skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They give a nice TOC:

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The Twelve Factors

I. Codebase:
One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys

II. Dependencies:
Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies

III. Config:
Store config in the environment

IV. Backing services:
Treat backing services as attached resources

V. Build, release, run:
Strictly separate build and run stages

VI. Processes:
Execute the app as one or more stateless processes

VII. Port binding:
Export services via port binding

VIII. Concurrency:
Scale out via the process model

IX. Disposability:
Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown

X. Dev/prod parity:
Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible

XI. Logs:
Treat logs as event streams

XII. Admin processes:
Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes

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* Writing is cheap, research is expensive.

* People are rewarded for how long they can keep people looking at ads, not how much value those readers find in their work.

* Finding/re-engaging an audience via aggregator sites such as this one is cheaper than maintaining an audience loyal to the quality of your journalism. For the most part, people click on titles, rather than domain names.

The end result is small amounts of content, disbursed as slowly as possible, with a clickbait title.
You can probably find it in some '60s future somewhere. Why would you build a perfectly fine tunnel and use that for irregular traffic, when you can hide the traffic and have the street for mixed use [-1]? We have had trash chutes [0] and AVAC [1] for centuries in Sweden (not always connected unfortunately). My local garbage truck have one of those robotic arms, and I don't live anywhere fancy. So I can't say I get it.

[-1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_street
[0] https://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=en&sl=sv&tl=...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_vacuum_collection
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sopbil_skelleftea.jp...
> WSL sucked so much that I imagine WSL 2 won't be much better

Why does it suck? Is it an issue of compatibility or performance? At least WSL2 will fix the former.
Go outside, people living in those houses lived outside for most of the colder hours (morning/evening), they were sunny enough (but maybe you come from a northern country).
A study was done and they determined the main reason Nimbys are Nimbys is because they don't like the idea of developers making money by building things near them:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/09/what-if-nimbys-hate-d...
Cue a concerted effort by MS salespeople to find their targets to blackmail or pay off to make the decision behind closed doors, and to spam all social media with defeatism using their AI bot farms.
Turkic origin is not the only possible root - there is also a Scandinavian theory that ties hetman and otaman together (their meaning is similar and at some point was used interchangeably) and also a Germanic root.

Source is in Russian (couldn’t find an English one): https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Атаман
Alternatives:

1. WebAssembly

2. A subset of LLVM-IR that's architecture independent. PNacl from Google used this across chip architectures
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Yep. That's one common outcome. Another one is where they actually move and discover it's a nightmare to train people, and maintain the infrastructure.
Absolutely, it is very easy to automate too. Arch has a great package manager BTW.
Depends on the bank. Credit unions don't do this. Neither do "mutual banks"

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

There's usually one or the other in pretty much every decent sized city.

My credit union doesn't have a lot of fancy features but it has shared branching (can pull out money at other CUs), ATM access at most 7/11s, and zero cost for a basic checking account that can receive direct deposit, with an online bill pay that can even mail a physical check to whoever I want.

Even larger banks sometimes aren't publicly traded. (
All of that was true when they initially agreed to the deal, so I’m not sure that explains it.
You've only established that flying is getting safer. None of this proves or even implies that most of that improvement in safety is because of added features like ATR, especially ones that subtly subvert expectations and remove agency/control from pilots.
my point is that in this case there are no libraries to be "detected" at all. This is just vanilla ansi C without any requirement besides the standard C library. This can be compiled anywhere without need to "detect" anything.

EDIT: I put "detect" in quotes, because I find the whole concept of detecting libraries ridiculous in a context of a C program. Either a library XYZ is installed on my system, in which case the compiler finds it with the -lXYZ flag, or it isn't. If it is not installed, I expect the compilation to fail. I do not expect the build system to look in my hard disk by itself and try to find some files that look like the XYZ library; that would be extremely untoward.
I guess this is might be easier to set up but you could get something similar on AWS by posting to an S3 bucket and putting pages into CloudFront CDN. Adding CodeCommit could automate deployment for $1/month or you could write a script to publish new pages for free.
I’d say it’s all working as described and intended: the examples are all simplified examples demonstrating particular aspects of the solution, and none of those examples are of the stacking business.
Agreed, yet their goal is to build their own crappy version so that people think Linux sucks, when in reality it is still MS. I blame their culture though. No one who appreciates quality open source wants to work there.
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What I really don't understand is why commercial stations (like burger king's, ice cream stands etc...) uses windows when all those computers do is show either videos or static images
Is that true though? I have seen Lidl/Aldi winning awards for the quality of their own brands over M&S and Waitrose before
The list of LibreOffice users hasn't grown, but hasn't shrunk either[0]. Kudos to the French for so far being the biggest Western-state to implement FOSS.

Apart from the obvious benefit of lower cost, security and personal individualization are further benefits. No matter what the politicians or business will tell you: Any government running Windows on their systems is basically broadcasting their data straight into US secret services. There's nothing stopping them from doing that. Who would prosecute them? Would US law enforcement have motivation to do that?

And when it comes to individualization: Any open standard that allows any other third party to develop products with will (if left to its own means) always win out against proprietary solutions, since you can pitch all the third parties against each other to compete for the lowest bid.

But since it's not about getting cost-effective IT, the governments don't appear too concerned of the US knowing all their secrets and Microsoft is definitely more capable of pampering politicians than 3rd party Linux developers could, absurd requirements dot every government contract to bar said Linux developers and leave Microsoft as the only "viable" choice.

[0]: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/who-uses-libreoffice/
This stuff makes sense for cities, it’s just frustrating how much more difficult it makes it to operate a “mom and pop” software business. The complexity of potentially complying with hundreds of state and municipal governments - not where you are located but where online purchases originate - is a pretty significant deterrent to setting up a small side business. Imagine if every food truck had to pay taxes based not on where the truck is, but where the customers were from.

On the other hand, this is an obvious opportunity for payment processors to automate. I’m surprised sales tax still isn’t built in to stripe, for example.
The news houses who published a video don’t say anything about who has made the video. But it was very professionally made some two years ago and used now.
You’re right, but that is the motivation for the blog post. Learning is a form of fitting that performs better in practice than the curve fitting mentioned in the blog post when the required fit is nonlinear and/or high dimensional. The author is making the point that if the model is simple, since learning is just a form of fitting, why not directly apply standard curve fitting techniques?
> Agreed, yet their goal is to build their own crappy version so that people think Linux sucks, when in reality it is still MS.

Can't do it, Google owns that business model. I mean, they managed to do that twice? Must have taken them some serious effort!
The article is entirely about work patterns; when and where to write, and how to find motivation to do so. For that kind of thing, the advice "find what works for you" is better advice than "do what works for me". (Although the latter advice still often helps.)

But writing advice is another thing entirely. Learning to think about your audience while writing is every bit as amenable to advice as learning to think about the processor's branch prediction while coding. Advice like "form a chain from stress position to topic position" (https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-sci...), or the "arcs of coherence" from Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style. Human perception processes language in understood ways. Conforming to those expectations requires learning from advice.
> I also don't like not owning my data.

In molochs such as Twitter or Facebook, you already do not own your data, so the only option is to not use them. When it comes to federated networks, the resolution is simple: do not federate with the instances whom you do not trust.

Regardless of the choice you make, if you make it, then please do not complain that your content has no visibility. If you want other people to see the stuff you post, you naturally give them a right to save, repost, screenshot, print, memorize or otherwise make a copy of it. If you do not want that to happen, either do not post it online, or invest in getting a social network to run via Widevine.
You are implicitly assuming that either it is not possible to use GMO to produce something harmful that would not be impossible or much harder to produce without GMO, or that if it is possible then the commercial interests that decide how to apply GMO will refrain from doing so.

The first assumption is scientifically incorrect. GMO is just another tool for altering organisms. Whether those alterations are good or bad depends on how the tool is used. It does allow a wider range of alterations than traditional techniques, and is faster, so enlarged both the set of good alterations possible and the set of bad alterations possible.

History, or a trip to the grocery store, suggests that the second assumption is questionable.

As Uncle Ben said, with great power comes great responsibility. GMO is great power, but will the people who wield that power do so responsibly? That is not a science question.
It seems odd that this is referred to as the “Netflix” tax while most of the money has been collected from Eventbrite and Fandango, both of whom sell tickets to events physically happening in Chicago and both of whom would already be subject to a variety of other locality taxes as a result.

Even Netflix charges sales tax (or VAT, such as in Europe) in locations that require it (based off your billing address), so I find it hard to see this kind of thing as anything more than greedy governments taxing something simply because they can and know it’s big money.
Yup, and the free Win7+IE11 VM from Microsoft doesn't really expire (you can rearm the license indefinitely).
As someone who used to frequent that website, I've no remorse for them. While it was a site for the buying and selling of OG accounts, it was ripe with people encouraging and partaking in the stealing/hacking of accounts. Some of the more savvy members made a living off of jacking accounts.
It's always amusing that no one talks about more efficient ways to use revenues, than blindly increasing tax, when it comes to the government. Has ANY government service become any better, over time while taxes have constantly risen?
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That's not why Munich moved back to Windows. They moved back because supporting Linux workstations for their workforce was hard and expensive. It wasn't very popular with the end-users either.
What specific issues did you have with the GUI? Not sure if you know but there are a number of other polished DEs apart from Gnome.

Sounds like your graphics card doesn't work well with Linux. Is it Nvidia ?
> Conan the Barbarian is a pretty fair depiction.

I'm not totally convinced you know what you are talking about.
”ARC appears to use some inline assembly, which means you'll need to disable ARC for a project for arm64-to-x86 translation to succeed right now.”

That’s fairly easily fixed, certainly if you’re Apple. They already have the equivalent x86 code (Swift and modern Objective-C couldn't exist without it), so they could detect the specific inline ARM code fragment and replace it by the equivalent inline x86 code.
Interesting article. But shouldn't the word be skeptical instead of cynical in the last sentence?
> And it's the GUI that makes that decision final.

Which one? There's a crapton.
> But at the end of the day, the notion that the folks you are leaving behind are not essential to society as a whole is a capitalist dogma not supported by reality. The idea that society isn't built on essential but socially dismissed and denigrated labor like construction, cleaning , and even sex work is a fantasty. It's the Victorian desire to have a "dumb waiter" all over again, only on a much larger scale. And this myth largely persists because western industrialists imagine a fantasy world in which Taiwan and China are full of magic robots and not millions of skilled (and socially oppressed) humans.

But you see, part of the magic of neoliberal thought is that imported workers don't qualify as an economically oppressed population. If you import laborers, pay them less than minimum wage, force them to live in substandard living conditions, and work them half to death, this is still considered "fair" (and maybe even "laudable") because conditions were bad for them back home. Their life is possibly better now, slightly. And it's more affordable than raising wages.

> Eventually, folks are gonna stop believing in all the delays. Already, fascists interests in the US are gathering people who've hit that breaking point and organizing them to point at perceived enemies. Already, we see people who question truths known and trivially observable for thousands of years because they're so convinced the entire system is out to get them. Already, folks know that their punishments for challenging the rule of law are only truly enforced towards the poor and the forgotten.

Unfortunately for all of us, the people in power think they can prevent this eventuality using technical solutions. My fear is that they won't realize their plan has failed until it's too late to stop a true fascist movement from getting off the ground. Suppress moderate popular movements for long enough and you will create a radical popular movement; in today's America, this would probably be fascism.
Headline: "American life is improving for the lowest paid; Come back capitalism, all is forgiven"

Article: Low unemployment means anyone can find a job.

"By last year, the poorest 10% were still earning only a miserly 4.1% more per hour than they did (in real wages) 40 years ago. Median hourly pay for America’s workers was up a little more, by 14%."

"Low- and middle-income households remain anxious about volatile earnings. Most have almost no savings. Many would struggle with a financial shock of just a few hundred dollars."

"Lots of jobs that are being created are in or near flourishing cities like Madison, where low-paid workers are squeezed by high housing costs. Pew has estimated that 38% of all tenant households spend at least 30% of their income on rent."

"Katherine Cramer, who studies the long-standing causes of simmering anger among poorer, rural Americans, says “resentment is worse than before”, despite the recent better wages. Rural folk complain that “it’s been like this for decades”, she says. A year or two catching up has not yet been enough to change their minds."
Maintenance guy here.
I work at apartment complexes and get calls around once a week during winter and spring about birds( mostly doves and hummingbirds) that are bashing themselves repeatedly on residents upper story windows.
It's sad because the birds just need to turn around and fly lower to escape but they seem unable to do that.
They are transfixed on the window itself.
The only solution I've been able to come up with is to open the window from inside( not always possible) or just allow nature to take it's course.
I'd like to help these creatures but climbing a ladder three stories up is not acceptable to me.
I hesitate to say that it's nature's way of culling out the dumb ones.
We make our own olives here in southern California.
It's very easy although picking them is labor intensive.
It's very satisfying to make delicious food from things growing on trees and doesn't take a long time or a lot of space
I thought the main reason states collect tax on Amazon purchases is because they have a presence in a state (distribution centers, warehouses, etc)?

I'm confused how the legal thinking goes that a company not based in Chicago, offering services on the internet, can be taxed.

(They don't even ship DVDs to most customers, whereas Amazon was shipping physical goods)
Again, you are talking about something that isn't even released yet.

It sucks because the Linux distros available for it are now outdated, it utilizes a specific outdated kernel, it is extremely slow.. the file system is about 20x slower doing most file-system related tasks. Copy/paste doesn't work well without XLaunch (and then stills sucks). There was never a good terminal for it, and the new one doesn't address if it will provide mouse support for things like Vim, it didn't support Docker.

There are many more nuances, but that is just a few. Let's not forget though that Windows package management is the worst out of all the operating systems, so even if you have WSL, you are still going to be suck maintaining a crappy OS using terrible bloated installers that leave files everywhere and a crappy package manager like Chocolatey that is falling further behind repos like AUR and Arch.
I switched 20 years ago. What took them so long?
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In Chicago's case, the tax is more about desperation than greed. But yes, greed is what got that city's government where it is today fiscally.
Well put. I have some level of empathy/understanding for why he would feel compelled to write Tweets like that, given his personal situation.

That said, there are _definitely_ a couple of tweets/photos I would STRONGLY suggest removing. The first thing prospective employers do is take a look at your social media.
The CMake script is platform independent. Otherwise you everyone would have to write a build file themself.

The linker would look for the lib anyway so you can just as well have CMake try it before linking.
The trees are stripped at night because cool temperatures help preserve the olives' aromatic compounds.

I don't think that is why they do it. First of all, producers are paid according to the titratable acidity of the oil (and classified as extra virgin, virgin, or lampante) and if paid by the tonne of olives delivered, this is adjusted to the oil-to-mass ratio (roughly 20% w/w). These values are determined in laboratory, from samples collected at delivery, and whose results come only at a later time. There is no measure for aroma.

Many times, batches from different producers are mixed before pressing, so there's no point in trying to preserve whatever aromas there might be.

Unless we're talking about producers with their own pressers, producing their own label, trying to preserve aroma is kind of pointless, and subjective at best.

But there is something else: the oil-to-mass ratio improves during dryer weeks, so transportation is cheaper and extraction is better paid. So maybe there is more pressure for a quick harvest in conditions where the oil content reaches 22%, but again I see no point in nightly harvest.

Huge numbers of birds from central and northern Europe winter in the Mediterranean

But they are not being affected, that is, of all the 17 species mentioned in the cited notice, only one is listed as Near Threatened (the redwing, T. iliacus). Vulnerable or endangered species are not being affected as far as I know, and sedentary/endemic species would be in greater danger.

According to the Portuguese Natural Preservation Institute (ICNF) the numbers involved are not statistically relevant for justifying the prohibition of nightly harvests.
You should discount your visceral and emotional reaction. It is instilled into you by natural selection, which has no care for human suffering as long as we reproduce.
Don’t tell them where the internet came from, there ain’t enough tinfoil in the world.
We need standards for ways to recognize when the computer controls have chosen to override the pilot, why they are doing it, and a way for the human to override. This is hard, not easy, because there are so many things going. One place to look and report back.

Tesla has some of these things. It beeps at you when it detects you are about to hit cars in front of you. If you are in traffic and it doesn't see that your lane will be going around say a stopped car in a different lane in traffic you can easily override it. Similarly for the driver can override the autopilot, and because it has a kind of tactile feeling when you use the steering wheel to override the self-driving. Still it's far far from perfect, current evidence being the front end crashes into immobile barriers. But they have these notions built in of feedback, control, override. I expect every self-driving vehicle has something different in how they handle these things. Eventually we'll have standards across car lines. I bet planes are all different with all those amazingly huge number of controls the pilot has to understand.
Ya, it’s pretty crazy to think that almost everyone of European descent (myself included) are descended from the (apparently) mass murdering Yamnaya. And a good percentage of Asians from the mass murdering Genghis Khan. And that although the Mongols did not conquer all of Europe [3], another steppe culture did succeed in it thousands of years earlier.
Cool writeup. Thanks for sharing!
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There are certainly jurisdictions that are arguably under taxed because they only have the funds to provide meager services. See: Kansas Experiment.
As always, it's probably improving in some ways, getting worse in others.

I didn't have access to the whole article but the first three paragraphs that I read didn't really inspire confidence.

Also the claim isn't that it's not getting better but that it's not getting better as fast as it is for the rest of the economy.
At least in northern Europe it was common to use a stick to scrape. "More civilized" city dwellers used old newspapers.
I really like the idea, but I find Speex distorts the audio way too much in a way that makes it hard to understand afterwards. I'm willing to sacrifice as much quality as I can as long as the speech remains easy to understand, but after that, any space savings aren't worth it.