skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An American call option (one that can be exercised at any time) is generally worth more as the tenor (time to expiration) increases. Option compensation is a cost for the employer. To keep compensation costs constant, an employer who granted longer term options would have to grant fewer of them.
I have not seen anyone mention the long earth series, a collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. It is based on a very interesting concept. Very different in its style to the discworld books, but shows off how good a writer Pratchett was even when straying from his usual fare.
> I did not in fact find a way to make it efficiently support incremental edge deletion, which is what I was looking for.

I don't understand this goal. The interior connections aren't relevant to a union-find structure; ideally you have a bunch of trees of depth 2 (assuming the root is at depth 1), but the internal structure could be anything. That fact immediately means that the consequence of removing an edge is not well-defined - it would separate the two objects joined by the edge, and it would also randomly divide the original connected set into two connected sets, each containing one of those two objects. Which object each "third party" object ended up being associated with would be an artifact of the interior structure of the union-find, which is not known and is constantly subject to change as you use the union-find.

If all you want is to be able to remove a single object from a connected set, on the assumption that your union-find always has the ideal flat structure, that's very easy to do - call find on the object you want to remove, which will link it directly to the root of its structure, and then erase that link.
Mittani started all that bullshit. He rose to power by harassing his perceived in-game enemies in real life.

It's hypocritical, and actually quite disgusting, to call him a victim considering how many people's lives he tried to destroy over a video game.
That doesn't seem like a very sustainable way to maintain compatibility with newer released versions of sqlite.
The famous "reality distortion field"! Deploying Jobs' charisma so effectively, call the Cupertino folks lucky that he didn't recruit for a semi-religious sect instead.
>"Yes, everyone else has their privacy thrown away for no direct good reason, but that's an acceptable cost of keeping them safe."

Total BS.

First - government can't really "keep them safe". We see it all over.

Second - it is simply not their friggin' business what is on my computer and what I and my friends send to each other. We are so eager criticizing "bad" countries and how they infringe on freedom. Well do not fucking take a road to the same direction.
Poll results, sorted with percentages:

https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpoll.html?id=32193431
I've modded my M1 air and have seen and measured the improvements but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

Yes, it throttles less and things like renders and exports take less time but this machine already has about 10 minutes of "buffer" before it throttles and as a result you don't see the benefits before pushing the device beyond what's reasonable for an ultraportable laptop.

I would rarely do anything that lasts more than 10 minutes of full CPU/GPU load and when I do it would be something like half an hour and the thermal pad mod will give me back 5 minutes.

If I'm going to render something that takes hours, I would not do it on my machine that I use for everything. I would do it on some desktop with Nvidia graphics or I will rent a machine build for the task.

I don't think it's necessary.

On the other hand, I also modded my girlfriends 2020 Air with Core i5 and the improvements were much more noticeable. Unexpectedly, the battery life improved too.
The experts have never experienced an economy suffering from supply constraints in their lifetime. Just prior to the pandemic there was talk of how to do economics in a "post scarcity" world. That's how foreign of a concept supply constraints are.

Thanks to their advanced healthcare and pharmaceuticals, the West has largely put the pandemic behind them. Life has more-or-less returned to normal, meaning demand has more-or-less returned to normal. In fact demand has increased - there's pent-up demand from being on lockdown for two years. Bottom line - demand is up.

What about supply? Almost everything manufactured has at least one component manufactured in an East Asian country. Even if you're an American manufacturer you probably rely on at least one component coming from one of these countries. Significant portions of East Asian manufacturing is still locked-down due to the pandemic. There have been articles here on HN just in the past two weeks talking about, for example, American synthesizer companies going out of business because they can't get needed parts - parts that in some cases they ordered two years ago! Bottom line - supply is down.

What happens to prices when supply is down and demand is up? ECON 101 says they increase. Which they did. That increase has freaked out central banks who see the inflation as a need for fiscal policy intervention and raise rates. The U.S. dollar is trading at historic levels against the panoply of world currencies yet the Fed took action to make it even more valuable - incredible!

Maybe instead we should stop pretending the pandemic is over all over the world and start focusing on the impacts the still-continuing pandemic is having on supply chains. Just a thought.

Another thing - this is why Putin invaded the Ukraine now. With the global supply chain out of sorts this is the time that's allowed Putin to maximize the chaos and economic pain on the West should they attempt to retaliate. Putin wasn't stupid, he thought this one through. Putin knew he could throw the oil market out of sorts, the nitrogen fertilizer market out of sorts, the noble gas market out of sorts, and the world grain market out of sorts. Russia is waging economic warfare against everybody but the Middle East, China, and India. Stew on that one for a while.
Best friends?

My best friends stayed the same for the last 15 years ( I'm 35). Even when I met a reasonable amount of other people by now and even when I eg. Didn't see most of them during COVID-19.

But everything stayed the same when we met again. It's more about character matching than "how often we meet" for me.
They can quit being software developers and become farmers instead
If someone said "dongle" to me today I would assume they mean an adapter of some kind; I've heard it used for the lightning -> audio adapter you need to plug headphones into an iPhone. If I google for "dongle" I see some small USB docks and a few USB=>bluetooth adapters.

I first head "dongle" used to describe the small copy-protection device you needed to plug in to use certain expensive softwares. The software would not launch if it could not detect the dongle.
https://contrachrome.com/ ?
Be careful with this data structure. If the language allows async exceptions or you have a big where the promise won’t become deferred, there are a lot of edge cases. Examples of edge cases:

- if the promise never becomes determined (eg bug, async exception) your app will wait forever

- if the promise has high tail latency things can be bad

- if the language eagerly binds on determined promises (ie it doesn’t schedule your .then function) you can get weird semantic bugs.

- changing the keys of the table incrementally instead of just using for memoisation can be really messy
But why? Isn’t everything on there fleeting?
One of my favourites is treap [1], which doubles as a great excuse to forget how to balance binary trees. It is similarly "probably efficient" as HAMT, mentioned in other comments; both require a well-behaving distribution in the hash function.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treap
The medical field has been moving away from autism as a pathology to a more nuanced understanding of neurodiversity as a multidimensional spectrum. While stigma very much functions as a societal cudgel, a diagnosis can actually be extremely positive and liberating because:

- it gives access to a community of people that share your life's experiences. Seeing how alienating society can be to people on the spectrum, finally finding a peer group is life-changing.

- it allows us to put names on certain things we experience, and communicate those things to the people we interact with. Being able to frame some of my experiences and behaviours has resolved pretty much all the conflicts we used to have in my relationship.

- it deconstructs shame. We are now not just "lazy" or "stupid" or "creepy" or "weird" or "emotionless" or "stunted" or "distracted".

- it frames the fact that autism is a disability mostly as a problem with society not being accomodating to our neurological fabric, not the other way round. It allows us to ask for accomodation in a professional setting, for example
symlinks are great, I don't see why we would remove such feature. The author pointed out a bunch of issues around atomic operations related to symlinks which in my view are valid. Similar TOCTOU race exists with PIDs, see https://lwn.net/Articles/773459/

Not sure whether the pid issue was ever resolved, havn't checked in on that in a while.
You should come to the Belt. Live the pirate life for real...
1- blissfully rising in morning
2- eating a large meal
3- successfully resume sleep

repeat indefinitely
> Good luck booking a hotel suite (w/ kitchen, common room, etc) without paying insane rates north of 1k a night.

Isn't this the domain of extended stay hotels, like Residence Inn (Marriott), Staybridge Suites (IHG), and Homewood Suites (Hilton), and serviced apartments? They don't tend to be in the $1k/night range.
> Our currency loses value because too much of the economy is constituted by unproductive jobs where people just attend to each other instead of creating any value. 1.2 trillion dollars on health care every year. 800 billion dollars on welfare.

I think you're almost there but not quite. It's not that we're spending money pushing people around. It's that we're spending people pushing money around. If medical spending were focused on medical equipment, facilities, and professionals, we would free up huge amounts of resources. But we have legions of hospital and insurance administrators whose entire job is to fight against each other over billing. Those people are resources who could be used to produce things, or provide care!
The sweep algorithm for computing least-squares multiple regression coefficients for all subsets of predictor variables -- see https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2018/04/18/sweep-operator-... .
Everyone is eligible for 'free' medical care via EMTALA.
> If I was going to be disparaging, I'd say that their closest Christian analogue is the nakedly revisionist evangelical Christianity of the the American 1970s and forwards.

I think the current strain, as far as Biblical interpretation is concerned, goes back to Darby's crappy-but-popular 1909 Bible, incorporating extensive same-page notes from Darby:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Reference_Bible

The 70s are just when the GOP's plan to sell itself to evangelicals, on social issues, as a deliberate ploy to capture them as a constituency to support the rest of the GOP agenda, really started to take off.
One reason is that commit messages do not become stale.

Anyway, software development as a whole decided on a pretty stable set of comments that are considered helpful. Commit messages are clearly in there, as well as API elements description.
> A user has a long history of participating on your forum and other users have quoted their messages far and wide. Collectively all of the messages posted on your forums (with or without timestamps) reveal a few PII about the user. Do you have to delete those?

Technically yes.

> The user filed a bug report about a functionality not working, do you have to delete the text of the bug report?

Depends of the privacy policy of the bug tracking application. If it's stated that the report shouldn't contain any personal data you don't have to delete it. If the user asks for deletion stating that it contain personal data you have to delete it.

> Arguably if your user table look like [user_id, creation_date, deletion_date, status, account_type] then this table does not contain any PII.

It doesn't, as long you no longer have any way to associate user_id to the user personal data, you can keep it.

> Sometimes users doxx themselves (like mistakenly sharing tax return forms instead cat pics), in such a case it is the user responsibility to signal this to you.

In that situation if the user asks for deletion of the content you have to provide it. You are obviously not asked to monitor errors about the user.
I too just recently ran into a scam seller. Classic scam where they charge you then ship something to your zip code (they won't should the full delivery address with the tracking number) and have someone else pickup/sign for the package. Figured Paypal would side with me. Nope! And they are still allowing the scammer to "sell" things and charge people's credit cards. PayPal is useless for buyer protection. Caveat emptor. Buyers beware.
FFmpeg 5.1 out – LTS release
Changelog:

- add ipfs/ipns protocol support

- dialogue enhance audio filter

- dropped obsolete XvMC hwaccel

- pcm-bluray encoder

- DFPWM audio encoder/decoder and raw muxer/demuxer

- SITI filter

- Vizrt Binary Image encoder/decoder

- avsynctest source filter

- feedback video filter

- pixelize video filter

- colormap video filter

- colorchart video source filter

- multiply video filter

- PGS subtitle frame merge bitstream filter

- blurdetect filter

- tiltshelf audio filter

- QOI image format support

- ffprobe -o option

- virtualbass audio filter

- VDPAU AV1 hwaccel

- PHM image format support

- remap_opencl filter

- added chromakey_cuda filter
This. IDK if this exists in other countries.

In Spain, at least in my experience, it doesn't make much sense to get an AirBnB.

Prices are higher most of the time, and hotels can and do have better location and service.

AirBnB was supposed to be a mean for people to rent spare rooms temporarily.
Libertarians believe (I know that's an impossible statement, they're too heterogeneous) that people should be liable for harm they do to others, so maybe that'd be grounds for a class action.
Could you explain that delineation a bit more... at the end of the day everything is just serving others, including manufacturing. Mining minerals, the guy building my deck, etc., they're all things I buy to use for me, which is a service. I'm going to enjoy that deck about the same as I do the TV I watch on streaming.

If you're talking about making machines that make everyone more productive... then you're back into IT and Finance allowing everyone to be more productive... just as much as robots and factory lines. And at the end of the day it's still just goods people buy or use.
If your employees and customers agree.

Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) are significantly correlated with: The extent to which employees identify with their organizations values and goals.[0]

Often supporting Social Justice movements requires a moral/value claim. This may or may not align appropriately with your employees or customers. Businesses are typically not into committing market suicide so will always take this on a case by case basis.

On the other hand in a cancel culture not embracing the latest Social Justice issue may actually be a quicker route to forced market suicide.

[0]Accelerate. pg 218.
Yeah but those aren't as commonplace. And I'd still say good Airbnbs would have much better amenities (and charm for that matter).
If the goods aren't useful to anyone (and a lot of the military's hardware isn't useful even by the military's own estimation), then producing them is a worse-than-pointless exercise. Better to do nothing at all than to do active harm.
I dunno if it's "cool" in the sense of something I'd want to ever use, but Sleep Sort is amusing. https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/need-something-sorted-sleep-...
How to Own Your Growth as a Software Engineer
I was reflecting on my career journey recently and decided to put down some thoughts on what I found to be vital to my growth in case if you find it helpful.

It took shape as this blog post where I cover four tenets to owning your growth:

- Do the job that's needed of you

- Understand where you are on your career journey

- Advocate for yourself through storytelling

- Learn to organize your thoughts & communicate articulately

Does any of that resonate with you? What advice has been pivotal to your growth? Please share it in the comments!

https://build.betterup.com/how-to-own-your-growth-as-a-software-engineer/
The upside of different IDEs is they can change the keymaps and various options to cater for language specific preferences.

My issue is the things they just don't do, Jupyter Notebooks, more than anything else.
Many of the replies to this think I was making a flippant comment. To clarify, like many people I take antidepressants and I find they do help me get on with things. If someone says depression isn't about brain chemistry I'm wondering what else is there? Isn't our mood a physical chemical system? If not, what else do you think it is?
An awful lot of cranks are engineers (electrical seems to be the variety most prone to it).
I write descriptive commit messages because the code I check in is likely to contain a bug. This bug tends to be discovered a couple of years after I worked on the code. By linking my commit message to an issue and having a good explanation for why I've done what I've done, I can easier get into the mindset I had when I committed the buggy code. I find my life gets less stressful this way. I do agree that just regurgitating the files/classes/methods a commit touches isn't very useful. I'll consider ceasing to write "good" commit messages when I'm confident the code I check in doesn't contain any bugs.
> If the U.S. still had a strong manufacturing base

What's this "if?" I've worked my entire 30+ year engineering career for companies that manufactured things. From the 6-person company I started at to the $4bn corporation that owned 80% of their market, they've all been based on making things.

There's nothing wrong with the US manufacturing base. We just don't focus on low-margin consumer goods. Even the company I worked at which also did consumer electronics, farmed that part of their manufacturing to Viet Nam. Higher margin stuff was built here.
This exist in Spain, it's called apartahotel. It's basically an hotel made of apartments.
> Output per worker is lower than ever before!

Citation needed. In 2021 corporate profits increased more than any year in recorded history:

https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/us-companies-record-profits-2...

> When taxes are factored in, last year’s corporate profit increases were even more of an outlier. They soared 37% year over year, more than any other time since the Fed began tracking profits in 1948.

Companies that embrace this mysterious "massive shift in the way people work" will have a nice competitive advantage.
See my remarks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32195416
IBM manuals back then had warnings for that, and three line pitch as to why they refer to laptops as “portable computers” because of that.
Should have (1983) in the title.
That helps you convince your boss to advocate for you, but if he's ever asked to present hard evidence that justifies your value, he's going to need KPIs and metrics and all that other stuff.

... Also, being charming is entirely orthogonal to that.
It's in the standard schedule for kids: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...

They get 3 doses before they turn 15 months old, in fact.
There's a phenomenon where some things can be too obvious to see.
I believe you're mostly right, so I stand corrected; apologies for the error.

However, the Data Protection Act 2018 [1] does complement and supplement the GDPR in UK national law, including certain data not covered by GDPR, and more specifically apparently "implements those parts of the GDPR which 'are to be determined by Member State law'". This was before Brexit took place, and it was later amended to reflect non-EU status at the start of 2021.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_2018
What's the best lengthy write-up of the Air Force's PS3 cluster (if any exist)? From the headlines, I had always thought it to be some marketing gimmick.
This is a well documented warning of antihistamines; if you have an infection you should not use them.

And you should definitely not continue use after 3 days with no improvementn in symptoms.

You also should avoid using steroids when you have an infection (many antihistamines are steroids) (unless you're fighting the immune response). The risks increase more with fungal infections than bacterial or viral. (So much that it was a popular trope in House MD that if it was fungal or the infection was causing sepsis then the steroids would kill the patientl
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/overuse-of-steroid-me...
Yes, Ulysses was much more approachable & comprehensible, and I can see the appeal of the story, but something didn't click for it with me so I ended up reading the bare minimum to get a good grade on it in a college course that covered modern & post modern arts/literature etc.
Going public is the endgame for SV startups, because VCs and founders can dump their bags. Nowhere else would heavy losses year after year be celebrated because it reflected "growth".
Because "dongle" has a very specific, different meaning. A dongle allows connection between two devices that have mismatched connectors. If someone asked me for a dongle, I'd reply, "From what to what?"
Bought a game service from the company. It was down/not functional. Asked the company for a refund, got death threats in return.

Went to paypal. Attached death threats from company.

Paypal sided with the company.
The only other information I found was that it was published in the Bath Chronicle.

If you have access to their archive, that will narrow it down to "only" 365 issues.
Why not let your credit card company fight for you?
Staybridge lake union
> food, housing, medical equipment, computers, i.e. manufactured products, which can only be made by soul-crushing labor and toil.

Can you show that labor is the bottleneck here because I don't think it is. Agriculture is more and more industrialized and the issue is more stuff like fertilizer and fuel prices, and also shipping issues. All due to war. Housing is made expensive because no one wants a poor (hence annoying - so people think) neighbor. Medical equipment and computers, actually I really don't know enough about how those are made to say.
Of course advertising creates value. It connects buyers and sellers. It generates demand for products that are built and created by other people. You can disdain advertising all you want, but occasionally an ad connects with you and presents you with what you're looking for. In aggregate, that has tremendous value.
> ... it wasn't just Shulgin and his wife who tested the drugs, but also a small group of friends ...

Yes, indeed - also tested with friends, and some of those accounts are included in part one of the book. Thanks for the correction.
If your country has sensible laws, you should have the right to withdraw any credit. In that case you should ignore PayPal and deal with OVH.
I don't know what VA is but in the UK they will attempt to maintain any addictions so the withdrawal does not affect the patient.

For example, if you're a smoker I guess they give you nicotine patches or something.
I’ve been playing COD Warzone on my 2018 MPB 15”, I kept getting stuck at 17-30 FPS, so I slapped a big ol fan on the back of the computer to help circulate the air around it, and on the back cover. Solid 60 FPS now.

Should be sufficient for a while, thermal throttling is a real thing.