skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, preppers overdo it because it's fun for some people.

I have a case of water bottles in the trunk of my car, a bit of camping gear in the closet, and enough dry pantry goods on hand to last a good long while. None of this is to "prepare" for anything besides the water in case of some incident that strands me in my car. Not that much special is required to survive for a couple of weeks. Maybe if you want to practice go on a couple of day long camping trip in the woods, it'll probably be fun.
"everybody knows" doesn't scale, because

1) not everybody knows and

2) you're relying on memorization for people to read your code, which means you're smashing the ladder rungs behind you

Software on a team is a performance art. People are either watching you and copying your behavior, or watching you and getting confused.

And if you've ever felt overbooked on a project while other people are idle? It's stuff like that that put you into that situation. And since you're the one who did the 'stuff like that', it's at least partly your fault you're in this situation. Stop being a ball hog, and you'll get fewer bruises.
Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were as high as 4,000 parts per million (ppm, on a molar basis) during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago to as low as 180 ppm during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_at...

Now we are at 421 ppm. Still far away from 4000 ppm.
Cool stuff Greg! Tabs are what made me switch away from IE to Firebird.
There's too much fixation with "top" in our industry. Top voted tends to mostly be a function of early posting. Later posts don't get votes because they simply were not seen. There seems to be a misreading on a mass scale of what "top" really indicates though; people think it means "quality" when it does not. Study after study, website after website, policy after policy, our online world is built on this fundamental misunderstanding of what is really going on. How do you avoid piling on to this misunderstanding?
In this case, yes it's clearly worth it. The alliance is more than capable of dealing with the bully, so there's no need for concessions.

All empires have to face their end eventually and it's well past the time for Russia to demilitarize and make amends for their violent past.
Just moved into a new apt & found a broken window frame. The owner was wanting to upgrade several other windows at the same time - only to hear a six-month leadtime for new windows.

Poof. There goes (I'm guessing) $2K of window demand.
Yes! This! Hackathons are hugely beneficial to getting new work. I have not attended a single hackathon that didn't lead to an offer for interview or a direct "come work for us, you've already done the interview portion."

Be visible. Tell the world about your stuff. Create value for yourself.
Tell HN: Google does not list application permissions in the Play Store any more
https://postimg.cc/6y3Z9yjY

They had implemented that already a while ago, then reverted the behaviour, and now implemented it once again.

It seems as if it was not "enabled" for everyone yet, however.

They hid the permissions with each version better and better and apparently decided now, users don't need them at all.
This neither addresses my point nor is it relevant to the comparison.
The rule of thumb for multiple locks is always acquire them in the same order. Lock A, lock B, unlock B, unlock A. Otherwise you risk a deadlock. If another thread locks B, then tries to lock A, you're in trouble.
> I'm surprised they haven't seen core infrastructure within Russia collapse due to "independent" actors

In the first couple months of the war, there were lots of explosions/fires at major Russia industrial or infrastructure sites that got reported; I’ve seen fewer reports recently, but I don't know if it is happening less or Russia has clamped down on the news more effectively.
It's all about the framing. So, is it that "people just fucking crush [some other people]"?

I'd say with that framing you can go kayaking and you'll be constantly vigilant about kayakers around you, building your status, watching their speed, noting their achievements, etc.

On the other hand, take me, I go to work and, miraculously, I don't feel being "crushed" by any adderall-abusers. I know many people who commit a lot more than me, I know many CEOs or managers decade younger than me, my old roommates are now tenured professors at respectable universities, and you got me wonder just now, maybe I just have a blind spot and they are "crushing" me day by day somehow, going in circles while firing their machine guns at me. Who knows? I sure don't feel it in any way, they all seem really decent folks, so maybe it turns that ignorance is bliss after all, no?

I struggle to even image how would that be done, but I have some ideas. Maybe if I cared about certifications, or went extensively to every meetup, or tried to lead a community, or bragged about my salary, maybe then I would have opened a hatch to get signals from those people. I don't, so I won't.

Maybe it has something to do with me keeping all too many hobbies (I'm thinking about dropping two or three of them actually, and that includes hn) plus my kids?
How are you helping achieve the goal of ending suffering and exploitation by participating in the same behavior, especially on a daily routine basis? It's as illogical as giving your children cigarettes but claiming it's okay, because they're the filtered kind and it'll help them reduce harm, when in fact the entire act is asinine.
Single page apps break basic navigation on the internet
I would think that...

1) awareness, even without a sense of self, would still count as consciousness, and

2) describing consciousness in terms of awareness doesn't help to define it, since awareness is a subjective experience that cannot be shared directly
This will probably never be read, but I'll say it anyway.

Not an employee or shareholder, but a Coinbase user here. The CEO responding to petitions like this on Twitter in a childish and heated manner is reducing my confidence in Coinbase as a company. The same might be true for other users who are watching.

You are the CEO of a public company, and will have to see many such petitions over the course of your career if things go well. Lashing out on Twitter is a shortcut to achieving much worse outcomes that will not end well.

I suggest apologizing publicly to your employees for your heated Tweets, and cite that you will definitely not use Dot Collector in the future. If it's such a non-event, why not take the win and admit that it was a bad idea? It is well-known as controversial anyway from all I have heard about it.
In the Classical world, the military success of Macedon and Rome are indisputable. Both of those empires were built on the backs of being able to consistently defeat their opponents in military battles. When you look at the Spartan success rate, even among the much smaller group of peer city states, Sparta doesn't look like a nigh-unstoppable military juggernaut the way that Macedon and Rome do.
It’s a right to work state, so maybe there is more to it than a vanilla NC?
They can’t tell you how to manage and interact with the expenses of your life.

No, but they can move to a lower cost area, allow WFH, or gasp pay a fair wage for the region. Employers don't have a right to cheap labor
Sweden and Finland have paid more "dues" than much of the rest of NATO. They've both got very capable militaries that have done joint exercises with NATO. Any increased costs to defend them are more than balanced out by decreased costs to defend the Baltics.
The search command is in the IMAP RFC [1]. Sieve is an entirely separate RFC for filtering email as it's accepted by the MDA [2].

And I could be wrong, but AFAIK neomutt at least supports server side search.

1. https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9051.html#name-search-command
2. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5228
I agree it's frustrating, but the silver lining at least is that on big things like the conversation balloons to the point it's hard or impossible to follow. This breaks it up a bit. Although, I think it encourages more commentary so the net result might be a lot more size/scope than a single thread would be, which is even less digestable than a single giant. So maybe my optimism is silly in this case.
The book has scathing reviews on Goodreads.
It's generally been on the fringe of provincial politics, but the idea has been getting more attention from the Western provinces after years of being let down by the federal government. Peter Zeihan wrote a thoughtful analysis of it in in his excellent book The Accidental Superpower.
The bicycle and riding style used in the video do not provide a good illustration, I have no idea what he was trying to do as he crashed repeatedly, and he did not seem (or the frame prevented him) to use the ability of his body to lean the bike into the turn, riding naively (which didn't prevent them from talking down as if there is a clear consensus in the field of bicycle dynamics).

At low speeds on e.g. a light MTB stop pedaling, lift your butt off the saddle, lean bike far into desired side balancing your body and handlebars to keep going straight. You have most of what's needed to turn. You may countersteer but your line does not veer into the direction of countersteer, counter to illustrations.

Riding edge of a cliff is not a great idea anyway because balancing a bicycle tends to require countless small adjustments even due to pedaling alone.
> Are there any reliable information sources covering how the war is actually going?

Pretty much none. Everything is too opinionated and post-truth-ish, best strategy would be to diversify sources pushing different angles, and then cross-reference.
Still is as you describe. Just graduated from a CompE program.
Our entire dev team switched from MacBooks to laptops running linux.
my program that prints "hello world" to the screen is then conscious?
What makes appeal to authority fallacious is that one's supposed expertise has no bearing on the truth of the things one says. An appeal to authority is when someone argues something like, "I'm an expert, I think X and so should you" basing their opinion on X on their supposed expertise and not actual logic.

When someone gives reasons, their argument rests on those reasons, not on their supposed authority as an expert on the topic.
For everyone reading, being on the hiring side I would advise against bootcamps. We pretty much stopped recruiting from those because the signal to noise ratio was just too low.

It seems a lot of bootcamps teach with rote, rather than by looking at the underlying concepts. My favorite example is git. I've seen bootcamp grads claim they can use git, but what it really meant is that they memorized a few git commands and as long as they don't stray too far from those, they can sort of work using git. But cherry-picking, rebase, proper branching forget it.

I'm extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA's at Lambda (the most famous one) are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0]. I guess that counts toward their "placement" stats!

Not only that, but Lambda seems so desperate that they will offer a fresh grad at no cost to any company for a 4 weeks trial period. [1]. And that's, sadly, the most high profile one out there.

I don't think I've seen a single hire out of a bootcamp work out in the end. Except a few cases where the person actually came from a STEM degree from a good school (and more crucially, already had some exposure to programming during the degree) but it's unclear to me that they actually needed the bootcamp and not just a good primer on modern software development and something like the Missing Semester [2] or a few classes at their school covering software engineering.

Notice there's no "Law Bootcamp" out there.

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25138610

[2] https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
Fire all of them or I got no sympathy for you.
I have a similar background in Electrical Engineering and, while I enjoyed the book, it did not change my perspective. I think the book does a good job of opening up what many programmers (and, of course, others) may see as a "black box" that they interact with on a daily basis. I recommend it to those who do not already have a fairly comprehensive of how a computer works, but if you think you pretty much already understand how transistors become ALUs and have touched Assembly, you may find it a bit boring (as I did).
In turn, probably descended from “RTFM”—on Slashdot people who commented despite obviously not having read the article were told to “RTFA,” which eventually led to “TFA” as a general term to refer to the original article.
One benefit of not working for Big Tech and instead for a privately held company, instead of stock grants I get 120% match up to 6% of my salary and an annual 4% profit sharing bonus into my 401(k). Sure, my actual salary could be higher working for a "proper" tech company, but I get more employer contributions into my retirement savings than the Google's, Microsoft's, and Amazon's of the world will give to an employee capping their contributions.
Yuval Noah Harari in "Homo Deus" [1], paraphrased: once all your neighbors are selecting their embryos, and you see their children healthier, higher IQ, excelling in school, how long do you think you will hold out?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062464345
Hitler already recognized that Ukraine is a) strategically very important due to its location, ie Black sea, gateweay to balkan and rest of Europe and b) has super fertile 'cernozem' (black earth would be direct translation). Plus quite a bit of industry, mostly post-soviet (well that one may be destroyed now).

Already soviets did this with warsaw-pact countries (poland, czechoslovakia, hungary) - shield against western europe, a battlefield where WWII was supposed to be fought. Invaded these countries that are not even close to russia and kept their iron hand above (and large military bases).
There is a lot of overlap for sure. But what I am seeing right now is that the money is still there, just being directed towards actual businesses.
Yes, materials will be important.

We probably can't "do the same again", so much of the Industrial Revolution (from my reading at least) was started with the huge amounts of wood, then easily accessible coal, then "spending" coal to get access to deeper coal.

If you started from scratch, there isn't really any easily accessible coal left.
CRISPR is more like a machine to make large-node-size integrated circuits.
Somebody else has to design the circuit, make it manufacturable, and integrate the circuit with a whole bunch of other hardware.

I work in biotech at a company that is one of the few golden geese that lays 2-3 successful drugs with no competitors every few years. I have 30+ years of experience (deep experience) in machine learning, biology, and computer science.

We are so far behind where we could be, in terms of turning biology into technology, that's almost shameful. Every day I see another system that says it can generate 10 times the data of the previous machine, but the actual amount of knowledge we are extracting for all that data collection is growing logarithmically. This is because for a long time biology has greatly underfunded computing and data.

The one great shining light is AlphaFold. AF2 finally demonstrated to a wide range of scientists across many domains that a really great team using techniques that are barely known outside of FAAMG can work with some long-term experts to move a metric (quality of predicted protein structures compared to golden data) substantially further and faster than even the most wildly optimistic predicted. Not only that, some of the techniques they used didn't even exist several years ago (transformers, jax, various graph learning systems), and the work was replicated externally once the leading academic team had a hint of the direction to go in.

To me, nothing about what I said is surprising to me; I predicted these outcomes a long time ago. Most of the reasons that it comes slower than it could are combinations of culture, incentive, morals/ethics, politics, innovator's dilemmas and a hundred different bottlenecks. Recently, the challenge has been that most of the really smart computational biologists disappear into FAAMG and don't contribute back the things they learn there to research.

We're all waiting for that next moment when the cross product of Genentech and Isomorphic Labs announces that they have a computational model that can do end to end prediction of drug, from initial disease target to FDA approval post-phase III trial. That's been the dream for some time but we're nowhere near it still, and it remains to be seen whether some group can conjure all the necessary bits to solve the remaining underlying problems associated with that "far beyond NP-hard problem"
The future? Have you tried imba.io?
I used to just download the MDN docs to my computer so I can search locally. Offline search beats everything. You don't need the Internet to search.
What a quick way to visualize and get the most telling insights from cool public data sources! I've always known this data is out there, but now I have a medium to understand what it's meant to show. Super cool tool!
That section starts with "This was the traditional approach...". I guess the Bakerloo and Picadilly line trains from the 1970s might still use them on London Underground? Wikipedia mentions stuff like GTO thyristers and IGBTs on descriptions of stuff like the 1992 (Central line) and 1995 (Northern) stock trains, so the next oldest trains from the 1990s seem to have modern(ish) power control. And new trains are coming to the Picadilly line, and presumably must come to the Bakerloo at some point before the old ones fall apart.
This also demonstrates were CLI excels and where GUI's fall short. With the GUI your just stuck digging for the correct option and tab. With the CLI you can create aliases or shell scripts to make wrappers for complex CLI options. Not to mention building custom openssl.cnf configs.
It was just paragraphs of text. p, strong, em, and q mingled at most. No figures or images or anything of the like to radically shift DOM computations. That the effect can even be seen is probably due to the scale of the document, as I noted it's a little larger than most things.

All paragraphs had a blank line between them, both with and without the p end tag. The p opening tag was always at the top-left, with no gap between it and the content.

So, for example:

<p>Cheats open the doorway for casual play. They make it easier for disabled players to enjoy the same things as their peers, and allow people to skip parts of a game that <em>they bought</em> that they find too difficult.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, cheats are going away, because of extensive online play, and a more corporate approach to developing games that despises anything hidden.</p>

Versus:

<p>Cheats open the doorway for casual play. They make it easier for disabled players to enjoy the same things as their peers, and allow people to skip parts of a game that <em>they bought</em> that they find too difficult.

<p>Unfortunately, cheats are going away, because of extensive online play, and a more corporate approach to developing games that despises anything hidden.

(You can also discount CSS from having a major effect. Less than a hundred lines of styles, where most rules are no more complicated than: `p { font-family: sans-serif; }`. No whitespace rules.)

However, if you wanted to look at this in a more scientific way - it should be entirely possible to generate test cases fairly easily, given the simplicity of the text data I saw my results with.
And keeping that discipline over many developers, over many years, is in practice impossible, which is why multiple locks seem attractive but are actually a major problem for complex systems.
> highly performant

Last thing I read, 70% of the native performance was shown by running GeekBench through Rosetta (with a few odd results noted).

If somebody has better info...

Edit: I see that Nov 2020 checks returned an 80% performance, and there was discussion on HN at (at least) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25105597
Could be neat. Lots of "This part of the documentation is not ready yet."
Liberty Dollar Financial Association
Are you familiar with all the resources?

Buy a leetcode.com subscription and do all the questions tagged for your company.

Do at least the “Blind 75 leetcode” list.

Study system design:
Designing Data Intensive Applications book,
the systems design github repo
Just tech journalism? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
I mean it's super impressive but there is still a noticeable lag.

I don't fully get the vision behind it. GPUs - even mobile ones - can power these kind of graphics for comparable or less power consumption. And the future is even brighter with M1/M2 chips and progress in the like. But the lag issue to have server side rendered graphics will never be solved. As it's a physics constraint.

Maybe for a new kind of massive multiplayer games made possible by having everyone on server side graphics? But it doesn't seem to be the way these services try to work on.
Can you elaborate on some use-cases? I'm finding it hard to imagine a situation where `git worktree add <path> <commit>; do_operation_in_path <path>; git worktree remove <path` is any different than `git checkout <commit>; do_operation_in_path <path>; git checkout -`
<<it's also important to know that Ukraine's army today is far different than that of 2014>> That is the big difference. In 2014 Putin took Crimea without firing a shot. Very different in 2022.
> they've got a variety of boutique poisons for all occasions

Yes, but this sword can cut both ways and time is not in the side of Russia. Once the Pandora box is opened, is opened and you don't need to poison massively people to face retaliation. If millions of people in many countries of Africa would start starving by one man stealing and blocking all the grain, is practically guaranteed that Moscow would meet casually a lot of African diseases not previously seen in the area.

In any case, the words of Putin are just propaganda to convince more naive Russian men to join the army and die for his delusions of grandeur.
What? The interpretation of the document by the highest court in the land changes according to the political affiliation of whoever happens to be on the court at the time. The very fact that it has to be interpreted means subjectivity is there from the beginning.
Hell yeah. An absolute classic
> "this outcome fails when this byte of data is missing"

The outcomes here are not failures, they are measurable phenotypic differences, which they use to group genes into phenotypic outcomes. The typical "knockout -> failure to perform a function" is not what's being measured here.
Imagine, both can be true at the same time.
Had one as a kid too. It was my intro to video games so I've got fond memories of it. It's funny I had a lot of fun with the games but didn't realize until years later that a lot of the games we had were just clones of more popular games.
Have you considered that "being part of the solution" might include you stepping down?
Has it been worth the price for Ukraine, and the common people who paid it with their lives? Couldn't the same point be made regarding the US? Would every Iraqi be in favour of the West being the only military power on Earth?

A good place to note I fully condemn Russia for the invasion and loss of lives... I just don't find it surprising in the least and do think NATO expansion catalysed much preventable harm.