skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But two really significant issues are maintenance and repair - those are, unfortunately, very expensive problems to address!
> * When I see my flight plan, I understand why it's curved.

Just came off the plane yesterday. I remember the earth on the flight map was perfectly flat. The path was weirdly curved though...
I spent part of my childhood in Boardman. Rusty N Edie's BBS was a local number. I didn't know how good I had it until we moved to another state. I recall that "Fred Martin's BBS" was another fantastic local BBS in the Youngstown area.
The people who refuse (or elect out of) vaccinations I've spoken to don't agree on that 1 % number. Or they think the vaccinations cause greater damage, meaning abstention is still a net positive.

Framing it as them knowingly sacrificing the equivalent of $100 k for no good reason ("belief!") is dishonest to the complexity of the problem.
Thank you! This comment solidified for me that the increasing ratio of distances from origin to vertex/side together with the fact that the hypercube surface is still not curved in any way whatsoever is the major thing my spatial intuition (unsurprisingly) struggles with.
I've been using Kakoune as my daily driver for almost a year. The thing that made me fall in love was the simplicity, both in daily usage and in extensibility.

The biggest "oh wow" moment for me was how easy it was to create a color scheme. In Vim, creating your own color scheme is potentially a huge ordeal, with many edge cases. For example, vim-one's color scheme file is over 800 lines long.

By contrast, I created a fully functional Kakoune color scheme in only 84 lines, 60 lines if I remove extraneous spacing and comments. There is no conditional logic, no legacy support, just one set of standard "faces" that work everywhere. All languages use the same standard set of faces to do their syntax highlighting. The difference that makes is astounding.

This is but one example of Kakoune's orthogonality and simplicity of design. Coming from Vim, which is chock full of legacy code and an inconsistent mess of configuration, it's a breath of fresh air.
Not an American here, in principle i agree.

But in reality you can't hide the fact, that limiting freedom of speech is very much in the interest of those who want full control on what we can say.

A good example is the Muhammad cartoons, which reminds us that there is a very long way to go before religions can exist peacefully.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_car...
I (re-) developed a strong fascination for Physics last year after chancing upon Feynman's QED lectures. It was such mind-boggling stuff and I realized that that was just one level at which nature behaved in utterly magical ways (think - cosmological scales, the question of gravity, unified theory etc).

After trying to scour and even reading many books in this area, most that are either highly abstracted for the 'pop-sci' reader (like me, with no training in physics) or were all-out textbooks, I chanced upon Susskind's lectures and the Theoretical Minimum series. I started off right from the basics and IMHO, it has the right balance between introducing concepts and making sure you internalize them by having you actually work on problems (highly recommend that you don't skip these). I am nowhere near close to understanding any of this yet but it gave me at least an orientation for what to expect and how to prepare. Once I get a bit of time and the interest back again, I expect to go back to the other books in the series.
You guys are missing the point. The point is that people who are anti vax clearly have skin in the game by any measure. The point is not impacted by these little details, so don't go off in some flamewar here
> is this the result of Silicon Valley bro culture?

My guess would be "no" for the following reasons:

1. Neither Blizzard nor Activision nor Ubisoft are headquartered in Silicon Valley.

2. "Silicon Valley bro culture" itself seems to be a largely manufactured story.
Use Dive for inspecting the image https://github.com/wagoodman/dive&ved=2ahUKEwips5OH0Lr1AhW97...
Hmm, how would you replicate the alignment operation they show in the gif using vim? I couldn't immediately think of how to do it.

I guess you could select the block, then maybe s/\>\s\</\=repeat(' ', 20 - col('.'))/g?

That doesn't feel like the right solution though... maybe a macro, something like qa^wi<Tab><Esc>q then visual select and :norm@a? I dunno.
I find it extremely subjective. "delete word" is much better than "word delete" imo.

Also `dw` sounds more logical if you think about user input speed\pauses. If I press `w` I want to move to the next word immediately. In case were `wd` deletes a word - there should be some lag, no?
Isn't that what love is?
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What definition of "broism" are you using?
This would be an interesting article to flesh out.
I.e is there evidence that MySQL is more reliable in those ways?

I always prefer reliability over features even though I’m a product engineer so if he’s right it’d be good to know.
Either way, I’m stuck with the MySQL that the infrastructure engineers at work have provided us with.
This is how you "protect yourself" dating during COVID:

https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/6112479/covid-sex-positions-l...
You're probably overestimating the degree to which a hiring manager investigates a candidate, or even cares that a candidate was caught up in what appears to be a mostly political event (as far as we know from public information).

Do you keep track of the month and year of every corporate scandal, and compare it to the resume of all applicants? Or do you just say "oh, you worked at Blizzard huh, do you play WoW?"
That's his point; using your social circle as a litmus for believability is just going to exclude everyone who isn't like you.

It's a great way to arrive at discriminatory conclusions, and it's a great way to cause harm to people who aren't like you.
This is a great list, thanks for this. Many of these I use, but glad to see REST client, which I didn't know about. Have been looking for a replacement for Postman since they went off the "enterprise" deep end. I mean, I basically want a slightly better UI for curl, not 60 levels of "project management" features to make an HTTP call.
I’m a Mac girl :)
One of these at least is a native feature of vscode now (rainbow brackets) so I’d consider this post to be of low quality. If you ran even half of these last it’d really slow vscode down too.
I don't think it's about the computing, but about the entire shift in worldview required to accept that what you perceive to be true isn't necessarily so. This is much more of an emotional issue than a logical or analytical one. It also naturally trends towards Betrand Russell's, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

It's one thing to state you understand this and another altogether to live it. It's not pleasant. And I find many who even claim to have adopted this sort of worldview are instead just as cocksure of themselves, but instead of meeting other notions with rejection, they meet them with 'compassionate condescension.'
Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign [video]
Dev.to hackernoon hashnode are some other platforms where you can get tech related articles discovered.

But as everyone epse is saying, it is definitely worth the effort to own your own content. Even if you do not self host, set up WordPress or Ghost on their paid hosting and link your own domain.
Even NGOs were initially blown off - Negroponte initially said they'd only sell lots of no less than one million to governments directly. But when they didn't get any firm takers in the first couple of years of the project, they started loosening those requirements, which is how Paraguay Educa even got their foot in the door (with a project that initially only had 4000 laptops, later increased to around 10,000).

There was a rather badly-managed OLPC project in Birmingham, Alabama. I have a paper co-written with Mark Warschauer and Shelia Cotten on it - once my website is back up it'll be available here: https://morganya.org/research/Ames_OLPC_Birmingham.pdf
Honestly, your criticism sounds like it could be extended to non-profit/volunteer work in general; not just OLPC.

Without the "meet customer demands or starve" dynamic that places pressure on for-profit organisations, a whole lot of critical but unsexy work just doesn't get done.
Just make sure you understand that the IP will be publicly listed even if you run a relay and most likely banned by some organizations. Wasn’t a big deal in 2012, today I would be hesitant to run this at home.
Chrome reportedly uses wkhtmltopdf to print to pdf. A comment on StackOverflow also said the Chrome team would like to deprecrate command-line/headless print to pdf it they could. I agree they should not simply make Chrome a shell over direct use of wkhtmltopdf -- which itself is easily available. Wkhtmltopdf provides and documents plenty of command-line options.

I don't know what Safari is using underneath.
Not for most things - spotify is, for me, simply much more useful than a stack of CDs.

What I do miss, is having the ability to store related material on a physical (SD card/usb or even a floppy disk). Maybe it is because I am old enough that floppy disks were useful, but I fell like there is something to putting in your school floppy, so that you are/were forced to work on one thing at a time.

Or maybe I am just old and have bad memories.
Minor tangentially related quibble: copyright law and trademark law are entirely separate. The rules by which they work are different.
Dendron[1] note taking extension for VS Code has Mermaid support builtin to its markdown renderer as well.

That's how I recently found that Mermaid can't handle graphs with no flow https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/issues/1227

[1] https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/ba97866b-889f-4ac6-86e7-bb2d97...
When someone says I'm essentially a murderer because I don't believe what they believe, I get a bit annoyed.

When someone says I believe in something I don't believe in, and gets condescending about it, I get somewhat annoyed, but I mostly want to know what's going on in their head. I think I have some of it figured out, but you just accuse me of dishonest debating tactics. Why do you think I'm so wrong? Why do you think the people who think I'm a monster necessarily have a point?
I for one welcome (GPTγ GPTγ) :-)
This is also a good resource: https://www.goodtheorist.science/
Right, but if there’s an applicant from Activision in the next month or so that didn’t leave voluntarily, then it might warrant further inquiry.

Presumably some of these folks will need to try to find work ASAP.

But months or years down the road chances are slim it’ll stick out.
If you want a Postman replacement, I recommend Insomnia. There's a free app! And it can import Postman collections, so you aren't totally starting from scratch.

https://insomnia.rest/
"static" in java DI can refer to setting global variables with singleton instances. E.g. java logging libraries usually do this so that you don't have to DI everywhere you want to log. In Go, some packages do this like flag and log. In Rails, this is so common that it replaces DI entirely, but I usually didn't feel like rails suffered from it.

I think what you are referring to is just manually doing DI. I.e. you defined constructors that accept dependencies and then call them all in a main function. I think this is tolerable if your codebase is structured for it. In typical java codebases, it gets ugly really fast. IMO this is caused by a general proliferation in the number of classes (due to class-per-file among other reasons), as well as a tendency to never use "static" DI. As an extreme example, if you needed to inject a logging dependency, then almost all code would need to be part of the DI graph. In a typical web backend, you might DI the sql connection pool. This causes basically all code to need DI since it either uses sql or has a transitive dependency that uses sql. IMO injecting the connection pool is not useful since it's not useful to write tests where you inject anything other than a real sql connection.
For REST calls, I find Thunder Client way better.

I find that I can almost replace Postman completely with this.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.v...
I mean yeah, surviving religions have done that quite a lot. It's part of what drives schisms.
This is the general concept of math: to prove one set contains another set. In some cases you prove set equality by showing each side contains the other.

A simple example of this is: all even integers are divisible by two. That's two sets: the set of even numbers and the set of numbers divisible by two. For any x that is an even number, it is equal to 2k for some integer k. This implies that x/2 = 2k/2 = k. Since x/2 is an integer, it is divisible by 2 QED.

It is also possible to prove that if an integer is divisible by 2, it is even. That's a different proof.

The fact that you can solve problem A in terms of problem B doesn't always mean you can solve problem B in terms of problem A. Just because great minds think alike, doesn't mean people who think alike are great minds.

All problems reducing to other problems in the technical sense are built on such foundations.

The specific area you're thinking of is theoretical computer science.

You might like the textbook "Introduction to the theory of computation" by sipser. It starts by showing the mutual-problem-reducibility of regular languages (AKA the language of deteinistic finite automata / regular expressions) and moves step by step into Turing machines which support general purpose programming languages. And beyond (languages which can only be conputed by hypothetical machines which we don't know how to build in reality.)
The cost may be minimal, but the value of giving a bad reference is zero.
Not sure why "middle class" got slipped in there as a derisive comment, there's nothing wrong with being a member of the middle class, and certainly nothing intellectually deficient.

It may seem pedantic to call out, but I really don't want to live in a world where "middle class" gets thrown around as this synonym for "unexamined" or "incorrect".
Why would you be ineligible for rehire after a downsizing?
I'm currently in the UK, and at least here I've been told by legal that a negative reference can lead to massive issues in front of an Employment Tribunal, and that it's effectively not worth it when we can just decline to give any reference at all.

On the flip side, a reference has an implicit duty of skill and care to both the former employee and the person asking for the reference, so an overly-positive reference can also lead to legal liability from the person asking for the reference.

In some regulated industries the content and form of references is also regulated as well, for example see pages 11 and 31 of https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/SYSC/22.pdf

(None of this is legal advice)
The ACIP slide deck goes into this. The vaccines also have risks, which you are ignoring, in favor of fixating on "early long Covid", which is a documented risk of exceptionally low magnitude.
Brilliant idea. it will help a lot of small merchants who are in apparel business and can't afford expensive photoshoots.
I think you're being downvoted because the imprecision you speak of is a result of: consumer GPS receivers having a limited polling rate, limited precision, and only using one GPS frequency. You can't extrapolate the limitations of GPS on say a phone, to limitations on a commercial plane.

See the following from gps.gov: it can be accurate to within centimeters and with a high polling rate, but most consumer devices don't employ the necessary tricks.
https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/
If you end your sample at N=1, sure, it might seem like “spherical earthers” just happened to pick the right set of beliefs by chance. But if you also consider things like 5G microchips, and chemtrails, and the moon landing, somehow the “spherical earthers” consistently pick the right beliefs.

Sure, there’s no critical thinking for a lot of it, in the same way that I don’t think critically about all the physics and engineering before I step on an airplane. The entire point of living in a society is that you don’t have to do everything yourself — you can outsource a lot of that critical thinking to other people who (are paid to) care more than you. You can just go with the flow and actually have a pretty good track record for believing the right things.
They should also look at the Skytherm Roof which can both heat and cool a building passively. See

https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/harold-hay-skyt...
You have to interpret “regulate” charitably. I wasn’t advocating for any particular type of regulation, and not necessarily in reference to government intervention. Substitute with “tweak” if that’s less bothersome.
XML was originally meant to be a document markup format, an evolution of SGML. While the markup was consistent, the interpretation of it was to be left to the actual document format definition.

Unfortunately, there was another camp which was trying to change it to not just be an extensible document interchange format but a data interchange format. These have different requirements.

For example, someone asked when you put data in an element vs an attribute. There was a push to provide guidance at one point based on SVG - everything other than text data (such as coordinates making up graphics) were attributes, such that a non-SVG view of the document would just be all of the textual data appended.

Most of the tooling issues came from this disconnect between document and data oriented interchange, such as tooling having options to toggle between interpretations of pretty fundamental concepts such as namespaces.

It also became pretty common for technologies to come out of the document-oriented space (e.g. XPath and XSLT) which led to it being basically impossible to compose or decompose XML-based data without potentially changing its meaning - unless you were doing so with tools that understood the interpretation of the data itself.
yeah that was overly charitable, reality would be more like 0.00000001% of client devices. considering we now have several billion internet using cellphones and people globally.
What’s the big deal with multiline cursor over visual block mode?
> Infrastructure engineers generally care most about [...] never, ever, losing data.

Does MySQL still silently truncate varchar columns when the inserted text is too long?
Remembering Collarwali, India’s “super mum” tigress
My rewriting of History? What rewriting?
>For those who don't know it, in brief: Put a vertical pole in flat ground at noon and measure the length of the shadow. The next day, drive an hour or two directly north or south and do the same measurement at noon again. With a bit of trigonometry, you can estimate the earth's circumference - or for our purposes, at least prove to yourself that the earth is not flat, as the shadows will be different lengths with the sun in nearly the same position both times.

Sure, but a flat earther will just argue that the sun is much closer than scientists claim, which explains the difference in shadow length. And again, what's a layman to do?

The best experiment to prove the earth is round that I've thought up involves the Coriolis Effect and a rifle fired at different points both north and south of the equator. Unfortunately that requires international travel with firearms, making it legally difficult to try.
The Focus to Say No
Many companies I consult for in the US won’t provide a negative reference but instead answer all reference questions with: “I can confirm that they were employed here from MM/YY to MM/YY”. If you hear that it means it didn’t end well.

Otherwise, many managers are happy to give a positive reference.
There may be something to this; Slate Star Codex referred to it as cognitive developmental milestones. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/03/what-developmental-mil...
Look at the vast size of the US, and the multiple geographical barriers in the way of an 1860s type civil war. There is no modern equivalent of the Confederacy. Even tens of thousands of angry armed people would be either too geographically dispersed to cause too much trouble, or concentrated in a few places making them easy for the military to put down. Despite what you might see on the news the US is not on the verge of civil war.

Widespread civil unrest and violence, maybe, but unlikely that would turn into a continent-wide war or even last very long. Even during the last actual civil war commerce in the North went on more or less normally.

If you’re losing sleep over this find a local hosting service and stop worrying about AWS getting taken down by rebels.
That might all be true, but it’s all cherry picked out of context. Had we had broad vaccine immunity in the early days of the pandemic, the situation may have turned out differently. Over time, things change.
A cursor which has been immortalized on lauded Detroit producer Omar-S's 'The Best' album... this has been bugging me for some time - thanks!

https://omar-s.bandcamp.com/album/omar-s-the-best
It goes beyond a lack of scientific knowledge. To be a flat Earther, you also need to believe there is a vast conspiracy to cover up the fact that the Earth is flat. NASA and other countries' space agencies, astronauts, pilots, astrophysicists, geologists, meteorologists, and anyone whose job requires taking into consideration the spherical nature of the Earth (so: GPS systems engineers, flight guidance software programmers, ballistic weapons systems engineers and operators, and I'm sure many more). They're all in on it for... some reason? They somehow stand to gain from tricking the sheeple into believing the Earth is a globe? And none of these conspirators have defected and blown the whole thing wide open?

It's not like there is roughly equally compelling evidence on both sides and these people just lack the mental tools to determine what is right. People become flat Earthers for the same reasons I believe people fall for many conspiracy theories: it's nice to feel special because you see the truth everyone else is blind to, and it's exciting to think there is a big conspiracy happening for who knows what end.
I tried to use it enough to see if I could switch to it from (neo)vim. I liked a lot of the ideas in it, and in some ways I liked it more than vim, but it was missing some functionality that I just couldn't live without. Some things could be solved by plugins that just didn't exist yet, but others, I couldn't even see a way a plugin could be implemented. In particular, there isn't any way to get a diff mode comparable to vim's.

I also don't like that it always unconditionally writes a newline at the end of files. I understand the reasoning for it, but it makes it much more difficult to use as an editor for transformed binary files (gzip, hex editor, encrypted files, etc.) or avoid adding extra whitespace to git diffs when I modify files.
What is the nature of the sexual harassment? Everyday it seems the bar gets lower and lower.
XXHASH64 is bijective for 64-bit input strings.
> whether they'd be eligible to be re-hired

"Bob isn't eligible for rehire. Wait, I think the line cut out a bit there, I said Bob isn't eligible for rehire. Just wanted to make sure you got that: Bob is not eligible for rehire, no way, no how, nosirree."
Want to plug your second source admiralcloudberg as a brilliant blog that is worth reading if you're into airline crashes and system failures. He's very in depth and detailed in his writing

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/