skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion if you are looking to compete solely on output and not relationships and understanding of the context of the problem solving (which is what "please put it all in ticket for me" says to me), you are commoditizing yourself. After a bit, I think you'd be competing against the rest of the world.

I'd rather avoid competing against smart people with lower fixed expenses, than you very much.
Would this work

struct S {char data, char pad0, char pad1, char pad2};
int main() {S dataStruct; printf("%s", dataStruct.data); return 0;}

and give me a 4-byte struct or would the compiler optimize it all away and leave me with a 1-byte struct?
If you put two atoms A and B in an box and wait 1/2 of the half life, then the probability that the atom A survives is 1/sqrt(2). The probability that the atom B survives is also 1/sqrt(2). So (assuming independence) the probability that both survive is exactly 1/2. So you are right!

(I'd prefer to say that it's a property of the exponentially distribution, not the Poisson process.)
My library has Libby(/overdrive) and Hoopla. I find that Libby only has recent bestsellers while Hoopla has actual audiobooks I’d like to read. (I’ve listened to 2 or 3 on Libby and at least 100 on hoopla).

Unfortunately Hoopla charges the library for every item checked out and since it has gotten popular they reduced the monthly limit from 15 to 10 to 5.
In the US one of the biggest problems I have experienced is that drivers do not adhere to the international rule of having slow drivers on the right side of the freeway, especially in California.

As a result to this there are more lane splitting episodes (even within the speed limit) in order to finally being able to keep moving at a faster speed because the lane is effectively blocked by other drivers.

In addition to that, occasionally drivers will go faster (emergency, being late, and so on) and those same slow drivers that occupy each one of the 5 lanes at the same time will amplify the lane splitting, ultimately causing temporary traffic jams.

I never really understood why is this - in Europe we automatically merge to the right and always try to keep the leftest lane available for whoever needs to use it.
I agree... my impression is that people want Elon to be "taken down a notch". Tesla's failure is merely the vehicle (heh) for that comeuppance.

It's interesting to note that SpaceX, another Elon venture, seems to have much more goodwill. I attribute this to the fact that Elon has been much more humble about every rocket launch ("we'll be happy if the payload makes it to orbit, forget about that landing nonsense") as opposed to the extreme rhetoric around the cars ("it will drive itself!")
I'd say there's brain drain even if the workers stay at their country, working remotely for US companies.

The most qualified people around me on previous jobs moved to US, Europe or are working remotely (myself included).

It's sad because it increases the difficulty of local companies to grow a good team, continuing the cycle.
Asia is the future IMO. If you're smart and motivated there will be dozens of "Silicon Valleys" there in 5-10 years.
I don't understand this mysticism. Legendre transformation is just one example of canonical transformations that you can do switch from one set of variables to another, typically out of convenience (you can rest assured physicists are aware of this, and I would be more conservative before saying it lies "at the heart" of anything --it just links Hamiltonian mechanics to Lagrangian mechanics, but they're basically two different ways we use to describe the same physical thing, each parametrization with their own intuitive features--, and it doesn't really show up in quantum mechanics).

Yes, you can go beyond the actual purpose of "I just want to get a function of x,y starting from a function of x,z" and do illustrative geometric interpretations for every single canonical transformation out there, but physics books tend be practical and not to dwell on such mathematical "curiosities".

Still, Legendre transform is arguably the most important one, and some books do go further. On top of my mind, you can see Analytical Mechanics by Hand & Finch, preceding that blog post by 2 decades. (Interestingly, he claims to have read this book --not carefully, apparently, because the equation he finds surprising is there; it's just written in words relating two equations, rather than as a new symbolic equation).
This is an entirely fair point—there's a fair amount of brain drain that can be attributed to "I don't want to live in a red state."

The LGBT thing is anecdotally true in my experience, and in particular, leaving your home state for college is a good socially-acceptable excuse to leave your home state and meet others you suspect are like you at exactly the same time that you're no longer a minor under your parents' control.
I wonder what it would look like to superimpose over the maps in this article a map of states with the highest rate of climate-change denial?
Young people certainly know this. And they're making the free, informed decision to forego raising children in return for living somewhere where they can both maximize their career potential and socialize with people more compatible with themselves.
Interesting... I've only ever heard of brain drain used in an international context. Which is where the US comes out as a winner, as we're gaining from all the highly educated Chinese and Indians who come here to work and start companies.

I actually find the concept rather odd to use domestically, because it's generally used to show a contrast between a country paying for your college education, and then you reaping the benefits in a different, richer country -- which can seem unfair.

But in the US, students 1) generally pay for their own college education, and 2) often go to college in a state different from where they grew up and different from where they'll settle down later. So it doesn't seem to have any "unfair" aspect.

I mean, complaining about brain drain domestically feels like complaining about free trade domestically... it doesn't make sense to me. People have the freedom to move to areas of better economic opportunity and that's a good thing in a dynamic, ever-changing country like America. Complaining about brain drain domestically really just sounds like wishing more people lived in the country instead of in big cities... no thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight#United_St...
I think it's partially cultural and partially economic. I left my home state (which scored poorly in this Senate report) because I couldn't get a great education in the state system, nor were there any prospects for the kinds of careers I was interested in (and there still aren't today). I love visiting where I grew up, and most of my family is still there, but the jobs I want are not and will not be there for any foreseeable future.

Seeing your edit, I can understand why you think it's mostly cultural rather than economic, but I definitely think it's both.
You’re 100% correct and it is why I’m generally very bullish on America despite the gloom and doom on the right and late stage capitalists on the left. It’s the competitive advantage of being a nation bound by ideas and common purpose than a monarch or ethnicity or religion.
Romans didn't possess longboats which were capable of sea travel as well as riverine navigation. Romans stuck to coastal waters.
Both its population and its budget exceed those of most US states and most countries - "most" being a literal majority and not an exaggeration.

Does that make it less surprising? Publishing such a paper is routine for national governments around the world, as well as US states.
20 Years Ago, Microsoft Changed How We Mouse Forever
Depends on the nature of your project but I can count the number of Obj-C libraries I’d be likely to use in my projects on one hand, and they all play secondary roles (e.g. analytics). For almost anything else Foundation/UIKit and third party Swift libraries would be used.
For the non-US and/or non-political here is Sen. Lee's govtrack record:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/mike_lee/412495

Here are some links on his proposed education reforms:

https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/education-reform

https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/higher-education...

Some choice quotes:

"Whereas conservatives promote policies that empower parents with the freedom and resources to choose what works best for them and their families, harnessing the power and problem-solving capacity of civil society and the free-enterprise economy, Democrats prefer government-run, one-size-fits-all programs."

"Conservatives do not claim to have all the answers when it comes to early education policy. But the available research and the lessons of experience teach us that massive government investments to scale up early education programs into a single formula that applies to everybody simply don’t work. At best, they are a waste of money. At worst, they are harmful to our children, families, and communities."

"The EEOA would expand school choice to all parents, regardless of socio-economic status or zip code, by allowing federal “Title I” K-12 support funds to follow low-income students to any public or private school of their choice."

"The HERO Act would accomplish this by changing the way schools are accredited. The HERO Act would enable each state to accredit any institution that provides post-secondary education. With this new accreditation power, states would be able to authorize innovative new education options (for example, massive online open courses, competency-based offerings, and certification exams) for students in any learning situation."

But please do read it all yourself, read the lines, between the lines, make up your own mind about where you think Senator Lee truely stands on this issue.
Whatever happened to XMPP?
Which GUI middleware libraries do you like ?
what are you some kind of fascist
"As those natives who have more resources leave, those left behind may struggle to support churches, police athletic leagues, parent-teacher associations, and local businesses."

Huh... churches are the first thing that come to mind. Yep, this was definitely written by a Utah senate staff.
Swift 3 was the last version that had dramatic changes. The first two years it was pretty upfront about being a work-in-progress that wasn't for people who wanted something stable, and the last two years it's been pretty stable with only very minor incremental changes.
family? friends? sense of belonging?

I'm not saying that applies to everyone. I was "brain-drained" despite those things. But I know others who couldn't just pick up their lives for a job on the other side of the country.
It could be a learning experience for you both. For example, they could teach you about percentages.
Sick leave, parental leave, legal marijuana, assisted suicide, non compete bans, better environmental protections, pro choice, are all desirable to the young people I know and red states go the other way on those policies.
> The culture wars the republicans have been running on since the 80s turns off thoughtful people

You accuse "republicans" of running a culture war on a board that you know will never downvote you or moderate you... while announcing you're part of the LGBT community.

Real quick: can you name one country throughout history where LGBT lifestyles aren't promoted or endlessly sustained by massive, massive, massive media effort/high-level cultural/religious/military infiltration? Your "community" is a living, breathing culture war artifact that is 100% artifical and is, literally, made in advertising board rooms.

Imagine the amount of people who intentionally avoid anywhere your fake culture infiltrates and how much brain power refuses to help you out.
That seems like an exaggeration. Sorting on the net PPP column at

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

the lowest EU member is Bulgaria (1475), the highest is Luxembourg (3843); that's a factor 2.6.

The EU also has much larger cultural barriers to movement than the US (different languages, just to mention the most obvious one).
A couple related pieces by Richard Florida, referenced in this study:

"The Roots of the New Urban Crisis"

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/04/the-roots-of-the-new-...

"Why America’s Richest Cities Keep Getting Richer"

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/richard...
The usual 200pg bestselling fluff usually comes in at 5-6hrs unabridged.
Slack Pitches Potential Investors on a Few Big-Spending Customers
I think you're conflating the IMGUI versus RMGUI question with whether rendering is done on the CPU or GPU. The two questions are independent of one another.
OK, you mean in the editor, not in the GUI that's displaying the SVG.

(I use the layers dialog in Inkscape on a weekly basis -- and used to in Illustrator as well).
> I guess that Apple understood the need for parental control apps and allowed them, with the privacy risks, as there was no other way to get parental control at the time.

Everyone is assuming that Apple was aware of the MDM abuse and tolerated it, but seeing how they completely missed Facebook's and Google's abuse of enterprise certificates, it seems just as plausible that the Facebook revelation spurred them to do a re-evaluation of the actual use of all these enterprise programs at which point they found this issue.
Could, but chrome mobile doesn't have one at the top level... Guess it could fake the whole menu too
Or even an OffsetPtr class with overloaded arrow and dereference operator, if you swing that way. :)
"Can't affordness" comes as a result of a lack of a resources/budget.

Which means decision makers or ultimately state/federal government think that funding of certain things at certain geographies is not important. (Or alternatively not offering any stimulus such as reducing taxes).

Article misleads reader by claiming "what is" without explaining the driving force behind the dynamics of skilled market.
I've found ketamine to be surprisingly effective personally
Subverting Sauron’s Business Model
A technically correct best correct answer: if you're American or can otherwise take a job with the US federal government, your work email address will get you free WaPo access.

Your sanity may be worth more to you than $1/week, however.
Do they have any artificial restrictions? Last time I tried a similar app (it's been a few years), I wasn't able to get an audiobook because someone else already had it "checked out".
The team at Basecamp, Shopify, and GitHub are all running Rails 6 RC-1
Hardly surprising. As has been mentioned else where unless you follow a particular political dogma then you are anti intellectual and therefore to be excluded.

It's amusingly ironic how exclusive the politics of inclusion can be.
Ipe is absolutely fantastic! It's my go-to for any figures, and I'll only switch to Inkscape or Illustrator if I need to make a slightly more-involved diagram.
I listen to a lot of librivox books. There are some talented volunteers, but there are many that are just not that good.

Plus all their text is on the public domain.
I believe (personally) that gossip is only things you would not say (or would say considerably different) when the gossiped-about-person is there to overhear it.
The turning point was Sandy Bridge, really and there's nothing to make it look like SB laptops will be unusable in two years. So yeah, we are there.

If you consider how far CPUs went in the ten years of Pentium 4 to Sandy Bridge vs Sandy Bridge to now... we certainly arrived to a plateu.
If you're doing so much casting you're doing something wrong. Swift's power comes from the type system, which alleviates the need for all casting in general. Instead of using a [String: Any] dictionary which bears no meaning at all, consider converting it to a struct with accessors of the right types. If you work with the type system, Swift will be a joy to use, because that's where it shines.
Brain Drain is about networking. Why would most give up the opportunity to relocate around the top thinkers in their field? Inhibiting this movement would arguably slow down progress, while making the country more robust (much like the pros/cons associated with most centralization vs. de-centralization topics).

People from my hometown (pop. ~7500 in Midwest), do not realize that they are falling behind at an almost exponential rate. Many are working jobs that require common training, they do not continue their education, and they spend far too much time behind screens in the form of entertainment. And, even for those who want to continue to learn, they do not have access to a nearby tech meeting hosted by a top firm speaking on the state of the art. If you're not in SF or NY, then you do miss out on a lot of opportunities per people and shared information.

* I am personally ashamed to say that I only realized the power and advantage of networking in recent years.
Tuition for in-state residents is often subsidized and can be considerably lower than tuition for residents of other US states.
Or just save your money in the first world country with the most stable currency (dollars in the US as of now) like most of us third world citizens have been doing for a long time. We're not buying gold, and if the point ever comes that another currency is stronger, I guarantee the US will see capital flight like it's never seen before (hence all the wars would be my guess).
If drawing some complicated geometry or high precision is not required, GNU Texmacs is also a good choice. You can do everything in the editor and see the immediate result, WYSIWYG style.
The Snowden files: where are they and where should they end up?
Damn. Savage.
Ipe is great, although it is a little idiosyncratic. I haven’t found anything better for making structured diagrams.
Does it have drm?
I applied for a remote place that advertised exactly this. What is your skillset?

I work that way on upwork, no phone/video calls or hourly roles. Limits me but its a second income.

Topical might work this way.
Memory... if you mean the amounts, not really. The gap between the necessary and the possible is really huge now. 8GB is more than enough for everyday computing and any two slot DDR4 laptop can do 64GB RAM.
Reading Bad Blood has made me lose all faith in executives.
> The first two years it was pretty upfront about being a work-in-progress that wasn't for people who wanted something stable

I've been very much on the Swift train in its first 2 years, but I've never heard of anything like that. Do you have a source?
Convert Excel or Markdown to SQL
No. I started web design using Dreamweaver a long time ago. When I began, I used its visual design features quite a bit. Nowadays I just have an editor (usually Emacs) and a browser window side by side. I, do however, find visual design tools useful for prototyping.
Every time the basics seem set, a bunch of rent seeking overlords arrive to destabilize everything. Verisign shouldn't have this power and should be penalized for trying this trick. They shouldn't be in a position to bottleneck basic internet infrastructural elements and in the spirit of the internet, we need alternatives to Verisign setup ASAP. A counter proposal is in order.
I tended to introduce LaTeX to new folks through LyX.

Haven't used it for several years though, so no idea if the WSYIWYG is still up and running.
> I would much rather have = mean assignment, and use function call notation when I really want functions to run.

And then you end up with Java where you have to write so many boilerplates for getters and setters, even if they are only plain attribute access, just in case you want a function later.
I absolutely love Audio Books, I think I went through maybe 25+ audio books, mostly non fiction, in 2018 alone. It is a fantastic way to maximize dead time, but generally I think non music audio is going through a sort of renaissance.

While the author of this post is really distraught about Amazons dominance with Audible I do think in some ways non music audio is much bigger than just Audibooks for example Podcasts are on the rise and at least for the moment they are totally open. I also think Amazons hold with audio books will be difficult to maintain especially as technology and AI gets better. Why pay them when a great sounding AI could read your book to you.

As a little shameless self promotion I have been working on a side project that does exactly this, it takes any Article or PDF from the web and converts it to great sounding audio so you can listen to it on the go. It sounds pretty good, and it’s a great way to maximize your dead time and stay informed on the go.

If you want to check out my project you can find it here:

https://articulu.com/
In addition to selling goods, sometimes they also sell bads: https://www.thebalance.com/credit-default-swaps-pros-cons-cr...

I would be skeptical of any corporation writing public laws and even a certain A. Smith seems to agree[1]

[1] (right hand column)
https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=rpMuAAAAYAAJ&hl=ja&pg=PA...
Good quote. Where is that from?
Number of abandoned homes in Japan edges up to record high of nearly 8.5M
Interesting. What are your thoughts on this interview with Graham Hancock in regards to dogma in archaeology?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgs9zJdJctw
Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data
Indeed, and the city probably has open government laws requiring it to publish all of its business. For a town above a certain size, self-publishing may simply be the most economical route. In my little town, they just include a section of public notices in the local paper every week.
ELI5 version: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/keep-domain-prices-in-check/

I have a .org domain, but I don't know much about the Domain Name System at all so I did Google search and found that article quite helpful. Maybe someone else will too?
> But isn't that just the result of lack of hardware gains limiting new software application areas?

It’s no accident that the biggest advances in the last ten years have been in areas not limited by single thread performance; machine learning & cloud computing.
I used to work on this. Happy to answer questions.

Here is a good article about Closure Compiler optimizations which J2CL uses as its optimizing compiler:
https://medium.com/@thomasdeegan/10-optimizations-closure-co...

This website has Closure Compiler compiled by J2CL running in the browser itself!

https://closure-compiler-debugger.appspot.com/j2cl_debugger....
I saw Derrel Fincher, a Oklahoma House Representative, wrote a comment against the price cap removal. [1]

This was relatively interesting since I've never seen a politician participate in such a niche request for comment process.

[1] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-org-renewal-18mar19/...
Georgia is an interesting outlier here: they introduced the HOPE scholarship in the 1990s to allow any in-state (already lived there for at least a year) student free tuition at a state school as long as they maintained a 3.0 GPA, all funded by the state lottery.

And you have some pretty good schools to choose from here: University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Georgia State (which has improved a lot in the past 10 years).

There are plenty of fair criticisms that can be leveled against the HOPE scholarship, but it seemed clear to me that it would reduce brain drain in the state, simply because students could get a high quality education at almost no cost. But these data show that the drain ratio increased from 1990 to 2010.

So this is a situation where students aren't paying for their education, are going to school in the state where they likely grew up, and then are still leaving.
Hundreds of thousands of marine viruses discovered in world's oceans
No perfect single communication tool yet for international teams
If you’re wondering where the downvotes are coming from, it’s probably because ad hominem attacks (attacking the person making the argument, rather than directly refuting their arguments; what you’re doing here, basically) are generally considered a logical fallacy.