skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I refuse to use a plain text editor for my personal notes. Bold, italic, underline, text highlighting... these are all things that help me organize text and draw my attention to certain areas. Asterisks simply don't do the same job, visually.
It got me too. I've now disabled JS for that site in uMatrix.
Cryptocurrency will take its place :)
Millennials will flock to alt coins just as the old people went into stamps
It was a figurative "sick fuck" not an insult to op, although I see now how it could look that way.
If the “happiness/satisfaction” metric is rubbish though, then all the correlations are fairly meaningless, and are of interest only to the extent that they do or do not back up one’s own political opinions.

Applying this scale cross-culturally, you just wind up measuring some weird convolution between actual subjective well-being and some kind of “what range of values is it culturally acceptable to answer this personal question about my wellbeing from a stranger with?” effect.
Not really, what you see rather is Crony capitalism which is when government and large corporations work together to further their interests, often in what should be considered an illegal way.
Many laws and societal norms don’t require universal acceptance. So it’s totally reasonable for you to not care, while society in general feels the opposite. Or vice versa.

And in your case of the note taker, a better example would be somebody that frequently follows you, and takes notes about what you wear. In many places, that could be grounds for harassment claim. In other words, it’s not the act that matters to most people, but the frequency and scale at which the act takes place.
It certainly seems like her looks and stylishness are major factors in her popularity (especially when compared to a more accomplished woman like Lisa Su), but you think that is a good thing?
This is an interesting line of thinking, certainly valueable in some sense.

It is also a very good example of exactly what the previous post refers to: overthinking stuff.
sorry... what ? https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/glspec45.co...
I know in theory you can spend money that destroys value. You don't even need to rely on weird supply/demand curves, you could just pay for bomber jets to literally firebomb a city.

But realistically how could Montana get an 80% increase in efficiency while providing similar services to the federal government?

And according to normal economics textbooks increasing market rent isn't destroying value. If more people move to a city which drives up demand and rent. Economists don't think of that as value destruction. In classic economics textbooks the value destruction caused by subsidized rent is that some people will spend $1000 on rent that they would never rent without the subsidy because they only get $800 of value from it + the dead weight loss of the taxes that funded that subsidy.
fork() is also missing from every other OS that isn't an UNIX clone.
> For while Smith might be publicly lauded by those who put their faith in private capitalist enterprise, and who decry the state as the chief threat to liberty and prosperity, the real Adam Smith painted a rather different picture. According to Smith, the most pressing dangers came not from the state acting alone, but the state when captured by merchant elites.

> The context of Smith’s intervention in The Wealth of Nations was what he called ‘the mercantile system’. By this Smith meant the network of monopolies that characterised the economic affairs of early modern Europe. Under such arrangements, private companies lobbied governments for the right to operate exclusive trade routes, or to be the only importers or exporters of goods, while closed guilds controlled the flow of products and employment within domestic markets.

The real Adam Smith: https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-look-closely-at-what-adam-s...

Still as relevant today I believe.
Citation needed that Turbotax is better than the government software that is used to validate millions of tax returns.

So much of this is just re-running information that other entities like employers, banks, etc. have already furnished to the IRS with a slim bit of additional data on top of it (vast majority of Americans) that there's no reason the IRS can't just compute it directly since that's what they're doing already when they validate a return.
Emacs can run as an elisp interpreter, check out the '--script' switch. This makes it possible to run org-export without starting an emacs session.
Life is simply a game with non-perfect knowledge. It's not chess or go, it's more like Dota or poker.
Mozilla Preparing to Test WebRender with “Qualified” Linux Users
Having private security companies makes sense to protect your operations in certain areas where police is deficient. But you will not really see companies invading territories using force these days. That is pretty much the monopoly of government forces.
Ideas That Will Shape Design in the Years to Come
I don’t work for Google but my employer serves food. This is not true in my experience. Folks finish dinner at 6 and gtfo. Or they pack the food in containers on their way out and eat at home. Having the option of eating lunch within the office means I can spend less time on it and go home sooner. Same productivity, but less time spent at work.
Luckily for you Emacs lets you set the faces (emacs's name for syntax highlighting) however you want it. You get the best of both worlds: convenient keyboard interface and marked up text in the editor.
Doctors discover four live bees feeding on tears inside woman's eye
The book's code is implemented in Ruby, and the source is here, according to the author, around 6000 lines (haven't checked myself).

https://github.com/jcoglan/jit

If you'd really like to make a Java equivalent of any specific algorithm you can start even without a book.

I guess that anybody not versed in Ruby would first have to understand a lot of Ruby details first. The author mentions other efforts relatively similar to his, in other languages, like http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html which is node JavaScript.
>Which gets even more difficult when places like Georgia Tech are offering fully accredited Masters of Science in Comp Sci programs, delivered fully online, for a grand total of $7500 in tuition… I don't think any sort of 'certificate' or accreditation approach was the right strategy for them… But not a single one ever even asked if I had obtained any sort of certificates from them. No one cared, not even for a second.

I agree (my personal experience was similar as a dropout with regards to getting a onsite software jobs, pretty easy when staying away from Big Tech™), they needed some other way, and tried to fight a battle that even traditional schools are finding themselves needing to step into (at least for CS).

>Would it have mattered any more if it was accredited by some accrediting body? My intuition says no. Employers feel comfortable relying on traditional degrees because they're, well, traditional. But, right or wrong

As someone who is constantly looking for alternatives that will fit for me for the types of problems I want to work on, this is the part that sucks to deal with. I enjoyed working/contracting for research labs in different (neuroimaging and a chemical engineering lab) fields than I had when pursing an undergraduate degree that I was only able to get because of someone I knew who could not only identify my interest, but vouch for me personally. From my experience, in the real world there is space for exceptions, but they have to be hacked around now, as there is no clean path. Maybe there is some entrepreneur out there with the right network/skills who could build an online product that could deliver that.

At this point, I can not be bothered paying to go through traditional academic routes because there is so much focus on optimizing for everything but moving a body of knowledge forward. When I see ed-tech companies try to emulate the existing system, I just have to laugh… at least until I see something different. I'm only 27, but I'd recommend to every future HS grad that wants more than the credential value of a degree and gives such a weight of 0, to just abandon all hope from getting that from universities.
It's an excellent time to collect super rare stamps. Common stamps declined in value and a lot of abandoned collections are sold for next to nothing so it's easier than ever to look for some hidden gems. In 10-20 years, when all the random collections disappear it'll be a super specialized market with high prices again based on scarcity. Some years ago when I was into cars, I could buy any beaten up BMWs for less than €1000 including E24 6-series or E9. Sometimes I'd find a gem in super an excellent condition, and it still followed price trend with an abundance of similar cars for sale. Now with all these cars junked to buy a parts E24 you need to have upwards of €7000.
Seeing as this happened 20 years ago and she was quoting from memory, I think we can give her the benefit of the doubt. It could have also been that her view at the time was different than OP's/the person who made the deal & she recalls her opinion as "how it was".

Such things in-fact happened to me (even tho I'm a bit younger than Mayer & my career started a few years later than hers), human memory is really unreliable & a lot of times you remember your feelings & translate those to facts upon recollection even when that wasn't quite the case.
Y2K of GPS causes glitch grounding Bureau of Meteorology weather balloons
Creating a Custom OpenAI Gym Environment for Stock Trading
I'm surprised more people aren't skeptical of the IRS themselves. Inverting the way the US does their taxes would disrupt a lot of careers of a lot of of IRS employees. I would imagine there is considerable pressure to keep the status quo from within the IRS itself.
I'm not sure I agree it's the ideal way to do it. That's a heck of a lot of work for one function to do, and it necessarily duplicates the functionality of a ton of other functions. And that's ignoring the fact that forking without ever exec'ing can be really useful in many cases.

I haven't yet read the paper, but considering the incredible simplicity from the programmer's PoV that fork provides, and the fact that at least Linux makes it pretty god damn fast, especially compared to Windows' non-forking model, I can't really see myself agreeing with their conclusion.
Are there a lot of successful people who don't outsource their domestic work? It is a norm to be expected, not something you "have to disclose".
Boeing shareholders sue over 737 MAX crashes, disclosures
https://abcnews.go.com/US/bmw-recalls-million-vehicles-fire-...

>BMW of North America has issued two recalls covering about one million vehicles that contain parts implicated in car fires.

>The investigation — launched in collaboration with ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Raleigh, N.C. — found more than 40 cases in the last five years in which BMW owners said that parked cars that were not then subject to recalls for fire-related issues spontaneously burst into flames. Some of them, they said, had been turned off for hours or even days.
Oh so the coin-flipper is not setting the price, but trying to predict it? I think at least I understand what you're explaining. I don't see how that is a useful model for what is going on though.

Predicting the result of a vote for a day when it's not going to be held is a form of entertainment that can't be verified. Is Silver claiming any more than that?
Pretty much identical to shared objects on Linux
SEO Benefits. The latter is a keyword domain that might rank well when people search for a generic term.
Also mentioned: The south sea company was basically a huge banking bubble scam. It is quite an interesting tale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kndKWJKB8
It's probably reasonable to consider regulatory capture the same thing, in practice. For instance this [1] was who the former president appointed to a newly created post, which he himself (the president) referred to as 'The Czar of Foods'. He was the effective head of the FDA's food division. He was a Monsanto VP and lobbyist who had argued for such things as allowing companies to knowingly allow at least a minimal amount of carcinogenic material into processed foods. Great guy to be in charge of food safety. It meant that Monsanto was effectively in charge of food safety in the US.

This led to things such as the FDA not even testing foodstuffs for excessive levels of glyphosate until a Government Accountability Report publicized this [2,3], federal legislation prohibiting state labeling requirements for genetically engineered foodstuffs, the FDA opting for no regulations whatsoever specific to genetic engineering instead offering a purely voluntary consultation process and otherwise relying on self regulation, etc. Monsanto's contemporary success was largely a product of government engineering.

The epilogue also feels somehow political. Shortly after Bayer (a German company) bought Monsanto, they suddenly started losing critical court cases in the US. In particular they've now lost two cases in the US with the courts deciding that Monsanto's glyphosate was the cause of the plaintiff's cancer. This, in turn, has now set the precedent and opened the door for some 11,200 more lawsuits against Bayer for glyphosate causing cancer. In something like 3 years we went from 'This product is so safe, we don't even need to test for it.' to 'This product undoubtedly causes cancer and you now owe billions of dollars in damages to thousands of plaintiffs.' The acquisition was a modern day Trojan Horse.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor

[2] - https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-38

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-food-agriculture-glyphosa...
Separate like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure you mean?

I find this really strange. This would hardly be a subtle deception. Are people not able to compartmentalize? Commercial is not consumer. GCP is commercial and has SLA‘s and deprecation policies no different from AWS and Azure.
Got to be honest, if someone told me they worked 80 hour workweeks, I'd assume they paid someone to do their housework. That's just comparative advantage at play. In fact, I wouldn't expect them to even bring up their housework. I honestly don't think that's dishonest.
Class is not about money. This was an iron law up until a couple hundred years ago but the American attempt to create a classless society obscures it. The earlier belief that class was about "blood" was crude and probably mostly inaccurate (although genetic affinity does confer some benefits to a group) but the real mechanism for class transference is more likely the unconscious education that children receive from interacting with their parents and their peer group.

European history is full of destitute monarchs and nobility. The key to understanding the elite is that they are usually not wealthy - they are deeply in debt most of the time and that is what makes them seem so successful.

To understand this simply: suppose you have lots of money. naturally people will try to take it from you and may even kill you to steal it. On the other hand suppose you have lots of debts. Your creditors must keep you alive in order to recover their money and will steer business your way because they have a stake in whatever you earn.

So, counterintutitve as it may seem, having (the right) debts will make it easier to succeed then having lots of money.
Honestly, it feels like everyone here has aphantasia. Learning about aphantasia some weeks ago made me think I had it, but I honestly think it's just people overestimating how you visualise things in your mind.

People make it sound like they are able to see the same with their eyes closed as they can see with their eyes open. Like, I obviously can't see things as well in my mind as with my real eyes, it's very very "hazy" and I can't really imagine any colours. If I imagine a street right now, not a real one, just try to make up one in my mind, I can kind of feel/sense the outlines of the street and that there are houses around, but I don't actually see anything.

Compared to how some people describe them imagining things in their mind it sounds like I'm severely lacking. But the more I read about this, the more I think people are overestimating what other people see in their mind based on what they write. I think most people that claim to have aphantasia don't, while of course I believe some people really do.
The choice of A and B here seems designed merely to frame the conversation as unnecessary prerequisites versus if you say "you must do A before B" it just sounds more agreeable to begin with. In practice though, whether a prerequisite makes sense or not is highly contextual and is not done justice by a reductionist abstraction.
It used to be Google Sites (then part of Google Apps for Business which is now GSuite), Docs and Slides which were indexed by an internal Google search engine called MOMA (which I believe was powered by the Google Search Appliance, but my recollection on this last point is faint)
I'm just using firefox because it's the better browser. it's got better plugins, better settings and better performance (except in cases of google frameworks like angular, but come on, a webframework that "just so happens" to perform better on the vendors browser.."
had 4k video work just fine under linux in firefox for as long as youtube has had 4k videos
Ask me to dive deep into software architecture and I'm all good. Ask me to "visualise" re-arranging the office furniture or think up a children's fantasy story with magic animals - and I'm totally, utterly lost. I have found my "creative outlet" is actually music - DJing. The repetitive logical arrangement of electronic music still gives opportunity to also be creative.

I can relate to the lack of interest in fiction books others have written on this thread. I struggle to visualise what's going on with the characters/scenes so get bored (and frustrated) very quickly.

Oddly I can relate strongly to your point 2. My father is the same - emotions get switched off and practical mode kicks in. He's working on a solution to one of the problems as a result of whatever's happening around us, be it financial, logistical, or anything which could "help" in his eyes. It's not so much put bad experiences behind me, but rather put them in a mental box (ironically, I can't imagine) and not worrying about it.
Pretty sad too because the adjunct teachers were actually the best teachers I ever had in college! They were good because they had real world experience and were there because they actually wanted to teach. I would even say to completely avoid any tenured teachers unless they have a really good rating on rate my professor.
So basically even if the IRS wanted to create a system, they would be competing with a free system anyway?

And the IRS wouldn't go out and do a system for each state.
That line of argument leads to never being able to report anything. Just report it, and let the police and journalists figure out the details.
The alternative to pasting images is making a ticket? I would have thought it would be uploading images to some image hosting site and then pasting a link.
The IRS isn't authorised to simplify the tax code, it would have to be Congress.
Ok, let's have a hypothetical society where 80% of women give all their sexual attention to the most attractive 20% of men. When these women are pregnant should taxes from all men go towards their medical costs, their children's costs, etc? When these women retire who pays their pension? Surely not the taxes of the majority. If the answer is yes, then you are simply trading women as sexual currency to men as actual currency for which these men get absolutely no benefit.

Reproduction is at the core of our existence, we are programmed to want to do it. This 80 % of men aren't simply going to roll over and say "oh well, I guess I'll forgo sex and female attention".
try teaching. then you would be amazed at the tiny proportion of students able to do that on their own.
One might argue this is excellent MS Excel Pornography
How could they save money, though? The tax code is the same in both cases, and most people's financial lives are not complicated enough to make it any kind of challenge to get the best refund.
The authors argument that Markdown should be discarded because there are several competing implementations isn't valid.

For many years (even now), we have several competing implementations of HTML, yet the HTML document is the dominant presentational document format (and UI layout language). It hasn't done anything to hurt adoption.

The fact that Markdown does have a common subset of features, and that Markdown is widely interoperable with a vast amount of products is why it wins. As far as I can tell Org-Mode markup is used within Emacs and really nowhere else.
When you read the paper, you'll see this covered in section 6 ("REPLACING FORK") subsection "Low-level: Cross-process operations"

> While a spawn-like API is preferred for most instances of starting a program, for full generality it requires a flag, parameter, or new helper function controlling every possible aspect of process state. It is infeasible for a single OS API to give complete control over the initial state of a new process. ...

> clean-slate designs [e.g., 40, 43] have demonstrated an alternative model where system calls that modify per-process state are not constrained to merely the current process, but rather can manipulate any process to which the caller has access ...

> Retrofitting cross-process APIs into Unix seems at first glance challenging, but may also be productive for future research.
If you don't use Jekyll (let's say, e.g Hugo) you have to commit the content/artefacts to be published to the repo. Committing artefacts to a repo, even if it's a dedicated branch with a separate root, always seemed like a glorious hack to me with consequences such as CI needing push access to the repo. GitLab CI+Pages doesn't need such a hack but then, competing with that would mean GitHub would basically have to allow running arbitrary process during the publish pipeline, which means they'd enter CI space.
> ad hoc syntaxes like JIRA's

Gak, yeah, I empathize. JIRA was a pain point for me too.

I take comprehensive notes using org-mode (including all of my false turns, dead ends and "explore this later"s) and when I need to paste something into a ticket I export via ox-jira.el and copy/paste what I need. It works much better than the author's modest README might lead you to believe, and of course it's hackable.

https://github.com/stig/ox-jira.el
Regardless of how accurate this portrait of programmer culture is, I must say that I welcome the attempt to create some positive PR.

Our fellow nerds, doctors and lawyers, somehow got star treatment by hollywood, while our kind is usually portrayed as unattractive, awkward, laughing stock and at best a passive character in an assisting role. This tragically reflects on our perception in the real world.
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Freenode does support it.

-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- ***** MemoServ Help *****
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- MemoServ allows users to send memos to registered users.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)-
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- For more information on a command, type:
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- /msg MemoServ help <command>
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)-
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- The following commands are available:
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- DEL Alias for DELETE
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- DELETE Deletes memos.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- FORWARD Forwards a memo.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- HELP Displays contextual help information.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- IGNORE Ignores memos.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- LIST Lists all of your memos.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- READ Reads a memo.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- SEND Sends a memo to a user.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- SENDOPS Sends a memo to all ops on a channel.
-MemoServ(MemoServ@services.)- ***** End of Help *****