skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been living off an iPad mini for a long while now (since the very first model, which still works), and it is still my “most personal” computer. I do SSH, drafts, Slack, e-mail, etc. from it, and am using it now. I even have a Citrix X1 mouse for RDP access to servers.

But of late I’ve been eyeing the Surface Go for development, simply because it can give me a local UNIX userland (and I’m already using Surface devices for work anyway), as well as a normal desktop browse with zero compromises.

Sure, the tablet app ecosystem on Windows is... sub-optimal. But most of what I actually need is available as web apps of some sort (I don’t even use Teams, Slack or Outlook, I just use the web UIs in a browser 99% of the time these days...).

Give me a decent terminal, a full browser and a mouse pointer, and I’ll move the Earth :)
well, most modern controller has joysticks in addition to d-pad and buttons too. It doesn't invalidate my point.
The Nemesida WAF Free Signatures. Enjoy
You are absolutly correct.

China has to make de jurre concessions, that are nothing more than agreeing to unenforceable vagaries.

-> Protecting IP is only as real as the enforcement action.

-> Competition can be suppressed by half safety regulations or stopping the items at port.

-> Non-competitive taxes can be moved from central to confusing local laws.

-> Internet fragmentation can be implemented as preferential traffic.

All of these are already happening.

It speaks to the Chinese government's resolve inspire nationalistic sentiment that they miked this situation for political leverage.
I've spent months in both Paris and SF. I hate walking around SF, and enjoy walking around Paris, at least in the 1st-8th. Density is a feature for walking. Paris isn't perfect, but also has fewer piles of human excrement in the middle of the sidewalk, and in the cases you don't want to walk, the metro actually is usable. (Manhattan > Paris for walking and subway, but Paris is fine).
Many people also use the classic Emacs, particularly for larger editing tasks. (Of course, any modern software developer working on an extensive project is unlikely to use only a pure text-based editor and should also be familiar with modern graphical IDEs and tools.)

Huh?! Unlikely?!
No, that's just one documented instance. VLC being bad was a meme outside the anime community, too. It affected anyone trying to utilise modern features for video playback.
As space costs lower, one extremely predictable industry/business will be 'casket pods.' You get ejected in space at escape velocity left to wander until entering the orbit of who knows what, along with a natural cryogenic preservation. Kind of interesting to imagine sci fi scenarios such as one of these pods being the exogenesis that drove the seeding of Earth (or Mars as it may have been).
https://github.com/MJoergen/nexys4ddr/tree/master/dyoc 6502 system from scratch in FPGA

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqAMlAbd8sIuiuk_yJeqC... MIT 6.004 Computation Structures
At Pearson (Toronto) there is a bike trail that goes through multiple layers of barbed wire fences, and right by the end of some runways. I estimate you are within 50 feet of the landing planes (straight underneath them).

It doesn't have a great view other then that really, but I think that's a pretty cool unique view.
No, it’s not. You’ll find plenty of dirt poor rural people that would benefit from entitlement programs just as much and they still vote Republican.

Similarly, Vermont keeps voting in Sanders despite there not being homeless issues there.

Dig deeper.
> “what code has been reviewed and which reviewers do I trust?”

Thank you for putting this so succinctly. There are other supply-chain problems in decentralizing control of the modules though:

Modules might only have a few people or one person responsible for them. Consequently suspect commits by a malfeasant or compromised (hacked) team member might not be noticed. Maybe this is a variant of the old saw "with enough eyes all bugs are shallow" but my gut feeling is that commits to Python core will get more inspection than those to a small 3rd party module. Today, modules get some review for free, just by being part of stdlib. Even if I know and trust @jdoe I have less assurances that they didn't get phished and their repo tweaked.

Also trusted team members/organizations may change over time. The browser extensions world is the poster child for this, where we've seen not only similarly-named malicious extensions posted to stores but also once-legitimate extensions quietly purchased and subsequently subverted by bad actors.

This is one example (adware: could've been much worse):
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chr...

I like the idea of a review process but I have a hard time imagining a crowd-sourced system that wouldn't get gamed. We have a "dissolution of responsibility" problem: millions of companies rely on these components but have no explicit responsibility of care. Perhaps that needs to change, somehow.
LZMA is better than gzip i think.

Also secrets deserves to stay in the library, Python has hashlib and it should have a secure RNG by default.

glob too (or Path.glob).

And I've used shlex for command-line-escape parsing (it might not have been the optimal solution?)
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He also thinks the British royal family are lizards.
"I have no reason for concerns as far as I'm concerned", makes for a nice final diary entry for a king.
I agree, which is why I wrote "or, realistically, use it in a way..." etc.
Vaccines hurt, vegetables taste bad and taking drugs feels good. Your ideology is flawed.
You're correct, on any vehicle involved in an accident you're more likely to survive with your back facing momentum.

This was scientifically proven through the work done by John Stapp[1], who attached himself to a rocket sled facing both directions and at one point became "the fastest man on earth" by breaking the land speed record at 632 mph and sustaining 46.2 g's.

His research is the reason why most military transport planes have seats facing backwards or sideways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp
The UN forecasts are ridiculous at any long term timescale. They assume that desire for children is not heritable so everywhere will undergo the demographic transition and just somehow magically the world will reach replacement fertility and stay there. In reality the share of births to women who already have 4, 5, 6, 7, 8+ children has been increasing in the US for over a decade and the ultra orthodox have gone from politically marginal in Israel to over 1/4 of the population. They’ll probably be a majority in my lifetime. In the US Mormons, Amish, Hutterites and Hasidim all have high to very high fertility. Absent a deliberate state driven destruction of their culture, Soviet style, that’s likely to continue and the same dynamic of cultural and biological evolution for greater fertility will just keep on working somewhere.

There will be no stabilisation of population.
Their mission, as far as I understand it, is to make software that they enjoy making and do it really well. They had an idea for a software gaming platform and decided they needed hardware to support it, which seems to fit nicely within that goal.
From my observations the Chinese signs are more a reaction to the hordes flocking into the country to buy hygiene products in bulk and also do a little sightseeing on the side.
What I can say is that I had to go through a lot of experimentation myself to arrive at the tools I use now

That is, I think, the big problem. Just using pip has never really worked so people have built tools on top of pip, in parallel with pip and replacements for pip. Basically there is no one way to do things.
I was really surprised to hear this. Although I live in Sweden I don’t think I’ve ever heard about TE before. Usually Spotify and Klarna gets the majority of the tech news coverage around here. TE seems like a really interesting company!
So it's reversion to mean which is often seen in nature. If we see that today we don't really need high IQ to navigate our way through the cities, nation or even continent because we've GPS and other technologies which drastically reduce the amount of complexity we need to keep up with. Why should a higher IQ exist then?

If we look at the past and see when and where the IQ increase took place, we see it increasing when when we were required to complex terrain and protect ourselves from harsh climate.
what mr.Bezos doesnt understand is that these systems are continuous improvement systems. Something the auto industry as a whole has forgotten about.
I would never call OP-1 limited. I haven't touched the OP-Z but I doubt I'd think it's "technically limited" as well.

I'd say that the OP-1 is probably one of the better designed musical instruments in the recent past.
It exists because the American government (or governments writ large around the world anyway) have had a poor track record of regulating things ethically. For example, the us government has not done a great job of ethically regulating native Americans, or, ethically regulating terrorism abroad, or maybe in more quotidian and economic terms, regulating the sale of loose cigarettes. It baffles the mind that one would want the same entity responsible for such large scale horrors responsible for deciding educational policy.

If you don't want to involve regulations resulting in people dying, we can look at regulating interior decorating, or hair braiding, neither of which was conducted in the public interest. Can you name the last 2000 regulations that have been enacted in the us? Can you be sure all of them were in the public interest?
Some people consider violating laws immoral per se. If you make actions leading to a dictatorship illegal, you reduce the potential dictator's supporter base.

Also, in a functioning state, the bureaucracy (mostly) follows the law and the judicary's interpretation of the law. Then again, functioning states don't tend to turn into dictatorships.

(Fun fact: Article 20 (4) of the German constitution explicitly authorizes every German to resist when someone abolishes freedom and democracy. Considering the mentality of the average German, this is probably necessary.)
Interesting that the uppermost photo depicts what is decidedly not a hole in the fence. Great idea otherwise!
I found 330k references on GitHub.
This is what you do when you don't get PlayStation when you are a kid...
I would just be quoting from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...
There is something to be said about the democratic process that brought us to this: the Paris administrative division is home to a little over 2 million people, but the city doesn't really end at its administrative borders (75 in this [0] map. The city border stopped tracking the city growth 150 years ago [1].

Most of the people who live in Paris proper enjoy the metro, multiple bike sharing and electrical scooter options, those who can't afford to live within city borders (which outnumber the Parisians 5-to-1) are forced to use the RER (light railway) or private cars.

The effects of the policies that reduce private traffic in the city proper extend far beyond the administrative borders, and the 2016 decision to ban cars from parts of the Seine banks has increased traffic dramatically outside of Paris, but damaging only people who don't vote for the mayor of Paris.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for a reduction in private vehicle use, but I think that a solution can only be found by integrating the whole region in a single administrative division and eliminating this notion of first and second class citizens of Paris.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Paris_uu...

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Paris_Hi...
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This is just from a light research, so please correct if there are better links, but https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/h-1b_faqs#1

> The H 1B also requires that the H-1B employer pay the H-1B employee the prevailing wage or the actual wage, whichever is higher.

And https://www.dol.gov/whd/h1bworkers.htm

> and you must be offered fringe benefits on the same basis as offered to U.S. employees.

But now that I read it again, they may be separate things that don't sum up. Is that what you meant?
https://www.haiku-os.org/files/get-haiku/ported-software.png
> Obscure but useful

I find the choice of the word "obscure" a bit amusing, given that this section lists many commands used ona daily basis by thousands of syadmins.
Is there a price difference? Can shares be converted between classes or between preferred and common?
> on purpose

Then that's the case that would have to be made I guess.
The clean air acts, the banning of freon and other CFCs, and other public health measures like treated water and ending leaded fuel required regulation not authoritarianism. All placed limitations on their people.

Why would this be any different?

We don't need to replace political choice, or freedoms with repression to bring in carbon taxes and start banning plastic, coal or gas.
At London trainstations, police asks you to notify them if you're a train spotter. That way they won't bother you (unless you start taking pictures of the infrastructure instead of trains) and you can help them reporting suspicious behaviour (as someone waiting for trains most of the time).

It's all about communication. If people see the police as their partner, they'll be happy to help them do their job (at least in the UK).
Peak service on London Underground is done by "stepping back". You bring a train in, switch off (allowing your driving cab to become a trailing cab in a second) and step out of the cab, then another driver steps in at the far end, switches that on, and the train announces its new destination and reconfigures appropriately. You begin walking down the platform. The train leaves, but in the time it takes to stroll to the far end another one arrives, so you get in and drive that one away. Thus drivers "step back" by one train each time they do this.
Mathematica is a CAS system. The comment I was replying to was asking whether people saw any use for CAS (symbolic) over numerical computing.

Aside: You're commenting in a style that fits YouTube, or maybe Reddit, but this site has a different commenting culture/style.
Not sure how to vote this:

Totally agree with the first part.

The second part describes a thing I regularily do as "pretty creepy". To clarify: before deciding to flag, downvote or vouch for someone I might have a look at their comment history to see if I am misunderstanding something.

Also if someone posts something nice I look through their history to find more good comments.

I don't think I'm the only one who does this and in fact I'd recommend it instead of blindly thinking "troll" and hit downvote and flag whenever one sees something one doesn't agree with.
Seems more likely that something is triggering the emergency braking system than some rogue, random dude risking his or her life to pull this stunt that often, AND go undetected.
Borland C++ windows toolkit back in the early nineties would do that sort of thing, if memory serves.

Really deeply convoluted OO.
Does it run on real hardware?

Any plans for 64 bit?

Any plans for SMP?

The old readme mentions a gcc patch. Is it still needed? What does it do? Just the final executable's format?

Is there an FAQ somewhere that I missed? :)
Have you had a look at https://nomadlist.com/? I recall seeing something like chat groups by location.

I’m sure a lot of the concerns other people raised re working rights and legal complexities are valid but it’s not fair to assume that no nomad would be willing to take a break and hang around Munich for a few months.
But is it just the paradoxes?

To me it seems that the early estimations of the numbers of inhabited planets from the Drake equations seem like hubris.

Aren't we moving from the "we live in a Star Trek type galaxy, teaming with life" to "well, maybe we are alone in the whole Galaxy but not the Universe" to "Actually, the more we learn about how life on Earth came to be, the more it looks like we are alone in the whole UNIVERSE -- because it seems like every day we find more free terms to the Drake equation".

Isn't the whole "we really don't know yet" argument hubris?

Isn't it true that you cannot prove the lack of existence of something?

Compared to 50 years ago, where do we stand with the question "Are we alone in the universe?"

What is 50 years of data telling us, should we be more optimistic or pessimistic?

Or is it just saying "we really don't know yet" -- because that's where I believe the real hubris lies -- not accepting the most likely scenario the data we have points to.
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> the common thread to me seems to be overzealous decoupling, to the point where I need to look in 10 different locations just to find out what happens during a single request

If it were decoupling in any meaningful sense, you wouldn't need to look in 10 different locations. But you need to look, because it's all related and tightly coupled!
If you solution boils down to "I want human nature to change" without concrete steps and behavior science papers to back your plan up, and a good cause, sideffects analysis - you are contributing as much solutions as socialism does to the economic debate. You are uttering noise and silencing those with real(istic) suggestions. Also you are all pushing totalitarian systems if you want to enforce drastic economic sanctions.
And I suppose you have empirical evidence that proves they are not lizards? (Adjusts hat)
In deep underground lines? I never experienced that, and in rush hour central line or Northern line it's basically impossible not to lean on the door.
Indeed preparing mine now for the 5 year and once that's done I'll be turning around and starting the permanent visa paperwork. Finally! Lol
That monolithic kernels are more susceptible to attack because they're less resilient to programming errors. This was one of the arguments in the famous Linux v MINIX debate(s), but the notion that microkernels were more secure goes back to before the term microkernel was even coined (i.e. before 1980s).
Maybe disks are cheaper, even if you can't reuse them. As an added benefit, you can also restore info from the more distant past if you recognize errors too late.
> The existence of the greenhouse effect was argued for by Joseph Fourier in 1824

From the linked wikipedia article on Greenhouse effect
+1 for the question about a "standard" or recommended way to parse and generate .tf files from a script.

I have two use cases in mind:
Use case 1: need to have a reproducible way to generate terraform folders for multiple almost-identical deployments (this can be solved via modules)
Use case 2: need way to "promote" a deployment from staging to production (load a .tf file, change a few basic params then save again to a different folder --- doesn't really work with templates since I want to load an existing .tf file)

One thing that might work is to use the combination of two tools:
- https://github.com/virtuald/pyhcl = reads .tf, can export .tf.json
- https://github.com/kvz/json2hcl = convert .tf.json to .tf
but feels hacky...

Any other recommendations for .tf parsing and generation? (preferably in python or scriptable via python)
Most people I know use IDE with code style enforcement, automatic variable renaming, unused variable warning, etc.
I don't know about the solutions - my view is that the die is cast.

> My view is that climate change is a world problem

That's undoubtedly true, and the fossil fuel companies clearly acknowledge this - their 30 year anti-science propaganda campaigns have been waged across the world.
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Find it strange that planes don't use them more often. I ended up flying BA business once and half their seats are backwards. It was quite novel, takeoff felt a bit weird but besides that no difference.

Went researching it after the flight and apparently reverse seats are far safer for injuries, especially neck and torso related.
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I think what's more important about not building surveillance infrastructure is not that the infrastructure does not exist, but that building it does not become normalized. It should be morally and socially unacceptable, so those hired to build and operate one will either refuse or sabotage it.
Bricklin invented the software spreadsheet. It's only a need to debase Bricklin's obvious credit, that leads to the claim that comparable spreadsheets existed prior to VisiCalc. They did not. That's precisely why it was such a marvel.

Whatever existed prior to VisiCalc, was not similar to the spreadsheet as we know it and define it today. It's a path that VisiCalc blazed, to universal credit by everyone that was in the industry at the time and helped pioneer software.
Most apps don’t use it and Watch OS 2 introduced the ability to scroll with your finger instead of the crown, since no one was using it
There is a link to the original work by OpenAI: https://openai.com/blog/reinforcement-learning-with-predicti...
When you have DNA sequencing data, you often have to use bash / command line to glue together the various tooling.

As an example: https://bedtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The fact is Go team learns from other implementations and it's clear from talks and articles. Another fact is that you're accusing them in having the "mindset of refusing to look at established work". Those two facts don't get along together, that's why I disagree.
Far more than there is for Icke self-identifying as the son of god. Apparently he learnt his status as new messiah in a dream or something.
That's true if someone is still able to walk. For people who need medical assistance you need to alert the driver to ensure the train won't continue.

I think they started these announcements because people considered someone feeling dizzy a medical emergency.
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Tell that to the Boeing 737 Max geniuses that included a handcrank to restart the engines.
If you scroll down to the second photo it has the hole cut out. I think the first image was an installation shot.
Tests are not automatically run and centrally reported as part of the installation process.

There is no good heuristic for picking one package over the other when they occupy a similar problem space. This is mostly a cultural problem, the community's efforts are lackluster.

virtualenv is not installed by default, making bootstrapping into a separate prefix that is independent from the system installation unnecessarily aggravating.

Semiautomatic packaging tools (e.g. pypi into rpm) produce low kwalitee packages and manual intervention more often needed compared to similar languages.

Worse are languages that simply don't have much manpower behind them in absolute numbers, e.g. CL/quicklisp. Given Python's mindshare, the results are subpar.
I remember a documentary about drug dealers, and these were the exact words that they used to justify their deeds: "If I don't do it, someone else will, so it makes no difference".
Fun and learning.

I doubt there’s a legit use-case for a mainframe even in business environments. All the “reliability” it gives you can be re-implemented on commodity hardware and still come out ahead compared to the costs of buying & maintaining a mainframe.
meh. ultimately this is OSS. the maintainer was negligent. if you're not a good OSS maintainer, you don't deserve to maintain control. it's not reasonable to be indefinitely patient when the original author shows no initiative to maintain their project