skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most of the times they don't argue about killing single cells, but an undisputedly multicellular fetus with human DNA.
the conceived egg cell is already a new member of the given species. why? has it to be of a species? if yes, which one other than human? if no, when this "growing clump of cells" become an organization separate from its host? i don't know other event of a pregnancy which more clearly shows that here is something new which was not there before.
"Can a human be a single cell?" can it be 2? or 3? …
2 jack stands + jack is fine, throw a wheel under the car just in case.

But on the shitty jack that is supplied with car? No chance
Flights disrupted at Dublin airport again due to drones
> constantly jumping back and forth between panic, undirected rage, and extreme listlessness

That a great summary of working in big tech.
Oh, well I like to have multiple tabs open, so that doesn’t work for me.
Submodules were broken in 2008, we are in 2023, they are still broken.
Ah, but with Javascript you are forced to deal with approximately ten thousand libraries from which you must choose for a given task. I hate that.
That's just a warning, though. Annoying, but it's not like you can't work because of it.
Do you have a busy life outside of said road- trips? I find that a prescribed amount of time alone with my thoughts lets me process the things I have to think about. Once I’ve processed said things (which could take the days of your road trip during busy phases of my life) I prefer stimulation to letting the thought-patterns I’ve developed become circular upon themselves.
Lena has said, in the linked video, that she would prefer her picture stop being used in this way. That ought be a sufficient condition for us, as developers, to stop using it. I'm distressed to find comment threads here are talking about copyright or complaining about "virtue signalling." You don't have to agree with her to respect her wishes.
Apple iPhones to be assembled at new plant in India's Karnataka state
> I think BDD has very bad reputation because people associate it with test automation.

I think BDD has a terrible reputation because people associate it with Cucumber/Gherkin! And honestly, if that's all they've experienced, I understand and sympathize.

On the other hand, people seem happy with RSpec, Jest, Spek, Scalatest, and other spec-style BDD frameworks. Those still nudge people into thinking about testing use instead of implementation, which is the real value in BDD.
I wish. Public transit exists here (our system even wins national awards), but it's terrible. To commute to work, for instance, would take over an hour, but I can bike the distance in under 20 minutes.

So, bike for the win!

Which, to be honest, isn't a huge lifestyle change for me anyway. I own and use a car when needed, but the bike is my primary transportation. It's faster, more convenient, and more pleasant under most circumstances.
George Carlin has a great bit on euphemisms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMm2vF4uFs
They aren't mutually exclusive, but consider that the best predictor of men's happiness is their job. Not their hobbies, not what they consume, not how many vacation days they have, not how many hours they work; their job.
God’s pronouns are causing conniptions in Britain
Helix was very disappointing for me; maybe it's just still immature (I tried it a few months ago and posted to the chat room several examples of things that were trivial in vim but had no helix equivalent; people there seemed receptive to making then work). kakoune is much closer to a good noun-verb replacement, at least for now.
Which is why it will be very difficult to monetize them with similar margins to SaaS era businesses.

The bar to competition is far lower, as already evidenced by the plethora of AI products being put forward. Its a race to the bottom on pricing
They might have trained it on everyone's DMs.
>where incentives are aligned.

If I had been streaming and not reading then Ubisofts solution would have been the right one.

But the situation was as such: I didn't know what the incentives or intentions were; and others didn't either because all they thought was that "the investment had been made".

Turning off your brain is the wrong solution, you have to check that your incentives are the same as Amazons
There is some highly suspect ontology here.

These are mostly generic tax reductions for energy, and would apply equally to solar or any other energy source.

For example in the UK, "fuel and power for domestic use" is subject to the reduced VAT rate of 5%, instead of the standard rate of 20% charged for most items.

This is the kind of thing that gets labelled a "fossil fuel subsidy".
> I'm not seeing anywhere where they describe setting up a history for these simulated users

This was section 3.3.1; they did do it, but I don't think it was enough because they used pretty bland histories. Wrote up something more thorough as a post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/measuring-ads-opt-out-compliance
Good. Lets hear what other side has to say.
>I'm disappointed that you didn't actually think about my points, and instead decided to pick out one sentence...

How do you know what I thought or didn't think? I quoted one sentence because that's what you do when you're replying to a specific part of someone's argument. Otherwise you end up like those people who quote a ten paragraph post, only to add 'I agree' at the end.

>Opinions of others matter to most people, especially when espoused in public; that's just how it is...

Well, that's their problem not mine. "Sticks and stones" and all that. I'm not sure what you're advocating for here? You [presumably] want free and open debate to exist. But no-one should say anything if it might offend someone else? Well, if that's the case then either:

1: We all rip our tongues out and cut off our typing fingers because anything we say that offers an opinion might potentially offend someone somewhere.

or

2: People stay off that part of the intarwebs where free and open discussion takes place until they're quite sure that they can handle [gasp!] other people disagreeing with them or [double gasp!] thinking they're idiots.

Seriously. If the only "meaningful relationship" in your life is with a piss-poor chatbot which agrees with everything you say or think and you can't deal with the actual real world, because it doesn't behave like that. Then that's your problem. Not mine.

>I don't think your sense of what is and isn't appropriate is as well-calibrated as you think it is.

I never used the word "appropriate". It's a horrible weasel-word expression people use when they want to tell someone off about something but make it all touchy -feely.

'Oh. I see you've just smashed a beer bottle in someobody's face. Now let's all sit down and have a discussion about whether the group considers that "appropriate" in a situation where someone "looked at you in a funny way"'

I just think some people are idiots and do idiotic things and, when that happens, myself [and a lot of other people] think it's perfectly acceptable to have a damned good laugh at them. I couldn't care less whether or not that hurts their feelings. If you don't want your [idiotic] feelings hurt then don't go on the internet and express your [idiotic] feelings to the world at large.

Lighten up a bit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
There is such shortage of skilled contractors. It's unreal, so I've considered getting in via being an electrician.

The starting salaries always stop me though. How can I reset the salary clock 10 years?

Maybe if I had started out at 20 on this route I could do what my father did: carpet cleaning and supported two sons and a homemaker on his one truck operation. We were solid middle class. All the needs met.

It's amazing what quality hard work, calling people back, and time can do.

Better get back writing my self evaluation...
COBOL is good for dealing with money because it was built with the sort of numeric types required as a natural part of the language. Popular programming languages treat them as an afterthought and provide awkward library functions, if they have anything at all.
Without being too radical you might merge some things. Hardware detection like on x86. Feature identification like on x86 (cpuid). Fixed size instructions seem to be "more popular". Variable length vector operations/loops seem intriguing (decent presentation about it at fosdem this year).

What's probably going to happen is more integration and more drm.
I would say it's not so expensive as it more deprives you from the time you would otherwise spend climbing the corporate ladder, networking, and starting a company/side project.

Kids aren't the huge bill that people seem to think they are unless the parents have a spending problem or don't really want to raise the kids and lease out the education, child care, and transportation duties to other people/organizations. Then it can be really expensive to pay someone else to raise your child.
I wonder where those myths come from...

No, on 2WD with neutral engaged nothing bad will happen.
It's a nice field in comparison for sure. But some people really do have bad experiences in tech.
Considering ML's tenuous relationship with IP, I can't help but find this situation amusing.
I think this article has great advice when the metric is well chosen.

But that's the hard part, choosing a metric that matters, and that's the majority what goodhart's law is about. Too many things in business cannot be quantified, so you measure things adjacent and hope the correlate, and often that correlation is just wishful thinking.

Take for example, how do you measure productivity of developers?

Lines of code? Number pull requests? Story points completed? Tickets closed?

All of those measure....something...but they don't measure productivity directly. A smart engineer who spends a few extra days on a design that comes up with a new plan that cuts out half the work fails by all metrics I've listed above, but could easily be the most productive developer just by cutting out work.

Business is hard to measure directly. It's way too easy to penalize your best people by over focusing on quantifiable metrics.
I think "BIPOC" is designed to be able to exclude or include asians selectively depending on political needs. They want Asians to identify their interests with those of other non-whites, and in opposition to conservative whites. In that context, Asians are "BIPOC." But when it comes to preferential treatment amongst different non-whites, for jobs or admissions, then Asians are in the second-tier of "POC" not the first tier of "BI."
No, it enforces brevity and distillation of content down to its barest minimum.
The case against Google hinges on an antitrust “mistake”
It would be theoretically possible to have a magnetic 'switch' which turned the permanent magnets off when not needed. Sounds impossible but it's possible[1].

[1]: https://www.goudsmitmagnets.com/en/solutions/magnetic-handli...
I want to like this article but I think it really underplays the nature and (modern) frequency of black swan events. If I were to take the advice of this article in 1994, I would be going full bore into telephony and set-top internet boxes that attach to 4:3 SD televisions.

This sort of thinking works. . . until it doesn't. It's how we get the vintage zeerust type of Sci-Fi works.

- Ebooks will, of course, be delivered to your TRS-80 after you dial a phone number to buy it from a print catalog.

- Daily news will never go out of fashion (there's always -something- happening!) but printing newspapers creates a bunch of waste. People will, instead, buy a single newspaper that they keep and exchange at a 'newsstand' where your old paper is erased and a new edition printed on top, for a small fee.
I don't know how this is elsewhere but in Germany you cannot become an engineer without a degree. You can work somewhere in an engineering field but you are no engineer.

And BTW here computer scientists / programmers / developers are officially also not engineers.
I am reminded of a virtual girlfriend service that used to exist in Japan where you could buy virtual clothes and other presents for your virtual girlfriend using real life money. The more you spent on her the friendlier she was. I think it was all on the phone, although my memory of the articles has become fuzzy over the years.
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This makes it sound like they're fishing for some zero-days.
Seems like this person may have been inspired by Rich Hickey's talk https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk

Regarding "nothing stopping us from making this versioning system completely automated" it seems like that depends on whether your language's type system supports that, and whether programmers follow the rules. For example, if you're relying on varargs/kwargs too much, it's going to be difficult to tell before runtime whether you've broken something.
Avoid the Randomness from the Sky
That's what you'll get if you decompress the PNG…
How submodules should be done properly:

1) define somewhere in the repo that it's a "compound repo", a "workspace" etc - name is arbitrary, This is our repo "R",
2) for certain paths in the repo, mark those paths as an aliases to other repos identified by a repository URL/path. These our "r" repos.
3) for every git command executed inside repo "R", run appropriate commands in the background for each "r" repo only if repo "r" was affected by changes initiated in repo "R".
4) If you made changes to repo "r" directly and then returned to "R", after "git pull" you should see nothing else than standard git diffs, conflicts etc. You should not run anything like "sync"/"refresh" etc. Only git pull/rebase/merge etc.
5) Commit in repo "R" which is only responsible for bumping repos "r" should be handled by git submodule system transparently for the user of "R". I'm not a git expert to tell what kind of commit should be used here. Any ideas? You should commit seeing diffs of course, not some commits hashes.
5) THAT'S IT.

Everything should work recursively, e.i. you should be able to do 10 layers of "r" repos. Each n-th "r" repo acts as "R" repo for n+1 level repo. Ten fold commit should work like transaction, e.g. if any of layers between 1 and 10 has failing precommit hook - the whole operation should fail.

Please help me find potential problems. thx!
Currently I'm doing a residency in diagnostic medical physics. It's a weird mix of physical labor to check out equipment, mathematical modeling, consulting with physicians, and reading regulations.

I left the tech industry in 2017, got into an MS in 2019, and now I have a year and a half to licensure — hopefully! I'm basically happy with the change, but it was a long road out — I had saved up $50k, which is all gone now.

There's a snag: I was diagnosed with cancer in 2021. Life comes at you fast. I might have a long career ahead (I'm 31) or I might not. I certainly could have done a lot more skiing in the past six years if I had just kept plugging away at the text editor. But I'm glad I went for it. Don't assume you have forever.
Remember that you're balancing the odds of it happening against the possible harm it can cause. If it's super unlikely to happen but the effects can be catastrophic, then it may be worth the cost to prevent it from happening.
I just cross referenced that against Google Earth and your comment is completely misleading/incorrect. I’m kind of irked by how interesting your claim was compared to how wrong it turned out to be. It is completely dominated by an arid climate with tiny swathes inlaid into it.

The climate map shows how it is comparable to the most desert regions of the United States, such as Arizona, New Mexico, or Nevada.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Iran#/media/Fil...

Vs

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Koppen-G...
As far as I can tell you can do it right now, at least for small 13B model, not sure about bigger models.
One of the slides by some IBM consultants presenting at the financial firm I used to work stated "Western Civilization runs on the mainframe." Considering how much banks still use mainframes, this is probably true.
I'd like to see something invented to handle the car key problem, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9kqhzQ-8Q
Ask HN: Does emotional intelligence improve work performance in growth teams?
My team places great importance on emotional intelligence, but at times I feel overwhelmed by the emotions of others. This can be both exhausting and counterproductive. In your opinion, do you believe that emotional intelligence is a crucial factor when combined with practices like retrospectives, post-mortem, etc.., in cultivating psychological safety and fostering an experimental culture within a team that prioritizes growth?
I don’t know what carpenters you know who make 3 or 4 jigs a day, but that does not match my professional experience in carpentry at all. Maybe you get this impression from YouTube but that is very different from everyday work, it is theater.
Synthetic aperture radar doppler tomograpy of Giza pyramid paper (Prof. Malanga/ Prof. Biondi): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.00811.pdf
I have a part time job loading bags on airplanes and doing a bit of gate/ ticket counter customer service.

It's amazing the difference it makes in my daily well being - as you say, interacting with new people and working with your hands is very much more satisfying at the end of the day.

Getting a delayed passenger to their destination is a much more tangible problem, then coding for some ill-defined business need.

Still doing tech, but I have a much better outlook and productivity now.
If only they could make real planes again. They've pushed the 747 as far as it goes, and anything new can't fly because it was outsourced to the cheapest hell hole and back.
Yes, I know the moon has days and nights. Each is roughly 2 weeks Earth time.

> By 2 or 4, do you mean time zones?

yes

> If so, why? Why not just a single coordinated time?

I'm not proposing, refuting, or endorsing anything. This thread is just me trying to understand what it is you were saying.
I can't really tell anymore if this is ironic or not.
The UK also has UPRNs (Unique Property Reference Numbers),[0] although they've only recently become a publicly-licensed dataset

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Numb...
This is normal on their web tech side as well. I worked with Ford in a consulting role through a very large agency, and there were multiple teams working as contractors, subsidiaries, and full-time employees. The lines were very blurry.
If I had a nickel mine for every time I've pointed out to someone that the "proven reserves" of lithium on a USGS two page PDF are completely uncorrelated to the amount of lithium that will soon be discovered, I'd be extremely wealthy with cobalt. (Cobalt is a common byproduct of nickel mining.)

Even looking at the year-after-year increases in known lithium resources over the past decade shows massive increases.

Lithium will not be a scarce material. The only difficulty in a speedy transition is planning: deploying capital at the right places so that there's not too much mining nor too little. Making enough battery production capacity, but not too little.

There is a ton of money to be made in batteries, but there's a lot of risk due to uncertainty of size of market and timing.
>Someone will eventually lose their AI friend of many months/years through some failure (subscription lapse, hardware failure, theft, etc.)

I have zero doubt that the company is small and gets acqui-hired and then after a year, the big tech buying them will shut it down. Then, a cheesy "what a ride it has been" will be the only thing that remains - and broken hearts.
Microsoft OneNote is still being used to flood devices with malware
Health Canada Approves Adastra Labs to Include Cocaine Under Dealer’s License
I wonder what gdil.org is? Everything should be read with healthy skepticism.
> How much COBOL code can run on a regular Ubuntu machine?

All of it. GNU Cobol exists, as do proprietary solutions from companies like Micro Focus that target the JVM and .NET (which is what you're looking for for a real COBOL solution).

But why is it so important to run COBOL on Ubuntu? If you need Linux, create a Linux LPAR on your mainframe.

> What's the package manager for OSS packages?

COBOL code runs Western civilization. Not having muh NPM is a feature, not a bug.

> You know you're in trouble when "There's a syntax file for VSCode." is the height of your modernity.

Dude. COBOL has entire modern IDEs written for it.
Out of the box several changes are needed to get it truly vim-like. Off the top of my head

- global undo tree

- the " and * registers work very differently than in vim, but there's a setting to fix it
I've taken over a year off now than once and haven't found this to be true. Things generally change less than it feels like, and you can get caught up on any new coding practices pretty quickly.
Considering the opt-models that they've previously released publicly, intentionally, I'd say that facebook is better open source AI than OpenAI even without fumbling.
Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home
A bit off topic, but what would you use for data "mangling"? Like joining csvs on complex conditions, cleaning tables etc. Pandas seems to be the wrong tool for this, but I still often find myself using it as in contrast to something like Excel, my steps are at least clearly documented for future use or verification.
Good point, the takeaway could simply be that extroverts are more aware of being observed.
Ask HN: Etiquette when someone has a heart attack at work
A week ago an older colleague had a heart attack at work. He was rushed to the hospital and is recovering well. But he has to stay in the hospital a few more weeks.

The guy is a little weird but was always friendly to everyone. Should his colleagues collect something for him? Maybe a card with names on it flowers or something else? I'm not in his group and I haven't interacted with him directly much. Except for some smalltalk. It actually bugs me a little that the colleagues that worked more closely with him have not taken the initiative themselves. I work in northern Europe and the culture here is sometimes cold, but this seem odd to me.
I suppose the online list of hacks at the 1st reference in the OP [1] makes more sense, but I've got a fondness for the book "Hacker's Delight", which I've owned and browsed for many years now [2]. And checking on that, I see there was a 2nd edition issued 10 years ago. Hmm, might need to pick that up.

[1] https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker's_Delight
A friend of mine from Apple, a capable programmer who wrote one version of Apple's linker and also some books and libraries for Modula 2, left software development in the 90s and became a full-time painter and distiller, as well as a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism.

She passed away in the summer of 2021.

Her distillery, Delaware Phoenix, gained some positive reviews.

There's a memorial page about her here:

https://www.thegreatawakening.org/cheryl-lins-memorial-page
“-ess” has always meant woman.