skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I was curious, it looks like FAO Schwarz currently has a flagship store in NYC again, since November 2018, after some troubles and owner bankruptcies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO_Schwarz

I still remember visiting one of the Fifth Avenue ones as a kid. Because yes, apparently you can build something as big as a department store, but all toys. :)
Per my other comment, my fault for not double checking. But it's still illegal to sell refills.
First you claimed it was bogus and now you say the area needed is staggering. I wonder what's comes next.
That's why you have at least one techie in your booth crew. Which has been my role on more than one occasion.

FWIW I worked the booth on a CAD/CAM show in Utrecht one memorable week in the 80's and the number of master mechanics that tried to get the toolbit to run into the chuck was rather larger than expected. Good that I took care of that in the software. But this mentality, of putting stuff through its paces and to show off what you can do with it is exactly why you have trade shows in the first place, to interact with people and to let people interact with your gear to see what they are up to and to strike up conversations. Not all of these pay off.

But sometimes the kid in the greasy jeans and the t-shirt is the guy that will land you the big contract, as opposed to the guy in the suit who passes by your booth just for the swag.
>One way of subtly enforcing cultural norms is a [...] a kind of playful teasing. This has also been observed in other indigenous circumpolar peoples, such as the Inuit, but not in mainstream Scandinavian cultures [...] ensure they never say something really hurtful, or bully the child

Yes, I think there's a benefit here but it's more important as an inoculation against bullying. It's the verbal equivalent of playing rough and tumble games on the lawn with Dad. Humans don't fight with each other physically nearly so much as they fight verbally.

That said I'm sceptical one can learn much about parenting from other cultures. Being a father or a mother is hard enough without trying to emulate other lineages and contexts. What we're trying to do, I think, is to include the best bits from our own childhoods, those things which brought value and hope and joy, and to de-emphasize the bad bits, or the seeming bad bits. A lot of the knowledge is tacit, which is why it's important to honour our own parents, otherwise it simply doesn't get transmitted.
If you design for cars you will never get that: instead, you will get malls instead of city blocks. Or malls with an apartment block on the same lot but the residents still can't walk anywhere except to that one mall.
We'll need to do Wordle-SEO in 2022 ;)

But I hope the game is increasing people's literacy...
They should make a version for SAT words.
... because it's a good idea?

If a person with Tourette's said profanities to you during your Zoom meeting, would you hold them equally responsible as a person not having it? No, because it's a symptom and you assume it is out of their control and they didn't have a malicious intent. If both persons said "sorry it wasn't in my control", you'd think

1) the person A didn't do bad, because they have a tic and they definitely don't have negative feelings towards me

2) the person B has an anger management issues and may or may not have negative feelings towards me, maybe he's bad

We assume intent is malicious when a person has the capability to stop themselves from doing something negative towards us and yet they "chose" not to.

A CPU that doesn't work when power is off could be a good CPU, but a CPU that doesn't work when power is on is a faulty CPU.
Ivermectin is also apparently a potent protease inhibitor. Inhibition of protease sabotages viral replication. Does that change the picture for you?
Because I actually read - and understood - the OPs comment.
"Oh God, it's from Waldo..."
On railroads, it seems batteries may well be practical, making news over here as they are expected to be operating in about 12 months hauling iron ore: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/fmg-purcha...

As a diesel replacement, I expect that price will be the blocker. If they can get the cost down to battery levels, great. Otherwise I think long-haul electric trucking will be practical enough where charging networks are practical enough, which is where most of the people are. Dog-sleds and camels may remain the best green alternative for some areas though :)
I'd be curious to hear how many candidates for tech companies get disqualified due to failing security clearance.
I really want to use the virtual camera in FaceTime. But it's near-impossible to get it to work.
Germany doesn't have case law unless you get to a constitutional court, and even then it only mandates that the parliament fix it within a generous time frame (and they might ignore half of the things said in the ruling, as with the change to 45b PStG).
> a lot of people I know who switched to Chrome did so because of crash-resistance, performance, and the ability to run relatively large numbers of tabs.

Firefox was stable with a lot more tabs open than Chrome, because it didn't have a thread per tab. Chasing Chrome brought down the number of tabs you could comfortably have open in Firefox.
> But in this particular case it is about something that is very much the sort of thing that your average hacker would do given the opportunity. Hacker used in the 'old school' sense of: technically inclined person who likes to tinker with stuff and use it in ways unforeseen by the original creators.

Sure. i don't disagree. I think that's rather orthogonal though.

I'm objecting to the notion that we should avoid lines of debate, not because they are wrong, but because they are "chilling". Uncomfortable truths usually are (without neccesarily claiming that this is one).
So many mysteries out there. I can't wait until Webb starts beaming back data and is fully operational.

I can only imagine what we'll learn from it.
You're not alone, mate.
There wasnt much before Python either, I know some people who think OS/2 was better for multi tasking than windows, but the popular market didnt seem to think so.

> (for one, there's several different implementations of "concurrent" programming in Python with various impedance mismatches and incompatibilities). I.e., it's complicated.

Is this because Python doesnt offer any Co-operative threading model and just exposes programmers to preemptive threading and all the different synchronisation facilities an OS provides?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/synchron...

I dont have a problem with any of the synch objects because they also have strengths and weakness which are relevant to what ever the code is doing.
Speed of synch objects is one factor, but there are others, like handling of shared data between two or more apps.

So are you saying F# removes the ability to choose synch objects?

Half the problem I find is just keeping up with different terminology used in various parts of the world.
There are parts in their description that point to unnecessary cruelty/meaniness.

> When the display did not change, the sales guy yelled at me; "WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?"

At this point OP could have explained what they did, and explain why what the salesperson tried didn't work, and what should be done to fix it. They did not, instead they:

> So after watching him panic for a moment

Watched him panic, then showed that they could fix it (probably ego tripping), and then to rub it in even further, put it back on and walked away. Depending on the experience or seniority of the sales person this might have caused the sales person problems, a lot of stress, ruined a presentation, and real-life consequences, all of which OP disregarded.

There are pranks, and then there are pranks. This was unnecessarily cruel.
> until Linux and the BSDs came about.

I assume you mean BSD/386 and successors? BSD itself was first released about eight years before AIX. AIX even has bits of 4.3BSD in it.
Every animal has some sense of taste and smell. It's the first brain nerve in vertebrates.
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If you're on Firefox, you can also just turn on Reader view (F9) after it loads and hit refresh.
>but that lofty height of code described is an extreme rarity.

I would say lofty height only possible in following conditions:

A model of reality / problem domain that the company has created themselves that does not have to integrate with any other company, or have to follow any laws or regulations.

For example let us suppose you create a company for users to send messages to each other using your app. You can totally control everything in your environment - just your app, your definition of users, you definition of messages. But once you need to connect your app to other apps doing similar things but differently than your model you are going to hit edge cases, and if you have to think about making your app work on multiple environments and there are problems as there generally are you will start to be less lofty, and then after you have been going a while you try to enter a market with regulations, or regulation is handed down affecting your app.

Things are getting less lofty quickly at that point.

on edit: grammar
According to John Michael Godier there is some new data available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSCN09SSRck
There are many religious physicists. I won't get into the argument about whether atheism is a sort of religion.

But even if fervent atheist physicists are trying to remove the God Problem, how does that mean they are selecting physical theories to make life meaningful?
I think this is the kind of thing you learn at uni and then potentially unlearn later on. Over the years I became better at using code to explore problem spaces and as a design tool. Nowadays I feel that incremental design delivers better results in less time than upfront design.
This.

I certainly know a fair number of women (admittedly, the grandparent commenter would probably not call them "young") who regularly shop as a recreation and social activity. Mostly with other women from their family and circle of friends. They often shop for half a day or more, without buying anything. Usually not at "The Mall" - instead they're walking a denser shopping district, or driving around to strip malls, estate sales, antique shows, etc. Probably not grocery shopping together, but they may do the Farmer's Market.

I figure that it's the women's version of a few older guys going out and playing golf for hours. Humans spent quite a time as hunger-gatherers, and still enjoy exercising their old software.
There are a lot of other providers in this space, Yubico are the best known and probably one of the more competent offerings, but this is not a situation where the government is picking a winner by picking a standard.

A bunch of situations aren't going to end up with a separate physical authenticator anyway, they'll do WebAuthn, which in principle could be a Yubico Security Key or any of a dozen competitor products - but actually it's the contractor's iPhone, which can do the exact same trick. Or maybe it's a Pixel, or whatever the high-end Samsung phone is today.

That's what standardisation gets us. If CoolPhone Co. build a phone that actually uses a retina scan to unlock, they can do WebAuthn and deliver that security to your systems without you even touching your software. And yes, in the Hollywood movie version the tricky part is the synthetic eyeball so as to trick the retina scanner, but in the real world the problem is after you steal the ambassador's CoolPhone she can't play Wordle and she reports the problem to IT before you can conduct your break-in, synthetic eyeball or not.
> breaking these into separate commits because of some "also" rule of thumb is just blindly following a rule for the sake of it

Agreed, cargo-culting is always bad!

But, without knowing how OBS development team works, sometimes it does make sense to split commits like this, mainly if you have a larger repository where different people are responsible for different areas in the codebase.

For example, build-scripts sometimes gets managed by other people than the ones writing some core algorithms, who are also different from the people writing public APIs to be consumed by users. In those cases, it makes reviews a lot easier when you can split out to review different commits to different people, instead of having everyone navigate the same commit.

But again, not familiar with the internals nor the development cycle that OBS keeps, so maybe this doesn't make sense in this case.
Contributing to a new open source project requires Senior Vice President approval at Apple.
The issue is really that left and right as politial stances are not based on a stable framework, and everyone can place every political system into either category if they really want to (as often happens when people claim the nazis were left wing because they used the word "socialism").

What's actually important is that none of the above fit well within contemporary US-centric understandings of "left" and "right". I say US-centric because some people center-left in the US would be considered center-right where I live - this is how fragile this dicotomy is.
I’ve no experience with anonymous reviews, but have had experience with two approaches that help with the minor comments. One is an agreed upon method of identifying potentially minor comments. We call them ‘nits’, with the understanding that they can be dismissed by the code submitter without any changes. The second is the opposite of anonymous reviews where we meet up and have a ‘live’ review. This makes going over any such bits pretty quick and painless, as it avoids the back and forth that text comments sometimes result in. It has the added benefit of being able to discuss the ‘why’ of things more easily, which is especially useful if the reviewer is less familiar with the code involved.
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I honestly don't understand what you're saying.

>>Sorry to lose the war yes war to communists and totalitarians

Like, what does that even mean?
Just to make sure I'm understanding, you want to run docker containers on demand (and programmatically), but you want to run them on a single machine, so Kubernetes feels like overkill, right?

Your best bet might just be invoking the docker command-line tool directly from your code.
I agree with all of your points except the last - I’m guessing you dont read “RWM”?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mit-professor-gang-chen-says-mi...
These generally aren't full time positions and the meetings happen in the evenings. It's possible to have a job and hold office.
I heard the Rockefeller Plaza store is considerably smaller than the previous store across from the Plaza Hotel next to Apple.
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> My understanding is that Apple's policy is highly unusual in that "individual contribution as you doing something on your own time and equipment" are pretty much not allowed at all.

I am not sure exactly but I suspect this is employee-specific and may be only for those working on sensitive projects.

I worked at Apple years ago and it was never in my contract or mentioned to me. And there are plenty of more recent developers e.g. Holden Karau who were contributing to open source projects in their spare time whilst working at Apple.
It's a problem whether you were aware of it or not.

>Do people else where constantly open their doors into traffic?

If by traffic you mean cars, then they have a much more obvious noise and appearance in mirrors. Bikes are easier to miss.
This unexpected delay might be one of the reasons why economists came up with the Modern Monetary Theory MMT.
hey, glad i was able to help.
Management will also hate using Citrix.
That doesn't mean that advertisers aren't allowed to try to create a family friendly appearance? They're still a private entity they can do what they want even if it makes no sense to others
Http://12ft.io
Scott Alexander did some analysis of metastudy of various ivermectin studies, and came to the same conclusion.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
Likewise, nails are important when building a house, but you do not learn how to build a house by studying nails.
if they did that then only the most popular platforms would ever be support, happen to use a niche product, or a older product, well your SOL.
Looks like you commented on the wrong post.
Including the part where he never says if the power cycle fixed it?
One of the side effects of more restrictive gun laws is that in countries with such laws, terrorists reach for slower moving, but much larger caliber and just as deadly, projectile weaponry to commit their mayhem (i.e., motor vehicles).
1) The spec says that a block package includes its source code, and the block hub seems to be a browser of block packages, but it doesn't give me the full view into said block packages. Is there a reason for this? Is it on the to-do list?

It's on the to-list indeed - we are going to add links to the source of blocks. The package for distribution will typically be minified and less illuminating, although we can look to expose that too (as well as making it available for request via the API when actually loading a block).

2) What's going on with the type signatures here?

The type signatures on functions in the spec definitely need cleaning up to be consistent and more helpful. They are pseudo-code. There are TypeScript types for them (https://github.com/blockprotocol/blockprotocol/blob/main/pac...) which won't be much use to you, but I am including in case they are of someone else.

The schema you mention in the Hub is autogenerated from the TypeScript interface for the block, which can lead to weird artefacts of the sort you identify. We need to add custom codegen to better handle this. It should valid JSON Schema.
Its a bit like the ACPO speeding enforcement guidelines
https://www.npcc.police.uk/2018%20FOI/Operations/030%2018%20...
https://library.college.police.uk/docs/appref/ACPO-Speed-Enf...

Magistrates will take the above as Law, its one of those grey areas of law, so selective application of the law exists, and thats before you even get into a debate of whether you have a say in the laws that you are born under if you havent moved abroad.
From the same blog:

Hidroxicloroquina para profilaxia da COVID-19 atinge o mais alto nível de evidência científica

COVID-19: um dia glorioso para a ciência brasileira. Dr Cadegiani encontra a cura pra pacientes graves. 92% de redução nas mortes

Too clickbaity to be considered.
Can webb even point at tabby's? Ive never seen a strait answer on this, but i think webb's sunshield arrangement limits it to objects away from the ecliptic, which is fine if you are looking at stuff outside our galaxy.
I like this interview with Brian from the corecursive podcast. He explains how it was like for him working at Bells Labs https://corecursive.com/brian-kernighan-unix-bell-labs1/
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In the sense of school boards removing books from curricula, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a recent example. [1]

In the sense of removing books from bookstores, Amazon did ban a broad category of books. [2]

In the sense of literally burning books, I'm don't know of any recent instances in the US by either side. But I know of one example in Canada. [3]

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/schools-drop-kill-mockingbird-requi...

[2]: WSJ: "Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses" https://archive.fo/v5rWn

[3]: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario...
Zoning (and cars). Most developed areas have some version of single use zoning. Changing that takes time and money (lawyers, political campaign contributions, etc).

This in turn means only large developers can afford to redevelop. And it’s only worth their time if they can do a massive project. So instead of human scale stuff, we get massive multi-block size buildings.

Like this block in Reston VA[1]. The lots surrounding it are all a
slated for similar buildings - the existing mid-rise are mostly mid-80s through mid-90s builds.

The new building is bad because it’s unnavigable. As you approach, it’s just a giant blob. There’s a CVS pharmacy in there, but try to find it - it’s not easy. Parking is a mess. And heaven help if you need to walk to the building. Oh, no bike racks either, aside from a subscription bike room for subway users (nothing on the main retail levels).

1- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Re...
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The Garden Bridge project in London. £53m spent, nothing ever happened... Just a big vanity project led by the former mayor of London.
In the us ivermectin is not cheap to take as a prophylactic.

https://m.goodrx.com/ivermectin

The vaccine is much, much cheaper.
This is a much better take than what is being broadcast by the MSM. Ivermectin is not a dangerous drug in the dosages recommended.

By the MSM declaring Ivermectin to be dangerous, it makes their statements about the inefficiency seem suspect.
My younger brother lost virtually all of his hearing (and nearly his life; the attending neurologist later said that my brother was his sickest patient who lived) after contracting bacterial meningitis when he was 2 years old. This was in the mid-90s and I was in middle school at the time.

He received a cochlear implant and extensive speech therapy throughout his early education, but since he had only just begun speaking when he lost his hearing it was an arduous struggle for him. He clearly was more comfortable among the deaf, and ultimately attended high school and college for deaf/blind students rather than integrating into normal schools. His wife is (congenitally) deaf, as are most of his friends, and he hasn’t turned on his cochlear implant in years.

One of his friends is also a childhood cochlear implant recipient, and he has reached the point where you almost can’t tell that he has a hearing problem. I’ve had some interesting conversations with him about the cultural divide, since he is able to bridge it, and in the process gained a greater appreciation for the challenges my brother has faced. At the very least, I can understand why he would choose to turn off his implant despite all the time and money spent to support it in the past.

edit: as an interesting coda, my brother and his wife just welcomed their first child, and she has normal hearing. This has prompted him to look into options for turning his implant back on and restarting speech therapy.
Or it's too small for them to care to do anything at all.
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Well 2020 isn't really that long ago, is it?

When huge amounts of money were pumped into stabilizing the financial sector after 2008, that's when some people already warned about it inevitably causing inflation if not short-term then surely in the long-term.
> If you’re hacking away on your own then you can do what you want

I have a different point of view. I am the person that most often maintains the code that I write. It’s really important that I be able to understand it. Not just at a “tactical” level (This function does this), but at a strategic level (The architecture is designed as a functional abstraction of the model).

My code tends to be quite well-structured, highly documented, and a bitch to understand. I will often employ fairly byzantine architectures, pursuant to testability, usability, and localizability.

Works well, though, and ages nicely. I’ve written APIs that have lasted for 25 years.
Though you could probably pass for Prime Minister ...
As others have mentioned many times here.

This commit is based off a branch that was adding support for Apple Silicon.

So the entire PR is not going to look clean until that branch is merged first.
So it was not a harmless prank, but a harsh education to tech illiterate people then?
Wow you really have a bee in your bonnet don't you. Somebody got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.
Never give politicians the benefit of doubts PERIOD.