skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from the half-broken, arcane user interfaces of the programming world, GUI interfaces like the one Word has are a piece of cake. Even if you haven't used these programs for years -- and have largely missed their repeated UI overhauls -- the interfaces are so discoverable that you can learn the latest iteration of these programs without reading a book or looking anything up.

I sometimes suspect that there's a large subset of programmers who are irrationally snobby and elitist towards discoverable UX.
You have a point with Photoshop. Indeed, in some cases, a software application is so saturated with features that no new features are significantly interesting to the users, or the vendor can't figure out how to keep adding value. Microsoft Word is another good example. Demanding recurrent subscription for such software doesn't look fair and the vendor may abuse its market power and dominance. Although, I don't think there is any good solution for this issue except competition.
I remember someone at the beginning of this saying (although I forget the exact number they used) if we could shorten the duration of the pandemic by one day by spending $1 billion, that was worth it.

When this is all over and we can look at things with the advantage of hindsight, it might be interesting to see what the “worth it” number really was.
17 out of the 56 plants are in shutdown right now. https://jpt.spe.org/france-turns-to-coal-as-nuclear-plant-sh...
> They seem better described as problems in computational linguistics.

A linguist can deduce that, because that is written on the sample-problems document.
It would be interesting to create complex mathematical computations and finding a solution without the proper help of JS.
> Say you stopped using Photoshop years ago but suddenly need to export one of your old documents. You’re now forced to pay rent to Adobe for at least one month to access one of your own files. And Adobe won’t make it easy to unsubscribe again, which adds to the hassle.

Yes, if a software uses a proprietary file format and you lose access to that software, then you can't open the files anymore. That sounds pretty straightforward to me. Though in the case of Photoshop files it doesn't really apply, as a lot of other software accepts their file format.

> Perpetual fallback licenses[1] solve that issue without forcing users to keep paying rent.

That's basically what I meant with paid updates. I know the model, I use Jetbrains software. I don't think the model would work as universally as subscriptions. I expect most people wouldn't keep paying if the maintainers are only doing stability and bug fixing work, as long as these specific issues don't affect them, which in turn would raise the price of a single fallback license.
I'll consider writing a post to try to help you out! I don't have similar experiences so my potential help isn't with actual experience though. I will see!
There are lots of reasons why you might suffer a performance hit when working remotely. Sure, most are probably solveable with enough cash but there are plenty of things that are not:

* One of your prized developers lives by themself and suffers bad anxiety from being alone all the time instead of in the office

* Your 10 year old production systems are designed from the ground-up to be secure from inside a single network. Sure you could add VPNs but then you get a load of other issues

* There are people who will only focus when in the office, too many distractions at home and they are less productive. There is no objective way to measure productivity and also what drop would be acceptable so how do you fairly appraise people when you can't see how they interact?

* Juniors trying to learn on the job is 100x easier in-person.

* All manner of issues with onboarding, hardware, network problems, unannounced disappearances from people that you need to speak to (as opposed to them being in the office and they tell you they need to go to the doctors).

Not saying that I don't want to fix these since we need to use remote working to survive probably but you can't pretend these are just things that can be fixed.
You should assume any disturbance of your brains chemical equilibrium is bad long term. Those drugs included. Absent fixing a specific deficiency that is.

If a study comes back and says, with a high confidence, that isn't the case for this or that, great, but I think it's a safe assumption for most chemicals.

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm saying it's not enough to show something is bad, as pretty much everything is bad. It has to be bad enough to matter.
There are people who can't make the decision to get the injection or not - children, mentally impaired, unconscious etc.
I didn't find my job on SO, but it was definitely one of the best job boards around, at least the ones with international scope:

- mostly good companies putting their ads

- often salary transparency

- nice visually and on whole UX level

- integration with SO tags and profiles of existing workers

SO was a page that naturally felt to fit this kind of use case. I'm kinda sad.
hey @mrgblr, we're actually trying to solve this (https://dala.ai)

if you want to chat then feel free to drop me a line: haroun@dala.ai - would love to exchange notes/thoughts.
No, it's all cleared. You can't drive on the roads if the ice is still there in spring. You will sink 2 dm down and when that freezes over again, the road is only usable by tanks. All roads that needs it will be scraped of ice sooner or later.

I have been living in north Sweden all my life, in tiny villages with 100 people and cities with 100.000 people. They all do it. It might even be better done in small villages because they will use local companies that live there and does their hometown on contract every year.
Yep, and in the case of 1pw, I use Bitwarden instead.
Indeed, they didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

"Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken.[2] Funding [..] rose to $630 million per year in 1987,[1][4][5] described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency".

What happened next was a logical consequence.
I see no contradiction here. :) My weeks are possibly in a similar range as yours, now that I'm no longer avoiding it, I haven't used the site in months.

This lines up with my understanding that it's endemic, and at a high level of prevalence in the population (in my area of the US). This also lines up with my understanding that the majority carrying it are asymptomatic, and that among the symptomatic, only the unvaxed or immunocompromised get sick enough for it to be the primary cause of hospitalization. Hence, significant danger only exists for the unvaxed or immunocompromised.

The website is helping you think about the risk through approximating the probability of getting SARS-CoV-2. For me, I've accepted that P ~= 1.

What it's not telling you is the probability that when you contract SARS-CoV-2, you'll regret it, or even know that it happened.

The OP is in a completely different situation though. Vaccines aren't approved for a newborn (tho, there's promising indications that pregnant mothers who are vaccinated pass some benefits to the child!), and putting that aside, for OP, contracting even asymptomatic COVID could mean missing the birth, which I'm guessing has a cost approaching -infinity.
I'm not sure I agree with Geoff's concern on fragmentation of the IPv4 internet due to growth and lack of v6 migration. I absolutely agree the increased cost of maintaining ever more complex and larger scaled NATs is going to continue to drive IPv6 migration but that these are possible is exactly why fragmentation won't happen in my mind.

The cost of fragmentation (due to growth, not other factors like national politics) is far greater than the cost of running even multiple levels of NAT (e.g. CG-NAT) and, apart from already being done in many places today, this scales to nearly the same level as IPv6. Yes, IPv6 has 128 bit addresses but over half of this address space will be "wasted" for ease of use like /64s and/or ease of allocation like allocating enormous blocks that will be sparsely filled with /64s for decades to come. Meanwhile GC-NAT allows nearly 100% utilization of any public IPs via dynamic assignment. Suddenly adding nearly 32 bits (there will be inefficiencies so it won't be the theoretical 32) of address pool on top of the nearly 32 bits address pool isn't all that far from the "128" bits of IPv6. It is however god awful complicated, slower/more latent due to needing to go to NAT points, and needs more centralized care and feeding to keep running, but not really at risk of being to limiting to drive a fragmented internet in anyone's lifetime due to "running out of NAT" or such.

Hopefully however these pressures from the burden of NATs and the ability to do more than just client+server model on TCP/UDP like the article points out and continues driving IPv6 to the point NAT64 becomes cheaper/easier to run and use than dual stack with v4 NAT.

Obligatory off topic plug (sorry dang) about this tech hacker site still being v4 only.
The flow state music podcast on Spotify is perfect.

Anything without lyrics.
> How can you even have the concept of a society of people if the societal group claims ownership rights over the bodies of the people that supersede those of the people themselves?

Uh... how can you have the concept of a body of cells if the body claims ownership over the entirety of each one of it's cells?

Did you stub your toe? Well it's not actually, your toe, it's an independent living organism, and you need to respect it's God given right to run into hard objects every now and then.

Really though, I think if you explore the wide variety of human cultures that have existed over time, you'll find that historically speaking, the default level of organization has been the tribe, not the individual. Indeed, individualism as we know it is only possible in highly organized societies, with super-powerful governments that create a monetary system, common language, infrastructure, legal and judicial system to enforce contracts, and other things that enable one to live "independently" like Ebenezer Scrooge.

For a right-wing take on this, please see "The Rational Optimist" by Matt Ridley. If you prefer a more moderate view, I recommend "Better Angels of our Nature" by Steven Pinker. Finally, the book "Debt, the first 5000 years" by David Graeber touches on more than a few of these topics.

Granted, I may be misunderstanding your argument, so please clarify if this is the case. :)
Why don’t we do instead the starlink equivalent but at a lower altitude -> lower radius -> less satellite. We could easily put a “satellite” at each roof and be done. It’s just not as good PR as space.
Assuming that an early Unix clone would be written in C plus some amount of assembler. Then what constructs of modern Unix systems make it impossible to in write in the first ISO C standard plus some assembler?

For example, 4.4BSD, early Solaris have just about everything you would expect in a modern operating system. And give the age of those systems, they were written in early versions of the C standard.
I also haven't received one. Checked spam too. My server is a 61 EUR/mo, and is a Xeon E5-1650v3 with 256GB RAM. It was only provisioned a few weeks ago.
Not for the same reason as you, but to me 'best practice' means that you can't do any better. In this context, it's saying that if you do it any other way that this specific way, it's objectively worse.

I prefer 'good practices' or 'guidelines' but as far as something like Rubocop is concerned, I don't really agree that its default setup meets that standard. Without some careful tweaking of the configuration you're likely to end up with a codebase full of premature abstractions that exist for literally no other reason except to satisfy Rubocop.

There is a subset of Rubocop rules that does a much better job, in terms of identifying potential sources of bugs (e.g. calling non-TZ aware date objects) and replacing deprecated methods with their alternatives where possible. The tool is worth it for that, so long as you disable all the nonsense about method lengths, class lengths, number of methods in a class, etc.
ARKK etf is heavily invested, about 200M worth. Average cost $33
Orderly traffic flow (passing on the left, traveling on the right) at speed x is safer than disorderly traffic flow (weaving in and out to avoid the jerk going the limit in the left lane) at speed x-y.

> Speeders disrupt the normal flow though

When it's one guy going 100 and everyone else is 80, yes. No argument from me. But when everyone is going 80 and there's someone in the left going 65 because that's the limit, the people going 80 aren't the problem.
Learning Pixel Trajectories with Multiscale Contrastive Random Walks
<p>How <b>not</b> to code an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a> page by hand.</p>
Yeah, new hardware can be wildly more energy efficient than older systems.
I'm not convinced starlink is slightly bad for a great many people.

Should a child struggle to access online learning simply because their parents have chosen to live in a rural location? Should a family in a town struggle when several children need to attend classes online, because some inept bureaucrat agreed to a telco monopoly decades ago?

The fact starlink is an inconvenience to amateur stargazers doesn't seem very important in comparison.
By that logic, North Korea is a better vacation spot than Niue, since most people are at least likely to have heard of North Korea.
It has evolved though, in my country. Multiple times, and incoherently.
Standalone Platform for Standardized Commerce and Brand Visibility
During the Great Pandemic year of 2020 I started working on platform where I can view all my favourite brands and check out individuals who have products to sell or display. I have always wanted a place I could just scroll and see my local brands right there in my feed or my friends feed of items they like or they would love to sell.
PacoBoxx is a brand visibility platform which is tackling the hurdles faced by individuals and businesses who have so many websites, social media accounts and condenses them into one for easy visibility. Giving brands and individuals standalone stores that they manage on their own with a simple social media like interface where customers can like , luminate and add products and brands to their feed for easy purchase and visibility. It's the users that decide what is popular and what is not with zero tolerance for traditional ads.
Check it out at https://www.pacoboxx.com
Let me know what you think.
Sublime Text has been my choice for years. Most often I'm in an IDE or in VSCode, but when I need to inspect or edit a file quickly or find-and-replace across an entire directory I use Sublime. It's nice and snappy.
> but when market conditions dramatically change, everyone on a spot contract is pretty much fucked.

hedging is the solution. without it expect bankruptcies.
> Yeah, imagine the craziness of making materials like this accessible to users of the most widely used language.

One of the reasons it was originally written for scheme is that scheme has a small core, simple syntax and can very easily be learned while reading SICP.

More importantly, the type of user that would get put off by using/learning scheme, is probably not going to make it through SICP. Learning just enough scheme is arguably the easiest part of going through SICP.
> As I see it, Scots and Standard English are two dialects of the same language.

It doesn't matter how you personally see it. Linguists and other scholars are divided on the issue. It's recognized as a regional language by UNESCO and the Council of Europe as well as the UK and Scottish governments. There's also a spectrum from "Standard English spoken with a Scottish accent with some odd words thrown in" and broad Scots.

Danish and Norwegian (or at least Bokmål) are perhaps as close as Scots and English (I only have a passing familiarity with these so native speakers can confirm), but are considered distinct languages on as much political as linguistic grounds, which is my point - the distinction is as much political and historic as linguistic (i.e. there used to be a language only a few decades ago called "Serbo-Croatian").
Their revenues were also heavily tied to crypto
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jum...
> Similar to our work, both BYOL (Grill et al., 2020) and DINO (Caron et al., 2021) regress neural network representations of a momentum encoder, but our work differs in that it uses a masked prediction task and we regress multiple neural network layer representations instead of just the top layer which we find to be more effective. Moreover, we demonstrate that our approach works for multiple modalities.

From the related works section of the paper.
Same with me. I found my current fully remote job via SO jobs 5 years ago. Compared to everything else I've used, it was the board with the highest quality of employers and candidates. Having a profile with 40k reputation has also probably helped and has relieved me from putting countless abbreviated buzzwords in my CV.
Yes! A Sinus is TINY. Cockpit like a Miata.
> It's admiring how quickly they fix these

This is a weird comment, especially on this fix. The bug was reported back in 2018.
From the linked blog post:

We also want to thank Florian Weimer for reviewing the UNIX-like fix and for
reporting the same issue back in 2018, even though the Security Response WG
didn't realize the severity of the issue at the time.

See: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48504
I drink a lot of water and never eat until I want to come down. When I eat, I become mortal again. Really, if you can just avoid eating, it is a completely different high.

I definitely agree with doing it alone. I also use a fake cigarette "one hitter," as it is a minimal amount. It is always enough to work.

Also, yoga. Going to a Yoga class after a puff is just so healthy. Building health habits into drug use is a very good harmony of interests. Helps convince my wife that I'm not just getting stoned-- if I smoke, do work, work out, generate, etc—its hard to judge. (She also likes the sex—which Carl Sagan also talked about-- search for Mr x).

I believe Cannabis has a sort of state dependent memory. If you make an effort to fill cannabis experiences with lots of positive, productive, aesthetic events, it kind of "comes out" other times when you smoke. So, it takes practice! So, smoke before going to a museum, a concert or upon reaching the top of a mountain-- positive recreational use is another way to prepare for applied work-oriented use.

Never use it to escape. Use it to sensitize. And if you need it to solve your problems, that's a good sign that you might want to take a break.
> suggesting that the damaging effects of cannabis begin while it is being consumed and persist beyond that period

I'm so glad that the effects of cannabis persist beyond the period while I'm consuming it. If they stopped as soon as I stopped vaping, I'd have to find some other substance to abuse, that lasts at least an hour or so. Maybe something safer, like alcohol or smack perhaps. /s
A Note for Others Pulled from the Play Store
https://euobserver.com/opinion/152009

That's from 2021. the legality isn't in question, what was said was specifically about taxes.
For the infra side of things you have hashicorp terraform, which will manage state of your infra and can also manage the state of your workloads.

For the workload side of things you have hashicorp nomad. Which is basically a stripped down version of k8s.
Nice point. Made me think about people who have a choice to drive or walk. If the sidewalks aren't cleared they may choose to drive. This could lead to congestion for drivers. It could even be that people who can only drive benefit more when the sidewalks are cleared first.

Proving that ...
The critical part is knowing that haiku is ha-i-ku, not hai-ku.
That's a good way of putting it. I feel like there's some detail left out of this, but I can't find it.

Perhaps when you sacrifice someone, you are the murderer, the knife wielder, but with the trolley problem, the trolley is the murderer.
Array of bytes []byte being English, but byte array byte[] being not English.
I was using Notepad++ as my primary code editor for python some years ago. It was working good (still does) but missing one crucial feature: Fuzzy file find. It would be great if Notepad++ could somehow detect a .git file in the same or a parent directory of the file I was editing and allowed me to quickly open files from this project by searching their filenames. Similar functionality to the Ctrl+P keyword in VSCode or the ctrlp plugin in Vim. I don't know how difficult this is to implement but it will really improve the Notepad++ code editign expierience much more!
My Google Pay experience was one of reluctance. I eventually got around to using it and it worked decently, and then they updates something that required me to re-add my credit cards. It wasn't really worth the effort, since pulling a credit card out of my wallet isn't terribly difficult.
Genuine question: outside of the web browser, what's the advantages of WebAssembly over the JVM or a similar VM?
I believe this is not entirely Zoom's fault, I've heard a few horror stories with Wayland and screensharing over the last few years. Particularly when I once tried using OBS Studio and it just didn't work on Wayland. I also remember screenshare from things like Google Meet or Discord only being able to share other chromium tabs and not able to share the desktop or any specific applications.

This whole story sounds to me like some engineer at Zoom was tasked with fixing "linux" back in 2020 and after having several issues similar to what I described (possibly unable to capture other applications?) they decided that quickly screenshotting the screen was a good enough fix. Sadly linux still represents a minority of users so this issue was probably not prioritized as necessary.
I have dedicated systems at home and in the car. When I am out I do not play it.
Nice write-up, shame there's not a demo embedded (but understandable, bet that would be a hassle to work out on our blog too; too much for a one-off).

Also quite entertaining to click through to ScottLogic's home page after that, where the strapline for what they do is:

> Pragmatic solutions to complex software challenges
And it keeps unsaved files without having to save them and give them a name. That’s an underrated feature.
Obviously this package is not python specific, and what I'm about to say is only useful for languages who treat documentation the same way as python, but!

One thing I like about python is that the documentation for any function or class is actually part of the object (held in its __doc__ attribute), and the whole 'triple-quoted string above the function' convention is actually just syntactic sugar, which assigns that string to the object's __doc__ attribute.

The beauty of this is that you can completely externalise documentation into another package, if you really wanted to, and attach it to your objects separately!

This means you can keep documentation separate, keeping your code as free of comments as you like.

One nice thing about this, is that it allows you to maintain two 'categories' of documentation: the user-oriented documentation goes into the external file, whereas any 'developer-oriented' documentation which is explicitly for the maintainer's benefit while looking at the code, can appear directly in the source, and you can be sure that this will be safely removed from the user-oriented documentation later.
Os support, especially in the Apple world.
No it’s not. That’s a very distinct different thing and many parents (myself included) would be fine if socializing came from explicit after school activities.

School is nothing more than a government paid daycare for a significant portion of the people and it’s why there was such anger over school closures.