skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did for a little while. I thought it was going to be a lucrative untapped market, but really it's just not very in demand. Basically +1 to everything tootie said.

Here's the slides from a presentation I did if they're helpful: https://www.slideshare.net/ClaudiuLodromanean/start-developi...
https://archive.ph/mCRie

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nonprofit-hospitals-vs-for-prof...
I find myself despairing that almost no lessons were learned, no clear institutional improvements came from these systems.

The response to monkey pox is bearing that out. A subset of the left (my team) saying “asking gay men to stop having orgies is homophobic”, totally isomorphic to “being worried about COVID is racist against Chinese people”, one of the initial lines.

Then you have the total failure to mobilize an institutional response for contact tracing. There’s not apparently any infrastructure for it, despite how monumentally useful such a thing could have been, would be now. I don’t want another endemic smallpox-related virus, and this virus having lots of hosts to evolve in has some clear second order risks.

Likewise, the hostility towards masking is owing to some substantive inability to evaluate second order risks.

The initial lockdowns, I think, hold up pretty well in retrospect. Closing schools never really made sense for the children once it was identified that the virus attaches via ACE2 receptors; keeping the schools open was a lot less clearcut for the teachers. You don’t become a schoolteacher because of your high appetite for risk.
That's a good point, but it might not be the whole story. It's possible that tailpipe emissions are worse for your health than small rubber particles from tires
1. The Best Regex Trick[1], where you want to match Tarzan but not "Tarzan": use the regex "Tarzan"|(Tarzan) and ignore matches where the capturing group is empty.

2. When making UI adjustments of color, speed, position, or any other continuous value, find a way to map them to the mouse position (could be a slider, or simply reading the mouse position on a loop). It's a lot easier to find the right value when you can make 60 adjustments per second.

3. When creating a cache, think hard about what errors are temporary and what errors are permanent. Then make sure the permanent ones are also cached.

4. Always include a version number in your output, be it a field in your persisted data structures or your CLI stdout. Greatly helps troubleshooting deployments and the inevitable schema migrations.

5. Creating a concise Domain Specific Language to represent your inputs and outputs makes writing tests a breeze. For example, if you're writing a calculator, assertResult(FIVE+PLUS+THREE+EQUALS, "8").

6. The more you avoid strings, the more reliable will be your program. Trailing spaces, empty strings, wrong case, homoglyphs, smart quotes, typos, escape characters, ambiguous parsing, CRLF vs LF, tabs vs spaces, legacy encodings, NFC/NFD normalization, BIDI... If it was not typed on a keyboard by a human, there's probably a better data structure.

7. On a more practical note, Bash brace expansion[2]:

echo word{1,2,3}
# word1 word2 word3

cp my_file.txt{,.bkp}
# cp my_file.txt my_file.txt.bkp

curl https://example.com/page/{1..100}

touch file_{001..100}.txt
# Zero-padded!

rm {file_a,file_b}{.c,.h}
# rm file_a.c file_a.h file_b.c file_b.h

[1]: https://www.rexegg.com/regex-best-trick.html

[2]: https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/brace
They have strategy called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

They are still running this strategy, but now also buy good PR buying paying high profile developers thru their developer advocate positions.

"""
Microsoft finally is fulfilling its dream of EEE to Linux. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) embraced the API – letting you run Linux binaries (and GUIs!) on Windows natively. Next, WSL extended the kernel with GPU driver support.
"" " - https://matt-rickard.com/embrace-extend-extinguish/
I'll bet you a barrel of beer that all luxury cars will have all features locked behind perpetual subscriptions within 5-10 years.

"Great" thing about consolidated megacorporation dominated markets: you have nowhere to go if only three companies decide to squeeze more money out of you. And shareholders WILL demand that every car manufacturer squeezes more money out of you by locking equipment you own now behind subscriptions.
> all I see is additional, unnecessary keyword to type.

Not to mention the weird appearance of uppercase letters in function calls (Print ?)
I'm jumping into this a few hours late, but nobody has actually straight up asked the real question: Why try to compete with Rust while not really being a better Rust? The linked article generally defines a language that is more of the same, while Google is throwing Go under the bus to make it happen.

The number of current and former Google employees that transitioned from being Gophers to being Rustaceans that I know of is basically a 100% conversion rate. Nobody at Google will use Carbon, nobody outside of Google will use Carbon.

It's going to be worse than the Swift implosion.
This is an extremely good way to put this, and it's nice to see it stated outright here. Thank you!

> Which is to say, you're being very respectable while flagrantly misstating my position. This is a bad kind of "meeting in the middle" view.

This sort of thing happens two for a penny on hacker news lol, you get used to it. I see more coherent discussions that are less vicious on somethingawful these days
I have no doubt that there is hard work running a registrar, but it is ultimately just meaningless bureaucracy if the system it is servicing (DNS) is not actually useful to society at large. It is in essence, a "Bullshit Job"[0]:

>[...] 3. duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing bloated code, airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive [...]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

In any case I can only assume it is pretty profitable because I pay them several dollars a month to basically manage a single entry in a database and manage some paperwork. And considering that major businesses will pay big $$$ for (several!) domains...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220725143622/https://www.theat...
Hi neuroscientis, maybe you should look into the genetics of you own, and others, gut metabolism. I did and it change my life. (Disabled with Scizoaffective Bipolar Disorder and Ankylosing Spondylitis).

I found out I am a FUT2 non-secretor through 23andMe, unusual for a European Caucasian. So basically I cannot fight of gut microbes like you heart farmer folk.

Secretor Genotype (FUT2 gene) Is Strongly Associated with the Composition of Bifidobacteria in the Human Intestine

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Human genetic variation and the gut microbiome in disease
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.63

Since FUT2 releases fucose (Not fructose) I decided to see what foods contained fucose and try eating those. Turned out it is very high in seaweed and mushrooms, which is interesting because I have Sami heritage. Also the spuds that changes my gut microbiome were important as well, this meant reducing my short chain PUFAs as low as possible because of my FADS1 and FADS2 genetics.

Eating those regularly turned my IBD into IBNormal and it helped my brain and inflammation as well.

So "Eat (whole) foods. Not too much. Mostly plants" is quite wrong for me, genetically. In fact, when I was a (good) vegan and vegetarian my HDL was 30 with hyperlipidemia! Eating kind of keto with only seafood pushed my Hal up to 55.

As a neuroscientist you should know that Mood Disorders are highly polygenic so there is no same cause and therefore no same cure for anyone.

So can you please start looking into personalized medicine so people like me do not have to live in constant hell? Thanks.
How timely for me personally. I am about to live in the Puerto Vallarta area for a while. I work remotely, and saving for cash for property.
That's no racket, its just math. There are tons of calculators out there that will help you to decide on renting vs owning.

For my anecdotal situation renting has never came out on top.
> But the best possible argument might be different enough that arguments which address it don’t address the original argument.

In which case the responsibility is on the steelmanner to demonstrate conclusively why the best possible argument differs from the original argument by discussing what makes the original argument weak. You can't just address it with 'it's weak.'
Extremely easy. You just have to navigate a maze of foreign visa requirements, have a large amount of money, no need to work, learn a foreign language, get your partner/dependents to agree, and be separated from all your existing friends/family. Why don't more people do it?
That's great if there is one developer working on each component of the software. The moment you have people trying to do cross-component changes, or developing someone else's component, they don't just have to learn how the code works on a domain level, but also the features of the language the code is using.
You are more or less describing the Canary Islands.

You can live there talking English only, and there will be probably opportunities of work for your wife (that should however learn to speak at least functional Spanish).

Remote working for you, however, I don't think there is much occupation related to your field.
> the alternative is that BMW physically has to remove the heater components or disable them permanently, so as a second hand buyer, I'd be permanently locked out of the upgrade

No, the alternative is to simply sell what you have 'as is', and not to try to graft a subscription model onto every sale.

Rather than selling unnecessary services BMW should focus on selling cars. And with the number of software issues their vehicles suffer from (a friend of mine was an avid BMW fan for many years his cars spent more time in the shop for software issues than mine ever did for all of their maintenance put together over the same 20 year period) they should strive to have less software related components rather than more of them.

Finally, what do you think the chances are that they are able to keep that service up and running over the service life of their vehicles?
Now you're making me imagine a complicated arrangement with essentially 2 vertical hinges, where the wheel only swings out away from the car regardless which way it's turned. Then it needs no more room in the engine bay. It would rattle and klunk near the center/straight position, but aside from that it's physically possible. It would probably need some kind of belt to drive the axle so that it can bend around a pulley and a changing angle while still delivering the power. Ok I've gone off the deep end...
Well, sure. I wasn't saying it never happens to non-junior engineers.
ZkDocs – improve privacy using commitments and zero-knowledge proofs
Unit Tests. If you can't write a unit test for it, it's too complicated and it's going to snowball quickly into a giant mess.
Just boycott BMW.
Zip car is one of many short term car rental firms for city dwellers (at least in boston). There were also some services that allowed car owners to rent their cars short term to other people, but I'm not sure they took off. Zip cars have dedicated parking spaces adding to the value proposition.

https://www.zipcar.com/boston
> If you want a certain ecosystem to get a better rep, you have to be ready to talk with different communities, and accept their feedback.

Hard disagree. I prefer specialized tools over jack-of-all-trades. Otherwise we would be coding web applications in assembly.

Your example, Ruby, wouldn't even be a blip in history radar if it wasn't for Ruby on Rails, a specialized and very productive toolkit.

Just because RoR now has more competition doesn't mean it isn't/wasn't awesome.
> Why try to compete with Rust while not really being a better Rust?

The linked article explains this: classes defined in C++ can be used in Carbon and vice-versa. It even suggests you stick to Rust if that's not what you need.

Edit: Oops, I assumed that the "linked article" was the github page[1] for Carbon, which is a lot more useful.

[1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#why-build-car...
I donate to GiveWell, so I narrowed in on this section:

> Yes, they direct money toward malaria nets and treatments for parasitic worms, but they also supply supplements for vitamin A deficiency, though genetically modified “golden” rice already provides vitamin A more effectively. Hmmm, seems like a move backward. GiveWell also suggests direct cash transfers to solve extreme poverty, similar to universal basic income.

A thread on golden rice on the EA forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AF8hvNXFqhZsDmrTc/...

It's banned in many countries so it seems like supplements are the most "effective" way forwards.

If his best criticism of direct cash transfers is that it's similar to UBI, I'm okay with that.
It should read "mechanical engineers invent..."
Curious: in your vision, what are negative externalities that you have in mind and how are they going to disappear with more dense living in the very same suburbs?
How do you say "you're welcome"? "wah wah-wah"?
There are still people out there rolling their own engines for commercial projects, it's all about what you can pull off with the tools you've chosen. But I would agree that there's a professional network and support system around Unity that Godot currently doesn't have. If you're planning to hire a team, it'd be much easier to find good Unity developers than Godot devs.
You could look at it like “a rising tide lifts all boats”.

Nobody complains when SmallTown USA gets new people moving in and expanding the local economy with jobs that would otherwise not exist causing a drain of locals to the big city to look for work.

Umm…Ok, some people do complain about that I will admit because they “price the locals out of the market” assuming they somehow have the right to dictate who is allowed to live there because they happened to be there first.

People complain about everything…
Must have been a debit card that flat out refused anything but Chip & PIN.

Most cards aren't like this.

With my UK issued AmEx & Visa cards (both Charge/Credit), at certain places terminal didn't even ask me for a PIN, and the transaction just went through as "Chip & Signature"
But it doesn’t need to be possible all the time, just often enough to set bounds acceptable to the rest of the organization. And how are you going to know unless you’ve already done it a hundred times, and/or try?
Today that’s probably not very practical. But maybe in 5 years…
It wasn't so bad for Germany, we still let ex-Nazis run the US half.
I had no idea the adenovirus vaccine provided immunity to hepatitis.
BMW is a pretty recognizable brand and other than Mini / Rolls Royce (the latter of which you probably won't need to avoid and the former tries to sell you on the fact that they are a life-style rather than a vehicle for an entirely different demographic) voting with your feet may well have the desired effect.
*Groans*

...OK, after having a bit of a poke around I would respectfully ask for a demonstration/citation of this insanity.

My own experience is that systems that panic get rather warm, which I blindly assumed was because the kernel had entered an infinite loop. This turns out to be the case: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/cbe232ab07ab7a1c7743c...

There are references to interacting with kgdb, booting a crash kernel, and delaying before reboot above the highlighted spot in the previous link. This suggests that panicking is very much a "everything is torn to shreds and never comes back again" event.

Annoyingly I can't SIGKILL, -TERM, or -SEGV `init` easily (PID 1 is special-cased by the kernel), and don't remember exactly how to fire up my kernel initramfs test harness, so I can't properly test this easily at the moment. Am very curious though.
That was talking about land, and Georgists were discussing creating one land tax. How many Americans own land? What is the distribution? Oh yeah:

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/05/bill-g...

Money is the new land. They are making more of it but they know everyone needs it, and the banking system has a monopoly on it.

The “American Dream” was promoted was a way to get the plebs to take out large mortgages (to finance home construction, etc.) and be nice little workers and pay it off (this creates demand for the bank’s finance products and by extension the dollar). At least back then, only one parent worked long hours for corporations, because the culture mostly had women be homemakers and raise kids.

Once both sexes started flooding the labor market, wages got repressed and corporations started promoting a new “Lean in” version of the “American Dream” to the men AND women… now everyone’s self-worth and satisfaction was supposed to be determined by climbing the corporate ladder:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286

Look at these modern ads specifically to US Americans, making them PROUD of how little free time they have… they don’t even try to hide it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

This doesn’t lead to more happiness for the population, as measured.
I think OP means Russia’s actions are much better understood by their national interest and history, rather than by the individual barbarity of their troops. Russia should not be in Ukraine and should not be firing missiles into population centers, but they are. Their reasons for doing so appear more complicated than mere evil.

To be explicit, if you count conflicts from Napoleon on up to WWII, from Russia’s perspective they have fought defense wars on the north european plains once every ~33 years. Their greatest existential threat is a united europe, who frequently meddle in its affairs and approach further by way of NATO expansion despite in some cases explicitly promising otherwise. Ukraine, a previous warsaw pact country, is a prospective NATO member who not only represents a convenient corridor into Russia but also controls a large stretch of coast (Russia wants this) and has massive plains for food production and tank conveyance.

Under this interpretation, Russia seeks to resist expansion of a european alliance composed of several former enemies and retain access to key strategic locations outside its borders. Russia’s motives are much more tangible under this perspective, and who knows maybe there’s a solution we’re not seeing from that perspective than one that places outsized emphasis on individual atrocities. It’s a war, after all, and doesn’t appear to be stopping despite the upset faces of spectators.
Not that I endorse spreading America's housing problems to the world, but many countries in southeast asia and africa will effectively allow you to get away with renewing your visa every 6 months in perpetuity.

I knew one guy whose only legal requirement was to leave the country twice a year, for a day, in order to come back for another 6 months. But he didn't even do this - he went one step lazier and hired someone else to run his papers to the border and back every 6 months.

It's a country-by-country thing, and maybe they've closed some loopholes, but I'd be shocked if a wealthy American can't still get away with this in dozens of poorer nations.
> Laws should be passed in each county to protect the locals from this

This situation isn't even specific to country borders, it's no different than what has happened throughout the American Midwest and Southwest post-pandemic as swathes of Californians sold their falling down shack in Palo Alto for $2M and bought houses in cash overbidding by $100-$200k in cities where a house averages $250k to buy (meaning often the winning bid was double the asking price). It's MASSIVELY driven up the cost of housing in many of these cities.

Gentrification and NIMBYISM are in constant battle throughout the world, and this is true both in inter-state, intra-state, and international economic relationships.
Remember non-smart TVs? I can vote with my money by not buying a TV at this point.
You would be thrilled for purchasing a car with heated seats, and paying a redundant subscription for heated seats?
It’s not as if kids coming out of lockdown are suddenly exposed to a disproportionately higher number / load of virii than if they were exposed at a younger age.
Worked on a kiosk for the Pacific Oil Conference in 1982 for Gasboy, Inc.

Using Radio Shack Model ][ (with 8” floppy drive). and BASIC/Z80-assembly, a snazzy interactive presentator for those different kinds of folks (tech, CxO, finance, sales).

alongside the hands-on demonstrator and specification of the first credit card payment pad on the gasoline pump.

Instant sell out. Rich, too ($10,000/month back then or about $30,707/mon. today’s value.). Once bought out, royalty dried up. Fun while it lasted.

so, BASIC did my kiosk/infotainment and the key was making it robust enough as well as deep menu scoping with quick timed-out home menu for a large breadth of an audience. Took about 5 people busy writig content while I was programming onto a floppy.
> Couldn't help noticing the video appears to show the demo car also has 4WS with rear wheels also steering

First thing I noticed as well. I would imagine it's also possible without it, but you'd likely be losing traction on the rear inside wheel? At slow speeds some cars already do this anyway, even with the differential helping minimize it.
The “if <people> don’t like <x>, they can move” template has never been very convincing, and I think in this case even less so, since it’s about citizens seeking what they believe is an objective improvement for all. The point of light pollution advocacy isn’t to make cities worse; it’s to make them better. Light can be used in a thoughtful manner that promotes a healthy sleep cycle, that provides aesthetic improvements for the city and the sky, that conserves energy, and doesn’t negatively affect the wide variety of plants and animals that depend on light to determine the season, or navigate by the stars or moon.
> On the other hand, the use case BMW is presenting is actually quite reasonable: making car extras available to second hand buyers (and presumably, making their pipeline more effective and flexible so they don't have to customize cars at build time).

Wouldn't both of those goals be accomplished just by letting anyone who buys the car use the heated seats?

> Car extras are already very much a thing and always have been – the alternative is that BMW physically has to remove the heater components or disable them permanently, so as a second hand buyer, I'd be permanently locked out of the upgrade.

The point is that if BMW is willing to pay for the heated seat components in every car they make, then anyone who buys a BMW should be able to use the heated seats. You shouldn't have to pay someone else money for the privilege of fully utilizing something that you own outright.
If Intel would keep manufacturing compatible CPUs, past the point where they are becoming commodity parts, and without changing the socket interface every 18 months, then I think people would become interested

Historically, AMD beats Intel into the dust on this issue

edit - even this article reminds us that this product appears to replace Intel's 'Compute Card', which itself apparently superseded Intel's 'Compute Stick'. Betting on this product for more than a year or two ahead looks about as hopeful as betting on Google's latest API
"Sponsoring gun violence to shadow promote gun control" is an amazing conspiracy theory.
And only 15 more years for it to become public domain.
Same, except I don't still trust him or his foundation.
The foundation is a tax dodge to push their unelected will on the population.

In proper society, the population would get to vote on the initiatives they care about.
Just providing a cautious view: living on an island sounds like a fantasy but in practice it's very isolating, many supply chain issues and it can be hard/expensive to get a hold of items produced off the island
Corrected. 'Fast' wiki in action!