skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commuted by bike during winter and found that I could handle temperatures down to -12C. Below that I couldn't keep my toes and fingers warm with mittens and booties. I had to trade off between adding layers to my legs and arms and sweating like crazy to provide enough warm blood to my hands and feet, or I'd wear the right amount for my legs and arms and my hands and feet would lose feeling.

I'm tempted to try it again this winter with battery powered hand warmers on my hands and feet, and handlebar mitts to keep the wind off my mittens.

Another important factor is the length of your ride. It takes a while to cool off, so a 15 minute ride may be fine while an hour long ride is miserable.
Rules are at: https://racetorewards.com/?overlay=rules

You'll note a few interesting things:

1) Scripts may not have been explicitly forbidden, but they certainly were implicitly a deal-breaker on winning: "Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest..."

2) There are scenarios in which they did not need to award prizes, mostly surrounding inability to verify winners. You'll note liberal use of the word "may", and not "must" when outlining how they find the winners to award prizes.

3) There was no obligation in those rules to announce results.

4) There was a way to request a winners list, but there was a deadline on it.

In short, they may have simply seen that scripts wrecked the contest and had enough wiggle room in the rules to just bail on it and move on. Or, maybe they did quietly send some awards out and just did not market the event. Hard to say for sure at this point unless you find someone who actually worked on the event.
Unpopular opinion: something will stop egalitarian power for the masses. I had high hopes for multicore computing in the late 90s and early 2000s but it got blocked every step of the way by everyone doubling down on DSP (glorified vertex buffer) approaches on video cards, leaving us with the contrived dichotomy we see today between CPU and GPU.

Whatever we think will happen will not happen. A less-inspired known-good state will take its place, creating another status quo. Which will funnel us into dystopian futures. I'm just going off my own observations and life experience of the last 20 years, and the way that people in leadership positions keep letting the rest of us down after they make it.
If the local system doesn't have the item data (or thinks it doesn't have the item data, because it's looking in the wrong place) where exactly is it supposed to get the item data from if not the central system?
Well that’s the issue then. You’re not getting enough sleep. And it’s not consistent.
Again, opting in telemetry tracking is not injecting your affiliate codes to get paid for traffic you send as a browser.

It's fascinating the loops that people are going through (it doesn't exist, if does exist it's not that bad, poisoning the well, etc.) to apologize for this scummy behavior by Brave.
You mean, anybody can be a capitalist who cleans other people's shoes?
500 words/month for $55?

Who is willing to spend that much for proofreading one page a month?
Bitwarden cloud
Opinionated in the context of programming languages usually means that the language forces it's own abstractions on you, you have to work with and around them.

Zig is not like that, it's pretty much just C, but simpler, ergonomic. It's design is a reasonably simple, portable abstraction of contemporary hardware. It gives you all the power to come up with your own abstractions on top of that.
the part that I haven't seen decided yet is, how much do I have to copy before it's infringement?

maybe my co-pilot reproduces code verbatim from your GPL'd project because you and a dozen other developers all copied the same solution from stack overflow.
It was a rhetoric to “I don't see these sorts of claims as falsifiable.”

Creationists regularly posit that Evolution is not falsifiable. Popperian falsifiability is being abandoned these days and instead Neumann’s definition of Science and scientific theory is increasingly embraced.
Please address how Coinbase is wrong.

Again, Firefox does not inject affiliate codes into URLs to get paid for referral traffic. I'm beginning to begin you have confirmation bias as a Brave apologist.
adamantium or vibranium?
90s mogadishu was basically the closest thing to an ancap free market utopia. Certain goods and services where security concerns were mitigated were dirt cheap (imported goods, cell and internet service) but most everybody was poor, reliant upon remittances from abroad and deathly afraid of violence.

The only difference is that the security void that ancap ideology says "ought" to be filled by "private defence companies" or "insurers" competing with each other over price inevitably ends up being filled by rival gangs who compete over territory. Frankly, that part of the ideology was always just a fever dream.
Nicotine is a systemic toxin. I don’t think there’s really an ethical high ground to being pro-vape and anti-tobacco. It’s all bad.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/
How come europe is not that car dependent?
Variation Making Trouble in Advanced Packages
> At least one IP lawyer strongly disagrees, suggesting anything you host on GitHub is fair game [1].

The question is whether Copilot's users can use the regurgitated code without following the license terms, not whether Copilot was allowed to train their model on it. I agree it's likely fine for them to train the model, but the use of Copilot would seem to be a legal minefield.

A little thought makes it clear that an affirmative answer would be absurd. This would mean that using a simple tool (let's say `cat`) to make a copy of some code and subsequently ignoring its license terms is infringement, but if the software used to make the copy is more complex (or perhaps if it has the "AI" label stuck to it!) the same actions are not infringement.
> Is it common for python libraries these days to overload the >> operator for oddball things like C++ does?

no
Cabal and GHC have had incremental compilation since (almost?) the beginning/forever. How is special?
I'm probably more sympathetic (and often more enjoy) stories that are told in an existing universe but don't overly try to "go home again." Deep Space 9 was a good example in the Star Trek universe and Rogue One in Star Wars.
Melatonin a half hour before bed has changed my life. That and reading at night instead of watching TV.

Oh and this is the weird one... I sleep with one airpod/bluetooth headphone in. I have ADHD and if I'm not tired enough I'll wake up around 2-4 to pee then be awake thinking about work/family/stupid things I did 10 years ago. I don't know how I got started doing this but now I listen to an audiobook at very low volume on a 15 minute sleep timer. I only listen to books I've read a bunch (currently I cycle between Hyperion books, enders game, LOTR, a handful of King novels, Stoner, The Great Gatsby - pretty much any book where I can pick up at any time and know whats going on without being too interested) and fall asleep to that.

It prevents my mind from drifting and helps me sleep a lot better. As a bonus I get to reread/listen to classics I enjoy several times a year.

I don't know anyone else who does this but I've been doing it for 2-3 years and its changed sleep for me dramatically.
Derivative works don't need to be referenced in the GPL as it's a concept from copyright law. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
> Any general romancing of past times is not Christian specific.

Quite true. OTOH, the "popular version" of recent Christian theology and myth has the quite un-enviable task of reconciling an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-benevolent God, who loves the humans who He created...with the actual (often horrible) reality that humans are stuck living in. Trying to do that generally requires a lorry-load of depressing plot twists, lawyerly double-talk, etc.
It is absolutely not a fact. There are a slew of papers on both sides of the argument, so it's definitely not settled.

People with mental health issues are more likely to use cannabis because it helps them with those issues. And people with mental health issues are of course at higher risk of developing psychosis, so it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Lots of databases offer time travel / historical querying, including datomic, MySQL, Postgres, etc (plugins required in some cases).

Dolt's unique functionality isn't time travel, although it has that. It's version control, i.e. branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone. A bunch of database products give you some of this for schema migrations, but Dolt is the only one that does it for table data as well.
What is even going on on this forum? Is this fan fiction?
The Case for a Confederal Europe
The total size of all item data for a store like Target can't be much more than what, a few gigabytes? Or at least the "UPC -> Price" dataset. So download the whole dataset each night, if you can't get delta changes to work.

And if that had failed somehow, it would have been noticed immediately upon the new code roll-out.

The internet was designed to be extremely resilient to host/route losses, we've made it so reliable we assume all machines are reachable at all times.

(To be fair, apparently they "do" have this but the dataset is printed on the items and the cashiers had to enter it by hand)
I get your point, and I'm sympathetic because I had similar thoughts.

But building a successful language and ecosystem takes a combination of visionary initiators, dedicated contributors, money, a significant value add, luck , and lots of time.

Rust has warts that could be done better by a newer language. There are some interesting experiments, but I don't know of any language that would fit the bill right now.

And if that language emerges it will need many years and probably a corporate backer to reach the level of maturity required for critical workloads like the kernel.

The world shouldn't be limited to C for another 10 years.
Good question! I don't think I even tried using the other stick for rudder because it would make it difficult to use its up/down axis for anything else -- but that could well be worth the trade-off!
You know I usually try to consider this sort of thing as like, groups of people responding to large-scale constraints and complex incentives rather than an issue of individual moral virtue and "life choices."

But now that you've pushed it yes absolutely I think making that choice in the face of currently happening climate change crisis is wicked. I don't like it or respect it and don't see why I would be expected to.

I fail to see how this is "the real issue" though. At least as big a problem is we've been encouraged to believe our personal choices have no effect on other people and so there is no particular weight, meaning or consequence to them. It's not true though. Your decision affects other people negatively and you suck for not caring about that.
What was the evidence at that time?
Biggest aid to me falling asleep more easily apart from cutting caffeine intake was software dimming the blue light on monitors in the evening
> What if there's nothing wrong with its intended purpose?

But there is. See the long, long, so very long list of vulnerabilities caused by incorrect memory management.
Similar here. That's not always the case, but usually after some period - 6 months min - I have as strong an understanding of the business needs as someone can have (with the exception of information which is explicitly hidden or withheld). From then on, my notion of what's needed now and in the future is generally pretty strong (and, to be honest, for many types of businesses, there's a lot of relatively generic plumbing and data needs that are evergreen).

I've been in software engineering for closing in on 30 years (first got paid for a small piece of freelance code in 1994!). I've been doing this longer than some of my colleagues have been adults, much less been in their positions in company X. Many items and needs are not that hard to foresee/predict.

Worked short term on a financial tool - dealing with mortgages, assets, etc. Field for recording "interest rate" would not accept negative rate. I raised it as a concern. "What do you mean? You can't have negative interest rates - that doesn't make any sense!"

This was in 2018, where many European banks were starting to come to terms with negative interest rates. The company itself had funding from a large investor, and one of the stated goals was that the product was planning to be rolled out in Europe by 2020 (covid happened and I'm sure scuttled much of that).

Understanding that interest rates can, in fact, be negative, doesn't require some fancy economics degree. You could just go to yahoo finance and read news headlines that it was happening.

And... we had to create entity records representing a bank - name, address, contact info, etc. Nothing crazy, but "we need to handle multiple currencies". Someone added "currency" as the field for the bank - a one-to-one only. I raised the issue that large international banks can and do deal with multiple currencies. I got some blank stares, and a "banks don't do that" from some project lead. 2 months later, demoing for one of the VPs... a VP said "these bank records should be able to have more than one currency associated". "Yes sir, we'll get right on it!". Ugh...

But hey, I'm just a developer, right? It's better to go back and tear up months of work and tests, and push back release dates, than to just listen to a concern from someone with some experience.

"For v1, we only support single currencies. Multi currency records are on the roadmap for v2 in Q3" or "We prevent negative interest rates on purpose and will notify the user that negative rates will require a call to support team" or similar responses - both would have been mildly annoying, but I felt like I was being gaslit by folks in the company, intimating that normal/basic stuff was just random stuff I was making up.
Looks like a wonder.me copycat
It looks like a promising SEO tool. Upvoted on Product Hunt! Good luck with our launch.

But you will have it hard, you have big competitors (Ahrefs/Semrush).
It should really be no caffeine after 12-2pm. The half life of caffeine can impact ones ability to sleep if consumed after that for most people.
I used some tech from the 200 B.C. yesterday when I used scissors to cut some cardboard. I really don't see why a technology's age has anything to do with how good or bad it is to use.
LA is full of illegal dispensaries. I have no doubt that they sell illegal carts.

But actual regulated dispensaries are not, it would be too easy for them to get caught.

During the last scandal around tainted vape carts, they did not trace a single one back to an actual dispensary, but did trace a number to illicit dispensaries in LA.
Oh really? Why is that?
Weed if you do it regularly makes you feel very foggy headed the next morning.
It’s impossible to deep link into a PDF, but the raw survey data from last year is out: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/06/21/survey-202...

It shows that the vast majority of people use latest stable. A decent chunk also use nightly, and the reason why “a crate dependency I need requires it” is pretty far down the list of reasons.

Oh and a pet theory: the way you feel about this is correlated with the kind of work you do. I’d you’re writing an OS, you probably use nightly still, and so your dependencies probably do too. But if you’re higher up the stack, where unsafe is less common and the appropriate language features are more filled out, you probably never use nightly. This makes talking past people unfortunately easy to do.)

(n.b. I’m glad they released the raw data, because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to share this, because it wasn’t included in the blog post this year. I brought this up before publishing but my advice was ignored, oh well!)
That's language for you. What's the question?
"I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By "free" I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses ... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving" --Richard M. Stallman

Ironic that those who generally purport to champion FOSS fail to understand that Free Software was all about defeating copyright. The GPL was meant to turn copyright against itself.
Im trying to say you're better than iptables because your code has unit tests makes you look arrogant because iptables is a production system that operates successfully at such a large scale that it shows unit tests aren't an accurate measure of quality. I'm saying that when people talk like you did and criticize prod systems, you look arrogant, and humility- using terms like "we believe" rather than "is" help a lot in building user confidence.
Thanks! And we're not the cheapest option, but we have tried to make the pricing competitive for the level of quality we strive for. A top editor on Upwork costs around $150/hour and typically can edit about 1,000 words per hour.

Another thing that might be worth clarifying is that most drafts get 2-3 contributors, each of whom has a specific skillset or expertise that is relevant for the draft. So, the cost per-editor on a draft tends to skew downwards quite a bit.
Can we agree that no vaping is a better option than vaping from a public health standpoint?

Edit: I'll also add that JUUL didn't reducing smoking in teens. Smoking was already on the way out. It was conquered culturally in the US, but JUUL et all has brought at all back.
They sell a product that people have to buy because decisions that were made decades ago make my life incredibly shitty if I don't buy it. And it doesn't have to be that way. We could have made better decisions in the past. We can still make better decisions going forward.

It's one thing if cars were an optional convenience. It's absolutely insane that they are a necessity in so many North American cities.
100%. If I sleep less I feel hungrier and justify eating more snacks or shittier food.
I also used to play on Chesapeake and was pretty active in the roleplaying scene in Pax.
I'm partial to this idea as I prototyped something similar in January of 2021 (http://sendittoedit.com).

I think editing is _extremely_ valuable -- a crazy high percentage of pieces we edited wound up on the front page of HN.

Ultimately, I dropped the idea because most non-writers think of editing as an ex post faco activity. But talk to any editor, especially ones who work for major publications, and you'll quickly learn they are most effective when they are involved in the process from the very beginning: from identifying unique stories, crafting narratives, shaping the research process. Polishing prose is only the final, and ultimately, most trivial step.

I also don't think that this is venture scale. I think there is a market for talented editors serving serious professionals who can afford a premium product, but scaling this business is very hard.

The Google Docs plugin idea is very clever. I never really figured out a good onboarding funnel beyond "do it manually".

Good luck to the team, really hope that someone makes this work!
Wendigos!
> They took my stuff

I was about to admonish you for phrasing it this way when we all uploaded code willingly to github, giving up certain rights according to the ToS, but then I remembered microsoft straight up bought all of github, so "took my stuff" is pretty accurate. I would be interested to see a diff of the ToS since the purchase.
Remember that the SCO vs IBM court case was over a very small number of code lines and if memory serves they only lost because it was deemed trivial. Triviality might be correlated with a low number of code lines, but its certainly not a given.
UIs are streaming DAGs – transcript
I never said only Microsoft can do everything. The provide the easiest solution that just automatically ties everything together. My company builds actual things, we don't want to spend time fiddling with custom software integrations.
But how many language spec changes have there been during this time?
Yeah, you could go on, but you get paid per post, not per word.
SC Opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf
Yeah I work with hundreds of GBs of data every day. I have worked on a dataset with 40 million images in the past. I am also aware of OpenAI, Google AI, etc. train on billions of images. Internally, I am aware of Amazon, Google, META handling really large datasets.

But that is now.

If you are old enough you must remember the early years of big data hype. It was not far from millions or tens of millions of rows.

Re: sensors on fitbits, I thought everyone would read between the lines, and consider hundreds of thousands of these devices sold every year (every month?) will definitely amount to "big data".

Either these companies are plainly hoarding all of it and running some kind of analysis, or they maybe are doing federated learning. From the cos' standpoint, yes, it is big data.
This is frustrating for smokers who jumped to the vaping lesser evil. Vaping did help a lot of people wean their habit to a halt. It's clearly a much better alternative to cigs. Imho FDA is pushing it by doing this, we all know what dirty shenanigans FDA is up to, I'm inclined to believe it's a move meant to make some competitor a lot of money under the guise of caring for people's health.
I'd be ok with JUULs available via a prescription or some means of controlling access besides relying on a gas station clerk to ward off fake IDs from a mob of children.

Edit: I used the word prescription perhaps incorrectly. I believe something like a dispensary would work too. Just a higher standard than a gas station clerk.
IMO distros shouldn't be packaging the world anymore, anyway. Base system from the distro, everything else from a separate, probably cross-distro package manager.

The trouble, of course, is that this is hell for a Linux desktop system, because you can't cleanly put the GUI stack in either "base system" or "everything else", especially with all the shared libs and such.
Amen. It is mind boggling that there are programmers out there who support these certificate cartels.
On average, it doesn't. This is why advertising and magic work.
I'm a medical user in the UK, which had a highly regulated medical system. Potency of medical-grade THC oils here are completely consistent.
So 10-11 hours a day? That’s a waste of life. I don’t mean you can’t be productive, I just mean you don’t have enough time for existence.
You jest, but it really is the case. When your movie has a goddamn board of directors, you can be 100% sure it will be A/B tested until it transmutes the surrounding air into gold.
> which is that you don’t like the life choices most other Americans are making

I think this is the fundamental problem. I don't have a bone to pick with oil and gas companies. It's a resource, we need to address climate change, w/e, but fossil fuels are useful and should be used within reason.

But I do have a bone to pick with this idea that Americans are making a choice because I think they're not making a choice with complete information, they're incentivized to make certain choices, and they don't have a good feedback loop to see how their choices affect them. This ranges from highway construction which displaces natural habitats and eventually bankrupts towns and cities as initial costs are subsidized by the federal government (inflation anyone?) to obesity, racism, to loss of local businesses and economies and many more.
Plus the whole issue of Cargo namespace squatting...

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/name-squatting-on-the-crates-i...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/in-6-3-ruling-court-strik...