skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the opposition is as much about things like patents on seeds and refusing to allow farmers to harvest seeds for their next planting season.

There's also the problem of making plants resistant to herbicides, then applying more herbicides, so you get lots of herbicide runoff into lakes and streams. This is really more about upping sales for the chemical manufacturer.

Also there are better methods for getting rid of weeds, I particularly like these field-crawling robots that identify weed seedlings with AI-vision and blast them with IR lasers.
Typewriter Evolution: 1870 to 1970
An illustrative history of the evolution of typewriters over the course of 100 years.
See the German 'Ostpolitik', currently crashing down in flames, why that might not work out that well.
Please don't. There are many firms handling payroll, contract one. Don't do things like stealing money from your workers by forcing them into prepaid card schemes.
Run Postgres yourself. If Postgres developers are going to compromise their own software, it isn’t going to be to mislabel your shipping containers.

Most of the info in databases is boring and nobody cares about maliciously changing it it.

If someone were really interested in changing the number on your shipping container, blockchain can’t prevent someone with a $1 can of spray paint from changing it.
Linus is a pussy nerd and he's brilliant... But that is not a reflection of society.
On top of what sibling comment said, trains will go anyway, so increasing occupancy means less total carbon since otherwise you'd have train+car. And for some people, this might mean not taking the plane, although I'm unsure about the fraction.
We had a small hand pump toy that would suck up the tub water and spray it. It was a manual pump so it taught cause/effect which is critical for development.

Second the swimming lessons. I have two daughters with a rare genetic condition and they are obsessed with swimming in the pool. My older is physically challenged, wears AFO legs braces, has a seriously disturbed gait, and frequently uses a chair when we’re out in public. But she can swim non-stop for an hour. Great exercise, great strength building, great for safety. I feel like her freedom in the water is an escape from her limitations on land. :D
The Innovation and Adoption of Iron in the Ancient Near East (2019)
Can't speak for Mutt, but, honestly, I really miss old text-based email interfaces such as Pine and Elm. Navigating through older emails was much, much easier, and there was not the visual cruft that comes along with so much email today. Email is for communicating; other than image/file attachments, there's really no good reason to have it be anything other than plain text. But that's not the world we live in.
Not the same, but pretty post apocalyptic:

https://youtu.be/BHiWygziyso?t=943

Devil's Toothpaste
Docker was a pain for a bit.

Companies I’ve worked for/consulted for are stuck on old Terraform versions that lack ARM builds through tfenv. Providers that are downloaded are similarly affected. Tfenv won’t run its native ARM build and install the Intel arch when it’s the only one available.

I think tooling issues like that are more prevalent than things like language interpreters and libraries you link against.
Do you have any reason to doubt that?
I tried KDE recently b/c that new Nordic theme is beautiful. But setting it up was a major pain, and there’s apparently dconf-like utility that can export the settings into a save file. Went back to gnome afterwards.
Don't Worry, It's Rocket Science
I would argue its similar to how we thought of computers when they first came out ?
Deep expertise isn't as useful day to day as we often portray. With a little elbow grease one can get to a place of being more than baseline productive in relatively short order. Depending on the language I expect a reasonably good dev to be able to be "fluent" in the range of a few weeks to a few months. And it's not like they'd be useless the entire time before that happens.

To me, that's a reasonable investment to make.

Edit: This does require a certain persona in the space of "reasonably good dev". People who have spent their entire life focusing on a single language or paradigm are a lot less likely to be able to shift gears. People who have broad exposure to different concepts are more able to say "How do I do X in Y?" and stop fighting their new language.
The government acted legally. That was (and in a lot of cases still is) the problem. In fact most cities and local governments reserve the right to use hoses and dogs they just don't because it would be bad optics. As the saying goes "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
Is there a genetic predisposition that just makes alcohol drinking not pleasant?

I don't like drinking and none of my family likes drinking. It feels like being sleepy, but with a looming headache. There's zero period of time during my drunkness, that I feel "pleasure". Even as I visit a vineyard, I like their non-alcoholic grape juice better than the actual wine.

I consider myself to be lucky that I'm born into a generation where "social drinking" is less of a problem. None of my friends pressure me to drink, and we have a good time regardless. (I'm a easy person to get hyped without alcohol anyway)
What lessons do I learn from learning webpack? Or whatever the new way of bundling things in FE is called now?

Compare that to understanding C or UNIX. There are skills that decay much slower than others.
HN became just another community where it's trendy to talk in a smug way about everything, like it's this elite community of smarter people and everyone acts like one. The only problem is that people know nothing and still act this way, like they are major experts in the field spreading the truth.

It's easier to notice when they talk about non-tech related things, because with tech you are prone to give the benefit of the doubt that they might now what they are talking about, since if it's not your field of expertise it's harder to doublecheck the claims. With news instead everything is crystal clear. Just the usual average internet user that believes he understood everything and acts as a major expert when in reality it completely misses the complexity of the issues he's talking about.
I mostly appreciate deadspin for its snark [1], it’s usually more entertainment than reporting (or even much about the actual games for that matter).

[1] https://deadspin.com/thankfully-the-internet-captured-klay-t...
> It is even possible to zero directory entries pointing to an inode.

Historically, fsck would link such anonymous inodes into lost+found using their inode number as their name in the lost+found directory, but I admit having no idea whether this still applies to modern journaled file systems.
For all we know the sites have better internationalizations and cater to audiences invisible from a US-based perspective.
This. This is how I choose my tech stack these days.
Elixir is at a different level than the other languages you've listed. I learned and built stuff for fun using Elixir around 6 years ago while in college, and dropped it on my resume in the pile of technologies I know around then. In the past 2 years, as my yoe hit 5 years, I now get the hoard of specialized Elixir recruiters who filter by 'elixir' and '5 yoe'. These amount to 75%+ of the people who contact me about jobs.

A lot of startups fully bought into elixir+phoenix over the years. Most of these companies would have probably been better off using node or something, but they do exist.
Regardless of whether or not it is sentient, the conversation he shared is incredible:
https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
Try LunchMoney as an alternative to Intuit. Solo founder, great support, great roadmap and delivery. She uses Plaid so the integration is similar to Mint.

https://lunchmoney.app
> You can look into major issues without needing authority figures.

No you can’t. Not unless you are doing the study yourself. And even then, almost all studies rely on other authorities. Things like death certificates and cause of death, hospital reports, etc. all depend on authorities and you have to decide whether you trust them for this thing.

I never said it was binary. I said trust can and is lost through lies. If you can’t acknowledge that, I’m not sure what else to say.
My guess is that the salaries of developers outside of the US, and western countries, pull down the averages
It seems like most doctors and your average physical therapist, lack the knowledge on what can be achived with a conservative approach. Just google what knee injury Connor McDavid (Arguably the best and most dynamic player in the NHL) had, and the sucessful non-surgical rehab protocal he went through. Most of his doctors were pressuring him to go the surgical route.
Information should depend on the key, the whole key, and nothing but the key, so help me Codd!
Almost completely disagree, there are invariants (or quasi-invariants...) in life that make elder wisdom great. Some of these invariants are the experience of social and political power [1] and repeated crisis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)
> SSH is very simple and there’s almost nothing a SSH tunnel can’t do.

You cannot disguise your SSH traffic mimicking HTTPS traffic which help you to bypass DPI solutions.. so its easy to block/filter/log your traffic or even pinpoint you in an adverse environment.
I believe coronavirus spending was well into the trillions over a short period of time. Not to mention the disruption of the lives of people not at risk. The response was disproportionate to the risk, and I don’t think questioning that response means one doesn’t “care about people with comorbidities.”
Funniest moment in UX design was probably when Windows invented the lock-screen curtain (the screen that you have to drag up to unveil a password input box), and the Linux desktops copied that.
As an active community participant and freelance Elixir dev I've been dipping my toe in helping companies recruit Elixir devs and helping devs find good Elixir jobs. There is more of both parties than I could possibly address and exhaust. All the elixir devs I know with experience are thriving.

It is a niche and I find it a healthy one, significant and growing. If anyone wants to get into Elixir I'm happy to give it a whirl. My site has my contact info.
> DPI middleboxes are truly terrible. They're incompatible with even basic TCP without any good reason.

Thanks to them things like TCP Fast Open are unfortunately still a rarity.

> I wonder if these ISPs use the same vendors as your average "enterprise" network.

Most likely, yes. Takes a bit too much effort to handle the bandwith necessary, that everyone would be able to do and sell it as a service.
They’re quite trivial to identify; they are not “fairly” trivial to contact unless GitHub or Stack Exchange has some DM capability I’m also unaware of.

Poster’s Web site has no official contact info. Yes, I’m sure I could keep digging and find a way but I don’t consider that “fairly trivial”.
People don't dislike it because they are unaware how helpful it can be. They dislike it because they are aware how hacky, fragile and error-prone it is. They want something more robust than text substitution.
reminds me of

http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/funny-pictures-meme-fis...
If the train is free people will choose it more often than driving or taking a uber/cab thus saving on CO2 since the train would've been running whether it's full or empty.
> when people were starting to get concerned about this strange new disease in China, the WHO announced there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission"

That is an US conservative disinformation meme, this [0] was the actual WHO tweet;

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."

That statement only refers to those particular preliminary investigations, yielding no clear evidence. It's very specific and scientific language, that many news pundits just chose to read and interpret in the most generalized way possible to get their sensationalist outrage headline of "WHO says there is no evidence for H2H!".

There is a similar disinformation meme out about the WHO and CDC allegedly saying "masks don't help and people shouldn't wear them!", when the actual WHO and CDC statements were about prioritizing masks, as in respirators, for health care workers at the front, instead of the general public buying up all the supplies of them in panic.

A bit part of that was very unclear messaging by a whole lot of authorities and governments, where to this day nobody makes much of a distinction between "mask", as in any kind of face covering, and "mask" as in actual medical respirator like a FFP2/N95.

[0] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
Nice title. Many levels to the play on the 1968 “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electri...
Fair points about tech shop, it was a different beast compared to most spaces, had VC funding, and had many other issues. Unfortunately, it’s not just their model that failed. We watched our two closest in proximity “competitors” go out of business in the span of a few years. Not to mention our building rent went way up as Amazon and Walmart gobbled up all the large commercial spaces, making it even harder.

Curious, what event do you run?
> we lose “I am a unique, distinct entity.

I agree with this sentiment.
quantum mechanics (stemming out of statistics mechanics) start from regarding all particles as indistinguishable.

IMO, this theory is more mathematics than it is physics.

Given a wide enough application, humans end up ourselves as particles, essentially we are commoditifiying our individuality.
As a bird owner, they are not “just parrots”. There is clear intent to communicate. Even species who can’t say human words use distinct vocalizations for specific purposes and situations.
Worldwide organizations operate across national boundaries via consensus and voluntary agreement.

Off the top of my head, the only forceful worldwide organization we have is the UN Security Council, which is finely calibrated. And historically predicated on ownership of nuclear arms.

Consequently, the job of every other worldwide organization is to (a) build political goodwill with nations & (b) spend that political goodwill to urge them to take actions, when the situation calls for it.

If those nations dig their heels in, it becomes a choice. Do you want to burn bridges because the current situation is that important? Or do you want to let things slide to maintain the relationship and preserve future goodwill?

Hint: There isn't an obvious right answer. Especially when you're looking forward at a novel, uncharacterized pathogen with unknown effects.
For Windows Home there is no way to disable it. There was some registry setting but it doesn's work anymore. A recent update made it useless.

By the way, I'm no hater, but an old user, since 95. They've worked very hard to lose me as a customer.
Even though it was kind of a harbinger for a lot of the garbage in contemporary sports media, I miss Deadspin.
That's a great point. I forgot to mention the IP issues. I hope you don't mind that I've edited my comment to include them.
Is there no place in your world for authorities at all? For trust at all? For trusted flawed authorities to become untrusted liar non-authorities in people’s minds?

I have no idea why you are talking about perfect authority.
“Related” being the operative word. Chickenpox is not meaningfully related to the virus family that causes smallpox and monkeypox.

Nothing is a priori worthy of more or less alarm. Public health officials raise a degree of alarm based on the best epidemiological, medical, and demographic information available to them.
Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy in the Early Iron Age of Northern Fennoscandia (2021)
If some field slave from 100 years ago that is now illegal to speak of... Probably understood what is important to the highest level of modern understanding of the Fermi paradox... And then couldn't save bad science as it died... I know no memorials convince me this creature existed... But still... Don't I have creative power to absolve difference?
that’s like saying a car is just one method of transportation. so if you get banned from using cars you have no right to complain. but i can tell from your spastic angry (not to mention logically incoherent) post you are a twitter user who’s afraid of their echo chamber changing
This is an accusation by American conservatives that has little to no basis in reality. It’s just an easy source of fake outrage they don’t have to back up. You won’t get banned for “wrong think.” Look how long it took Alex Jones to get de-platformed - the dude was literally starting witch hunts with his accounts.

Look, I will be the first to say we need to rein in social media companies. Their ability to shrug and say “oh well!” with no repercussions as their vaunted algorithms (mis)handle the impossibly large scale of their businesses is wrong. No other industry gets away with so much except maybe religious groups and oil/gas.

That being said, we should not conflate it with the incorrect and frankly dishonest cries of “censorship” by the right.

Related note: I think you’ll find this Twitter bot very interesting: https://twitter.com/facebookstop10/status/154978628117712896...
At the level of abstraction I believe your friend was talking about, yes, this is effectively a condensed model of "The Internet" and the results returned by Google.

For those saying it can generate new things, well it is interpolating between existing data points in the corpus, but mushed through a bunch of math.
> Because it's the state using it's monopoly on violence

> At gunpoint.

You could say that about almost all functions of the government. Not the least because it's almost entirely funded by taxes, which are collected "at gunpoint".

> If the state wants to protect children, then it can focus it's efforts on that

Because there are other ways to protect children, that doesn't mean stable families shouldn't a social policy goal.
Interesting. I look forward to this. What I've been doing now to embed a source.png file is something like this, where I generate source code from a file's data:

in embed_dump.cpp:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
int main(){
std::ifstream f;
f.open("./source.png");
std::cout
<< "//automatically generated by embed_dump from project files:" << std::endl
<< "const char embedded_tex[] = {";
char a;
while(f.good()){
f.read(&a,1);
std::cout << int(a) << ",";
}
std::cout << "};" << std::endl;
f.close();
}

Then I set up my makefile like this (main_stuff.cpp #includes embedded_files.h):

main_stuff: main_stuff.cpp embedded_files.h
c++ main_stuff.cpp
embeded_files.h: embed_dump source.png
./embed_dump > embeded_files.h
embed_dump: embed_dump.cpp
c++ embed_dump.cpp -o embed_dump
Anyone know if I can get monkeypox from going to the gym?
This is my experience as well. I use i3 and change a couple of lines every now and then. The other components like dbus, portals, pipewire, just work. But I am not doubting the parent's experience either, since people can have wildly varying setups and issues across distros and hardware.
Ask HN: Simple formula to combine new cases and test positivity?
As the next wave hits, many of us are in regions where new daily cases are reported along with test positivity rate, but those are difficult numbers to consider separately if you wish to set objective thresholds for masking or going out at all.

microCOVID has an adjusted prevalence percent that uses Youyang Gu's simple formula https://covid19-projections.com/estimating-true-infections-revisited/ which multiplies cases by the square root of test positivity and another factor, 2.

I contacted him about whether this was still a good model for a simple dashboard I made https://knoxville.day/ and he responded, "...that equation is from 2020. I don't think it's relevant anymore, so I wouldn't use it. The true prevalence multiplier is much higher now due to the availability of at-home testing."

Is there a better, still simple formula out there for combining these two numbers into one? Without it, I'm lost as to whether 100 cases a day at 40% positive is worse than 200 at 10% and can't make evidence-based decisions on what to do. Or, if much more advanced models exist, is there a dashboard that takes historical cases, positivity, and population into account to estimate the percent in my county with a currently active infection?
A lot of what you typed have nothing to do with my answer. You also seem to be making a lot of very uncharitable and unpolite assumptions about me that don't make sense at all, since I only posted one single message, so I'll assume you're under the impression that I am someone else. Sorry but I won't be dragged into an internet argument.
I love that this article treats the current zombie Deadspin site as dead, which it very much is.

As explained, Deadspin got killed effectively by the Hulk Hogan sex tape civil trial, a chilling and horrible verdict, but I have seen some reprehensible behavior by Deadspin and gawker style sites.

As a good example, Markelle Fultz was a first overall pick but suffered what appears to be some sort of pinched nerve issue that greatly affected his ability to shoot. He finally is an effective NBA player for the Orlando Magic, but Deadspin was brutal and unrelenting in mocking his difficulties rehabbing and regaining form.

This is not some attention-starved social media blusterer, it was just a garden variety lottery pick trying to make his way in the pro leagues.

Basically, his "sin" was that video surfaced of him awkwardly trying to shoot free throws, and then the great bully brigade of the internet got going.

One of the desperations of the gawker sites was that once a term or topic soared in "clickability", they would hammer that term over and over.

Some people like Trump and Musk love this, any publicity is good publicity. But Fultz was always quiet.

It also gets a bit hairy with players like Ben Simmons, who get publicly mocked and derided by armies of online sociopath/fans. Sure he's paid millions to "take it" to some degree, but there are clearly lines and gawker style sites push and cross them in desperation to gain relevancy (in an era when the relevancy of the old stalwarts like Sports Illustrated and local newspapers have evaporated).

A couple of those discomfort points were counterbalanced by just heaploads of great funny stories. Deadspin was the only site I checked multiple times a day, alas defector hasn't risen to that yet.
1. They aren't overfit.

2. It was far from obvious a priori that this could work at all.

The existence of the sentiment ‘lol you trained a big model on X so obviously it produces a good probability distribution on X’ only exists because big models proved to be extraordinarily more effective than anyone expected.
12ft.io is intended to bypass media website paywalls.
Simple MMU for the Z80 (2015)
I guess the WHO must be "owned" by a lot of countries [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/o...