skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to have a fight. We all know tone is tough and I didn't want to sounds as vitriolic as it came off to you. I can see how it did and I apologize to you.

It seems obvious to me that this is a PR release, written by a non-scientist. They didn't offer citations, and it took me some digging to find the sourcing for the oddly specific figure: https://xerces.org/blog/fifth-annual-western-monarch-new-yea...

"Since 1997 volunteers have conducted counts of overwintering monarchs for the Xerces Society’s annual Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count. As a way to better understand how the overwintering population changes throughout the winter, an additional count—the New Year’s Count—was started in 2016. Now in its fifth year, the New Year’s Count has given us a better understanding of: 1) how monarch numbers may decline at overwintering sites as the winter progresses; 2) how monarchs move between and within sites; 3) when they leave sites; and 4) the level of mortality that adult monarchs may be experiencing during the winter.

Between December 26, 2020, and January 10, 2021, volunteers conducted surveys for the New Year’s Count and tallied a total of 1,039 monarchs at 149 sites. These surveys followed the annual Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count, which is conducted annually for three weeks centered around the Thanksgiving holiday, and recently reported a mere 1,914 monarchs in total across 246 sites. At 77 sites, no monarchs were found during either the Thanksgiving or New Year’s Count, at 15 sites monarch numbers increased between the Thanksgiving and New Year’s counts, at 54 sites monarch numbers decreased, and at 3 sites monarch numbers stayed the same. After the dismal numbers from the Thanksgiving Count, expectations for finding monarchs were low, but the news isn’t all bad. For the sites counted during both the Thanksgiving Count and the New Year’s Count, the decline in monarchs averaged 37%, which is lower than previous years (40–49%)."

This is not aimed at you, but it's a general complain: It is no fun to do OSS development any more because nobody wants to contribute or collaborate: they want to post a problem in an issue and have the maintainers solve their problem.

Now aimed at you: I think there's a reasonable expectation of editorial competence from any content, and this probably didn't meet it, but I think we can all go the extra mile and read, learn, and understand before replying. Myself included.
Skip lists.
> Is there some trick I don't know about, to quickly go from a source line, to the PR discussion?

Assuming people are religious about putting the PR ID in the commit message, you might be able to relatively easily jump from the commit you found normally (e.g. blame-diving or via the log) to the PR. Whatever your tool might even be able to do the jump in one shot, though I think it jetbrains stuff it usually takes two (“open in > Github” from the commit, and from there click the reference to the PR).

But obviously that means you did go through the commit message, and having had a good summary in the commit message would likely have saved you the trouble.
As a data point, I've purchased (or borrowed from the library) 9 technical books this year. I've read bits and pieces of all of them, but I haven't read them cover-to-cover.

By then end of the year, I'll probably be up to 12-15 total, but not reading everything.

Edit: I probably read about 1/4 to 1/3 of each book (although this varies widely), so that puts me at ~4 full books.
What was changed, why, and link to relevant ticket(s).
You might be thinking of the smallpox vaccine.
This will largely depend on your workflow, but in a PR-based workflow, I've for a while now held the opinion that individual commit messages are useless to me in the history of the code, and that a squash with a final description + summary is the best way to go.

There'll be cases where the following don't match, so let me explain what this is based on:

- In our flow, a PR is small and is the unit of work that is guaranteed to compile/work (tested against master before merge)

- Each individual commit inside the PR can be helpful for a reviewer, but the code should stand on its own and your commits (inside the PR) should not be a source of documentation

- I have never been able to pick out a commit at random from non-squashed PRs, and be sure it will compile. Unless you're running CI locally before committing, you simply do not know

- Spending a ton of time to create a nice history inside a PR is a waste of time, since throughout review or experimentation you will need to adjust work that you previously committed as if you had everything thought out - the alternative is aggressive history rewriting and force pushing which is very quickly a huge mess

- Finally, it tremendously lowers the bar of what's required from each developer, which scales much better, when all you have to do is take extra care in the final title and description

Now, most importantly, squashing PRs is tremendously helpful when digging around the code and having something like Gitlens explaining the changes:

- Commits from a merge commit are on average a lie of the final reason, and very often something like adjusting formatting, fixing linting, which makes the original reason disappear as this was the latest change

- Viewing the squashed PR title and description gives me so much more information and if I want to dive into the specifics, the PR itself is worth so much more than any individual commit message will be

Again, this is something that fits with a specific workflow. If you're developing directly against master or similar styles, then obviously this won't suit you.

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The review and history part is actually something that is interesting to dive into for the importance of commit messages and what you and your teams expectations are. I'd recommend explicitly talking about this with your team :)
This sounds like ~the plot of the film Pi.
Where do you see improvement? According to the graph and text, there is a 4% decrease in performance. It is slightly worse.
Yes we have. Most of that is because we can't identify a good guy, but regardless of that I can see how it changes anything about the justification of _this_ war.
Which is strange because I have always called it a flash drive and have never heard it referred to as a USB flash drive
Neopets security breach: users’ data reportedly stolen
American companies can well decide to offer their services elsewhere you know...
> Why would someone even use the service again after they’ve been left without a roof over their head?

I still use it.

When the only other option is $300+/night for a hotel, a $100/night airbnb is mighty nice. And I often stay for 1week to 1month, and Airbnb's give a nice discount which I'm not sure hotels would. So often the comparison is.. $2000/month for airbnb, or more like $9000 for a hotel for a month?

That gap is closing in larger cities though. In Toronto it's hard to find an Airbnb where i get the whole place that isn't a basement for under $150/night, so creeping into hotel territory.
That's similar to advice I received from a raptor conservationist. More native foliage in suburbia means more bees and bugs, more bugs means more birds. They suggested a water bath and some native plants in your yard can go a long way to supporting the native wildlife the you may not even realize is in your area, until they have reason to stop by.
I moved to Cascais from UK 5 years ago because of Brexit.
Lisbon area is attracting a huge number of extremely wealthy and successful entrepreneurs and professionals - from US, UK, Scandinavia, Netherlands and Brazil. Tax policy, easy to get work visas, Fantastic Infrastructure and Climate make Portugal an attractive country to move to.
I don’t believe these forecasts of decline.
Currently I am finishing off Eoin Dempsey's new historical fiction series "The Lion's Den", which follows a family living in pre-war Nazi Germany.
If our savings over the pandemic are able to keep us afloat through a recession, isn't that exactly what we hoped those savings would do?
My wife is 48 and loves TikTok. As do many coworkers 40 to 60. Personally, I don't get it, but it is popular in every age group I know.
> the increasing latency/cost of data access as the data size grows

Latency Numbers Everyone Should Know https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//st...
Wow, what country is this? Just to make sure I never live on it, even in rural LATAM you could persuade them to look into it. The lack of options in the first world is disgusting
I believe this is a common Phenomenon with a lot of different manifestations. I think it's scientifically boils down to hyperactive pattern matching by the brain. Is common with psychedelics and often manifests as a fractal growth but also manifest in normal life. A common sober example is seeing floaters in your vision. Most people have floaters but not all see them and not all the time. The brain gets a lot of information and passes it through a filter, and then tries to pattern fit it. Prolonged exposure to a certain stimulus or a fixation on it attenuates the filters down and the pattern fitting up.

With sufficient attenuation, the brain will simply fit any noise it sees into the pattern.

The idea is related to the Nobel prize winning vision cognition studies of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, where animals can be conditioned to not perceive vertical or horizontal lines.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/intl/bl...
Scaling isn't really a concern for everybody and every application.

It's good to be aware of additional strain you put on your DB, but I've worked with lots of applications where scaling simply wasn't a problem, and there I'd prefer validations closer to the data.
It's almost certainly a factor, in the same way that improvements in safety standards and stronger adherence to them have slowed progress and increased cost in construction (and many other fields).

I don't think it's controversial to state that. Where it gets controversial is in what value judgements you place on it, because to a large extent it boils down to 'how much human life are you willing to risk for how much progress?'.

Less of an issue if it's an individual choosing freely to risk their own neck, but hard to distance even that from whatever safety culture and norms surround them. Perhaps less people take these risks today because it's no longer the norm in their field.
That's probably less of a smoking gun than it seems like. This case was only discovered because someone actually suffered from paralysis, which is somewhat uncommon even in the unvaccinated and extremely uncommon amongst the vaccinated. The thing is, although it gives very strong protection against paralysis and death the inactivated vaccine used in countries like the US probably isn't all that effective at preventing people catching and spreading polio - all of the polio elimination efforts globally have used the oral polio vaccine which contains live virus for this reason. It's not used in the developed world because the serious side effect rate is hard to justify in a country where polio no longer exists.
Ukraine is up there though despite not being in the EU. I wonder where people were heading (pre invasion)
Depending on the word, there may be very good reason to push back. For example, many people do push back against the definition of the word "literally" that means "figuratively" (e.g. Stoner: "I'm so high right now I'm literally in space."), because if that definition becomes common enough it impedes communication where the word literally is intended to be literal.

I'm not sure what word your are referencing, and if there is any good reason for such pushback in this circumstance.
Here in spain there are a lot of "apart-hotels" with kitchens equipped like a summer apartment.
The original Intel i7 in my HP laptop in 2010 had a working temperature up to 102°C. The fan noise was insane. Never bought another PC after that.
That was the line back when the 12" Powerbook G4 was burning laps.
Youtube's is actually pretty surprisingly good, in my experience. After years of use, it consistently filters out all the absolute trash I don't want to see, and recommends me things I do actually want. It's not perfect, but it often directs me to channels I wouldn't have heard of otherwise that have solid content.

It often finds a video I would like and throws it on my front page. I avoid it for awhile thinking it wouldn't be a good fit (I don't recognize the creator, bad thumbnail/title, unclear why the content would be of interest to me, etc) but find it was great and I should have watched it days ago.

If I log out of my account, the front page of the site is just awful, makes me want to throw up.
Show HN: SimPer saves your CSS classes on reload
This is the Amazon quandary: your core product is ostensibly "quality" (from an end user perspective), but at some point you've consumed the total available market of quality sellers...

So AirBnB has to keep allowing (and encouraging) property management companies, because no one else can bring them the volume they need to grow.
Lots of places have a mini kitchen suite.
Ah, "Sasha" aka "Alexander" Shulgin, who died in 2014. His obituary [1] is worth a read. The book Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander and Ann Shulgin, his wife, documents their experiences with lots of drugs, and at various dosages, that he created. The book also contains instructions for synthesis etc. It's still in print, and a version of the second part - dealing with the chemicals, but not the experiences - is freely available online at [2].

EDITED to amend the above to clarify that link [2] contains only the second part of the book, and to add that the full book can be downloaded via [3]. FURTHER edited to add download links from Z-library [4].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/03/alexander-sh...

[2] https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml

[3] https://libgen.is/search.php?req=PiHKAL%3A+A+Chemical+Love+S...

[4] https://b-ok.cc/s/?q=%22PiHKAL%3A+A+Chemical+Love+Story%22
Or can appear to be wrong.

This is really the problem of the "nothing to hide" arguments. It isn't that you have anything to hide so much as people can use the information against you by interpreting it wrong, removing necessary context, bringing up old information that is no longer relevant today (e.g. youthful indiscretions), etc.
What stops someone specifically from disrupting the Auto Rental industry?
Assuming your original commits are atomic but not complete (that is each feature / chunk of work is spread over multiple commits as you changed things up or fixed things you’d forgotten) `rebase -i` might be significantly superior to resetting and redoing everything by hand.
Everyone I know calls this a 'Dongle' - how is this not in the list
* more changes < feature/PD456
* more changes
* more changes
* changes < origin/feature/PD456

A week later: "what did I do here? Let me check the source code" (10 minutes of checking changes trying to understand what it does)

No thanks, I prefer to at least write some minimal indications like

* cleanup and tweaks < feature/PD456
* implemented feature, new test pass
* added new test (now fails)
* updated version to 1.2.3 < origin/feature/PD456
Do you know what doesn't matter? Articles about whether commit messages do or don't. What matters is the art of documenting things, somewhere, and that place should be the one that works for your team. If it's commit messages today, great. If that changes in the future, great. If it's somewhere else entirely already, also fine.
Former EVE player, and member of SA. Mittens is a complete narcissist and all around horrible human being.

I've been out of the loop for a long time now, but even from the title of the post I instantly thought "I guess something finally caught up to mittens."

I very much doubt he leaves the game/metagame in any meaningful way as even way back when I played it was speculated that a non insignificant amount of his lively hood was derived from his activities around the game/metagame.
And beyond this: engineers, particularly programmers, are particularly susceptible to flawed "first principles" thinking.

Not every factoid in every field can be derived from a small set of first principles, particularly when that field is primarily empirical in nature.
Should Your Company Support the Next Social Justice Issue?
Canada is not a train culture.
Not a data structure, and not really obscure, but I am still amazed by the concept of solving DP (dynamic-programming) problems in O(log N) instead of O(N) time by writing the solution as a Fast Matrix Exponentiation equation: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/matrix-exponentiation/
This thread seems to summarize the state of this method well: https://twitter.com/_clashluke/status/1497092162193793028
Do most people understand this, though? I would have assumed it was chiefly about a difference in size - that the main tradeoff would be reduced screen real estate in exchange for a lighter weight and smaller form factor.
I am horribly inflexible _except_ for this one thing. As a kid we used to always play and rest in a deep squat position, and it just stayed that way growing up. It's still my default resting position on hikes or at the gym. As a result I can squat really deep, but ask me to touch my toes and I'll get shin-depth at best.

Sometimes I have wondered if having no resistance at the bottom when I squat is actually hindering me. I've seen people kind of "bounce" out of their squat, as if the resistance they hit at the bottom acts like a sort of spring past their tension point. Whereas in my case, there is no "bounce" and no resistance. If I kept going as low as I can, I'd just end up with my butt on the floor in the squat with nothing springing me back. In the end, I don't go too far below parallel with a loaded barbell because I feel the rest of my squat technique and power output gets compromised at that depth.
A lagging indicator of what? The measure in question is change in population...
Good analogy and there are a lot of great points mentioned in sibling threads. There are so (so) many "quality" software projects out there which aren't tirelessly promoted, though (e.g. npm dependencies). There is potentially a (strong) bias towards "extroversion" in the "Western world|US" but I somewhat think it's just "our perception" that this is optimized for in organizations/individuals. This is fuzzy and there are a lot of counter arguments. When it comes to "marketing" and "building a product" it seems, ideally, they pair with synergy.
> I wish all CLI tools worked that way.

Agreed, but at least for git, this is easily resolved:

# $HOME/.gitconfig
[alias]
br = branch
co = checkout
st = status
I'm not an expert in how AirBnb works, but perhaps they ought to prioritize some kind of system for getting screwed-over-travelers someplace to stay: whether it's another AirBnb or even a hotel.

A lot of hurt feelings would probably be mendable as long as people had some assurance that in the event of a last-minute cancellation, they at least would have someplace to stay and wouldn't be left out in the cold.
"The firearm death rates in Republican and Democratic states or regions" graph in the article [0] explains a lot. Also interesting to see the greater widening of mortality rates amongst white ethnicities [1].

[0] https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/mor...

[1] https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/mor...
Am I the only one with good experiences on AirBnB, or is the audience replying here self-selecting?

I've been digital nomading for the last 10 months over several different airbnbs and have only had good experiences
If one person is making almost all of the commits, that a sign there could be trouble. One way to find out (a method I've heard used by consultants to demonstrate the problem to clueless bosses) was to have the Evan-type person stay home for a week -- paid vacation, in a sense -- just to see what would happen in his absence. If the team (or department) grinds to a halt or descends into chaos it's pretty clear there's an unhealthy dependency on one person that needs to be addressed before that person is hit by a bus, wins the lottery, falls in love, or runs away to join the circus.
oh wow, I toured this plant as a kid. well, the paint electroplating part of the plant, specifically, which was operated by Dürr. I was fascinated by all the shiny machines - I guess I could have applied for a job!
Pseudo-opioid sounds right to me. Typically opioids are agonists at MOR, i.e activate the receptor on their own. Whereas a PAM binds to a separate binding site, and increases the effect of binding by the endogenous neurotransmitter(hence it positively modulates it).

How the increased effect actually happens depends on the receptor and can get pretty complicated so I won't go into it since I'd have to google quite a bit.
It is a country conducting an illegal war of aggression, which means that any action they take is a war crime, but aside from that when you shell civilians trying to flee through _humanitarian corridors you created_ you are committing acts of terror.

So is shooting cruise missiles at shopping centers.

I won't pretend to be neutral in this matter, nor give a shit about anybody who is, but what russia is doing is very much acts of terrorism.
Yeah the one that's been actively marketing me recently is tailscale. Good job of it too...consensual.
There is an option (that is proposed when you install git) to allow normal users to create symlinks. The fact is that symlinks are very useful to a developer, and a lot of development tools make use of them.
Some banks are able to reverse charges as well, worth asking them
They "do", it's called AirCover https://www.airbnb.com/aircover
I imagine that most of the EE roles you've applied for have an order of magnitude fewer applicants than the software roles. The greater volume probably leads to a wider spread of skill levels, including the drastically under-skilled.

It does feel like the balance of power in these interviews is way out of whack, but that's what you get when there's way more applicants than open roles. If you're a developer with a good reputation, sometimes you can skip most of the red tape [1]. That bar is extremely high, though.

[1] https://youtu.be/8Ia6FX-tqcE?t=4999
I just confirmed both my kids have the polio vaccines from the standard set given to kids. The polio vaccine is called IPV (inactivated poliovirus) and usually comes in a bundle branded as PENTACEL which is “a 5-in-1 combination vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, and Haemophilus influenzae type B”.
Having worked with people whose commit messages are along the lines of "update function", my experience has been that when you're trying to find where a bug was introduced, it's quite helpful to review (good) commit messages to quickly get a sense of what concerns a commit was addressing, and what code it's likely to have touched.

Speaking for myself, I also find that writing a good commit message is useful in helping me think about what work I've just completed and whether the changes I'm committing form a logical group.

Granted, there are all kinds of workflows and I can vaguely imagine some in which commit messages are redundant, but still, I don't think it makes sense to generalize the statement.
I emphatically disagree with you. All arguments are not equal.

If I had to boil it down to a single line the issue with "the right" from "the left"'s side, it would be that the right is "intentionally heartless".

Not stupid or intentionally fascist, just, intentionally heartless. That's a far cry from the Right's rhetoric of "Commie loving tree hugging libs" and that "We should kill them all and let God sort them out", etc. I'm sure the reality is far more distressing than my imitation thereof.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/11/hatred-li...
Sounds like a ring buffer stored in a file.