skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly to the author, I definitely want to be able to use btrfs. I liked features like being able to add/remove drives, and reflink=auto. But I got burned on it's stability (luckily didn't lose any data) and would not look at it again for anything important in a long time.

Still use it on single drive filesystems for inline compression sometimes though.
I think it's a beautiful house.

Having the family bathroom near the children's bedrooms is pretty common in floorplans, at least in Australia.

They have a wardrobe between them and the kid's room which would mean an insulated wall, soft clothing that would muffle sound, and then perhaps sliding wardrobe doors. That might help. We have a similar format in our house, but a dressing room in place of the wardrobe.

I suspect that once kids are old enough to be aware, parents are typically a lot more careful with their timing...
I tried to google for a list of sterilising and non-sterilising vaccines - but I could not find any. Could you provide sources for your claim that "essentially no viral vaccine prevents infection, with the possible exception of the HPV vaccine"?
The Full stack developer and ML engineer seem like full positions, considering he listed internships specifically in his prior experience as explicit internships.

Also he has a background in bio, and managed to land a full stack and ML engineer positions, implying he is self taught, and therefore should be already fairly intelligent...but he decided to go get his MS in CS, without even doing any research project and just opting for the GTA instead of GRA route.

None of us can really know for sure, Im just saying it smells a little fishy. If his resume came across my desk, Id have some specific questions about his experience. If you are that smart to have a background in bio, and land the jobs that he did, your career would look very different.
Is there an alternative link for the second? `archive.fo` doesn't resolve on some networks[1]...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

Edit: I think it's https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hire-jiawei-wang_hi-linkedin-...
Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you
> I'm not arguing ergonomics, just implementation details, you can add all the syntax sugar you want :)

Oh, good. That sugar actually already exists in most OO languages, and usually it's called...

class

> What problems do classes address?

The problem of getting sweet ergonomic syntax for the concepts of encapsulation, polymorphism, possibly inheritance (with additional sub-divisions mainly on whether multiple- or single-ancestor), interface, abstract class, type class, trait, structural typing, etc, etc. Currently implemented in varying combinations and to varying degrees in different languages.

So make up your mind: Do you have something against syntactical sugar for all those, or don't you?
This is my personal experience, which is why I'd advise people not to go through with the above thought experiment.

Then again, I keep interviewing people with 5-10 years of experience, who will go something like this:

> How would you manage a server? (leaving out a ton of context about what it means to "manage a server")

> Very easy, SSH connection is very fast, reliable, ...

> Awesome, love me some SSH, how about 5 servers?

> Hmm, probably write shell scripts.

> How about 50 servers?

> Shell scripts?

> Even with 500 servers?

> Hire more people..?

And I keep feeling that these people don't have 10 YoE, they have 1-2 YoE times some coefficient.

I feel like if you're in a "successful rut", that's what it will do to you. You feel like you're successful, but in fact, you have fallen horribly behind, without even knowing it.

Your quality of life is probably fine, until you're laid off one day.
What's the Venn diagram look to you between projects using blockchain vs. projects using blockchain inherently designed to have or allow same pattern as Ponzi and MLM schemes?
Geostationary orbit is ~36000 km above the surface. Optical surveillance satellites work at altitudes of 200-400 km and already need Hubble-like mirror sizes to achieve the needed resolution. A geostationary satellite with a similar resolution is simply not possible to build and launch in this age. Geostationary also means that half the time you're looking at darkness.
New catalysts steer hydrogen fuel cells into mainstream
I share your sentiment that the supply chain crisis seems somewhat exaggerated by media, however for some specific merchandise it exists. For example, it's been 9 months since I ordered a new mountain bike and it still hasn't arrived. Similar situation with new cars and motorcycles (0 stock, at least 3-6 months lead time). However, it doesn't seem plausible to me that parts shortages are due to decreased production from China. If the (Google/World bank) GDP graph is to be trusted, China's GDP only slowed down its growth rate, but never went down during the crisis (contrary to the US). So to me it looks like the supply chain crisis in the west was somewhat manufactured (even though I don't know by whom and for what reason).
More obscure is King of Dragon Pass, which I've reviewed, giving it three dark patterns.

https://www.darkpattern.games/game/3735/1/king-of-dragon-pas...
In a rural area where the telco had to blow a dedicated fibre line specifically to your property?
I'm 44 and I'm a frontend dev. I've been a web dev for 25 years now (wow. I feel old.), working largely on the frontend. Most frontend dev work isn't "make the shiny thing!" It's building a pretty boring app with a shiny layer on top. The foundational stuff hasn't changed in the past 2 decades. We've always needed to gather requirements, figure out journeys, do the UX work, build a robust app that takes data, validates it, fires it to an API, handles responses, etc.

If anything I actually write far more business logic as a frontend dev these days than I did years ago.
Interesting how minimal the operator's console is, compared to the IBM System/360 machines from the same era, which you can see photos of here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360

The complete reference manual for the B 5500 can be found here: https://www.vt100.net/manx/details/21,7121
I found C++ template meta-programming easier to learn than Rust. The only thing new to learn in Go was Go-routines. Followed by a scan of Effective Go, a single page of "gotchas" and one can immediately churn out software. Never found a language/stdlib so easy to start coding in.
CVE-2022-24348: vulnerability in Argo CD can be used to steal sensitive info
I really doubt that setup produced that much heat at all. I recently plugged in an old DOS machine and it only used as much power as my phone charger to my surprise. Less computing power also means it needs less power overall.

Old gear is less efficient but today's computers have so much more computational power that we use a lot more power today per machine.
It was left out for multiple days. This isn't some accidental misjudgment of the time. This was either placed there knowingly or put there and forgotten about for days on end. The former seems way more probable than the latter.
Don't mean to advocate, I've had the opposite experience. I love listening to the guys over at the Go Time podcast, but for simple things I reach for Node (that I desperately want to escape!), and for a better language I reach for Rust, it just feels right, although I completely agree about library code being complex to understand and using a lot of magic to squeeze out every last drop of performance.

As a corollary, I still haven't been able to understand Go modules and the way code is supposed to be laid out! In fact, a Go 1.16 broke one of my npm packages as it deprecated `go get` with no real alternative for my use case, without manually creating a go.mod file for the cloned repository (that I don't own) in question. I guess this creates a natural... distate for said language.

I think if I would have started with Go, I would have loved it from day 1, but now it provides too much friction to get stuff done. Yeah, it's fast (but most new languages are), it fools C programmers into thinking it's like C due to its syntax, but people coming from the functional world which they believe to be the holy grail will run away in fear with the number of mutations (no Array.map or iterators) and pointers flying around. I still haven't managed to get SQLite working with Go on Windows (stop! a lot of developers do use Windows!), the Rust crate just worked.

The only language that I've actually had fun trying out recently is Elixir, which completely surprised me. The AoC challenges were fun to write in it, and honestly still quite fast!
I think the author actually does a good job summing up the usual arguments given to dismiss Bitcoin not being environment friendly but I don't think they are refuted.

Bitcoin uses less energy than completely useless things (like Christmas lights) and way way way less energy than actual harmful things (videogames). However we just can't stop taking about how harmful Bitcoin is to the environment and if anyone suggested banning gold for similar reasons they would simply be laughed out of the room.

Honestly it looks like there are no good Bitcoin externalities that can be pointed out, so let's just zero in into this one, however inconsistent we'll be towards other industries.
San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis: A disaster in plain sight
Spotting opportunities to write your own dev tools
I would certainly have agreed with this characterization of the majority 10 years ago. But - do you really believe this is still the case today? After 10 years of C++11 making headway, and a lot of effort to educate people differently? I wonder...
Also we don't know that the kids are not deaf.
I get the sentiment: I was very excited to have an Aldi store being built near me. Great value for money and an almost “grab what you need and you wont get a shock at the till” unlike other stores that do stuff like 2 slightly different tomato varieties one double the price of the other. Another example the coke is always a good price. Other supermarkets keep rotating the 24 and 30 packs prices to pretend there is a discount at any given time.
Astronomers Find First-Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way
Do American houses in risky areas have roof-sprinkler systems? To keep the roof wet to deny embers a foothold?

https://www.google.com/search?q=roof+sprinkler+fire+australi...
Well, given all the bridges he's burned at work -- I work there, btw -- it'll be interesting if he can successfully avoid being tainted.
Congrats on moving to NYC on the E-2 visa! I am currently working on making the exact same move sometime in mid-2022, depending on embassy waiting times.

I think the E-2 is not talked about very much in our community, which is too bad, as I would love to learn from other founders who took this route. It's not a green card but one can renew it indefinitely for as long as the business is operational.

What's your business? If it's tech-related, did you have any trouble explaining it to the consulate? I read that the E-2 is geared more towards traditional "brick and mortar" type businesses like a gas station or a restaurant. I have lawyers who help me with the business plan etc. but I still wonder how I am going to explain SaaS / custom software to the consular officer.
That's what it looks like to me from the unnatural bends and shadows in the silhouette. The photograph is Big Foot-quality, so it really doesn't matter what it was.
> Health care systems run close to capacity with wait times under even normal conditions.

You make that sound like a good idea. Shouldn't there be a buffer in the first place? How can a healthcare system cope with other cases of sudden influx of patients when there was no way to vaccinate against that, such as natural disasters?
Make low-effort snarky comments, and you'll get the same back.

Ok, so by your definition cash is also a scam then too because it enables transacting without KYC.

Crypto benefits way more than just scammers. A non-significant portion of the population doesn't have access to banking. Not every country has the blessings of a stable currency, freedom of capital movement, and a sane government. Crypto enables borderless transactions and collateralized loans with low fees without being dependent on a country's institutions. In countries like Argentina that've experienced hyperinflation and bank runs, nobody has trusted banks and their Peso for a long time - preferring to hoard cash and deal in cash transactions, even for house purchases [1]. To Argentinians, crypto is a huge boon. I'd imagine the same in countries like Venezuela and Cuba.

Crypto also enables decentralized anonymous voting, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and decentralized finance (eg. trading, lending + borrowing, insurance). In 20 years I'd bet we'll see elections run on the blockchain with zero knowledge proofs.

Sure there are downsides as well, but it's tiring seeing shallow comments on here dismissing crypto as a "scam" despite the real value it's bringing to peoples' lives. Crypto is much more than just Ponzi schemes and ape NFTs.

[1] https://youtu.be/dwjiucS4NtY?t=2164
This is true for a lot of goods, but if you go on passenger ferries you'll still see tons of commercial trucks streaming in and out of the port. For time sensitive deliveries, like perishable goods, they often need to avoid the delays from handling containers. If anyone remembers Norbert Dentresangle, an iconic french transport company that got re-flagged a few years ago, you'd see their trucks streaming in and out of Dover and on UK motorways all the time.
Agree. There are people with 10 YOE and ppl who have repeated 1 YOE 10 times.

Some people get complacent once they get a job and stop learning. The trick is to keep on learning. I have worked for a company like Amazon with aggressive schedules where we used to work for 12 hrs/day. One time I didnt go home for 3 days. I can say I learnt a lot, but there are better companies with mature planning where you would still learn the same amount.

How different ppl react to toxic environments is also different. Some people may thrive, while some may wither.

I say it is a random walk searching for the best place (for you) to work. You keep iterating until you find what you want.
True. Reminds me of the time stackoverflow had hired someone for "developer relations". I think the title was "VP", and the recruit was described as "a veteran story-teller". Now having a VP send emails to developers is already a bit of stretch, and why you'd need someone at the level of Hans Christian Andersen to do so is anybody's guess, but the press release started: "We're beyond excited to ...". Was the CEO really yapping around the office, drooling from the mouth, barely controlling his bladder out of joy over this new hire? So yes, hyperbole just seems not to cut it any longer, and the answer is going into overdrive.
I hate it when people blame linux but they're actually referring to the software that runs on linux (GNOME, PopOS, Unity, etc.) not linux itself
Why would you curse them with money?
I doubt that the premise is true. Self-reporting is not a reliable indicator of actual performance in this case. It seems plausible that an empirical study would find mathematicians way above the average in elementary arithmetic, though possibly trumped by waiters and cashiers who often have to calculate without aid.

Of course, without an actual study this is just speculation.
One could say the same for $80m Picasso's
Good a time as any to ask if anyone has come across the sources for the OS. Bob Supnik has been looking for it a long time for simh. The story is it disappeared at some point into the bowels of the company that took over the service contracts for these machines. Possibly Indian. Anyone know for sure or have any contacts?
I think it is very interesting that you think the lack of middle is the problem.

From my left-leaning view, the middle is exactly the problem. E.g. "the third way" that the Democrats, Labour and SPD in Germany were following. Or Blair going into Iraq based on lies. The financial crisis. To me, all these are a result of the middle. The leftist parties didn't do what they were supposed to do - oppose wars, regulate economy to ensure stability and fairness.

To me, the middle means that whatever we vote for, whoever is in charge, nothing really changes. Every time left parties manage to win an election, they start to compromise and don't actually do the things they promised.

If the left is unhappy that everything is to right, and the right is unhappy that everything is to left and the middle thinks it doesn't even exist, then I don't know what the hell is broken.

Modern governments just seem to fail at being a positive factor in peoples live. It's all crumbling, it's all cost overrun, it's all compromise that is worse than both competing ideas. I often feel like all the tings that were done during my parents time are just deemed impossible now. Like NASA used to be able to put people on the Moon, and now they don't even have a manned platform anymore.
Well, not insanely rich. But let’s not pretend that the profession doesn’t compensate way above average and lots of options to choose from. definitely favorable for labor in this market, which is unlike most other labor markets.
One big problems with "settings" is it's easy for people to change them, then get confused.

You used to be able to move the taskbar around the screen, and make it taller / shorter. I'm sure some people loved this. On the other hand, I would often find people whose computers were "broken", as their taskbar was invisible, or took half the screen.

Even experts can fall for this -- I've had a few open source projects where someone complains "I did X from the documentation, but it didn't work". After a while we discover they, months ago, switched off X (or something related to X).

I'm not saying there shouldn't be settings, but they aren't a clear win. Even ignoring the fact they all need testing, they provide pain points for many users.
What's your issue with SQLite+Go on Windows? I might be able to help
enable js?
I'm insulted. 27 is not old
I doubt any civilians would care that much for a 6th-gen demonstrator, so that point is moot in this case.
That’s why I never touch a new Amazon service for 12 months.
TJs is the bomb. But their choice of store placement is definitely cryptic. It always seems to be a little too far for a regular grocery trip; somewhere close to a hip strip, close to a blue collar neighborhood, but not quite walking distance from either. They have a very specific demographic and I'm sure they've been making shrewd property decisions as well. Here in Oregon they have to compete with New Seasons, which mainly sells locally sourced produce and kinda straddles the upper line with Whole Paycheck, which everyone hates; and with GrossOut (Grocery Outlet) which is just... a kind of amazing place to go if you've never been there (they basically sell all the day-old food from wholesalers alongside this month's new test products that failed to launch - if you aren't picky what you're going to cook, GrossOut is inspirational).
I recently built the Murfie music service app for SONOS.

You can go to a web page served by any SONOS device and tell it a url to treat as a music service. Code up a SOAP service there and you'll be able to do anything that any other music service does.

I'd never done anything with SOAP before, so there was a bit of a learning curve, but once I got over that hurdle most of the other coding was fairly easy. Their developer portal explains basically all of the things you can do.

Getting the service approved was the hardest part.
These day even very cheap car (Nissan micra say) has auto brake and track alignment. Not e-car just normal one. If the stat is so bad in German can this help? Seems inexpensive technology now like abs etc.
When my daughter was four she wrote an illustrated book and had it published on Amazon. It sold three copies. Dad, grandma and her uncle.
Demystifying the Confusion Matrix in ML
Not trying to nitpick but knowing that SIM cards run a version of Java, you cannot make much less than that, as far as virtual machines go.

Also forth and lisp have really tiny tiny version with large capabilities.

So, if size matters, I guess lots of languages have you covered on that, not just Go.
Care to give some names? I'm tired of only knowing cryptobros as representatives of crypto world
I mean, you even attempted it. I would've looked at it and told them their deadline or scope was unrealistic.

I mean I don't want to do any project with a deadline, ever again, if possible, and I haven't even been exposed to the level of stress and pressure that people get at certain companies.

I thought deadlines had gotten rid of a decade ago in software engineering with the rise of agile software development and the realization that software is difficult to neatly scope, and development time is almost impossible to predict.
Explanations like "consciousness is a controlled hallucination" or "consciousness is just an illusion" don't answer anything for me.

To be able to have a hallucination or an illusion, you still need the consciousness experiencing that. Explain that consciousness.

> I suspect that consciousness evolved because it makes an organism more capable than one who doesn't.

You can't prove consciousness from behavior (afaik), and it's behavior that makes organisms more capable
Really, really wanted to use it a few days ago.. but not sure if it's a mysql8 issue but seems most of my "very simple" table definitions couldn't be parsed :/

Looking at the github there seems to a lot of "parsing problems" for the schema files :(
Some business advice for academic startups/spinouts
Wasn't there a website for rating college professors? Seems like a similar idea.
The selected quotes misrepresent the thrust of the article. From the abstract, "...overall there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that facemasks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination."

At the end, they take the stance that while evidence doesn't support any benefit, it doesn't indicate harm either, so might as well continue using masks.

I don't deny that this is still a matter of controversy, compare Romney (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11289767/) with Belkin (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11886203/).

The most frequent complaint is that most research on the subject is not high quality, but what about those studies that are good? The most thorough clinical study is Tunevall (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1853618/), which clearly supports no benefit. There are apparently no high quality studies that support benefit.
> One point on which you both clearly agree is that consciousness is an embodied phenomenon,

It probably is but I wouldn't be so sure it is. I have neither a feeling nor a rationally logical proof of this idea. It's just an intuitive guess.

> we have the ineffable experience of being alive in this world

The experience of being, and the experience of attributes like "alive" and in "somewhere in particular" are separate things. AFAIK the latter even is attributed to specific parts of the brain scientifically and it's known these can be broken. I certainly feel like "I am" but I have no idea of whether I am alive and in which world I am the first seconds after the alarm clock rings. I feel my being and also have visual perception but judgement/semantics in what I see emerges 0.5-10 seconds later.
But also scarred and likely burnt out. After that kind of experience, it can take a year or more before you're back to 'normal', if at all.