skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know where you get all these nonsense requirements for parasites, 1 is usual, but not needed; 2 is trivially not true, there are plenty of animals that are only parasitic for a specific time and will later live outside any host getting nutrients in a “normal” way; regarding 3 — I sure hope you don’t mean manipulation in a sci-fi brain controll way, because while there are very limited instances of such (toxoplasmosis and ant-fungi), this is a very big exception not a rule.
4 - how the hell knowledge even come into the picture?!

So I really have no idea where you got these ridiculous made-up requirements, but just to clear things up, Oxford’s dictionary only has this as a “requirement”: “an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.”

And this is absolutely true of human babies, technically, no matter how disgusting the notion is. Technically true is still true.

And no, the female body is not made for bearing children. Women usually have the ability otherwise evolution would select against them, but babies are not “first-class” in any way, otherwise there would be no such thing as Rh disease (where the mother’s body literally attacks the fetus). There is no design in evolution, it is a spaghetti code where the vulnerability of a vulnerability happened to be a feature over time and everything seems to be working statistically good enough in extant species, just enough so that they can reproduce enough to not go extint.
> I think you’ll find that the 1-based languages have vastly more programmers.

Any shred of evidence for that? Listing four languages for each won't cut it.
Yes, but not so much in scientific computing, where scientists and mathematicians do a lot of the coding.
Yea honestly github is just one user, and paying probably more than their own fair share for usage of all these open source libraries. It’s ridiculous that some people even suggest somehow github is responsible for maintaining the livelihoods of all these developers. Maybe follow github’s lead and all the people complaining made donations as well.
Netflix might be overvalued, but those other companies aren’t in great places.

Disney for example is in a tough place in terms of growth which really hurts their market cap.

Take say their parks, they can’t significantly expand, open up new locations, or significantly raise prices and those parks have the risk of another shutdown etc. ESPN similarly dominates their niche but as a middle man they could lose major contracts. Again profitable but not a lot of room for growth. Disney+ is what their 3rd streaming service and eats into existing profits. Why buy an MCU blue-ray when 3 months of streaming costs the same.

They executed their purchases of Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars reasonably well but audiences are getting saturated and there isn’t a lot of franchises like that to keep buying. Worse they can’t seem to get new franchises off the ground. Frozen for example was a big hit but they ran it and other promising IP into the ground.
Eliding a full matrix of possible outcomes, the effect is 12 weeks ensures no punishment for the doctor, 22 for the pregnant person.
2021 https://imgur.com/a/svq7rfR
I struggle a bit with anxiety, and started doing some similar form of labeling a few months back.

Whenever I notice my thoughts spiraling I just notice it ("I am starting to be anxious") and take a few deep breath to put a break on the automatic reflex loop.

I can't say it solves all problems, but it seems to be at least somewhat helpful, and as the PDF says, it's really, really easy.
Proxxon's Dremel-style multitool combined with the drill press stand works great and is much less single-use. Their mini-mill is also great.

Avoid the Proxxon tiny circular saw though, it is utter junk.
Clocc – The Common Lisp Open Code Collection
Look I'm not trying to defend "fartcannon" per se, but I gotta point out that if there's any bitterness here it's due to Microsoft's past actions. People who are suspicious of MS have good reasons.

I'm sure if some other company donated $0.5M to FOSS maintainers the negativity would be greatly muted or even absent.
The way you scale is not to disregard artisanship, it is to design the right interfaces and abstractions, and allow for ownership at the lowest possible level with a hierarchy of “artisan leadership” that has equal power to managers and other paper pushers. Easier said than done, but it is the only way. The commodification approach is the blind leading the blind, where the gears get more and more gummed up until someone realizes they need to call in expert help. And when they do, it will inevitably be—surprise!—a small team.
This is the case: the whole pre-issuance period a counter party can challenge and provide invalidating arguments. Nine months after issuance there is also a challenging period. Additionally you can invalidate a patent by litigation but this gets more expensive.

Yet many bogus patents still slip through. Challenging patents is a costly and time intensive process.
Another demo:

https://easylang.online/run/?code=%23%20Mastermind%3Aw90%0A%...
Ok, show me in C++. You have these three structs, which you cannot alter the signature of (maybe from an external library, maybe you don't want to introduce a type hierarchy in someone else's code, etc).

struct Name {
std::string firstName
std::string lastName
}
struct AnotherName {
std::string lastName
std::string firstName
}
struct YetAnotherName {
std::string middleName
std::string lastName
std::string firstName
}

Write a single function that returns firstName and lastName concatenated. Bonus: write it for any struct containing firstName and lastName. The only way I can think to do it is via templates, which aren't traditional OOP and have their own downsides. Concepts in C++20 look like they make this much easier, but, again, not expressed via traditional object orientation and still infects your code with templates.

This isn't theoretical. I often don't want and often cannot use inheritance-based polymorphism. If I'm using a language where that is the only option, I'm struck writing tons of redundant, error prone, pointless, and brittle glue code. The amount of glue explodes combinatorially. That glue code can contain errors that the type checker won't find.

The inverse of this problem is also interesting. Someone wrote a function to concatenate the strings in Name. I can't put AnotherName into it unless the original author had the forethought to make their function templated. I guess the future of C++ is that all code ever lives in headers.
This is a common mis-conception that the application design and/or deployment is tied to the repo or repos. They are completely orthogonal. Micro services can be done in mono or multi repo. A distributed monolith can be done in mono or multi repo. Either can also be done without version control.
the unimat was pretty cool. I had one for a while and gave it to a friend. like all the other mini-tools it took a long time to configure for a particular job. but it was more solid than the sherlines, and had a great lego-ish quality to it.
Its important to avoid deep dependency chains when doing this, yes. I usually recommend a "framework" multi-package repo and then multiple "application" / "service" repos.

I like having examples, even contrived ones, but I'm not sure I understood this one. Can you elaborate on what you mean? Is it about adding support for a new serialization format for dates in requests to a service? Why would this affect the webserver stack and logging/telemetry/tracing/auth primitives?

I find that a lot of organizations have really strange thoughts on how to factor things into separate microservices and libraries. Usually I approach by asking the following question: if this was an open source-library or service (e.g. like elasticsearch), would you use it? If not, then its probably not a great candidate for a separate thing - lets try and come up with something else.

One way to handle CI/CD is using standardized pipelines e.g. you tag your repo with a tag `app:node` or `lib:js` and the github org pipeline scanner will find it and assign the standard `app:node` or `lib:js` pipeline to it.

A way that I like better but most tools unfortunatley don't support it yet is for the infra teams to publish libraries that are essentially functions taking some parameters and generating (standard) pipelines/configuration. Those can then be tracked together the same as other dependencies.
I actually think Zaphod Beeblebrox got there earlier. As he willonhavedone by whenever he followed through.
was* afaik his channel, shop and counseling are his main jobs now.
Me too, but only in the case where accepting money compromises something.

Here, I don't think it applies.
One thing absent from this discussion is all of these platforms- Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, can choose to foster the long tail or not. Meaning, they are so vast and full of content that they must internally promote their content via internal ads, product spotlights, deals, and the almighty algorithm.

So perhaps that’s worth examining. These aren’t neutral marketplaces. They can actively promote the short tail blockbuster content, or reach into the long tail and highlight obscure choices.
You are right I mixed up exotic species. I meant pangolins.

And as you say the path for this particular coronavirus is still debated:

https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/717941/fpubh-09-7...
Miniature tools where you introduce the workpiece to the tool (like the ones you listed) seem pretty difficult in small size. Are tools where you introduce the tool to the workpiece (like a dremel instead of a router) no good?
Your link 404s. I believe this is what you meant to include: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs.

There is also a premium verson: https://fingerprint.com/
Are you using the right transceiver? Looks like MCP202 is for the LIN bus which is a completely different physical standard. There are also multiple different can standards, and I don't think Arduino can support the higher speed versions.
My bank First Direct sends an SMS message every day there is a transaction and has for at least 15 years. Visa updates are weekly.
Hard Things in Computer Science
Golang + react + PostgreSQL.
> That article includes quite a few quotes from union leaders and protestors, none from supporters of the bill. Its bias is obvious and undeniable.

> And that bias is probably why it fails to mention the death threats, violent rhetoric, chalk outlines

Heh. It was an article published Thursday morning about the events that happened Wednesday evening. Of course it doesn't mention everything in the grand context. Do you not understand how news works?

I would also note that this is the article linked from the Washington Post article that you linked.

> forcing lawmakers to flee

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Democratic lawmakers voluntarily, intentionally left Wisconsin for Illinois in order to prevent a quorum.

> All that in order to stop, not merely protest, passage of the bill.

Heh, this is just a bizarre statement. Why would you protest a bill if you weren't trying to stop its passage? Of course they were trying to stop its passage. Aren't there bills that you don't want passed?

> If we're to believe that lawmakers in Washington were in danger on January 6th, despite the complete absence of any violence against lawmakers

Another bizarre statement. There was no violence against lawmakers because the lawmakers were evacuated from the building while the Capitol police were trying to hold back the crowd.

> we should also believe the lawmakers in Madison were in danger for the same reason

No, because protesters were actually in the Wisconsin Capitol when the bill was passed. There was booing, but no violence.

> Death threats should be taken seriously regardless of partisanship.

Agreed, and the police do investigate them. But a lot of politicians of both parties get death threats, and most of them are just rhetoric. There were no assassination attempts on Scott Walker, and he personally wasn't even in the Capitol, as he was the Governor and not a legislator.
Yep, I actively have to fight both services to get the most value from the service, much more similar to how Twitter does it. I find having both views is a good idea, I'm not sure why these services tend to focus on only one view.

On HN when I like a users comment I will go through their post history, and if enough of their comments are of good quality, I add their comments to my RSS reader through hnrss. Reddit does this slightly better, where you can add users to your 'friend's list' and then they give you an option to see the latest comments from all of your friends. Both ways do context of the comment poorly.

The other thing I do on Reddit is have thousands of sub-reddits filtered out through RES. Basically anything bigger than a million subscribers is useless, and often even 100k is to much.
Their privacy policy explains they're scrapping and purchasing data.

https://rocketreach.co/privacy

Information isn't current and is likely from a LinkedIn data dump.

https://identitytheft.org/data-breach/linkedin/
I suppose that while geographers define "suburbs" in terms of their proximity to a larger metropolitan area, the "suburban" quality I actually care about is the urban form characterized by sprawling, auto-dependent, single-family development.
I asked (at the branch, in person) to get such notifications but was told I'd have to set up online access to my account, to get them. I asked how to get such online access to be "read only" (so it couldn't withdraw from my account) but was told that wasn't possible.
Even before Amazon a fair number of big box chains removed a lot of oxygen from the retail ecosystem. No small number of those chains themselves went out of business--yes, in part because of Amazon. (Also Walmart.)

I don't really buy the "will never be profitable" part although perhaps less so than AWS.
I noticed banks have generally modified their message to warn people:
“Please use 123456 as your TD security code to log in. We will never contact you for this code. Do not reveal it to anyone else.”

Only HSBC requires a token to authorize transactions that I have found so far (token +PIN) Most happily let you do anything once logged in.

That said, I am sure we have all heard someone complain, “Why am I getting these login codes from my bank? I am not trying to login”. Most people don’t make the connection to fraud attempts.
Sounds like the US used the loose IP protection model we complain about with China:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

> Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System". In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor"[2] and "Sam the Slate" because he brought British textile technology to the United States, modifying it for American use. He stole the textile factory machinery designs as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the United States at the age of 21.
Unifiedtransform – A School Management Software
Ask HN: Dealing with Tool Fatigue?
I regularly bookmark various SaaS products I find on Product Hunt aswell as Hackernews & Reddit. I do make use of them since I made a personal pact to use them in the future to help get things done. But it’s reached a point where I can rest on my laurels and leverage these tools daily yet there is the nagging feeling that another tool out there is better (and there sometimes is) or a new tool can 10x your productivity. The web has reached saturation levels of tooling and I feel overwhelmed by it all. Do you stick to a few tried & tested tools and ignore the new shiny knowing you could be potentially more productive by signing up?
Another interesting story featuring enhanced intelligence is Poul Anderson's novel "Brain Wave".

Briefly, there is an energy damping field that projects in a beam from something near the center of our galaxy. One of the effects of this field is to slow down the speed of neural activity. The Sun's orbit around the galaxy takes it through this field periodically.

When it enters the field the effect is to make everything with a brain about 1/5th as smart as it was, which usually results in a mass extinction of any species that depended on its brain to survive. That's what did in the dinosaurs for instance which had been near human intelligence before that (the book is from 1954 which is before we figured out what really did them in).

Humans evolved while the Earth was in the field, evolving neurons and brain structures that can get to normal human intelligence even with the degrading effects of the field.

The start of the novel is set when Earth moves out of the field and so over the next few weeks everything with a brain gets about 5 times smarter than it was before.

That has lots of consequences. For example a lot of how we handle animals is based on the animals not being smart. It gets a lot harder to be a pig farmer, say, when your pigs get human genius level intelligence. Of course the farmer is a lot smarter too, but still it will take some time to upgrade the farm to deal with super-genius pigs and the pigs aren't going to just idly wait for that.

The novel looks at that and a ton of other changes as Earth adapts and develops to deal with this.
I'd hesitate to call it a divine hand, but there was the pizza-greased paw that decided to pop some magnets in a box and then give them a shake.

If you're going to argue against intelligent design, it's probably best done without a designed experiment :-)
Another comment in this thread seems to have hit on one of the problems, Universities are focused not on vocational education, which is the reason most people attend university , and what most employers expect when they demand a degree from their employee's. Instead universities are focused on "academic qualification" which may have limited to no real world vocational value .

>At the same time, it's not as if professional development is a given with 'years of experience' and companies frequently fail to develop people in any meaningful sense.

I 100% agree with this, I know a few "experienced" people that are not really experienced, which is why I did not simply state that one should automatically attain this experienced based degree simply on chronological paid experience but rather experience + something else

Someone bought up WGU's method of crediting some life experience, that is a good start but I don't think WGU's program goes far enough but it is on the right path, and I which more institutions would start doing more things like them.

>I certainly know people who consider their college experiences extremely rigorous - electrical engineers and so on, so it's absolutely not the case that college can't be rigorous (for any field).

Again I agree here, some fields may lend themselves to an actual degree program, Doctors for example. I think my ideal society would be less than 30% of jobs requiring a post secondary education degree, the vast majority of employment should be encompassed by regular primary / secondary (k-12) education, and maybe direct vocational training (paid by employers)

Instead we pushed the narrative the most jobs need post secondary education or to be successful one must get a degree.

Allowing for experienced based degree's , IMO would start to open other avenues and maybe start a shift in human resources to start looking at other things that just a check mark for "has degree" true or false

Of course the extreme cost of education, and the debt crisis is also doing that slowly
Just yesterday I had such a conflict. Someone thought one of these narrow openings was a good be place to stop for dog defacation.
The website design is damn so good!!! Pure love to navigate such website!
I think the crux of the matter is, how many creators were making a living before? Also not that many. We're comparing one business model that was broken (for the vast majority of creators) to another that is also broken.

It seems abundantly clear to me that there are way more TV shows and music acts with global audience than there were before. This doesn't mean they make a decent living.
There are two things you can do in cases like this.

The first is asking a website owner to delete data they collected on you. That doesn't really apply here. The places this person's name is published are his own website that has this username as its url, his own Github repos, and published papers of his that were also on his website. No GDPR request is necessary to remove his name from these places because he already owns that data. As seen, he has already started to delete it himself.

The second is asking search engines to delist a result. As far as I understand, this usually has to involve information that is otherwise meant to be scrubbed from public record, like a newspaper article about a conviction that was eventually sealed. You can't ask Google to not index a scientific journal you published to or your public Github repos.

There are, of course, limits to this thanks to public interest exceptions. I don't believe Prince Andrew can ask Google to de-index anything associating him with Jeffrey Epstein. The public has a right to know, too.

In this guy's case, he really seems to be straddling a line. He contributed to open source projects under his real name linking to a Github repo with the same username he seems to reuse everywhere, including here, and also has a website where the url is that username, and it contained his CV with his real name on it along with a publication history with every publication using his real name. Is it reasonable to do those things and then ask Google and OpenAI not to associate the username with your real name?

At what point are you some regular Joe with a real grievance and at what point are you Ian Murdock complaining that GPT knows you're the Ian associated with debian?
Similar, and I add a note about the thing into a little notebook to review later.
> This is where I do wholeheartedly agree with author - the loss of Aaron and RSS feeds was the end of the cyberpunk movement in the browser based web.

Aside from not calling it a "cyberpunk movement", the people who work on such tech are still around. See: Mastodon, Pleroma.