skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be used as an argument just fine. And it is plenty applicable:

- when talking about politics and coruption and voter engagement

- when talking about psychology and stress and apathy

- when talking about wealth and philanthropy

- when talking about economy, game theory and opportunity cost.

- when talking about religion and delegating both to the deity

- when talking about receiving a raise from your boss

People quote fictional characters for the same reason they quote anything else. The quote is a nice package.

Do you feel like random quotes from a known genius like Einstein are somehow worth more?

Do you feel that quotes from fiction that people do not believe is fiction (scripture) are worth more?

Quotes are quotes and some people like them. Do they misapply them? Sure. But people also misapply everything else in communication.
I started with "As a statistical aside with respect to worker shortages and unemployment in the U.S., here's some BLS data" so yes, very clearly I was being tangential.

From the original comment, I was more interested in the part "It's like the 'worker shortage' kind of garbage... we've got plenty of workers in most sectors" and was curious about unemployment rates.

Whether or not it is 'distracting' is arguable, but I apologize if it was distracting.
As a side-note, the web has grown several orders of magnitude more complicated since then. I'm willing to be that every single codec is more complicated than the JS VM they used to ship. JavaScript JITs are scary beasts, too, themselves several orders of magnitude larger than a simple JS interpreter, etc.

Even support for Unicode is so complicated it's scary.
How much longer do you think "PC gaming" is going to be a thing?
Do you think it'll make the transition to VR?
I don't.
It's worth noting that rapid test results roughly align with contagiousness, which makes them an excellent tool to fight the spread of this thing. [1] (See the 2nd image on this page).

PCR tests will report COVID infections that are way below the threshold of transmissibility, and they'll keep reporting positive results long after the infected person is no longer contagious.

"Am I contagious?" is arguably a more useful question to answer than, "Do I have any detectable amount of COVID in my body, at all, using the best laboratory testing processes available?"

[1] https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/antigen-tests...
Here is my dumb army guy approach to programming anything. It doesn't work for everybody.

1. Think about the problem.

2. Form a tentative plan (the visual part).

3. Write a rough draft of code (the code doesn't have to work yet).

4. Test it and make it work (minimum viable effort).

5. Refactor. Polish the code and eliminate tech debt.

Think about the problem. Get a solid vision for what you want done. Once you have solid emotional confidence about that end state balance it against what you have. With that you know what you are missing. That stuff that is missing is the work you must perform.

When you think functionally everything is an input and an output depending upon context. This allows thinking about the flow control directly without worry for the composition. If you have been programming for more than a couple of days the leet code of loops and conditions are completely ignored from planning as implied tasks much like you don't spend your time actively thinking about breathing when planning your day. Now you have a plan. Plans often fail as soon they become necessary, so the plan itself is irrelevant. What's important is the planning, the thought exercise not the product, the thinking about what needs to be done so you know what to do.

Programming then becomes a conceptually visual experience. Simply the write the code you see in your mind. The most important thing here is that you have a visualized a plan and know what you need to write. The code doesn't even have to work at this point.

Then write the code. Test what you have written. Fix the code so that it solves the desired problem. Only then should you actively toil with composition. When composition is saved for last it becomes an exercise in refactoring.

Refactoring is a form of code polish. It allows cleaning away the rough spots from the rough draft in order to achieve conformance to code style, build rules, and validation criteria. Refactoring also allows the combining of similar mechanisms which increases simplicity and reduces tech debt.
>> and I'd have to keep paying it in order to play those games.

But how long do you play these games for, and how often do you replay them? There are definitely games I replay a lot (Resident Evil games, for one) but there are many where I'm done after one playthrough. I'm totally okay "renting" it and moving on with Game Pass for a lot of titles.
I never understood what motivates these people to spend so much time and effort making such an amazing blog to educate so many people in such a nice way....It's incredible!
does anyone here write code, align with having aphantasia, and have some form of an alternative answer to thread? alt.answer might end up being the same answers, idk what i'm saying, barely know what i'm asking
Depends on the company maybe? Were you in a project that went bad?

Last time I did a robot project, the people who would ultimately be the machine operators were involved every step of the way, learning and building together with the team.

I'm not sure how installing a handful of machines in one small corner of a huge factory that's already full of machines would somehow change someone's entire life. Hopefully it does make it a little easier though!
And that shows, very clearly, huge differences in rates. EG, here:

January 40-49 Unvaccinated 1,015 447,582 224.9
January 40-49 Within 21 days of first dose 15 19,088 76.0
January 40-49 21 days or more after first dose 3 3,808 77.0
January 40-49 Within 21 days of second dose <3 1,232 :
January 40-49 21 days or more after second dose <3 229 :

Have you misunderstood the source you're using?
SpiceDAO paid $3m for a copy of Jodorowsky’s Dune - And little else.
Indeed. Nobody likes the sound of "boiled meat" but stew is another story altogether.
Manslaughter charges follow Tesla driver’s Autopilot red light run
I'm sorry. does gabe produce games anymore?
@dang Why was this suddenly pushed to the bottom of the comments? (After being second in rank.) Possibly a bot detection false positive. Hope this is fixed so the author gets the reward he deserves for this amazing work
I wish I could read/see this. It jumps all over the place on mobile.
As an outsider, Biden decisively defeating progressive opponents seems like fiction. It appears that varying levels of progressive candidates were forced into supporting Biden instead of supporting any "not Biden." Democrats continue to force establishment candidates despite the extreme levels of anti-establishment sentiment in the country.
As a user, I see absolutely no reason to know the internal workings of Git. It supposedly offers a service, which is tracking and recording changes to files. In a way, it's a very able SaveAs/Open command and also offering some way of altering the recorded history.

How it's done internally, as much as it's remarkable, is just an implementation detail. The fact that users are repeatedly being referred to docs/books, points to conceptual inconsistencies or mismatches in the intended application contexts.

As a user I operate with directories and files. Now version control also introduces a time-component, which is versions (and version of a version aka branch) and some kind of history/timeline/journal/log.

Why would a branch have a "head" and "base", isn't parent/child concept expressive already? Why "ref", if we've got "version" already? Why "stage", "index", "cache"? Why "cherry-pick" if we've got "patch"? Etc.
You can in some cases. Copyright law varies from country to country, check with a lawyer if you need advice, and all that... If what remains of the copyright work is less than 10% then your copy is legal. When you modify something it becomes a derived work, the question is when you have modified it enough that it is considered a unique work and not derived.

Note too that trademark law can still apply. So your Harry Potter can be in trouble even if the only thing that remains is the name and the universe. (You can do a Harry Potter as the horse in your western novel)
This sounds like a useful tool based on the comments, but the site is completely unusable on my iPhone. :/
My amateur understanding is that Autism is now considered a spectrum. With that in mind, do meaningful subgroups map to range(s) on the numberline that is the spectrum? Or, are meaningful subgroups distinct categories that do not correlate to one's score?
I run it in my "homelab". It's all very well self contained. The UX could use some work, but I think it's a case of function over form.

I'm still looking for my ultimate hex editor (TUI/GUI) for offline use. Not been impressed with any of the many options I've tried on Linux.
They're building the Netflix of games with the catalogue to match. Seems like short and mid term, they're focused on owning as many brands/IP as possible, and predictably, efficiently releasing solid games that don't rock the boat too much. See Gears Of War, Forza and Halo. With Bethesda and ActiBlizz, they have enough IP under them to release 3-4 okay games every year, which will make Game Pass a good value proposition when third party support eventually dies out.
I also want to do my best not to infect others, but I do not see people risking their economic livelihood to do that outside of those with the luxury of working from home.

I guess what I am getting at is the dichotomy of leaders officially acting if people should test and quarantine and all that jazz, while obviously knowing that those who need to go out and work to put food on the table and funds in the retirement account will continue to do so.

Based on the stats, I would bet all I have on one of those snot nosed kids at my kids' daycare having covid right now. But I am sure many or most of the parents need to work for the cash to meet the mortgage payments or whatever their expected quality of life is.
I don't mean "innocent" in any formal, moral, or legal sense. I just mean that explicitly rejecting reason is an inherently dangerous mental practice, even if the specific case is something small that doesn't have any direct consequences.
Some of us just need to make it a few months till our kids can get vaccinated. If we Had any independent doctors that could fudge the age requirement we wouldn’t even wait.
https://archive.is/i8Klu
A comment above says that omicron is hard for rapid tests to detect from nasal fluids and that swabbing one's throat leads to much more reliable tests.
I mean, isn't this basically how it used to work when the console manufacturers were also the game developers? Like Sega and Nintendo.
No worries. We have improved over the years. I joined 8 years ago and it is a very different product today. Appreciate your comments.
The most recent guidance says isolate for 5 days, then go back to work if you want to, or optionally take another rapid test and if it's still positive, isolate for another 5 days. The CDC also acknowledges that the virus is transmissible for 10 days after symptom onset. These "shoulds" and "supposed tos" are being thrown out the window. Health care workers in CA can go back to work immediately following a positive test if their symptoms aren't severe and in many cases they're being asked to.
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Where do you think they went to? They're still there, they just don't want to do crappy jobs for low pay. If you increase pay all of a sudden that 'shortage' seems to dry up. If I want a 2 dollar cheeseburger and all I can find are 4 dollar cheeseburgers is there a cheeseburger shortage?
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Given our (UK) present govts history and tragging on anti BLM/eco pretesting things onto a needed bill in the commons I'm not surprised they're taking this route.
It might even appear on the BBC before the year is out of it would save Boris' skin...
Is there any community where projects like this have a center of gravity? (eg. conferences, Discord, Matrix, ...) for people interested in getting involved in the community?
There's a huge barrier to entry if you start from scratch. You can fork an existing browser of course, but what would you change if you could so?

It seems difficult for a browser to differentiate itself these days, as the existing ones have had the time to build out fairly complete feature sets, and they can just copy each other if there is some big new idea.
Should something like this come to pass I would expect quite an amusing arms race. One could create add-ons that use code similar to txtmode [1] not my project to encode anything into words from a word list that anyone could create. Encoded in those words could be a compressed and/or encrypted string. There are probably even more clever and efficient ways to do E2EE without it looking like encryption at all.

Would it be worthwhile to have a competition to create something along this line? Something in the same spirit as the js13kGames [2] but in this case who can create the most human looking and most efficient communication that is actually E2EE encrypted messages using customizable word-lists?

[1] - https://github.com/c9fe/txtmode.git

[2] - https://js13kgames.com/
That looks nice, I also worked on something similar but CLI based.
It's having both TUI as well as CLI modes.

https://github.com/abhimanyu003/sttr

Since it's written in GO, you can run it pretty much anywhere you like :) ( cross platform )

Yes, it support file inputs as well.
Not sure why you're getting flack it's a great question and you can learn a lot about your candidate as you work through it.
Some people really like teaching and are very good at it.
If you know you have covid, what exactly do you do differently than with a cold or flu?
On the other hand, you also have to constantly arrange your next gig, take care of your own insurance, do your complex taxes... in the US it seems very scary, like jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Great, as long as you make the jump every time.
Can't wait for the SC2 servers to run on a single slow VM in the MS cloud...
"America" is not the jurisdiction, it's the 435 districts and the 50 states. It's the will of each of those constituencies that decide who is sent to congress, rather than a straight popular vote.

National issues do not impact the nation equally, and the US's legislative body represents that fact.

Deciding how we, as a group of people, live together is much more complex than, "Let's just vote on each thing!" A system like that is rife with all kinds of "wolves vote to eat the sheep" problems, to a degree much worse than any system we might have right now in the US.
I agree with your comment about representatives catering to special interests, bribes, etc. Their constituents aren't usually first or second in priority. Public corruption is a serious problem.

But as for the Senate and Presidency being decided by mechanisms that aren't directly tied to population—that's by design. The United States is comprised of 50 States that jointly gave up some of their sovereignty to become a republic. They're more than just administrative districts of a national government. Aforementioned issues aside, the House of Representatives is supposed to represent the will of the _people_ while the Senate is supposed to represent the will of the _States_. The Senate is the States' representation at the Federal level. (Indeed, before the 17th Amendment US Senators were elected by State legislatures, not popular vote. Part of the motivation for the 17th Amendment was—wait for it—corruption in the state legislatures!)

It may be that moving to more population-based representation scheme would alleviate some issues. It also brings a downside: less populated states would get steamrolled by the more populated ones. (This was the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention.) The 10th Amendment explicitly states that any power not expressly granted to the Federal government by the Constitution is retained by the States (States' rights/sovereignty), so basing Senate representation on population rather than giving each State equal representation would disenfranchise some States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Plan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

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One thing I haven't seen data on is whether Omicron's milder symptoms also means that a higher percentage of infections are asymptomatic (and undetected).
Seconded, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sjqTHE0zok.
A couple of alternatives that don't require you to log-in.

- https://memento-mori-calendar.vercel.app/
- https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/
- https://www.ekn.io/calendar/
More Than Two-Thirds of Adverse Covid-19 Vaccine Events Due to Placebo Effect
Any tips for me? I live in Northern California in a house that (1) has an empty space below it, (2) single-pane windows, (3) an inefficient fireplace with no steel stove, (4) a big, cavernous room with high, un-insulated ceilings on one half of the house.

Obviously we could spend a zillion dollars to insulate everything and fix all of the problems I identified above (and probably more), but what is critical?

One thing we started with is putting a thermal curtain between the big, drafty room and the rest of the house so that the thermometer doesn't get triggered by the big room sucking the hot air out of the rest of the house.
There's no approved vaccine yet for the daycare-aged population being discussed.
but being able to ignore food and predators enabled some folks to develop quantum field theory which is not now seen as divorced from reality?
The study I linked indicates that people who don't believe in free will act as if they don't, granted, they weren't warned of the dangers of believing they don't so there might be more to explore.

But the question seems to me more about pragmatism vs realism than pragmatism vs. realism with 'some beliefs-as-if'. I find realism unsatisfying philosophically because we can see historical beliefs being so off the mark that we'd have to live in a pretty special time to have anything close to a realistic model of the universe, I think making good predictions is simply the best tool that we have. If that comes at the cost of having a single internally-consistent model of the universe, that's unfortunate, but at least I'm not attached to the wrong one. So if my belief in free will and my belief in Newtonian Mechanics are incompatible, that's not such a big deal to me as a pragmatist. In fact it's a useful feature of the metaphysics, since the places they come into conflict give an idea of where they're incomplete.
It’s not about taxes it’s about power and control.
Why do you think it's a good question?
sounds like AWS funding everything else Amazon does that isn't profitable, this isn't a new strategy
Never allow password-based login for SSH.
Even if somebody does have to go to work while sick with covid for whatever reason, they can avoid other nonessential contact with people based on their test result.

I do agree there's a lot of hypocrisy and ass-covering going on. Even earlier in the pandemic healthcare workers were discouraged from getting tested so they wouldn't need to stay home from work. I think making tests available prevents at least some unnecessary transmission which is good enough for me.
I find 100 GB mdiscs somewhat cheaper per GB than the 25 ones.
Photos sync automatically from camera to Dropbox Camera Uploads folder. I move them every now and then into a Dropbox/Photos folder (not syncd to local machine as it's too big) after organising them into month folders. These same organised folders are copied onto an external drive from local Dropbox Camera Uploads folder. This external drive is then Rsync'd to a backup drive that I keep in a safe.

I still have Dropbox as a backup this way so it's a cloud backup of sorts.

Not foolproof but it's super simple and good enough for me.
Why 'memory leaks'? Presumably, destructors will be automatically called one way or another.

In the simplest case, you can just store all strings on the stack.
There is a scene for live coding music. I've always like this example using SuperCollider and Common Lisp:

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

But against a synthesist with a nice hardware synth or computer synths, there's no way coding can compete with the speed and dynamic interaction of the interface. I think this is a nice example that shows just how fast crafting a simple tune can be with a dedicated interface such as the Elektron Analog Four:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0WuPltadM

Then there's things like AudioMulch that really blur the lines between coding, synthesis, and something else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K_RTS73jSY

A lot of music and synthesis is about experimentation and just playing, and that's something that text-based code doesn't quite capture well.
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Weird goalposts shifting.

My former company makes B2B software that's entire purpose is to process business data and our codebase started in 1999 and plenty of original code is still in there. Entire modules have barely been updated, those modules are working and the business needs haven't changed.

Speaking of old business software, PeopleSoft is ubiquitous at big companies and has been around forever. Their codebase probably has code two decades old. The frontend looks like it hasn't been updated in the last decade.
> if under new management Blizzard pulls a 180 and goes back to make good games with the old IPs, fans will come back in droves.

With who? Most names known for the titles of good old Blizzard are long gone. Possibly even retired.
Give people more credit, they will play what they're offered, it's not their fault they're offered crap.
Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities
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Changing jobs is a chance to:
* Gain experience with new technology stacks

* Gain experience in new domains (e.g. go from web dev to backend distributed systems)

* Gain experience in a new role (tech lead, manager, etc.)

* Make more money

* Work at a place with more scale

* Work at a place that's more prestigious (FAANG or startup)

* Build more professional contacts

* Apply experience you already have for big impact

Any young engineer should seriously consider changing jobs every 2 years or so.
It's cheap. And to get a test or four into the hands of (almost) anyone who wants one without red tape seems like a pretty good strategy at the moment even if it's probably not as useful as some people think.
Oh yeah, totally, before it was relying heavily on a population of bored retired teachers wanting to pick up a little money to go drop at the boats or whatever, licensed teachers who hadn't yet landed a full time role and wanted time in a classroom plus some networking for their job search, and a handful of others that can go in some kind of "miscellaneous" bucket. The trouble is there are only so many of those, and most who were interested were already doing it.

[EDIT] this is actually yet another case where a universal healthcare system would help. $120/day and an uncertain schedule is a lot more appealing when your healthcare's covered. Not saying it's great, but that would help a lot.
Having worked at Intel before, I can safely say that it's difficult to boil down Intel's problems to a single issue (e.g. chip manufacturing). Stagnant company culture, limited growth opportunities within the company, and a fanatical focus on selling CPUs instead of innovating are all problems that Intel currently faces.
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Halliburton / Baker Hughes merger was preemptively cancelled due to regulation