jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If the Congress is corrupt, than the state legislatures are a corpulent sewer of corruption and graft. Anything that takes power from them is generally a good thing.

The upside of direct election is that at least there's a chance that good Senators, not subject to the petty whims of the state houses might make better policy. State legislatures were/are generally the products of political machines and tended to appoint Senators who would advance their aims.

In the 21st century, the power of the corporations, unions and trade associations to manipulate the electorate via mass media is at least as powerful as the political machinery that the 17th amendment attempted to fight.
I like it! Clicking on an article was a really pleasant surprise. What drove you to write this?
The example is a good one, you are just misunderstanding what the problem is. Here is the synopsis:

1. User makes an appointment for 11am local time when he meets his friend in Chile. Using current timezone rules (GMT-3), the program saves this in the database as 1400 UTC.
2. Chile decides to change the rules for their time zone. Software gets updated with new table. Now, the appointment is at 10am local time in Chile, since they are GMT-4 now (1400 UTC = 10am GMT-4)
Ah. Yeah, I agree with you that the more efficiently people can be hired for grunt work and nothing more, the less valuable the work will be. If you need something difficult, you still hire a full time person, but now if you need something easy you can get it much more cheaply, which shifts the overall distribution of the value of X-type-of-work lower.

But one might make the point that all this means is we were paying too much for grunt work before these marketplaces showed up...
It's actually quite common throughout the world for railroads to have their own police force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_police
I feel really cheap promoting this sort of stuff but try anycabs.co.uk - it's a bidding system and so prices are consistently quite low. Also, I've also gotten decent cars, never had any trouble with people not showing up (even when I've gone for the cheapest bid, expecting crap cars). I've been in brand new Priuses, new BMWs and decent cars altogether (different companies and YMMV obviously but it's cheap). I've also had drivers really impress me by not letting a fully closed-down M25 slow down my transfer to the airport.

As a price point, I've always managed to go Docklands to Luton for under £50.
I've very pro-bike but this is a pretty good point.

That said, with big panniers or a cargo bike, it's pretty easy to take care of daily needs with a bike. We have an electric cargo bike, and it's somewhat uncommon for us to feel like we need a car for something.
Best answer, much appreciated.

> Give it five or ten years, and I reckon you'll see people make use of C++17 and C++20 in much greater numbers.

Frankly, the thought of it makes me want to migrate to Rust.

> Are you aware that std::thread has existed since C++11, and std::jthread and coroutines are in C++20?

Sure, but very low level. I'd be great to have a standard for something like TBB or OpenMP.

> std::string is an RAII-managed bag of bytes. What kind of operations are you looking for?

Looking enviously at Javascript strings and boost string algorithms...
I still use the old Berkeley SOAR archive (which is now at recipesource.com).
Interesting project! I recently created something similar[1] because I wanted a simple, easy to use, bloat-free micro framework to create single page applications. I also wanted it to be somewhat "battery-included" and provide things like routing and state management out of the box.

I think skruv comes with even bigger batteries (SVG support, Shadow Dom integration and additional vdom related apis), and I am curious to see how they all play together. The one thing that does seem a bit weird is the html helper functions... like Mithril, I went straight for hyperscript: I think it is very underrated right now but it is actually a good way to write a dom tree -- and you also get JSX support (nearly) for free.

Anyhow, keep up the good work, I think the world needs more micro frameworks like these: powerful but simple enough to be understood and extended easily if needed.

[1]: https://h3.js.org
Regarding "Readability", you mentioned requires (which is great), but ranges and views also make everything so nicer to read!
Dextroamphetamine was prescribed for depression before other classes of drugs were invented. And bupropion is prescribed off label for ADHD. Amphetamine has much stronger dopaminergic effects though.

No 2 drugs are exactly alike. Their different metabolites also have their own effects.
I saw something like this in a presentation at the MIT Media Lab a few years ago (2016?). It's impressive, but it was a little glitchy and it felt overkill for the tasks that they were being used on.

However, I'd guess that new products and ideas will proliferate if we somehow develop incredibly small and powerful projectors. Something that could be attached to a table, or even to your smartphone, and result in the same experience. I'd certainly want that :)
There's users[1] finding out later they got hooked because they had ADD, and they could have gotten all the benefits of a stimulant without the medical harm, medical risk, legal risk, expense, burned bridges, and emotional problems of cocaine if they could address their ADD properly.

[1] I think it was on this forum that there was a comment about people finding out they had ADD after landing in prison for drug-related crimes.
I'll ask again: Why are you geoblocking US based users from the sales page you linked previously?
You're being downvoted because it's extremely foolish to think that Facebook will collapse due to the dead people on it. My theory is that people don't even know where to start on a rebuttal for such an argument given how absurd it is, so instead, they downvote.
My parents have been using it as a term of endearment for each other since the late 60s. I always assumed it was a common shortening of "babe".
The perfect office is a combination of working from my home some days, coming into an open office on others, then working remotely while traveling, and sometimes working in an office at the office.

Done.
I used to pay for netflix in the US and access it with a VPN when I was living in China (a country where most content is only available through pirating). I did this both for convenience and because I wanted to pay for the content I was consuming.

But eventually I got tired of having to jump through hoops because of region locking and other inane rules decided by the MPAA and equivalent. I'm now in France, Netflix has a rather poor catalogue (I joined this month to check it out), The Master for example is not available (and I don't know any easy way to stream it).

So, instead of bothering to jump through hoops, I just download it on Bittorrent. It's quick, it's easy and it saves me time. It's also more confortable using Mplayer or Plex to play a video than any of the streaming website players.

When you say that 25-30k people torrent the movie, I'm sure there's a lot of people in my case. And excluding the foreign language versions won't help because a lot of people in Europe download the original version.
It's worth noting also that he's not talking about "driving in hilly terrain", the original comment is talking about driving almost exclusively uphill. Going to Tahoe you'd go from somewhere around 0ft to around 8500ft depending on the pass, and then down only to 6200ft.

Of course, this will impact all cars, though I find only a few MPG difference in our vehicles driving up to the ski resorts around Tahoe.

One curious thing I've noticed is that my relatively-high-Torque-and-HP car with a manual transmission gets almost the same mileage on flat ground versus going up and down mountain ranges, assuming there's no net elevation gain.

My girlfriend's fairly underpowered Subaru with a 4 speed automatic does significantly worse in the hills than it does on flat ground.

Also interestingly, the Tesla should get significantly better mileage in thinner air (on flat ground) where a gas-engined car has to deal with less air to burn which balances out the lower wind resistance.

Would also be interesting to see how the elevation change would affect a tesla at net 0. Say, drive from Sacramento to Truckee and back; I think the range should be plenty.
I'm sorry to read this.

I hope you have at this point enough insight to recognize that logically you are more capable that how you feel about yourself. Therefore, it is a matter of making sense of that feeling of anxiety that you should be addressing.

If you speak to the right physician you'll probably be diagnosed with ADHD, and it is driving a large part of your anxiety.

You should be careful about strengthening your ability to become more anxious. After all, any neural pathways exercised become stronger with time. Give yourself some quiet time each day where you get to ignore any anxious thoughts that arise. They are junk thoughts at this stage, you can safely ignore them.

If you need any more motivation, please recognize your family suffers when you cultivate thoughts like this. Find counter examples and keep reminding yourself of them.
We have that in the UK already. Technically on the statute book before Australia's although not activated til 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
Most of the gaming ones I've watched have either moved entirely to twitch or reduced their youtube content to sliced up twitch vods anyway. Since the "apocalypse"/brand safety changes, many of them have said YT isn't really worth it from a rev perspective.
Tourism. We have no manufacturing and soon the finance industry will all leave due to brexit. The rest of us will be Harry Potter, Whisky and Palace tour guides.
That's one way to look at it. On the other hand for consumers it's a vastly more convenient experience than something like this: https://www.sublimemerge.com/docs/linux_repositories
Thanks. Several people recommended cold showers or swimming in cold water. Guess it doesn’t hurt to try.
I guess just usung Clojure macros would be an option.
Knowing the concepts but not the corresponding vocabulary.

For example:

- intuitively applying SOLID without knowing that there is a set of principles

- knowing how to play with closures without knowing the dictionary definitions of “closure”

This makes interviewing a bit harder and might lead people to (falsely) assume that the candidate isn’t any good.
I agree fully. I left academia because of exactly this reason.

While academics have high morale on not stealing more than four words in the same sequence, they don't have any issue putting their names first on some engineers idea.
Sadly the ViEMU author decided not to do Excel (and doens't plan too). But, for Word, Outlook, Visual Studio, ViEMU does a semi-decent job.
> If you have an animation of walking and one for drinking, Motion Matching will not be able to produce a scene where the character is walking while drinking. Motion Matching will only play back the data you provide it.

ML in animation doesn't actually do anything useful according to friends in production at Ubisoft. As the paper says itself

> Naturally, searching a larger database means poorer runtime performance too. This is why we say Motion Matching scales poorly in terms of data.

It's a neat experiment but ATM AFAIK has not been used in a production title because of its limits.
What you are proposing is like trying to calculate the current weather in New York based on cloud cover in Detroit. Sure you can probably find some small statistical correlation but the results won't be useful to a New Yorker trying to plan her day.

If a doctor needs the patient's current platelet count for treatment they're not going to be able to get it through a nasal swab or urine test or whatever. This is restrained by fundamental physical laws. If you're still not getting it then all I can suggest is taking a remedial biology course.
> And the drivers don't want to be employees or they'd be stuck driving for one company with a set shift.

Some drivers may want this. Others might not. I have a hard time believing any generalization about such a large group of people.
Ah. I learn something new today
Google, like its users, has no concept of their core competency. The only reasons I assume they'd skip building their own ERP are that it's a boring product and, if they tried to sell it, they'd actually have to support it.
> Am I being overly cautious or is there a genuine risk?

You're being overly cautious. There is no legal risk in viewing a Yahoo! Answers page (or any other ArchiveTeam Warrior recommended project for that matter).
> If we can’t get an agenda accomplished then perhaps it’s too overarching to be agreeable to or considered fundamental by most of Americans.

Republican Senators don't seem to care if an agenda is supported by a majority of registered Republican voters.

Anyhow, the Senate must be reformed or abolished. Land does not require representation. Give every state a guaranteed 2 senators, I suppose, but some reasonable formula should be implemented that apportions more populous states additional senators.
My previous experiences in dealing with Oracle as part of an RFP is that it's like something out of Mad Men, in the worst possible way: we had a bunch of requirements that they didn't want to meet, because they were trying to sell their DB appliances, they berated the RFP committee for having those requirements. They laid complaints with our management line against one staffer for asking "hostile" questions.

When they didn't get the decision they wanted, they quickly escalated to exec and director level, and the exec of a major shareholder to try and get the decision overturned.

It wasn't an especially pleasant experience personally, because obviously it involved a lot of very personal attacks by a vendor, but at the same time it was fascinating to watch how they networked from the top down to try to get the decision that they wanted, and run roughshod over the SMEs and process.

Some years later one of the sales team sent me a "Virtualisation for Dummies" book and told me I could learn something from it.
Excel. ;-)
In many places you can write off vacancies as a loss, that helps make the numbers work.
E.g., the OP talks about GET and POST "methods". I don't do those things -- IIS and ASP.NET handle those for me.

You might be absolutely fine not knowing those things, but at some point down the road you are going to be lacking some essential knowledge of how HTTP works. To put it simply: everything - Ruby, PHP, ASP.NET, you name it - uses GET and POST requests underneath it all. Learning about them would be of great benefit to you in the long term.

A slightly inaccurate analogy: you can make a perfectly functional web site with Dreamweaver, and not touch a single HTML tag. It'll work fine, until it doesn't, and then you're going to be in a lot of trouble. Given that you don't know what's going on underneath Dreamweaver's GUI, your only option will be to keep hitting 'undo' until it works again.

Same for a 'framework'. Same for Nancy and everything else in the OP.

ASP.NET WebForms is a 'framework', too. They're just different frameworks. WebForms, as the name suggests, is particularly good at creating forms- it has numerous abstractions to help you maintain state. It's great for intranet data gathering/presentation stuff. But the pages are very, very heavy, loaded down with code that never gets used. So it has pluses and minuses. Just like MVC and Nancy.
Yep, low-level animator is a relatively low-paying job, and you're lucky to get it.
In addition to the hate for RMS, just look at how many people are distracted by the argument over development models. PHK was right[1] - PSYOPS for nerds is easy; as easily-deployed distractions go, "profitability of Free Software" is right behind "GPL vs BSD".

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/nsa_operation...
You are right in that tone and intent matters. I think there is nothing wrong in principle in mentioning related work though. It can be done in a non-douchy way.
Yeh but we could have just easily as put ZX Spectrums into schools and had twice as many

As far as I can remember my school didn't have BBC Micro's we had Commodore Pets when I was doing O levels

Not sure why we didn't have any BBCs though
perceptions that aren't fact are much more likely to be actual bias rather than 'not necessarily wrong'
Someone slap a Minecraft chunk file parser on the front of this and make an alternative to Overviewer (which I love but it is slow even on small worlds.)
Just to confirm - This project has a UI over Qemu which in turn uses this https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization hypervisor API to create and manage VMs on a Mac ?
That would just require the ledger to be published; no need for it to be a "distributed ledger".
Hey man, care to elaborate? Seems like what I am looking for. How do you handle SSH'ing into the local VM? Are your files on the VM or on Mac?
"It seem" you're the one jumping for a fight. My comment still stands regardless of anyone coming to any conclusion.

I don't know who "you guys" is.
Could you put a dumb switch between the Vigor and your LAN? And have the Raspberry PI be connected with a fixed IP directly to the modem?

Then you could use WiFi to talk to the PI?
No. That's a very clever and cynical viewpoint but realistically, none of us cared about that. It's not like these were peers in the same lab whose opinion mattered. Nor did anyone really have a strong opinion about meyers briggs categories. If anything it almost got a little embarassing after the first five replies to keep answering the same thing as the other people - like going to a restaurant and everyone ordering, one after the next, that they want the blueberry pancakes. You almost feel like an automaton instead of being a unique and creative individual.
I prefer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account....
Those words aren’t synonymous in denotation—who wants to be called a consumer? I think the term customer implies respect for those you do business with rather than viewing people who buy your product as numbers on a spreadsheet.
Came here to ask about the Powell method. I find Powell is typically what engineers come up with if asked to optimize something "by hand" without a mathematical model of the system they are optimizing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s_method
Rust has contributed a lot to LLVM, see here for a recent summary: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1366058442276790274
This is a great list of suggestions. Also, Halo CE is one of the greatest multiplayer games of all time. My friends and I still play Halo CE (NHE) on LAN all the time.
That's how I read it the first time through, but on a closer look, they're not comparing a normal native binary to an APE binary. They're comparing an intermediate step of the APE build process to the final output.

`objcopy -S -O binary` does two things. One is to strip all the ELF headers and just dump the section contents into an output file. It looks like the input to this command is an executable within an executable, with the BIOS boot sector, ELF segments, Mach-O headers, etc. all embedded as section contents within an outer ELF file; objcopy then removes the outer shell. Clearly a necessary step, but it won't make much difference in binary size. However, the `-S` tells objcopy to strip debug information, which is included in the original since `-g` was passed to `gcc`. This is presumably responsible for almost all of the difference; debug info is notoriously huge. You can get a similar size reduction in a normal compilation by running `strip`.

Edit: But objcopy does not do anything fancy like compress the input. It looks like the pkzip part only contains associated files the binary might need (e.g. "hellojs.com" contains a JavaScript file and time zone files), not the executable code itself.
As a parent of Bangladeshi-Irish children, I’m not delaying judgment. Whether or not gifted programs are valuable is besides the point. I’d welcome a concrete debate about the utility of gifted programs, and whether the benefits are worth the resources spent on them.

But the gifted program here wasn’t eliminated because of cost-benefit reasons. It was eliminated because administrators felt that too many kids in the program looked like our kids. They’ve taken a page out of the Old South playbook and there is no reason to reserve judgment on that.
I use SyncBack Pro & am happier with it than any other.

You'll find these features you're asking about, and then some.

Favorites of mine?

a. Serial number based triggers & path variables.

b. Write-checksumming.

c. Pre & post job load/eject.
OT: The Windows machine I'm using at the moment has the/a Norton... security suite installed (firewall, anti-virus, et al.).

Upon navigating to the linked page, a pop-up appeared warning that the site is "unsafe".

Which causes me some concern that the "mainstream" campaign against Dropbox and others may already be gearing up.
Neal Stephenson[0] implies some innovators can't make good use of the information at their fingertips, a likely explanation for the information age.

[0] http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starv...
Nice. What are your ambitions with this project?
How about writing to O'Reilly?

Certainly; send me a note via our our contact page (http://fifobooks.com/Contact) with the details.

The Geek Atlas physical book outsells the eBook by miles.

You would think a travel related book would be better suited for a mobile device such as an e-reader.

Anyway, if not "Geek Atlas", how about a collection of some of your more popular blog posts as an e-book?
I don't think it’s so bad leaving the blank advertising stands. They act as a reminder for how things used to be. Humans are remarkably adaptable and it’s very easy for us to forget changes in our environment. As an example, my local city council banned HGVs (heavy goods vehicles) from the city centre about 10 years ago and it made a huge difference to quality of life for other road users (particularly pedestrians and cyclists) with regard to noise levels and air quality. However, within a few weeks, most of us just took the change for granted and forgot how bad things used to be. Every so often, I make a conscious effort to remind myself of positive changes that have happened as it’s far too easy to focus only on the negative aspects of one’s current situation. The empty advertising stands serve as visual cues for such appreciation. I’d also add that the bare structures have a certain symbolic value.
Or maybe even socialising?

Or, if you're employed, "working"!
I can strongly recommend Tommy by Richard Holmes for an excellent account of the realities of serving as a soldier in the British army in WW1 - he points out the British generals actually had a higher death rate than lower ranks:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tommy-British-Soldier-Western-Front/...

What is particularly interesting is that he has also done similar books for the Napoleonic and contemporary wars - Redcoat and Dusty Warrior respectively - both also strongly recommended.
LA has a bunch of info about how their reclamation plants operate:

http://www.lacsd.org/wastewater/wwfacilities/moresanj.asp

If I understand correctly, the linked plant incinerates the solids at high temperatures (which should destroy most medicines).
Yes, exposure time (and aperture size) makes all the difference. Most of the disk is quite dim.
Just curious, do you think this same strategy could work for finding someone to date? Cold emailing asking for a cup of coffee? Do I need to sneak in a hidden agenda?
The announcement on Signal's blog: https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/