skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Editorialization serves a valuable role of making writing better. IMO, language that is more inclusive is better than language that is less inclusive. Keeping needlessly gendered phrases around simply because they're a "set phrase" doesn't serve any compelling interest.

Language evolves. You can fight the ocean with a rake, or you can be supportive of changes that make language better for your friends and neighbors.
Speaking of Punch Out, the SNES version had a recent discovery:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/28-years-later-super-...
Senior physicians are called consultant XYZ.

Senior teachers are principals, department heads, etc.
Read: Reinventing the Organization
Some people are lucky enough that the things they focused on early in life are things they were good at. Unfortunately, I think some subset of those people also develop an aversion to things that they don't appear to reach competence in as quickly as prior endeavors.

That's a shame, because often I think people that have competence in a subject come naturally to them end up at a disadvantage later, because their foundational knowledge is lacking (at least in cases where that's possible and learning was self driven).

One example of this is learning a programming language through doing compared to actual study and research. By "doing" I'm not referring to a project to cement details, but for example how most people know bash.

Another example would be spoken languages and some of my college professors. I'm not sure I ever heard anyone speak with as good of a vocabularity and diction as one of my CS professors that English wasn't his first language.
When vaccination was required to keep participating in social life this was my motivation to get a second JJ vaccine despite the pressure to get an mRNA vaccine. I assumed my immune system would have an easier time to remove it from my body.
This is what I’m feeling as well. The job handles some needs, and the pure drive to create is best handled in self owned work, but it does depend entirely on the actual circumstances in both cases.

You ideally want a good rewarding job with an owned project you’re passionate about.
I had exactly the same with Minidisc. Go through discs with labels I made myself, select one, 'click' opens the player, 'click' insert the disc and close, then the device comes to life in your hand and you press a hardware play button (of which muslce memory knows the location by heart so always just works), music comes out of the headphones, so fullfilling.
Incompatible versions of transitive dependencies, incompatible libs that your web server added, this is the default in Java unless you pay close attention to your dependencies.
Eh, that might mitigate some of the damage, but the older the system, the more quirks and workarounds there are that are not documented anywhere and for which the required knowledge only exist in the minds of the current programming team. I don't see how any team of consultants can protect against that in a case of emergencies.
Y'all are gonna be much scarier, convincing, whatever, whenever you realize that the little extra certain imagery that you just had to throw in there exposes you. People would accidentally take you more seriously if you could manage to get (whatever that energy is that requires you to induce phallic imagery) out in some other way than in random comments about vaccines.
A month is more than enough to demonstrate safety; vaccine reactions to the original shot (and in general) were all rapid.

As that article notes, flu shots have a similar regulatory regime:

> And some scientists say health officials know enough about how vaccines work to start handling the COVID-19 vaccines like the flu vaccines, which are changed every year to try to match whatever strains are likely to be circulating but aren't routinely tested again every year.

and that the new vaccine still expresses the original proteins the already-approved vaccinations were expressing; in the worst-case scenario that mice and humans react similarly to Alpha/Delta but wildly differently to Omicron/BA.4/BA.5, we're still likely generating the at least the original immune response:

> The new booster will be identical to the original vaccines except it will contain genetic coding for two versions of the protein the virus uses to infect cells — the protein from the original vaccine and proteins from the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants.

A rapid approval process is going to be important for boosters, for the same reasons it is in flu shots. It's very clear the claim that it was only tested on eight mice is false.
I believe that the culture is just not there, generally. The industry is thinking in short-term ROI and "cost of doing business" ways but are actually locking themselves in which will have immense long-term social (externalized) costs. We hear a lot about GMO's health and environmental concerns but the real issue IMO is the captive business model these proprietary technologies imply. This will take decades to change.

In the current conditions, I agree that an open-source supplier is a though proposition. "The invisible hand" is working on a time scale too short to allow self-regulation, thus the playing field would have to be leveled politically, maybe by changing the IP laws to benefit the people more. Unfortunately, a nation of vehement lawyers is very unlikely to allow this.
You should probably investigate how sensitive PCR tests can be. We cranked those things up to 11 so anybody with a spec of the virus got labeled as a Covid case.
> Did people pursue their passions once they had government disbursements? No.

I'd argue that the wage inflation and labor shortages we're seeing in areas like food service indicates the correct answer to that question is "Yes" and that a lot of people spent the time "leetcoding" (or whatever) and landed a significantly better job.
I'm surprised and pleased to see that this link is the top comment. The original article was a bit dismissive/presumptive, and the submission rode the flagging/vouching rollercoaster as a result. Not a great start!

But it's a testament to the HN community that the most-upvoted comment on this thread is one with a link to a video that is long form (over an hour!) and truly presents both sides. It is also legally sophisticated — not something that most HNers can digest at 3x. Yet enough folks engaged with it that this rose up slowly to be the top comment.

Most communities aren't able to perform conversational alchemy — starting out with bronze and ending up with gold. HN doesn't always do this, but the fact that it can is much of the reason why I'm here.
What purpose does it serve though? I think being able to read and understand a Go program is a better example. That does seem like a reasonable and useful ask in 3 days for a veteran PHP/Java dev, and something that is more likely to come up in practice. What is the context of the former? "Welcome to our team. I know we didn't hire you as a Go dev. You have 3 days to "be able to write Go".

I have long subscribed to "A programmer is not language specific", and I don't hire based on the languages you know. But that first task is "Here is access to the repo. Read and understand what our code does today please. I'll answer questions within reason." Acquiring the new language happens as a side effect.
I just want to say that tap tap revenge was my favorite game as a kid and I have very fond memories of doing 2 player on the same ipod touch. "Gotta get the high score"
I’m probably a radical, but I’m open to not forcing children to learn things that someone deems “important to learn” which they are not interested in.

I think it’s great to give kids a taster of many subjects, but from my education I’m pretty sure that 90% of what I was taught was useless. The STEM stuff I would have done anyway because I loved it. And I have later come back to full in blanks in history etc. (Though I do acknowledge it’s hard to tell whether school builds a substrate or pattern for general learning, even if the raw facts were useless at the time.)

I had peers that were forced to learn languages, English lit, maths, etc, and then left school to be tradesmen or musicians, where they used approximately zero of what they were forced to learn. (And trade school starting earlier could have taught them the trigonometry or scales they needed very quickly).

The problem is we are trying to manufacture high school graduates rather than crafting or sculpting them.

I agree that the existing classroom model doesn’t work for this new way of thinking about learning. Siblings have done a better job of arguing for specific options than I could. But yes, I’d rather try something with different structure. For example, can you stream kids by interest rather than by age group? 30 kids all into history, with varying ages, might learn better than 30 7th-graders all trying to learn the curriculum on WW2 or whatever was decided is “important they know” and which most don’t care about.

Everyone has their own pet definition of what is “important to learn” in school, mine is the meta-level “learning is easy and fun if you care about what you are studying”.
> Raccoons hate going out during the day.

Correct. A lot of people freak out when the do see one out during the day because for some reason it is widely believed that they only come out during the day if they are rabid.

Where I am (western Washington) rabies has never been found in the wild raccoon population (or in any wild terrestrial mammal population--it's all bats and domestic animals), but still some people see a raccoon in the daytime and freak out over rabies.

In fact if a raccoon is out during the day the most likely reason is that there is a food shortage and it can't forage enough just at night. Sometimes there is a shortage because something decreased the food supply, and sometimes it is because the raccoon is pregnant and needs more food due to that. Daytime outings due to rabies is way way way below that even in places like the eastern US where rabies is widespread in their raccoon populations.

Every year around here we'll see the neighborhood raccoon start coming around in the daytime for a while, getting plumper and plumper, then she stops coming at all for a while, and then she shows up at night much thinner and with 2 to 5 little ones.
I hate to make everything gendered but I have to wonder if a sports reporter who wrote about the impact of 9/11 on the baseball and football seasons would have received the same level of derision. This twitter thread boils down to "person who doesn't care about <subject> derides article written about <subject>". Why has this taken up so much of his headspace?
PayPal holding over $1.3M in sales hostage from tech startup
Archive.today is exceptional at bypassing paywalls (any idea how?) This doesn't seem to work on Bloomberg articles for example.
Hard to overstate Godard's importance to the film world, both as a critic and a filmmaker. As a critic with Cahiers du Cinema he and others championed many forgotten Hollywood films and established one of the first recognizable 'canons' of film -- one of the beginning points of film history as a subject. And unlike his predecessor and colleague Bazin, Godard went beyond theory to actually create films that embodied the radical new ideas about film that the Cahiers crowd promoted. I've seen people in the thread mentioning Italian Neorealism, and some of the great Hollywood films of the 50s, all fantastic examples of forward-thinking film art. But Godard and his contemporaries' contributions were about synthesizing earlier developments with a pop-art bent in a way that destroyed established boundaries of the medium and paved the way for explosions of film creativity on the continent and beyond. His genius was finding a middle ground between directors like Hawks and Rosselini, or Ford and Renoir, and using that space to create indelible masterpieces. RIP JLG
3 days to learn how to write syntactically-valid Go or 3 days to learn how to write idiomatic Go?

Idiomatic Go has some very large differences from idiomatic Java or PHP, including things like 1) the reliance on multiple return values and early exits for error handling 2) interfaces instead of inheritance 3) plain old data structures instead of everything-is-an-object 4) goroutines 5) table-driven testing 6) complete reliance on gofmt for formatting rather than doing it manually. And that's just the stuff that I'm aware of, as someone whose primary language is not Go but worked in it for about 3 months.

My definition of a senior dev would be someone who's aware that they can't just pick up a language in 3 days and write idiomatic good-quality code, but expects that they're going to have to keep learning for multiple years to really master a language. It's the metacognition of realizing how little you know and always continuing to learn.
My wife got laid off a few years back and started her freelance marketing business out of that. She loves it. She's really anti-meeting and bullshit and this allows her to just do her job (copywriting) 90% of the day. Maybe because her parents were small business owners, she is fine dealing with the small business busywork (quarterly taxes, business generation).

Most of her business started with former coworkers who know she's good hiring her, and then that work expanding, and now her website has good SEO and she gets more offers than she can accept.

Some of her other friends attempted freelancing but weren't able to get too much business or didn't like it for whatever reason. YMMV I guess.

I always tell her she should start an agency (hire people beneath her) to make more money, but she hates agencies and is happy with how things are. Only downside is it's a little harder to make heaps of money this way, since she can only raise her rates so high.
Same for news stations, Facebook, Instagram, reddit, etc. Any platform where people share information can be a propaganda network. Should we make it all state owned now?
Just give it time, people used to pay for OS back in the days.
> Let's be real: Twitter is a huge cesspool of harassment, hosts a ton of pornography (including from children)

For the porn: So do Reddit and Facebook, with the latter having had multiple lawsuits by former content moderators for the uncountable amount of CSAM and gore [1]. The first "most popular" subreddit was r/NSFW, followed by r/gonewild - Reddit literally got big with porn.

As for harassment: Facebook with its closed groups is just as bad if not worse for radicalization (simply because way more people use it and no one monitors these groups, not to mention open channels such as newspaper comment sections), with direct links to deadly unrest such as in India [2]. Meta's other products are a horror show in themselves - Whatsapp has a history with mobs riled up by fake news to the point these have their own Wikipedia listicle [3] and Instagram has been under fire for years in helping to aid eating disorders [4].

It's bad enough that there are so many bad actors on Twitter, but the simple fact that Facebook makes billions of dollars in profit each year and doesn't even come close to the amount of moderation they would need makes them even worse.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35xk5/facebook-moderators-a...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/india-facebook-under-the-microscope-ov...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings

[4] https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/instagram-eating-disorders-d...
the switch is better?
Cool, sounds like it should be able to handle Geometry Wars 3
This is not true. The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 removed government guarantees for non government student loans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reco...

> Ending the process of the federal government giving subsidies to private banks to give out federally insured loans. Instead loans will be administered directly by the Department of Education.[23]

Or course, the problem was and is the taxpayer funded loans with zero underwriting, so the root issue was never resolved, and hence why colleges continue to raise tuition since their customers continue to receive blank checks from the government. There should be zero taxpayer funded higher education loans.

If the people want to help students pay for education, then give them cash or give cash to the universities. The reason this is not politically popular is that it increases government expenses, rather than loans that muddy the higher education market and ultimately screw students and future taxpayers.

But excessively borrowing from the future to keep taxes down today and indebt certain portions of the population rather than providing non discriminatory assistance is par for the course.
> Every single person I've met in my life that was racist or sexist or whatever-ist (including myself) has only become a better person and more open-minded when they were forced to work in close proximity to people of other races and cultures.

Apart from this being anecdotal evidence, were they not forced to act as a better person and more open-minded in that environment ?
Lexica throws some neat results:

https://lexica.art/?q=Show+me+round+objects
Of course. But my point is that the old days where visiting a very reputable website and being infected with a drive-by exploit delivered via an ad seem to finally be over.
It used to be a catch all so that position is now considered antiquated. There are still vestiges of that old position hanging around.

PEM tests, auto-antibody, and immunoassays are the modern tests.

There are meds for dysautonomia that will help many people, for those not helped they’ll have to wait for new meds to become available.
Help me out... Why do I want a transpiler to take C23 code and convert it down to C99 code?

If I was interested in using the C23 features, wouldn't I use a C23-ready compiler?

That said... I do wonder how long it will be until ARM and GCC have a C23 toolchain - or did I just answer my own question?
I never got that, it's amazing. Was a teen when I was using it and hadn't learned enough Roman history. Thanks.
Let's watch as Microsoft and Sony completetly miss the point that this article makes. Where Nintendo is making bank with fun-to-play games (Splatoon being the example in TFA), MS and Sony will be holding meetings to brainstorm how better to monetize loot boxes. One company seems to emphasize making fun games for me to play, two other companies emphasize extracting more money from my pocket and hopefully the game is enough fun to play to keep those dollars flowing.

I guess the point I'm driving at is, though I was always a cow to be milked, the last couple versions of Call of Duty (as just one example) have made it way too obvious now. In contrast to a first-party Nintendo game that just lets me play the game I bought.
Any organization where people have the title "partner" is usually structured this way. E.g. I think big accounting firms like EY use this model.
Given we are effectively modeling humans, and there is often plenty of room for misinterpretation in human natural language, we will see. There are good reasons things that 'must not fail' (i.e. civil engineering, accepted medical practice, etc.) are meant to go through rigorous formal review to get it both right and agreed on.
I believe if the universe is found to be infinite, then a mountain like this should necessarily exist somewhere.
A friend of mine is a professor of medieval philsophy. He tried to contribute to Wikipedia for a while. He gave up in disgust. (The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is also free, is much better for anything in that topic area.)
> a talent for technical writing, a belief that documentation is actually important

This is, IMO, a hallmark of "senior" engineers and above. Much more important than language adoption/choice.
At times I hate my full time job. But when I tried to be a freelancer, I went broke. I will not risk this again.
In what way were the developers expected to "master" k8/helm? In the sense of actually making contributions to the k8/helm setup, or simply using an existing k8/helm setup to provide a development environment? Was there any "expert" person on the team that everyone could ask about k8, or was everyone simply supposed to pick things up on their own?

(asking because my own team is currently moving in this direction, and I'm curious about the pedagogical challenges we might face)
I prefer equality for all. Most partnerships exclude certain positions from becoming a partner, and you typically have to buy out a partner to become one (thus ensuring only the "right people" become partners).
What? It’s trivial to keep these branches in sync…

The more you comment, the more it’s clear you work with a bunch of coders who want to “go dark”, and there are a ton of problems with that.

Don’t go dark.
Second "The Effective Manager", that's one of the best management books I have ever read - and one of the very few totally practical ones. It also gave me a significant head start in managerial life because most of the people above me have no idea how to do any of the things clearly laid out in this book.
Foreign election influencers absolutely may absolutely use popular blogs, especially when sharing information on other social media to recruit users into a certain personality trait.
The 9P file protocol, he said, comes from the Plan 9 operating system. The kernel has a 9P client, but no 9P server. There is a 9P server in QEMU that can be used to export host filesystems into a guest. The protocol is simple, Almeida said, defining a set of only ten operations. His 9P server implementation works now, in a read-only mode, and required just over *1,000* lines of code.

... I wonder how many lines of code the Plan9 (C) server takes? (much less I suspect)
naming a project != naming a variable
https://www.coops.tech/ has many.

There was an earlier thread with others - I'll try and find it later, maybe.
I was told there's a risk. I cannot imagine any place administering a drug of any kind would ever say there's no risk.
Sometimes They Say Yes
> If I understand correctly, they then also showed that vaccination pre-pregnancy has inheritable benefit to their offspring in reducing the severity of illness in their children.

Mothers pass on all the antibodies they have in their blood and breast milk to the baby. This effect diminishes greatly after colostrum is gone and stops as soon as the baby is weaned.

This can be considered an external immune system. Once the baby is weaned, it is fully vulnerable to all the diseases it might have been protected from by its mothers antibodies.
Yeah, definitely Lua.
Which PCR test?

Be specific. Because each test kit has documentation on how well it has cross-reactivity to other virus strains. I know its complicated with lots of competition here in the USA and lots of different manufacturers.

So I need to know exactly which test kits you were using, and which virus (Influenza type A? H1N1? Adenovirus? Influenza Type C?)

EDIT: For example, Abbot's test kit has the following documentation: https://www.fda.gov/media/136258/download . We can see page 10 how much it cross-reacts with other viruses: which is not at all.
No, I'm not referring to a partnership. See my comment in the other thread. Equality/equity for all.
I'm almost certain that the Pixel is better given that it's nearly double the price, and the Switch is 5 years old now.
i hope modern editors can save me
The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care
Probably the average tenure of C/VP-level sponsors for such a project.

By the time the gains would be realized, the muck-a-muck will have moved on to a different company. They tend to think in quarters, not years.