skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This add-on can "Access your data for all websites".

That seems both risky and somewhat overkill considering its features. Does Firefox not support targeting a specific domain yet? Or is part of the problem that medium allows custom domains (it does, right?).
I agree 100%. I live in Finland; our neighbour, Sweden, was early with carbon tax. Our tax/govt structures are otherwise very similar. Sweden's carbon footprint per capita is roughly 50% of ours.
> https://www.codeforamerica.org/

Does anyone know of good examples of such initiatives in the EU?
Have to disagree. With the mechanical wear interaction between the stylus and groove, it's often estimated that you start to lose detail after about 10 plays.

Plus a whole lot of EQ compromises have to be made to stop the stylus jumping out of the groove, which don't exist on digital formats.

So if you add up the HF and LF rolloffs, rumble, wow, and general snap crackle and pop from vinyl that probably isn't completely dust-free, you have a grab-bag of imperfections that won't exist in a FLAC file ripped from a CD when it was mint and free of read errors.
> use WASM outside the browser (I don't even know if that's a thing)

Not mainstream, but absolutely a thing. There's people even looking at running it in Ring 0.

https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
One more mystery: if all of this is true, why isn’t small business formation higher? After all none of these factors (besides mismeasurement) applies to you if you have a small business.

But if anything, business formation is down.

(Also, the charts by educational attainment are meaningless. There has been a huge shift within categories. Being a high school dropout in 1960 meant something completely different than today)
Sprint announces first solid plans to unveil 5G infrastructure at MWC19
I refuse to fall for that bait.
NEVER GIVE UP! I will not go into how precious life is, although it really is!

I am in your situation as well for almost over an year now. Been through 2 severe panic attacks and 2 times at the ER. Nothing helps more than hope and doing something (Don`t drinkg though!)

There was a time I was applying for jobs as a Job... 9 to 5. Drinking heavily beer and coffee. My wife left and I fucked up so much more than the stupid concept of a "job". I didn`t give up... I set down and drew a line... than set priorities and Goals. I started looking less into Job openings, started working out (not in the gym, nature is the cheapest gym - running, hiking etc.) Than when in a month or two when my mind and organism cleared from the "fog" innovative ideas started to come. In another half an year (a bit financial help here from parents and friends) and after some reading, I started my own Business.

In another 1 year, found the most amazing woman...

What I am trying to say is that EVEN when you can`t see any light, it doesn`t mean there is none! You are in a "storm" right now, and as every storm it will pass! Sometimes the only but vital effort one Needs to do is to Keep it all togehter! Don`t give up, and try to twist your mind into a positive loop by Setting small Goals and making small steps. You will get there!
Wow, that's surprising to me because of smoking alone. When I lived there briefly in the early 90s, it seemed like everyone smoked. I wonder if that's changed dramatically or is just drowned out by other metrics...
Neurons can be understood to be fairly directional. There is no direct electrical connection between neurons: there's actually a small gap between the upstream neuron and the downstream neuron. When the electrical signal reaches this gap, the up-stream neuron releases a chemical signal, which is processed by the down-stream.

So the state of the up-stream neuron depends very little on the down-stream neuron: if the down-stream neuron is in it's refractory period and can't process the chemical signal, the up-stream neuron can still fire all day, and the chemicals it releases will essentially fall on deaf ears.

That is a somewhat simplified view, and there is such a thing as retrograde signaling (chemical messaging from the post-synaptic neuron to the pre-synaptic neuron), but it's believed these signals have less to do with the primary flow of information in the brain, and probably relate to slower processes like modifying the strength of the chemical signal in the affected synapse.
I recently saw a thing about xmonad not under any circumstances being ported to wayland, due to its very high level of integration with X. Which to me read as, would require a rewrite rather than there can be no successor. Still, someone does have to actually put in the work.
> It's obviously a workstation computer with media capabilities. The word desktop implies pretty much that.

What? No.

A desktop is a computer sitting on the top of your desk. And on the software-side there is the Desktop Metaphor, which describes an interface that behaves like the top of your desk, with free arrangement of all meaning of your work.

This article on the other side describes a workspace with multiple machines and mostly no free arrangement of work-elements. So it's not fullfilling the hardware-definition, and pretty weak on the software-definition.

This article is clearly about a workspace that blows beyond the classical workspace-definition of a desktop. Which is good IMHO, but means we need better namings for such things, and even if it's just for the sake to distinguish different tools and workflows. We are now moving to integrate Mobile Devices like iOS&Android into our workspaces, and on Windows-tablets we have touch-interfaces which start to be very different from normal mouse&keyboard-interfaces. And then there is also the classical terminal-interface, which this article is very heavy leaning toward.
As far as I understand this paper, the experiment did not generate a multicellular species. Perhaps the experiment actually generated an algae colony?
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Those books were both brilliant. I don't recall his tech books being "bad", at least in terms of being somehow worse the the other Windows programming books that several large publishing houses cranked in volume.
For this number of connections you want to disable JIT in sysbench with the –luajit-cmd=off option. The option is available in 1.1 prereleases. In 1.0 the same could be achieved by adding a single line (“jit.off()”) to oltp_common.lua.
I'm Spanish and live here and I'd say people smoke a lot less than they used to after laws were passed a few years ago banning smoking from pretty much any indoor space that isn't residential. I know few people who smoke and those who do don't smoke _a lot_. French people on the other hand, pretty much every person I know, even here living in Barcelona, smokes like crazy.
Maybe it’s naive, but I’ve often thought law itself should be spelled out in code. Obviously some things are human judgement. But take those as inputs into an unbiased machine that outputs fair sentencing, procurement etc. Still let meatbags review it at least for the time being. It could be a guidance system for judges and juries at least at first. Seems like it could help clear cases quicker and provide fairness.
It did change! In fact now smoking is prohibited near schools and inside bars and clubs. Some people smoke, but not almost everybody as before.
I haven’t checked since 1.10 but at that time you could definitely see what I presume was the impact of lack of compaction on heap allocations over time. That is allocations would take longer as your program ran longer.

This is mitigated quite a bit by how much gets stack allocated but I imagine there are workloads that this hampers a lot, in particular large in memory data sets.

That’s not to disagree with your point the GC improvements are great for my workloads but only to point out there is a cost to them.
Well there is Gooey, FWIW: https://pypi.org/project/Gooey/
I'm always kind of amazed at this kind of desktop setups, and I guess they're not suitable for lots of people for the simple reason that most users have a "consumer" relationship with computers and not a "producer" one.

My biggest question here for people with this kind of text setup would be: don't you surf the web? Do you use then lynx or another text web browser? What about services and platforms that are designed from scratch with images and video as a prominent part of that UI? (Twitter, Facebook, Amazon store for example)?

I guess you simply switch to a visual browser and some visual tool to play video (vlc, mplayer), but I'm curious and I wonder if that text/keyboard mode can be satisfying or convincing for users that are used on the traditional visual UI with windows, icons and the mouse paradigm.

I see the advantages here (OP mentions some of them), but I wonder if the trade offs for the normal user are to big to work in this kind of setup. Who would you recommend this to?
"There's no way you can do something similar with spreadsheets?"

You can, but the author is using tools that are more familiar to him, and hence more productive for him.

Just like when doing some quick and dirty analysis, some people will reach for Excel, some for R, some for Pandas. None of those people is wrong.

Some people go too far the other way: spend too much time learning new tools, and not enough creating things of value.
Some individuals are perhaps purely intrinsicly motivated, but I think it's a very tiny minority. I also think there is a good chance that intrinsic motivation itself is a status enhancing adaptation, evolved by runaway selection. So ultimately, you are executing this adaptation whether you want or not, much like this fish carefully creating beautiful patterns in the sand, not knowing why he is doing it. It's all about sex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B91tozyQs9M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway
For depression, try https://www.7cups.com or https://www.talkspace.com, my therapist on 7cups helped me get through some really tough times. Also their community is amazing. I highly recommend trying them.

As for the job search, it takes a long time to get a new job, the fact that you're getting interviews is a victory of its own, just keep at it. Also if you're having trouble finding a job in a particular city, you could try expanding your search, like in different a city or country. You could also try applying for remote jobs, those are becoming increasingly popular and also pay quite well. Hope that helps, please feel free to dm me @amadkn on twitter if you want to talk. No one should deal with depression alone.
Addressing Critical Issues of the Government
Full stack then, he can build stuff fully from the ground up!
The evidence is to the contrary as you said. I just think that the only way to get people to actually do this is to let the markets work it out.

I'm not saying, at all, that the "invisible hand" will sort it out by itself. Agreed: that's ridicilously naive, or worse (bad faith).

I mean that if regulators force the costs of externalities into the market, things could work out.

When I'm shopping for milk, my local grocery has options like organic, and locally produced (within county). Which is the green choice? Soy milk is likely less co2 intensive, but then again it's shipped from across the globe. I do not know. And this is just milk.

I'd prefer the govt to tax greenhouse gases to oblivion. Then it becomes easy for me and others.
Maybe because of the misconception that CD is a compressed digital format like mp3?

Cuz it's not. CDs use the same sound encoding method as vinyl, just stored in variable reflectiveness instead of variable height. The "files" you see when you pop one in your computer is an abstraction generated by the operating system, they're not really there, there's not any digital data after the table of contents.
Nobody who promotes GCs calls it “fearless memory management”. So no. The same thing cannot be said for GC.
Indeed, the public healthcare system in Spain, while still great compared to most of the world, is a shadow of what it once was, with the rampant privatization done by the Government in the last decade. A really sad situation. That being said, decent private healthcare here is about 100€/month, so while private healthcare is still considered "a luxury" (because public one is pretty good), it's still very very far from the cost of US private healthcare.
I used cassettes a lot a while back. I took my cds and made tapes of them for my car and Walkman. Had a pretty good tape deck for my home stereo (Yamaha 3 head..)

Cassettes are terrible. You have to clean the pinch rollers a lot or you can get a weird “wah” sound as the speed changes slightly as the tape is being pulled through.

And the hiss, even with Dolby b noise removal it was kinda not great. Dolby c and Dbx where so much better but without having it on walkmen/car players the point was lost.

OccTionally you’d get a jam and the tape would pull out of the shell. you’d have to try and get the tape back inside without a twist..see the first photo in the article

It was an interesting format (write protect tabs on the top, that would prevent you from recording over accidentally. There were also differ holes in the top of the tape which indicated which “type” of tape it was (cro2, metal or normal)

I don’t miss them though.
Rotating plastic that relies on sensitive optics?

I mean, that sounds fragile when you put it like that, but in reality you can go to any thrift store and pick up a 1988 CD player and a 1982 CD and it will more than likely play perfectly. CD transport and decoding has been a solved problem for literally decades. CD is very, very robust as long as you handle the discs like an adult.
> I do not think there would, at any point, suddenly appear some entity within that machine suddenly imagining itself driving the deterministic decisions occurring within

Why would you think something like that??!! I'm really curious of your reasoning...

To me and other peoples like me, both reason and intuition are "99.9%" sure that this is how it all works. Life / the universe / math / is full of emergent phenomena/properties, things that you'd say "suddenly appear". Even in pure math, even basic and boring areas like number theory have deep structure in them unseen if you just think from the "basic principles" step by step.

The illusion is the opposite kinds of things: things where you (mistakenly believe) you understand the full causal sequence of things and that there are no extra things that can pop out of the darkness and surprise your reason. This is plain arrogance. "Step by step rational reasoning" doesn't work except in a very very small number of cases. Because natural processes can only rarely be approximated to a human-brain-friendly number of steps - most of the time you can't reason A -> B -> C because there's a gazillion steps from A to C, and they're all no-linear eg. you can't "compress them" into a fewer number of steps (btw, this is the insight behind deeps neural networks and "deep learning" - very very basic math operations + some adequate non-linear transforms between them ---> "emergent" intelligence).

"Rational thought" as understood naively by lots of non-techical people is a weird distorted aberration.

If I were to subscribe to mystical viewpoint, it would likely be some form of pan-teism or "the entire universe is conscious / pure consciousness" whatever thing, it's the only thing that would even remotely make sense... the whole idea of "soul" and all that ghost-in-the-machine and "chinese room argument" nonsenses deriving from that... I almost feel that you people thinking this way are an entire different species from us, how can you "compute" like that? It's almost as if human brains "diverged" at some point and produced two different types of minds with completely different views of the world...
Dry grass catches fire quite easily and high gravity shouldn't hinder the growth of low grass.

If not grass, dried escrements are also good fuel. People use them in areas of this world with little or no trees.
I remember people smoking everywhere in the US, too, though.

In fact, moving to NYC I was struck by how I still saw people smoking because of how infrequent it was elsewhere
National politics (Catalonia, etc). But there's also an endemic issue with spending on unnecessary infrastructure while underfunding heavily used infrastructure (such as public transportation in large cities); our budgets never seem to be able to reduce debt, and our pension system is doomed to explode, because eventually there will be more retired than working people.
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False. Lots of software uses pthreads and its direct wrappers.

Correctly? What does anyone ever do correctly in software? Does anyone write GUIs correctly? Does anyone do databases correctly? Proving even simple software correct is an enormous endeavor that most pragmatic programmers simply never have the luxury to do. So proclaiming that threads are bad because nobody does them “correctly” is setting an arbitrarily high standard. Or maybe you just don’t know what that word means.
It's not all-or-nothing. Just because you use a tiling window manager and like to operate it with the keyboard doesn't mean you can't use your mouse any more.

I used to use i3, and I used Firefox for browsing.

I used the keyboard to layout the windows where it was more convenient, but I clicked on buttons with a mouse when that was more convenient.

I now use the standard Ubuntu setup, not for any particular reason, just because it's the default. I often miss being able to conveniently layout terminal windows with just a few keystrokes. Trying to keep terminal windows neatly tiled with a non-tiling window manager is so annoying that I don't even bother.
Datomic uses datalog which can select any entity based on an expression about attributes, no need to say FROM table name or entity type. Basically entities have an id and can have any attribute. The official doc [1] gives the example of querying all movies by selecting all entities which have a `movie/title` attribute: `[:find ?e :where [?e :movie/title]]`. In that example the `movie` namespace really plays the role of a table name, or entity type, but as I said, namespaces can represent anything and entities can have any attributes, e.g. `[:find ?e :where [?e :audit/last-modified-by "user123"]]` would return any entity last modified by a given user. Note that this latter example is not really how you would capture last modified info in datomic, one would use transaction data [2] instead. Another example is master data management whereby attribute namespaces can refer to the different data sources, e.g. `accounting-system/id`, `supplier/id`, etc.

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/getting-started/query-the-d...

[2] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/transactions.html#reified-t...
Sadly, the political landscape has been pretty much monopolized by the Catalonian independence issue, with politicians using it as a smoke screen to cover way more important issues like constant corruption scandals, rampant privatization of health care, double-digit yearly increases in utility bills, housing rent bubble, etc.
So I, the tool maker, deserve ALL of the extra profits you generate via the use of my tools, from now until the end of time?
I often find myself fighting with the language but the runtime more than makes up for it.

In particular the GC & thread scheduler are great. The fact that they are accessible and digestible by the average go dev is so impressive a testament to their authors and their focus.
Given that the life expectancy is so high maybe it makes sense to raise the retirement age here by a few years more.
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Maybe you should try a ready-made licensing system? Try ready-made DRM-systems (Digital rights management). You can find a lot of information on Wikipedia. There are examples of free and paid programs.
Also, you can use a ready-to-use key-making tool. ArmDot for example. As usual, such programs are paid. But maybe you can find something free on the GitHub. Good luck!
Since I already had it open (for unrelated reasons), this might be relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorit...

> The Smith–Waterman algorithm performs local sequence alignment; that is, for determining similar regions between two strings of nucleic acid sequences or protein sequences.
Sorry, forgot to set the Sarcasm New Roman font again!
Every Turing complete primitive makes it possible to get an incorrect result. Every Turing complete primitive inevitably generates bugs. That’s the reality. Singling our threads because they also obey that basic law of computer science is a little selective, don’t you think?

I understand what the thing they call “fearless concurrency” is. And I will repeat again: it’s skittish concurrency. It’s for fearful people.
What is SOP?
This seems to have massively changed all over Europe. When I was a kid in the 90s you could go into bars that were foggy with smoke. TV characters would do it.

Nowadays it's generally not cool anymore, it's seen as a vice and people will sdmit so when they ask if it's okay.
I dont know if law can be reduced to code, and it should ideally be intelligible and accessible to the average person, it seems?

Reminds me of this video, where a physicist argues math is not the language of the universe because it cannot convey meaning about many human concepts.(1)

Anyways, it's not like most people, or even apparently police officers, understand even basics about the law right now, anyways.(2)

1 -
https://youtu.be/inPcQeYWVT8

2- https://youtu.be/4ap6Kmo69lQ
I would be happy to be wrong, but I will predict that in the average meeting of ten people with equal distribution, about 2/3 of the meeting will be from a single person talking which is male, and the person talking least in the meeting will also be male.
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What about packaging & distribution? Unless I missed something, it's up to us to package & ship our app complete with assets.

I firmly believe that this project is incomplete without a standard like .war (Web ARchive, from the Java ecosystem).

Of course, you could just use what's out there eg. .app (macos) or .appimage (gnu/linux) but there has to be a well-defined and clearly endorsed way of distributing wasmer'd apps.
I'm just going on Cinebench scores I've done on my own machines.

T480S i5 141
T460S i5 105
X220 i5 100

Not much of a jump in the 4 generations from the X220 to the T460S but quite a jump going to the T480S.

Double the score of the X220 and quadruple the score of the T480 and you're going to end up about 575 to 205 for multicore, which is almost 3X as fast.

This doesn't even bring GPU or SSD performance into the picture. Just raw CPU.

I love my X220 but Windows 10 will regularly bring it to it's knees, even with an SSD and 8GB of RAM. And that's not even doing anything, I'm not sure if it's updating or what. Not to mention it's not exactly a thin machine, the 1366x768 screen is mediocre...The 1080/2K IPS screens coming to the Thinkpad line finally made them usable, IMO. Even the old IPS screens in the X220 tablets were still dim, low-resolution, etc.
> modifying the LEM to permit Unknowable as a third category

LEM doesn't need to be modified, and it's not a third category. In classical logic (with LEM), unlike in constructive/intuitionistic logic (no LEM), truth and provability are simply not the same -- in fact, it is LEM that creates that difference.

> Instead we maintain that it has a truth value one way or the other, but that it happens to be both unknowable and of no consequence.

Precisely! That is the difference between classical and constructive logic. In constructive logic truth and provability are the same, and something is neither true nor false until it has been proven or refuted. But before you conclude that this kind of logic, without LEM, is obviously better (philosophically), you should know that any logic has weirdnesses. What happens without LEM, for example, is that it is not true that every subset of a finite set is necessarily finite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯