skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, we get a lesson in the true cause of inflation. No, it is not supply chain issues, profiteers, speculators, wage-price spirals, energy prices, etc.

It's simply an excess of money created by the government, so the government can spend money without raising taxes.
Imagine saying something like:

> I get exhausted by people talking about integers, floats, and strings and arguing about the "types" of different things. From an implementation point of view, the difference between an integer, an float with or without a mantissa, or a string with numbers and decimal symbols is trivial. It has gotten to the point that...

Things have meanings, and in computer science and programming those meanings can mean a performace difference or a difference in results, so I think it is very important that we start to pay attention to the "naval gazing" aspects of these things and not use a GET with a body, since there is a QUERY, and other specs which might be kinda naval-gazey.

We are in a career that requires a pretty high level of strictness and we're always complaining about bugs in this or that software; then we argue that there is no meaning in certain things (only because in practice, people hadn't been strict about something like a GET request) which then leads to more bugs!
They're releasing an open source scripting language sometime this year called UnrealVerse to go along with UE5.
It's typically a good idea to know the folks you've given code access to.
As a techie, I hate touch screens replacing what should be tactile buttons/knobs/switches that can be used without taking my eyes off the road. I don't mind them for a nav system. But, in many cars, they've stripped the radio and A/C controls and put them behind menus in a touch screen which has a dozen other screens that I never use. I don't care about all that garbage. I need to be able to adjust the A/C and the radio without taking my eyes off the road. And I don't need a default-always-bright screen in the cabin messing up my night vision. I was glad to find that setting buried in a menu somewhere, but holy crap.
I did so too when I realized its actually worse, its about 19 min play for 30 min 'show' & about 43 for 60mins for most popular shows (you can verify with imdb or 'otherwise'). thats on top of what we pay them monthly.

the other hard rule I have is 'no news from narrated sources' so really no need to cable tv & have cut the cord for more than a decade now.
The annual flu shot indicates there is presumably a "same vaccine, slightly different strain" streamlined procedure that can be used. I'd expect the same to occur with COVID boosters over time.
I agree in that no straight people (that i know) consider PrEP, although according to a quick search the HIV prevalence rate is twenty times lower in my country compared to the US.

Obviously the human brain statistician goes out the window when comparing a lifelong illness with a few hours of discomfort, but would it be generally safe/worth it to put the entire population on PrEP during sexual activity? I heard that HIV patients have noticable side effects with their meds.
Why not both? I get nothing but ads on Google lately.

I often bypass to Wikipedia, because it shows me what something is, not only where I can buy it.
I am still completely mystified by why it's useful to be able to check your dishwasher salt or rinse aid on a phone.

When it's empty, you still have to actually fill it, so if the LED comes on just fill the tank at some point in the next 10 or so cycles and it'll do.

And when old bag or bottle is empty, buy salt on one of the next 10 or so supermarket trips. The dishwasher will not need more any time soon after a refill.

Maybe I'm missing a crucial piece of modern life, but it feels like yet more stats porn to go with all the metrics vomited into life by fitness trackers and apparently every piece of software.
YouTube is pretty good here. The algorithm does a pretty good job at providing results that aren't the equivalent of blog spam and it is immediately obvious when you are watching a low quality video.
> A glib response to a glib question: frankly, yes.

that's wild. My experience editing word documents is that you have to have a dozen backups to be sure not to loose something due to basic keyboard / mouse manipulation mistake. I wonder what is their secret.
So it's still a tax on poverty, by way of it being a tax on hope/aspiration.

Ergo, it can go straight to hell and does not belong in a civilized society.
Another think you'll see a lot of is bots looking for "listical" and blog info so some side hustle person can piece together an article on something they know next to nothing about.

By the way, while I have you here, have you considered extending your used car's warranty?
Looks similar to bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
This is fine insofar as it provides a checklist to evaluate if technology is boring, but it rests entirely on "Choose Boring Technologies", which I've never found particularly compelling.

It's less "Choose Boring Technologies" and more "Don't introduce something new just because it's new". Have a compelling reason. And both this article, and the original Choose Boring Technologies, kinda miss that.

I'd be much more interested in guidelines of when to choose something new; a prior job prior to my joining chose Erlang for a mid-sized project, despite no one on the team knowing it, and it was a success. So we chose it (after I joined) for a large project, and it was, to quote the executive of a business unit it was for "the biggest success to come out of (our department)".

Both of these projects -could- have been done in one of the existing house languages...they would not have been done as quickly, resulted in nearly as good an outcome (predominantly amongst resiliency, which is why we chose Erlang), nor have given the team as much enjoyment (itself being part of the reason for the results, as a knock on effect).
What's wrong with riding a bike in 0 °C weather? When dressed for the weather riding in the cold weather can be quite enjoyable as long as the roads are clear or your bike has appropriate tires.
well, I remember watching an ad for youtube premium (or whatever is called the subscription to remove ads) which was presenting the 'no more ad breaks in the middle of videos' as a selling point. So at least some people at YT are aware of that issue
FE80: Is a Perfectly Valid IPv6 Default Gateway Address
you can use lets encrypt certificates on your lan using DNS verification
Though https still has the privacy advantage, if I update over http, my ISP knows I downloaded the tor package, this information won't be leaked over https. and since it's minimal trouble to set up https, I think it's fine
What is this 'Clojure compatibility' of which you speak? Seriously though, Clojure runs on the JVM so the entire Java ecosystem is available. There are ways to run an external process too of course. I can't really think of an example where 'Clojure compatibility' is something we would require people to have thought about.
A few years ago I was eating in an indian restaurant and I noticed a muted TV on the wall playing MKBHD's review of some drone. I was very confused why would they decide to show that. As I was eating the video ended and I realised the full review was an ad that played inside a 10 hour atmospheric video the restaurant intended to play.

I found it pretty smart, because I can imagine myself succumbing to watching a full video that was inserted as an ad if it's interesting enough.
Sounds like the interview would effectively filter out candidates that would not be a good fit for a job that is mostly corresponding with people.
Indeed. :-)

I'm the one that makes everybody install it to play it for the first time so that everyone can experience the agonizing embarrassment of their best laid plans being thwarted by their own dwarves accidentally decimating themselves by throwing their molotov cocktails straight up into the air. "<BANG>... Casualties." followed by the inevitable, "Argh! What?!? Noooooooo!"

Never gets old.
Several exchange rates have successfully been fixed by being pegged to some other currency or gold for long periods.
Not all cars have such high beltlines that make you feel like you are driving a sherman tank. American cars seem to have these issues more than imports. Maybe its a way to shirk around some crash testing metrics by deferring to less visibility than to offer more visibility and potentially spend more engineering something just as strong?
> The media drives a lot of this with the format of their shows/political debates. I'm sure these sound bytes are better for ratings, but they are poor for getting to the bottom of a political platform and how that's really best for the general population.

I only developed a more informed sense to follow the political sphere like five years ago or so. This is so true, the media and their need for quotes makes so many debates into a farce. Politicians seem like being in front of a judge instead of a truth-seeking interviewer. Not that politicians are overly known for truth-seeking but there is a certain line between for a reporter being investigative and sensational.
Trains, bikes, buses, and street cars only solve urban problems.

And I know urban environments are overall better for the environment, but they're not better for people's psyche. They're crime ridden. Theyre smog ridden. Theyre awful environments to live in during a pandemic.

People were moving into cities until a pandemic struck and riots became commonplace. Then they started to leave with the speed in which they arrived.
> Because in my definition, in the "long term" we're all dead.

My wife's studio got a "everyone who takes the vaccine will die!" pamphlet pushed under the door, which gave us a good chuckle.
Messes go further than just the heating element. Things splatter, run over. Even with controls on the face of the range (not always practical) you may need to clean them from messes.

Its definitely easy to clean my entire range being a flat piece of glass, and personally I've never had any problems with sensitivity on the buttons. Plus, that whole cook top is then still useful as a counter top as even the glass is only slightly raised over the rest of the counter surface. In my experience the glass top range I have has been wonderful, and I was originally planning on tearing it out and putting in a gas unit. I've since second guessed those plans and will probably keep the range for a while longer, no knobs has actually been pretty nice.
Sure, but the elite has close ties with Washington, that is a crude truth
After an acquisition of our company, various groups of people had secret meetings about how to integrate ours company parts (engineering, marketing, sales) into their processes. Meanwhile we were told everything would be business as usual. Then some of us started getting invited to these secret groups so we could help with the transition plans. Half the folks acquired started quitting shortly after the plans started leaking out because of the incompetence in the plans.

tldr: Poor communication and secrets
The conspiracy theory always ignores that cancer is a broad category. There will never be a single cure, but rather many individual cures. And the cures will really be more effective treatments that achieve remission very reliably. Most cancer treatments are already hypothetical cures, if things go well enough. The trick is to greatly increase how often it goes that well.
Does this mean you think there’s some moral obligation to allow toxic people to diminish a platform at everyone else’s expense?

Toxic racists in YouTube comments did not provide any value to anyone, but they did create an environment that encouraged others to behave in toxic ways and they diminished the enjoyment many others derived from the platform.
Yes, it is.

I'm not sure how we're lost in translation here, so I'll try to express this another way.

I think the majority of sexually promiscuous adults aren't particularly concerned about COVID infection, because the likelihood that they'll die from it is low. If they do catch it, they will most likely recover without long-term damage.

I think those same adults however are indeed concerned about HIV infection, because it is [so far] incurable, and has an enormous social stigma attached to it, and without constant treatment will eventually kill you.

The number of people who would benefit from a drug against COVID is larger than those who would benefit from a drug against HIV, however, of those who would buy either drug, I think the latter drug is the one that would have much higher market demand because of just how consequential an infection with that disease is.
Yeah, why would you not be entitled to that content for no commercial consideration…

Frankly I don’t understand the ethical position of people who use ad-blockers.
Software development work has more attributes to it than a binary "done" / "not done". The quality of what you get is going to be orders a magnitude worse when the work is being done by a team of cheaters compared to when it's done by an honest person who didn't cheat to score a job.
It was! I'm fixing this
Or stuff that's so old, it predates Git, let along Github

Here's some code I wrote back in 1987/88, for example.

http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/MISC/0153.PAS.html
Depends on your PDF and your goals, I think. JBIG2 is for raster data, but Matplotlib outputs vector images by default when producing PDFs. Rasterising may help with things like huge numbers of points that hide each other, but at the cost of sharpness and scalability.
There are browser ad-on that block sponsored content. Having said so, there are a few channels that provide pretty great content without sponsored pitches or with relevant pitches that might be ok-ish.
Sure; and the unfortunate reality is, Fallout 4 was released nearly 8 years ago. Dishonored: 10. Dishonored 2: 6.

id definitely puts out super solid stuff, consistently. Arkane is also in that bucket (Deathloop is the better example to judge recent efficacy of the team, not Dishonored/Prey. And its great). But, that is counterbalanced by... Fallout 76? Warcraft 3 Reforged? The state of WoW, Overwatch, and Heroes?

Xbox's acquisitions are a semitruck full of companies. The good parts of that truck are good. The bad parts are... quite bad. But the bad parts are built on really strong IP, which carried its own high price tag. So the question becomes; they'll definitely get value out of Arkane, id, and CoD, zero question there; but will they get value out of the rest of the ~$76B combined they spent, when so much of it is in glory-day IPs and not in teams, employed today, that can execute on that IP to deliver awesome content (no disrespect intended to the teams who do work on that content today; but reality is in the metrics, revenue, etc)?

Comparatively: Microsoft bought a semi-truck, Sony bought a Miata. It's not the fastest car out there. It's not for everyone. But it has its users and there's no question as to Mazda's ability to put out another stellar model, nor question around whether customers will buy it. Plus: very affordable. Ok, that's a bad analogy.
While REST obsession is a thing, the "lack of defined behaviour for bodies in GET" arises from the fact that it's defined to not have a request body, therefore there exists a lot of code that assumes it has no request body and acts accordingly, leading to interoperability problems.

You have to separate HTTP, the spec, from REST the philosophy.

REST says you should use HTTP status codes. HTTP doesn't obligate you to use the full range of its status codes -- you can code up a resource that always returns 200 for POSTs, and that's fine as far as HTTP goes, and not as far as REST goes.
So, it would be a public service?

It was kind of like that when interest rates were near zero, affording endless deferral of income.
This is correct. Every type of suppler has different adjustment time based on their own systems. Tooling & upfront design is actually common in a lot of industries, chips just have extreme tooling & upfront design requirements.
Well, it was ASE. It's a pretty chill airport :)
I was a fan of subarus until around 2007-2008 when the interiors took a nosedive and never really recovered. A 35k car like a wrx shouldn't have panel rattle like a 14k economy car, but it does. Also the paint on the knobs tends to wear off fast.
Yes, people think they have some idea of what is random, when in fact the human mind is made to pickup on patterns. For example, people think that a random set of numbers is one where different numbers appear evenly distributed, which is just false.
> hosting providers like Godaddy

You mean ones that will try to exploit and defraud you on every opportunity? Probably not.

If you mean hosting providers in general, yes, they'll usually handle a Let's Encrypt certificate for you for free.
I’ve to build a cli HTTP client in Java and went with OkHttp [1], as it was widely used on Android. I’ve to add support for GET requests with a body but I wasn’t able to do it with OkHttp. The library was rather opinionated and you couldn’t add a body to a request body back then [2]. I was rather surprised, because I thought HTTP specs allowed it, while discouraging; so an HTTP library should allow this kind of usage. I went back to Apache HTTPComponents, while less fancy than OkHttp but also less opinionated, and was able to complete my client. Things may have changed, it was a few years ago.

[1] https://github.com/square/okhttp

[2] https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/5803

[3] https://hc.apache.org/
Now I really want to know what you're reading.
i believe for MS, its all about the Xbox game pass. they need as many games under game pass as possible in order to lure people in to justify paying monthly for game as service.
Ecco Par[IT]le in italiano: https://pietroppeter.github.io/wordle-it/
I used to frequent said imageboard as well! I owe to it a lot of my initial curiosity in technolo/g/y that ultimately led up to the career I have now, but I couldn't ever go back. There's a certain "voice" attributable to the board as a whole, the same way HN is known to have a voice (e.g. "HN would think X about Y"), and its infectious cynicism started to take root and corrupt my daily thoughts, eventually becoming the voice of my own depression. I lost of lot of time and energy thinking that repeatedly exposing myself to that was making me stronger, when all it was doing was wearing me down and destroying me.

If you're still enjoying it, more power to ya! I sometimes still miss it myself, and whenever I drop by I remember both why I spent so much time there and why I left. Just a fair warning to anyone who might want to give it a try. That saying isn't kidding... it really does stay with you forever.
With my washing machine, I press the button. It'll say "no", drain down the drum so the water doesn't fall out when the door opens, then say "yes" and the door unlocks.

Apps used: 0.

Would be useful if the machine could select and load the washing itself from the basket, I'd use that app.
Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?
I agree that the conflicting meetings bit could be tricky, but I don't think he has a moral obligation to inform either company of what's going on, assuming one company's work doesn't interfere with the assigned work from the other. Also I would hope that the two companies he ends up working at aren't even remotely in competition with each other, because that would be unethical.

If both companies are happy with the guy's work output, then he is fulfilling the terms of his employment, at least in spirit and morally/ethically.

(I'm aware that some companies include in their employment papers a clause that states that employees won't take on other employment. I believe I've signed such a thing at my current job. But I personally consider such clauses to be unethical in the first place, and would feel no qualms violating that if I was in a position to want to do so. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure nearly all salaried jobs will stipulate something like that, so it's not like people can vote with their feet.)

I would personally find this sort of arrangement to be pretty stressful, and wouldn't do it, but if someone wants to give it a go, more power to them.
Nothing in the letters even hints that it played a part of the decision-making process for hiring or firing. The husband also mentioned his hair was different and he now wears glasses. Does that mean corrective vision also played a part in the process?
> on mobile (where adblocking isn't possible without modded APKs)

What's a modded APK?

Firefox and other browsers like Vivaldi have awesome adblocking nowadays. There are alternative frontends like invidious.

Newpipe is an oss app, perfect on Android. Vanced is very popular too but I never tried it.

But with nextdns I don't need any of those. Only newpipe because, besides the ads, having to keep the display on to listen to music while running is just stupid.
I watched the video. The game in that trailer could just as easily have been a tactical RTS with a cinematic camera as a FPS (note the complete absence of first-person shots).
That must be 20 minutes to the east.

20 minutes west is nearly double that for any SFH. A few near me went for 450 that were for land value only/needing to be scraped.

I ended up buying a townhouse a few years ago to stay close to downtown, near a train station, and access to a bike path. I don't need the space or maintenance of a SFH, so it seemed worth it at the time.
Freaks me out this article says over and over [...] large enough for a person to enter.

I'm not going in there. That's scary.
To support the creators whose videos I'm watching on YT, I use a whitelist add-on that disable the adblocker on those channels. Though the add-on still allows me to skip the ad, which I'm doing when it's an ad I've already seen.
>Actually, a whole lot of recombinant approaches have moved to human trials (along with viral vector approaches).

I should have been more clear here, I meant specifically trials of what I presume could have been attempted if the vaccine was expressed as protein instead of mRNA. But thanks for the clarification. And the mention of viral vectors which are an area I was less aware of till recently but it has been cool to see them in more places.
This is, in theory, what graph.global is supposed to be (by Mek from OpenLibrary / Internet Archive).

<https://github.com/w2g/w2g>
As a person on PrEP, it is only recommended for people at higher risk of HIV. In the West, that does not include sexually active straight people unless you have other confounding factors (e.g. IV drug use, partners who are at higher risk, etc.). Essentially all gay men (or, more accurately, "men who have sex with men") are at higher risk, which is why it is recommended for them.
Around 2011 or so this was me. I generally didn't ad block and thought that seeing a few ads was a reasonable price for the free content online. Ads became ridiculous though and lost any sense of balance, the web became borderline unusable without one.

I have sold on eBay for over a decade and at some point the desktop site became so slow as to be unusable with ad blocking. No idea who at eBay thinks getting in the way of sales to spam people with banner ads is a good idea.
¡Porque ño!
Some counter-arguments from n-gate.com: http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/