skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a git-like DAG you might be better off with using a versioning API directly. Take a look at concurrent revisions:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/concurrent-...
The interpretation I have come to use, which I'm sure isn't a perfect one, is that a Monad is a means to wrap Data in a Context before applying Computation to it.

A Maybe monad's context is that the data might not be there. A List or Stream, the context is multiple values. A Future/Promise, asynchronous application of the computation. Writing software this way is a bit more generic because you can swap the data, computation, or context while leaving the rest the same.

This is very much a "what is it good for?" answer for anyone who doesn't have a strong functional programming background.
Thanks! This is very illustrative, just like I wanted. (Was too lazy to search myself, of course.)

As expected, it's pretty tight in there. I know that rural people of old were much more fit than I am, and I would get cramps in several muscles of each leg and in my sides after three minutes in there.
So far, as far as I know, that seems to be the prevailing scientific opinion, i.e. microdosing seems to be about as effective as placebo (at least microdosing of psilocybin).
There're colonies of russian old believers everywhere. Some were assimilated, like most californian ones. Some colonies are still well, in Brazil for example.
And you need a new sim card for the existing phone number etc etc :)
"Thank you for your feature request. Submitting thoughtful requests like this takes time, and I appreciate the consideration put in to prepare it.

Unfortunately, the feature request does not align with the goals I've set for this project, and I will not be considering it or any related requests for the foreseeable future. Specifically, I intend to accomplish [your desired outcome of the project] and do not want to reach that goal using the methods you have described.

I sympathise if this is a dealbreaker for you. I have appreciated your patronage up til now, and understand if you need to seek alternative software solutions as a result."

You can follow up with a more "direct" comment if they don't get the message from the above. However this should suffice in most cases.
Historical reasons for reading are always good. We gain much insight from time travel and, until we invent actual time machines so we can get our IBM 5100's and go ourselves to Woodstock, books are the next best thing.
Not that it really disproves your point but a friend recently received a new camera from Amazon, except what was actually in the box was a container of pool chemicals.
"More often than not I find myself having to kill the running process from an external app, such as the shell, after first figuring out what the process ID is."

Short cut here, ctrl-z to background the process, then kill -9 %1 to kill the first job (type jobs for the numbers)
Tom Clancys Rainbow Six.
I don't understand. Sounds like a typical Saturday night to me.
They'd probably be better off writing a Rust-to-C converter than writing another DB engine.
Meh, it's a common feature that should IMO be banned. Twice now I've had it physically jar me while the light was still red!
Huge fan since the beginning. Has gotten me through insomnia, high stress, and so much more.
Gabriele Doblhammer and James W. Vaupel concluded that "month of birth influences adult life expectancy at ages 50+" in their paper [1] in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

They tracked for 30 years the mortality of all Danes who were at least 50 years old on 1 April 1968 (about 1.4 million people born before April 1918). They also analyzed about Austrians with known birth dates who died between 1988 and 1996 (about 700,000 people born before 1947) and native-born Australians who died between 1993 and 1997 (about 200,000 people born before 1948).

They found in Denmark and Austria that "adults born in autumn (October–December) live longer than those born in spring (April–June). The difference in lifespan between the spring and autumn born is twice as large in Austria (0.6 years) as in Denmark (0.3 years). ... We found the pattern in the Southern Hemisphere to be a mirror image reversal of that in the Northern Hemisphere." British born Australians were statistically closer to the Danes and Austrians.

Their analysis eliminated three hypotheses for these observations: seasonal distribution of deaths, social factors related to seasonal distribution of births, and differential infant survival. Their analysis and other studies of birth weight data led them to conclude that "seasonal differences in nutrition and disease environment early in life [in utero and infancy] could explain the relationship between month of birth and adult lifespan." Over the years, winter and spring nutrition has improved, so "the relationship between month of birth and lifespan seems to be stronger among the older birth cohorts than among the more recently born."

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.041431898
Currently it's the press who coins the directors as auteurs, not the other way round. Eg. dark souls came before miyazaki. There are some exceptions like hideo kojima.

Also not all games are movies. Their iteration times seem far longer. And games/game designs can be worked on for so long it's natural you'd want to switch to something else.

Lastly, it is hard to quantify the contributions of one guy compared to the entire studio without access to sales. If one pushes his personal brand he'd have to step over a whole bunch of very qualified egos too. If it succeeds you'd end up with payscales that are out of whack similar to Hollywood, and it's not a pretty situation since part of your workforce can transition out of games.
In studies such as these with huge intersubject variability, and probably also quite large intrasubject variability from day to day on many scales, it makes sense to look at change from baseline for individuals in the various groups rather than just differences in raw scores between treatment groups.

It seems by a cursory glance that most analyses done were of the latter kind, and I think then a study such as this, with low N, is expected to not show very much effect of any kind. (Since the intersubject variability and potentially also the natural intrasubject variability for most measured scales seem higher than any expected treatment effect).

I am almost certain that e.g. none of the approved and quite convincingly working SSRI:s would have shown any efficacy in a study with this design and similar N.
> Been doing it for some months on & off, this shit is legit

The linked study seems to contradict you:

>> According to our findings, low doses of psilocybin mushrooms can result in noticeable subjective effects and altered EEG rhythms, but without evidence to support enhanced well-being, creativity and cognitive function. We conclude that expectation underlies at least some of the anecdotal benefits attributed to microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms.
Can't speak much for Bosnia but in most of South East Asia it's nigh on impossible to find any body wash, sunscreen or moisturiser without whitening products added.
There are a few exceptions, Sid Meier's for example has his name on a bunch of games as marketing. Tom Clancy was also attached to a bunch of military shooters for a while as well. Its used less currently than it was in the past but Studios and publishers as a whole do gain notoriety both good and bad and there is some discussion in gaming communities about certain individuals and their impact on games (these days often negatively).
> It's like the nuclear fans or anti-recycling groups that keep talking about how bad coal is.

I'm confused, are you implying nuclear is bad and coal is good?
For sure like John Woo Presents Stranglehold: https://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/object/748/748381/SHOLD_S...
How do you define "psychoactive"?
95% of my spam email is in Brazilian, what's the deal?
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (later renamed to the stupid "PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS")
> Nyquist theory proves it.

Only if your signal is infinitely repeating in time, with no start or end. Otherwise, it's spectrum is not band limited.

Is your ADC input such a signal?
I would say that if you want to maintain your cognitive function at peak efficiency your best bet is to not do anything that has a chance to affect it negatively, like doing drugs.

An "experienced person" in this case will not help you because it means someone who's been doing drugs for a while and there is at least a chance that their cognitive function is impaired and that you shouldn't trust their judgement.
The Covid couples struggling with post-lockdown life
Qubes OS 4.0 has reached EOL
Agreed -- if signal handlers are too messy, `sem_post(3)`, `sigwait(2)`, or `signalfd(2)` will get that control flow where you want it. Then the problem is reduced to "my application needs to handle a graceful shutdown event", which, though possibly complex, isn't really that novel.
Who doesn't use an IDE? I've known developers who used only VIM back in the day. I don't know of any dev that doesn't use one, nowadays.
Also, in mice [1].

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/justsaysinmice
Covid face masks devastating bird populations around the world
It's one aspect. Uniqlo also uses them for faster ring ups at the counter. They just stack you items over the reader and it gets every tag nice and fast with a final sight check by the cashier that they got everything.

I'm not sure but I think it has a weight systém also to help with catching missed items but this I might be wrong on.
IonQ Aria: Practical Performance (Part One)
This only works when the director has solid name recognition, of which there are fewer examples in games.

Notable counter example is Hideo Kojima (check out MGS5 or Death Stranding)
IonQ Aria: Past and Future (Part Two)
It’s amaing and great to experiment with. Have had the ios app for at least a year or more.
Thomas Dorsey started out playing pretty raunchy blues and later helped create/popularize gospel music, so that’s a well-trodden path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Dorsey
They used to be, at least during the Amiga heydays.

Sid Meier's Pirates!, Civilization, Colonization, Railroad Tycoon etc. [1]

David Braben presents Frontier - Elite II

Also after Populous, games like Powermonger, Black & White etc were all known to be "by" Peter Molyneux.

Then there were also isometric shooters by some John Carmack

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier#At_MicroProse
Exactly how was academia involved in the opioid crisis? That was mostly doctors and drug companies with health insurance complicity.
A Bibliographical Mystery Solved
> but a bad lifestyle choice

Care to elaborate why?
Many societies over the course of history have decided that slavery should be legal. Some still do today. I absolutely deny those communities' moral right to this decision (though I can't do much about the practical right).
From my last trip, my hotel in Budapest didn't have a screen, but almost every square inch of the interior of the elevator was plastered with paper adverts.

My hotel in Luxembourg (8 floors total) had 2 screens on either side of the doors to select your floor from. There were static ads in place of floor numbers, to make the floor selection look longer. After the elevator starts moving, the floor selector collapsed to a condensed view with video ads playing on both screens and over the speakers.
Window-Swap (Open a new window somewhere in the world)
Wikipedia's list of fab lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... has 4 in Italy, 3 Intel ones in Israel and 2 by an Israeli firm named Tower Semiconductor, which on its page has 2 in the US plus there's a joint venture with more. To get an idea about how this can go in the less cutting edge market, all but one of their fab lines was purchased from another company or in one case acquired through a merger.
Unfortunately, stairwells are often "emergency use only"
there's not too much detail on that page but what I see is that it "reduces EMI interference" from a mic. that's a different thing than noise cancellation (remove the noise from your background so that you hear the audio better)
A number of retailers--REI is another--have pulled back considerably from essentially no questions asked return policies. I've wondered to what degree it is generally more poorly-made goods given that most come from the same Asian factories anyway and to what degree it is a generational shift where more people (though there's always been a subset) will just take advantage of any system they can.
Yeah, always best to not fuck around with chemicals that bind to gabba receptors (alcohol, benzodiazepine, kratom). It will give you a hell of a withdrawal if you take high doses. This is why there are alcoholics.
Those ads made the magazine possible and accessible. Of course, McGraw Hill made a profit, but BYTE would be a lot more expensive if it were not for the ads.

One interesting point about the ads is that the time it took for a new technology to appear in the ads was usually much shorter than for it to appear in articles. In that sense, the ads were opportunities to peek into the near future (and, in the case of vaporware, alternate timelines).

I like the way magazines like BYTE are preserved and I hope we preserve our current tech as well.
If you want to find more secondhand books, check your local colleges and universities. Some have annual book fairs where books are sold at heavy discounts. I found some gems at such a fair when I went a few years ago. You need to go early though, because others will snatch the best titles if you
don't. I also went there a few weeks ago to drop a load of my old textbooks, some of which are like new. Hopefully, they make their way into hands that will find a use for them.

Anecdotally, I currently have an outstanding book order on Amazon for a title I'm convinced I wouldn't find anywhere in store. The title is 20+ years old and a little niche.
My Programming gods:
- Jef Dean
- John Carmack
No, it sounds like life in general.

99.999% of the humans in history were not talented or interesting enough to produce any artistic works or scientific research.

99.9999...% of the organisms that exist or ever existed are not special enough to produce any notable heritage. Most have not even produced a fossil. And even those who have will eventually be erased as the tectonic plate undergoes subduction.
read: https://polite.technology/preview --> "Rejecting pull requests" by Tom MacWright

".... Rejection is hard. There are a few key things you can communicate to soften the blow. Like many of the other things I recommend, the underlying strategy is that you need to be explicit about the positive and emotional parts of an encounter, not just the technical parts. It's simple and easy to deliver a code review, but implicit in that review is the fact that someone took the time to contribute, and that should be recognized as well."

"PRESENT THE WAYS OUT

Rejected pull requests aren't a dead end, so don't make them sound like the end. You should encourage everyone to contribute again, and present their options explicitly:

I'm going to close this pull request, but I hope you can contribute in the future! If you need this change, feel free to maintain a fork.
...
"

...

"Responding to feature requests

Once a project achieves a certain level of success, it will have users, and those users will have additional demands of the project in the form of feature requests. Experienced and empathetic users will state their feature requests precisely and kindly, but others will use an unfriendly tone or imprecise language that doesn't lend itself to a solution.

- The maintainer does not owe their time to anyone

- The maintainer must treat everyone with respect

"
As you said - conferences were never about the talks. It’s about the meeting space and discussions with like-minded people over lunch; which is harder to replicate virtually.
>my habit at the time of downloading TV instead of waiting months/years for it to be broadcast or available to buy on tape/DVD in this country, which I admit was a valid comparison

How is that a valid comparison? You did what you had to do in order to be able to consume media because the media’s owner did not make it available to you in any form due to the geographic location you lived in.

The other person committed fraud and basically stole the “newness” of a seller’s clothes because they could to afford them.

It would only be sort of comparable if you had a reasonable way to pay the media owner for the media, but chose not to because you wanted to save money.
I think we're going to be talking about genetic modification as long as there are people around who are able to talk. The possibilities are infinite, and the religious opposition is strong. It could very plausibly lead to us becoming a different species-- or at the other extreme, wiping ourselves out.

My parents are convinced it will lead to the Mark of the Beast, and there are millions of people who are raising their children to believe the same. Blood will be shed over this. It could easily lead to full blown war(s). The conversation is not going to be over in the year 2100 unless humanity as we know it has come to an end.
And while we’re at it lets do the same for cars.
It's (also?) used for self-checkout: put all of the items in a box, and it tallies up your total automatically, without scanning individual items.
> Just tracing and keeping track of a particular garment through the production would be a huge effort.

For a robot/computer.
I do of course understand how this "works".
What exactly is the simpler solution that doesn’t result in your same cons mentioned?
Not just a generational change but a move to lower trust society.
I think decidose would be even less accurate. A normal dose is 3g-5g. A microdose is 0.1g-0.2g. That's not a ratio of 10. At least microdose has a widely-agreed on colloquial meaning.
I just realized a lot of the pro arguments for some of these newer things like trans et al are essentially dependent on gaslighting the "rest of us". E.g. having us deny basic biology and twisting it with weird re-definitions of existing terms.

I’d encourage you to check your assumptions on that realisation buddy, because it ain’t really right.

The specific terms you are using there—“gaslighting”, “deny basic biology” etc.—suggest that you’re picking up some of those views from sources that are unlikely to be all that reliable or representative of reality, and way more likely to be a bad-faith representation of extreme or minority views. So don’t form your opinions based on them.

In reality it’s pretty simple and I don’t think it seems particularly controversial:

- People are born biologically male or female, with some exceptions and variations.

- Most people also have an internal gender identity of themselves as a man or a woman, which is a bit of a fuzzy concept but seems to be something innate along the lines of sexuality.

- Most of us fit pretty neatly into one of those two binary buckets in both axes and aren’t really aware of a gender identity; everything feels fine and we get on with our lives without noticing it.

- Some of us don’t feel that way and there’s an incongruity between our gender identity and physical bodies.

- That experience can vary a lot - some people feel themselves clearly and strongly as the opposite binary gender, and others less so. Some people are aware of not having that binary gender identity at all. Some people struggle with it, accept it easily, or feel differently about it at different times.

- People will choose to deal with that incongruity in different ways. Some people will seek surgery or other medical treatment to increase their comfort in their body; others might change their name or their outward appearance.

What you describe as “a lot of the pro arguments for some of these newer things like trans et al” is really about a pressure to modernise our handling of all the stuff above, along the lines of:

- Generally de-medicalise “gender identity disorder”, accepting the stuff above as a natural aspect of human identity and sexuality rather than a malady to be cured.

- Instead of forcing people through clinical pathways to transition allow them to explore their own identity and find their own path.

- Remove the social and cultural aspects of shame and abuse faced by people, that magnify all the above struggles. Stuff like being respectful of people’s identities and trying to be generally inclusive to people who might not fit into our own personal existing notions of gender and sexuality.

There are more specific issues that attract controversy - things like fair treatment in sport and appropriate support for children and young people. But “deny basic biology”? Not a thing.
Joe Celko has a number of SQL for Smarties books I've been meaning to look through.
First, decide why you don't want this: Is this a "patches welcome" situation where the change is good but not worth your time, or a change that would make the software worse/isn't a good fit?

Then explain that politely but firmly, and don't be afraid to explain that you're a volunteer working on it, so you ultimately make the calls.

If the reporter becomes uncivil, close and lock the issue. If they start being disruptive/filing new issues, ban them.

(You could also offer paid support, but it seems like you already know that this person wouldn't be a nice customer to work for.)
easier said than done. But you are right of course, that's where you want to go.
> Foreign textbooks are so much better

It is amazing how much better English textbooks tend to be compared to the textbooks in my country as well.
Very well explained. Thank you for this.
Helidon Project
Yup, according to studies, everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer[1].

AFAICT it's almost impossible to conduct convincing nutrition science. Even if the signs of the effect in observational studies are all in the same direction (usually they're not, see the reference), you still can't rule out many confounding effects. To demonstrate causality, you'd need to force a large number of people on specific diets for a long time in a proper randomized controlled trial, or show very specific bio-chemical reactions to particular food components, or (easier but still very hard) dream up some convincing "natural experiment" or "instrumental variable" to workaround the fact that people mostly choose their own diet.

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/everything-we-eat-both-causes-a...
This type of "packaging" is completely orthogonal to module systems. It's merely a syntactic discipline that adds one more complication to deal with even where it has zero benefit.

You could say that the C/C++ systems already has "modules" if you look at object files and header files. Of course, they are a limited kind of modules because they are a bit low-level and C has the preprocessor problem, making it slow to "import" modules. But none of that has to do with namespaces.