skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dep does not support using multiple major versions of a program in a single build. This alone is a complete showstopper. Go is meant for large-scale work, and in a large-scale program different parts will inevitably need different versions of some isolated dependency."

Russ has asserted this from day one, and has brought several examples out in evidence, but has simply not convinced the committee that it’s true. Calling it a serious problem, let alone a showstopper, is a significant overstatement. The strongest claim that can be made on this point is that it’s a matter of opinion.

OK that's enough for me. "BDFL" clearly correct, random critics totally unwilling to consider the proposition. More language developers are realizing that hierarchical imports with directory name conventions are a good practical thing that just works. Multiple versions come for free with this arrangement. If your tool can't handle that, your tool sucks.
> “The rhetoric that is espoused by people who defend intellectual property law is that this is theft,” Laufer told me. “If you accept that axiomatically, then by the same logic when you withhold access to lifesaving medication that's murder. From a moral standpoint it's an imperative to enact theft to prevent murder.”

Exactly what I would also say as pro capitalist but anti patent.

The article is not about anarchism. It is about not staying idle while people can't afford drugs. The methods may be questionable, like the partnership with dealers. But at least they try to do something.

I just hope there is a way for them to make money without legal risks
Interesting that the name of the House of Orange had nothing to do with the fruit or the color.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3cHzFQsqI
I don't think it can be considered an open question if we're all just waiting for the inevitable disaster.

The problem is we're just being slowly boiled so nothing has been done to stop the complete perversion of democracy and slide into a corporate oligarchy.
The only important part of this conversation is the part that offers a suggestion for the level of confidence you should use when highly accurate matches are important. But we never needed a conversation for that, it's in the documentation (and in the mind of anyone with basic knowledge of statistics, which should include anyone using this statistical tool for anything important).
I think there's empirical evidence that the SAT-solver approach is not necessary. I have done an analysis on as many Gopkg.{lock,toml} files as I could find, and in no instances did it ever do any non-trivial version selection: the maximal available version at the time was always selected. Additionally, Russ has stated that ~93% of the top 1000 Go packages in the wild build successfully with no changes. I appreciate that they may be convinced, but I think they need to ask themselves what evidence would change their mind. They have had months coming up on a year to figure this out.

https://github.com/zeebo/dep-analysis
No, I don't believe this. Rather, as you note inhibition, you rationalize an excuse before hand, here that you have no control over your actions, and as that has so far always worked out, as far as immediate gratification is concerned whereas detriment is harder to grasp, the inhibition is inhibited. The mind is complex and for every prohibitive experience you have an inhibition to find an excuse to justify your actions. Of course, in habitual actions these processes are pretty deeply ingrained, quick, and hence not very conscious compared to much more complex problems that might even compete for attention. Still though, the rationalization of what was done can only come after wards. That is correct.
I'd love to hear which books you recommend for the core physics curriculum. I started working on such a list[1], but I feel out of my depth for certain courses because I did my UGRAD in Electrical Engineering and don't know the physics UGRAD curriculum that well, let along provide recommendations.

[1] https://github.com/minireference/structure-api/blob/master/d...
Gee, that sounds familiar.

I guess it's totally different because google only uses their duopoly position in ads to finance everything else.
> I, as a father, can get away with all kinds of things because according to society I don't know any better, whereas my wife, as a mother, is expected to be perfect all the time and when she does something that doesn't measure up to someone's unvoiced, unwarranted expectations she's harshly judged for it.

The problem is the other side to this coin, which is that because males are presumed to be incompetent, their interactions with children are restricted ahead of time. Children aren't allowed to be alone with an adult male because the presumption is that he'll allow them to solo pilot a homemade single-passenger rocket ship with no safety equipment, if not literally rape and murder them.

And then, for example, little girls can't learn about tech because qualified adult women to teach them are scarce and they're not allowed to be unsupervised around adult men.
What I find problematic is no one can say that people with darker skin (or from any ethnicity in particular) are harder to identify precisely without offending people and being accused of racism/bias.

But we have no objective proof that every one is as recognizable as another.
They sure did. I used to have three numbers of black car services on my phone, and if I couldn't get a cab, which was common in my neighborhood, and I needed a ride badly enough to pay 2-3x what a yellow would cost, I'd call those numbers one by one, until one of 'em had a driver available. If I was in manhattan, I'd pretty much never call a car, because it was easier to street hail a yellow, usually.
Our orthography fits Middle English extremely well. It can’t be helped that that’s not the language you’re speaking.
Interestingly, almost all of the results below the fold given here [0] result in being redirected to a writing service or a blank page.

Maybe this is a new type of SEO "growth hack"?

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?ei=nJRbW9PgFMfEswX8tpDgCQ&q=%2...
Are those rhetorical questions cause it seems liek the answer is pretty obvious in this context.
I'd be very curious where you get free computers, free electricity, and free WiFi. Plus shelter from the environment.

Oh. Right. That'd be the library.

And the steelman is a bit weak in its limbs - you could certainly make the argument that the point of original libraries wasn't the scarcity issue, but the discoverability issue. ("Just travel to Alexandria" is almost certainly not significantly cheaper than paying a scribe to create a copy)

We could also argue that they're the precursors of modern universities, because they offered a central place for scholars to gather.

Both - building a community, and making knowledge more discoverable - are still major purposes for today's libraries. (If you thought searching the Internet for info is helpful, try a librarian)
Is English your first language?
Not sure about the swift-server-group situation -- some where blindsided, but here's e.g. the head of the closely related Vapor (server side web framework) project:

"I've seen a surprising amount of people thinking that the server-side Swift community or the Swift Server working group was somehow blind-sided by SwiftNIO. That couldn't be farther from the truth. We had known about SwiftNIO before the first line of Vapor 3 code was even written."

And in any case, even if the server group was blindsided it's not representative of a general tendency, as there are a very active features discussions e.g. in https://forums.swift.org/c/evolution with the community and public members involved and shaping changes.
> Also, why would speaking English specifically make anyone more educated?

Because there is huge amount of content in English compared to any other language, starting from the majority of academic papers.
Don't forget when the French conquered Britain, and transformed English as a result.
> Things were much more dangerous in the 60s through the early 90s and people felt a lot safer.

I seriously think that the glut of sick and twisted TV shows and movies that depict the most horrific crimes imaginable are partly to blame.

When I go to my parents' house and they're watching primetime network TV, I'm shocked at the content. Blood and guts and torture and sex crimes all over the place.
2011-12 was when the C/D-list hires that were being brought into the middle of the company really ended up pushing out a ton of the earlier clueful employees.
Which one is Alex Jones advocating for the murder of Robert Mueller?

https://boingboing.net/2018/07/24/alex-jones-claims-robert-m...
What Happens When a Shitty Coder Builds Your Back End
I have AT&T Gigafiber (1000mbps) not too far from you in Echo Park. Maybe they offer it in DTLA? I'm only paying $80/m.
In short, network effects. Longer: the amount of power their decisions have to affect society. If the mom-and-pop shop would refuse to serve readheads, that's (mostly) their decision. If Google decided to lock redheads out of their accounts, or block from using Chrome, Android or Search, those people would have serious disadvantages simply going around their daily life.
Like the Unicode committee deciding which emoji to bless?
I've been following the red-light-camera issue, was not aware of this "overpolicing" but that certainly explains a lot.
Opposite experience in Lincoln, NE.

Probably not because of the merger, though. We have a local company that rolled out fiber in town that is eating their lunch in subscribers, and it is beautiful to see.

Spectrum raised their base speed to 100 Mbps recently, and our local company raised their base to 300Mbps like "checkmate".

Loving ALLO: https://www.allocommunications.com/
> The Dravidian language referred here is Tamil.

The "even older Dravidian [language]" referred to in the article is not exactly Tamil. The oldest written evidence we have for Old Tamil[1] dates to the 3rd century BC[2]. But we're told that this word is in Sanskrit's vocabulary, which was already developed well before then. (Some people date the Vedas to the 15th century BC.)

That means it probably didn't come from Tamil, and instead came from some other, older Dravidian language. That might be Proto-Dravidian, the common ancestor of all Dravidian languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, etc.), or some other ancient Dravidian language that we don't have a record of.

(That seems likely, because that's generally how other Dravidian words in Sanskrit are thought to have gotten there: Skt. फल (phala) 'fruit' is thought to have been borrowed from Proto-Dravidian *palam, which has descended into Tamil பழம் (paḻam), Malayalam പഴം (paḻaṃ), etc.)

Some English words actually are directly from Tamil, though. Curry[3] and mango[4] are both directly from Tamil.

[1]: Old Tamil is actually quite different from Modern Tamil, but let's not get into that

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tamil_language

[3]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry#Etymology_1

[4]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mango#Etymology
> I hope NYS can work something out or I'm going to have to move.

I share your sentiments.. In my mind decent internet access is more of a right than an accessory today. Those without it are disproportionately disadvantaged in numerous ways. I can imagine doing something drastic, in protest, if I'm pushed.
That really depends on the particular domain e.g. compare ‘Are you sure?’ to ‘¿Seguro?’. Also, at least spoken Spanish tends to reduce the amount of pronouns that otherwise are pretty much mandatory in English as in ‘I can drive a car’ vs. ‘Se conducir’
Jens Johansson's Phase Vocoder Page (2001)
Bringing Lean Startup Principles into Government and Defense
Translation of "Linux Kernel Networking Subsystem" = Subsistema de red del núcleo de Linux.
Translation of "8-way associative cache" = caché asociativa de 8-vías. I don't see severe lingual cortortions here.
In the US that's true. It's a really awful system.
My understanding of the problem under discussion here is that there are some people who will refuse to use a cloud syncing service, period. Syncing with Google Drive does not get around this constraint, regardless of whether it requires any locally installed software.

Additionally, I was not personally aware of any way to "sync directly" other than using the Google Drive desktop client (https://www.google.com/drive/download/) and storing the database file in the synced folder. It sounds like you're saying Keepass has some direct integration with Google Drive?

All of that said, I am really not invested in this issue - I use multiple cloud sync services and it doesn't bother me.
Canadian banned from U.S. for marijuana investments seeks waiver to cross border
> Neutron stars have a maximum mass limit which is somewhere between 1.5 and 3 solar masses.

Yes, but after that they can become Quark stars (if such things exist). We do not have enough knowledge of quark degeneracy pressure to be able to tell.

So we should not make assumption that they become physics-breaking black holes.

> Any compact object over that limit must be a black hole.

And how do you know the object is compact? Our telescopes do not have anywhere near sufficient resolution to distinguish that.

> Events that happen outside the event horizons of black holes will also emit light signals that reach us in a finite time.

OK, and what sort of events would that be? The only known signals are black hole mergers, which obviously can not be black hole mergers since such an event would take infinite time.

We could see blazars perhaps, but those are not necessarily caused by black holes.

> Relative to each other, the atoms in an object falling into a black hole are moving very slowly, and the time dilation they see each other to have due to relative motion is negligible.

You are forgetting the objects on the other side of the black hole. Or even at small angles. Your objection would only apply to object right next to each other, and such objects are obviously not forming black holes by themself.

They need all the mass nearby to make a black hole, but time dilation makes such mass unavailable.
yes - so much this. I was just learning some European Portuguese before going to portugal and had great difficulty finding any "real" non-brazilian european portuguese to even get a feel for it. perhaps if people put together something along the lines of those 'awesome-<language/framework/etc>' github repos for language learning everyone could benefit :)
So you are arguing that the original statement should be interpreted as something like, "[Normal] women don't have the lower body strength to [fly normal (?) WWII-era military aircraft]?" That doesn't seem to be a wildly meaningful statement without an addition, "[but normal men do]."

Unfortunately, that latter addition doesn't work; according to [1] (an interesting document), 60% of RAF crews were rejected on medical grounds.

So we are seemingly left with, "[Normal] women don't have the lower body strength to [fly normal (?) WWII-era military aircraft], [but superior men do]," which once again is approaching the "so what?" stage.
Worth noting they have been fined int he EU for this behaviour. They destroyed some guys business with their self promotion.

Google has too much power. They should be broken up for hte good of society.
Yes, e.g. by stiffling sale of alternative Android-based operating systems, as the EU just concluded. Google uses their market power and control over Android to give competing OSes a disadvantage, whether or not they would be better than Android/Google Play.
Does this include items indoors? Such as pinball machines?
> We don't believe falsehoods simply because we think they should be true.

That sounds like something you believe because you think it should be true :-)
Don't forget self-hosted
> I think it's less that Go has significantly different needs, but it's more that people overestimate what their actual needs are.

I think you are right. And I doubt it hurts that SAT solving is a fun problem!

My main package management experience has been with Haskell, which has used the cabal tool for many years. Cabal was a traditional solver-based tool (with the added pain of a global mutable package database, although that is going away), and it frequently broke down in confusing ways. Cabal hell was a widely used term. A few years ago, another tool arrived on the scene, Stack, which used the same package format and such as cabal, but snapshotted the central package list (Hackage) by gathering subsets of packages and versions that were guaranteed to work together (or at least do not have conflicting bounds). It works well[0], and although it does in principle result in a major loss in flexibility, it's rarely something I miss. Importantly, the improvement in reliability was nothing short of astounding. That certainly helped convince me that flexibility may not be a needed feature for a (language) package manager.

[0]: There are all sorts of socio-political stack/cabal conflicts in the Haskell community now, but I'm not sure they are founded in technical issues.
I've never seen so many unsupported assertions presented as fact outside of the realm of politics.
40 here and not seeing a flagging salary or problem with work. I just get calls from larger companies than I did when I was younger. Stay away from the startups, Keep your skills up to date, drop the complaining habit if you have it and find ways to be a positive influence around your community, find a decent company that does things you care about, and settle in.
Do you have citations or further reading on this? I am not trying to nitpick you, I want to read more about this but I googled megastructure and I get back a bunch ofnonsense. I find it interesting what architecture experts have thought about the extreme end of human structure.
The only true rhyme for orange I've ever heard:

"Four engineers wore orange brassieres."
Is it because their products are that good, or because they have one monopoly that also functions as a money hose that they can aim as needed to decimate competition in other areas.
It's pretty scary that Microsoft and Apple are the only commercial options where it's even possible. With Google's various offerings, from Android to Chrome, it's not even an option.

In the future this can only exist if people pay for it, and clearly ... that's not going to happen.
This is a "just so" story.

The bulk of our thinking is unconscious (in the sense that, whatever your subjective awareness is, it doesn't contain perceptions of the process of most thinking your system does.)

In fact, you have a distributed brain in your gut that does a great deal of thinking about food, both what to eat and what to do to handle what we've already eaten. (To give an extreme example, it's what decides you have to throw up.) And the spine and motor cortex form a kind of brain also. But even the head-brain thinking is mostly outside of your subjective awareness.

Certainly it's possible to cram your brain with information, then take a break and sleep on it (literally or otherwise) and then come back and suddenly the answer appears, or your understanding has increased.
The biggest hurdle here is probably the university itself - since this is presumably targeted towards uni labs. You don't really see this as a student, but once you start having to place orders through a university finance system (they're all vaguely similar), it's not straightforward. It depends on your PI and what they'll approve, what your budget code actually allows you to buy and so on.

We have a catalogue of approved suppliers who are easy to order from (semi-automated system). The usual suspects like Farnell/Digikey, Thorlabs/Edmund Optics are in there. Most universities have a "credit card guy" who will order things from other places, e.g. if you need a random part from an online retailer or even eBay.

Some suppliers have special relationships, e.g. we get hefty corporate discount on certain IT brands in exchange for exclusivity. This means you have to really argue why you want a non-standard laptop. I've not come up against this for consumables, but I imagine it's fairly common in bio/chem.

There are other cases which are problematic (1) big orders need extensive approval, multiple quotes, etc (2) stores which are not in the system and don't accept credit cards. Adding a supplier at any university is often tedious paperwork for everyone involved and neither the finance department nor the retailer like doing it.

The point here is that it's great to be able to find cheap supplies, but sometimes you can't make that choice. I've had to buy expensive (but admittedly reliable) optics from Edmund simply because a cheaper store wouldn't fill out the paperwork. These sites are great in general, e.g. Octopart for electronics.

EDIT: (meant to reply to this one)
DuckDuckGo is terrible for non English speakers though.
> Why would that be a good thing? Or rather, a better thing than the current situation? Why would that even be desirable?

Because wealth inequality is massively harmful for society. It's the sort of thing that leads to revolution.

>
If you believe e.g. that company equity should be more uniformly distributed, go talk to your congressman, have him draft a law to that effect and get congress to vote on it.

and then Google writes him a check and the whole thing goes away. Biggest lobbyist around.
Homebrew CPU
Ye that's what i was thinking about, didn't realise crypter existed, there's me shown! I should have looked more closely.
For a fun examplen from another language, consider the Arabic version of the name Alexander.

On hearing the city name "Alexandria" in many places (most notably Egypt), Arabs assumed the start was the Arabic definite article: Al-exandria. In addition, they swapped the "k" and "s" sounds, in an inverse of the African-American Vernacular formation of "aks" from "ask", making the city name "Al-iskandaria". To complete the ridiculous chain, they then back-formed the historical figure's name from the cities named after him: Iskandar.
Thanks for the response, this gives me a bit to go on.

The images are jpg files from iSpy Connect. I'll see take some sample photos and see if they hash the same.
Isaacs videos are amazing. Magnificent pictures and animations, great explanations and besides the fact he speaks like Krippke from The Big Bang Theory, he is incredibly fascinating to listen to.
Those are terms of address, and in English you can just avoid them entirely. In other languages you can't say some quite basic things, such as articles, without explicitly choosing a level of formality, which can be awkward.
I just want them to survive ha

Don't do us dirty Mitch.
Integrated requirements management with Doorstop
In the middle of a self-reinvent cycle myself. Great points you made there.
America only moves to protect the money.
As a fluent speaker of both languages I couldn’t say. In general Spanish requires less mental effort as you write what you say, whereas in English there’s always that particular randomness that’s otherwise arbitrary between how to write a word and how it sounds.
> Furthermore, Miss Oliver's argument, that we should keep the libraries for the homeless and the addicts jettisons the role of the library as a community center.

A lot of homeless people are just having a bit of bad luck and a few steps in the right direction will have them be non-homeless people is short order. If you live paycheck to paycheck and then don't have a paycheck anymore then things go bad real quick.

> How can one be comfortable leaving their children at a library when 75% of the patrons are current/former addicts and or homeless?

The main Phoenix library has a whole floor dedicated to teens and apparently enforce it as I heard some "homeless addicts" talking about getting kicked off the floor really quickly the last time I was there.

It makes a lot more sense now.