skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's not as much better or worse just because it was learned to be better or worse; it's more like comparing things you know with each other.

Say you taste something with a very generic taste that you can't really describe other than 'brown with a bit of a toasty taste', then if taste something else that makes you have a much more descriptive or complicated taste and you also like that new taste, you now have something to compare against.

This has nothing to do with coffee per se or 'better vs worse', just with what you taste and if you want to explore it.

The same goes for details within a taste. A raw potato tastes different from a cooked potato, and the texture of that same cooked potato but mashed makes you experience it differently as well. If you fry that same potato, now it's different again. It doesn't really change the potato itself into something else (like changing it into a carrot or something silly like that), but it does change what you experience when eating it.
As nothing in particular I wish braces were acceptable! They make so much more sense than tightening a belt laterally to defy gravity by friction.
> If the commit subject rather, is "bugfix flaky builds", followed by a message that explains what the flakiness was, why you think the change will fix it, what other bugs or limitations you were working around, and what upstream changes you might be waiting on that prevented further work, you're in a much better position.

Those are very different needs.

"Why?" belongs in code as a comment. "How?" only sometimes belongs in a comment--generally if the code is "clever".

"What?" generally belongs in the commit message as it can touch multiple files and subsystems.

"Who?" and "When?" generally belong in your ticketing system.
Does this create any potential for disease/virus vectors across species if not handled properly?
I've never used git-notes, but it sounds like this is what you are describing: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes
I can't speak for my son but for me the trigger seems to be some damage at the back of my throat from the crazy bouts of coughing when I had COVID and now any kind of irritation there will set me off. Very frustrating, especially when you are chairing long meetings.
>Is there some reason why we would expect a priori for the COVID-19 vaccine to have a particularly high risk of adverse affects that only show up long-term?

The correct question is, is there sufficient evidence that we shouldn't? You don't ever assume the confirmation of a hypothesis (in this case long term safety) when introducing something novel. That's the exact opposite of science.

My answer is: I believe in science, empirical evidence, and hypothesis testing. I'm not going to assume the hypothesis that they're safe long term is correct without empirical evidence. You don't disrupt baseline systems with something novel on the basis of faith when no empirical evidence exists. That's completely antithetical to science.

It's funny because most of your examples are great illustrations that assuming novel things are safe has disastrous consequences.
Off-topic but I love Davis. It has a smaller-town vibe but is close enough to Downtown Sac that one can go over there for a night out. The local politics are more to my lean than anywhere equidistantly east of Sacramento. It's extremely bike-friendly (most students bike around the town). It's also a little closer to the Bay which is nice for day trips.
Actually, I heard an NPR story over the holidays about a tick borne disease that causes a meat allergy, and how pigs raised for another purpose then became suitable for butchering to eat their meat for people with that disease... So it happens in at least one case.
That's exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that.
3D-printed OLEDs could soon lead to DIY screens
> Interesting how one might choose to their faith over their life.

The belief in the right to a predictably long life is a new idea barely a few centuries old at most. Not that I'm personally complaining, but the statement did make me think, the value of living longer for everyone is not self-evident (at least from where I am standing), and the presumption that it is seems in itself dogmatic.

Actually, I could suggest a few non-faith approaches to rationalize the benefit of early death
2013 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02241135
Surely "the original code" would be the last code committed by the owner of the repo.

As always, if we don't like the direction they have taken, the solution is to fork the project.

I think it would be a mistake to set precedent based on how much you like or agree with this particular developer.
It's a long used name for a snow removal device:

https://upsupply.co/steez/yooper-scooper
> By the time it almost turns black, you'd eat it

No thanks. Not 20 years ago and not now.

> the standard stuff is fine.

For some people maybe. There is no universal truth. Most people 'make due' and don't really form an opinion about anything. (yet engage in discussion anyway)

> I don't pay attention to coffee when I drink it.

So you have no stake in this. Why did you bother to write about it anyway?
For me (well controlled IBS), diet only seems to be a minor factor. It can be very difficult to really figure out if any particular food is causing a problem, or if it's some other factor. You need to test the food multiple times under different circumstances. For myself, I did think that certain foods caused problems. But I've since realised that I can eat pretty much all of those foods without problem. There are certain things that I'm careful about (alcohol, and wine in particular, sugary drinks, and coffee), but even those I can tolerate in moderation. The only thing that reliably causes symptoms for me is stress (100% of the time).
> The flu vaccine changes every year, but I've never heard folks expressing concern of the long-term effects of this year's new formulation.

It's not a new formulation every year. They pick a few from a preexisting set of vaccines to try and get a best match to the strains they expect to be most prevalent in the coming flu season.
It amounts to ~7 dishwashers

https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/i7p1on/ro...
Or, ads can be untargeted, which also does not need profiling.
From what I remember most of the experiments where more material based like healing a bone, or replacing a joint, or some sort of implant. So you could have things interfere, but it wasn’t like drug trials which would effect the entire body.
TSA’s 2021 Top List of Most Unusual Finds at Airport Security Checkpoints
>the most prevalent example of this is people taking reports from VAERS and presenting them in an article as if they’re assumed to be causal effects, rather than correlative.

I think if the jump in VAERS reports since the vaccines were released wasn't ~2,700x, you wouldn't see as big of a deal about it. But you can cut that in half and still have an astronomically alarming number of vaccine adverse events reported.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
At-Home Coronavirus Tests Are Inaccessible to Blind People
> Davis has been very very NIMBY for the city center, just getting a Target on the very outskirts of city limits around 2010.

The only reason Target had to be that far out is no place in the city center area had space for the literal sea of parking Target wanted. It's had major chains much closer to downtown for a long time (Borders and then Whole Foods right in downtown, Gottschalks at UMall until the chain went bankrupt in 2009, etc.)
The Truck Formerly Known As Plow is particularly appropriate since it's Prince's home state.
We've all recovered from COVID (2nd bout for me :(, apparently both a prior round and vaccine were not enough to stave it off completely but it was only a small fraction as bad as the first one).

It's just the cough that remains.
I present to you the gritters of Scotland.
https://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html...
Peppy Le Plow
Is that the case? It's been some time since I last used a desktop Linux, but my experience at the time was always that some unrelated package update broke some other software unexpectedly. Maybe this is better now. On the Mac, at least I know when I update Firefox I only break Firefox (but that for sure) :D
I replied elsewhere about the meaning of “vaccine” (we’ve called the flu vaccine a vaccine for many years, with only ~50% typical effectiveness).

As for the messaging:

1) I would bet all of my money that at least 95% of the people complaining about the CDC updating their definition had never once read the previous definition until they read some article trying to cast the CDCs actions in a nefarious light. It’s not clear to me why this redefinition is worthy of a news story at all.

2) I am very doubtful that the CDC engaging as you’ve described would help anything. Their detractors would absolutely call it propaganda.
What swims like a duck and quacks like a duck
MnDOT offers similar services (plow and fixed cameras, along with lots of other traffic information) for Minnesota as well: https://511mn.org. If you're really bored, it can be fun to track incoming snowstorms across all of the fixed cameras in a certain direction!
Efficient or not, they must run at close to capacity. The comment I was replying to said "Depends on how full hospitals get", and, my response is that they're always close to full, and that is true regardless of whether they are public or private institutions. Please don't interject points that are not on-topic.
Rabin fingerprinting can do this I believe.

"the idea is to select blocks not based on a specific offset but rather by some property of the block contents"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin_fingerprint#Applications
(Kevin Bacon?)
FIDO2/WebAuthn Support for NodeBB
Show HN: E2E encrypted “multiplayer” text editor on the web in 6kb
> but it might be a few decades

They could just hire the experts from the incumbents
Could there be a reason to do that? E.g. preventing the format string from accidentally coming from untrusted user data?
If that were the case, it would be very unusual and we wouldn't have to flag it as researchers would be jumping all over that.
“[The] prohibition against touching pigs applied only when Jews were on their way to Jerusalem to observe the three pilgrimage festivals”, “Even on the way to Jerusalem, Jews were only prohibited from touching the flesh, that is, the meat of a pig. According to halacha (Jewish law) the skin of an animal does not transmit impurities”.

“Beyond that, there’s a very important tenet of Judaism called pikuach nefesh, or, saving a life. [Most Jewish laws] can and in fact should be violated in order to save a person’s life”.

Quotes from link in sibling comment by mizzao.
I have a standing desk that came with a built in wireless charging spot. It's slightly raised above the surrounding glass, so my laptop doesn't sit evenly on that end of the desk. If I want to charge my phone, I have to push my laptop partly off the edge to make room. It doesn't charge as fast as my cable. It makes my phone heat up.

I still think wireless charging is a gimmick. I'd rather have a cable and a port that's easier to put in and more resistant to wear/breakage/clogging. Or a desk with a little stand that I can just drop my phone into and it'll make a physical connection and charge more efficiently.

A final advantage to cables: if you want to charge wirelessly, you have to put your phone down! With a nice long cable by your bed, you can lay there and use your phone as long as you want.
Obviously it's very culture specific, but pigs are quite far from 'man's best friend'.
You're probably reading in to it too much. I wrote about 3 personal experiences, 1 generalisation and 1 thing about tea in there, and a joke about coffee snobbery making your life harder.

I'd compare wine snobbery to the coffee snobbery that is about beans that have to be eaten by a cat and pooped out to be "good". I think those are illegal in most countries anyway, but that's about the same level of nonsense as a 20+ year old bottle of alcohol.
What's the proper solution here? Just a "name" field? Maybe formal_name and informal_name so you can do things like "Howdy ${informal_name}" without awkwardly using a last name?

meta: What is the purpose of the M01 10 2022 date format? Is that intended to reduce ambiguity between the month and day? Why not an ISO 8601? Why isn't it M01 D10 Y2022?
Deploying Elixir Book
It's not an English word, so yeah, kinda. I use "singular they" nowadays, but I'll not speak "gender neutral Portuguese" because English people want me to.
This comment would make sense if Knuth used literate programming primarily for academic papers. But in fact he created WEB for writing TeX and METAFONT, both of which (while their source code was published as a book later) were production systems, and in fact for several decades now he uses CWEB for all programs he writes, including several a week that he writes for himself. (Some of which are online at https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html .) In contrast, apart from the paper he wrote introducing LP, and the two Bentley columns about LP in CACM, I'm not aware of any other academic paper of his that presents programs — at any rate, the total number must be very small.

The goal is not an "academic paper"; his experience (and that of others who have seriously tried LP) is that it helps with actual writing of programs, less time spent debugging, etc.

Yes, there are challenges with two or more programmers, but nothing unsurmountable. See "Literate Programming on a Team Project" (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/techreports/1991/302.pdf coauthored by Norman Ramsey, who later developed noweb) and some stories like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484452 (and https://github.com/thi-ng/geom which went from LP to conventional).
> And what kind of news article has an average sentence length of 29 words

The Guardian usually has excellent writing -- and I for one don't mind reading long sentences. If anything, it's refreshing.
If asked to pay for children who I don’t know to get meatspace time with their extended gene clan, who I also don’t know, I will decline and recommend they use Zoom.

> Are you this unempathic and selfish in real life?

I do as little as possible for people who do not do for me.
Kinda genius and very well written. But full page? That's gotta be a $10k buy.
That thing has bothered me for a while and I think I finally found why this is impossible.

In order for the shape to be impossible ADEB, BEFC and ACFD have to be coplanar. If you add a hidden AF or CD edge, making ACFD not coplanar, it becomes possible.

To make things simple, let's assume a simple, orthogonal projection (discard the z). We will use degrees of freedom for that. All vertices have their x, y position fixed, that's their 2D coordinates in the drawing, we don't know z yet because it is discarded by the projection. The problem becomes: for each vertex, find the z coordinate. The constraints are: ADEB, BEFC are coplanar, DBFE are not (making the entire thing a flat shape would be cheating).

So, make the z coordinates for D, B, F, E anything we want, it will make a small tetrahedron, nothing wrong with that. Now, because A has to be in the DEB plane, its z coordinate is fixed, but it can be calculated, no problem. Same thing with C, it is in the BEF plane and its z coordinate is fixed and can be calculated. You can do that in every case. So as long as you are not looking behind the "pyramid", you can always find a 3D shape that matches the projection.

Now if we add the constraint that ACFD are coplanar, that's when you have a problem. All points are fixed, and you have to play with your 4 degrees of freedom that are the z coordinates of D, B, F, E to make ACFD coplanar. Playing with the z, you can do translation, scaling on the z axis and shearing on xz and yz, that's 4 independent transforms, all your degrees of freedom are used up. None of them help making your vertices coplanar, except if you flatten everything, which, as said before, is cheating.

Now, maybe we can also make the impossible possible using fancier projections. Perspective projection has a FOV parameter, it may be an extra degree of freedom we can play with, but that enough maths for today.

EDIT: missed a transform, now, it works
Short term bean counting always sets you up for failure. The fact that this guy's packages were depended upon by so many projects and people were not actively supporting him with money shows how broken open source is. The projects with the most dependencies should be rooted out and collectively paid for or a new license should be made that excludes the use of OS software by corporations unless they pay a minimum amount based on their size. I'm sick of hearing about stories like this and it has discouraged me from releasing much of anything open source that any corporation could use without paying me. That's why small projects that I do release get GPL licenses and I don't put my best work out there for free.
I fixed a bug the other day that I was so embarrassed about, I intentionally left the commit message cryptic.

(It was a personal project.)

Sometimes the best documentation is seared into your soul as a mark of shame. I think I’ll wake up a few times wincing about it.
This is my Deploying Elixir ebook.

It is free, just put a zero on the price field.

Enjoy.
I hate the perpetual law enforcement “needs this to protect you”. Seriously, if you have sufficient evidence to believe someone is a threat you should have sufficient information to get a warrant for the information you want.

Any other system is by definition warrant less surveillance, and therefore any data collection is a-ok because anyone “might” be a threat.

That’s why we made warrants required. It’s why needing warrants is literally part of the constitution.

Grumble grumble. Old man shouts at law enforcement.
Omicron is expected to peak end of january. Based on experience, this vaccine may be 60% effective against severe disease with the sigma variant for a little while after multiple shots.
> It's just that you probably want the biggest building possible

...to maximize the loss when the lack of local infrastructure to support people using a building of that size makes it impossible to sell or lease space in it.

There's still giant holes in the ground from abandoned skyscrapers the Sacramento market wouldn't support a decade ago, and that was a place not obviously insane for them.
Mike Tyson, Evander Holy field, I'd imagine there'd be a lot of boxers.
Hi HN, I made this as a fun little side project, you can learn more about it on the corresponding blog post https://lecaro.me/picnic-end-to-end-encrypted-collaborative-...

I'd love for someone to check the crypto part, I exposed my approach in the Readme https://github.com/renanlecaro/picnic
Honestly, I don’t really care anymore.

I’ve looked at hard data for discussions around these issues for nearly 2 years. Every time the anti vaxx crowd has been wildly incorrect, but claim that where they moved the goalposts to is a reasonable position that I will need to do hours and hours of research to even question.

I ran out of energy to deal with the firehouse of bullshit they spew constantly and at this point the anti vaxxers need to convince _me_ if they want anything they’ve said to be even considered.

If that upsets them because I’m not considering their “freedom” to limit my freedom and safety then were at an impasse, and it looks like my side has most of the power so good luck
I have seen this claim elsewhere, and the people who bring it up know about reverse-transcriptase [0], an enzyme that can convert RNA to DNA. I've never seen anyone attempt to address that part of their claim, instead people just say "RNA is not DNA, duh." and leave it at that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcriptase
> Wow, so it's basically like you are a new hire when you transfer? Do you mind saying which FAANG or is the experience you had simply norm at all of them?

The Big G. Your past performance primarily only influences the decision on whether you have a good track record of delivering, but once you transfer you essentially reset the clock with the new team and manager and the expectations might be completely different for whichever reason, it could be personality or org structures etc. I don't know if my experience is the norm at all of them since I haven't worked at all the FAANGs, but as I said it's important to "read the tea leaves" early, and if the new team doesn't feel right make your opinions known early and plan an exit before you come a statistic.
This is blog spam, dang, link change please?
Eliminating poverty is the only solution. Free college education will just create a demand for some other ridiculous scheme. I’d also be happy for both, but I think only one can work, but it would require retiring capitalism altogether as well.
Ask HN: What is your most productive tech stack?
Just curious what tools the HN crowd is using in the year of 2022 and feel they are at their most productive with.
Not gloating. I genuinely enjoy eating pork and meat in general. It's the most nutritious food a human can eat in my humble opinion. I hold no shame in eating and enjoying meat.

If I was a scientist and a piggie died as part of an experiment or whatever. I would do my best to eat the piggie and not let any part of it end up in the trash and going to waste.
A little bit of Drill Sergeant humor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xen1KeYDnCI
As someone who is hard of hearing I can't wait for people to stop wearing masks.

On the other hand, I wish we knew more how this is transmitted. People eating indoors isn't the main vector of transmission.
And masks don't help much either.
And eventually getting a booster every 6 months won't do much either
Davis is primarily a college town. Is there enough demand to fill up a skyscraper?
> yet they're happy to issue an injunction against a book if they conclude it's defamatory after a libel trial.

Another comment in this thread made me check this and find out that it's actually controversial and not well-established that courts should do this. I don't know how that normally works in practice!
> I am one of those who tasted "real coffee".

I don't think those words mean the same thing to us. There is no "official" real coffee or what someone else can decide is the best coffee for you. That'd be like someone deciding for you that apple juice is the only real juice. It's about finding something that interests you and has properties you value.

> I simply drink the coffee for the caffeine and not the taste.

So you don't have much of a stake or (refined) opinion but you felt it necessary to tell everyone how much you don't care?
I thought they were backwards at first since in the after he's not even fully lit up.
Did it happen 120MY ago or 1MY ago? Both can be true for different observers, and none is privileged over the other.

Great way to put it.
Handshaking isn't gone.
Then once you've finished juggling 4 jobs you have lucrative guru royalties for years if you write a book about it...

Maybe call it the "144 Hour Work-week"
My grandfather figured out how to grow large haloid crystals, which were used in camera polaroid Carl Zeiss "Bernotar" filters. He kept the process a secret, which died with him.

My family gets contacted now and then by researchers trying to figure out how to do it.
Well, perhaps they think that none of what we are doing kept those 800,000 out of the grave. Perhaps they, rightly in their mind, think there are far worse threats out there than Covid and being asked to make such a significant sacrifice doesn’t make sense.

The fact that so many people disagree with your position seems to suggest that you might not be as correct in your thinking as you believe.
Author here, yes it's intended to reduce month/day ambiguity.