skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many (I actually think most) people use blocking not for harassment, but for blocking people whose opinions they don't like without being harassed in any way. Basically as a tool to keep their echo chamber echoey. So the possibility of blocking has both advantages and disadvantages. The question is which one dominates.
Python coverage in Bazel has been broken for nearly 6 years
Rowling apparently maintained some artistic control on her movies, whereas Tolkien had sold the rights entirely, so Christopher didn't have much of a say beyond complaining.

I think the thing that really "solved" it for me was realizing that the vast majority of the people who watch LotR will never read the book, let alone the Silmarillion. And those who DO decide to read those after seeing the movie - the movie won't destroy it for them.
Translation here may help:

> "You never do the dishes"

means:

You ignore how much more difficult it is to get rid of those little pantry flies, roaches, and/or ants once they find a food/crumb source vs. consistently blocking the impetus for that class of problem to manifest itself. (Or, depending on your locale, perhaps just minimizing that problem as much as possible.)

Moreover, your philosophy of free agency doesn't take into account the resulting increase in your stress level from clutter and lack of clean utensils, and how that increased stress-- probably paired with a reluctance to acknowledge and deal with common stressors generally-- ends up confining your choices in ways that become frustratingly predictable over time. That's not to mention your attempts to hide your disgust when you pick up a dirty plate to reveal mold or wiggling pantry fly eggs, as if denial of an emotion negates the existence of that emotion. And finally, there's the effect that disgust has on your general mood, and even subtle though detectable changes to your opinions given we feeble humans process both physical and conceptual disgust in the same part of our brains.

> "you never do the laundry"...

means:

Pleasant odors and shared work tend to have positive affects on a woman's libido.
"Bad Teeth No Bar" gave me a chuckle
You would probably have to look at the diets of actual people.

Like how do allergies correlate with grocery store chains a person uses.

Are public school lunches any less processed these days?

Are people actually eating much different food outside of a rather small cohort of upper class adults?
We cook at home too and I love our open kitchen. I lived in apartments with "proper" enclosed kitchen and I didn't like it. Give me an open kitchen anyday.

True, the foods we cook don't smell as much and we have very good ventilation. Plus my sense of smell is a bit shot (though not defunct), so I don't mind.

People have different esthetic and practical preferences.
Seems different if you can retrieve the text of a book by prompting the model with “Give me the text of X”. You can’t do that with the digits of pi.
Nothing. But you the customer are burdened with this fraud risk so the business does not care since it’s not their problem.
9 seems adequate to get some kind of statistical significance from the results. Additionally if this somehow has a very high mortality rate, due to unseen consequences, 9 is a lower number than say, 300.

In reality though, running medical trials is hugely expensive, the FDA requires all kinds of procedural documentation, as well as documentation of software code etc.
That's not really a fair quote. Having first read your quote, then read the actual piece, I feel duty bound to put your quote in it's full context, which changes it's meaning considerably:

> The first thing that one asks is that the adventure should be various and exciting; in this respect Mr. Tolkien’s invention is unflagging, and, on the primitive level of wanting to know what happens next, The Fellowship of the Ring is at least as good as The Thirty-Nine Steps

He's clearly suggesting that in one very particular respect, he values the 39 Steps so very highly that it can be used as a kind of measuring stick.

It may not seem like such a big deal, but partial quotations of this nature are the source of so much internet misunderstanding and drama these days.
The difference is that people want to be entertained. The shop-owner would rather not spend money on replacing a window.
Don't people wanting to read in peace just do it in their room? There are social activities in the open plan area (cooking together, painting, crafting, etc) and then anyone working or reading is often doing it in their room or the home office.
Written initially in Object Pascal.
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There are some studies showing a correlation between antibiotics usage in third term pregnancy by the mother and subsequent chronic allergies and development of asthma by the child. This also has led to an advice to change the treatment of urinary tract infection.
> This assumes there is a one-to-one correspondence between C constructs and machine code

No it does not.

> which isn't true.

Actually, it is true in a vast majority of cases.

> C isn't a "portable assembler"

Not sure why people keep repeating this despite it being so obviously and patently untrue:

"Committee did not want to force programmers into writing portably, to preclude the use of C as a “high-level assembler:”

https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf

p10, line 39

"C code can be portable. "

line 30
But this feature isn't new, right? If it was feasible ten years ago, CPUs/DBMSes of today surely don't have much of a problem with it.
This is an ad hominen if I ever saw one. You basically disliked the message and felt entitled to condemn the author's personality as immature and used that as the basis to dismiss their opinion as a misunderstanding.
Numerous terrible tragedies have beset Black communinities since the Civil Rights era, and some of the worst have consisted of Thug Lyfe men, absent or abusive fathers, abandoned single mothers and their babies, and gangs being the best source of community for young boys and girls alike. The proposed final solution to this was just to kill them off before they had the temerity to be born, which has been the leading cause of death among Black Americans. It does not seem to have had the desired effect so far.

Harsh punishments, such as "the beatings shall continue until morale improves", are really not the pathway to a low-crime society. A low-crime society is one where people enjoy their lives and don't have wants or needs which can be best filled by turning to crime, especially the violent kinds.
"to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of EBT-101"

The primary question is "will anyone die or have extreme negative side effects". They run the study small in this phase because it might kill or seriously harm the entire study population.

Once they know that nothing extremely bad happened, they'll try on bigger populations.
> you know, Turing completeness doesn't mean you can actually port arbitrary Turing complete code on another Turing complete environment. You can't transpile x86_64 Linux Kernel image into a bare HTML+CSS file, or random generated and filtered valid sequence of Turing machine tape instructions into a well structured and annotated Rust code.

It depends on how you define things, but in a very reasonable definition it does actually mean that. If we consider a computational model to be a way using a finite string in countable alphabet to represent every single computable function, then yes, there is an algorithm that can take a program in any computational model 1 and find another program in computational model 2 that also implements the same computable function. Implements here means that both programs will for the same input return the same output if they both halt, or both will not halt.

Now the running time, or algorithmic complexity of both algorithms, is not under consideration here. The x86_64 program running in native hardware might finish the computation in milliseconds, where a browser that does the same computation using purely HTML and css that our universal transpiler generated might run in trillions of years.
> not sure there's much they can do about this, other than protecting all the built-in data structure operations with mutexes, like java's original data structures (Hashtable, Vector, etc)

However - this is fundamentally the incorrect approach, because Vector and Hashtable aren't protected from read-then-write race conditions.

Such internal locking guarantees that the collection stays structurally sound, but not that code accessing it is dealing with a single consistent state until it finishes.
> There are, unsurprisingly, multiple theories about the cause. The hygiene hypothesis is one front-runner, positing that people who are “too clean” develop allergies.

This also breaks down into two versions with very different implications:

1. Not enough exposure to potential threats to toughen up an immune system.

2. Not enough exposure to benign "old friends" we co-evolved with that are almost symbiotic.
I'm not sure that would always help. I'm allergic to grasses and dogs, for example, despite growing up in a house with dogs and tons of grass outside.

I still love both, so just deal with it. Perhaps just exposure to more deadly things, like nuts and shellfish?
Likely a chronic overgrowth of pathogens (eg E. Coli), enabled by the disturbance in the microbiome via antibiotics, that got reduced by the phages. Pathogens (or imbalances) in the internal biomes can start autoimmune processes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300652/
In the corporate world Localization Teams are important and done by humans at my work
My understanding was this is actually a combined phase 1/2 trial not just phase 1
Can you rely on 'open source' companies?
In that sense I would say many Americans are lying all the time, because they exaggerate everything ;)
You have a massive blind spot here. As one solution-oriented person to another, please make it a goal to understand and fix this blind spot. It will make you more successful in life, and will make you more effective at implementing your solutions, too.

I’m a consultant, and my job is getting people to change their software development processes so they are more effective. In the early days, that included things like “use source control.” Now, my advice is more subtle. Regardless, the job hasn’t changed.

You might think that such a job involves showing people an obviously better way, and then helping while they put the idea into practice. I thought so too, at first.

Narrator voice: It does not.

First and foremost, the job is making an emotional connection with people so they want to change. Convincing them that you’re on their side, that you understand their world, and that you have their best interests at heart. Ultimately, it requires empathy.

If you continue to approach problems without empathy, continue to dismiss people who take a people-centric rather than solution-centric view of the world, and continue to devalue the simple pleasures people take from doing things that don’t solve problems… you will be much less effective in life than you otherwise could be.
But I wonder if their knowledge of TV is also as deep.

When I was a kid the TV was filled up with a lot of repeats of TV shows. Things that had been create 10,20 or even 40 years before. I'd watch them because there were not many other options (probably because new shows were too expensive to waste on offpeak timeslots)

I wonder what percentage of today's kids would recognize any of the below shows beyond the name (or more-recent revivals) let alone have watched a large number of episodes.

https://www.classic-tv.com/shows/decade/1960s

or even:

https://www.classic-tv.com/shows/decade/1990s
why does a white noise podcast need more than one episode? that's no different than uploading the same episode hundreds of times. it's an attack. except worse because noise is incompressible
> Inciting violence is literally calling for people to be hurt or killed.

Is taking things that belong to someone else not hurting them?

If people steal so much that the business has to close, have the owners been hurt? The employees are now out of jobs -- have they been hurt?

Maybe it doesn't force the business to close, they just have to raise prices on everyone else. Or they have to lay one of their employees off.

Petty theft is still theft. Small injuries are still injuries. Small violence is still violence.
All languages are annoying to use without IDEs, unless we are talking about toy implementations.

I became an XEmacs user in 1995, because everything else in UNIX just sucked in comparison with PC, Mac OS and Amiga IDEs of the time.
I mean, it's pretty hard not to imagine Aragorn without seeing Viggo now, unless you've never watched the movies at all.
Amusingly enough, the silly game recently released captured that better than the movies did (though the first did pretty well), even though the school slide was a bit slap-dash.
To some, a loud exhaust almost amounts to a mating call.
You may be misinterpreting how “nor” is used in the sentence.

The 10th makes it clear the constitution gives the federal government specific powers which means those specified powers aren’t available to the states or local governments.

The first draft is a little easier to understand: “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.” (Which is not) can be flipped to the front so -> “Those powers given to the United States are its alone, all other powers not specifically listed are retained by the States.”

Both versions makes it clear states are losing some power, but they are given a little spin to make it less obvious.
Wasn't he also an activist? I imagine he'd also like a society where people aren't unnecessarily frustrated.
I personally had no shortage of ability to do the thing and continue working on my own stuff all day at that age; what made me angry was feeling that my time was needlessly wasted by people who were merely lazy and could figure these very simple things out on their own if they actually tried instead of using me as an escape hatch at the first inkling of uncertainty.
> If you're any kind of minority, the hate is endless.

I don't think this is true at all. People who get the most hate are not minorities but non-minority celebrities with controversial takes like J.K. Rowling.
Recently iOS included a native noise generator that bypasses the need for external services like Spotify or websites. It offers six different kinds of noise to listen to on your phone.

It’s in the iPhone control center under the ear icon (which you may have to enable). The feature is called ‘background sounds’.
New version of Godwin's law: any use of the word Luddite to "win" an argument about AI means the argument is over and you automatically lost.
also instead of showing a list of all the stories on the front page, show one story at a time and build an algorithm that indicates which story gets shown next. /s
Latent HIV infectious reservoir are especially stealthy, when viral titers are undetectable in the blood, its hiding behind the blood brain barrier.

"The major reservoirs for HIV in the CNS are in the microglia, perivascular macrophages, and to a lesser extent, astrocytes"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27873219/
X/Twitter launches job hiring feature
It's also arguable that undue concern for commercialization kept the Silmarillion out of print, because he kept trying to bring it to the level of perfection found in the LotR.
> A 2019 study led by Nagler showed that the gut of healthy infants harbored a specific class of allergy-protective bacteria not found in infants with cow’s milk allergy.

Between milk being a significant growth factor for kids and now this data about allergy-proofing, I seriously worry about the public mudslinging against dairy for political reasons. A lot of people are probably misled to think dairy is harmful for their children when it is the exact opposite.
US Consumers Near Day of Reckoning as Pandemic Cash Stash Shrinks
> an increasingly annoying trend is encountering them in private homes.

Speak for yourself; I love open kitchens. For me, cooking is an enjoyable and relaxing hobby. If I could throw out the living room and television and replace them with more kitchen space, I would (but I’m concerned about the resale value of the home).

The open kitchen is for entertaining guests and family members, and I like watching how others cook when I visit their homes as well.
Fair enough, sorry if I was presumptive.
Whats the regimen? Is it chronic/life-long or is there are point where you're effectively immunized to the allergens in question?

Do you ask your dr for a referral and to whom are you directed for evaluation?
> didn't have a spec to follow or disobey anyways.

Exactly. Yet they were still C compilers. So the idea that "being a C compiler" is the same as "follows the spec" is clearly nonsense. You can follow the spec and not be a usable C compiler, and you can be a usable C compiler and not follow the spec.

And the C spec not being complete was intentional, because otherwise too many already existing C compiler would have not had a chance of becoming ANSI compliant, and thus the spec would have been meaningless.

> They clearly stated the opposite:

> [..]

> Permissible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring ...

Very clearly gives a list of "permissible behaviors". Now if you believe that one of those options is "do anything you please" when it both clearly doesn't say that, it just "ignore with unpredictable results" AND it doesn't make logical sense, not sure how to help you.

(The two other options for permissible behavior are clearly completely redundant if one of them permits you to do anything you want whatsoever).

> "next time we see an if-statement, execute both the if-block and the else-block", then that's 100% conforming

It is "conforming" to the spec that has made that part non-binding. It does not conform to "ignore the situation", because the unpredictable behavior mentioned in the spec is that of the environment, not the compiler.
Anecdotal: Cat allergy shots helped my symptoms in a way that living with cats for years never did.
If college campuses routinely have their own "police department" surely, Apple HQ Security could expand to have a law enforcement agency?
Eh.

For me the problem is technology and not raw performance

DLSS and RT are massive for someone with a 4k screen but now 4k gaming hardware outside league of legends lol
Jackson was the anti-Tolkien. The book and movie stories had the same character names, many of the same events, but otherwise were completely opposite. A few things off the top of my head, great and small:

Tolkien's books were primarily about the corruption of power, and showed that the Good and Wise avoided it. There's the Ring, of course, but also Gandalf traveled around motivating people, rarely showing any magical ability at all. Aragorn's sword was broken until the great test required it. Jackson glorified power.

Tolkien's magic and world were places of beauty, darkness, and art beyond human experience; Tolkien never visualized Sauron, who was left to our imaginations. Jackson's world was of commonplace, manipulative horror film techniques and action hero tropes.

Heck, Tolkien's Gandalf had supreme confidence (for good reason); Jackson's was an anxious old person. Tolkien's Aragorn was the epitome of duty and commitment, always putting life and limb on the line for it; Jackson's didn't want the job!
"Look but don't touch" or "Look but don't profit from it" -license.

Is there anything wrong with those?

Being able to see the source-code is a great feature. Being able to modify it even if you then can not sell it for profit is also great.
And modernity sometimes ignores some obvious considerations.

I am surprised that a long article attempting to find links between various manifestations of modernity to allergy, it fails to mention vaccine.

The diet, exposure to pollutants, sun, level of cleanliness etc certainly has evolved over time. But none of these have changed as dramatically, become prevalent and directly alters our immune system like vaccine does.

I don't know of any study that's been able to explain how vaccines may increase the risk of allergy. However, if we are to speculate about possible causes for allergy, it should be nearly at the top. And the omission of even a single mention is quite striking.

The fact that we cannot even talk about something so obvious should pause some of us to wonder, what is it that is causing this kind of blind spot in modernity. And that should also lead us to ask who is trying to hide this for what reason.
Fun facts, most of the original languages being used by the people inside the islands in Pacific Ocean including Fiji and Hawaii originated from Austronesian and Proto-Malay languages. For examples both Fiji and Hawaii have lima meaning five in their native languages.
Servers blocking other servers is even worse than users blocking other users they want to block. It means you can get effectively blocked by countless people merely because some admin decided to block the entire server you are on. It's a barbarian form of sibling punishment.
Gimp/Krita, FreeCAD, more and more games, Inkscape, Ardour, Audacity, Calibre, Sound Converter, Converseen, PrusaSlicer, etc, plus all the other stuff that people would probably discover.

If one IS a software developer of course, then you probably need a lot of Linux apps, and it would be cool to have them alongside a platform that's way more reliable than Linux, so that your browser and email and calendar and music are always there and don't bog down.
I went to several on my pre-covid Japan trip.

1 was in a city and big and quiet plastic. 1 small suburban on that was very traditional and one near Fuji was about 50% outdoors. All were really nice.

I really wish we had something like this here in London.
I usually dump to the Children of Hurin first, because that's more "readable" - the Silmarillion is very Old Testament and takes some heavy archeology to get the stories out.