skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is obviously false in full generality, C++ has many (M A N Y) ways to do anything, and I have never seen even the most fanatic C++ fans defend this as a good thing. Nearly every single C++ dev hates some (large) subset of the language, which subset is another matter entirely, but a subset nonetheless.

Bjarne Stroustrup once noted in Design & Evolution of C++ that people want different things from the seemingly simple artifacts we call "Programming Languages". Some people want an algorithmic language to express procedures cleanly in, others want a design language to express large scale systems in. Some want a terse and uniform "executable mathematics" notation, others want a down-to-earth worse-is-better lets-make-some-goddamn-apps-and-put-some-fucking-bread-on-the-table working class language. Some want a language with an emphasis on the lone author, others an emphasis on the corporate business team. A language as a tool that you wield skillfully for the single purpose it was built for, a language as a toolbox full of gadgets, a language as a material to build the previous two from, a language as a community hub to organize around, etc etc etc. I have seen people argue that "Language" the wrong metaphor to understand computer notations entirely.

This is why you can't say anything general about programming languages.
Several US national labs have been developing 3D-printed explosives technology for a bit now. Pretty crazy business that is (surprisingly) safer than doing large machining operations on bulk HE.
Or maybe the LGBT people need to cite proper research before bringing these classes to school? You know, with a proper process and peer reviews and all the good stuff.

Nobody should get a free pass to put any new classes to school before they prove a benefit.

The burden of proof should fall to them, not on me who's skeptical.
> One wrong move and you're starting over on the entire part

My guess is that it's possible to fix typos, but it would be a lot of additional work. For example to fix pieces, he makes a hole and put a small bronce in the hole, then he punch it, and then polish the surface until it's invisible. For example see this port of the previous episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19cu2hj2Ms&t=847s Anyway, I'd be terrified of making a mistake if I had to do this.
This guy did a really good job videoing/presenting this.
Also, inevitably running out of rocks.
Juicero. They never stood a chance next to Big Blender...
My manager has more or less decided that degrees are useless, given the failures that major, well-known universities are graduating these days, so… it’s not everyone, for those who are terrified of the people with degrees.
who will give those microstates massive loans they would need to stay afloat?

who will fund the election campaigns and favorable media coverage for the agreeable candidates and parties?

whose arms will they buy and whose military bases will they build to defend themselves against each other and/or what little is left of Russia and/or China?

whose companies will get contracts for resource extraction and favorable conditions to operate there?

...

the collapse of Russia would be a greater boon to the US than the WWII was, and had Russia been a benevolent democracy, it would've been at least halfway there by now
One of the first "promises" (agility) of mRNA turned out to be a bit of a mirage.

We have this wonderfully adaptable mRNA vaccine technology - but we've backed ourselves into a corner re: COVID-19 because it seems "original antigenic sin" is a stubbornly real effect in this context. All current research points to updated vaccines inducing largely the same old immune response - they are not more effective than just dosing again with the original shot.

So we can "reprogam" the vaccine but getting the immune system to do something different turns out to be more difficult.

Where it get interesting at a population level is that nearly everybody now has these antibodies for the original spike. At a population level this seems less robust than natural immunity[1], which would have induced (again at the population level) a broader range of immune responses from sites all over the virus. You also would have had a population where some people were exposed to original, some to delta, some to omicron etc, again leading to greater antibody diversity.

In general, monocultures tend to be less resilient to "exponential attacks" than more diverse systems.

While public health authorities have repeatedly dismissed this concern, I still find it hard to believe this kind of "antibody monoculture" isn't going to have an effect on subsequent evolution of the virus.

Mass vaccination was almost certainly the right call from an immediate public health perspective but I can't help but feel it's also left us more vulnerable in some difficult-to-predict way for the long term.

[1] Agree, it's bad terminology but everyone understands it. It's all "natural" immunity, of course.
The basic theory is that humans never evolved to handle the sheer amount (at least, a lot of us can't) of simple carbs and sugars that modern life makes available to us via a “typical” diet. The sheer amount of insulin that is needed to handle that much sugar in the bloodstream is constantly pumping, the body builds up a tolerance to it, which in turn stresses the pancreas. That can lead to pre-diabetes and diabetes, which is one of the most common chronic diseases, at least in the USA. Also leads to weight gain as a primary side effect.
I understand the curiosity but why does it matter? They clearly made an effort to stay anonymous. Is it the challenge in doxxing?
(Can't edit) Ah, how did I forget, in this context, about the suicide being censored out of the first season of 13 Reasons Why, years after its release?[1]

That was along with the addition of 1) a disclaimer in the form of the actors talking directly to the viewer before the first episode and 2) an intertitle after every episode reminding of it, again with narration from the actors. 3) Trigger warnings before episodes were also added, but to no surprise at this point. What I certainly haven't seen before is such mutilation of a work as accompanying it with material so expressly immersion-breaking!

A song in the soundtrack was also replaced for reasons unknown, but I suppose that falls more into the general topic of silent alterations to published media that online consumption facilitates, an entire discussion to be had on its own.

[1] https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=378736
Nitrocellulose is not a high-order explosive and used nowhere in this experiment. Deflagration != detonation.
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Changelog Podcast: Wisdom from 50 years in software
In several other occasions, eating a little bit of salt helped as well ahah.
You missed a more significant movement -- between Wednesday and Thursday, Tether exchange rates were unstable for a period of 24-36 hours, and briefly dropped to near $0.95 USD/USDT. Exchange rates have mostly recovered since then, but remain nontrivially lower than they were a week ago.
No way, definitely watch Hackers! It's actually a really great capture of the kinda wild computing/hacker culture of the 90's, super on-point aesthetically. Plus the plot is pretty fun. It's a super cult classic for a reason, and gets so many things right. The cheesiness is actually not too bad and IMO a key part of the charm. There are some really cool scenes too.
What next? Fat Barbie? Pimple Barbie? Bald Barbie?
So we have the entire globalised supply chain of fast fashion, every time counterfeit goods or clothing made by slave labour is discovered, which corporation owns up?
Any examples of tech documentation that you find more appealing? I'm trying to improve in this area.
Ally and NATO member are not synonyms.

The US didn't put boots on the ground to help the UK in the Falklands even when it would have made things much easier. That doesn't mean the US and the UK were not allies or that the US did not help in other ways.
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I thought they were defunding the police? Elections must be coming up.
Which apps can read your texts on a Mac?
Boy, this title reads differently based on how “used” is pronounced. Especially as it’s valid either way.

It’s up there with Polish polish and refusing refuse.
> I have a hard time believing that while the current status quo is suboptimal, there's some little known compounds that are, as you say, revolutionary and with little side effects.

Your suspicions are correct. The parent comment is an example of a trend among people who know just enough about pharmacology to be dangerous: Exaggerating the benefits of less popular medications while demonizing mainstream medications. Add a dose of conspiracy theory ("pharmaceutical industrial complex") and it's a recipe for contrarian exaggeration.

The parent comment strangely missed the actual mainstream, effective treatments for anxiety: SSRIs and Buspirone are widely used for long-term anxiety treatment with significant success. They’re not perfect and you can find horror stories if you search the Internet long enough, but people tend to get fooled into thinking mainstream medications are worse than obscure ones because mainstream medications will naturally have a higher absolute number of negative reviews online than rarely-prescribed medications.

In practice, it would be rare for a doctor in the United States to prescribes benzos as a first-line and long-term treatment for chronic anxiety. They are prescribed for panic attacks and short-term anxiety (e.g. a difficult court case with an end date) but SSRIs are the mainstream treatment.
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Yes, that's reasonable. By the time the jet hits the target the explosive provides no motive force whatsoever: it's purely a momentum game.
Never more than two non consecutive days in a week — this isn’t a mystery.
I'm not sure "forcing yourself to the healthiest diet/lifestyle ever" is actually a good idea, because there is no one healthiest diet or lifestyle for everyone at all times that we know all the details of. IMO much better to aim for simply "healthy" or "very healthy" as a habit you stick to long-term.
This will probably not go as well for Netflix as they would like. Everyone I know who streams games online seriously does not trust Netflix.com any more than justin.tv
While most of what you said makes sense how do you find someone at the companies you're interested to talk to? I feel like unsolicited linkedin messages to developers at the company could backfire.
Electricity is a great basis for energy exchange and usage.

You can always generate electricity on site from other fuels in an emergency.

You can't generate gasoline on site.
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'I think reality is providing a valuable learning'

What they need to be provided is a good layer, and a clampdown on corporate fraud.
Switching over to Taskwarrior has been on my TODO list for a while now. (Yes, fully aware of the irony.)

I currently use Tracks and one of the things that holds me back is I still like a good GUI interface to help visualise. I occasionally take a look at various offerings but find those I've surveyed a bit mediocre.
>What I am saying is that in order for regulations to NOT cause businesses to 'vote with their feet and their wallets', we must also enact trade policies so that it is NOT cheaper for businesses to seek the laxest regulation (i.e. enforce tariffs for the difference in cost).
If we do not care enough about the regulation to have a tariff, then the regulation should not exist.

Then you've confused cause for effect. Economic freedom is a driving force ,not a consequence, of investment. You're solution amounts to imprisoning or punishing companies for pursuing their economic interests.

Tariffs don't work. If you want a recent example, tariffs didn't get Trump what he wanted with China. Free trade is going to happen whether you like it or not. Imposing tariffs only creates a greater incentive not to do business in the United States, get out of an industry entirely, or to participate in a black market.

>Lol, what is this even? I'll bite though. Regulations are naturally occurring insofar as any other human invention is naturally occurring. All laws are regulations on behavior, and all laws are wishful. There is still murder even though we have laws against shooting people. For me, at least, that is not a reason to do away with laws, but to each their own.

I never said one should do away with laws. There are well-written laws and laws that should have never have been composed. Almost all regulations interfere with the exercise of one's rights even if there is no victim involved. They are simply blunt instruments of the government to exercise at its whim.

And the comparison between trade policy and murder is laughable. No one's rights are being taken away when a company chooses to trade/build in another country with full consent and acknowledgement. The same cannot be said for murder.
X implying Y does not mean !Y implies !X
If only there's a $PS1 version
When exactly have you been forced to list your pronouns?
Certainly not a plasma. It's a coherent spear of hydrodynamic copper, not a bunch of charged ions floating around.
> X implying Y does not mean !Y implies !X

Yes it does. That's modus tollens.
Or maybe the messaging shown currently indicates that what they would teach is that being cis-het is a problem. Or being white. Or being male. And you should die if you are some combination or at least all of you should be killed.
Cute idea!
Comments like these are baffling. Where are people finding these psychiatrists who are blindly writing prescriptions and sending people out the door?

Around here (US location) my medical professional friends are all hesitant to prescribe any controlled substances to more than a certain number of their patients for fear of getting flagged.

Whenever I read these stories of people receiving benzos and other scheduled substances for years with no oversight, I can’t tell if this is actually happening regularly somewhere or if we’re just reading a lot of exaggerated second-hand stories.

I know these things happen somewhere, sometimes but the insinuation that it’s just the norm in American medicine is baffling.
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It's just a movie, and it was used as hyperbole to illustrate the point that to an overwhelming degree, what matters is what you do, not (only) how you feel about it. It wasn't an endorsement of bosses being assholes or toxic work environments.

Later in the piece the author discusses how feelings can be the motivator for doing good things, but the doing is the part that really matters.
Pay-as-you-go is good, so why kill it?
This is pretty much exactly the same idea: the paper referenced by the article mentions basalt specifically, which has olivine as a major constituent.
Very cool, congratulations!
Yes it does. That pretty much defines the contradictions in the current GOP in Texas.

They want a libertarian-style business environment where businesses are free to operate with few restrictions and the businesses get to define those restrictions and control the processes that could limit or monitor their operations. For private citizens they also prefer individuals be free to make their own choices about how they conduct themselves up to a point.

Past that point, they become authoritarian, using religion as a basis for state-enforced mandates to control individual's rights to make what should be private decisions between an individual and qualified professionals.

They want the state to control every aspect of an individual's life that they feel doesn't fit their own morals while at the same time allowing businesses free reign to operate within the state even if their operations harm the citizens of the state, the state's natural resources, or the state's economic interests.

Hopefully it is more clear now. It still doesn't make much sense since their philosophy is riddled with contradictions or outright hypocrisy. They would impose restrictions on people they wish to control while ignoring the same behavior of people who otherwise publicly support them.

Anyway, I'm probably wrong since I am not a political science expert. I'm just a native Texan.
Can somebody who knows about rocks weigh in here? I was under the assumption that pretty much the whole Earth crust was made of rocks, and that we’d run out of virtually any resource before we run out of rocks.
Foreign legions are also a standard thing with this.
They can definitely go up fast here. The wanted to route one through our neighborhood (some towers!) and those things were up within a year of the public hearing, the possible routes discussed, and they were placed and a huge substation built. probably 7 or 8 miles of them
Fair, fair. I think the main thing is that I'm not taking it in response to a craving, but rather in recognition that my mental state in the early evening is fragile and I'm going to be more susceptible to an anxiety attack when trying to sleep. I'm also well aware of the root causes of my mental state, so if it ever became bad enough that I did feel like I was losing control (upping the dose, taking during the day, etc), then I would treat that as a sign that it was time to start thinking more seriously about exiting the situation that is the main root cause.

I think it also helps that edibles take 60-90 mins to kick in, vs smoking which is pretty immediate gratification.
No, waging a proxy war and vying for regime change for a geopolitical rival are not the same as supporting an ally. IP laws fit into a key part of US hegemony via Russian digital providers being accountable to US law enforcement.
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> A part of me suspects that the proxy war the US is waging against Russia to decimate the Russian military and force a regime change is motivated by getting Russia under the control of western IP, financial, and other regulation.

To the extent that it is approximately accurate to describe such a war as existing, it is motivated not arouns looping Russia into Western IP, financial, etc., regulatory regimes, but around dealing with the security threat represented by actions like the Russian invasion of Moldova (1990-present), Georgia (2008-present), and Ukraine (2014-present), and, most particularly, the massive escalation of the last that occurred this year.
It certainly is subjective. However, there is definitely something to be said about the usage of Bootstrap/Material/Tailwind resulting in your site looking like thousands of others, with little character or distinguishing “feel” of its own.
Rock is not a scarce resource. The planet is literally made of it.
It is not. Nitroglycerin doesn't have the capacity to detonate (necessary for triggering the main charge). Detonators (the acceleration charge you mention) are usually an explosive train starting with a sensitive primary like lead azide moving up to a secondary or pseudosecondary output charge like PETN.
> from any location as required by the employer.

No, we dont want to fire you, but since you decline to work from any of the proposed location in Somalia, North Korea, and the North Pole...
FYI - The idea that stimulant response can be used as a diagnostic tool for ADHD is a myth. No researcher or professional who studies the subject actually takes that seriously.

Nobody should be interpreting their response (or a child’s response) to stimulants as a diagnostic indicator for ADHD. It’s also worth noting they caffeine isn’t an effective ADHD treatment (it had been studied) and caffeine and Adderall don’t actually overlap as much as people seem to think.
The actual footage starts at 2:26

https://youtu.be/ZsiHlmJ9myg?t=146
Maybe it's just me, but I thought Information Architecture is design!
I don't usually post tweets online, but I worked with Tariq while employed at Google, so I'm inclined to believe him.
When I was in college in Toronto in 1961 there was a surplus store. All manner of WW2 radios etc. I looked at one pile and it was about 15 rolls of primacord. This was a long 5/16 hollow tube of vinyl filled with pure TNT. It resembled rope = rope pile/ $3/roll of 100 feet. 2/$5. I knew what it was, so bought it all. it being worth $25-30/roll/
I was an Engineering stoont and Russia had just set of their Czar bomba. We engineers had a group called the BFC(Brute Force Committee), so we had to have a bomb for Skule Nite. In the quad we set off about a quarter pound of this prima cord with a lighted fuse detonator. We paced off a 100 meter circle for crowd control and Mr Riggs set it off. Prima cord has a hugely fast rate of propagation of the detonation wave, so we heard an intense CRACK, not a boom with a few tens of milliseconds, but a true faster than sound detonation wave. No harm was done as had just set of the Skule cannon which alerted people to cover their ears.
I explored these rolls with playing with the Monroe effect, A nice shapely rabbit hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge

I stamped initials in steel beams etc. Hardest thing was getting detonators = well controlled. Never tried to make a tank buster.
lifestyle creep. living in the bay area, kid or two in private school, driving a tesla... $270k doesn't go that far.
> I still don’t see the problem.

The problem is banks operate in a state of perpetual insolvency. Their ability to pay off their debts to customers depends on the state of the larger economy. Too many defaults and the whole thing comes crashing down.

> At no point is cash conservation broken.

It never existed to begin with. All that's required for the illusion to disappear is for enough people to attempt to withdraw funds at the same time.

> I know that the bank has plenty of other peoples’ $900 that if I wanted that cash I could take it.

The bank has money until it doesn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run

> Many of the recessions in the United States were caused by banking panics

> The Great Depression contained several banking crises consisting of runs on multiple banks

> The global financial crisis that began in 2007 was centered around market-liquidity failures that were comparable to a bank run

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2008

> The International Monetary Fund estimated that large U.S. and European banks lost more than $1 trillion on toxic assets and from bad loans

> Lack of investor confidence in bank solvency and declines in credit availability led to plummeting stock and commodity prices

> The crisis rapidly spread into a global economic shock, resulting in several bank failures

> The de-leveraging of financial institutions, as assets were sold to pay back obligations that could not be refinanced in frozen credit markets, further accelerated the solvency crisis

> governments and central banks provided then-unprecedented trillions of dollars in bailouts and stimulus, including expansive fiscal policy and monetary policy to offset the decline in consumption and lending capacity, avoid a further collapse, encourage lending, restore faith in the integral commercial paper markets, avoid the risk of a deflationary spiral, and provide banks with enough funds to allow customers to make withdrawals

People complain about Tether but the whole banking system is just Tether on steroids.
As the engineer #1 did you have any equity? If yes, was it OK for you to work on an unreasonable task?

Was the company successful after all?
> Ukraine was our ally we'd have boots on the ground

US allies frequently are involved in wars that don't get US boots on the ground. This is pretty much constant for Israel, for instance.