skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you misunderstand OP. The purpose of citations is to prove facts.

Those cases are covered by b)

But the person you're replying to pointed out other, non-adversarial reasons to ask for citations (which depending on the tone of the question, may be misinterpreted)
Perhaps we can bio-engineer humans to be humane. I would back that research.
To avoid malthusian traps we do need per-acre yields to be higher and higher. Increasing yields is not just about farmers profits, also about feeding the world.

That does not mean it is a good idea to trade long term damage for short term yields. But yields are still important.
Climate change might make more climate migrants
Most livestock, fruits, grains and vegetable that exist today and we buy in our store shelves are all the result of selective breeding by humans over the last 100-200 years. More recently as the science and ability to do selective breeding has improved. Genetic manipulation is going to accelerate something that is already happening. For me genetic manipulation of livestock and grains is not as problematic as the western/richer countries patenting genes and making poor countries pay through the nose for it.
You're right. I do agree that a lot of Russian immigrants I met are against Putin. Just to give context - I'm a Ukrainian. However, do expect that a lot of people who are immigrating or planning to immigrate now would be economical immigrants due to degrading standards of living in Russia. So, they may actually support Putin but they're looking for better life. For instance, the IT company I worked for had a client IT company from Russia and they decided not to do business with us after 2014 (annexetion of Ukrainian Crimea) because they supported Putin. The company was small-to-medium but those were IT people mostly. Also, based on the most recent polls, 70-80% of Russians support the aggression.

I think the solution should be on a government level: a government who doesn't support Russian aggression (and that's is the whole world accept ~10 countries), I'd introduce some sort of a visa/work permit/citizenship requirement for Russians to state if they support Putin or not. I'd also make a video recording of their answers similarly to the citizenship oath in many countries in case they "change their minds" later on. If they don't have a process like that or a similar process, they may introduce people who are pro-war and pro-Russian into their societies. I consider it extremely dangerous for countries that are neighbouring with Russia because Putin's propaganda used "Russians oppression" or "Russians mostly live there" as an excuse for aggression in Pridnistrovia, Goergia and Ukraine. This is especially true for Baltic states were standards of living are higher and they are potential destinations of these new waves of immigrations.

I'm not sure if a business owner can do something like that because it might be considered as a discrimination of political views or something similar. I assume no one was asked during a job interview if they supported Hitler, right ?:)

If you want to know if a Russian person supports the war, among questions like "do you support war in Ukraine/Putin?" you can ask if they supported of annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014. Most Russian immigrants I met said "of course no, it's a crime and a violation of the internal laws". But some avoided answer and said something like "well it's a complex question, Crimea is mostly Russian and they were treated badly", "or Crimeans were suffering", "Crimea was never a Ukrainian territory" or something along those lines - that's a red flag. Or "it's a politics and I'm trying to stay out of politics" is also a red flag. No one will tell you directly that they support the aggression in 2014 after what happened in Feb 24th.

I do hope that "good" Russians will get a better life and "bad" Russians will stay in Russia and enjoy the products of their believes.
Facebook’s faces
... what's the trouble with LGPLv3?

Is Qt under LGPL 2.1? Were the changes so drastic?
Why we need Lisp machines
i mean forcing the dominant networks to interoperate with the fediverse. i can open as many diaspora and mastodon accounts as i want, i will still be alone because everyone i know is on twitter and facebook. make it mandatory that facebook and twitter lets me connect my fediverse accounts and i can connect with my friends regardless of their network of choice
Ohh that's right up my alley in terms of selection, thanks! Maybe you'll find more stuff in mine as well, went for a very similar vibe: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5TKa6UIDMybmeAGq39ymPE?si=...
I love to write Makefile recipes that wrap bash into small make commands. My make boilerplate generates help from comments in the make file. I get completions for free. I want all make vars and some internal make recipes to not complete, so I prepend the name with an underscore. Make is great because it handles errors and dependency trees.
Crossy Road was similar I believe.
I'm mainly a js developer these days, and I'd agree with that. At a language level, sure, Dart is quite easy to pick up. For every language though, I find the much harder part of being proficient is learning the ecosystem/best practices.
I’ve been meaning to create a tech blog for a long time.

Your question seems an excuse to avoid doing so.

At best, in the world of Oracle and in the world of tech blogs, fudging dates doesn't enhance credibility.
In the abstract the authors refer to professors being dismissed from the national health authority. But the also say this happened in 2014 and that the professors were rehired at the very prestigious medical university hospital Karolinska Institutet. That kind of references to seemingly incriminating facts without actually explaining how they affected the policies recommend by the public health authority is not a serious way of making a scientific argument.

I have a hard time believing the dismissed professors had dissenting opinions on the validity of lockdowns or facemasks already in 2014.
That's the very reason why I don't want full remote as a norm. I want to see my people and meet colleagues, for a good laugh or whatever but for human interactions that I value a lot. Very sad story here, twice as sad with that profound lack of human interaction...
Isn't Qt6 just LGPLv3? As in, the same as before?
When I experience this, they want a “real” signature made by hand with pen ink, but scanned and sent.

Although I keep a few signatures ready in Preview, these do not suffice. I need a tool that makes the signature look like it was created with a blue ink ballpoint.
I feel you. In fact after a decade of mostly C++ / Qt jobs, I've realized it's time to move away to other tech. More companies i worked with are avoiding Qt where they can. And even i was getting tired of creating the same QtQuick controls over and over again.

Tbh Qt 5.15 is still plenty good for most embedded Linux use cases. Just that organizations i worked with are stuck with Qt 5.6 (last lgpl v2 version?) And it was a pain to keep backporting fixes to it. The 3D stack rewrites were also unavoidable when trying to write cross platform applications because the underlying graphics stack changed. OpenGL isn't getting much support from the drivers and ANGLE was a pain for them to integrate/maintain apparently.

Qt 6 is available in LGPLv3 right? If you're already using 5.15, what would stop you from using Qt6?

Interestingly, flutter seems to be taking off even in the embedded world where QtQuick used to work really well. You might want to consider that if you're averse to electron. (Eg. Flutter-pi).
A better title would be: using chmod doubled the size of my docker container image
Care to help me with a link?
Or to not have children that you don't want, which is what the discussion is about.

We don't avoid killing ourselves or others because of its effects on the environment, which are great. We avoid killing ourselves and others due to other considerations. I bet you can name some so I don't have to.
This is not what I mean. I mean make it mandatory for these networks to allow interconnection with eg the fediverse, so that I can connect with people on Facebook or Twitter without having an account on these services myself. Currently users are captive to a network, not due to an impossibility to recover their data, but due to the fact that their friends are using that network and that network is not interoperable. Basically I think networks like Facebook and Twitter are so big at this point that they should be infrastructure.
All I said was "I'm reserving judgement".

It's good practice to wait until something has appeared in several news sources especially if a brief bit of research casts doubt on this one.

It's quite revealing that you immediately leapt to a much more exaggerated interpretation of my short statement.
If it was a chocolate cow you’d have chicken fried steak and a milkshake all in one.

A marvel of engineering.
Very sad. I'm not sure if this is problem of remote working but more of a relationship / communication / poor company culture issue. But, it clearly does show remote work done wrong. The theme had been set from the interview...

> I was the person who hired him and even during the interview process we didn’t use cameras.

anyways this is why I'm a big fan of hybrid working. We often think about ourselves in this moment but actually it's important for others who may actually need human interaction.
I think the most widely accepted framework here suffices. The emperical framework.

Cross breeding occurs slowly and is a long-used process. The long-used means there is ample evidence suggesting cross-breeding results in safe food.

The fact that cross breeding happens slowly gives any safety issues a long time to reveal themselves before it becomes wide-spread. Thus it makes sense that cross-breeding yields fewer unkown issues by the time its widespread. Essentially, early warning are built in, even for latent issues.
Until now, there was a social process of trust and reputation that was good enough.

At the moment, supply chain attacks seem to be mainstream enough that a normally trustworthy person could consider doing them, so trust becomes harder.

This is why you don't accept or encourage antifragile/vigilante/cowboy/etc behaviour, or any kind of sabotage of infrastructure.... now it's cool and trendy. There's millions of wannabe unabombers who just need any excuse to disrupt tech.

Remember that guy who wanted people to suddenly pull npm packages without warning?

Tech culture used to be way more awesome. Now it's a bunch of people who wish they were doing pure mathematics or random weekend tinkering, who hate their industry, and would be perfectly happy to see a lot of it gone, and a forced return to the days of paper notes and brass keys with no tracker.
Toothpaste blows my mind. It’s literally plastic in some baking soda type substance. Extra whitening? Larger plastic.
FWIW I offer a (paid) webpage content extraction API:

https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/webpage-text-api/
I feel obligated to point out that every Mac still ships with a non-removable app called “DVD Player” preinstalled, so DVDs are still supported in the Apple ecosystem.
Or the inverse: turning the brain dead into animal feed or fertilizer.

Closer to home: donating them to research/organ donation before they formally die.
I would argue it's a fairly healthy way to handle news.

Wait for a broad range of coverage, discard outliers and sources which have a poor reputation.
Maybe kaitai struct is what you are looking for? ;)

https://kaitai.io/
I…was not ready for this one…bit too close to home for me
I assume, you just don't know reality good enough, not ignore reality.

In reality, from USSR times, exists sort of non-written deal, in which Russian tops allowed to do everything, even craziest things, like invade Ukraine, in exchange to relatively high life level for Russians (close to 1st world countries) and some civilization level achievements, like human space program (or something, their culture consider large achievement, like bloodless seize of Crimea).

These are extremely close to extreme-left maxima, that everything acceptable, in exchange to weighty enough something else.

Also, nearly all Russians have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

For example, nearly all Russians think, that is is acceptable to sacrifice tens of millions people, to achieve something like human flight to Mars, and high percent of them accept to sacrifice their own life, or lives of their relatives, if this will be decide of random generator. Yes, they really thought themselves as just substitutable parts of huge machine changing world.

Very few Russians (~1% of population), who don't agree with such thoughts, are constantly flee from Russia and got residency in some other nation, in many cases, just not so aggressive.

And this is not just my attitude, these are extremely rational thoughts, based on tens years of observations, read books, math modelling and testing.
(For example, Algebra of conscience, Book by Vladimir Lefebvre)

Yes, it is not easy, but I have myself tested relations with Russians, and at the moment, even with tens years experience, even with closest friends, I cannot make good enough prediction, if some person nearest time will behave as normal human, or switch to totally agree part of Russian totalitarian machine.
> The last trial I heard of had a massive risk of suicide. “Patriarchy” has no part of it.

Existing birth control options for women also have high risk of mental health issues though. So people might reasonably question why were approved for women but not for men.
Ignoring the actual OS -

the website uses some Google and Yandex services, and doesn't work without JavaScript enabled....
This takes on a different meaning in British English!
I think it's impossible to compare these things accurately but women have been taking the pill for more than half a century. It's been proven to be relatively safe and reliable for most people. Something for men would be great but I'm certainly not going to risk future fertility with something that new and untested, particularly when my partner has a much more tested and safe alternative. On top of that, men have a very simple, effective, and safe option available - condoms. They have their own downsides but they don't outweigh the risk, pain, and anxiety of an injection in the scrotum.
I'm sure there were situations in Swedish hospitals, in particular around Stockholm during the early stages of the pandemic, were patients were not given appropriate care because of the enormous pressure from COVID. No doubt this increased the number of deaths.

Did this happen because politicians and officials in Sweden despise the scientific method? No.
What you said is underappreciated in options on architecture. I'm as much of a critic of some themes as anyone, but it's fundamentally about designing within constraints.

One can dislike the result, but proposing alternatives that ignore the design constraints is disingenuous.

If countries need massive amount of housing but don't have time or money to build it... you're going to get a certain type of solution.

And it can be the best solution given those constraints and still an objectively bad solution.
Can you also add bandwidth quotas?
Slightly related VR startup I'm building - Traverse (https://traverse.to)
This planet cannot naturally sustain billions of humans. It takes all our industrial capacity and cutting nutritional corners just to feed us, and now one war in one country is to cut our supplies and put millions at risk.

Not to mention how most people don't have serious, productive jobs like doctors or lawyers. Most people have dead-end office jobs, ones that fuel global consumerism. Is that the technology you talk about losing? iPhones and videogames? And even so, unemployment is still an unsolvable problem.

You should drop your fairy tale expectations of living happily forever after. Mathematical models predict population growth and decline in nature. It is completely expected that when the average westerner is satiated emotionally and physically, they are not instinctively pushed to reproduce - why would they, there's nothing serious to work towards.
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> extortionately expensive compared to similar infrastructure projects in other countries

Can you make a few comparisons to similar infrastructure projects in other countries to illustrate this point? Make sure those countries have similar safety protections for workers, and labour rights, of course.
Unknown unkowns are much more dangerous in any revolutionary change. Because previous experience is much less useful in a revolutionary change.

GMO, with its large increase in potential interventions, is quite revolutionary.
Developers often work on high-specced laptops and it's hard for us to even remember how using 4GB of RAM feels like. My first laptop I used for professional work had 16GB of RAM and that was a 1000€ laptop 9 years ago. That laptop still works and Discord is usable on it.

On the other hand I did see a computer with 512MB of RAM in use at a high school in my country in 2018, so I understand that in some places people can't afford to upgrade their hardware.

But if RAM is the only issue and most 15 years old hardware can be upgraded to 8GB or 16GB of RAM for 80€, I believe that most developers simply see problems on 4GB RAM systems as a non-issue.
> By this logic one can rationally claim the best thing you can do for the environment is to die.

That may well be true for most people. Luckily the environment isn't the only factor in ethical considerations.
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Here's a few things that I've found to work well

1. Onboarding docs - this is a working document on our wiki that describes the step-by-step process to getting a new laptop ready for development, including repos, tools, configs etc. Each new joiner is responsible to update the doc as they work through it to clarify unclear items, or add/update/remove out-of-date instructions

2. Onboarding buddy - this person is there to answer any questions related to onboarding, as well as helping the new joiner to navigate the organisation and get to know who's who.

I like the idea of regular touchpoints with expected milestones, too. I might try that.
Isn't that what technology is for? Maybe we should stop screaming about technology putting everybody out of work for five minutes before demanding an answer about who'll do the work to take care of old people.
> They are perfectly functional

For the people building them, yes. For the people using them, they are basically a massive con. "We will help you communicate!" Yeah, because this will allow you to harvest my data and sell me more shit. "We have these great features!" Yeah, that other networks had 20 years ago and you killed to enable the beforementioned con and monopolistic practices.

> I've deleted my WhatsApp account 2 years ago and still communicate with anyone without issues.

Well, good for you. I have WA groups that provide information about my kids' whereabout, schoolbus info, all sorts. Can I leave them? Yeah, in the same way I could walk out of civilization to go live on Jakku.
This is one thing feel intuitively but have trouble arguing. When a solution requires running a server, I mentally count it as much more expensive than if it's done locally and synchronously.

I've noticed not everyone shares this bias, and I'm wondering if I'm unnecessarily conservative or other people are underestimating maintenance costs.
> EVs have environmental costs too. How do we solve that?

We incrementally get better at it. For one thing, it should be possible to power any mining, manufacturing or recycling process with electricity.
Huh?

I would think that the pill, both the men's and the women's version, would be imminently more preferable to an injection any day of the week? Particularly injections which require preparatory injections to numb pain deemed to exceed acceptable FDA levels for humans. If there is a men's and women's version of a pill, and a men's and women's version of an injection, most men and women would choose the pill.

That seems common sense to me, not squeamish-ness. This pill will garner infinitely many more users. (I mean, assuming it works I guess?)
next generation males about to have a blast
We tried nothing and it didn’t work! Best give up!
Heard it said that "Patriarchy" played a horrible role in how the pill was developed and tested. In first trials in South America women stopped taking it, there were uninvestigated health issues and side effects and one death from bleeding without autopsy, but since no one got pregnant, it was declared a success.
Not to say that modern options are not better.
I think it's historically accurate to say early male pill investigations have been infinitely more concerned with male health. OK to be ashamed of that.
If you live in a patriarchy many things are affected by it, even opiniones that appear contradictory.
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Vasalgel (a.k.a. RISUG) may not be for everyone, but even 1% of the male population would be a gigantic market, and yet RISUG never found corporate backing (it's been around for 40 years).

I've been waiting for this for more than 10 years now, ever since I've learned about it.
Typically I just use Go in a scratch base image where possible, since it’s super easy to compile a static binary. Drop in some certs and /etc/passwd from another image and your 2.5MB image is good to go.
From the docker-slim README:

Node.js application images:
from ubuntu:14.04 - 432MB => 14MB (minified by 30.85X)
from debian:jessie - 406MB => 25.1MB (minified by 16.21X)
from node:alpine - 66.7MB => 34.7MB (minified by 1.92X)
from node:distroless - 72.7MB => 39.7MB (minified by 1.83X)

Why are the minified Alpine images bigger than Ubuntu/Debian? Are a bunch of binaries using static linking and inflating the image? Or something else?
What kills me about engineering onboarding is how haphazard it always is. I don't think I've been in a single company where the company has cared about it enough to make sure there was any engineering onboarding process, much less a centrally-managed process. It's always completely team-specific, so some teams have great onboarding and some have none.

I just want a company to give a shit about its employees, y'know? It's the little things that make us feel appreciated. (Little things like "somebody telling us how to get work done in this company") It doesn't even have to be formal documentation if there's at least an introductory training that explains it.
I own my flat and charges are low (30€/mo) + very low electricity consumption <10€/mo, cheap insurance (7€/mo), cheap internet 4.9€/mo (mobile plan and tethering)

the only food I buy is a big rice pack (30€/20kg) that last 6 months to a year, and sometimes I buy fruits at a grocery (low price because that's the one they are ready to get rid of), so about 5-10€ a few times per month, free at market, free in the trees. That's all for the expenses, sometimes I buy soap or a bicycle tube. Sometimes, for a week or even a month I don't use my credit card (free online bank as well). But you're right, I'm definitely an outlier here where life is almost as expensive as in Paris
Dude, the guy /died/. We memorialise the people we care about when they pass away.