skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of the article seems to be: "In 2015, it cast aside the harshest austerity measures its European creditors had imposed, igniting a virtuous cycle that put its economy back on a path to growth."

The thing is, less than 3 years is absolutely not enough time to draw any conclusions. Much of the improved results are explainable by an uptick in tourism, and low interest rates, therefore attributing it to this government's policies seems premature. In truth, no true changes are being made. Taxes remain high (which is not necessarily a bad thing in itself), public spending remains inefficient in some areas. No actual, really meaningful reforms have been made, no truly new ideas. The old "systemic" problems, if you will, remain. Corruption remains an issue. Beaurocracy has been somewhat improved, but still needs lots of changes. The judiciary remains slow. Etc, etc.
As you might imagine, not kind words.

"Modern languages like Java and C# may well be superior to old ones like Fortran, PL/I, and C, but they are far
from perfect, and they could be much better. Their manuals of several hundred pages are an unmistakable symptom of their inadequacy. Engineers in industry, however, are rarely free from constraints. They supposedly they must be compatible with the rest of the world, and to deviate from established standards might be fatal."

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-An...

"In 1995 Sun Microsystems presented its language Java
, fully 6 years after Oberon. It incorporated much of the "philosophy" of Oberon, but, alas, chose the style and
syntax of C. Around 2000 Microsoft released its language C# as a strong competitor of Java, and Google followed in 2007 with its language Go, even more strongly following (the 18 years old) Oberon. The crux with these languages, which all became wide-spread due to strong industrial support, is
their size and complexity. The ambition to provide everything to everybody prevailed and let them grow into complex bodies difficult to master."

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Miscellaneous/Compute...
Audiophiles in a nutshell
I bet you some of those dollars went towards the acquisition of some Brilliant Pebbles [0]!

[0] http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm
We live in a cul de sac and it's been great. The kids all come out in the evening and there's 6-10 of them.

The one concern with our location is that the connecting road is 35mph, branched off from a 45mph road, plus its downhill. So some people tend to go down that 35mph road at 50mph.
Rust is only fast compared to C++ (and then only sometimes). Literally every other language is significantly faster to compile. I'm hoping this can change though. Rust with fast compile times and a more complete library ecosystem (and ideally better IDE support) would be an incredibly productive language.
> How will you find a good hospital and the best doctor, if your don't speak Indian

In India, people speak English. It is one of the national languages (!!) And in the US, we have credit cards. This is money available immediately.

You are refusing to understand, your tone is inflammatory, and you are making personal claims and attack about me.

I'm done talking with you.
Ah, in that regard you are right, I guess.
I have a power amp whose transformer hums once in a while, for periods of a few seconds. Then it goes quiet just as abruptly as it started humming. Someone is unbalancing the power in the building, causing a DC offset.
Lack of mid-distance transit is also a huge problem.

Mid-sized USA cities tend to have half decent transit around their urban core (often woefully under-served especially in cities that don't have either trains/subways or else dedicated right-of-way for buses, but none-the-less serviceable).

However, the thing that mid-sized cities almost uniformly lack in the US is any form of regional commuter rail.
No, you were downvoted because your comment was content-free and this isn't reddit.
nothing confirmed yet, it's all rumors and conjecture.

https://fuckingcenturylink.com/
Tuckersoft
Exclusive access is exactly why I switched to Chrome back in the day. When they started offering features like offline Gmail access that was only available on Chrome, you bet I was intrigued. And even today, things like copy/paste keyboard shortcuts on Google Docs only working in Firefox still abound.
An alternative to underground is 'at the back'.

For example you can have a car free shopping street where cars can only park at the back sides of the shops.
People firmly believe competition will control prices.

But people also firmly believe they don't want price discrimination once they're on fixed incomes, and want government to take whatever steps are necessary to pay for that.

Healthcare costs for old people is most of the game, and those are regulated. No one is willing to challenge that.

Thus, we have a market that remains too regulated for presently-allowable-competition to make a difference.
>Health system is completely broken

No need to be so dramatic. Compared with countries with a similar economy, our system is objectively very good. Independent reports will back me up.
What are their options? Form a third party?

And, tbh, democrats do not hold NRA in high regard, so thinking that they always be worse on gun control sounds like a reasonable assumption to me.

I mean, I get your point, but guns does not illustrate it well.
"an educated decision", so you have cancer and spent 9 months abroad for a recurring visit for chemo.

Naming yourselve "educated" is a far stretch. Unknowing would be more appropriate.
I read Josephson's biography of Edison and it indeed looks like Edison's work was based on intuition, and trial and error. I don't think he ever did anything like what the Wrights did with propellers.

For example, his development of the multiplex telegraph did not seem to show evidence of understanding electricity, just an awful lot of tinkering.

Other aeronautical contemporaries of the Wrights exhibited little understanding, and a lot of tinkering, which is why the Wrights were able to leap so far ahead of them.
> The byproducts (generally leaking radioactive waste)

The idea that nuclear waste 'leaks' anything is absurd and defiantly not generally true.

While of course the output is toxic, its also highly controlled and does not come into contact with anything.

Its long lasting but it also contains lots of useful stuff that, if we continue to use nuclear power and other nuclear byproducts will turn very valuable.

> Third, the demand for energy is, for the most part, contrived. We are sold on the ideas of the need for one car for each person, the need for cars to travel in the first place, whole house heating and cooling, electrical solutions to simple manual tasks, etc ad infinitum. We could massively reduce energy needs by using low-power and no-power solutions.

Sure if you forced everybody how you would like to live then we could do a lot. The idea that we should artificially restrict peoples energy needs as a way to save the plant just so we can avoid the very minor issue of nuclear waste is absurd.
No, spark discharge EMI is a broad spectrum signal.
It is!

But calling it "getting closer to production readiness" feels a tad insulting.

It's probably just a bit of snark, so it's not worth getting up in arms about, but it's not really friendly phrasing.
Consequences. If it's disposable income, your hobby can be blending $100 bills into mulch to grow a bonsai tree. If you are eating up your retirement at 40, it's a disease.

Of course I'm not an expert whatsoever. Just my loose sense.
In Australia at least, this is becoming harder as time goes on. Several good alternatives have been purchased by one conglomerate. I know several businesses that did everything right in buying two or even three sets of connectivity from different suppliers, and now what they have are different trading names for the same company providing a service on the same network.
Go play you some old school Counter Strike - with a handgun containing 7 bullets, you can frag 7 players. Also, 1 other player with 1 bullet can frag you just as easily(or not, headshots are tricky).
Yeah, they're doing this plan to Evansville, IN. And it's one hell of a job. They've killed downtown, since there's no 'outer areas' to park. Sidewalks are in complete disarray, and cars still zoom on past.

But the center areas where there are no cars also is set up for no people to move about. The road ledges are still there, so handicapped people cant just use their wheelchairs. It's the worst of both worlds.
I think I'm somewhat in the wrong here, as while I think my general point has merit, I don't this it does in this case on this story. I made the mistake of going partially from memory on this story, since this is at least my fourth time encountering is (twice in audio form, once on a prior submission here I believe). Upon reviewing it closer, they do revisit the visual note later while noting the reason the card is useful is because it allows for easily beating an opponent, clearly correcting any misinterpretation that might have been earlier introduced.

So... sorry for wasting both our time. :/
This is exactly the goal. I would never use medevac option for non emergency care.

My plan is local insurance for non resident for normal non emergency care (we pay for flights) + the option for repatriation in case of emergency surgery required abroad
Large roads are a good indicator of places everybody goes through.

People rarely want to go there. Some are built so traffic is moved from where people actually want to go into some place that is not too far (by car) but will not disturb the destination; others are built at the end of a set of smaller roads, linking to a different set at the other end.
I've worked from my house for roughly 10 years and I will be honest there are days when I question my own sanity. I have a wife and teenagers, so after around 3pm my day is useless, hence I work early or late, and I just expect 3-10pm to be crappy for work (which generally is totally fine). Currently I am working early mornings anyway, like 4am to 1pm or so.

There are also some days where my wife just has 0 respect for my office door and just keeps walking in interrupting me until she sees me look at her with that specific stay the fuck away, but remember I love you, look. Years of doing this has led to a balance but it takes time to get to, and some days it just doesn't work to be honest. If I know I have a critical day coming up, I always prep my family ahead of time, if it becomes one of those days midway through, I lock the door and tell them to give me time. They have figured this out and it works pretty good now without any friction or hurt feelings.

Outside of this, I also like to schedule and spend time at hot desk spaces some days and just go to a coffee shop or similar places other times. It helps to just have a different physical view some days IMO. I also will just sometimes leave the house without a destination and find a corner in a park or near the ocean and work, which anyplace near water is my personal heaven, so that usually lets me function and refocus some which is helpful.

I have done super critical conference calls from my truck when I am out or even from my back yard with just a quick finger for mute. Honestly sometimes I think this is better for me personally, because being outside and walking around almost helps me think clearer some days. I figured this out when I worked in the office actually, as I used to use walking (outside) meetings as a way to do 1-1's.
It's not a rational argument so it can't be understood from that lens.
Modern canard designs also use active controls to compensate for the instability. You're right about the CG location relative to the center of pressure, but to make the canard effective it has to be big enough to also make it unstable.
My totally subjective opinion: In US/Canadian telecom, any business formed from legacy near-monopoly ILEC (incumebent local exchange carrier) staff, they neither have a clue nor give a fuck. It's a corporate cultural attitude left over from days when ILECs truly were the last-mile monopoly carriers in many cities.

In this case Centurylink is composed of former Embarq, Qwest (USWest) and other ILEC entities.

My opinion also applies to entities like Bell, Telus, Verizon and Frontier.

If you look at the people who run the core routers of their ASes, sure they know what they're doing, but they're so insulated from actually talking to a customer through myriad layers of corporate bureaucracy, that their clue level might as well be irrelevant.
Of course the records will sound better; they will have their dynamic range squashed to fit the medium. Compression sounds nice: all the quiet parts are so clear, yet the transients are cleanly articulated.

Compressed audio, like from a record player, also works better with a cheap back end. Protecting the record player's needle from skipping out also helps the amplifier and speakers.
1. Not necessarily. It would probably be more accurate to say 'if you want to get hired in Silicon Valley/some startup/tech company using the latest tech, then you need to know the tools in fashion'. If you don't mind not getting $100,000+ a year or not working in Silicon Valley, there are many thousands of companies hiring developers who don't need knowledge of whatever's popular at the moment, either because they've got an old system and need someone to maintain it or because they just work with older technology for many/all their projects.

You could also easily get into contracting or freelance development too, since many companies don't really care what tech a developer/team uses so long as the work gets done.

2. But this is definitely true. Additionally, your average Joe doesn't care about the tech you use. They care about what the product actually does, and if works well...they won't care if it's React or jQuery (or whatever).
If the center is already built and occupied to its legal limit, you can't get a population-level change from this.
> he realized that electromagnetic interference from his neighbors’ appliances was propagating through their shared power lines, reducing the quality of the sound he was getting.

This actually seems a lot more reasonable to me than the monster cable level of absurdity audiophiles are famous for.

When I last visited family my sister's home's electricity exhibited all sorts of overload artifacts. Her lights would dim when the neighbor's AC or refrigerator compressor ran. I convinced her to contact ComEd about it as it suggested there was an overloaded supply shared across their homes making voltages sag under load.

They sent someone out to just look around her house and act like they did something, then said nothing's wrong. Of course they're not interested in actually fixing the infrastructure when it involves costly work.

She's had an exceptional number of electrical appliances fail over the years she's owned the home as well, which I presume is related.

But I figure with this audiophile guy he could just run the system off a UPS using the mains just to top up the batteries.
People live in a fantasy world when thinking about solar. Solar is nicely visible and gives people a worm heard.

The reality is that solar is a tiny part of global energy and even in countries like Japan it did not even come close to replacing nuclear.

Japan will have nuclear future because they simply have to much capacity already. However the poplar nature of nuclear politics makes it a problem, they will continue to be import depended and fossil fuel for many years to come.
This must be satire, right?
how do you increase the enforcement of distracted driving?
Allocating pieces of a resource without accounting for reusing released resources?
My lived experience is that public transit is great. I take BART 5 days a week and have a 15 minute late experience once every few months.

This to me is something like the “I can’t live in a city because I can’t afford a 2000 square foot detached unit” issue.

You just need to modify your expectations. I’m far happier and less stressed not driving every day - but yes, it’s noisy and I have to stand and sometimes something smells bad.

There’s room for improvement, but that doesn’t mean public transit is unuseable.
I, McRobot
>have quit them easily.

???

>Why not ask for convincing evidence for those statements instead

Because I'm not replying to someone making such a statement.
With a machine that is already being marketed and sold to the mining industry... Seems like the discovery happened quite a long time ago. This is a really bad "news" article for UAlberta to publish for so many reasons.
Why not just use fish for scripting? That's what I do as zsh as shell works better for me as well.

Shell scripting finally looks a little saner thanks to fish.
>So it runs the risk of being used to stifle dissent as an instrument of the state. So much for making the world more open and connected.

This is an argument I've been repeatedly using here.

The amount of people on Facebook, the amount of people in USA who receive their sole amount of news from Facebook (68%) is crazy! Stifling any dissent against states, primarily dissent against USA and its own system and allies I'm willing to bet.
Does this mean AI is getting good or humans (at least ones AI has been compared to) are pretty low bar to clear and just chinese-rooming the arguments would pass as a debate? Reading some internet forums, it's hard not to think a bot could produce many of the comments. Watching some political coverage only intensifies the feeling. How many of the debates, on average, can be classified as more than chinese-rooming?

I wonder if anybody did a sort of reverse Turing test - just like regular one but no computers involved at all, unknown to the tester which is told one of them is an AI, and how many people would be declared failing it?

> Another IBM researcher suggested that this technology could help judge fake news.

That part is actually scary. Opaque algorithms from IBM would decide for us what are facts and what are fakes? And they'd know how? Because IBM marketing dept said they're so good? Thanks but no thanks.
Remember when that guy cut the fiber along 280 in about 2009 or something resulting in major outages.

And then again in 2015.

Also, there was that kid who put together areport of all infra cable runs for a thesis and the FBI confiscated it...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/F...
How many software engineers had to study IEEE floating point in (any amount of) detail? Part of my formal education is in computer (hardware) engineering, and we studied hardware number representations and manipulations quite extensively in my microprocessors courses, so I developed some facility with the topic once upon a time.
The part about balancing the budget is true, though. We have the lowest deficit in many years and (supposedly) on track to surplus in 2020. This is undeniably good news for long-term sustainability.
Exactly! I don't understand all the complaining about the complexity of the front-end; if you don't like modern front-end tools you're not obligated to use them, all the old tools work just fine. Just because someone releases their own work for free on the internet doesn't mean you're obligated to use it. If you don't understand what problems a particular tool solves, you definitely shouldn't be using it. Stick to what you know or deal with the learning curve. It's literally a software engineer's job to figure out the best tools to solve the problem at the lowest cost, if you're just picking the most popular tools because they're popular then you are to blame.

I don't buy the employment gripe either. If you don't like working with the tools that are popular in front-end development then it's time to pick a different job. There's plenty of work in java, ruby, c#, swift, go, kotlin, cpp etc, and a bunch of legacy PHP/JS systems that function in completely different paradigms and ecosystems. If you're fresh out of school and JS is the only language you know and you're frustrated by all the complexity, that's not anyone's fault except your own lack of experience. Stop expecting everyone to stop working on free tools because they confuse you.

/rant off
Record pressers do have very good DA-converters. That's what they do!
Thanks for taking the time to explain the details.

If we were to start with a clean slate, could we come up with something natural while still having a clean design with respect to commands? Would it be worth it?

The fact that those details haven't sunk in after more than a decade points to an opportunity for a better design, I think. For example, I can pick up Go, Java, Perl, PHP, JS, Nim, etc and memorize the if-statement details in about 5 minutes. Whether or not anyone would use such a shell, I don't know.
How about Internet Download Manager or FlashGet. Thinking about these things take me back. :)

https://i.imgur.com/Imc5Lgp.gif
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> However, avoid situations in which you need dynamic_cast like the plague.

You need dynamic_cast for dynamic interface queries ("does this object support X?"), even in the absence of virtual inheritance.

Some would say that there's no downside to always using it when you can. If what you're doing is an upcast, it's a no-op. If it's a downcast, then at least you get an exception instead of an invalid pointer that may or may not blow up if what you're casting is not of the correct type.

> Before you start using "friend class", consider whether you could get around it somehow. If a class is not public-facing, set everything public and enforce encapsulation by self-discipline rather than language features.

Why? It's a language feature that's there to help you enforce said discipline. What's the downside?

> I really wish class memory layout were standardised more, but at least some non-standard assumptions are fairly safe in my experience: e.g. class A : B {...} ... B * x; assert((long)static_cast<A* >(x) == (long)x);

That the object is allocated at the same address as its base subobject is guaranteed by the standard, if I remember correctly. Your particular assert is not, though, because long is not guaranteed to fit a pointer (and doesn't, on Win64).

> printf over iostream.

Not only you lose type safety, but it's extremely easy to write code that kinda sorta works but actually doesn't. The most common case is passing a struct with a single field to printf - this is actually implementation-defined, and some implementations detect it and treat it as invalid, while others just put the contents of the struct on stack. So it happens sometimes that people e.g. pass std::string that way, expecting it to work with %s - and it does... on that one implementation, and for that particular string. Then it breaks elsewhere.

iostream is still bad tho, both design-wise and perf-wise. The answer is actually Boost, which has proper typesafe formatting.

> (de)allocate classes with new/delete, but POD with malloc/free

There's no benefit to using malloc/free whatsoever, and it forces you to cast.

> Avoid std::tuple, std::variant and other awkward STL attempts to replicate functional language idiom without the syntactic support

Tuple has syntactic support as of C++17:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/structured_bindin...

> No to exceptions; their interaction with other language features is awkward, and the eternal difficulties with platform support make me feel no confidence in the reliability of the feature.

If you ditch exceptions, you might as well ditch constructors as well, since there's no way to report errors from them otherwise. You're also forced to use new(nothrow) then. Basically, the language is designed around exceptions, and excluding them is fighting it.

But I don't see the point. C++ exceptions have been supported and stable on all platforms for a long time now. On sane platforms (i.e. not x86, but e.g. amd64), they're also zero-time-cost at runtime for the non-exceptional path. It's not the 90s anymore.