skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I disagree, I do not think it is evident at all.

Honest question, and I mean this with sincerity: how is it not? I mean it. The level of organization (across all levels!), knowledge transfer between individuals, the ability to modify our environment and use tools upon tools upon tools... Humanity has reusable rockets launching literal thousands of satellites. A globe-wide comm network. Symbolic thought that allows this very conversation to take place.

The rest of the animal kingdom does not. It's not even vaguely close. This does not mean I do not think animals think. This does not mean that they do not have value. This does not mean that they don't feel! When a dolphin uses a sponge to protect it's snout while hunting, and passes than knowledge on to its child- that's really interesting! It shows the very beginnings of cultural transmission. Same with chimps using sticks for ants, or that orangutan that learned how to fry food in a pan after watching its caretakers. But we aren't at the sponge-and-stick level of development, and possibly haven't been for millions of years, even before we were modern humanity. There really is something startlingly unique about the human mind works, and I think we do ourselves a great disservice by not acknowledging up front how unusual it is.
There's no communication needed among those people, so it isn't a decision or agreement in that sense. Thousands of years ago, each person individually found out that the gold they have been collecting is still as valuable as a year or 10 years ago, when used in barter. It was pure chance and survival first, and later it became a rational choice. This happens inevitably, because gold is very hard to produce, and it's very hard to destroy or consume. I.e. its inherent monetary inflation is lowest, compared to anything else. Those who collected sea shells or stones, found out that they lose value over time, and that's because they are easy to find and they are easily destroyed.

Next, people started increasingly accepting gold in trade, just by their individual decision. Because of this, it made sense to try to obtain it yourself to take part in the economy. When the demand grows for gold as a monetary good, it becomes even more valuable, and therefore even more rational to save and use in trade, and at the same time demand for other types of money diminishes. At this point, the network effect is so strong that it becomes obvious to everyone that gold is money, i.e. it is the most wanted good in the market. That's also why money tends to converge into one, when there are no regional regulations or controls around money.

Historically, gold has become money independently in many parts of the world. It has been money for thousands of years, and in many forms. King Croesus was probably the first who minted standard-weight gold coins, to make it easier to transact with.
Holding someone to a (US-style) thesis proposal is hard enough when they're already familiar with the area and have a couple of years of direct research experience under their belt. Doing it even earlier in the process sounds much harder.
I've seen things getting fast-tracked because they were passed through the CEOs girlfriend (also employed there), who was but the only person able to consistently reach the man.
Are you referring to the ballpark "specifications" in the article? If so, I don't know of any material that can withstand the stresses of the weights and speeds mentioned in it ... unless you are going for really low wing loading (think dirigible).
Are there any additional annotations that would be available? Identifying objects in the scene, sentiment or tone of speech, etc?
An NFT exists purely in the realm of thought, and the owner is whoever knows the password.

Therefore phishing the seed phrase is not "actually stealing" it within the rules of NFT.

And outside the rules of NFT it's just a receipt; it's worthless. It's taking a picture of a picture of a bike, not stealing it.
Big caveat: we don't actually know, because it hasn't been studied, because human monkeypox is very rare. Still, some conjecture:

You're very probably immune. Recovery from smallpox almost always meant life-long immunity and re-infection was basically unknown when it was common. The orthopoxviruses are known to have a lot of cross-immunity. People who get cowpox are immune to smallpox, and vice versa. The classic smallpox vaccine used widely in the 20th century was just a very mild strain of pox (genetically somewhere between smallpox and cowpox, and of uncertain origin now lost to history) which causes almost no illness in humans.
If you mean using nukes, nukes started today will ensure burning fossil fuel for at least ten more years while we wait for them to come online. Money (including cost overruns) spent on them will be unavailable to build out renewables that would displace fossil fuels immediately.

Electric synthetic ammonia is mature tech. It just takes a long time to build the factories to produce the needed amount of synthesis equipment.
Civility is the only solution, because behavior like that is not partisan. It's what happens when civility is removed from politics.

Lest you think there is something uniquely "evil" about Republicans, here's a bit of recent (but overlooked) history from the Washington Post: "Democrats were for occupying capitols before they were against it"

> 10 years ago, Democrats embraced the left-wing mob that occupied the state Capitol in Madison. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the occupiers for an “impressive show of democracy in action” and tweeted as they assaulted the Capitol that she continued “to stand in solidarity” with the union activists.

Some highlights from the article:

> ­The small contingent of capitol police was quickly overwhelmed. Protesters ripped the hinges of an antique oak door at the State Street entrance and streamed inside.

> The police retreated in the face of the horde, giving up the first floor, then the second, [as protestors] began searching for the Republican senators who had dared to defy the will of the unions.”

> police sneaked them out through an underground tunnel to a government building across the street. But a Democratic representative posted on social media that the Republican senators were escaping through the tunnels, so when the senators came up into the lobby, the mob was there waiting for them. ­

> The senators hid under a stairwell, out of view, while the police ordered a city bus to pull up in front of the building. Officers then formed a human wall on the sidewalk, parting the sea of protesters and creating a pathway for the senators to reach the bus.” ­Once the senators were on board, “the mob on the street began punching the windows and shaking the vehicle. … The police told the senators and staff inside to keep their heads down in case a window shattered.”

> Thankfully, no one was killed. But during the course of the occupation, Walker received a steady stream of death threats against him and his wife, including one that promised to “gut her like a deer” and one threatening to kill his sons. Police found dozens of .22-caliber bullets scattered across the Capitol grounds. The occupiers drew chalk outlines of fake dead bodies etched with Walker’s name on the floor, and carried signs that read “Death to tyrants,” “The only good Republican is a dead Republican” and one with picture of him in crosshairs with the words, “Don’t retreat, Reload.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/14/democrats...
If you don't know, maybe you could give me the benefit of the doubt?

In any case, the syntax to delete a remote tag is just e.g.

$ git push origin :mytag

After that you are free to push a new tag to replace the old, with no warnings or --force flags.

When we use a tag to specify the version of a dependency, we trust the maintainer not to do this. If we don't have that level of trust we can use SHA1's instead. We should not pretend that there is anything in git that tries to prevent a tag from being rewritten by someone who wants to.
Orders of magnitude matter, and if you have a testing pyramid instead of a testing ice cream cone, there can be up to two orders of magnitude difference between the number of unit tests and integration tests.

If you start with unit tests, then the integration tests are just verifying the plumbing. That only changes when the architecture changes, which is hopefully a lot less than how often the requirements change substantially.
They didn't according to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31480805

(Kind of duplicate)
https://github.com/stokry/wp-sqlite

Not official though. Submitted a few days ago (97 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396732
GP's point (I think I agree now, I was only saying it was a potential issue) being that that's a lot easier to do at the time - you know you've just made a breaking change (or you should do; as much/more than you ever will) so that's the easiest time to bump the version appropriately.

An alternative model I suppose would immediately have major bump, minor bump, and patch bump branches; then you just commit to the appropriate one, and I suppose keep major rebased on minor rebased on patch. (And master = major I suppose.)
It's absolutely market forces.

Research output determines rankings. Teaching quality doesn't.
> Doing it even earlier in the process sounds much harder.

Right - which is why it's a better check before they embark on a PhD.
Not quite. I grew up in Southern Africa where HIV/AIDS is still a massive problem today, and it was an equal opportunity disease unlike how it was in the West where mostly gay men were affected to my knowledge.

Sobering statistics include that according to a UNAIDS dataset sourced from the World Bank, in 2019, the HIV prevalence rate for adults aged 15 to 49 was 37% in Eswatini (Swaziland), 25% in Lesotho, 25% in Botswana and 19% in South Africa.

I know for a fact that in some South African provinces, this rate is substantially higher, and only increases further when you take into account racial demographics (HIV/AIDS is largely isolated to Black Africans, and is virtually absent from White, Middle Eastern, Coloured, East Asian, and Indian communities). Take for instance, KwaZulu Natal, where much of my extended family fled to after being unceremoniously booted out of Zimbabwe. The official rate is around 27%, but is likely underreported due to stigma, and furthermore increases when you consider it as a percentage of the Black African population living there (50%). If half of a given racial demographic lives with HIV/AIDS, you could hardly say that HIV/AIDS only affects gay people.

Furthermore, the explosion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic was exacerbated by a former South African president by the name of Thabo Mbeki, who more or less adopted a policy of denial and herbal remedy. I would probably put the fundamental blame down though to promiscuity, lack of education, rape (Southern Africa is by far the world's dangerous region for women and boasts the highest rape rates in the world by quite a margin), and superstition (it's a common belief in Black African slums and communities that raping a teen virgin will cure oneself of the disease and rid them of bad spirits that cause it).

HIV/AIDS is a well-known societal issue in Southern Africa, and it is more or less drilled into the minds of everyone about the risks of contraction and the like. I am however, white, and of English descent. A Black African for instance would likely have a much more personal story about how HIV/AIDS destroys lives within the slums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_South_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism_in_South_Af...
One of the best introductions I've found :-)
Beware. The company you work for may be profiting from companies that play musical chairs with exit liquidity.
Is the Bilderberg meeting more of the same drinking & socializing?
Appreciate the answer. In hindsight do you think any solutions could have been purchased that the company "rolled" itself? Was it necessary to create such a huge engineering organization and deep level of technology for what's essentially a ride hailing and food delivery company, or was it more needed to burnish the company's image to investors as a "technology company"? I don't mean to offend with this question, I'm just honestly curious.
You can call a value method on a nil pointer and it panics, though, which I think was a mistake.
> EVERYTHING possible not to mention how tipped the outbreaks were among

Quite the opposite here.
I work with a lot of product managers directly and have worked with many over my career. I have yet to run into the type of product manager mentioned in this Reddit post. Many have advanced STEM degrees and direct product or field experience before they go into product management. A few I know have MBAs but have solid CS or engineering undergrads and backgrounds.

Maybe it’s my companies hiring culture or maybe it’s more common in SaaS or software companies.
Thanks for this, this is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in. I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNS3vTzKjc, which looks awesome...
There will be ‘further layoffs’ that will be ‘fast and furious,’
I would like as much as possible of the php source moved out of the webroot. e.g. to ../

All day long bots are firing queries and POSTs at any and all php files causing massive server load and security headaches.

Just include them from the core and route to them via the core, taking care of sanitation in the process preferably.
> academia is not about pursuing the knowledge and sciences

This criticism always gets me. Just how pure do you expect academics to be? They're already not working for the same money they could be getting in industry, now they also have to eschew prestige in their own communities, or else they're not driven by the pure intellectual pursuit of knowledge and science? When you're paid half of what you're worth, you find meaning in social constructs other than money and wealth.

> students are the hardest working bunch in academia

This is an opinion often held by students and graduates who haven't see what's behind the curtain. I've found students are always shocked to find out how much work professors actually do. This is prime material for the "what I think I do, what they think I do, what I actually do" meme.
Swedish fintech Klarna to cut 10% of workforce
I'm not suggesting that there is not an abundance of staff at some institutions, but at most institutions, "alumni relations" is a profit center not a cost center. At least if they are doing the job that our "alumni relations" department does. Yes, ours produces a magazine as well but their real job is (or should be) to entice giving.

This kind of thing would be like saying your typical account manager's job is surreal and perhaps in some cases that might be true :-)
Sure have! Mentioning the admin creds were more so tongue in cheek because there are a lot of folks who use the default 'admin' username.
Question about investing in companies - given cheap money is hard to find now, from an investor side does it make more sense to try and invest in companies now than it did before, as I assume you'd get more for your money?
Yup. No one likes to fail, especially if they were actually close. And a lot of folks, including employees, will suffer due to lack of other options.

My guess is it will likely be especially harsh because of the length of time this has been going on in tech. We’ve been doing so much stuff with dubious economic value for so long, we barely even notice it anymore.

But there is also a ton of value being produced (in real life), so it’s not like tech overall is going nowhere.
Yeah, this over the top jingoism even for HN. I'm surprised.
There are some who reduce consciousness down to simple response to stimulus. DD Hoffman has defined a simple 'conscious agent' as a system with an input such as a switch and a counter for how many times it's been stimulated, as a simples elementary conscious system.

For me that's basically saying conscious beings are information processing systems, therefore all information processing systems are conscious. Panpsychism does the same thing, but it's just like saying a tank is a vehicle, therefore all vehicles are tanks.

For me, consciousness is more than just perception, it's more like the awareness of your own thought processes. It's understanding and being aware that you are a conscious being. That's not a novel view, there are dictionary definitions that are consistent with this.

[Dictionary.com] Consciousness - the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.

Hoffman's conscious agents clearly don't qualify IMHO, and I'm pretty confident insects don't either. I'm less sure about some mammals like cats and dogs. It does seem like some animals, including some birds, do have a sense of self even if it's fairly rudimentary.
I mean, you were being a bit condescending? You're also quite wrong, in that you define "friendship" in a very strict way that doesn't comport with how other people use the term. It's quite possible to have friends that aren't close friends; people whom you have fun with, whose lives you would prefer to be able to know something about, but whom you wouldn't go out of your way to keep up with if it became inconvenient. These people still count as friends.

To put it another way, I have family I would lose touch with if I left Facebook. They're still family and I would still prefer to know if they graduated college or got cancer or died. Same with friends-who-aren't-close.
I really hope that JB is reading these spot on comments!
A comprehensive pan-European system for habitat identification
The documentary covered some important ground but leaned too heavily on the idea that Tesla is responsible for customer abuse of their platform.
> where do you draw the line

The same place I draw the line between light and dark, between rich and poor, between freedom and slavery, between art and porn.
Money is diverted from build-out for political and military pressures. Is that "administrative"?
What?

The comment that you -- with aloof disbelief -- replied to only talked about pointers. I don't know what point you think you are proving with these pithy replies. It sure does go above my head. :)
Then why do you comment on it at all, if it causes you so much stress? I didn't claim anything wrong, did I? I didn't post in an unfriendly tone either?

It sounds like you don't accept that it's a shortcoming, instead trying to justify and excuse it.

You don't see the authors of nginx angrily complaining at you every time you comment on a post about their httpd. (Which this thread was about originally, after all)
I'll try to steelman the code-is-law argument (not really sure how I feel about it myself):

In the case of the smart contract, you don't own the vending machine. It doesn't have an owner, it just "is". If it did have an owner, that person is probably violating all sorts of securities laws in countless jurisdictions. That's at least part of the point of all this smart contract stuff.

To make the analogy a little more apt, let's say the smart autonomous vending machine 1) lets people buy DRNKs by inserting money, 2) incentivizes people to refill it with DRNK by spitting out money, 3) once a month spits out money to the amused landlord, and 4) was deposited by aliens who disappeared without trace.

Presumably the smart vending machine would continue on its merry way like this until it either broke down or someone figured out a way to jimmy the lock. Looks like the later happened. Though everyone is upset, it's not clear who has the right to prosecute.
I encountered problems on an Intel card config once where a simple multiplication of three values in the shader resulted in 0 being emitted due to a bug in the shader compiler itself. Workaround was to wrap the whole equation in a multiplication by 1.00000000001, which (we assume, closed source architecture that's very difficult to crack the black box on) forced the compiler to stop trying to use an optimization that was dropping our values on the floor.
You're explicitly choosing to panic if it is None. Would never pass a code review unless you can in very clear terms tell why it will never now or in the future be none.

The point is that you can't use the inner value without choosing a course of action if it happens to be none.
Aside from @dataclass, @lru_cache is my most used.
> I'm just saying these policies were motivated directly, maybe exclusively by racial animus

We have similar motivations to thank for our cabaret laws in New York, which literally fined restaurants without the proper licences if their patrons danced.
Nim also has some pretty good ESP32 bindings: https://github.com/elcritch/nesper
Proximity fuses vastly increased the effectiveness of anti-aircraft fire and the story of their development is fascinating.

See https://www.historynet.com/proximity-fuze/
I've been playing around with something similar recently and I'd encourage you to look into doing this with pure webgl rather than p5.js. It's surprisingly simple (this would just be a `gl.drawArrays(gl.POINTS,...)` call it with some buffer setup and texture `texelFetch` reading) and freeing and empowering to work from the groud up without frameworks. It's also really nice to offload player offset and zoom to the gpu/shaders (it handles it really smoothly and with basically more straightforward than you'd have to do to only draw things that's on the screen with canvas rendering).
From a startup engineer's POV this is a non issue - a 18-24 month tenure is pretty standard.

However I can't help but feel the bubble will burst eventually and it will be a success to run a VC-backed startup for a few months without seeing it become a shitshow.

I can't complain though, salaries are skyrocketing in my area and getting a major raise is easier than ever. It must be scary for founders / owners though.
Hehe, fair enough. I was a bit ruder than normal too in my response. Thanks for the reply.
The counter argument to that is:

If pro lifers are assuming that a fetus is indeed a living human being, then it follows that the child is completely innocent and its survival is completely dependent on the mother.

A soldier signing up for the army knows very well what he is up against..
What are examples of tiny boards where MCU size would matter? Usually boards are dominated by other components anyway.
Appreciate all you said, and thank you. After years of the world telling me I am not worthy of help it is hard for me to accept it.
CherryUSB – A lightweight USB device/host stack for embedded systems
> I can use it to buy drugs, guns, child porn and other important commodities.

> Are my examples[0][1][2] not documented uses for Bitcoin?

The exact same thing can be said about literally every currency in use today.

> illegal stuff is what most of us would likely use Bitcoin for.

> would likely

You are full of shit. Since you love citing sources, please provide the source that proves this claim ^.

> that it bothers you says more about you than it does about me

You are spreading misinformation in the worst way - mindlessly parroting trolls and deceitful politicians.

> Bigot? How do you get there?

Did you not state that the only legit use of bitcoin is criminal activity? Does that not insinuate that bitcoiners are a bunch of no-good criminals and/or gamblers? That's pretty in line with bigotry. "They're all a bunch of criminals" is the same behavior you see from a lot of other groups of bigots.

> angry reaction to factual statements

Not angry.

Let me state some facts:
The absolute most disgusting criminals in the world 1) Breathe oxygen 2) Drink water 3) Use cell phones 4) Use websites

Does this imply that oxygen, water, cell phones, and websites are only useful for criminals?
In the last two years I have used both Redshift (AQUA) and Snowflake, and I prefer Snowflake by a mile. Snowflake is just a lot easier to use, scales better and has a much better permission model.