skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GNU the project may be non-optimally managed (I have no opinion), but that doesn't have much impact on its products.

GNU the set of software packages is clearly not broken nor unusable. The vast majority of people who would use them, do use them, generally quite successfully.

GNU the software licensing model is quite popular and has its pragmatic and political proponents. Not universally loved, but clearly not broken nor unusable.

So, what are you talking about?
Unlike C, JavaScript is garbage collected, so the kinds of memory leaks that Valgrind detects in C don't even exist as a concept in JavaScript.
Yeah - I'm fairly certain payment terminals, USB or otherwise, do not provide credit card numbers in clear text. Any card information is encrypted on-device, then sent to the payment gateway - and the readers usually have some sort of anti-tamper stuff to at least prevent them from being opened up and the encryption key compromised or the hardware hijacked.
> You vote by changing jobs.

Like you vote by moving country.
Re-read what you quoted, please. I did not say "individuals occasionally recollecting their past experiences is destructive." I said the cultural level obsesssion with nostalgia. There's a big difference.
The opensource community has rules against this, because the code is not usable from an legal standpoint.
https://www.ercot.com/ gives you some idea of what's going on in TX at any given time. One neat thing about summer is that peak demand also tends to be because of AC use which also correlates with sunshine. Works for the summer at least.
The Cornish farm that plans to last 1k years
> I always think it's weird how instead of just improving public transit, we've all become fixated on self driving vehicles.

To me self driving EV's appear a much more viable way to "solve" public transit everywhere beyond major metros. They'll drastically drop labor costs and are extremely flexible. No major infrastructure changes are needed compared to adding things like rail. No cities need to be redesigned in one fell swoop.
It's mainly Arduino-induced popularity, I think.
It can still be difficult to find what you're looking for (inventory is low), and with prices increasing as they had been up until very recently, you end up running the risk of not being able to find a replacement before you're priced out
Made me realize webassembly is almost a concatenative language
You can do all this with the mostly ignored part of Fielding's REST, HATEOAS.

Xanadu has a lot of interesting ideas and Nelson is a visionary, though the idea to visually link works just doesn't work. However, transclusion is an important idea, that is critical for Wikipedia's style of evolution, and will be important as Wikidata and other linked data (semantic web) applications get off the ground.

However, the vast majority of the web consists of cheap short cut web sites that aren't much different than dial up systems. AKA start up money grabbing culture trying to carve up every little idea into a unicorn. And once they start carving things up, they sure don't want to collapse it and help create the semantic web, except privately behind the scenes, in creepy surveillance capitalist and other centralizing projects.
Reading through the article, it seems the actual claim is much, much weaker than the title:

> However, all intervention categories and domains apart from “finance” show evidence for heterogeneity, which implies that some nudges might be effective, even when there is evidence against the mean effect

So the article is saying when you look at studies of all "nudges" as whole, adjust for publication bias[0], there isn't evidence for nudges as a whole. Of course individual nudges could still have a positive impact.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what it's saying, but as an analogy, that would be like doing a study of all "diets", determining that when you combine data for all studies on diets there isn't a positive effect, then writing an article with the claim "no evidence for diets". There's no way you could reasonably make the claim that no diets work.

[0] If you look at the studies on "nudges", studies with smaller sample sizes detected a larger positive effect size. This is because smaller studies that get a positive effect are more likely to be published than smaller studies with a negative effect. The article uses this to analyze just how strong the publication bias is and adjust for it.
> psychiatrists felt obligated to restigmatize this mental disorder in hopes of limiting its adoption

Or, to put it another way, they felt obligated to shame people into not seeking treatment, in hopes of not having to admit that they didn't know how to help their patients.

Fewer patients, happier doctors, better metrics. Everyone wins, right?
This is an issue with social media IMO. Not everyone uses every platform, so people without Twitter post politics/memes to Instagram (which I find really jarring) and those without Instagram post personal photos to Twitter when followers might be expecting just opinion/knowledge. Presumably platform owners have decided that channels per account are off putting for most users.
So we ban all drivers assistance so it can't be misused? What's your point?
US public transit is pretty good. I haven't been to a small town or big city that isn't serviced well.

It's not trivial to just redesign our suburbs. And the younger generation flock to big cities, not many seem interested to live in a small town that has potential for pedestrian centered design.

What exactly are you proposing?
Schools under capitalism are somehow better? Creating nothing but obedient wage slaves who lack critical thinking abilities

Not to mention, as another comment mentions this was to give them a sense of responsibility early not to get child labor
They contain better ratios. I don’t think there are any foods with exclusively 3 or exclusively 6. I’m skeptical about the genetic component of your comment, because genetic factors are often touted inappropriately in this domain, but if you reply with information, I’ll gladly read it.

Fish oil has been shown in meta analyses to be ineffective at improving the outcomes people care about when they talk about the ratio: ischemic heart disease, etc. In fact, the original “science” promoting fish oil was based on extremely flawed research on Inuit populations — populations who actually have high rates of fat buildup in arteries, heart disease, etc. For many, contact with the Standard American Diet actually improved their diet in that regard (quite a rarity!).
I don't get this autopilot scam - if you don't enjoy driving, take the bus/train and do this planet a favor!
One nice feature of git-branchless (I'm the author) is in-memory rebases. For example, the `git sync` command will rebase all local work on top of the main branch without checking out those branches. (It will also not start merge conflict resolution unless you pass `--merge`, which makes it a lot "safer" to frequently rebase your work.) This helps a lot to avoid invalidating builds.
I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have studied Greek and Latin roots in Year 12 English class.

Time and again I have struck new words that I can immediately know their meaning of because they are derived from those Latin and Greek roots. Know 20 roots, and you can understand hundreds of new words.

Fun fact: there are two words using British and American spelling that are supposed to be the same word: Paedophile and Pedophile.

Unfortunately, Pedophile really means "foot lover" using British spelling. From the Greek roots: "paed" = "child" (paediatrics, paedophile), "ped" = "foot", (pedometer, pedal, pedestrian).

There doesn't appear to be a possible 'foot lover' when using American spelling. <grin>
> building containers is generally noticeably slower than Makefiles

I totally agree, if the year was 1992.

Compute is cheap. Storage is cheap. Let's not try and keep living in the past.
Yeah, nobody cares about the console. Its really unfortunate. Adding console parity for new features was always an afterthought, and code quality was absolutely terrible for my service. Also we used nodejs 8 up until last year. What a mess.

I think it is getting better, but it’s incredible that it was neglected for so long.
That almost always takes significantly longer, if there's even a route to where you want to go at all.
Which is strange, because simultaneously trust in news agencies is at an all time low since polling began.
those are not techniques, those are tools.

you can use any of those tools with the wrong technique and get zero effect, or any with the right technique and get the full effect.

at the end of the day the tool is irrelevant, except in the sense that you stuck with it because you enjoyed using that tool with the right technique.

in my case, I've stuck with anki with great results. but only after i started writing my own notes and developed my personal system for them. but it's true it never used to work too well when i downloaded other people's stuff.
Its illegal in the usa to prevent someone from talking about their salary. Most companies don't have policies that expose them to legal issues.

I also think that its debatable if indicating your salary or admiting to the fact you work somewhere, counts as talking to the press or mentioning the company, the way most people interpret that phrase. I mean, i'll admit that its highly debatable, but for example putting your resume on linkedin usually does not count as mentioning the company on social media.
My technological life is the antithesis of this post. Screenshots are hosed as soon as I use them or send them.
I've been using plain ASCII text files for 35 years now. Editors, word processors, and operating systems come and go, ASCII still works.
It's true. Certain circles of tumblr, tiktok, and twitter have made it "fashionable" to have mental disorders among themselves in an audience for victim points. (The uncharitable side of me would add "because physical disorders aren't so easily faked".)

This obviously does not negate my sympathy for those with the real disorders - I have some as well. It's enraging to see the real stuff be treated so lightly though.
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"Amazingly, Herzog concludes that Ted is the only sane person in the computer field." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx6li5dbEY]

At the time Ted conceived his visionary ideas, the magazines were full of pictures of guys in suits standing in front of secretaries typing into screenless hardware, and business machines with racks of IBM tape-reels. There was little non-corporate networking (except for the beginnings of PLATO), and only dreamers talked of making all information available to everyone. Wikipedia is a kludge by comparison.
Am I getting the idea behind this correctly? The idea is embedding content in one stream from different sources?

It seems like folks here are skeptical, but... we're seeing a growing trend towards this. Nevermind the origins of hypertext, look at the more modern timeline:

- tiddlywiki encouraging bite-sized references that stack on top of each other in one view
- The growing popularity of digital zettelkasten(s?) such as Roam or Obsidian. Backlink views and embedding snippets are at least similar.
- Finally, the block protocol: https://blockprotocol.org/

Is this going to be something where people look back on this and say "if only it had been understood earlier, we'd have had $whatever_is_after_block_protocol sooner" ?
Obviously they don't work by magical vibration, but are you sure they don't work at all? If the midwife feels and acts more confident from having that tool or the mother feels more relaxed because she thinks they will make the process easier, then the crystals do, in fact, work. They just don't work through the mechanism those individuals think they do.
I also learned to love word docs again after trying many tools. My word docs usually have three sections. A vocabulary section explaining the jargon. A section with the core equations and diagrams. A section that attempts to summarize-synthesize the concepts
Yep and if that doesn't work?

Sudo rm -rf
> And if you were already say very very old or with comorbidities,

> and you die of pneumonia with a positive COVID test, then maybe you

> would have died anyway in a couple months, but still the immediate cause of

> death is COVID and nothing else makes sense.

I 100% agree if we go by what is written on their death certificate.

But...

For example in state of Massachusetts the COVID death definition includes anyone who has COVID listed as a cause of death on their death certificate, and any individual who has had a COVID-19 diagnosis within 60 days but does not have COVID listed as a cause of death on their death certificate [1].

CDC guidelines [2] are 100% clear but the problem is that we started counting also people which do not have COVID listed in certificate signed by doctor. I do not know - kinda crap.

The California rules are kinda interesting also [3]:

• The decedent had confirmatory laboratory evidence for SARS-CoV-2
(i.e. detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a clinical or autopsy specimen
using a molecular amplification test) AND at least ONE of the following
criteria is met:

- A case investigation determined that COVID-19 was the cause
of death or contributed to the death.

- The death certificate indicates COVID-19 or an equivalent term
as one of the causes of death, regardless of the time elapsed
since specimen collection of the confirmatory laboratory test
used to define the case.

- The death occurred within 30 days of specimen collection for
the confirmatory laboratory test used to define the case and
was due to natural causes

In other words, if somebody dies within 30 days of being tested for COVID and death was due to natural causes then the death is counted as COVID death. Even if it is not on the death certificate.

[1] https://www.mass.gov/news/department-of-public-health-update...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

[3] https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/docs/libraries/shasta-ready-docs...
Have you never accidentally turned onto a one way street when driving somewhere unfamiliar? It has definitely happened to me a couple of times.

Humans make mistakes.
In my experience it's been very difficult to find any singular piece of writing that talks about all the angles. It's a complex issue, but each of the complexities matters and they affect one another.
Empty divs or spans without any text content can be semantically “invisible”, if done correctly - will not be read by screen readers, will be ignored by any kind of outliner or content parser.
I don't think they were. Software devs hitting the job without understanding git means your hiring team is sleeping on the job.
Got no grounds for opinion about physics or chemistry. Certainly some of it is good work, although I harbor doubts about the ultimate usefulness of string theory.

But your example of GPS, and others' of "rocket science", show that you have even shakier ground for opinion, along with insufficient respect for engineering. You are not alone in that: scientists get good publicity. They even get dedicated press offices at universities.
If the pilot turns on autopilot and then stops paying attention, and then the plane crashes, it's absolutely not the manufacturer's fault.
Putting aside the technical aspect, the tone of this post feels familiar to me.

In one of my earlier roles, I was responsible for a system used to filter internet access for about a million school students. The students were absolutely easily able to bypass our filtering in a bunch of ways we could not address, as we had no control over the client devices.

Being a team of professionals in a situation where we were constantly being defeated by a bunch of kids felt humiliating, even as we acknowledged the uneven battleground we were fighting on.

I suspect a similar feeling was behind this blog post. Why else say things like "as much as we might like the idea of an ever-escalating appsec war with teenagers"? This comes off as bitter and insincere to me. As though they're trying to put down their adversary while simultaneously acknowledging they're losing the battle and need to deploy the nuclear option.

Edit: not that "teenager" is necessarily a put down. If there's one thing I learned from that job, it's that teenagers are incredibly resourceful.
"Estimates are non-negotiable." - https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Deve...
Request validation is the probably the most boring but critical layer of any web framework. Today I will show you how to do it right in gin framework in golang.
CPS is failing because it’s severely understaffed and underfunded.

Yes but ... this process creates a rottenness that can't be fixed by more money by itself. CPS' understaffing problem isn't a matter of there being a fixed load that not enough money is given to. It is a natural product of the ideology of "government inefficiency" that pervades legislatures. So an increase in funding would result in an increase in mandates which would still be satisfied by finding easy targets rather than appropriate targets.

The situation is pernicious and I don't really have a suggestion for improving things. I do know throw more money would make things even worse for the reasons above.
No major infrastructure changes are needed for buses……
BLM did not riot in seattle. First hand can attest to that. There were hooligans who did on the first night, after the BLM protest. They were put down violently by the police, who continued to be violent against peaceful protestors n the following days until the east precinct was vacated. The police leaving restored peace. A few days later the chop finally became dangerous at night. Still, the SPD were actively antagonists, protestors lost eyes, many other injuries from spd were reported and over 100 incidents of reported and confirmed police brutality in just a few days. The fact it was peaceful as soon as the police left the east precinct says it all
Damn, that indeed looks interesting. Could someone give here a Factor vs Forth tl;dr? Forth appears to be tailored for embedded systems, but the velociraptor is growing quick on me.
> Arguably, with the more synchronous communication (I, on team A, have a question for someone on team B that’s blocking me can get the answer immediately instead of having to wait for my next shift) you may have been done even earlier.

What really worked was building something, showing the customer at 3pm, getting a change list and having all the changes done by 9am the next day. Also being able to do a design session and have all the prototype views done the next day really made customers happy. Another thing that was nice: we could have a bunch of stuff built at night and then test and fix it the next day (or vice versa).

You do have to assign tickets a little differently. You want avoid making tickets so big that a developer can't finish one in a day - or you can get into where there's lots of blocking. Regardless, I think the 24 hour cycle worked pretty well for us, and if I start another dev shop, I'll do it that way again.

A lot of the benefit was probably forcing everyone to do a couple of smart things: great CI, smaller tickets and complete work in one work day whenever possible. No dangling tickets. Avoid even having tickets where a developer can block another as much as you reasonably can. All of these things would have made a single timezone team better, too.
Wow, advocating for a lighter hand in the murder of James Bulger is certainly new. Personally, I would have preferred life without parole in that case.
Obviously public transit is far less convenient, and not always an option depending on where you live.
I'm not sure I understand why you brought up chip cards so this may be irrelevant, but in the US cards still have magnetic strips, and I believe most terminals are configured to fail over to the strip reader after a few failed attempts to read the chip.
> Scraping and selling is morally not ok

What about hand copying? Is it ok to read a recipe on one site, and write it for your own? Or should the original site own that list of ingredients and instructions?

If it's ok to hand copy but not to scrape, what is the difference? Your personal time cost?

Like most things in life, one simple binary rule does not work for most situations.

Perhaps your primary objection is to the "selling" part. What if merely presenting the information comes at a cost, and you make up for that cost by "selling" access?

Or what if you are providing additional value to the original content?

Or what if you are making the information accessible to a larger audience, particularly one with special accessibility needs? (This may seem like grasping for straws, but so many websites are so badly made that even people with low data and old phones cannot get the content from them. So re-presenting that data in a better way may now make it accessible to a lot more people. Those are people who _could_ not get it from the "original" source in the first place.)
30+ hours a week? Did you read that right? To put it in perspective, Jonas Vingegaard averaged well below 30 hours a week at the Tour de France this year. (He rode at a pretty impossible pace, but still… it’s the Tour de France!) That would be an enormous amount of time for anyone to spend on a bike - especially anyone with a full time job and other obligations to attend to.
Is there a study or article somewhere that shows that Teslas are statistically more unsafe than human drivers? I’ve heard plenty of anecdotes but I don’t recall any hard evidence.
> My 30 year old masters students are not even allowed to run their own WiFi network

Because they're students, or because IT doesn't want random people running their own networks that are halfway part of the school's systems but independently administered?
Whilst I agree with your general message that 3rd party sellers are problematic from the consumer safety point of view, I'd suggest you are overestimating the dangers of titanium based cookware specifically.

I'd note that all the links you point to say titanium is safe, and the Reddit discussion notes concerns about aluminum (which of course is much more common in cookware than titanium).
You do not conduct your electricity over the rails you drive on. Even with trains it's overhead wires. The same principle has been demonstrated to work on (small parts of) the Autobahn. All it requires is a dedicated lane where trucks could tap into overhead wires.

https://youtu.be/UB298IXBvtU

https://youtu.be/m6x9Y5YElxk
>One day she came to our house with our daughter in tow

See, the problem could have been avoided by calling police right there and reporting a kidnapping.
Can you explain how Teslas data is cherry picked? Is it unfair to compare crash data for just one particular area? Wouldn’t it make a lot of sense that some roads are inherently more dangerous because of poor designs or conditions?
Disgusting communist rhetoric openly posted to HN.
Well, private property matters in the United States. "The government" can't just decide to bulldoze everything and start over. And seeing as how this isn't going to change, it's possible that not much can or should be done about it. Zoning is a tool that municipalities have at their disposal, but local government officials represent the people in their jurisdictions, often property owners--who pay significant taxes--so chances are they won't vote against their own interests.

I'm afraid there really aren't any good answers to these problems.
Los Angeles Apparel. They’re the successor to American Apparel, and make very high-quality, American-made t-shirts.
How about just making branches and merging? Why do I need to explain that to an employee? If they can't do with git very basic things it's because they're not willing to read.