skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, they did say it was "our approach", they did not say it was a "good approach."
That just underlines that northern countries are happier even more.
I've seen it in a few places, both a buildroot system and one based on Fedora (of all things). Not "small" embedded systems, but devices meant to do one thing and not act as general purpose computers.
Yes. Mostly in different parts of Europe and Asia. Incredibly valuable.

For me, I think of myself as fairly open to people and cultures, but after stays in many countries I realized how closed my previous attitude really was. Meeting and living in many places seems to have helped me be much more open to differences in people, personalities and cultures.

If you stay longer than a long vacation, a very common experience (especially in countries with very large language/cultural differences), is a weird phenomenon where you start to hate where you are and every tiny difference or minor inconvenience becomes meltdown inducing. And then you'll get over it and settle into your new life. This psychological wall is a make-it/break-it moment for many expats and some people simply can't get through it and give in. Don't! It's very character building and upon reflection a huge growth opportunity that most people don't get a chance to develop.

Finally, I think it's given me a much better sense of perspective about how and where my home country compares to others in various ways - favorably and unfavorably. It's impossible to convey this to people who haven't experienced living elsewhere themselves, so it can a bit frustrating to come back home and hear the same ill informed opinions. Likewise, it can be frustrating to hear about your home country being described by ill informed people in the countries you are in.
Closing the port does not change anything about the attempts. Nor about the success rate of the attempts, if you aren't being an idiot with insecure passwords.

How about "No open port = no concern about possibly vulnerable services running on open ports"? I actually worry less about passwords and more about overflows, protocol problems and parse errors these days.
Moved from the west coast of the US to France for a year. I would unreservedly recommend living in another country for an extended period of time, preferably before you're 30 or 35. I was in my 50s when I did it, and it was a little too late. My ability to acquire language skills was much better when I was younger.

I think the most valuable lesson I brought back with me was that I sometimes speak in vague sound bites. I didn't notice before living in France because everyone around me seems to do the same thing. I'm not going to call it 'an American cultural trait' but it might be. Noticing that has inspired me to focus on clarity in my thoughts and communication.

Other useful lessons: people are pretty much the same all over; ease of travel between EU countries is so much better than when I backpacked around Europe in the 1990's; a lot of things we take for granted in the US are full of incomprehensible friction in many other countries (e.g. opening a bank account). And vice versa, to a smaller degree.
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Book reading can be like watching soap opera, mindless and you don't remember what you read after a few hours.

Good book reading requires introspection, time to digest, etc. Also, why are you reading it in particular? Is it just a story? What for?
> It even materialises into weird threats sometimes "wait and see what happens when we stop operating because you wouldn't watch our adverts").

Note that the threat is not "if we can't make money from our ads, we'll need to start charging a subscription fee for our content."

Because they know that hardly anyone would actually find the content they provide to be useful or entertaining enough to justify paying real money for.

If I woke up tomorrow to find that all commercially produced content on the web cost money, there's only a handful of sites that I'd consider subscribing to (maybe a couple of high-quality news organizations). The sites I find the most valuable are blogs where people freely share their own interests (which cost almost nothing to host).
Oh wow, I 100% agree with this.

I absolutely need at least a few hours a week of creative outlet (Right now it's writing. In the past it has been painting, or woodworking or... to my wife's dismay, a long list of forgotten hobbies).

It sometimes feels like I have a small child in my head, one that wants to play, be free, and just burn off excess energy through creativity. And if I don't do that, he throws a temper tantrum, anxieties and restlessness start kicking up.
I think this is the crux of the argument between proponents of simpler init systems and proponents of systemd. We have complex requirements implemented in complex logic. Do we want that complexity baked into the init system, or do we want that in our configuration language?
The idea that selection pressures would result in the apex-predator (humans) spending 1/3 of it's life in a completely defenseless state, must tell us a lot about the importance of sleep to intelligence and creativity.

After both personally experiencing and learning clinically more about how sleep - or lack thereof - impacts cognitive, physical, creative and immune capability I think it's a hugely important piece of the intelligence puzzle.

My hypothesis is that sleep amounts to a nightly scrimmage for the rest of our lives. So it's where we go to practice the things that we're planning on doing or could possibly encounter. We take the inputs from the previous days etc... into simulating future events/outcomes.

In reinforcement learning terms sleep is where we do "exploration" in our own personal simulation of the experienced world and real life is where we do "exploitation."
I still think the answer will have to confront the problem of local realism. It was the issue that drove Newton nuts (that gravitation was, in Einstein's language "spooky action at a distance"), and Einstein resolved that through Relativity, which redefined how we think about "distance". Now the lack of local realism in QM is driving Einstein's ghost nuts. I think the resolution of all this will again redefine "distance" to take resolutions involving quantum entanglement into account. Vaguely I picture some quantum relativity theory where from the perspective of an entangled particle it's still d=0 from its entangled partner and everything else is splitting apart. So like relativity, it's all about which perspective you take. Then perhaps with these relative distances, and however the math falls out with some kind of quantum Lorentz transforms maybe we see that in galaxies with lots of entangled particles this can slow down rotation.

That said, dark matter is entirely possible too. There's no particular reason to think that all particles need to have an EM effect as well. In fact it's somewhat crazy to think they should. Why wouldn't there be particles that only show themselves gravitationally? Or through other perhaps insanely strong forces that for whatever evolutionary reason Earth Life is just not evolved to care about or see even indirectly.

That said, I have no training in physics and this is entirely crackpot concept. (Of http://www.goodtheorist.science/ I've only read ~6.)
I think “civilization” might be a better word for that.
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The same phrase you quoted resonated with me. South Africa does have some violent crime. I don't know how it relates to other countries. We are fourth on the list when it comes to expenditure on private security per capita[1]. That's not all we spend money on. Next week a contractor is coming to fit an electric fence around our block of flats. Most homes now have high walls, alarms, sensor of all sorts. I grew up in a small town there were hardly fences. Fences were probably to protect against pesky kids stealing fruit and prevent cows eating up people's gardens.

To your point, it is just a small group of violent thieves that have the rest of us under siege. Everyone is security conscious and not at ease. I don't think trying to talk sense into these gangsters is going to work. It makes me mad that another man is making live life in a manner that I loathe.

[1]https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-05-14-south-afr...
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That rule is plain wrong. Not everything compose well enough to make pipelines or configure with some booleans and numbers and strings. Sometimes you need custom behaviour. In fact, most of the time you want custom behaviour, or just minor modifications or hooks. IDK what uses there can be for custom behaviour in a cron task, but that is the key: that you can not know every use case before hand. And instead of fighting with users over what features and configurables to enable, allowing them to do what they want is just easier and better.

Moreover, "a simple task scheduler" is a simple task scheduler. It's written in 1500 lines of scheme code, another commenter quotes.
> But I do think that you can improve your resilience to interruptions if you:

> 1. Come up with a solution to a problem before you start writing code, and think about which parts of the system that solution will impact.

The problem is, for me, that “come up with a solution” is the part that is at most risk of getting derailed by distraction. Writing the code, after I’ve come up wth a solution, is quite a minor aspect of programming for me (almost trivial, often). The hard part is understanding the problem, its contraints and requirements, the context within which it lives and all of the different things that I need to take into account to create a solution. That often takes a lot of working through things in my mind: visualising input data, transformations and output, visualising dependencies, simulating the algorithms and processes in my head. Determining what affects what and if that has any impact on something else. That’s the hard part. Actually coding it is usually not so hard nor is it usually particularly sensitive to interruptions.
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I live in Moscow, last winter we had only few hours of sunlight in December. Two months ago I went to test Vitamin D and got <10 ng/ml which is extremely low deficiency, currently doing around 8000ME daily.

Reading:

- Holick MF, Binkley NC, Bischoff-Ferrari HA, Gordon CM, Hanley DA, Heaney RP, Murad MH, Weaver CM; Endocrine Society. Evaluation, treatment, and prevention of vitamin D deficiency: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Jul;96(7):1911- 30. doi: 10.1210/jc.2011-0385. Epub 2011 Jun 6.

- Guidelines for preventing and treating vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency revisited. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012 Apr;97(4):1153-8. doi: 10.1210/jc.2011-2601.

- Vitamin D deficiency: a worldwide problem with health consequences. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Apr;87(4):1080S-6S.

- Vitamin D deficiency in the Middle East and its health consequences. Clin Rev Bone Miner Metab 7:77–93

- Vitamin D supplementation guidelines Pawel Pludowski

- Treatment of hypovitaminosis D with pharmacologic doses of cholecalciferol, oral vs intramuscular; an open labeled RCT.
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This might be the referred paper:

"The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" By A.M.Turing

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing....
Canada: Rush, Alanis Morissette, Nickelback, Saga and 100's of others. Celine Dion and Justin Bieber are Canadian but having lived in Canada I'd be more than happy if I never heard them again. And with Bieber I had that feeling from the first time I heard him, I guess it is to balance the score after Glenn Gould.
Not related to the content, but I always enjoy looking at beautifully typeset LaTeX documents.
What about debugging?
Looks like it's Linux-only.
I just use the firewall.. if you make more than 4 SSH connections inside of a minute you're blackholed for 5 minutes. Pretty much drops all automated scanners right on the floor while not adding any steps for normal use.
There appeared to be dozens of choices for invoicing software, both in general and targeted at specific verticals.

What makes all of the existing offerings not usable?
I think it has to do with how each is used.

Facebook has positioned itself as a social space to facilitate socialization with others of your choosing. Then from that aspect it has tried to move in to the life quality enhancements. In people's minds the information they share on this platform is intended better the aspect of socialization with those they want to socialize with.

Google has been a facilitator of life enhancements like an assistant. Starting at its beginning of just search, you share what you're looking for and it will help you find it. While it may not be obvious in people's minds it still registers at some level when you search you're yelling out to the world, "does anyone have any 6's". Google has tried to move in to the social space but that's not how they are viewed at their core. Everything Google does is ease of life assistance.

I think a fair analogy in public perception is this. Telling things to Facebook is like telling your friends things. You don't expect them to share that information. Telling things to Google is like requesting something of your personal assistant, you expect them to be discreet but ultimately they will need to share things about you and your request in order to fulfill it.
Both. One is a Reddit joke and the other is wrong no matter what the linked article says. There are hundreds of studies that link mental health problems like Schizophrenia and Vit.d deficiency.
Would we? It seems to me there was appeal to those games - not just random luck that they won out.

Seems like a market hole would exist if we were stuck with "more bleak and violent US-made games", and I doubt your caricature of Americans would allow a market hole like that to exist. :)
Bitcoin is probably the worst example of micropayments, though.

Also, bitcoin has been completely incapable of doing micropayments for a long time.
I write template-heavy code, so most ends up being in headers anyhow.
Do understand, that my comment here was about software handling personal information. And not software it self but companies using/writing that software.
If you can't express what's wrong it will be even harder to find a solution.
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This is a hasty conclusion. For example, the city of Kiruna in northern Sweden (latitude 67 degrees north) has about three weeks of total darkness each winter. So there is no sun exposure at all during that time. And even south of the arctic circle, the chance of getting 5-30 minutes of sun exposure twice a week is not guaranteed in northern countries. For example, you might be stuck in an office building while the sun is above the horizon.
There's a fix, of course. But it works only for a real impostor syndrome, not for the fake ones.
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It is not only language you have to learn. its ecosystem, environment, libraries, frameworks, tools, testing, debugging, paradigms, and etc.

Since mastering a language takes years, I use 20hrs rule. I spend 20hrs on reading, learning and practicing the language and environment itself and after that I dive directly into the project.

(I've been programming 9+ years.)
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This article discusses LIGO's detection of gravitational waves as a problem for alternate theories of gravity. But the claim of that discovery seems to have been withdrawn by the LIGO team. Here: https://www.nature.com/news/gravitational-waves-discovery-no...

I'm an amateur but something feels amiss to me here. Can anyone shed more light on this contradiction?
Just read. You’ll get faster. You don’t need to think about it or rush, just take the time you feel you need and you’ll soon get faster whilst still maintaining the same level of comprehension.
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Great article. Interesting that simply pulling the contribution of the computer sector out of the numbers makes things look terrible for American manufacturing. Currently China is working hard on being more relevant in the semiconductor sector and likely they will succeed. So be prepared for a long term trade war with China is my thinking.. but ultimately automation will become a bigger thing in China and then their employment will also stagnate, so will be interesting to see how they deal with finding enough jobs for everybody as well..
This. I personally don't feel that I spend all that much time in the "trenches" when programming. Most of my work is thinking and then hopping over to the computer to tap out a few lines. Or sometimes interacting with something through the debugger/reading the code to get an idea of how something works. I very rarely have my nose in the keys trying to grind out a solution.
So that 300+ Billion trade deficit with China isn't the cause of a net job hemorrhage? Really?
In that case here are official links. Please note that Canadian permanent residency thru Quebec is a long two stage process. First obtain a CSQ document from Quebec and then apply to Federal (in paper format) which will grant you permanent residency.

* Processing delays as per MIDI's site for obtaining a CSQ:

Official Source: https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/immigrate-settl...

* MIDI currently follows FCFS to issue CSQ, not point based merit system, which they are planning to implement soon.

" With the introduction of the new immigration system based on the declaration of interest, only candidates that meet the needs of Québec will be invited to submit an application for a selection certificate. This new system will make it possible to put an end to the principle of first come first serve, currently in effect for processing applications, and to considerably reduced average processing times. "

Official Source: https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/informations/ne...

* Federal processing time delays(after obtaining a CSQ) for residency from Quebec: 15 months & counting.

Official Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/index.asp

( Select Economic Class > Skilled workers Quebec ,the processing times shows as 15 months.)

* For the year 2017, the processing time for applications for a selection certificate under the Regular Skilled Worker Program was 32 months.

Official Source: https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/informations/ne...

* To summarize, an immigration application thru Regular Skilled worker stream will take 15 + 32 months to complete if it goes without any glitches, but MIDI is plagued with operational issues such as loss of applicant documents, huge technical problems with Mon Projet and the recent refugee situation.

Official Source: https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/informations/ne...

Now if anyone applies in PEQ category, you will still be delayed by 15 months in Federal stage.

So which graduate or skilled worker worth their salt will try to immigrate or stay in Quebec after graduation ? They can easily get their permanent residency within months if they move to any other province other than Quebec through the Express Entry system and other provincial nomination programs.

Why do I say all this ? Because Quebec's immigration system is so obsolete that it doesn't give importance for merit. I was a victim of the broken H1B visa system and I immigrated to Canada thru Express Entry which gave importance to my skills. How I did it might be interesting too -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15452647
Have you done this? What is your experience?
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Who's judging? What's that have to do with anything? We all have the same amount of time per day, you choose how to spend yours.
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I used PyQt5 quite successfully a while back. This looks very similar. What is actually new here?
What happened to PyQt?

Also, the API does not seem Pythonic at all.
Europe: lots of music (just the Uk, just some pop: Beatles, Bowie), food, fashion, flowers, movies, books.

Canada: music, quite a few good writers for the size of the population, a generally nicer way of life than what I experienced in America.

Australia: I've never been there, so not much to comment on.

South America: food, dance, music, books.

Asia: food, books, dance, and again music.

Oh, and you left out Africa completely, again, Food, Dance, Music, I don't know any writers from there by name.

Funny how those four seem to be pretty common. At a guess, mr or mrs almostApatriot1 you haven't really been to any of those places, and if you have you probably didn't immerse.

If 'universal appeal' starts with 'has to be English and has to feel Western' then maybe only the UK and Australia would suit you. In that case try some Crowded House and have a slice of Cheddar on your sandwich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowded_House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich
I thought they had confirmed LIGO's detection of gravitational waves coming from a certain pulsar that Fermi saw independently. The article you link to seems to be about gravitational waves from the background. I'm also curious now.
> Already the introduction of a keyword like 'known' shows that the simplification is not as simple.

Don't think that one is actually needed, simple static analysis should be able to tell one variable is just an alias of another -- which (presumably) they already do to figure out the variable types.

The reasoning behind it is also kind of confusing, used to tell the preprocessor the variable is in local scope as opposed to...?

--edit--

Or maybe it's used for class local variables?
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The rest Of the post is about how you don’t need to draw the entire owl.
This doesn't seem like a perspective offering anything new and possibly involving a few problems.

Jeff Hawkins' On Intelligence also emphasized the predictive qualities of intelligence but again, this was a new emphasis, not really a new idea but a new emphasis in that it's well known time is implicitly an element of nearly any cognitive process.

Moreover, the current deep learning driven AI renaissance is has been most effective in predicting patterns in quite static phenomena; image recognition and competitive video and board games (game involve change over short periods but their context remain identical over long periods). Similar success hasn't come in say, the stock market (so far as I know). So it seems increased prediction at the corporate level will come only as long as larger processes stay static (when you have cascade of change, you'll have cascades of failing predictors, which generate further change what could go wrong?).
I very much doubt that China is unique in this.
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I’m assuming you mean Rider since R# is a part of VS. But Windows Forms? Microsoft basically abandoned that years ago. The writing is on the wall as far as the .Net framework, MS is showing no love for classic .Net. All of their energy is toward .Net Core. I jumped off of that train a year ago and don’t plan to look back. I’m a big fan of Core but classic .Net?