skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends a lot on what type of software is b ing written. The people that keep beating the drums that Java = C# have not worked with the language extensively enough. So many things outside of basic languages constructs are different. Tooling is also a big hurdle to change too.
I appreciate the comment. Is that supposed to matter to me? What is your purpose?
COVID-19, medically speaking, is the disease. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus and infection.

Similar to AIDS (the disease) and HIV (the virus that causes AIDS).

For many viruses, you can have an infection without developing the disease. Especially if your immune system is primed, say by prior exposure and/or vaccination.

And while technically you're still transmissible while you have an active infection (because you have virus multiplying in you), your viral loads are also likely much lower than someone exhibiting symptoms (because your immune system is keeping things under control).

But for highly infectious diseases, sometimes even low doses are sufficient to infect someone around you.
They optimized it by removing 3 characters, and accidentally became far more profitable.
I wonder if some of those countries could come up with a unified regulatory framework so companies have a way of bringing down the compliance costs of serving those countries, rather than freeze them out entirely.
When brewing with room temp water it doesn’t seem to matter much whether I press the water through right away or let it sit for 10 minutes and then press it. It is not a strong extraction either way. I’ve expanded my comment since you replied.
Similar but less stressful: had one of my photos marked as "porn" on Tumblr back when the ban first came in. It was a Premier Inn room, focused on the double bed with my rucksack on it. Utterly baffling. Thankfully they undid the warning when I appealed.
The "smol Internet" movement is what you're looking for. Returning to smaller online communities using things like Gopher, Gemini, fediverse, pubnixes, etc.

https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/gopher-gemini-and-the-smol...
I think Linus should do what he did when surveillance by horrific regimes came up in interview. Did the NSA force you to introduce backdoors?
To save you time I checked up the definition of "definition" (Wordnik dictionary)

1. A statement of the meaning of a word, phrase, or term, as in a dictionary entry.

2. A statement or description of the fundamental character or scope of something.

3. The act or process of stating a precise meaning or significance; formulation of a meaning.

So, it could be the definition of insanity. Just not the dictionary definition. YW.
C89 is where C should've stayed at. If you need to convert a file to a buffer and stick that somewhere in your translation unit, use a build system. Don't fuck with C.
I think about this too and know it’s mostly nostalgia too. I’m curious about community organized LANs and running older tech. I also concede that almost no one actually wants to run this shit so it seems very unlikely anyone would want it.
I don’t buy anything edible/consumable on Amazon because of counterfeits. No vitamins. No granola bars. No protein powder. I don’t trust Amazon at all and it’s just not worth the risk. I’d rather spend a few more bucks and buy those items from a place I trust.
At least two of the best Starcraft 2 players, Maru and Byun, are having serious wrist issues. SC2 doesn't involve tricks like the ones mentioned in the article, and still actions per minute (APM) matter a lot and people get hurt. I've never heard anyone proposing regulations over APM.

OTOH, almost every sport hurts at pro level, and I think it's safe to say that all pro sports are unhealthy, except a few of them. E.g. Federer has serious issues with his knees, has had more injuries than an average 60 year old man.
Adding to this -- climates that have cold winters and a tradition for building well-insulated homes have detailed construction customs for how to deal with this.

Today, it's generally solved by having an airtight sheet (plastic) between the insulation and the inner wall. Sometimes placed inside the insulation. This ensures a temperature gradient that will not cause condensation inside the house.

You'll generally put a sheet that's porous but not airtight outside the insulation, to reduce heat loss due to convection and also provide an extra layer of defense against moisture damage due to wind-blown rain.

This technique necessitates good ventilation (often powered) if it's used throughout the entire house. This is to avoid saturating the inside air with humidity due to breathing and other activity, itself leading to the condensation you're trying to avoid. It can sometimes be just on e.g. floors and ceilings. Then, the rest of the structure might still be leaky enough that mostly passive ventilation will do the trick.

Older houses handle the problem by just being so leaky that condensation won't be a problem.
how is Google evil?
People dismissing valid criticism, are just as bad as people making up conspiracy theories that are being criticized in the above comment.

There is no way you cannot talk about the Gates foundation when talking about the AZ covid vaccine[1]. It was supposed to be open access and the Gates foundation lobbied to sell it to AZ which has a horrible track record[2].

I personally think that had they not lobbied that hard to privatize the Oxford vaccine, the problems with the AZ vaccine, would probably have been fixed with further iterations by third parties and the discussion would have looked a bit differently. But we will never know. It's worth noting that the medical branch of the Gates foundation is run by ex pharma bros.

At end of the day Gates is just another greedy grifter, hiding his greed behind altruism. That puts him squarely in line with most Billionaires that have their own little foundations that help them steer and lobby shit instead of paying tax.

[1] https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine...

[2] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/astrazeneca-looks-...
Egyptian–Hittite Peace Treaty
Are you discounting the absolutely massive gaming industry? I have never met a single person in real life that uses Linux, and those that used Macs were only casual computer users
Target is currently filling that niche in the US; Walmart has the "marketplace" sellers which you have to watch out for. Best Buy is also decent for now; hopefully they don't try to "marketplace".
Something web would be really cool, indeed. Not only collaboration, but imagine integrating source control with all that too, that would be an awesome experience. Source Control is not something I enjoyed when I worked in a mainstream engine.

> Completely agree. Perhaps the best way to go about a project like this would be to establish a few mock use cases up front (i.e. actually try to build a dummy game with your own tools). The magic of UX doesn't appear until you have actually used a thing and start tweaking stuff like animation delays, font sizes, tab order, modal positions, et. al.

That's true! However, there's some good prior art for engine editors, in the shape of Unity, Godot and Unreal.
People in Europe don't have, or won't spend, thousands for laptops.
I think you live in some strange bubble or don't live in Europe.
The relevant quote:

“So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible but very, very low likelihood — that they’re going to transmit it,” Fauci said.

Repeat: "extremely unlikely — not impossible"
Yeah, heaven forbid you follow you company's policies as outlined for the appeal process, better to power-trip because someone who was banned from the platform, the harshest punishment your company has, is fully-expectedly-vocal about being mistreated.
Also... I have daddy issues. You're lack of approval makes me want to support Donald Trump. JK... it'd be that easy to destroy your politics, though
> Agreed. I don't quite understand the focus on the WHO.

Some conspiracy folks consider the WHO, just like the UN, the manifestation of the NWO global government that secretly controls everything.

Didn't help that Trump had some weird hate boner for the WHO to such a degree that the US left it, plus a lot of "WHO is in the pocket of China to suppress the truth!" hysteria around t he same time.

Then there was this whole episode of, mostly US conservative media, creating a shit-storm over this WHO tweet [0] by interpreting that tweet as "WHO said it doesn't transmit between humans, WHO has been wrong and shouldn't be trusted!"

[0] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
That's math;not physics. You need experiments in physics.
>Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated.

It's true that toggling it off in the settings app causes it to get auto-reactivated eventually, but you can still disable it entirely through group policy/registry.
As expected, there is a significant fraction of the population that won’t change their behaviour no matter what situation presents itself. Hopefully, this can be managed by the rest of the population…. Otherwise, “gee, nobody said that would happen” or “why wasn’t this avoided/prevented” will be the cries. Call it head in the sand, or a lack of care about the future or other less nice descriptions but it’s there. People will just have to route around the damage or accept that it’s going to be bad.
Facebook has been using ML to detect “revenge porn” images since at least 2018.

Likely they don’t know any more than you or intone else does why their ML classifies your image that way. In fact, one of my pet peeves about ML is that most of the time no one can meaningfully explain why it made any particular decision (they can explain inputs and weights and the algorithms used and matrix math, etc, but can’t say “the model was 93% sure that part of the image was a penis”).

Anywhow if an actual human did look at your first appeal, you did not do yourself any favors calling them “dense”. People don’t like it when you call them stupid[1].

[1] https://www.theonion.com/people-dont-like-it-when-you-call-t...
You can try wine of course. It has pretty good compatability with non-malicous software.
It may have no filesystem but it's extremely likely it has 8 bit bytes
Train travel may consume less energy than car travel, but it is still energy intensive, so I doubt this makes sense if reducing CO2 emissions is the goal.
Uh, no it's not. Total, they are about 2.5 billion, about 1/3 of the world population. 75% of the economic activity maybe.
Oh geez... I just forgot to finish my thought so that others might understand. Instead... I was just so taken by the potential number of readers...
> along with companies like Nintendo

The western equivalent would probably be Nokia, which was founded in 1865 as a paper manufacturer.
These salary numbers in the survey are so low it seems like a joke.
I figure I should also mention that my LaTeX alternative is called Typst. We do not have much public detail yet but there is a landing page [1] to sign up for more info and beta access as soon as it becomes available.

[1]: https://typst.app/
The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV That Needs to Make a Comeback
At least Twitter has an appeal process. My Instagram account was switched off without warning. If I try to log in on desktop, I get a message telling me to "confirm your information using the Instagram app to try to get back to your account". The problem is that if I try to log in to the app, all I get is a black screen. This happens on both Android and iPhone. There are some buttons on the Android version, but the interface is unresponsive. It's like I'm stuck in some sort of verification loop that I'm unable to close.

When I tell people about this problem, they immediately act like I've done something wrong. "Is your app up to date? You probably need to update something", is the common refrain.

I've tried all the online guides. All my software is up to date. All I want at this point is to delete my account. But I can't, since the deletion link takes me to a page that asks I log into the app to try to get back to my account.
I think “weird” here means “things that may have unexpected side effects.” Cancer treatments have loads of those but we put up with them because death is worse. Eating strawberries and rice maybe exists at a different point on the risk continuum.
Well... the US at least has also spent the last few decades decreasing funding to community sexual health centers, which were at the forefront of the AIDS response. So, that's not great.

Hopefully this is a reason to reallocate money to a critical part of public health.

If anyone is curious, there's a 2019 survey of "the challenges experienced by state and local public health entities at the frontline of STD prevention and control" (NCSD Phase II report): https://www.ncsddc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NCSD-Phase...
Am I the only one who feels that Gnome, somewhat hilariously, is unable to get basic consistent UI over 2.5 decades - something that KDE nailed down at ... what was it? ... KDE 1.1?

I mean it is kind of sad, but educational - you get the project without clear goal, with zero consistency, without any regard to backward compatibility - and after 25 years you end up effectively with a mediocre window manager and a bunch of programs with wildly inconsistent UIs (which predictably break next time your UI toolkit goes from 2.4.8 to 2.4.9 making a migration to the new minor release a multi-year saga which invariably loses features that worked before)...

Say what you want about rms but he indeed has a talent of ruining a successful (and free) software project with his religious views (Gnome vs KDE, Guile vs Tcl, the list goes on)...
What about the toxic waste from expended panels? Since you’re going to be using “a lot of” them.
Yes, but I wonder if it matters when vitamins are widely available? Or alternatively, some nutrients get added at a later step. Iodized salt, for example.

This might seem less "natural" but it seems like it would work?
this will not be the last time someone will make this claim. it is telling that the experts all weighed in declaring it not sentient without explaining what such a metric is. I think this debate an issue of semantics and is clouded by our own sense of importance. in car driving, they came up with a scale 1-5 to describe autonomous capabilities, perhaps they need to have something similar for the capabilities of chatbots. as a system administrator I have always acknowledged that computers have feelings. I get alerts whenever it feels pain.
I read a lot of sports news (and pay for some of it) and I've never heard of Deadspin. After reading the article I'm also struggling to figure out what they changed. Is anyone more familiar able to explain more clearly?
I’m saying that the idea of a bright line between the emergent behavior of a dolphin and a human is very pre-Copernicus.

Studying, even measuring the capabilities of an animal is science.

Justifying a soul is the purview of spirituality, not science. (Nothing against spirituality, I have a spiritual life, I just don’t confuse it with science).
No, I'm mainly talking about targeting. My point is not so much about embed, but rather that, almost anything you assume you think you know about how computers work isn't necessarily true, because C targets such a wide group of platforms. Almost always when some one raises a question along the line of "No platform has ever done that right?", some one knows of a platform that has done that, and it turns out has very good reasons for doing that.

For this reason, everything is much more complicated then you first think. For me joining the WG14 has been an amazing opportunity to learn the depths of the language. C is not big but it is incredibly deep. The answer to "Why does C not just do X?" is almost always far more complicated and thought through than the one thinks.

Everyone in the wg14 who has been around for a while, knows this, and therefore assumes that even the simplest addition will cause problems, even if they cant come up with a reason why.
I agree with battery life but I honestly doubt people could see a performance difference between a good laptop from 7 tears ago and a new MacBook. Of course if you benchmark them you will see it easily. But just browsing the web and doing some mail? I doubt it.

In that sense I feel like buying a powerful laptop for browsing and mail is a bit like buying a Ferrari. Sure your car can go fast but you won't ever use it.
Tex itself took Knuth 10 years to complete, if I recall correctly.
> Who claimed this?

Plenty of governments were pushing vaccination campaigns with tales of "herd immunity".
Interesting aspect of potential Copper involvement in Parkinson's
I wonder if the popular copper bracelets that could leach a steady supply of low levels of copper into the circulation is worth studying for an association?
The goal is to help with the cost of living issues (in part caused by high gas costs) and I think reducing CO2 is secondary.

Additionally I suspect trains (at least electric ones) have far less C02 emissions than cars. I'm not sure how electrified Spains rail is.
>when you need to write a functionality that is specific to your game, and it becomes too dependent on a certain engine or library, so you can't switch to another library or engine.

Games are not a thing you just change engines on. You don't paint with oil on a canvas then halfway through it go "you know what, I think aquarelle would be better" and swap out the canvas for aquarelle paper. The engine is a detail of your game and should never be core to it.

>but then it doesn't leave enough room to add new cool things, like cool gameplay, a good multiplayer system, etc, when you want to ship on console who have limited memory.

You've not given a single look at Unreal, have you ? You have complete access to the entire source, it is modifiable and extendable to do absolutely anything you want, whether through blueprints or directly in C++. No cool multiplayer ? UE's default network replication is good enough to run on pretty much anything today. No cool gameplay ? ABZU (adventure puzzle exploring game), Assetto Corsa Competizione (highly accurate sim racing), Borderlands 3 (FPS Loot shooter), Dragon Ball FighterZ (fighting) as well as many experiments by users, including complex uses of portals and non euclidean geometry, etc.

It's not that the engine doesn't let you do cool things, it's that you're a software developer at heart that wants to find reasons to add new features to your engine, instead of making a game.

>PUBG is a similar game, but its performances are quite bad

PUBG was made by a brand new developer who slapped together assets from the store and hacked away until it barely worked. The whole core of PUBG is rotten and terrible code. So, sure, with home made engine, you don't have this problem because someone like Playerunknown would literally not have had the skills to write the engine and the game would have never existed.

It's not an engine problem, it's a developer problem. Think about things for a minute when you do then and you'll have no troubles. It provides you with so many accurate and useful debugging tools that your home made engine will never have if you want to do a performance pass.
I happen to agree and think sentience is more complicated than a static statistical model. But a cartesian would disagree. Also plenty of sentient beings tolerate servitude and slavery. We don’t tolerate slavery in our western culture but we did historically and we were sentient at the time. We certainly tolerate servitude in exchange for economic livelihood.
The core discussion here is: "how much should the computer adapt to the user vs how much should the user adapt to the computer".

On the one hand, the benefit of customizing a system for yourself should be obvious.

On the other hand, adapting yourself to a system also means adapting to other people. This allows improving the shared understanding of how computers should be used:

- Designs can push users to more efficient workflows.

- New features, use-cases and apps can be developed based on shared assumptions.

- Other developers can integrate with or expand on the existing designs. eg: MacOS launchers [1] build on various system features.

In IntelliJ, I regularly discover new functionality that I wouldn't even know existed had I used a text editor with extensions.

Customise your system too much, and you cut yourself off from this "conversation".
Perhaps this is why some users still live in heavily customised terminal environments, despite massive improvements to GUIs [2].

[1] Raycast, Alfred, Launchbar
[2] https://capiche.com/e/consumer-dev-tools-command-palette
Using kaspersky's password checker at https://password.kaspersky.com we can easily check the brute-foecability of any given string.

Using this method we can see that this password (disabled1system1user6708) would take over 10,000 centuries to brute force

That seems relatively secure to me
This is the Copenhagen Business School (one of the largest universities in Denmark) library homepage and presumably the library blog. Which makes it weird that the author uses "I", when the author name is not shown.
I'm surprised that "don't be evil" lasted as long as it did. It was a flame magnet: For any x that anyone misliked, they could pretend that "don't be evil" was intended to be a promise not to do x, and flame Google.

Anyone public figure learns to avoid statements that are easy to use against the person who said them. "Don't be evil" strikes me as a perfect example of such a statement.
> They remember the dog bites because its cases where the government acted illegally and were taken to task.

Uh, no. Society has whitewashed the history of the Civil Rights Movement, but popular sentiment at the time was not with Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, the other freedom riders, etc.

Civilians and the government sometimes acted illegally, sure, but some of those actions were absolutely legal. (Not to mention that the government often leaned on citizens to take illegal vigilante action so that "the government" wouldn't have to - the distinction was not always clear cut).

And either way, it's hard to make the argument that they were "taken to task. Even after Brown v. Board, it took over a decade for many local governments (even in the North!) to be forced into compliance. And the actual individuals responsible for the illegal actions rarely faced any serious consequences.

EDIT: Clarified the point of legality.
This feels good intuitively but is not born out by my experiences and observations. The notion that "high paying/good software engineer" are two aspects of the same outcome is wrong. To the OP, the answer is "pays beter with less demand and more risk". Example: we're struggling to find Elixir developers and thus paying a premium for good (not great) talent; we're also looking to switch to Node which will reduce our demand for Elixir devs.
If I had to name my own species in my own heart language... Weed be "the dangling particables of eternity that never child have been".... If you know French... The tense is a rough shod of PLUS QUE PARFAIT