skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an old theory that doesn't hold up at all. The Maginot line was a good investment and worked as intented. And it was by no means as large an investment as people claim.

Where they failed is in terms of their officers, command&control and training. The French Generals made some horrible mistakes and never managed to recover.
Neat, but I find it odd that this was the top item on HN for me at the time of clicking. It's not an innovative type of calendar, these have been around on keychains and other form-factors for a long time.
Prices are not rising because people have too much money and are over purchasing food and energy just to show off to their neighbours.

If that were the case then there are things that would work. Increase taxes on income, unearned income, wealth and excess profits to take money out of the economy (MMT theory would support this if the issue was genuinely too much money) Introduce price controls and rationing on food and basic services including energy and housing to stop profiteering.
I this post I explore a more advance Hello World example in Elixir
The same is true of businesses. There are plenty that make money while being unproductive and selling subpar software.
Reminds me of the Silicon Valley ferret neighbour scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMK_GAyRY0o
Don't they have product teams at Uber that should do most of that filtering?
why either love or hate it? I love S1-5. Not sure about 6 or 7 but I disliked 8 for sure. Its not like S3 or S4 or S5 was bad. Then I'd have quit earlier already. I can still recommend S1-S5 at the very least.
Nginx: static hosting, proxy pass, grpc pass, direct socket passthrough, custom modules, tls oid parsing, tls session tickets , horizontal scale out, regex mappings, lua, etc ... There is a lot to this "simple" tool...
It could be reasonable but like I said, it's a massive stretch. Flu vaccines are not designed to stop Alzheimer's. There is no argued or known biological pathway through which that might happen. Alzheimer's experts have not previously identified flu vaccines as doing anything that might help. And it probably isn't flu itself causing Alzheimer's because, as I've noted elsewhere in this thread, flu vaccines don't appear to have actually reduced overall flu mortality and some studies show negative effectiveness.

https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20200302/flu-vaccin...

I don't think there's a really killer argument here in the abstract: I personally find it unreasonable to imply causation from any medical intervention to any possible outcome based on just a correlation. Yes, it's more reasonable than Nick Cage being associated, but not reasonable enough. That's a judgement call however. I am guided in it by the massive costs and problems created when scientists claim vaccines are miracle cures without sufficiently robust data.
the author of cracking the coding interview
Because compensation should be proportional to investment and both the 1X and 10X programmers invest the same thing, eight hours of their time each working day. In practice things are more complicated as this creates undesirable incentives but I think the general point stands.
I dislike this habit of blaming “leaders” in democratic countries. The problem is that the electorate either don’t care or won’t accept anything that might inconvenience them or require them to change their habits. Not much leaders can do in these circumstances.
Yes, let's make sure there's:

* No proper sex ed in schools.

* Reduced access to birth control.

* A ban on abortions.

* A really messed up foster system in which children end up at worst abused and at best neglected.

* The highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country.

* Ridiculously high healthcare and child delivery costs.

* No way people can discuss birth control on social media.

* A massive baby food shortage.

This is going to end so well.

Folks please point people (esp teens) to the YouTube channel Sexplanations, which is a comprehensive and free online sex ed resource: https://youtube.com/c/sexplanations
We got addicted to using Q-tips the wrong way
yikes. Fair enough.
It's more of a quip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

One can use "variety" to side-step the whole problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect
Neurocognitive effects of melatonin treatment in healthy adults and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342...

I take melatonin for sleep, but this article was why I continue
IMHO enforced price controls leads to shortages (and I experienced them first hand, I was born in Argentina)

Also using an example from 70 years ago doesn’t seem enough to justify it.
Demographically you might be right about where the majority of the population leans. But it doesn’t matter. Between the “small state bias” of the electoral college and gerrymandering, the minority are going to rule for the foreseeable future.

The Democrats have now lost the Presidency twice in the last thirty years while winning the popular votes and are underrepresented in congress in comparison to the popular vote.

Most Americans disapprove of the recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion - even Republicans.
Learning from Our Defeat: The Skill of the Vulcans (2021)
The value of the hours they invest is different.
No, I disagree. I can see at least 3 reasons:

[1] That will happen in time anyway. This is a flagship app.

[2] I would not expect any distro to include a major version in its stable release. So, even if they do that, it will take months to percolate out.

[3] When it happens, it will need an OS version upgrade.

This is a standalone app release, not an OS release. It is in many OSes and it will make its way to them in time. You are conflating 2 different things.

The question we are discussing here is: I run T'bird on my own box, and I want to try the new version; how do I do that?

There are 2 possible solutions to this: either provide distro-native packages (as Google does; this is mainly appropriate to proprietary apps, which T'bird is not); or, provide some kind of cross-distro package. Since both Snap and Flatpak need support tools installed, and AppImage does not, that makes AppImage the best choice, IMHO.

Snapcraft and Flathub will do their own thing in time.

On which note, T'bird 102 is already on Snapcraft, but it does not pick up existing T'bird settings or profiles.
Google Calendar has a setting to enable a 3-4 week forward view from any date. Not quite infinite scrolling, but it is what I use as my default view.
Everyone chill. Musk is fine, I just met him playing golf with Jack Ma. Sorry I forgot to take a photo. But a person that makes affordable wire and bead jewellery did an interview with him, that was definitely not phoned in and which they will soon share with us all. So everything is normal.

Jokes aside, this week Musk turned 51 and his twitter account surpassed 100M followers... crickets... pretty strange.
… and destroyed the global productivity gains brought by automation for generations.
I don’t understand why we’re even talking about cancelling debt (which is sort or a euphemism anyway - it means using tax payer money to pay off the debts).

Why do the current debt holders get their debt canceled? What about previous and future student debt holders?

Why are we paying off people’s student debts? What about other forms of debt too?

It doesn’t make sense to me.
DialMe: Web-based instant SMS receiver with new and used phone numbers
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Haven't his lawyers been telling him stop, along with the SEC? He's in the unique position that using the platform he's trying to acquire could have insider trading consequences, especially if he's turning up evidence of bots being much higher than Twitter ever admitted. That's materially relevant to his acquisition bid as well as to shareholders and could be construed as publishing insider info.

I'm surprised went quiet only 8 days ago and not when the deal to acquire Twitter was announced.
A cynical person could say that today is the perfect time for enforced prices because there alreay is a shortage of everything.
You could put that on the frame, though.
When will we see a Space Force One?
DDG does bring the completion after typing "Armenian" for me, however Bing even after typing the whole phrase "Armenian Genocide" brings totally unrelated completions while also suggesting "armenian genocide museum dc" as No. 3. This is so strange!
Then don't prepay. The cost difference (for the all products pack) is around £50 over 3 years.
A lot of these sites also prefer to pay their content providers in crypto.
Biden must rally against a Russia-led UN ‘cybercrime treaty’
Wow, so Series X and Series S have each outsold both PS5 variants put together. It would have made sense to me if both Xbox models together had more sales because the Series S is simply the cheapest option, but this is different.

Sounds like a supply chain issue, assuming the Xbox didn't suddenly explode in popularity in Japan compared to previous generations. Maybe Sony yet again prioritizes the foreign market like it did with the PS4 by delaying the launch in Japan compared to the rest of the world?
It has already been very hot up north too. 38.7 for England. On top of that places like England have famously high humidity.
I find the attitude "You have to work on this problem right now!!!!" to be a pompous, especially if you are unable to even define what the work you want done is and it turns out it actually isn't urgent at all.

What people who make requests like that want is their emotional state managed for them. They feel anxiety and often they have created the situation they are anxious about.
If the purpose of college is something other than babysitting and coddling young adults while they socialize, the vast majority of kids going to college should not be going to college. In the vast majority of cases they take easy majors that have nothing to do with the work they end up doing.

I agree with the author. There is a credentialing arms race that must be cut off at the root - easy access to student loans.

The solution is simple - Government predicates receiving a federal student loan on demonstrating high academic ability, beyond just getting into a college. Standardized tests must be leveraged more to this end - not less - since they're the purest intellectual measure we have left.
> Programmers are most effective when they avoid writing code. They may realize the problem they’re being asked to solve doesn’t need to be solved, that the client doesn’t actually want what they’re asking for.

And how do you balance your urge to say "this feature is not what brings us the most value" in a team setting where the business/ product decisions should be evaluated by the product owners?

I've only worked with one product owner who actually appreciated the engineers challenging product decisions and was capable of actually changing priorities based on our feedback. He didn't always change his mind, but I know that he was always listening and never made me feel like insubordinate little child.

Most business and product people may let you share your thoughts, they smile and nod, and ignore everything you said. Do it a couple of times, you will be labelled as "not a team player". Do you want to know how our similar features performed in the past? You want to challenge whether some SAFe ceremony actually works for your "autonomous" team? You want to recommend hiring an analyst because the whole product flies blind without proper data? Want to take a step back and think about whether a project that takes many man-years to complete is bringing the business or the users any value? Too bad, shut up and code.

I had to work too many times on a "super urgent, hundred million dollar feature" and "non-negotiable legal requirements" that still hide behind a feature toggle.

In practice, you can figure out in a couple of months whether the person in charge of product vision is capable of listening or not. If they are not, you'll either learn how to keep your skepticism to yourself and do as you are told, or you start looking for a new position (or going solo).
You go ahead and do that, pay your employees based on the hours they are “there“.

Your competitor pays its employees based on each employee’s results.

Then let’s see which company survives in the market.
Everything is "just programming" but deep semantic heuristics from an IDE can't be done reasonably in Emacs. Most of the big features require keeping a full AST model of the project in RAM. That would make emacs/vi really slow.

IDEs are 100% extensible via plugins. Wrote a few of those myself.
As J.J.J said in the Spider-Man movie, thanks for the good news.
> The fewer modalities we have, the better preserved are our memories.

That's an interesting idea. By this hypothesis, [method] actors should have abysmal memories but is that true?
Pretty underwhelming considering the current delta between Apple’s A15 and the X2. I wonder if ARM is hampered by having to release a design that has to work on more than just the most cutting edge TSMC process.
The generalization of this idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio...
Junior/mid devs will rewrite something they don't understand, rather than analyze and understand it. Everyone wants a green field project.
Tip: you don't change the system, the system changes you (or uses you and spits you out) especially when talking about military applications. Refusing to work is the only way to make a difference via your job.
> Yes, a misleading statement, but also one which bought the British valuable time to build up their military.

This is not really the case. The most important things the British could do against the Germans was the Blockade. And the Blockade was available at literally any time since WW1.

And the Germans were already in full buildup, they delay between 1938 and 1939 helped the Germans far more then it would have helped the Allies. Not to mentioned it took out the Czech military.

Specially since its only when the Germans invaded Prague that the British really started the buildup.

And in the end, the British army was kind of useless in the Battle of France, since the breakthrew happens in Verdun and the British were in Belgium.
I think that when you're learning you should take the easy route and the IDE reduces some of the frustration we get when dealing with simple errors.
I don’t know, please backup .Mozilla or whatever path it sits in before you experiment.

Another use in this thread suggested deleting .db, but ymmv
> A developer leaving the company is not responsible ... that the documentation is correct.

I completely disagree. Documentation, however it exists, should always be correct. Whether you document by flowchart, code comments, self-reading code, or some other means, I always maintain that it should be updated as you update the code itself. Just like tests. If you only update it when you need to use it, you're missing the point of it.
> Because compensation should be proportional to investment and both the 1X and 10X programmers invest the same thing, eight hours of their time each working day

So you "should" pay for example Rob Pike or Ken Thompson equal to what you would pay some junior dev because they invest eight hours of their time each working day?
> In earlier utopias involving rats

Well, there's a phrase you don't see much.

This does feel like a kind of retro quasi-Malthusian concern these days, though. In practice, populations tend to stabilize as the economy develops, and the earth is now expected to hit peak population within decades.
It's an unfortunate title for something much more serious than your standard geopolitical posturing: Russia and China seek to legitimize authoritarian internet control through a UN treaty.
In SMB companies around the world "an occasional $4K charge" is definitely not negliable.
As a curiosity, this is fine. Already now kids videos on Youtube is a swamp of poorly generated animations with empty stories. So they're just adding to the noise floor.
That's irrelevant.

The sign of the power needed/received for moving passengers up/down depends on the direction of the escalator as viewed by the user.
JetBrains offers free versions of several of their IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA Community), but nothing for .NET
I can never remember it. I use the much less helpful method of knowing Julius and Augustus Caesar were megalomaniacs, so they have 31 days. February is special, and that just leaves 9 months of guessing.
Human-Learn: Benchmark rules written by humans using sklearn
I completely agree. This almost feels like a state-sanctioned act. Isn't "Fake News" the theme of the last six years? It's undoing pieces of our society. This is just one more log on the fire.

Wikipedia, despite all odds, has proven the most effective distributor of facts of our time. Shame on those who undermine its credibility.
One of the worst jobs i ever had, occasionally required us to drown some mice. Excess population / euthanized "feeders" for pet snakes. The method was to put several mice into a small wire cage, and then submerge the cage in water. Usually I filled a bucket with hot water, beforehand, and made this operation fast as possible. Dunk and done.

One day I came across a cow orker attempting to do this job (I had been busy and it was usually my task); they'd put the cage in the sink and were gradually filling the basin with cold water, mice swimming and grasping each other and etc. Panic and horror. Nasty.

Somehow, one mother mouse wound up on top of the pile, holding one almost weaned baby. As the water passed her knees she stood up and held the baby over her head. Prepared to die and use every moment left keeping the kid alive.

I had to adopt her and her baby after seeing that. They were never exceptional as pet mice but I still feel good about saving those two.
Everything costs something.

Optimal profit will come from compelling delivered on good enough.

It is a personal judgement from there.

Secondly, one needs an audience to profit. That means speed is not top priority. Content is.
"This Tweet links to a China state-affiliated media website. Find out more".

This is what I am seing on Twitter linking the above article. A good additional information.
A quick web search suggests yes.[1]

The Impact of Different Environmental Conditions on Cognitive Function: A Focused Review

Lee Taylor, Samuel L. Watkins, Hannah Marshall, Ben J. Dascombe, and Josh Foster

Front Physiol. 2015; 6: 372.

Published online 2016 Jan 6. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00372

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701920/

Abstract:

Cognitive function defines performance in objective tasks that require conscious mental effort. Extreme environments, namely heat, hypoxia, and cold can all alter human cognitive function due to a variety of psychological and/or biological processes. The aims of this Focused Review were to discuss; (1) the current state of knowledge on the effects of heat, hypoxic and cold stress on cognitive function, (2) the potential mechanisms underpinning these alterations, and (3) plausible interventions that may maintain cognitive function upon exposure to each of these environmental stressors. The available evidence suggests that the effects of heat, hypoxia, and cold stress on cognitive function are both task and severity dependent. Complex tasks are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat stress, whereas both simple and complex task performance appear to be vulnerable at even at moderate altitudes. Cold stress also appears to negatively impact both simple and complex task performance, however, the research in this area is sparse in comparison to heat and hypoxia. In summary, this focused review provides updated knowledge regarding the effects of extreme environmental stressors on cognitive function and their biological underpinnings. Tyrosine supplementation may help individuals maintain cognitive function in very hot, hypoxic, and/or cold conditions. However, more research is needed to clarify these and other postulated interventions.

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Notes:

1. Search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ambient+temperature+effects+cognit... A Google Scholar search of the same terms produces over 283,000 results and might be worth exploring as well: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ambient%20temperature%2...
My hope is that these improvements push nvme and similar technologies to a state where they could theoretically replace ram. Pipe dream I know but the idea of something breaking the von neumann machine paradigm even a bit is exciting.
Had the channel not been there, the UK would have surrendered like the French…
No shortage, but no surplus either. They just sank a ruinous portion of their GDP into that stuff.
Alternatively, we could switch do Decimal Time to have the same calendar every year (except for some adjustment for the last day of the year) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
I scraped the list of species from the main list page and put all of the woods into their phylogenetic tree: https://observablehq.com/@thadk/life (desktops only; use a preset list: wood-database.com; linear) or here's the PNG: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8uq8i5gyenp3t4x/wood-radial3.png?d...

Next step for someday is to replace phylotree.js with a D3 visualization on it which shows each image using the URL so you can see how the grains of the word relate according to the tree of trees.
Knowing what is capable of making money is a very different skill from knowing how to build things. It’s very easy to pour countless hours into making the perfect product that no one wants.
You can also specify lat/lon query parameters to open weather for a particular place
Know about real-time state of a Android app Permissions with Kotlin Flow APIs
Who said anything about a "useful project"?

Just because you spend 100s or 1000s of hours building something and releasing it on GitHub doesn't inherently make it "useful"

You might spend 30 minutes and it be "useful"

Or 10 years, and it be not "useful"
Nothing is 10/10 really. Some parts come close:

- I enjoy using ctrlp.vim (and similiar). Fuzzy search in general is just faster to use.

- git add -p is gives you a great feeling of control

- the combination of tmux, ssh, grep and so on give you power and provide the flow-state feeling

- Google Search albeit its problems still provides massive productivity gains

- CI tools listening to pushes are fun and magical
I think the thread is actually quite accurate, but with crucial detail missing - the person who gets to decide whether or not the 'urgent' work is really more or less urgent than what the team is working on is the engineering manager. You can't complain that people interrupt you with things when it's your job to decide whether or not they should have interrupted you.

The alternative is to have people decide for themselves when things are urgent. This leads to four scenarios;

- Really good - they don't interrupt you with a non-urgent thing.

- Good - they interrupt you with an urgent thing.

- Bad - they interrupt you with a non-urgent thing.

- Catastrophically Bad - they don't interrupt you when there's an urgent thing.

Accepting the bad interruptions in order to avoid the catastrophically bad non-interruptions is worth the pain. If you can't handle that then you shouldn't be an engineering manager.
And why people dislocate their shoulders so frequently, just doing like normal things. Someone I knew dislocated his shoulder swimming freestyle. Just happened.
> The allies almost lost the war with the Ludendorf offensive in spring 1918

Not really. Those offensive were very unlikely to win the war. They look more impressive on a map then in reality. He really had no strategic plan, its was basically 'Lets attack and hope for the best'.