skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't comprehend 1000-year-from-now me. I don't think I would take many actions to improve life for 1000-year-from-now me even if I knew I could live millennia. Doing so does not buy me any comfort today and does not let me "give" to any person that I identify with or recognize as part of me.

I can imagine time scales on a par with how long I've lived and to a lesser extent to the ages of people I identify with.

(500 year from now me would see the first paragraph as exceptionally foolish... and also inevitable. But that fact doesn't change the truth of what I'm saying).
See also:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/
I go used or Ikea, no in-between. Other commenters have detailed why used is the way to go. But occasionally it's too much effort, in which case I would rather get the simple Ikea version than pay a ridiculous markup for a shoddier ikea with a weird design (which is what a lot of the stores like pottery barn are).
If i understand the common critique from the comments here it's that GET with a body, while not bad on its face, is nevertheless discouraged because you're gambling with any number of intermediate systems that may strip the body from the request.

But what about DELETE with body? It's similarly unspecified, but it seems to me to be of a different breed. The point made about GET is that, under the assumption of a theoretically idempotent and immutable operation, various caching systems can kick in and serve a request from any potential world-wide server. But a DELETE is by nature a mutating event, and will always need to be directed to some kind of principal server, meaning it should probably escape the caching the same way POST requests do.

Is it just as much a gamble to do DELETE with body as it is GET with body?
I was laid off after my employer was bought and broken up.

I was later contacted and asked to apply for my old position at the company who bought those parts.

I was probably one of maybe a hundred people with 10 years experience in X, most already were employed at that company and had referred me.

I didn’t make it through the HR screening because they upped the educational requirement to a masters degree.

I didn’t feel too bad about missing out considering how that played out.
Yeah, and I think this is noted in The Old Way, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
> This is not to say that I have any animosity towards the game’s creator. Given such a large price tag, it’s hard to imagine not accepting a buyout offer. But I resent that we live in a system where any independent creativity is exploited for financial gain.

That's sort of the trade, isn't it? If independent creativity is regularly exploited for profit, that means people are always incentivized to create more. Would they really create as much in a system that offered few or no incentives?
There's an old and incomplete looking protocol spec if you look through the organizations GitHub repos (would link but not at a computer) for what it's worth.

Found it yesterday when someone posted this on lobste.rs, not sure how much it reflects the current version of the software.
I agree with this. I'd love to live in a world where our basic living needs (housing, food, clothing, healthcare, etc.) are met, and so every person feels safe and comfortable exploring play and creativity to the extent they desire.

Is this aspirational and unrealistic? Absolutely! I'm not claiming this is something we can do today, but I think it's good to think about where we might like to go.
Yes, COVID replicates in the nose quite a bit pre-symptoms but for it to out-compete the actual very fit active strains, which are turning your upper respiratory tract into a virus factor, it would be difficult to ensure no symptoms. Also, of course you are only a few mutations away at any one time from an unpredictably virulent version; there is no guarantee that the trajectory of viral evolution is toward less virulence.

> The thing you are after is a virus that has same basic spike protein for your immune system to recognize and only enough mechanism to multiply itself.

The version of that that is feasible is a viral vector vaccine e.g., ChAdOx1.
Points like the above is pretty much why these sorts of ideas are a dead end in a place with disposable income.

If you objectively think that riding a bicycle with two sets of clothes on your back in the dead of winter is as convenient as driving, you've are either delusional or have never actually been inside of an automobile.
You can now send replies from your Duck Addresses
I mean just based on the definition that seems like the literal meaning to me. But i'm not a PHD
Whenever I make a small project I live in fear that the NYT will threaten to give me a million dollars for it.
It's effectively true.

If one bounds the risk from HIV from an undetectable partner to an unmeasurably small epsilon, dwarfed by other risks by many orders of magnitude--- the edges where the assertion are false don't matter.
Better link: http://fifth-browser.sourceforge.net/

(Though it does include a gratuitous and poorly-executed 3.3MB animated GIF of 43 words: “Who should control your web? / Not the advertisers / Not even the site designer / You // Browsers should / stay out of your way / avoid change for change's sake / not copy Chrome just because // Avoid monitoring / Web for sites, not apps / Stay lean // Fifth / Join us”.)

Last release almost six years ago.
I don't use Wine as there is no hole in my software landscape that an exclusively Windows application will fill.
People have been trying to find a better engine design for a long time. Pretty much all of them have tradeoffs of some kind, especially when you consider the wide variety of environmental factors that can affect a combustion engine.

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/unusualICeng/unusua...

We'll have to see if this one does anything different.
Scientists can also be sparkly
The blitzkrieg hypothesis is hardly settled science. Don't know why you are so confident this is what happened.
There will always be another thing to be afraid of. “ Wouldn't it be best to act as if it's fact,” will always be there as a question for the next thing.

So no, it wouldn’t be best to default to assuming the worst, you have to be able to decide which risks to tolerate and which to address, and to which degree.
> Copy-and-paste variable names. Write them once and then get fast at copying them.

I’m about to blow your mind with dynamic abbreviations in Emacs. Tab complete all your words longer than a few characters.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dy...
I'm a solo Rails developer and I'm very happy with the productivity. ActiveRecord, as an example of Rails's power and opinionatedness, is extremely powerful. As an abstraction, it does occasionally "leak", and you have to look under the hood, but the ability to compose together code that compiles down to SQL is so much better than trying to compose together strings of SQL.

I think it's also worth looking at the Rails front-end story. StimulusJS is one of my favorite parts of the Rails stack (though totally usable elsewhere). Instead of ever again writing an event listener in JavaScript, you can write it inline in your HTML, using data-* attributes. It is to JavaScript what Tailwind is to CSS. I heard DHH in a podcast talk about the value of seeing your actions directly in the HTML, not needing to open your JS file to know what's going on. Stimulus and also Turbo definitely have an interesting place in the world and are extremely powerful when they're a good fit. On the other hand, I've still had use for React at times.

Outside of Rails, I'm excited to try Remix (https://remix.run/) because of its batteries-included approach and what seems like a novel approach to server-side rendering without all the work.
Would you provide an example?
Just remember what hand to hold it with!
"I've seen 100-odd articles about extinctions in my lifetime" is absolutely 100% an anecdote.
I mean, not even comedians are safe: https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/camargo...
Not available to Americans (at least the ones unwilling to use BTC and a VPN), but Pinnacle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Sports) is happy to take sharp bettors. If you're just arbing major US books then yeah you will get banned quickly.
Hear, hear. I'd pay $0.25/year to the original designer to play Wordle.
I haven't really been following the Wordle story until recently.

Has there been an in-depth breakdown yet of how it became so popular?
And good for him. In less than a year, the fad will have passed and wordle will have 10% the users it has now. And lol at the idea that those users donations would have ever amounted to anything. Not to mention the hassle of accepting them.

Also, wordle fits perfectly with the rest of NYT’s puzzle games. Honestly, if I made wordle, I’d be honored to have my game land there, aside from the cool million(s).
Oh no! How dare the author of something that millions of people have enjoyed earn one penny from his work! And it's definitely dead now that it might only be available to one of the most successful publications on the planet! /s
How do they obtain the firmware updates to decompile? MITM?

I thought the cars have their own cellular connection.
Stuff like

type TestResult = Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>>

is not obvious nor simple and makes a joke of the claim that Rust is simpler than C++ in error handling. Damn, I prefer straightforward C++ exceptions after seeing stuff like this.
I feel like that's more Scottish English than genuine Scots, but not an expert.
> There's not much network effect for wordle.

The game is viral because of the way people share their results on social media. This is a huge network effect.
If this is decentralized, what is its solution to Zooko's Trilemma?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

I searched around the GNS site quite a bit and couldn't find an answer. It is pretty well understood today that the main obstacle to decentralized naming is Zooko's Trilemma, much as it was well understood pre-2009 that the main obstacle to decentralized cryptocurrencies was the double-spend problem.

I'm a bit surprised that "here's how we solve Zooko's Trilemma" isn't front-and center on the GNS website.
Dashboard Sharing in MongoDB
The driver said that he had to change plugs several times. It seems clear that failed sessions were not counted as charging time.
People are also happy when they receive life changing amounts of money for their creative work. He made "low seven figures." I think he's feeling fine.
Nice demonstration of how pointless it would have been to attempt to monetize wordle.
Is that true for all steels? High speed steel can be have a significant amount of tungsten in it.
Why would they need him? Not like it's hard to integrate.
Longest lightning bolt record: 477 miles over 3 states – AP News
Maybe, but you can also end up with standard cached assets and people leveraging optimized frameworks like unity. Already the tooling is there, and I as a react dev am having an easy time building up a vr project, that I see as a next evolution of a website. Some concerns have to be spent on optimization, but 3d environments are a well practiced area, and we can get some great experiences for the same cost of some of these bloated Js websites.
Sometimes, often even, there just isn't anything
that needs to be said. I feel the same way about
standups and 1:1s.

So end them early. Nothing wrong with ending a standup after a few minutes. Same with 1:1's.

Meetings should be treated like investments: by
spending the time of the participants, are you
going to reap the rewards of time saved in the future?

Agree with your premise; disagree with your conclusion.

Let's assume a 40-hour work week. (lol, I know)

Daily standups should be <= 15 minutes. Let's also suppose we're doing biweekly 30 minute 1:1s.

That's 1.25 hours per week, combined. Of course the real productivity loss of a meeting can be greater if it pulls you out of a "flow" state. Let's assume some of these rituals also incur a "flow state interruption" penalty of 30 additional minutes of lost productivity. So the total productivity cost is 2-3 hours per week per team member, or roughly 6% of their theoretical productive time.

I think this is a reasonable overhead. Working on a team requires communication. This seems like an efficient way to do it.

What's the alternative? Communicate whenever you feel like it? That's extremely iffy to put it mildly even if everybody on the team is an amazing communicator, which is an extremely unlikely ideal state of affairs. Adding a little structure makes sure the communication actually happens.
... if you drive in a vacuum.
Java failed because

- it depended on an installation outside the browser, poorly versioned

- and a plugin too, which was extra noise for the user, and not nearly so pain-free as Flash's was

- it was not, under any circumstances, performant (this was before HotSpot)

- AWT was truly, thoroughly, god awful (this was before Swing)

Finally, it was caught between two realms. Clunkier than JS and more difficult to work with than Flash, it tried to do both and ended up doing neither.

So, why should WASM succeed where Java failed? Well, for pretty much every actual reason Java failed. There's really no places to compare them. WASM is implemented in-browser (and the runtime is very small), it's got a ~1.5x slowdown compared to the 2.5x-3x of the big clunkers like Java and C#, and most importantly it knows its place: low level computation. It does not try to do GUI, but leaves that up to the environment; it does not try to do a high level object model, but leaves that up to the language being compiled for it. What reason do you see that Java failed that's also applicable to WASM?
I agree contract work or … just ask.

Some companies will say no but it seems plausible someone could find a way to transition someone to a contract type situation if they really are valuable.
I had a very hard time comprehending the first few paragraphs after starting with the photo!
There actually is, because wind resistance goes up dramatically with speed.
I'm not going to respond to a good chunk of this even though I'm itching too.

But I just have to laugh out loud at the thought of governments in the 80s not stigmatizing the disease and specifically queer people having anal sex.

Just so laughably the opposite of the real experience of an entire lost generation of gay men.
>> There's not much point to a 750,000 mile engine, as the rest of the car is worn out and rusted out at 200,000 miles.

I've seen plenty cars get 300,000 miles here in Texas without a spot of rust on them. Do you live in Michigan or something? The salty states have only known rust and salt lol
It was about 5 days and with few details on total energy consumed.
Are you kidding wrt lottery? People will spend their whole paycheck on scratch offs. What culture do they fund? There is no tangible difference between a casino and a lottery except that you tend to get better odds in a casino.
Thanks. This all sounds so complicated and frankly scares me away from using these technologies. I would be worried about making this kind of mistake or worse.
People donate to their local schools, their local hospitals, but no one donates to the DoE or the CDC or the FDA.
I hope it’s a lot! Vaccines are literal superpowers. You give your body a tiny injection from a vial, and BAM suddenly you’re invulnerable* to attack!*

* partially

* from one specific family of microorganism
“Looking into alternative theories and making your own judgement” seems like code for “there are ways around uncomfortable feelings”. I accept we are absolutely brutal animals who have significantly altered Earth’s environment and the other life here which, per Darwin, differs by degree rather than by kind.

I don’t feel guilty about our past, and I accept my responsibility to do better (within my learned and adopted value-system where ecological diversity is important for resilience during inevitable change, and where the human story carries on unbroken for some arbitrary length of time. That seems meaningful, and maybe the best way is through culture and oral tradition?). It’s okay to feel whatever you’re feeling, and important to decide what to do next.
I do something similar to you. I have particular difficulty with long numbers with no spaces, or multiple repeating digits. I'm especially careful with account numbers when doing electronic banking. On computer, I prefer copy 'n paste and then re-check.
I think there's a misunderstanding of my comment; I am not asserting that the AB purchase was bad for Microsoft. Just that this Sony/Bungie purchase will be better for Sony than AB will be for Microsoft. Both platforms will see success with their recent acquisitions.

One thing I'd add, in short: Its easier to 10x a small company than a large company. Applied here; Destiny is a fantastic launchpad, but many in the community would agree that its potential was always short of being fully realized. With additional funding, talent, and leadership; its reasonable to conclude that PlayStation could be a very positive force on the game (for everyone who isn't an Xbox gamer, of course, sadly). There's a lot of room to improve this product, which is already relatively good; many untapped players.

In comparison, AB is something of a... well, I don't want to say "disaster", because there are some great parts to that company, but they're having major issues. Even putting the sexual assault scandal aside: There's much less of a launchpad for Xbox to start from and add value. We're talking ten thousand employees, across dozens of product lines, and maybe three of them have a strong future outlook. They're looking at a years-long phase of cleaning shop, reorganizing, firing, hiring, planning new projects, cancelling bad ones, it's going to be dirty, and in none of that is "releasing awesome games to players". But, maybe there's a light at the end; I really, really hope so, and believe there will be.

And all of this is if the acquisition goes through. There's a real possibility it'll be shut down. Sony "sneaking in" this much smaller Bungie acquisition at the same time basically guarantees it'll go through; the USG/EU won't block both. And frankly, I don't believe they'll block either, but its still a possibility.
Are you sure he has dyslexia, as opposed to visual issues (especially binocular vision problems) that could show these symptoms as well? These issues relate to how the eyes track together across a page/screen, and are often confused for dyslexia.
The one that I saw that worked it out said this: "Here’s a scenario that abrp says would cost 2:30 in charging:
- max speed set to 55mph (yawn)
- efficiency 200 Wh/mi @65mph
- charging stops set for Shortest Legs
- start with 100%"

Notably, 200 wh/mi is at least 20% too optimistic. OTOH, ABRP seems to underestimate the charge KW rate a little bit, but it doesn't seem to be enough.

They should publish the details for public examination. It seems like this comes with some important asterisks.
I think one of the major remaining organizations that actually pays real journalists bought a word game their readers will enjoy and help keep their eyeballs on the drier but more important material, and compensated the creator with a life changing amount of money. Everyone wins.
>Taking issue with the positions of others is a perfectly normal part of the scientific process.

Sure. I'm sure Copernicus took issue with the earth-centric position of the church. We all know who was correct in the end. I'm just saying that evoking emotion in the abstract of a paper seems a bit of a reach.

>can't possibly be true, if you think about it for a bit.

Hmm. I said that I thought science was about conducting experiments in an unbiased way to come to a conclusion. Maybe I was really way off base. I will think about it a bit more.

>As to the votes, there's a specific guideline about that kind of comment

I wasn't aware of this, so thanks for the input. I'm still not sure it applies here though. tjr225 was asking a question about the editorializing or emotion or whatever behind the abstract in a paper. I don't think its just picking something provocative to complain about, I think it's a legitimate concern about the infusion of emotion into science.
Yeah, he sold it for a princely sum to one of the only companies that successfully charges a subscription for word games. Really could not have gone better for all involved.
> If i understand the common critique from the comments here it's that GET with a body, while not bad on its face, is nevertheless discouraged because you're gambling with any number of intermediate systems that may strip the body from the request.

That's a problem.

> But what about DELETE with body? It's similarly unspecified,

And faces the same risk that intermediate systems might reject it or strip the body, called out in RFC 7231.

> But a DELETE is by nature a mutating event,

DELETE is, more to the point, and despite being idempotent, expressly not cacheable, so there is no risk of getting served the wrong cached response based on the body being stripped. But, aside from the request not fitting the defined semantics of what DELETE means, you still have the risk of rejection or the request having the body stripped.
There's a different, but very funny story involving another currency, the Maria Theresa Thaler of 1780 (MTT). It was originally struck during the reign of Maria Theresa over the Austro-Hungarian empire from 1740-1780 -- the year of her death. However, it became a major trade currency during her lifetime and the MTT (specifically ones with 1780 on them) became accepted throughout various parts of the world even until today.

The funny thing is, millions of MTTs have been minted up through the 20th century (some estimates put it near a billion coins). They have slight variations, depending on minting details and a few other odds and ends. As a result, MTTs dated 1780 are the only ones accepted. For many years they were also heavily counterfeited creating a major oversupply of them, but also since various countries have continued to produce them conflating what a "counterfeit" is with actual money (the value is mostly in the metals, and counterfeits will use cheaper materials).

They're fun for collectors to pickup, and they're usually worth about the $20 or so the metals in them are worth.

https://britanniacoincompany.com/blog/the-maria-theresa-thal...

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

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...
On New Year's Day 1942 the Allies declared they were fighting "to defend life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_by_United_Nations
My honda cb500x (a low end adventure style motorcycle) had 42 horsepower and got about 60 MPG
This is wrong.

Covid has been around for 2 years. The vaccines for 1 year. We don’t know the long term effects of either.

Vaccines were trialed for dengue fever that made the disease worse. Vaccines are NOT “the safest drugs out there”.
An NEA alternative won't change that way more people will want to do it than will be needed to do it.
We definitely already ran the experiment where we banned alcohol altogether, it didn't work out too well.
> One person who saw the tweet, Janet Hunter Jess, told the court of her hurt at the message. Another person who saw the tweet, Luzier Jeffery, Kelly’s neighbour at the time, said she was “shocked” when she saw the message.

I see Brits are pining for the empire so hard that they went straight back to Victorian sensibilities.
Was there a way for NYT to make an exact copy of this game and just leverage their existing users and traffic to build a player base?
Relying on microbenchmarks is always dangerous.