skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now more people are getting sick and dying more often in areas with lower vaccination rates. That information has been available for well over a year, and yet the vaccination rates haven't increased. What makes you think people don't understand, rather than that they just won't be convinced?
I mean, the guy who told us all to "vote Republican" just a few days ago has zero agendas, amiright.

Musk is not creating chaos on purpose [eye roll] - he does not know how to be a manager in a situation that is not a crisis dialed to 11 at ALL times.

Everything has to be a hair-on-fire-level crisis, to stress the minions and get them moving, except we see how that strategy is burning him out.

He's always been like that, we just never called it because "you can't argue with success", but you can definitely argue with failure.
Not all plastics can be recycled, and even those that can be are often not feasibly recycled. Recycling of plastics (and plastic lined aluminium cans etc) is yet another strategy employed by corporations to pass blame onto the consumer.
For one, you can't really spam hashtags since there's no global search or timeline. It only shows up for users if someone on their instance follows the spamming account.

Reply spam still works, but that doesn't scale as easily.
Not even sure that concern was legitimate. Do healthcare workers get their masks from the local supermarket?
Actually, I think it would be nicer to compute some sort of prediction based on the results so far, the strength of the teams, and the remaining games to be played.
"massive ingestion of fishing gear and plastics"

I think there's an elephantine clue in there somewhere.

A high proportion of marine platics, and especially ones most dangerous to sea life are fishing gear. Fishing kills the oceans both directly and indirectly. It's unsustainable, and we should stop doing it.

As for the rest, collection is by far the biggest problem, and most of the pollution comes from seaboard cities in developing nations.

Sure the manufacturers should be made responsible for the ultimate fate of their products, but it is not their problem or fault alone, though I think it's fair to say they've used every trick possible to push all responsibility on to others so far.
If you are charging two companies for 40 hours per week of work, while only working 20 hours per week for each of them, then that is fraud by any reasonable definition of the word.
Translate your Pendo Guides content with ease. Setup integration once, define your localization workflow and spend less time managing translations.
I agree that writing a ruby script is tempting. Where I disagree with you is that, when you have an organisation of 100s of devs, these scripts become tech debt. You need to have standard operating procedures delivered via one platform, that's when rundeck et al plays an important role.
Actually, I would throw this into the ring instead:

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...

by Professor Eric Lander

> Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life

> Explore the secret of life through the basics of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, recombinant DNA, genomics and rational medicine.

It's really well done and genomics is the focus. I took many dozens of edX and Coursra courses over the years, this is one of the top 5% of the courses there I would say.

I don't understand the phrase "from a programmer's perspective", or "for Engineers" in the title on top.

As a programmer whos studied CS but also took numerous life science courses throughout my life. You want to learn biology you study biology, what does a "programmer's view", or an engineer's, have to do with it? You use the correct tool for the job, and having a background in both, I don't see this working out well, more like the opposite actually.

The point of looking at biology for an engineer or programmer should be to broaden ones horizons, not to use ones internal models build for a completely different field in another one that really is not like that at all. IMO it's best to forget all computer metaphors here.

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By the way, since there was something about this yesterday, there also is this course: https://www.edx.org/course/principles-of-biochemistry - it too is very good. A good knowledge of organic chemistry is a prerequisite, but there are plenty of equally interesting course resources for that available too, including even Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry), or to give a(nother) random link, https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/5-12-organic-chemistry-i-spring-...

Biology becomes a lot more fun with this foundation already established in ones head.
2015 was before Microsoft bought GitHub. There has been some movement to use other forges since then so I don't think this will have to fail to catch on just because it did before.
Keep in mind that the anti-spam system is sometimes overzealous and marks new accounts as dead. Vouch those good comments whenever you see them.

But in many cases, some dead comments are from extremely toxic people in a rare moment of sanity.
This is misleading.

Fishing gear killed the whale. Coca-cola has nothing to do with it.

If you want to rid the ocean of the vast majority of its trash, station a person to monitor each fishing boat, and permenently plug up all the rivers in asia that empty into the oceans. The vast majority of ocean garbage comes from asian rivers and fishing boats.
I implement algorithms from descriptions. It's so important that other developers can explain code and be capable of implementing the same thing.

There's usually a critical insight that allows an algorithm to be understandable.

Wikipedia descriptions for btrees, multiversion concurrency control and tries are almost enough to implement them.

I don't like it when developers say the code is the documentation. I don't want to read your code to understand how you implemented the solution to the problem. I would rather read a plain explanation of what you're trying to do and what mental model you used to implement it.
This is so stupid I don't even know where to start...
This seems perfectly normal.
You lot discussing this would get a kick out of:

https://news.manifold.markets/p/above-the-fold-market-mechan...

I wish I could post a link, but in their Discord they had some really interesting chats and I think they pretty much invented a novel AMM for this.
They are open source, so you can take a look here: https://github.com/manifoldmarkets/manifold

I forget whereabouts in that repo the algorithm is though but have a hunt!
I think it's more that its a use case that you don't know yet you have. Like backups, the need for having an exit plan from a centralized bug tracker often only becomes apparent when it is already too late.
A job is not really supposed to get someone into that top 1%. The "capitalism" thing isn't a secret, to be wealthy you need to own capital. If we organise so that people who are shrewd with resources get power, the results are better. The obvious alternative is people who work hard which which sounds good and that is about all the idea has going for it. It leads to poor outcomes for everyone.

The amount of good someone can do as an individual caps out pretty quickly but can get someone into a solid 10% top earners if they are exceptional. Beyond that, wealth and income come from how well a body deploys resources. Top 30% incomes are more than high enough to start buying in to assets - or they were before the central banks started tilting the board. But the response to that shouldn't be more lies.
Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars
He's always been like this. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/business/elon-musk-interv...

A lot of people "work hard" but they do not work smart. Musk in an extreme version of this. Unless he is not working himself and everyone else into the ground, he is not content. Everything has to be a crisis, and if there isn't one, create it.
Wait until leather made out of the cloned skin of famous people becomes a thing.
Came here to point out that my personal email is wrongfully listed as a disposable email address. It must be that it's a three letter url with a .nl TLD.

Maybe take a look at your mail checking API?
Regardless of the specific distinction between the two, it would be possibly illegal for me, as a UKian, to allow that content[1] - "The Act made it illegal to own any picture depicting under-18s participating in sexual activities, or depictions of sexual activity in the presence of someone under 18 years old."

(I admit that I am not well versed enough in "anime loli" to know whether it is just "sexual activities" or more nuanced but I'm not risking a jail sentence either way, thanks. UKGOV is trigger happy on anything CSAM/fictional CSAM.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...
> Isn't cowhide just a byproduct of the enormous beef industry?

It is. Even more so, leather quality is inversely proportional to the degree of industrialization of meat production. That is to say if your cows aren't free of mechanical implements that can injure them and of parasites, the leather you're getting out of it is worthless.
> cracking down on someone stealing because they have nothing doesn't actually prevent that from happening more (you need to address the underlying issue).

The petty shoplifters steal mostly because they can. They're not stealing a bag of rice because they're starving, they're stealing a new pair of jeans because there's no need to pay.

There being unpleasant consequences for stealing actually would deter them.
Any individual labeling of goods is not cost-effective even on not-so-cheap items.

I've seen implementing individual labeling of items in two cases first-handed. Both were required by new regulations and both almost kill small companies.

Cost of new equipment (readers, dedicated computer which can work 24/7 in real world in the hands of non-IT people), IT system (you have only one vendor, of course, as it is government-required system, and you can imagine quality of this solution, as it is written by government contractor), support for this IT system and integration with existing POS and ERP (by 3rd party company), all these costs are tremendous in practice. If you are not reseller or distributor but producer, you need additional hardware (typically very expensive one) to apply tags to items on your production line.

Unique tags prices are negligible here.

I've seen this for small custom brewery (with very rudimentary bottling line) and for small imported/distributor of fine and exotic alcohol. Both companies are alive, but they were forced to get loans when implemented new regulations about individual-per-bottle tags, and it was long and painful process in both cases.

Who will pay for this? You. And me. In both ways: some business goes out (think: your nearest papa-n-mama grocery store, which struggles to compete with big supermarket chain already), and other business will rise up retail prices to cover expenses to implement supply-chain control systems. As there will be expenses on all steps from producer to retail store, these expenses will accumulate.

And we already pay (with taxes) for police. Which work is to catch thieves.

UPDATE: And as sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33740337) points out, it is not one-time expense for any business in supply chain, as they will need to scan all these tags, and have (much) more warehouse/retail space workers or pay more for more hours. Always, forever.
>there isnt really anything beginner friendly for clojure

How about Brave Clojure?

https://www.braveclojure.com/
I worked as a public servant once, I could have gotten another job for sure, I guess it all depends about the amount of work and meetings.
I love how the article explains to me, a non-native English speaker, not from the US, what the very popular "Rite Aid" and "Target" are, but lets me understand the industry jargon "shrink" from the context by myself.
I'd use flex filament. But pla is fine. Just increase perimeters. I'll print it when I get back from turkeyfest
The same often goes for security without the .txt too.
If you are young and healthy and not in contact with elderly or severly sick, there was never any point to take a government mandated vaccine with dubious upbacking, surrounded by lying, and the contents of which have been deemed a military secret.
> Your link is interesting though, will look into it.

Looks much like the byte-code verifier that is std. part of the JVM.

The foundations on which this is built look quite solid though.
Maybe we can also have a network.txt file, containing all 3rd party services that the website (both client and server?) will connect to.

Then you can decide up-front if you want to make use of a website, and block any outgoing calls that aren't mentioned in network.txt.

It's just an idea. The server-side part is hard to verify (especially for closed source software), of course.
So I guess all those companies paying for 40 hours and getting 50 or 60 should be charged charged with fraud?
Actually I think System 6 predates the Mac OS naming scheme
Setting all initial odds to 50 % seems like a great way to get people to propose bets that are very likely or very unlikely, and then immediately correcting, as you say. What does manifold.markets do to prevent that?

I like the idea of the market creator providing the initial liquidity in exchange for commissions, though I am concerned that would leave the AMM short on capital to satisfy everyone's transactions. Maybe. I'd have to run some of the calculations. I hadn't thought about this approach. Thanks!

(I'm well aware you aren't the OP or anything, I just thought your comment was insightful so I took the opportunity. No regrets!)
Are we suddenly counting people who show up and only give a partial effort? I am not sure you are prepared for how deep this rabbit hole goes.
Other maths books with similar puns in the title include:

* The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX Macro Package

* The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory

* X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life
You should never base opinions off single instances you see a news story of. Both because of the misleading nature of such stories in terms of the information they include or miss out and because single cherry picked instances are not representative.
> as a direct result of the current very public mismanagement of Twitter and resulting public freakout.

I have to admit I don't fully get this. What part of Twitter is mismanaged?

If management thinks that 7000+ aren't needed to make single page web-app, is reducing the work-force mismanagement? I'd consider it a healthy step towards creating an actually profitable company. I mean, who benefits from the company going bankrupt? Certainly not the employees.

Is allowing more people get to exercise freedom of speech mismanagement? Or that the new management polls the actual twitter user-base instead of listening to a select few people, seemingly only on one side of the political spectrum?

Also, since the new ownership came in place, supposedly 90%+ of sexual-abuse material and tags has been cleaned out and banned, something which was allowed to go on for years during old twitter management. That's a good change, right?

Is all this just about some people you don't like being un-banned? If so, you can still individually ignore them or block them, and just move on with your life, right?

I really, honestly don't get what all this hysteria is about.
I don't understand that. What's the difference between "bribing" and "buying influence"? Is it about the time difference between when you give a politician money and when you expect something back?
I teach programming and software design, too.

But i never use domain, driven, design,... as vocabulary. I use function all the time. "Hey guys, just use function, that's all you know to make usable software."

What's the problem with NOT following "weird, confusing" patterns and vocabularies.

And the result is, all of my students actually make useful code, simple code.

Also, most of software recruiters will tell you: You lack of experience in making complicated/complex software ! No, it's you lack ability to produce simple software, it's your fault.
Comparing polio to a flu virus is such a bad straw man. Almost as bad as forcing kids to take a covid vaccine with secret ingredients.
Full title: “ While Blue Checks Whine About Extremism, Elon Musk Is Protecting Sexually Exploited Children”
I thought it would be a text file for filtering out certain humans
Consumer finance app Djamo eyes Africa expansion, backed by new $14M round
How is this a measure? I have my own domain, so why would I make several accounts for your service? I just need one.

And labeling a domain as disposable, when it's clearly isn't, sounds a bit strange to me.
My rule of thumb: I love Web-Standards but if some quirky format hasn't taken off over a decade after introduction, it's not worth implementing. Maybe someone can come up with something less prone to scraping under the .well-known umbrella.
Yes but this is easily harvested. Ironically, by design this would make that far easier.

You could probably work out my mother's maiden name from Facebook, but I wouldn't make a SecurityQuestions.txt file and chuck it on websites I make.
> I am suggesting that the direction current prosecutors are going is to not punish theft at all.

Your suggestion would generally be incorrect. Prosecutors in _some_ jurisdictions are choosing not to prosecute petty theft, but when organized crime cases are brought to them, they are prosecuting them.

Police, however, have done a poor job of investigating these crime rings, and in some cases have chosen not to make arrests to push a political agenda.

More enforcement against petty theft won't stop the organized crime problem.

You're going to an extreme on how to stop the illegal sales. Amazon could, for instance, stop allowing sales from any company that has fenced illegal goods through them. They could only allow well established businesses that have existed for x years to sell, or heavily inspect companies younger than x years. They could get lists of well-known resellers from manufacturers and heavily inspect businesses not on those lists.
And also - it's not like Americans are uniquely prone to opioid addiction, why isn't the rest of the world seeing this problem on anything approaching similar scale? What are they doing differently?
Interesting. I saw this tweet (https://twitter.com/RobustaDev/status/1595767655687913473) last night, and I'm not sure that the image of people falling out of an airplane is in particularly good taste. It put me off your company and product immediately.
Lab Leak Conspiracy Theory
A couple of relevant links:

Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714880

Ten Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908033
Indeed, pacman does not know which library versions are necessary for any particular app version. And almost all of the applications are dynamically linked.

Archlinux repo holds only a single latest version. There are some community maintained repos that contain older versions (and those can be easily fetched through downgrade utility).

When updating Archlinux, upgrade everything and then reboot. This way it should not break.
You can only avoid so many meetings though. In software most teams have some kind of regular standup schedule. How do you know that the standup times of 2-3 jobs won't overlap before starting those jobs? Or what if the standup schedule for one jobs changes and now you can't attend? You can only miss so many of these before it's a big red flag.
..which builds on https://ucan.xyz/ for auth. I’m also curious to learn what Chatter Net does differently, and whether that’s necessary.
It never ceases to amaze me that multi-billion dollar conglomerates seemingly get public support for free.

Coca-cola is certainly culpable here, since they have the disposable funds and political power to develop recyclable containers or enable the sale of beverages using reusable containers.
> deodorant sticks are smaller than what I’d get in Canada.

This must be due to the size of the north american armpit.

> There’s also an appalling lack of variety. In particular, you never see Old Spice.

There aren't any Tim Hortons either but I'm not sure if "Brand X is missing" and "There is no variety" is generally the same thing.
It’s really not. Almost everybody is a couple of days away from serious dehydration health risks. You are not near death every time you’re thirsty.
Would you invest in something that returns 1% when there are 2% returns elsewhere? That is called the "opportunity cost", and a business is misallocating capital if the expected return is less than the opportunity cost.

> The cause in the increase is possibly an increase in poverty, or increase in wealth disparity?

I don't understand your question. Businesses have to have a return on their investment, or they go out of business. Shrinkage is a cost, so the price on the goods has to be raised to compensate.

Profit = Revenue - Cost
Poe's law at work perhaps?
To take the Machiavellian view, if you want to be nice, be nice to your wife and your kids. But not at work.

Companies always look out for themselves. I have sympathy here for the OE who is simply looking out for themselves.

IANAL - most definitely not - but it seems to me there is no crime here. Breach of contract, sure, absolutely - unarguable. Consequences - dismissal and no reference. But crime? Many employment contracts say 40 hours, any hours these days. Mine does. Show me a tech worker whose contract says they stop work at 5.30? That would preclude on-call, overtime, etc. So it's possibly a defence, should it be needed, that the OE is available for 40 hours a week, and not his fault that all 40 hours aren't needed, so he interleaves this with responsibilities for another employer. There are, after all, more than 40 hours in a week.
Polymerase without error correct has error rate of 10**-6. With error correct it's 10**-9 to 10**-12.
The /.well-known/ directory was created specifically to keep clutter like this out of the webroot. Please use it!
Modern dentistry (especially when you have a tooth abscess)
> The elephant in this room isnt Brexit it is war.

Confirmation bias is dangerous. As a continental European following UK media a lot Brexit is talked to "death" by some singular media personalities, it is not discussed at all in a broad sense.

It is fascinating for me to watch how a society decided collectively to "get on with it". And by that I mean: move forward pretending brexit did not happen and the present is not influenced by it. It feels like a sketch from monty python or fawlty towers where everybody pretends a clearly obvious thing does not exist.

I live in Germany and the war and energy politics have a much bigger impact here than in the UK. Sure not all of what you have going on there is attributable to Brexit and a lot of it has to do with the questionable quality of your political leadership — but pretending worse trading terms with the majority of your trading partners will somehow not inpact the economy of a nation takes a special kind of mental gymnastics.

The truth is that the UK was in a very priviledged spot within the EU before it left and it made good use of that position, both in a political and economic sense.
> site:.com inurl:"humans.txt" "the humans responsible & colophon"

That yields just "About 139 results". But searching for

inurl:humans.txt filetype:txt

[1] gives "About 2,030 results". Quite surprised seeing it somewhat adopted by Google and Netflix, but not exactly in the way proposed by the "standard".

https://www.google.com/humans.txt (Vague.)

https://www.netflix.com/humans.txt (Promotional misuse, probably.)

https://www.paulirish.com/humans.txt (Awww.)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:humans.txt+filetype:tx...
You can turn that off https://mastodon.social/@benjiweber/109388009967277758
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