skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Weight Loss Maintenance Is Difficult
I have not been laid off, but, as a contractor, I am well-aware that, at any point, I could have no income. I like golf and I've noticed there aren't many good sites on the internet, so I'm trying to build a golf portal. So far, I've implemented a very basic golf odds aggregation service -- https://www.golfodds.io/ if anyone wants to check it out. I plan to work on it in my spare time and build it up. Also open to any cool ideas, if you want to share -- feel free to email me from the site.
From an old guy who can remember pre PC ... Yeah! And all the assumptions of carefully considered invention/design for PC Basics ... ha ha ha ;)

The various BASICs were copies of what came before, and what came before had line numbers. As per the old joke ... "Why do ducks have feathers?" answer "Because their parents had feathers."

Look to the early interactive BASICs (wikipedia has a detailed article on Dartmouth BASIC) - line numbers were a convenient way to identify lines for editing and for control flow.
Tesla leaks ‘Magic Dock’ CCS adapter ahead of opening its Supercharger network
That film is so meta and self-critical that you could argue it was on purpose.
Understanding the relationship between FOSS and the “software supply chain”
This sounds like something the military should already have figured out.
this() and super() MUST be called during the Initialization Block, which MAY include guard / error tests and variable assignments (a list of permitted actions and types of actions is more complex).
The headline certainly makes Post sound bad, but the article makes them seem much more reasonable.

Post was planning to release some on-the-go versions of their cereals under a brand called "OK GO!" This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do. I certainly don't feel like they chose that name for the purpose of somehow confusing consumers into thinking their cereal was related to the band (nor can I imagine anyone accidentally making that mistake).

OK Go apparently threatened to sue Post ("Post said OK Go had been quietly threatening to sue for months, claiming that the company had infringed the trademark rights to the band’s name by launching the new on-the-go packages earlier this month.), but didn't actually do so. Post filed a lawsuit that didn't request any kind of damages, just preemptively asked the court to rule on whether their new cereal brand infringed on the band's trademark ("Post is seeking what’s known as a “declaratory judgment,” meaning a ruling by a judge that says the company did nothing wrong.).

That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do - there's a dispute over whether Post can use the name, and Post is just trying to get clarity on whether it's okay or not from the court.
You and me both. Java programmers don't seem to want it for some reason.

However, Java has instead received `Optional` (in the shape of `Optional.ofNullable(variable).map(Clazz::getProperty).map(Clazz2::getProperty).orElseGet( () -> 42 );` rather than `variable?.getProperty()?.getProperty() ?: 42`).

I don't know what the JCP EC was thinking going for this approach rather than the much more readable, modern approach, but I can't be too surprised about a language designed by committee refusing such improvements.
>I don't believe in souls.

Why not?

I mean I could presume a lot on your behalf, like how the concept is non-falsifiable, lack of evidence that can be replicated, past trauma from people you trusted who insisted upon it but then behaved hypocritically, etc. but every time someone says they don't believe in souls I can't help but ask why not.

You don't have to answer but I'm always interested to hear what others say.

Disclaimer: I personally believe in something akin to souls, not individualized, and it's hard to explain my ideas so I like to hear what others think before I say what I think.
>if we undermine paid creators

I'm not even slightly concerned about that.

1. Art is better when it's not paid. Real artists have day jobs that pay the bills and they create art to express their ideas, not to make money.

2. Paid art isn't going away, it will just change. Certain skillsets will be forgotten, like how landscape painting was replaced by photography. But talented artists will leverage AI tools to create works that are greater than anything that came before.
People seem to be assume they layoff only poor-performers. That’s not even close to true - in the case of layoffs anyway not the annual trimming some companies do. Entire depts will be laid off. In all likelihood some of these people will get their severance and also get to rejoin soon-ish with a pay bump. It also leaves a bad taste in the mouth. All in all, indiscriminate layoffs - like the ones happening now are just self-goals.
It takes money to keep a variety alive, but commerce isn't the only source of money. A properly supported public collection, for example:

https://brogdalecollections.org/the-fruit-collection/
Cyberpunk 2077 features this reality. Its not discussed much, but basically only local small scale networking is done (like citywide scale) because the broader internet protocol has either crumbled or is polluted by adversarial bots. So its pretty taboo to go there or simply unused.

I'm sure someone else knows the lore better. There is a lot of supporting literature, just not a key component of any stories.
Pet fish commits credit card fraud on owner using a Nintendo Switch
Commodore BASIC and Atari BASIC both had on screen editors where you could LIST your program on the screen and cursor up and down and change the code and when you pressed ENTER on a line, that line was re-entered into the program. Most other BASICs either required you to retype the entire line or had a line editor (eg. Applesoft BASIC).

Atari BASIC could export a BASIC program as a text file using the LIST command. Once exported, an editor could be used to edit the code:

LIST "D1:CODE.TXT"

Or you could only output part of the program, say from line 1000 to 2000:

LIST "D1:PARTIAL.TXT",1000,2000

Then you could use the ENTER command to bring that code back in. If a program was already there, the lines would simply be inserted. If the ENTERed code had a line number the same as the program in memory, it would replace the one already in memory. This was a great way to have a subroutine library, kind of like #include in C:

ENTER "D1:PARTIAL.TXT"

Outside of the examples above, it was difficult to have a full screen editor for BASIC because every line had to have a line number and you had to keep them organized. Also, the earliest microcomputers didn't have enough RAM for a full screen editor. The BBC Micro had a text editor in ROM but it couldn't be used for BASIC code. It could be used for other languages that were typically compiled.

Most other languages either had a full screen editor or you could use any text editor. For example, Atari Logo has a full screen editor where you can edit one PROCEDURE at a time with:

EDIT "MYPROCEDURE
Looks like great service. If I may ask, what do you mean by ethical?
Unfortunately it’s a terrible and unintelligent compromise that is worse than many possible other compromises. It’s almost intentionally dysfunctional.
To be fair, 90% of NPCs in most games aren't directly related to any main storyline, and their dialogue is often background flavour at best.

So replacing their one or two lines of non descript dialogue with a possible conversation would do wonders at increasing immersion, and allow effort to be spent on more important characters and content instead.
this. my small company in 2020 & 2021, grew with COVID like most tech companies. But last year, we scaled back hiring more, heck we struggled to hire as anybody worth a penny was picked up for higher wages by the big boys. we are not laying anyone off. heck I am looking to hire aggressively this year, as others lay off.

Part of being a competent leader is correctly assessing staffing needs of your org. If you suck at upsizing your staffing needs correctly, why should we trust that you don't also suck at downsizing correctly. I have little respect for leaderships that overhire then layoff. I view them as incompetent.
And space lasers.
Because the point of DoE is to provide evidence that everything you're claiming as "natural" and "just what is" is, in fact, not so.
Both phrases where used to describe the same situation. So they quite literally where describing the same thing.
Cyberpunk 2077 features a world after this has happened. Not because it happened, its just after. If there is a reference to an older internet it features its disuse due to this.
Which RBLs do you use/suggest? My main anti spam solution is currently just Thunderbird's adaptive spam filter, but that doesn't help when I access it with a different app or via web.
This particular restriction is mostly arbitrary anyway because `this` and `super` accept arbitrary expressions (including static method calls), so in most cases it's possible to do this, just with much worse syntax.

Technically, this does introduce new functionality when extending a class, specifically it's possible to choose a constructor to overload depending on arguments, but in most cases there is usually one constructor that all other constructors use.
Many games before SFV used rollback netcode without issues. SFV in their implementation somehow managed to implement rollback in a way in which sometimes it was purely one sided.

Given delay based netcode, or rollback netcode, I'll always pick rollback. Played alot of SF4 purely online and in a game with plenty of 1-2 frame links, delay based netcode really advantages the player mashing reversal within your string.
You have an abstract definition of a sequence of digits, and an algorithm that reveals an actual digit from among them. It is surprising that you don't need to approximate an infinite series to get it, but everybody agrees that digit would show up there if you did one. You would still need to do an infinite amount of work to get the rest of them.

It is magic of a kind by wizards of a kind, or anyway indistinguishable from it.
Right this is a possibility. More likely though is that he's in a school of thought and you are in another school of thought because Jordan Peterson Clearly isn't the only academic who believes this.

Most schools of thought have valid arguments. I have presented evidence for my school of thought.

If we are being truly unbiased here, you will note you have not presented any evidence to forward your argument. At most you have told me about a person who agrees with you but no real evidence that is in favor of your argument and you have attacked my evidence as false (a statement with also no evidence). If you were truly unbiased and If I was more biased then you then you should have noted this deficiency.

The most unbiased and logical way to rectify this situation involves two possibilities: Present evidence so we can continue the discussion. Or make a statement about how it's not worth your time or some other excuse and the conversation ends with me presenting evidence and you presenting none.
If anything there are not enough trolls and devils advocates. It's a total hive mind. If opinion is split 40/60 on a contentious topic users only get to see the prominent opinions from the slight majority. The way the voting is displayed a sum total rather than up/down means users can't know how contentious something is.
Facebook is the opposite where mostly controversial comments are shown. Both suck.
> You have to shield your home from your neighbor's emitters too. And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house.

That's what tin foil houses are for, obviously.
Ask HN: Why no HN live chat?
I think we would all be able to cooperate and accomplish a lot more if we had a live chat. Why isn’t there one?
You can also get creative with a metallic fishnet fabric.
Not really, I don't see the confusion here. Maybe you could explain what it is you're having trouble understanding?
My last day is scheduled for around March 31 (I have vacation I can use between then and now). I'm currently thinking about what I want to do with my time off. I will have the luxury of being able to do NOTHING, if I so choose, for a while. I live in Japan, so I will first have paperwork to do (switch visa status, get health insurance squared away, etc)

For the cool stuff, I'm thinking of picking a project/skill each week and devoting a full week to that, to see if I enjoy it and can get any mental traction. Becoming more proficient with pure C has been a lot of fun, so I'll definitely push forward on that. I have a couple of Pico-8 projects to work on. There's any number of opaque or classical technologies that I'd like to understand more deeply. I'll enter a game-jam, just to keep myself on a proper schedule with a proper deadline. There are a lot of books I want to read.

At some point though I'll need to collect my thoughts and start looking for the next thing. I have recruiters already knocking on my door, and the company will pay for 6 months of job agency assistance. But to tell the truth, I just can't see myself jumping back into software engineering as a full-time career so I don't yet know how best to utilize these resources. Sorting myself out is a critical goal for the coming months.

"What do I want to be when I grow up?" is almost as difficult to answer at 51 as it was at 18.
All programs manipulate symbols. All bits are is symbols.

It's just sometimes we use those symbols to represent a subset of the integers (e..g. with the popular binary notation)... or a subset of the rationals (e.g. with the popular floating point notation)... or a subset of the reals that happens to include a transcendental number because we decided that some symbol (or combination of symbols) represents some particular transedental number.
Hot is not a trade secret. How it works is public information. Here the code:

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/l...
Ah, sure, I had to do all the Google searches for that anyways (look at the caffeine content, see how it changes histamine metabolism).

Also I asked my friend if she has itching to confirm it's the same thing ChatGPT is talking about (she said yes).

Asked her if she has problem with breathing (if she needs ambulance).

Basically I used Google and ChatGPT together as tools for helping me understand her situation and the seriousness of the situation better.

It was also easier to do directed queries to Google with ChatGPT's answer.

As a comparision Google gets these kind of ugly SEO pages (the word histamine is only once in it, and very hard to find):

https://reizeclub.com/can-energy-drinks-make-you-itchy/
Yes, because would be very happy about people getting their images from Bing AI Images instead of them. :p
Glossary of Chess
I don't remember any fancy full-screen editors. I remember a CLI where editing meant I could enter a line of code or LIST what was already typed in (ordered by line number).

I remember writing programs first on paper, then transcribing them in. Line numbers were useful for that - making sure I didn't miss anything.

They were also incredibly useful when typing in programs from magazines!
> Both of these verdicts were and continue to be widely criticized by conservatives as being based on extremely dubious reasoning.

Roe is criticized by liberals as well. I didn't realize how much of a stretch that decision was until it became front and center. I remain in favor of a codified Roe and, given how flimsy that ruling was and that they had plenty of chances to do so, I blame Democrats entirely for not doing so before this ruling. Especially given that it would generally be nationally popular to do so.

The cynic in me sees how popular Roe style abortion rules would be nationally and how much it was used as a fundraiser and wonders if Democrats simply didn't want to kill the golden goose.
> Aboriginal people had no chiefs or other centralized institutions of social or political control. In various measures, Aboriginal societies exhibited both hierarchical and egalitarian tendencies, but they were classless; an egalitarian ethos predominated, the subordinate status of women notwithstanding.

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-Aboriginal/Leade...

( FWiW

There are those that would quibble even with "the subordinate status of women notwithstanding" as being laced with an particular European PoV, the later sentence:

> Women were excluded from the core of men’s secret-sacred ritual activities, and areas of privilege were further defined by graded acceptance of youths and adult men as they passed through rites of learning.

doesn't reflect the reflective reality of women's secret-sacred ritual activities and acknowledged privilege in their rites. )
We've got to figure out how to have more than one page of comments first. The technology's almost there.
But what does a doctrine widely taught have anything to do with whether it's true or false? Clearly you think it's false but do you have evidence? Please present evidence if you do. Examples in biology, similar species or specific civilizations function as good evidence.
More like a backed-up abstraction, simpler on the inside.

Though that's only true of the core, with tags being additional decorations and renames inferred. The simple core delegates complexity.

I think designing a nicer git UX is not easy. Even if we oversimplify commit to cp your working directory together with a path to the previous commit (to form a tree of "branches"), then the abstraction for operations like rebase to manipulate that tree is not quite intrinsically simple.

BTW Tools can be used without proper understanding, like arithmetic without commuting, associating or distributing. While a workable pidgin aids adoption, it's fair to argue for the power of understanding, especially of something clean and coherent and whole. Git's core is like that; the add-ons (like tags) aren't; and the UX seems arbitrary and accreted.
Ask HN: Do you use ECC RAM in your home/personal workstations?
After coming across this[0] thread yesterday I'm considering upgrading my RAM on my Ryzen 9 3900X workstation to ECC to protect myself from data integrity issues in the future.

Would you suggest this route? It seems to me that there's little reason to upgrade if there have been no issues in the past.

What have your experiences been with running your workstations with ECC ram? Is it worth the additional cost?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34470900
Funny that the FAQ itself causes a frequently asked question which is answered in the FAQ.
Scientists Discover Gut Microbes That Can Boost the Motivation to Exercise
I do feel bad for the 12/hour folks considering I used to be one of those.

As someone who got into tech as a self taught engineer at age 25 I am always blown away by the entitled nature of people around me who either A) don't work that hard and goof around on the clock and B) complain when we're literally coddled to the brim with free food, free trips to events every year, and various other free benefits.

I remember not getting a $0.25 per hour raise one year and being upset about it for a minute. I didn't have free top of the line health insurance (no insurance actually), nor did my company just pay for things that have nothing to do with my job. As someone who went from a few hundred bucks in his bank account to now literally six figures in my checking, and much more in stocks and investments (which are down lol), even if I got laid off I know I'm probably getting 5 years x service + 3-4 months full pay severance worst case scenario.

All I'm saying is that we're playing the game (capitalism) and companies will cut their losses. That's just how it works and we choose to sign offer letters, and yes I feel much worse for my friends who are not in tech who can barely afford to put food on the table or meet rent than a fellow tech bro who has to cancel his luxury Lake Tahoe cabin rental during these economic hardship times.
I read about Mogul. It solves some of my problems related to keeping in touch with friends. During Covid, I got into more VC calls with friends to stay in touch. Once Covid lockdowns ended, I wanted a system that would remind me of touch basing with XYZ friend, based on last sync up date.

Over several years, my image as a good friend has tarnished since I didn't keep my side of bargain in enforcing good relationships. With older age, it's bit harder to make new friends. The least I can do is, reinforce older ones.
Tamagui is now making 2,500 a month purely from GitHub Sponsors.

Pretty amazing. It’s fully OSS, just developed by me. Somewhat non-replicable as it’s just been a passion project in some for or another for 7 years now, reborn several times.

For the moment Sponsors don’t really get much, but there’s some in development features that will make that much more valuable. Goal is to double it at least this year!
It’s a metaphor (a bad one) made famous by a US Senator. I used it to invoke the importance of metaphor. We absolutely need metaphors (good ones) to explain technology to not only the public, but also to the people who legislate.

The Internet is not just a tool in the same way that a hammer or a dishwasher is a tool because it has had a totally transformative effect on humanity. It’s on the level of fire, gun powder, or the printing press. And there are inklings that the same argument could be made for AI. So your comment is just completely missing the point.

“The medium is the message.”
We’ll be forced back to the outside world
> Wherever it comes down to actual numbers

Wait, are you saying e and pi aren't "actual numbers"?
Don't you get "How much does it cost?" as a Frequently Asked Question? :-)
I'd double check the main landing page—the very first image on the main landing page loaded very slowly for me.
There are plenty and I mean plenty of sources that refer to Japan as a sexless nation:

https://minajp.com/sexless-japan-703

https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/56360

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/16/national/social...

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/sexless-i...

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/there-any-truth-portrait-sexless-j...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/01/national/media-...

https://www.japanpowered.com/japan-culture/japan-the-sexless...

And the list goes on and on.

Also there is an important difference between being sexless and having low birth rate. It might not be obvious to you but one can have sex without having children.

It seems to me that it’s you the one that sources their information from anime and/or 4chan.
I run [link redacted] as a web based saas.

It is a relatively lightweight web app that tracks food in your pantry. It gives you an estimate on how long you could survive on it. It is intended as a tool for preppers but also works for anyone with OCD about their pantry contents.

Business has picked some this last year. I'm working on expanding the product data, general usability, and some actual marketing.
Can you elaborate? Which currencies and how do the lending pools work?
Every domestic and international flight I can remember (post 9/11) has checked my ID immediately before boarding.
I was pretty depressed at work a while ago and to take my mind off of the negative energy, I made a desktop app for provisioning bring your own servers, creating sites, and deploying web apps. It was free.

Fast forward a few years and a coworker joined me and we made a cloud version of it. It is doing ok but yet pay for two of us full time. However, we looooove working on it and helping customers esp. with their deployment issues. It is seriously more fun than our jobs that pay handsomely.

https://cleavr.io
i have a company of that size (~100 employees, 60engineers) and we do not have a lawyer on staff. We have a law firm we hire for big things, and an old corporate lawyer friend on as-needed basis who does the small things. Done
Oh, and in that situation the 3 way merge is between the version he checked into the repo, your local version you are trying to commit, and your parent revision.