skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I've been wondering, and I'm not sure if there is data on this. If you were to get vaccinated once a month, would that be expected to produce notable protection against the new variants? I'm aware that vaccines for prior variants seem to be considered ineffective against BA.5, but I'm unsure of what impact the recency of the vaccine has.
Flutter worked really well for Famnom (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32204944). Write once - run anywhere, solid documentation, rich plugins and libraries (for e.g state management through https://bloclibrary.dev/), and an expanding developer community are great.

However, there are observable performance gaps with native. For e.g. scroll performance and dropdown fields can sometimes feel abrupt.
Yep.

Now please include a source for Dr. Fauci.

This tactic where you tell us what someone said and it turns out to be wrong is getting old.

He wasn’t sure in March but according to you he was sure in July

“Fauci explains that it is not yet clear how effective the current vaccines are at curbing the spread of the virus from an immunized person to others. In other words, a vaccine will prevent the recipient from getting sick, but that person may still carry the virus and expose those who have not received the vaccine.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-fauci-vaccineeffec...
High cost of living, the most exciting thing happening in town is the farmer's market, good schools doesn't apply to all of Sunnyvale, lack of diversity, everything that's moderately interesting is closing down (we lost weird stuff warehouse, fry's, etc.), the list goes on and on.

It's liveable if one's idea of living is going to their tech job and maybe hiking on the weekends, but otherwise it's really boring.
Why does it matter what they or any employee was doing in personal time anyway? So what, they have social media presence. A claim by the company that the employee was fired for _having_ a TikTok is still over the line. It's not their goddamn business.
> Additional heat we put into the atmosphere will not stay for long enough to matter

I'm just not too sure about that; Fossil fuels took millions of years, and massive natural forces, to accumulate in their modern day form, very similar to uranium and other energy resources. That's a lot of energy that went into "making" them over a lot of time.

But humanity is "unloading" all that energy, with all its effects including thermal radiation, into the atmosphere at extremely faster rates than it took to accumulate. And we've been doing it at a literally global and industrialized scales.

We even recognize the problem of thermal pollution on a "micro" level when we throttle and shut down generators, reactors and industrial processes that threaten to overheat the natural water bodies they use for cooling.

I see no reason why these issues can't accumulate and scale up to global levels.

Disregarding that possibility, as if humans couldn't screw up the planet on such scales, are exactly what made us run head first into global warming trough CO2 emissions and littering most of the planet with led and plastics.
I hate the UX of Twitter threads. There’s far too much non-content (navigation, buttons etc) interrupting the flow of the content for what really should be a long-form post on a blog or HN or what have you. (edit: typo)
I meant that in any situation where china has to choose between interior market / upholding CCP plans / régional partnership vs trading with the global west, they will chose the former in times of crisis. Which is not a bad thing, again, it's just that everyone is relying on them as if they are an infinite factory of everything with unlimited supply, and it seems that, well, it's not true any more.

But if they decide to stop trade with Russia tomorrow, I'll reconsider.
Almost all of the energy density advantage disappears in an ICE powertrain via largely unavoidable thermodynamic loss.
Doesn't Google already try this with showing relevant snippets of YouTube videos in search? It never seemed to work _excellent_, still have to manually scrub, get the context, etc
I'm a CTO and looking to outsource to India, Middle East, Ukraine, Latin America. Is there a one stop shop for this? Or are you just manually hitting up people on upwork or freelance.com?

I also think that the barrier to entry is so low that anybody that can read English documentation, have intermediate-senior level experience, can get the job done. It's just that in some cultures, there is clearly some effort to make themselves indispensable by increasing technical debt and not caring about security with the end goal of they being the only devs who can keep the lights on at your company.

Curious as to what part of Latin America has the talent, in my experience of hiring Brazilian developers, they've been just awful, much more so than Indian devs but they've also been known to play "games". I don't know who to trust right now.
I don’t care where you pay them you tend to get what you pay for.

Been a part of too many “reshoring” projects after budget Indian devs bungled the code base beyond recognition.

Also have worked with phenomenal Indian devs who were paid the same as me.
Here's something that confuses me about building fabs in Texas. IIUC:

1) Power disruptions in fabs are very expensive.

2) Texas's power grid has gained a reputation lately for being unreliable.

If those things are true, how do they plan to deal with that? Heavy investment in onsite power generation?
How viable in terms of performance/(cost+trouble) it is to motorize panels to change only horizontal angle, without full tracking?
I think this is something git rerere is supposed to help with
I defend and elucidate. Worthlessness I would define here relative to the amounts of public and of policy attention the nudge findings have received vs net value add modified by these results.

Perhaps due to the PR efforts of leading researchers, it was much more than “set defaults intelligently.” The interpretations were more like: we can use social science to shape peoples’ behavior at the margins. Further these marginal changes would cumulate to substantive and lasting societal improvement.

On reflection, it seems to me that the value of this paper stems from its attempt to measure or quantify publication bias. In this case, the bias was positive in the direction of with studies confirming nudge effects.

Taking that a step further implies that the actual net nudge effects across published and unpublished studies were statistically and therefore substantively insignificant. Hence the use of the term worthless, i.e. non-findings.

To say that it is costless to implement a nudge scheme in the behavioral economics sense is simply untrue. In the retirement case it required a lengthy ethical and legal debate; some study and political argument as to the best outcome, which is in part a redistributive question, hard costs associated with revision or development of messages and other materials, etc.

Worse I believe is the damage done from attention and action predicated on now seemingly faulty social science. What could’ve been done instead and what will happen in the next time a social scientist claims an ‘easy’ way to make things better are costs.
> think uncommon but normal childhood injuries of kids on playgrounds

Which is how (and why) I learned first aid, when I was - I can't even remember how old, single digits anyway.

Right-wingers in the US would give their children guns before they gave them basic life skills.
> Now, when they get around it it, they're digitizing the notebooks and storing them on PDFs on backed-up RAID10 volumes. But they're also printing them on acid-free paper and putting them with the originals in the vaults where they store old books.

I actually have a personal digitization project for some stuff I've inherited, and it's glad to get a little validation for my strategy.

Basically my plan is to scan the documents/photos, create some kind of printed book with the most important/interesting ones and an index, and have a M-DISC with all the scans in the back.
The comments here are so heavily jargon laden that I have no idea what I was reading.. gto, plo, nlo, then with numbers behind them, etc.. Is there a glossary to understand those terms?
I have a couple anecdotes to cover your question.

All of them have something in common: startup needs money so you demo to potential customers or investors. Unlike in a stable corporate environment where deadlines can have flex, you really don't want to cancel or postpone a meeting to sell to a client - so those demos dates are set in stone, and if things aren't ready you will need to pull some heroics.

One memorable one was when three of us spent the hours leading up to a demo disabling automation and deploying to production by hand. What that meant was disabling a bunch of tests and code that checks those tests succeed in order to get the code out the door. We spent the next week cleaning that up. Sometimes you need to test in production.

Another was actually a demo for the same client that set up that meeting. This time we had heard from the initial introductions they had a specific, very nasty problem and we could ostensibly solve it (that was true, we could, but the product at that point had no facility to do it). So I spent I think three days hacking together a solution that would solve the problem for the contrived demos we would show. That solution had atrocious performance characteristics so we wound up spending a few story points over the next two sprints to optimize and refactor the guts.

Yet another demo was an integration. We had scoped out the general feature (which was magical when it worked) but it required a large amount of effort to coordinate with the original software vendors to get the data we would need. But those vendors have a tool with a free trial install which had a bunch of the data in XML, so I spent a day reverse engineering the schema and a second day parsing into our internal data model which we demoed on the third day to show how our product could solve that particular problem. We never wound up getting data from the first party company, and the parser got rewritten in a different language, and the backend that does the stuff is planned to be replaced in the next few sprints once it gets priority.

So TL;DR you have a demo scheduled, you hack together a thing that can be presented, then spend your time reimplementing or refactoring the demo code into something maintainable.

It helps to have a stack you can really quickly iterate on. And management that understands demos aren't suitable for production.
I’m not sure this is a good analogy, seam carving removes the most common parts of an image and the details remain (and here the reader at first sees a generic overview and the details are hidden).
You keep using the phrase "forced study" as a substitute for spaced repetition.

Nobody is forcing me to do spaced repetition, I enjoy it. It helps me remember things, and I get a dopamine hit when I remember stuff correctly. So instead of talking about "forced study," let us talk about spaced repetition.
"Mr. Hazlett, 29, estimates he has applied unsuccessfully to 400 tech jobs, all online, since graduating from a coding boot camp in May"

Is this indicative of a bad job market, or instead perhaps a bad fit between the perceived skills/value the persons belives themselves to have, and the view of the recruiters?
No? You can create a new branch and start working on the next thing. Why would you be waiting on your PR to complete unless you didn’t split your work correctly.
i think it's more than that. i see two major groups, addicts and users.

the addicts _must_ ride every day, the ride is a major mental and physical block to them feeling good.

the users ride to burn out anxious energy, it doesn't need to be daily, and you focus on sustainable riding so that your coping mechanism doesn't stop working.

i've been in both groups, and tend toward the second now a days. my uncle is in his 60s and his "ideal" day is wake up a 5am, ride till noon, eat one meal, go to bed. his kids recognized this and a few have become users while a few are addicted to it.
First job always feels random.

I was shooting large amount of resumes into outer space until I finally landed an interview and job that I soon realized I was crushing.

But then after a while I realized the other end of the same scenario and that's interviewing completely unqualified candidates who literally can't fizz buzz.
Not sure what your ctrl-f is hooked to:

https://brandessenceresearch.com/blog/top-5-lithium-ion-batt...
If you're talking about competitive players, they don't give up, they stop competing professionally and usually go on to teach. Competitive chess is a gruelling full time job.
That's probably the #2 thing for me. The other is that I have a `~/workspace` where I put all of my projects and sometimes I ripgrep through there.
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That will sound tongue in cheek, and to some extend it is, but if the last few years have shown us anything, it's the perils of starting a sentence by "xxx won't yyy" (for several values of x and y.)
> That's a somewhat specific list -- at least I didn't read that as a general "the program can assume that the input is only ASCII".

I don't think it assumes the input is only ASCII. If the problem is "given UTF-8 text, split on ASCII whitespace and convert ASCII uppercase letters to lowercase," you can do that correctly (and produce correct UTF-8 output) without really being UTF-8 aware. For why, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Encoding

> But then, the author seems to have accepted solutions that crash on non-UTF8 sequences and ones that byte-compare them, so probably either behavior was meant to be fine. I just don't get that from this rule.

That's a separate concern right? The rules are only about the behavior when the program is given UTF-8 input.
For any Tshirt knowledge on Reddit, I'd be wary of anything said. There are a ton of shills on Reddit that, at best, do horrible quality screen prints with fly by night shops setup to do it. Outrageous prices for shitty quality. Worst case , a lot of these shills set up a 'shop selling tshirts' that use your input credit card details to commit fraud and buy a bunch of shit purchases for themselves.
While this makes sense, it's not convincing to me because it seems that similar logic could be applied even if the observed results were the opposite. Ie if porn increased men's performance and decreased women's performance, that could also be explained from porn teaching norms that are preferential to men.
Ah, they seem to think that 100% of programming problems literally amount to Easy leetcodes. I see no glue-code questions there, nor anything brownfield.
"The successor of the largest natural number that can be written in less than twenty English words" does not uniquely identify a number. The only thing that fact proves is that not every string of English words uniquely identifies a number. But it's a pretty weird proof of that, "watermelon" would suffice just as well.

The fact that not every finite string of symbols in every notation identifies a number uniquely doesn't break anything.

This is in fact just like the barber paradox. "I cut the hair of everyone in town who does not cut their own hair" is also not a paradox unless you add in assumptions not present in the original formulation. (Hint: where does the barber say they don't also cut the hair of people who do cut their own hair?) All you're doing is constructing straw men to be smarter than.

But you haven't actually addressed my main point: the only thing those numbers provide is making the limits Cauchy sequences exist. And that isn't actually useful outside of writing proofs that assume they do. For any other purpose, those numbers might as well not exist.
> I know about it from both sides.
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Anonymous tips from skeezballs, are given the weight of a policeman's sworn affidavit...
This is one of those weird supposedly-balanced posts. The balance is, "on the one hand" CPS persecutes a lot of innocent people. "On the other hand", CPS fails to find determined and intelligent pedophiles working to evade it. You ever think that this isn't sane balance at all? Like maybe CPS is failing to find people doing calculated horrible things because it's approach is this abusive scattershot? Especially, any enforcement agency has a incentive laziness (heck everyone has one). If a worker can effortlessly produce cases against random schmucks, they have less incentive to work hard to find the people systematically evading them.

Hey, here's a suggestion:

Instead of sending out thinly-veiled insults, why not try just addressing the point you want to make (which is quite valid)? Wrapping it in ineffective ad hominem actually destroys it. I suspect that you may have some real experience, and could bring an important viewpoint to this thread.

As someone who has had close, intimate relationships with folks on both sides of this really heartbreaking and awful issue, I feel that I actually have the ability to see "both sides," so your insult looks a little flaccid, to me.
Doesn't Slack have huddles?
Bookmarked. Another reminder we are drowning in information on the web. There's no excuse for not becoming a better version of yourself due to The Internet. I will certainly read some of the books hosted on this site.
> the legislative branch cannot reasonably dictate laws about every single thing

That's a feature, because there should not be laws about every single thing.

If a law is ambiguous, a judge should decide how it applies. Not an bureaucrat in a governemnt agency.
What if the next thing depends on the previous thing?
>The point is that these computers don't come with development tools installed by default and made available in the default environment.

I mean, Linux aside that's technically true. But, you got a BASIC interpreter that was pretty barebones even for the mid-80s in a PC of that era. And Turbo Pascal was a revelation when it came out because other "real" programming tools cost hundreds of dollars.

But, today, for free, you can install any number of advanced programming languages and IDEs in about 10 minutes. (And, on a Mac, Python at least comes pre-installed.)
He turned to religion shortly after.
Aw, that's cute. Starving artist doesn't know how to handle owning a cool kid's car. What would his friends say if he had a Volkswagen or Mercedes, with their corporate histories?
Author here. Twitter isn’t the place for nuance, so the thread’s a bit absolutist. Happy to add nuance here if anybody wants more.
Yes, complete your story in a single PR, if the next story is related and requires your changes your work wasn’t split up properly, plus in that scenario there is a good chance other devs have to many dependencies on other devs work which is a recipe for disaster!
I've started doing this more. The videos of my work has always outlasted the work itself. Even though technically I can dig up old compilers or try and update my dependencies, I rarely do. So whatever was captured in the video becomes the only artifact of my older programming projects.

I used to think that video formats would no longer be supported over time, but even the oldest weird video formats still play in VLC and MPC, and probably would work fine if uploaded on YouTube.
I used to save everything I did in the past. Over time, I've found that I almost never needed to access those files and most of that wasn't even useful for the kick of nostalgia.
Old games? I already replayed them to exhaustion.

I learned that the nostalgia is not about the files by itself but my life context at that time.
I don't miss old code or Old OS's. I miss that sense of wonder when I was less experienced and more naive, and everything was new.
But you are still wrong. As mentioned, Dicts are incredibly efficient data structures in Python (because they underpin everything) and the Counter class is pure python. That's 100% pure python. Saying dicts "don't count" because they are implemented in C would disqualify the entire language of CPython, as virtually everything under the hood is a PyObject struct pointer. It just so happens that "counting abstract objects" is the class of problem* CPython does basically all the time in normal VM execution anyways, so this task is easy and fast.

* looking up a reference of an attribute with a string key underpins the meat and potatoes of python's execution model
Probably. I would think that would be common in that industry no matter the location
I’ve only read a handful of books from Standard Ebook, but they’ve all been amazing quality ebooks — better than some ebooks I’ve paid for through an Amazon Kindle back in the day.

These folks keep an RSS (love it) with each new book they add to the collection. The hoarder/collector in me likes to have all these perfectly formatted books and thanks to the hardworking people at SE I have, and you can too, some 700 classics for free!
How psychiatrists got serious about using psychedelics to treat mental health
Likely the latter. I've done O(100) interviews at big tech companies. There are some folks who went through boot camps and have been valued teammates, but there are many orders of magnitude more who went through a boot camp hoping for a big paycheck and can't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
I really don’t see how anything could matter more than “does it save lives, on balance”. If it saves thousands of lives annually, then why would we let tenuous marketing grievances forestall its deployment? How many lives should we sacrifice over branding concerns? Of course, if the technology doesn’t save lives on balance, then that’s reason enough to restrict deployment, but in any case marketing issues don’t seem like they should factor into the calculus.
> already on the balls of their ass

Off topic, but thanks for this idiom.
ask for more than $xyz and reject if they offer less than $xyz.
3) Foundries are water guzzlers and Texas is mostly arid.

The Northeast or the Great Lakes would make more sense.
Do Large Language Models Understand Us?
Greek and Latin Root Words
Philippides probably pissed himself while he was running from the battle of Marathon to Athens. then again he also died at the end ...

think of it as a libation to his memory.
Leaving Awk over the vastly more popular Go, hints a more probable and frequent behaviour: bias.

Removing any of them would suffice.
What value does this comment bring?

Aside from being super obvious, it's the easiest thing to do, but also brings no value. Is it helpful for software engineers to just "stop being in front of the computer" when faced with RSI? How are they going to feed their family? Same for pro riders or any other professional people who can't "just stop". Pushing the limits has value in that sense.

But it can also be an intrinsic goal. These people are out there to push themselves beyond any previous limits. It really does help you discover things about yourself and your body in ways not many other things do. The sense of achievement and the memories created are priceless, but also helps you put so many other things in perspective with your newly minted experience.

I find it very defeatist and boring to say "just quit" when faced with difficulties.
Honestly, where does he find the time for all these escapades
Windows 10 and up also has Win-Shift-S, which brings up a screenshot UI similar to that found on macOS with the Command-Shift-5 shortcut.
A photo in the article (https://reportage.transcontinental.cc/wp-content/uploads/201...) showing someone suffering from the condition shows that he also suffers from another condition common to many cyclists: a brutal case of farmer's tan.

An extreme case here:
https://server6.intermedia.ge/pictures/original/503/503371.j...