skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not significantly "young" but I get most my "news" from links in telegram chats and places like this.

If it's huge news, I'll hear about it (you can't avoid it) and if it is not huge news, why do I care?
I agree. With hybrid work, one thing I noticed is that, at least among my coworkers and myself, is that productivity will be concentrated to those one or two days in the office and the WFH days will productivity will fall dramatically. When we were fully remote, productivity held consistently throughout the week. I'm willing to bet that the organization is monitoring this trend and will try to build a case for needing full back to office.

Though at the same time, my company opted didn't renew their lease on two office floors (out of a total of 8 floors) due to hybrid work and employees not having a designated desk. So who knows.
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After nearly 100 years we've come full circle and the Elizabeth line is opening, connecting Reading and the town's West on London to the city through to Shenfield - although perhaps still not on the scale they originally pictured.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-paleo-diet-ha...

Also https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-paleo-diet-ha...
I quote:
Humans come from a fairly generalized line of higher primates, a lineage able to utilize a wide range of plant and animal foods. There is general agreement that the ancestral line (Hominoidea) giving rise to humans was strongly herbivorous (14, 15). Modern human nutritional requirements (eg, the need for a dietary source of vitamin C), features of the modern human gut (haustrated colon), and the modern human pattern of digestive kinetics (similar to that of great apes) suggest an ancestral past in which tropical plant foods formed the basis of the daily diet, with perhaps some opportunistic intake of animal matter.

Going on:
Consumption of animal matter to satisfy requirements for protein and many essential micronutrients would free up space in the gut for carbohydrate-rich plant foods and allow for their use as fuel for the increasingly large human brain (14). Because humans initially evolved in Africa, where wild animals generally lack appreciable fat stores (2), it seems clear that they consumed a mixed diet of animal and plant foods, given the apparent limitations of human digestive physiology to secure adequate daily energy from protein sources alone (4).

Whilst early human were not vegan they were hardly mostly carnivores either. Furthermore as stated in both articles basing the diet of modern humans on the one of our ancestors is a mistake!

P.S. I am far from being vegan! Suturday I ate 600g of a delicious cow.
If I took a job with the expectation that I would, at least some day, set foot in an office, then I think it's unreasonable to ask them to foot the bill for my commute, lunches, etc.
I believe that theres value in planning/meeting in person and coding at home
Reminds me of Meg Whitman and Quibi.
What an awesome metaphor, 100% agree with this. That's why I've always said that the SPA architecture with a separate backend is a way to increase the amount of work so that it can be distributed to more people/teams.

It baffles me when I see single developer or small team projects going for this.
Google has a knowledge base/classification API which you could use to create bulk tags.
https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph
You think they are platinum-level sponsors at multiple conferences every year, sponsors of PLMW multiple times a year, sponsors for carbon-neutrality at ICFP each year, and continue investing in hiring PhDs and improving the OCaml ecosystem because... the... cost of switching away from OCaml is too great?

I don't think that tracks. They like OCaml, and they are pretty adamant that it is a good tool for the job. Maybe you disagree, but you should not project your opinions on them.
I really like the idea of being able to select my own algorithms
There needs to be a quid pro quo for the inconvenience and 20-30 minutes feels like a reasonable amount of time to get from the outskirts to the centre of a large city. If public transport took the same amount of time, or more, as driving, there is less motivation for a driver to use it unless you can price them out of driving.

(Indeed, that is the problem in my local area since the nearest town is an hour on the bus, versus a 25 minute drive, so services keep getting cut.. so less people ride.. etc. etc.)
> "Western society has chosen for itself the organization best suited to its purposes and one I might call legalistic. The limits of human rights and rightness are determined by a system of laws; such limits are very broad. People in the West have acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting, and manipulating law (though laws tend to be too complicated for an average person to understand without the help of an expert). Every conflict is solved according to the letter of the law and this is considered to be the ultimate solution. If one is right from a legal point of view, nothing more is required, nobody may mention that one could still not be entirely right, and urge self-restraint or a renunciation of these rights, call for sacrifice and selfless risk: This would simply sound absurd. Voluntary self-restraint is almost unheard of: Everybody strives toward further expansion to the extreme limit of the legal frames"

I would emphasize that last sentence.
I didnt even say that Solzhenitsyn advocates for my view I said he hints at these issues in this essay.
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You don’t believe defense of DNR from valid Nazi treat is valid? You understand Azov are Nazis right? There are 70k Ukrainians led by Nazis in front of DNR, defeating them is completely valid cause for war.
One of the reasons I hate the command line is that it causes all sorts of tiny hacks like this as you need to type everything out.
Your argument makes zero sense and is completely divorced from what you preach.
I hate this direct form of hypocrisy. People pretend to be "righteous" and then act dishonest.

Cloud providers already bill network traffic at extremely high prices. The cheap ones oversubscribe their connections, according to the motto "you get what you pay for". The current system is "use = cost".

>For example, a common idea is that we should tax trucks more than other cars because they cause a large amount of damage to our roads.

And this is exactly why we should have net neutrality. If there is net neutrality on roads then we can just tax by axle weight. If there is no net neutrality then road companies would come up with a weird classification system that is completely independent of axle weight. For example. S-Pedelecs in Germany are just unthrottled electric bicycles that go faster than 25km/h. They are basically classified as a moped even though they are much lighter. Road companies would then charge S-Pedelecs more because of what they are classified as instead of how much they weigh. Truck companies will then try to develop trucks that aren't classified as trucks to avoid those higher fees (VPNs).

> Following that logic, the companies that encourage users to consume more bandwidth should be charged a price for that since they're the ones making money on it, and we don't want to raise costs on users.

That makes no sense. Just charge all commercial internet connections by traffic or capacity (oversubscribing does not count). You are so far away from "use = cost" that it's not even funny. The amount of brain twisting that is going on here is insane.
Per https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/10816/6388, referencing https://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE18, "Source code may be place placed in this subdirectory, only for reference purposes"

One presumes calling it "src" is in historical alignment with UNIX using short names wherever possible to reduce typing (and the possibility for typos)

See also: "ls" (list files), "mv" (move), "cp" (copy), "/usr" (userland-specific items), "/bin" (binaries), and on and on
Yeah, I'm starting to scrape Etsy (there are definitely some on there already).

Shopify stores seem like another big opporunity. It could potentially be the biggest mall in the world and yet I can't find the Shopify stores in my own area to support local.

100% agree on the reminders. I originally had the gift recipients birthday's in there but that was personally identifiable information so I stripped it. People are already too concerned about data collection. I'll likely add a "When do you want to be reminded about this gift giving date" to avoid that whole issue.
You'd be surprised how little is recorded for most transactions. While it's possible to retain a full audit trail for data access, most systems don't. Answering questions like "who looked at this database" is impossible in just about every system I've ever worked with. Some of the more sensitive financial or personal data systems might retain records of who changed a value, but even that is rare and in most cases easily faked or hidden.
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The emulator can just hold on to the crank positional state and analog sticks should be precise enough that rotation can be controlled by sweeping through directions at full magnitude.

You could possibly even ignore the crank state entirely and assume any new direction is the new crank angle. Most likely games will handle low sample rates anyway.

Lots of games have you control a virtual crank by rotating a stick. Might not be as satisfying as the crank (if the crank is even satisfying to begin with) but I don't think it would be unplayable.
In rural Alabama, raw sewage spurs investigation into racial inequality
Lots of people are complaining about terrible content on Netflix. Years ago, Netflix was praised for its "long tail"--basically it could have content that appealed to people with diverse interests. But it seems like people now see the long tail as useless junk and would prefer a shorter tail with more concentrated quality.
Simple things every developer can do to ship more secure code
Why is this framed as a "freedom of speech" issue? Twitter isn't a government-with-free-speech-constitution. Twitter has terms of service, and it's well within its rights to kick people off its service.

"Elon Musk Want To Allow Some People to Violate Twitter Terms of Service After Spending Years Silencing Critics". That seems more accurate.

I honestly don't get this sort of thing. The USA has a legal system that prioritizes private property. The USA has spent the last 40 years making it clear that anyone has freedom of speech, but nobody has to listen to it, and most certainly nobody has to pay to spread anyone else's speech. Trump comes along an all that goes out the window - Twitter must carry Trump's TOS-violating speech? Seems hypocritical in the extreme.
What's wrong with being uninformed, especially when it comes to "news"?
~~~"...Inside CNN, executives saw the launch as a success. As of Tuesday, CNN+ had roughly 150,000 subscribers...."~~~ ups, sorry. As the sibling states this is in the other CNN+ related article
> About 350 of the 700 people that work for CNN+ will be laid off with pay and benefits for the next 90 days. After that, any employee that doesn't find a new role with the network will be granted at least six months' severance.

That sounds pretty good.

At least the people who are most affected by the poor leadership and decision-making are getting a decent chance to land on their feet.
The making of CNN was Desert Storm. They covered it better than anyone else. There and then they hooked the 30-40 demographic of the time and exploded. They've lived off that reputation for decades at this point.
Servers routinely handle plaintext passwords when authenticating. They may not store it, but it's not something that is invisible to them, unless using some auth method that uses challenge/response instead of plaintext passwords. Most web apps use plaintext password auth.
I would 100% disagree. If these young teenagers can do it, it's clear that basically anyone willing, can break into basically any company they want, whenever they want.

TMUS is not remotely special other than, it's apparently a little easier than T or VZ, but again it's not like we should consider those "safe" by any means.

> its also pretty clear that stock market, customers and regulators also do not care about such gross negligence.

Because everyone else is equally negligent. The NSA cares at least a token amount, but clearly they can't even keep their stuff safe, let alone the rest of us.

Banks are "safe" not because they have good IT security, but because they have centuries of log auditing practice and can mostly undo transactions whenever they want.
I have distant memories of an on ramp coming down on the right hand / fast lane side. Am I right?
Interesting, must be somewhat recent of a change. I wonder how those people who took the 100% options deal are feeling right now.
Thank you so much! I will definitely check it out!
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Not at all. That’s terror tactics when you cannot achieve your goal otherwise. It’s also completely counter productive in a country or region you plan or want to annex. Fallujah, Raqqa, and even Mosul were organised operations, during which neighbourhoods were isolated, reduced, and then taken street after street more or less methodically. Nobody ever sat there just bombing indiscriminately. The closest example you could find is Aleppo.

Taking Fallujah: ~2000 insurgents killed, ~1000 captured, ~800 dead civilians, ~10000 buildings destroyed out of ~50000. Even without taking the 90% destruction rate at face value, Mariupol is already much, much worse (at least 4 times the number of civilian casualties, double the number of dead Ukrainians soldiers, and more than half the buildings destroyed). And the numbers will likely grow more and more as mass graves are recovered.
Worst domain name evarrrr!
It literally WAS CNN- - it didn't even carry CNN, because they didn't want to fight the cable war.
> It's about memorization of answers to pass law exams, not an actual test itself designed to verify logical reasoning ability. Why do they think this is a good source of questions for testing logic?

I'm not sure what that has to do with anything? The paper doesn't claim to have anything to do with testing logic. It's about people's self-perception in relation to a task at which they are, or are not, competent. That task could be juggling watermelons or strangling geese for all it matters.
I very much doubt that most people will actually live forever even if it becomes possible.

At some point you are just done, and if you accept that, you’ll die. It may be at 50, 100, 150, maybe 200. But I don’t think humans are mentally made for spans of time much larger than that.
I mean, people did try to do everything all at once, and the results are therefore dead and forgotten (cough Itanium cough).
Not being able to set or see an actual resolution when using Netflix on my TV is so frustrating.
Fair, hard to know which.
Teleology
UNIX was also introduced in the 1970s when you frequently were working with a 110 baud modem and/or a printing terminal.

That's why UNIX uses very short command names like 'rm' and 'ls'.
Second story!

A former manager used to work for the Vax silicon team. For the youngster: the Vax was a very popular mini computer in the eighties. It was also copied by the evil communists on the other side of the iron curtain.

So the engineers put a message on the die, in Cyrillic: “Vax, when you care enough to steal the very best.”

When they found out about it, management wasn’t totally happy about it, but it didn’t go any further than “do don’t this again.”

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
Your point is valid. I would be dead if I hadn’t spent so much time researching. Doctors constantly dismiss symptoms as anxiety.

At one point I was in ER (second time) gasping for air coughing up blood. Totally chill from all the anxiety meds while Doctor was explaining how it was just muscle strain. He went white when x/ray came back.
I think there are two reasons for throttling. A user due to congestion and to prioritize content. Throttling a user for congestion to give a “fair” usage of a shared resource makes perfect sense, but throttling a specific type of content doesn’t. If it needs to be done split one line into 10 equal lines, but don’t say no one can view Netflix or some other service.
I mean, it has basic support for a private wiki and delegated auth. Just not very robust support. There are a lot of dead ends for common enterprise use cases. It’s just not really designed for this use case, and there other options that do these things better out of the box.
If you failed to pre book a month in advance, it used to cost over £150 for a return trip to London from Bath which got you in before normal business hours, and you very often did not get a seat for that (making it impossible to spend the time productively, one of the key benefits of train travel). If you have three colleagues travelling together for a meeting, driving or even taking a car service is invariably cheaper.
I would be interested to see how well one company culture could handle that. For example, you can get away with crappy documentation for an in person team and just hope that osmosis handles knowledge transfer. That doesn't work with remote.
Yes but that is the ISP's problem. They are the ones that must get their damn business model in order.
Agree with most of what you say except the bizarre point of government being more effective than most companies. That one simply makes no sense. The U.S. government is one of the most ineffective organizations on the planet!
This is a wild collapse…but probably still not as big of a flop as Quibi.

Or at least, they seemed to have burned through slightly less money, and may be able to renegotiate some of the contracts to get the talent onto the main CNN service. And it’s not a totally bonkers idea to try to move the CNN brand into streaming as cable becomes less and less dominant…whereas Quibi was just madness, through and through.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528404/quibi-shut-down...
And that’s what really confuses me. Why not just start with a simulcast and maybe some extra programming available. That would’ve been so much cheaper. Then grow that into what they wanted it to become.
Other systems like SQL server solve this with hints (HOLDLOCK) which is also discussed here that PG really needs hints.

So PG doesn't like hints and instead makes non standard syntax for upsert instead of standard merge syntax with a hint.

Now PG is adding merge anyway and probably could have just extended it with non standard syntax to get an atomic upsert instead it has two different approaches.

IMO it probably would have been better to go with the SQL standard MERGE with a non-standard hint syntax so its more readable between systems instead of adding non standard syntax then adding the standard much later.

Not sure if there is any movement on adding the upsert approach to the SQL standard instead.
Dont throw all the money there, just some to have some unique, quirky, passionate, fresh content. Surely people can skip titles they don't like.
How are the actions of Putin all that different then the actions of Hitler?
Rewriting my site from Next to Remix
"Hybrid working" (partially in-person, partially remote) may or may not be a "ruse"

For certain purposes, being in-person can be useful

If the office space is already paid-for, it's silly (from a business perspective) to not use it

If you have needs for scheduled all-hands or other types of meetings, doing them all over Zoom can be much slower / less efficient than doing it face to face
When it comes to memory then it will typically be stored longer than necessary due to how garbage collection works in 99% of all of web applications.
Oh yea, definitely,
With rainbow parentheses, and paredit, the experience is top tier
Very often, people give what they would like to get. If you have access to a person gift-giving history it's pretty easy to find something they like. If not... ask around.
> I feel like in film, big expanses of white / light grey carry much stronger connotations than big expanses of black / dark grey.

This might be a carryover from the days when fully lighting up a movie theater screen would reveal all the imperfections and stains in the canvas, and film makers learned to avoid that.
It seems to me that capitalism is based on the broken windows fallacy. Capitalists want pointless things to happen (eg. commuting, buying coffee / new clothes) because this is good for "the economy". In the real world these things are a pointless waste of precious resources and damage to our planet that we will never get back.
This sounds like a W for the carbon-zero initiative. While renewables are picking up a lot of the media attention and a lot of the slack, having safe nuclear plants to bolster the clean grid helps a ton. The whole issue of power plants not making enough money because coal and natural gas are cheaper to burn breaks my brain. It's like when gas was near $2.00 a gallon years after the mid-2000's gas price crunch and all the sudden everybody wanted a gigantic SUV or truck again. You know what happens when the gas prices go up! You were there! What are you doing???
YouTube artificially promotes CNN content. I suspect their content on YouTube would have similar number of views to CNN+ otherwise.
What you just said makes it clear that humans are not only hypocrites, but also racists.

Can we do better as a humanity? Should we just accept that we are all racist assholes and stop pretending we are better than that, or try to become better than that?
I've been 2 days in hybrid for a while now, and it's worked out pretty well. Monday is most all meetings, then the WFH days are tech work, with the remaining in person day being a good catch all for if I have to work in person with someone on something technical.
"White space is as important to code as silence is to music. Without them music is noise and code is an impenetrable wall of text." -Nils M Holm
In my company it's on a per person level. You can work from the office 5 days or from home 5 days or anything in between.
you're right:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259.txt
I've tried some of those, and nothing comes to close to Clojure / LISP repl.

Just hitting a shortcut and getting the code executed using everything loaded into the REPL and getting inline results is great.

It helps that Clojure only has expressions and no statements as well, so every form can be run and it will return something.

Here's what I mean, this is me doing 2021-Day2 AoC puzzle part 1. WHen this pops up

=> foo

Next to a line, it's because I've hit CTRL+Enter on that line to evaluate the form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HHLT2_a1tI

(You'll need to bump to 1080 resolution otherwise its probably unreadable)

My day job is C# and JS, I can't get anywhere close to this interactivity with my code. As the complexity of the code grows this becomes even more powerful.
I've always preferred to use https://unogs.com/ which lets you search with a lot of advanced search parameters and the resulting pages are much easier to browse, and then just pull up specific titles on Netflix itself.
To be fair, unless you were hired as remote only then the salary you had negotiated before factored these work related costs into your total real compensation.

Back in the not so distant day when most were office dwellers, when considering competing offers the cost and time of the commute were always a factor, sometimes large.

Changes in the nature of work (office vs remote) as a result of the pandemic will take a little while to sort themselves out in terms of employee compensation, but that should give many people a lot of opportunities at new and different jobs too.