skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to make this longer than needed; I don't know anything about die Linke and MLPD to speak about those. I would disagree about the relationship between the USSR and the Warsaw Pact countries, since while they definitely had some autonomy, in any case where they were against the USSR interests their leaders were promptly changed. What I find most unclear is your third point. I already noted they lasted for really short periods, and I agree, the FTU was an anarchist state (Republican Spain, with the CNT-FAI can be considered an in-between). Why did they, however, show not to be a relevant model to run a country? The fact that both were grassroots based, and democratically organized would make me think the opposite. Is it because they weren't able to defend themselves?
Logo was designed to be a children’s language, so the direction of causality between it being regarded as a “kid’s language” and its association with schools and turtles goes the other way!

It used a turtle because Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert thought this was a good device for teaching about geometry, and Logo was associated with schools (and Lego!!!) because they were trying to change education.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

Of course, you are also right in that once it has momentum along these lines, people tend to put it in a little box marked “children’s language” and not build on it in a more general-purpose language direction.

A few folks have tried, but like squeak and pharos and so many other dialects of Lisp and Smalltalk, it has never gained serious traction outside of its original purpose.
Datetime is a good module if you don't deal with timezones, which is most of the time. And it doesn't come with out of the box support for timd zones, so either you code it, or you use a third party lib.

Hence we don't discourage people from using datetime, it's in the stdlib, and it's useful.

However, if you need time zones, either you code something yourself, in that case you are supposed to know what you are doing, or you look up the best libs for the job.

For the last part, no language have a perfect answer. It's an organic process. I've never met any tool solving it, not even intellij.
Microsoft's AI generates realistic speech with only 200 training samples
Do I truly want to become a manager?
Good luck on that but if you really want to do something, join an organization, protest, etc. We need political power more than we need software right now.
QC35 doesn’t have a left button, that’s the QC35-2. Which sucks because i now need the app multiple times a day.
I regularly forward mysql ports over ssh, so they don't need to be exposed to a public IP address.
Trust is not a binary thing in this context. It is OK to believe that one source is more credible than another, and as such is more useful for guiding an opinion, while still being aware that it might be wrong or misleading. This is inevitable in a society that deals with too many complex issues to be an expert on everything yourself.

An extreme example: I do not, as far as I am aware, know any of the contributors to the most recent IPCC report, nor am I qualified to independently assess its correctness or able to reproduce its underlying experimental evidence. Does this mean I should not be concerned about the effects of global warming? No, because in the absence of any better sources, the IPCC report is the most credible material I have available.

The key thing here is that I am trusting the authors to be authorities in their own field of expertise. The appeal to authority fallacy is more like trusting Prof Sir Cumulus McCloud, who is a Nobel laureate for his research into a mechanism for global warming and the lead author of a large section of the IPCC report, on the best way to make cupcakes.

(That is, while it is fallacious to assume absolute truth based on authority alone, granting some credibility in proportion is not unreasonable. A different type of fallacy, sometimes called appeal to false or undeserved authority to distinguish it, is relying on authority in one field to establish credibility in another.)
100% of the carbon tax comes back as dividends to individuals. We can keep spending that money on carbon intensive products and can consume the same mix of products.

But because we can now spend the money on other things instead, we might find that it's worth buying the electric car instead of the gas car.

People won't be forced into rapidly giving up their current patterns of life and work. It also avoids objections from conservatives about creating more governmental regulations, subsidies, complicated carbon credits, and interest groups. And like the very popular Social Security it's simple to explain.

For concreteness, you would get $300 per month. That would equal the increase in prices you'd see at the gas pump, your electric bill, and in products. Change nothing and nothing in your life changes. Replace these higher priced carbon intensive products with better alternatives and you have extra money you can spend on other stuff.
> I switched from a Bose QC35 to a Sony WH-1000XM3 about half a year ago, and the Sony app on iOS was egregiously requesting permission for location access

I did too, and I stopped using them largely because of the amount of information the app collects. If this lawsuit gets a class certified, an analog for Sony might be something I look into.
In fact, the opposite is true. Something that is harder to deal with paradoxically is learned faster long term. Look for papers on "desirable difficulties". Best to memorize from L1 to L2, although neither provides an opportunity to acquire the language so make sure that you are only using it as a bridge to help you comprehend native input. Get as much native input as you can. Free reading is usually the easiest way to do that.
The Mona Lisa Was Brought to Life by Deepfake AI from Samsung
Not GP, but yes, people in India mostly add both milk and sugar to masala tea, i.e. it is not had with just tea and the masalas - IME, at least. Can't say specifically what is common in Gujarat, though, since I haven't been there except in early childhood a few times (with parents), and didn't drink tea then.
The US has already done cyber attwto Russian banking system back in 2016, and even when not a great power, there have been serious claims of the Venezuelan electric failures being caused by US intervention, beyond that the Snowden leaks showed that the US has set in place mechanisms that could shutdown entire energy grids if they really wanted to
That’s not what it means at all. Of course relying on false authorities is bad.

Like all “fallacies” it’s not that they are useless, it’s just that you have to be aware of the traps. Even the best experts in an area often disagree, so you can’t logically deduce that expert says X means X is true.
I come across this one all the time, but it's usually in the form of "I know you're wrong, because person X made an argument that I don't understand, but this misunderstood summary of that argument says you're wrong".

Happens all the time with the old Donald Knuth chestnut about "premature optimization". Half the time I hear it, it's from people who don't want to optimize at all. http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=580
*pics
Yeah I don't believe it is so simple, otherwise, why wouldn't people use it en masse?

You assume the non-edible parts of farmed plants would be sufficient to provide all the energy we need. That seems unlikely to be the case.

Why would it be different than Biofuel, which ended up costing rainforset for planting plants that could be turned into fuel?
Long-term tax treatment for dividends on stock held for more than N years wouldn’t be a bad idea.
The company behind the nightmarish phone cases on Amazon (2017)
Scroll up, bub. I already pointed out some inaccuracies I saw.
One problem with non-recursive make for very large projects is that make can take a long time to parse and interpret the uber-Makefile. Even though this paper provides some advice for reducing the parse time, it isn't enough for really large projects.

Android suffered from this a lot in the early days. I always wondered whether the initial Android team had read this paper and got carried away...
The suggested additional definition makes sense; it would be hard to imagine a situation where someone would get confused and imagine a Chipotle employee was _literally_ stoned to death.
Steinberg tried the same thing with VST (2, not 3). No one uses (relies on) it.

At the end of the day specs are only as good as adoption. If there is a reliable workaround (or even easier way to do things) than using the UUID then people will do that instead.
good software has 1 bug per ~1000 lines. 1200 bugs for such a critical piece of software is too much.
Incentives work really really well. Almost nothing else does over the long term.

For a concrete alternative with incentives: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/

A massive $600 billion dollar per year incentive based nudge.
Is the irony of saying Solzhenitsyn is unreliable while linking a Reddit thread as a better source lost on you?
Canadian had to 'climb over dead bodies' on Everest
What does free reading mean in this context? I tried a Google search but got ebook marketing spam.
Worked at a startup that unfortunately went under, trying to reuse heat generated in datacenters. (saves on electricity spend on airco and saves on having to generate heat elsewhere)

Luckily some competitors still exist:
https://www.cloudandheat.com/
https://www.qarnot.com/fr/home-fr/
Anybody know what the high level overview of embedding guile into an application looks like?
As a counterpoint to that, in some cases technology is changing so rapidly that things which were best practices no longer are and vice versa. Things that we take for granted now, like CI/CD, were not even technically possible 20 years ago. If people weren't constantly challenging best practices as new technology came out then we'd still be pushing our CRs through change acceptance boards.

Or think about "the cloud," "infrastructure as code," "immutable infrastructure," all that stuff that's considered best practices now couldn't have even been conceived of when we were spinning up new servers by driving to the data center and dropping a new 1U in the rack.
I was thinking about this yesterday and came up with this question: How many trees would I have to plant, and how long would they have to live to offset my (average Western European) lifetime CO2 contribution?
Because the system is largely designed by the people who want to do that.
I don't pound my fist on my desk like I need more pictures of Spiderman, the nature of the product domain we're working in is demanding.

This is not a defense of the status quo. It's an observation about working within the status quo. If I could choose for everything else to remain equal but git get easier, of course I'd take it. I'd choose for a lot of things to be better, not just software.

My observation is that of all the things a developer might encounter for the first time on our project and be asked to learn, git isn't a standout. This is what I meant by keeping up; there's a lot to learn.

We do what we can to reduce the load, spread it out, and I refine the crash course for new developers every time someone goes through it. But at the end of the day, we have jobs because we can pick this stuff up and get to work with it. Even if git is less than the platonic ideal of version control.
Wholesale rewrites often have huge future costs, so I don’t think dismissing them is a sunk cost fallacy.
And, sadly, it also doesn't handle correctly / easily the case of a rule building two or more outputs (think yacc producing a .h and a .c file): more contortions are required.
Show HN: An Angular Wrapper Around Intl.RelativeTimeFormatter
Market based approaches work. The only way you’ll ever see wide spread support for them is if they are uniformly applied to companies based in other countries doing business in the US. Anything that puts solely US based companies at a competitive disadvantage is going to be met with opposition.
> Huawei is years ahead of other, they couldn't steal this tech from anyone - because one one had it.

Sources? I just spent 10+ minutes reading into this and only 2 out of the 10 i looked at suggested that and they were dubious at best. This one [0] had a decent overlook of the various companies but it didn't say anything at who was leading which isn't too surprising since I also cannot find any sources showing any company whatsoever actually deploying 5g en mass. Mostly just companies deploying lone cell towers to run tests and claim they have 5g.

[0]: https://www.greyb.com/companies-working-on-5g-technology/
I REALLY dislike that feeling of not existing or blinking out that people describe, it causes me some substantial existential dread afterward.

So I resolved to have a colonoscopy without any anesthesia or painkillers. It wasn’t a big deal for me, it felt like having bad gas when the tube would go around a corner in the intestines, but the nurses acted like I was insane. The doctor had to come out and tell them it was fine. He said doctors have to experience a colonoscopy awake at least once so they know what it feels like, which I found interesting. Seeing what was in there was pretty interesting too. The American medical system acts like the smallest bit of discomfort warrants being knocked out. The anesthesiologist seemed a little put out about it too, as I refused to even let them give me an IV. Maybe he didn’t get paid if I wasn’t out.

It was funny afterward because someone had the job of escorting me to my ride, so we walked together to my car. Made the whole thing far less unpleasant in my estimation.
I'm arguing that changing the Constitution is not always a bad thing.
This isn't a new problem. Cloaking[1] has been around for a long time. Google[2], and Facebook[3] have been fighting this problem for years. Even Google hasn't had perfect luck with fighting off cloakers[4].

[1]: https://charlesngo.com/cloaking/
[2]: https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6020954?hl=en#31...
[3]: http://fortune.com/2017/08/09/facebook-cloaking-spam-adverti...
[4]: https://wp.josh.com/2019/05/06/breaking-news-google-adwords-...
It seems golden now because you have access to good information on how everything worked. Back then getting any information about the computer was difficult and problems we're very easy to get stuck on since there was nowhere to go for help.
How are you proposing to enact and enforce such laws which will surely cause great economic short term harm and will be tremendously unpopular?
Teva agrees to $85M settlement in opioid public nuisance case
I usually get a line of credit as soon as I close venture financing. That’s the easiest time to raise.

It increases the cash available in a non-dilutive way, and has been cheaper than factoring and other such tools offered to startups. “Small business” deals are usually terrible — basically credit card deals.

If you raise the line and then manage to your original plan you can consider the debt an insurance policy in case things take longer than expected or some assumptions are a little wrong (if they are a lot wrong change your plan!).
> Have some business requirements that make using Go a chore or a pain? Use a different language, or restructure the requirements.

That's such a cop out answer when our industry is basically doing fad-oriented engineering. It's great when you can greenfield build a project but when you're taking over a project the selection of language has usually been decided. Or you know the management team has decided for hirability reasons to use X. Or just legacy requirements don't match reality eventually.

This is why we need more expressive languages than Go. Requirements change over the course of a projects life and what made sense in year 1 rarely makes sense several years later.
Go outside and plant a tree. Preferably in a tropical area where it is less likely to burn during the summer.

Trees are the cheapest most efficient way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. No other solution comes even remotely close.

You can drive a Prius, become a vegan, and buy solar panels but a person who plants a single acre of trees will have offset an entire lifetime of greenhouse gas production and then some.
you can help make compilers and hits and languages and their core libraries more efficient. the average program uses around 100x more electricity than it needs to. as a bonus i will be much less annoyed by software even if jevons paradox results in no co2 reduction
The deadly misleading headline: Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says (2017-07-10).

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

The stupid original headline: New report shows just 100 companies are source of over 70% of emissions (2017-07-10).

https://www.cdp.net/en/articles/media/new-report-shows-just-...

CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017 (2017-07).

https://6fefcbb86e61af1b2fc4-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1...

Quote:

100 fossil fuel producers and nearly 1 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas emission.

Are 100 companies causing 71% of carbon emissions?

https://fullfact.org/news/are-100-companies-causing-71-carbo...

Quote:

Claim: 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions.

Quote:

Conclusion: Of the estimated greenhouse gas emissions from human activity (excluding certain sources like agricultural methane) between 1988 and 2015, 71% originated from 100 fossil fuel producers. This includes the emissions released when the fossil fuels they sold were subsequently used by their customers.
How come no one has mentioned Russia and samovars yet? Heh.

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

From the above article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Samovar_at_a_Kerala-sty...

I have seen such vessels in roadside tea shops in India, but probably did not know at the time that they were samovars or were similar to them. I've only read about samovars in Russian novels by authors like Gorki, Chekhov and others.
A parent - and raise your child(ren) to live in an ecologically sensitive manner that you wish the rest of the world to be.
(Am being honest, not being snarky)
I'd say from long experience of being ignored when trying to do this and similar stuff, the best payoff is to push it upstairs to those in power, the politicians, who doubtless have many other things to do, but whose job it basically is. Your job is to tackle stuff on an individual level, yourself and your family perhaps, but theirs is to deal with things on a societal level where there is much greater effectiveness.

If there's a higher payoff available than that, I don't know where it is.

Absolutely vital tip from extremely painful experience; your physical and more vitally mental health come first. You must not forget that as if you burn yourself out you're no good for anything.
that is only a temporary buffer
and if you fly somewhere to plant it you just added a bunch more
> This is bad for Intel... really bad imo.

Certainly very bad for Intel's customers and partners, but is there any evidence that it's bad for Intel?

Are they offering refunds?

Is there a class action lawsuit likely to inflict significant damage?

Any sign Intel is losing market share?

Are they dropping prices to maintain share?

If anything, Intel's fuckups are actually good for Intel. Customers must now buy more Intel cores to make up for all the compute lost due to their defects.
I think the wealthy elites have realized that it’s a hopeless cause and are trying to put themselves into the best position to weather the storm.
You might be mis-remembering a bit. The list of Saturn V launches at Wikipedia shows some anomalies, most notably Apollo 6, where two second stage engines cut out early -- but those were J-2 engines, not F-1s. It doesn't show any F-1 anomalies, though the F-1s never reached orbit in any event; as first-stage engines, they were shut down and jettisoned long before that even on a completely normal launch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Saturn_V_vehicles_and...
> I vow myself when I reach that level to pass it along the best I can, but something I desperately searched for when I was starting.

Mentoring is one of my favorite thing. Finding people who want to be mentored is...challenging though. Probably a chicken and the egg (one of the other posters mention how people are put in a situation where they can't be open about not knowing things), but so many entry level engineers just pretend they know everything.

Completely agree with you though that this kind of dynamic would drastically improve the industry.
I understand he suffered from chronic pain, so sleep must not have been easy for him. I can totally see the lure of propofol in such a case.
it's not the parsing per se that takes time on modern computers, it's opening and reading in all the scattered included makefiles. also what specifically Android build system is doing behind the scenes is, it runs a python script, which in turn runs find (or maybe several, I don't remember), to gather all the makefiles to include.

but parsing, once all the text is in memory? peanuts.
Reading arbitrary text, out of interest (books, magazines, newspapers), as opposed to reading for the explicit purpose of studying the language, in a language class
Some interesting ideas, but why are question and answer cards better than Cloze cards? A recent blog post (https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831526) suggested Clozes were better. Neither one provided much reason to believe what they said.
My New Library Superpower
One dictionary says "two or more" and even cites a Samuel Taylor Coleridge example with three things:

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/both :

> both conjunction
—used as a function word to indicate and stress the inclusion of each of two or more things specified by coordinated words, phrases, or clauses
prized both for its beauty and for its utility
he … who loveth well both man and bird and beast
— S. T. Coleridge