView based solutions are not suitable for applets - small portable desktop applications.
From what I hear, Amazon is incredibly uneven in org quality, so it is really possible your friend got unlucky. My wife works at Amazon and seems to have a pretty good balance and has good things to say about her work environment, but she is not a SWE (rather a designer). Still, I don't think I would ever work there without a lot of careful research about the group I was going into.
> Personally I'm waiting for engineering salaries in the non-US to catch up to the US because it'll make it easier for me to leave the US if I choose to do so but it doesn't look like it's happened yet.

Let me chime in to say that salary isn't everything in life, or the key to live a good, fulfilling life. I'd even argue that socialized healthcare and worker's rights, ensured in numerous European countries, do far more to achieve good life than, say, an absurdly high salary.
Agreed with everything above, with the addition of brazil. It was pretty fantastic to work with
Oh I know. That's why I am moving to AMD gradually. But I hear they are not much better. Scary stuff, dude.
This is something I would love, but also wouldn't use unless it had end to end encryption.
Because layout, rendering, and accessibility are not easy problems to solve and already handled by browser engines that come with your OS.

It's more work to reinvent those wheels than bind to them.
That's what's making the Steam Deck possible. And the release of the Steam Deck is only going to bring more attention to Proton and accelerate further development.
Online meetups.
One video chat with voice = 200 smart comments on IRC (that was the old slack)

Go to meetup and sign up for whatever topics you are interested in. Almost all the meetings are going to be on zoom these days.
I haven't done much one bag travel myself, just a couple weekend or five day long trips, but one important thing is that it's a whole lot easier when you're not obese. I've lost nearly 200 lbs and it has become so much easier to fit everything into a single bag because my clothes are just so much smaller. The bag weighs less too. Or I can fit an extra camera lens in there since that's the primary reason I travel these days. A lot of the one bag travel advice I've encountered assumes that you're in relatively good shape.
Thanks, I did not know about this.
> My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to […]

Wouldn’t this be true of almost any other selective interview process?
Obvious mistake in comment that it is too late to edit: It quite literally is a plug and play device, because you have to use a cord.

It was late when I wrote it.
> No, they could just be guilty of felony or local equivalent.

I think this is a different in definitions. Could you define 'criminal'?
There are more old buildings left in Germany than one might first assume. The devastation of WW2 was most concentrated in the major cities, and minor cities and villages often have old centers that survived fully intact. This was a bit surprising at least for me when touring the smaller places.
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Kotlin with Compose
Not an Anachist but I wonder how much of the danger here is due to the law. Ideally they would simply be selling the epipencils and doing testing etc but there is no way they would be able to do this. So instead the best they can do is create DIY kits.

I wonder how far they can legally push the DIY kit. Can they ship you supplies with the kit? Can they ship you expresso-like packs for your DIY machine?
> disregarding user space libs

most macOS software uses the APIs offered by userspace libs almost exclusively. They represent a huge and vast interconnected set of libraries, developed over decades. Maybe not quite as large as the entire Windows API, but similar in scope.
4-byte characters are simply not valid in the utf8mb3 character set. The column type defines what values may be stored in the column, and the character set is inherently part of the column type for textual data.

So your question is similar to asking, what's the problem with allowing storage of negative numbers in an unsigned int column. The answer is those bytes inherently have a different meaning, or may be completely invalid, depending on the column type.

> that seems less bad than the alternative of silently corrupting data

MySQL has defaulted to a strict sql_mode out-of-the-box since MySQL 5.7, released over 6 years ago. With strict sql_mode, no silent corruption of data occurs. If you attempt to insert a 4-byte character into a utf8mb3 column, your insert fails with an error.

Everything older than 5.7 has hit end-of-life, so there is literally no supported version of MySQL which doesn't default to enabling strict mode.

The only problem is that database-as-a-service providers use nonstandard defaults, so e.g. AWS RDS doesn't come with strict mode enabled, for whatever completely insane reason. But that's technically an Amazon problem, not a MySQL problem.
I read a stat that 1 out of ~154 Americans currently works for amazon.
> While workers in Taiwan used to work 12 hour days, time worked is not a good indicator of productivity and I'm willing to bet that TSMC's massive profitability meant there wasn't much incentive to make the work process more efficient.

That's one of the pitfall of low labor costs: since time is virtually free it tends to create a culture that doesn't use it efficiently.

I've seen it with offshored devs way too often; why take the time to learn version control when you can pass around code in emails and on thumb drives?
Depends on how motivated you are to to your current job. On two occasions I've witnessed a fellow developer mentally check themselves out after a round of layoffs, start doing the minimal amount of work necessary, and then spending the rest of their time cracking coding problems. When the next round of layoffs came, they were gone to Amazon and Google.
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For bazel users there is also this project[0] which runs the tools natively on Linux without requiring this layer. Although you lose tools like ibtool / actool which don't have open source re-implementations.

[0]: https://github.com/apple-cross-toolchain/rules_applecross
Fedora just gets everything sooner. Newer kernels, gnome, packages. But it's still rock solid because of Red Hat/IBM.
That's regional, of course. I'm talking bog-standard everyday houses in the 2500-3500sf range, no mansions.
Maybe i don’t read enough history, but i wonder: does censorship after-the-fact actually work or does it backfire?

In places where the news has been censored for a while (Russia, China), the public seems to accept it and believe the biased views.

But if people are exposed to “fake news” and then see those news sites being censored and replaced with contradictory information, wouldn’t they just become more distrusted and paranoid?
I live right by the 92/101 interchange. Adding a Southern Crossing would change the dynamics in ways that you probably wouldn't have to add anything to 101, it would just distribute the traffic that's on 101 into better locations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Crossing_(California). For example, for the set of people who are using 92W to get to SF, the southern crossing would move them north and alleviate traffic around san Mateo.

Note that I didn't make my point to say that we should build another bridge, just the pedantic detail that BART traffic isn't that much larger than Bay Bridge + San Mateo Bridge, which is a more apt comparison. I think actually you'd want to add in the Golden Gate Bridge, another 110K. So basically, there are more people commuting into SF driving over bridges than taking BART in.
What is your definition of decentralized? There's no one system which controls of the DNS records or makes changes to them, and the root TLDs are run by an international consortium which has limited ability to force changes. Even if the U.S. government gets in a shooting war with Russia, there's no plausible outcome where .ru records come under the control of the U.S. government or vice versa.

That's about as decentralized as a real system gets while still being usable.
The Windows clipboard manager doesn't support search. Ditto does. As soon as you open it you can just type a subset of some thing you recall copying the other day and it will immediately filter to that entry (or those entries). Biggest reason.

Ditto also rearranges the items so the last pasted is at the top rather than the last copied. This is also helpful because if I'm pasting something regularly, it's nice for it to be at or near the top.

You can configure how much history you want Ditto to store, by days or number of entries.

The Ditto clipboard entries are not as visually bulky as the Windows clipboard history entries.

The Ditto window can be resized, the Windows clipboard manager cannot be.

Those are the main reasons for me. Ditto also has a bunch of more advanced features but I've never used them.
what happens if the federal mandates get ruled illegal by the supreme court? do people fired via state or corporate mandate have any recourse?
> I'm sure people used to say "it'll be years before it'll be a viable solution" when Wine was in its infancy.

I don't think so. Wine was viable for me, playing Starcraft Brood Wars in 2000.

Other than games, in 2000 it was running a significant number of minor applications for me.
How JPEG image compression works [video]
> He cannot just "decide to take Britain to Iraq", since the UK Government cannot start a war without Parliament's approval.

Declaring war and deploying troops is a power held by the Crown (which will do it on request of its government). Parliamentary approval is not required, parliament merely can hold a no-confidence vote and remove the government afterwards if it disagrees.

The Afghanistan war just a bit earlier was debated in parliament, but not actually voted on by parliament.

For Iraq, there was a formal vote for the first time, but again, not a formal authorization that would have had legal force - although loosing it realistically would have collapsed Blairs government once he committed to having the vote. (And also made any Labour MPs voting against it not just the MPs who were against the war, but also the MPs who forced their government to fail).
Related "How's the Miami Scene?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29802962 yesterday where some comments are about Florida in general.
There's no silver bullet, but some pointers...

- do they actually suck? You're making sales after all. Call up a customer, and ask them to be honest. it could be you are fine and need to give yourself a pep talk.

- bad demos tend to focus on the product and not the customer. By the time you are demoing you should know what issue the customer has. Does your demo start run and end with the customer's issue, with the cool features being pointed out as essential elements in solving it, or are they just features that you feel you have to show? One makes for a better demo than the other.
Github actions has Mac runners at the same rate as Linux runners, including the free tier (though the free minutes burn faster, as I understand it).
Do you fly with kettlebells? Isn't that very expensive?