skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, no. Airbnb rentals don't go for 3-6 months. (So what I was doing wouldn't have even been possible via their website). I wasn't "living like a hipster", I wasn't on a work-vacation. There was no "cheating" involved, since all the people who post on Airbnb also post on other websites, local and international. Airbnb just had a nicer map.

It ain't cheating Airbnb if the landlord is happy to cut out the middleman. And when I stay in a place I learn the language and live there and try to integrate into society. I'm not there to party for a weekend. What I'm referring to with the hollowing out of city centers like Lisbon, Prague, Amsterdam... people like me renting there for 3-6 months are not a threat to people who live and work there, because I'm negotiating close-to standard price for a furnished apartment (and the owner knows that the stability of being paid up front makes up for the extra they might make if their Airbnb were booked every day). So no, I wouldn't be treating the place as a tourist destination or undermining the locals, or partying and reducing their quality of life in their own places next door.
Note that there obviously is a working weather widget, the new translation service is pretty excellent, and the spotlight input can do unit and currency conversions.

(there's also OCR now, and it beats anything else I've seen in speed and accuracy with a healthy margin. It somehow indexed old photos of handwritten notes that I have trouble reading myself)
Border control and ice will know.
Which community is that?
The alternative to mask mandates was selective use of mask in situation of high risk. If Netherlands is generally a high risk area while Finland is a low risk area, then that would illustrate a failure of mask mandates in favor of selective use. If that is what this study demonstrate then that is an important finding.
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This is why I don't hire CS grads to program. They are not taught what they need to know. They spend most of their time on things they would need to know to get into grad school to learn to be professors, and then not teach what people I would hire need to know.

My first question is always about effects of caches, and what-all kinds of caches affect what their program does. It is not all a programmer needs to know, but it separates those who care about what affects their programs from those who don't.
That seems like a great way to do it. I wouldn't mind a couple of meetups a year.
Many times, buying the CD and ripping it to FLAC* is the only way to legally acquire* music for use with your computer.

* It must be lossless and high quality.

* It must work offline.
I encourage you to read this then: https://go.dev/blog/supply-chain.

Edit: along with the authors own blog explaining their take: https://kerkour.com/supply-chain-attacks-and-backdoored-depe....

The short version is, it's better to have a centralised (though proxyable, and opt-outable) central store of hashes of module content, but then provide flexibility over distribution. The concern is that a central package manager adds complexity and opportunity for security vulnerabilities without adding much value.
That statistics are also weird. Not necessarily wrong, but the article doesn't control for the rate of COVID infection in Israel, which is a major cofounder, and of the three authors one is an ER doc and two are Management professors -- no epidemiologists, public health, or other expertise. They also pick seemingly random periods of time to analyze against each other.

My guess is that a more correctly written paper would have been published in a better journal (maybe even Nature) if it got the same results, but it didn't.
Quite naturally I would imagine it makes you more competent in every role where you can be discriminated on those basis (customer-facing, or any job that's heavy on communication). Could make sense for the social worker role, less so for the IT specialist, but I'd be interested to know your source.
> Who gives a crap? Those four things break you free of the borrow checker while also letting you get a grip on the language.

Exactly! And remember, it's not always getting a grip on the language. Sometimes it's getting a grip on the problem or one of the possible solutions.
that's like every post about ruby somebody comments about Crystal..
I agree it's most banal nonsense and none of these are backed up with an explanation which is actually the interesting part.

You learn as a person when you understand why you should do something not just blindly following a list of advice.
The global society is currently trying to overcome gender, race and sexuality issues, while our children are still being treated mostly like slaves - it's for the sure the next fronteer, but maybe it will take a while.

in no particular order:

a. their freedom of speech is largely limited;

b. their freedom of movement is almost non-existant;

c. they do not have the right to own property;

d. parents have an immense power over them, with zero
oversight in most cases, in a manner analogue to egypt pharaoh's or something (also, like pharaohs, they claim the children are THEIR PROPERTY, just like slaves in commerce);

e. they are ridicularized and treated as incapable a lot of times and get harshly criticized while adult society is a clear disaster;

f. they get their creativity and will to live supressed, repressed;

g. they are coerced into taking part in school brainwashing, a lot of times having more responsabilities than their parents;

h. they don't get paid for their work;

i. the child can escape from the cancer of nuclear family, but in most cases if they choose to do so they will end up in even worst swamps;

j. children get lied to, tricked and manipulated all the time;

k. beyond being denied the freedom of speech, a lot of times they are more deeply denied the broad freedom of thought, being forced into some religious brainfuc* of some sort;

l. not to mention all direct abuse like free labor, physical and/or verbal abuse, all kinds of prejudice, etc;

m. marginalized everywhere by cities, places and adults that ain't safe or fun;

etc

"All that which might be destroyed should be destroyed, in order to free children from slavery" A saying from an old revolutionary.
I liked masks. Privacy, warmth during winter, anecdotally had no cold infection in the past 2 years (usually have one every year, and I wasn't stuck at home in the worst period of Covid), protects against each others' bad breath, everyone is quieter since it's harder to talk.

Everyone complaining about masks ignored all the other, more pressing problems around restrictions/Covid. It was kind of like complaining about losing a rare banknote by getting shot in a mugging.

Now we're "Covid free" and no one wears one, and it's really awkward to be the only one with a mask...
Correlation between rollouts and virus-infections respectively, show that the mRNA vaccine is almost twice as likely to cause a cardiovascular event. So Covid is indeed dangerous, but not quite as dangerous as the vaccine it seems.
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The first episode of a series on emergent political economies. Both this episode and the upcoming guest list are excellent.

Transcript for those preferring text: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/82/transcript

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Anyone else notice in the beach video that the researcher filled the cup using tubing that was previously on the ground, then drank it? Looks cool though :)
This isn't even a macro thing, it just needs trivial use of procedures/methods, and I too have worked with people that are fine copying much larger chunks of code around rather than make a new function, and I just don't understand it. It's neater, safer and faster to encapsulate it, and they still don't.
Decent vendors such as sunelec.con will easily quote you a price for a one pallet load LTL freight shipment of a pallet of, say, 22 panels. Not like you have to arrange your own freight and often they get a better price because of they great monthly spend with the major us48 state LTL freight carriers.

Be sure to specify if you need liftgate service at the destination or not, because that will affect cost, otherwise by default a pallet by LTL freight will need a loading dock to receive.
It's been a long time since I read this. I just did a mental audit of the services my company runs, and they all (more or less) match what's in this document. It's not even a conscious thing anymore.

I think any mid-level backend engineer (or any web-related software engineer, for that matter) would do well to read through this and dive deeper into each of these recommendations to understand why they were chosen.
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An eink display doesn't handle the same as a regular framebuffer, and the speed of the update depends a lot of what operation you want to do on it and how you want it to look like.

With partial updates the latency can be pretty low. There are many ways to control ghosting in a way that doesn't affect the latency too much (essentially, refresh asynchronously - and again - only where needed)

For regular typing, I have no doubts it can work without disruption. What is harder is modifying blocks of text. Scrolling quickly. It can be done, but would eventually require a full screen refresh to get good quality due to ghosting again.

(Ironically eink demonstrated high refresh rate video playback what.. one year ago on their screens? - another vaporware demo)

In a sense, it's like working remotely with a slow modem. The latency is not high, but you need to be smart on what you display (the original vi editor would actually be a _perfect_ fit for this ;))

The question is why I would put up with all this effort and limitations with eink. For me, it's because eink is MUCH easier on the eyes. It's pretty much the only display which is truly readable outdoors. So far I wasn't able to use any single tablet/phone/laptop outside, despite owning devices with pretty bright 500nit screens.
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The author seems to not know Swift very well, because this behaviour was ported over to Swift in a very nice, type safe manner:

In Swift, you can call methods on Optional values, and they evaluate to null or the actual value. So the authors example:

if (dict.containsObjectForKey[@"a"]) { ... }

Would look like this:

if dict?.contains("a") { ... }

The `?` tells Swift to only call `contains` if `dict` is not null. The return value of this call would then be another optional. This second point is the improvement over Objective-C. There, you would not know whether the return value of `dict.containsObjectForKey` is a potential null value. This, in turn, would crash the app if you'd try to use this return value to, say index into an array or perform math on it. In Swift, the compiler yells at you to remind you that this value can be null.

So, really, Swift has the same benefits, but better.
You're the only one who "sees" it because you are mistaken. The controls are still connected, as per the Boeing philosophy. Moving one moves the other, unless so much force is applied that the link opens (by design, to allow controlling the aircraft if one set of controls is stuck for some reason).

This is a pretty clear example of pilot error; they had all the information needed to understand what was going on (and, unlike on an Airbus, the additional information of needing to fight each other physically through the controls), and failed to process that information into a correct understanding of the situation. The fact that these type of events keep happening at Air France tells you it's not the individual pilots, but rather a training / company culture issue.
No, I know — I remember the CSA well. It was a play on words on Google’s “Did you mean?” functionality.
> the concept of “nothing” in Objective-C is kind of a mess, since there’s four different versions of it

Sounds like Visual Basic of old. We used to refer to the four constants of the apocalypse: null, nothing, missing, and empty.
Thanks! I'm aware of this. I don't know how to describe it properly - the old OSX icons, even the "lickable" control buttons in snow leopard look just right. It's almost like there's a black line around the icons, the saturation is right and also colors go right together. I don't see this in Big Sur or Monterey. It's just oversaturated pastels without clearly defined borders. Looked slightly better in dark mode, but I prefer light mode. Snow Leopard (https://apparelever169.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/4/9/124908212/...) vs. Monterey (https://scr3.golem.de/screenshots/2106/MacOS-Monterey/Apple_...) - random searches for screenshots.
In Kotlin you can have a similar behavior but it's explicit which I like more.

var a : T; // cannot be null

var b : T?; // can be null

a.something; // OK

b.something; // not possible because b could be null

b!!.something; // assert that b is not null, then do the stuff

b?.something; // if b is null, return null, else do the stuff

So, each time you see the "?." you know to take extra care with that statement. On the other hand it's very short and easy to write chains of function calls that could return null which then falls through.
> In my experience the only way this can be done as with trying to level anything is to bring down the level of the best.

> I find this awful.

It mitigates risk; if "the best" is at a level above the other developers, to the point where a lot of things hinge on this individual, it's a huge company risk. You never want to rely on "the best"; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

Go is a language that tells people to put their ego aside. The problem you're solving is already complicated enough, no need to add complexity with a complex language. Dumb and verbose code is better than concise but complex and hard to comprehend code.
30% is well within the placebo effect, there needs to be something more solid before I get worried.
Wait until you find out about enstrophy.
TBF, you (fortunately) don't have out of control burning oil wells that often, so such a specialized firefighting vehicle is needed very rarely. But in situations such as Kuwait, it sure is handy to have one...
Relying on configuration, either in your home ".nanorc" or in its /etc equivalent, is too risky; you might be using ssh (or docker/podman/etc) to a machine or VM or container which doesn't have that configuration. It's the same for relying on having a nano version where that's the compiled-in default; you might be using a machine or VM or container with a different nano version than you're used to. It's less risky to always type "nano -w" everywhere (or use a different editor, one which never had hard-wrap enabled by default in any version).
Go to a bootcamp if you want that. Computer Science shows people that there are various ways of thinking about problems and evaluating solutions. The fact that there is some maths in it is good - it's not as if its particularly difficult maths either. The experience of bending your head around a functional paradigm or comparing 2 sorting algorithms shows you how "the commonsense way to do something" is a prejudice that blinds you to more powerful approaches.

Everyone can do with a bit of maths when it comes to cryptography too - and it's critical to understand enough about crypto in this age (even if what you learn is to stay far away from trying to implement it).

It's really about thinking at the level above programming which helps the programming that you do to be more effective. Even if your life is about duct-taping various libraries together to achieve something you still need to know how they work, how they solve the classic problems and whether your use of them is going to be effective.
Edit: in addition to the part below, I now see major flaws:
Of course there is a positive correlation between masks and deaths. But the causality is important: when I see more deaths in my country, of course will I wear my mask more often.
This study would have been much better if changepoints would have been looked at.
In this Form there are many unknown von founders to draw conclusions in my opinion.
For now I keep my doubts on this study.

Before edit:
Can someone shed light on the trustworthiness of that publication website as well as the author?
Is “cureus” a trusted resource? I’m always doubtful if there is only one author on a paper - unless it’s a really well known person.
COVID-19 was used by far too many as a vehicle to push their profile or agendas. This result seems to be quite in contrast to the investigations famous labs and institutions did (like RKI and the likes)
We are salting the earth with cell disrupting nanoplastics. How far can society divest from its use of the material?
This entire list would only make sense to people who actually work in offices.

(1) Healthiest - Doing my morning work at a place where I know a few other coders who like to chat but don't bug me

(2) Less healthy - Same thing, but in the afternoon with beer.
> What this person wants is a trade school for software developers, which is not unreasonable...

This is a booming business, and indeed billion dollar startups exist just to teach programming and interviewing skills. So, I guess author isn't far off from wanting Universities to also have a similar program.
We'll see what happens when we get there, but I think to me the difference is how much training there is. If he's spending 5 hours just clicking through an RPG where his character gains skills but he doesn't, then yeah, that doesn't count. If he's spending 5 hours doing "micro" exercises for StarCraft 2, playing on the ladder then analyzing his losses / wins, etc -- i.e., if he's actually investing in a skill that takes several years to master -- then that would count for me. Basically, anything you can hire someone to coach you on.

Not sure my wife would agree with that -- we'll see what happens when we get there. :-)

After all, I mostly enjoy my work; if I didn't have a job I'd still be doing a lot of programming. As you say, it's more about gaining discipline, so you can harness that energy into something worthwhile.
I propose people start reconsidering this imposed situation that exists between the people who do the work and the government, i.e. the parasitic ruling class. And to clarify, I say that as someone who is not at all “leftist” oriented, even though it may seem so at first glance of reading that to some.

This situation we currently essentially globally have, at least in the west, is quite an abusive system that is really just the bait and switch type pivot off what most people know as slavery, into a differently structured model of the same fundamental thing, one which really just spreads the total amount of enslavement across more people rather than getting rid of it altogether.

The parasitism of the ruling class that is far more obvious through slavery, is far harder to recognize in todays world because rather than taking, for argument’s sake, ~70% of 10% of people’s labor to support and enrich the ruling class; the shift/pivot off the slavery model was to introduce taking ~40% of the labor from 90% of the population and therefore enrich and empower the ruling parasitic class even more.

It’s precisely why a certain segment of the ruling class were all for “ending slavery”, because they knew “ending it”, i.e. spreading it over most people, would be far more lucrative and profitable. Life tip: Always be extremely leery of what the ruling class is promoting, and even more so re-examine things if they start supporting what you support.

The point is, we need to all start coming to a realization that the income tax and the whole tax system of fractional slavery enforcement needs to end. I do not claim to know the right answer, but I and any other rational and sane person know that this bait and switch slavery that exists needs to stop. What else do you call it, e.g. when hedge fund managers make billions per year and pay next to zero taxes, but some middle class person has huge sums of the value of their labor taken/ stolen to supply the hedge fund manager’s lifestyle?

Some have proposed things like the Fairfax.org, essentially a consumption tax through sales tax that captures taxes on illegal/harmful activities and ill begotten wealth, e.g., drug dealers buying their flashy things, while at the same time also taxing polluting activities in a direct correlation, e.g., buying new shiny-object over keeping something maintained and repaired. This would be a radical and arguably positive impact for all of humanity … except the parasitic ruling class which very much likes and has been working hard to expand its parasitism. See currency inflation at the press of a button for reference, which defrauds workers and savers through the worst tax, fraud.
I don't think is true for the Schengen zone/Schengen adjacent countries.

I'm a musician and have toured Western Europe a couple of times (and know a lot of others who have). Apart from the UK noone I know ever gets working visas, and this is never a problem crossing borders honestly saying to immigration that we're there on tour in a van full of music equipment and merchandise.
The risk-benefit calculation is strongly age dependent. For old people there's no question about the benefit of the vaccines. For healthy children it's close.
A better way to read the text released by Jan 6 committee
Say that you're using PTO?
To do all the parts research, order them all , build it, troubleshoot and install the OS?
Do you get a warranty?
Updates often break things, especially in Linux land. I don't want things updating until I do it manually, when I've decided that I have time to sit down and possibly spend time fixing breakages.
> A critical component for remote work productivity is having a routine that somewhat mimics the routine of going in to the office.

This is what I found, ended up renting an office because there are far too many distractions and random annoyances. For example, a lot of vacation locations have building work going on constantly and, in many Mediterranean countries, leaving a barking dog out on your balcony all day and night is considered normal and neighbourly.

Also finding a location with a decent internet connection, reliable electric & plumbing, and decent furniture seems to be expecting too much?
I notice that all the comments that agree with this one point out specific dangers, while those disagreeing basically say "Eh, bugs happen".

Yes, you need to know what you're doing in any language, the difference is whether those things are due to the language or the problem you're actually trying to solve. The more things in the language you have to keep in mind, the less of your domain problems you have room for.
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My exact thoughts! With these frameworks, first thing i look for is whether it's native/custom rendered like flutter/WebView and a sample app but this does not show either.
People have different actionspaces.

(Which seems obvious, but this is the reason that lots of advice sounds banal.)
>Conservative Twitter accounts got boost in followers after Musk acquisition, data shows

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/27/23045005/conservative-twi...

>This repository contains data for The Verge's article

https://github.com/corintxt/post-elon-twitter-follows