skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at old thatched roof buildings from the 1600s in the UK. That's the kind of wall thickness you're looking at here.

Modern "stick framing" construction is much thinner. Interior walls are four to five inches thick, depending on the actual dimensions of your 2x4 "sticks" and the drywall on either side of that. Exterior walls tend to be a bit thicker, depending on what kind of exterior surface you've chosen to put on the face.

If you want to build to PassivHaus standards with modern construction, then Matt shows examples of that in his video series, and yes the walls are thicker than we would normally see. But still not as thick as you'd get with hempcrete.

I'm not saying hempcrete is bad, I'm just saying that there is a factor there you have to take into consideration when you're looking at doing hempcrete construction for your walls.

The problem with running cables and pipes through hempcrete is that it is a solid material throughout. In modern "stick frame" construction, there is typically no interior insulation and nothing between those two sheets of drywall, other than the 2x4 sticks that are 16 inches on center. So, with all that empty space in the walls, it's much easier to run cables and pipes.

Again, not a deal breaker. But it is something you have to account for. And your current architects and construction crew will have to think and work harder now, in order to make life more livable for future architects and construction crews -- and future owners.
I was under the impression that the decision to prioritize industrial & commercial customers was a temporary one during the current shortages. At least, I certainly hope that is the case.
While I think it is overstated how hard it is to choose a JDK (pretty much just get the first OpenJDK release you see, which is packaged everywhere), I do see the advantage of a default build tool. Though for beginner use cases both maven and gradle is just a copy-pastable few lines and you are ready to .. java (sorry for the joke).

I don’t really agree about the 28 competing library thing though. First of all, Java has a really good standard library. Sure, it shows its age at some places but it’s not like you have to grab a new dependency for everything, I pretty much only grab deps for very specialized tasks, and in case of Java I now there will always be a match. The only difference in go here is that a bit more network-related code is in the standard library than in java, but that’s hardly that big of an advantage.

Regarding concurrency: the most unique feature of go is unarguably go routines, but the language has an otherwise quite dumb concurrency model hindering its usefulness. Sure, locking should not be the primary mechanism here, but it is painfully bad with defer being function scoped, not block scoped — while java has synchronized blocks since forever. And with the already mentioned coming of Loom, the JVM platform will again rise to the top with regards to concurrency.
How are these numbers calculated? It doesn't make sense to me.

There are apparently 2 different indices

NDX: NASDAQ 100 Index

2021-04-27 13960

2021-04-28 13902

2021-04-29 13970

2022-04-28 13456

2022-04-29 12854

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ENDX/chart

XNDX: NASDAQ-100 Total Return

2021-04-27 16360

2021-04-28 16291

2021-04-29 16372

2022-04-28 15880 (matches your [1])

2022-04-29 15170

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/$XNDX/interactive-cha...

I can't figure out what the difference is between them.

QQQ is a fund that tracks one of them, but I don't know which. It apparently all 3 match very closely:

https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/XNDX/charting?compare=XNDX,Q...

QQQ's "1-Year Daily Total Return" is -6.78% and its "1-Year" "Trailing Returns" "Monthly Total Returns" is 9.54%. How come those numbers are so different? Shouldn't they be essentially the same?

These other sites say QQQ's "1 Year Return" is -2.78%.

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/QQQ:US

https://etfdb.com/etf/QQQ/#performance

I don't understand any of these numbers. How can this stuff be so contradictory?
#MeToo existed for many years before Uber was even founded. It really became a thing because of Harvey Weinstein, not Uber.
I remember the good old days when Google offered a reverse phone lookup. Now trying to do that just leads to pages and pages of spam.
I don't mean bubble as in pop. I mean bubble as in disconnected and floating in their own world.
Eh, I would say that they do, there are just many, many, many more of them than we can see.
I think you under-estimate how quickly human populations will mentally adjust to "the new normal" and how much suffering we're willing to tolerate, especially if it happens to someone else on the other side of the planet.
QR codes work for me PC -> mobile ('Create QR code for this Page'), but I haven't really pursued the other direction... I usually post to Twitter and delete it to get the t.co link now that goo.gl is done.
InfiniFS: An Efficient Metadata Service for Large-Scale Distributed Filesystems
IonQ and Hyundai Steer Partnership Toward Quantum ML to Recognize Objects
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term "factoid" was believed to be coined by Normal Mailer in a book he wrote about Marilyn Monroe. Per said book, factoids are "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority."

While many use "fact" and "factoid" interchangeably, they are (by original definition) inherently two entirely different things.
Take some acid and what you are describing regarding consciousness becomes fairly apparent. The amount of things that automatically happen or get filled in for us goes unnoticed until you get a chance to step outside of it for a while.
What do they teach?
> also anyone know how is lymph pumped? I don't think the heart pump lymph so is it stagnant?

I have a close friend who is working on getting certified as a massage therapist. Skeletal, muscular, and vascular anatomy make up a big part of the required knowledge for the certification.

Two interesting things I learned from them:

1. The lymphatic system is massive and runs alongside our vascular system. For example, there are many lymphatic veins that run through the head and face that empty out just near our clavicle, where they’re the picked up by large vascular veins to the heart, and then on to the liver for filtration.

2. The lymph system is not attached to our heat, and movement of fluid in those veins is purely driven by mechanical motion of our bodies. This is often why paraplegics or folks with other forms of paralysis end up with swollen feet—lymphatic fluid gets trapped in the extremities and collects whoever gravity dictates.

Fascinating stuff. Gave me a much greater appreciation for the level of knowledge and skill to be a massage therapist.
> and it just isn't

According to your mind

But yes obviously eating human meat is probably not very potent. However doing human peptide extracts out of human meat (or out of human blood, urine, milk) like we already successfully do for cerebrolysin with cattle brain extracts could yield revolutionary health or nootropic results.
Indeed again, I am not advocating for immoralism.

> think "young blood transfusions" are largely snake oil.
I have extensive erudition in pharmacology and gerontology and young blood has m a n y explanative factors that make it a very promising therapeutic.
Slightly off-topic, but

> Of course, language always evolves—it's not like anyone's worried that English borrowed too many words from French.

I’ve known some (English) people who very much are and go out of their way to use Germanic roots instead. When they can, because it’s hard to avoid using ~a third of your language’s vocabulary. When they cannot, they pretend it’s Norman anyway.
> For example, an _incredibly_ common thing to do in production code is to make a web request. In Go, there is no need for debate, you use the stdlib.

And yet, Go's HTTP client doesn't have a good default [1] because of zero values, which are argued harmful in the article.

[1]: https://medium.com/@nate510/don-t-use-go-s-default-http-clie...
what is life > what is life

what is what > what

life is life > life is life

is life life > life - this life

is what what > what

life is what > life is something

is life something > so we live

something is life > something to live

something to live > what life?

what life > what is life

something living is life > life

something living needs help? > mandatory in housing articles?

Define broadly said articles, please. > Determine the most common details.

Internet access preference? > See the Internet?

what is the issue leaving > Do not use

perhaps pack, write outside or read from outside, then live again > May -Della Pack, Outdoor, Read FUD

something i can do for living > What can I do?

live a life something > Live
protobuf has issues with optional fields, as was pointed out in the post. Couple that with a language with a weak type system like golang (no sum types), and it's very verbose and slow to develop in. Targeting better languages helps alleviate the latter.
We found this cool study about randomness that we wanted to show you
This is what the professors in business schools study. MBA’s often get a bad rap, but as far as the actual research goes, that’s where the current efforts at rigorously studying management and organizational dynamics are.
Yes, but most of those books aren’t written by social scientists. Just as most of what is learned at business school is not the most important thing for running a business most of what scholars looking for the praise of other scholars publish is of limited use to businesspeople.

Businesspeople have more to learn from their own than from people in a completely different sector, just as artists like painters and sculptors learn more from their own than art historians and theorists. Much of academia is masturbatory, of no use or interest to people outside the specific sub field of academia it comes from, and the further divorced a field is from use by or contact with practitioners or consumer demand the greater the proportion.
Periodic function like sin(x) are not a dynamical system so its previous state does not determine the current state. So it should be approximated in that way.
This was from Iran. Apparently Afghanistan drug smugglers too are using a similar method - they take advantage of the the spice trade and pack the spices in gunny bags soaked in heroin solution (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/drug-hau... ).
wow that was really long but i read almost all of it. a lot of it is just going into details that are necessary to condemn him without committing libel, i feel like. the most impressive bit is that he became the CEO of a publicly traded company with totally fake CV and no education and was paid more than a million dollars. and now he works at a gun shop literally across the street from the old bike shop, peddling lies about being in the special forces.

it always astounds me how stupid people are. when i was 14 i had a buddy who was really into cycling and he told me that lance armstrong, a national hero at that point, was a liar and a doper. it seemed insane to me and i just brushed it off. and then a long time after that, it was in the headlines. in retrospect it was completely obvious. there are a lot of things like that. here is something that will seem insane to you but will be in the headlines in a decade or two: saturated animal fat doesnt cause heart disease. it will be fun to think back!
> a nasal spray might result in the compound being deposited at the bottom of a person's lungs without ever getting absorbed

Is it also true for cocaine and other similarly ingested substances? Are coke users walking around with garbage in their lungs?
It's interesting you describe it as "fractional reserve banks" given the fractional reserve bit has been largely irrelevant for a good while now (and in many countries, flat out wrong). For sure though, it would be super useful if everyone knew how banks work.
Quite surprised to see an SV company getting it THIS right. Bravo.
Bootstrappable Builds is one of the more important and hard open software projects today. Going from 512 bytes of machine code plus a ton of source code all the way up to a full distro.

https://bootstrappable.org/
Wow, I did not know that!

I would have referred to this using !$, which is one of the Bourne shell history substitutions. Like

$ mkdir awesome
$ cd !$

(The "!" has the connotation "history" in the shell, while the "$" has the connotation "last", as in regular expressions.)

An advantage of the way you mentioned is that you could actually see the history item displayed on the command line before running the command!
Errors are introduced at constant ratio per line of code that is not syntactically checked by compiler. The ratio is specific to developer and language used.

E.g., you can't make a mistake on a line that contains only curly bracket, but you can make (one-off) mistake on line "i += 10;"

The more verbose code, the more lines of code that are not syntactically checked. The more errors you introduce during development.

Why I talk about syntax and not types? Because type system of go and some other languages like C (and C#, C++ and some other including OCaml, for that matter) are not rich enough to express long dependencies as is done in Rust with its borrow checker. Rust has its own failing, of course. In some cases of type systems [1] it is possible to express environments with long dependencies without resorting to hacking of a compiler. But most languages do not have that luxury, the only dependence checking are balancing brackets and missing variable declarations.

[1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/02/beyond-monads.html

The axiom of (not only) software engineering says that cost to fix a defect is directly propotional to the time between introduction and discovery of said defect. The funnel of defect filtering (personal review, colleague code review, CI, QA, beta, etc) is not perfect, it still allows for some defects to fall through. The more defects are on wide part of the funnel, the more defects are on the narrow part of it. And for these defects that pass through, the time between introduction and discovery is bigger than for all other defects.

The more verbose code in some language, the more defects developer will generate using that language. The more defects will pass through defect detection funnel. The biger will be the cost to fix them and cost of software user to, well, use the software.

Google can afford that, because they can afford extremely long funnel with prolonged code reviews, big QA teams and long lasting betas. They can afford that because of money they got.

Practically everyone else cannot afford that.

Ego is not even a problem when you factor all other problems you get with simple or good enough verbose solutions.
There is and always will be this qualifying "if you are a young person" criteria for "don't pay attention". Unfortunately there are some who fall into the "down" period right during retirement, which may lead to disastrous consequences. Also unfortunately, the US (at least), whose retirement strategy is based on market investments (IRAs, 401Ks, etc.), combined with the high risk of health issues having the potential to have a large financial impact, and no other means for support of specific categories, has no mechanisms for adjustments / no social safety net.

Moral: if [still] in the US, make sure you stay young for ever ;-)
> The reasons given for lockdown were ever shifting

I agree that communication was awful all over the board and from both sides.

> Where, when, how?

Italy spring 2021. Note that in general I am talking about 2021 data not 2022. I wouldn't even call 2022 restrictions a lockdown, they are really more of a vaccination and mask mandate.
So the takeaway I get here is that it's perfectly fine for someone to dox you as long as they leave phone number, email address, and physical address out of it. Got it.
I agree that a great deal depends on your local area and what the normal construction methods are, and that's radically different between the US and some parts of Europe.

When my wife and I lived in Brussels for almost eight years in a townhouse that was built just after the turn of the 20th century (1910?), one thing we noted was the extremely thick walls. That kind of construction made sense at that time in that location. Modern construction methods in that same area would be thinner, but probably not like what we would typically see here in the US.

Many people in the US don't realize how far north a lot of Europe is. For example, Brussels is on about the same latitude as Toronto and Seattle. And Belgium is not part of what I would consider Northern Europe.

So, hempcrete construction in Europe might be a lot closer to the type of wall thickness you would normally see over there. And the fact that this is a solid construction material versus the hollow "balloon stick framing" technique we see for most home construction in the US -- that might be less of a problem for you.

I personally would like to see a lot more PassivHaus class building here in the US, and a lot more hempcrete in general. But both of those things are going to require a huge shift in the mindset of most builders here in the US.
That depends on your thinking.

My "media server" consists of a web application, backend application, multiple *arr services, transcoding automations, fibre termination, user account management shared across multiple machines and services, multiple VLANs and LUNs, etc.

All these are spready across 16RU or so, but really only serve as a "media server".
If I’m a Boltzmann brain that can only survive for an instant, why do I experience existing for a whole lifetime?
I think the important thing is to focus on the end objective - so not programming just for the sake of programming, but programming as a means to do something else.

Start with an interpreted language that doesn't require convoluted compilation or build-steps. Or at the very least something with a "play button" that allows one-click runs. Anything else just distracts and confuses from the actual "programming" part.

I'll echo others and say building games is a good on-ramp for kids. I also recall enjoying playing around in Visual Basic as I could make a "real application" and it was satisfying to see my work as a "real" program I could see and use, and try to work out how to imitate other features I was seeing in apps I used every day.

As yours is 18 something like scratch is probably too "baby-ish" so perhaps python will feel like more of a grown up option for them with the option to do some fun stuff with game/graphic programming. Visual Basic .net (or even C#) will allow for building GUI apps nicely.

If they enjoy those they'll be able to broaden their horizons and learn more. Don't sweat the theory aspects - they don't need to know about runtime complexity and monads etc just to get started - if they get the bug for coding, they'll come across this stuff on their own eventually (e.g. when they end up creating a naive O(n^n) implementation, they'll end up spending some time trying to optimise it even if they don't realise they are doing that - be there to help guide and offer pointers to help open their eyes to it all)

Good luck
Most of these work in most programs using readline: https://readline.kablamo.org/emacs.html

It's fun to blow people's minds by cutting/copying/pasting _in the shell_ without touching the mouse and using Ctrl+u to clear password inputs when you make a typo.
Plus what about people trying to remove the details of someone else. It's not something you want automated.
These are called ocular migraines. I’ve had them since a kid, roughly once every two months or so.

what’s really interesting is after having heart surgery, I would have like 10 a day for weeks. Others in post-cardiac surgery message boards reported the same experience.
It went back to normal frequency months after surgery, but definitely an unsolved mystery!
There's probably an extension that would automatically rename permanent redirects.

It would not make sense if a bookmark could randomly change.
> And if the rule is "don't juggle forks while riding a unicycle around electrical outlets", it's usually because someone lied about what happened.

> This is a description of a rape, and the person who committed it came up with a story to explain it away, and the Talmud has codified this excuse as justifying a modest penalty

This conclusion is unwarranted. This is a description of a sex act which the parties were not willing to admit to. But nothing about the story indicates that it's a rape. If consensual sex between the man and the woman would be forbidden by the local culture, it has just as much need to be explained away as a rape would.

(And since in this case the woman's shame is public -- and explicitly commented on in the ruling -- the woman wouldn't have much to lose by contradicting her rapist's account of falling off a roof.)
Regarding career choice, I completely agree. People doing important useful work (e.g. teaching) should be paid enough to have a comfortable life. They should be able to buy a home, go on vacation, have a family, and not struggle financially. I guess I was looking at it from a more “realistic” point of view. I think, sadly, this is what people need to do. There are career paths I wish I could take but unfortunately they don’t pay well enough, even though they should, and I have to code useless crap instead. So I think it’s possible to have a comfortable white collar career (relatively easily if you are intelligent, hard working, and willing to move to a major city) but unfortunately it may not be fulfilling or noble.

Regarding dating, I got off the market just before covid. But - I didn’t date for the majority of my 20’s due to pretty bad anxiety. After finally starting dating (using apps) I’d found a long term partner within 6 months. I feel like, if I could do it almost anyone can. Maybe things have got really weird but it’s worth maybe reconsidering your expectations etc.

>> The issue is, net net, lots of people are struggling.

I completely agree. Things need to change. However in the meantime, I think it’s still possible to “play the game” and succeed. The problem is it may be incredibly unfulfilling.
It's definitely not POSIX, but a good GNUish way is

date +%s

Your portable suggestion worked in gawk, nawk, and mawk -- cool!
I have a few qualms with this API:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and copying all the Owen Wilson "Wow" audio (.ogg) files.

2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive full of Owen Wilson "Wow" clips. Most people I know e-mail "Wow"s to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to listen to them, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
Wow I wonder how much power does gravity has over lymph repartition in the body?
I mean wether I lay down or stand still probably impact the "coverage" of our body by the immune system.
There might be correlates between time to recovery and human position and movements then.

BTW bugs do not have vascularisation their body is one single flask of stagnant fluid. And their brain is distributed..
To me hyperlinks are about the only valid use of underline. It’s clumsy and ugly when used for emphasis or in titles, but hyperlinks cannot really be distinguished otherwise (a different colour helps as well, but you cannot guarantee that it will be rendered correctly, and it is distracting in a long text).