skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like every bureaucracy that is threatened, they will cut where it is most visible and most painful for the public. They will do this even if the cuts don't save much money. Cutting something hidden, like administrative overhead, just isn't going to happen.

Doing this the ethical way:

1. Use loans (bonds?) to cover the immediate shortfall for students that are currently enrolled or accepted.

2. Raise tuition on future students to better represent actual cost.

3. Eliminate departments that would take a loss. (students unwilling to pay the needed amount) Since this is a state school, there is also some responsibility to the people of the state: prioritize keeping departments that contribute to the industry of the state, with relatively few students leaving the state after graduation. So maybe keep geology and petroleum engineering, while eliminating sociology and art. Even computer science could be eliminated if those graduates nearly all leave for California.
Oh cool. I will try it for sure, thanks !
Well, the main reason no one uses Hypercard itself is because emulating classic MacOS is a pain and a half.

I haven't explored all the copies, but the ones I have seen tend to be less featureful and/or less user-friendly than the original.

Furthermore, probably the best modern software that's similar to Hypercard in its overall flexibility and power is...the web. Back in the day, Hypercard was it; there wasn't really anything else in that space. Nowadays, there's still nothing that's quite as awesome or matches all its features, but there are things that are much closer and do a lot of the same things that are much more accessible than emulating or reimplementing Hypercard.
It's also an interesting argument for stricter gun control - guns make it incredibly easy for suicidal people to follow through on that impulse. The amount of suicide deaths by gun in America is a testament to this.
This is a really cool idea! I love that there's an option to train on git commands. Git has always been the kind of thing where I only learn as much as I need in order to do the task immediately in front of me, so this kind of thing might be a useful way to level up my skills in that area.

I also really love that in the "about" section, you include lots of details about the architecture of the project. I was only expecting a summary of how to use the project, but all these additional details were really nice to see.
That is why I cited the behaviour and culture of JavaScript-only devs as the primary explanation, with NPM's model reinforcing those issues - issues that do not exist in the same manner in those other languages' ecosystems and cultures.
The domain listed on your user page [0] contains both Amazon and eBay branding images. Are you affiliated with those firms? If you're affiliated with Amazon you should have mentioned that in this thread.

[0] https://icanpriceit.com/
> real return from the project.

why should a gov't project need to have any real returns? Social returns is enough. If the city is nicer to live in, if the businesses thrive because of increaed foot traffic, lower car accident rates, cleaner air etc.
Java got this right with reverse domain names over a decade ago. To use a namespace you have to own the URL. Simple and effective abuse resistant package naming.
Please no. I love both languages but they are a different for a reason
> Is it necessary that ad blockers be totally all-or-nothing in their approach?

Yes, it is. Publishers and advertisers have overstepped time and time again. They must be reminded of their place, and nothing short of grabbing them by the scruff of the neck and rubbing their noses in the mess they made will suffice.

> But at least you could give the publishers the ability to make some money from ads served to you.

I could, but why should I? The publishers had a chance to be reasonable, and they just kept pushing. I'm done being reasonable. The publishers should be glad they aren't facing the Internet Death Penalty[1].

1: http://catb.org/jargon/html/I/Internet-Death-Penalty.html
> I've looked into Clojure and like a lot about it, but don't want to have to dig into the Java world.

Clojure is the usual go-to for writing production lisp. You should be able to build apps with leiningen, without needing to understand/use and java (except maybe as a runner for your program, if you build uberjars).
Out of the most popular battery chemistries only NiMH, requires rare-earths - specifically Lanthanum, which is also used as a catalyst in... oil refining.
It's an ecosystem full of reinventing the wheel. The most popular library, lodash, includes a reimplementation of a foreach loop for Pete's sake, for reasons passing understanding since it's part of the ecma spec.

JavaScript is just amateur hour, and these things are going to keep happening. It's pathological.
"What we have found is that in order to be protected, the carbon has to move; it cannot be protected in the same place where it enters."

This is interesting. When I've read about how mineral ore bodies are formed, there is a source, a transport, and a trap. Need all three to form an ore body. The above would say that carbon sequestering by plants follows the same basic process.
"If you disagree with my barely-argued opinion, you're autistic" isn't a great way to close an article
Somewhat related, have there any updates or a forked version of daemontools?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemontools

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

I’ve been using parts of it for many many years without issue but it does feel odd that nothing has required an update in nearly 20 years. Maybe the Unix philosophy and DJB is just that good!
Being rude to anyone is unkind, tech is a small world, and people remember.

Self-centered reason to cut it out: Sure, you might hand-pick your references for that dream job, but what happens when the hiring manager at said dream job checks out LinkedIn, notices that a college buddy worked with you, asks about you, and that was someone you were rude to.
> Adblock Plus has their "acceptable ads" feature[1] so it's already a thing. But there was some controversy around it, which I don't recall well enough to give a fair hearing.

You can pay the makers of Adblock Plus to have your ads declared "acceptable". However, I do not want somebody else deciding for me which ads are "acceptable".
I got bit by that as well. I think testing common arguments is useful, but I wonder if it would make more sense to limit to a single argument. That would eliminate the need to handle permutations, and it would also keep the questions simpler.
A lot of ideas remain on the fringes for laymen until they are used. Quantitative easing like in 07/08 was discussed during the Great Depression.
I'm all for walking... Just be mindful to cover up if you take a stroll on your lunch break like I often do. UV damage is scary.
I wouldn't use the words "malicious" or "exploit" wrt this... It's more like, I dunno, trolling on planet JavaScript? I feel like there should be a big Twitter fight about it...
I love Clojure, but I loathe Java, and I feel you do get exposed to a fair amount of Java stuff when trying to work in Clojure. It's far better than it used to be, but it's still too much for my liking.

Since I build stuff for the web (and Electron, a bit), I use ClojureScript, and am generally really happy with it. It's all the goodness of Clojure — the lispiness, the killer persistent data structures, the wonderfully well thought out standard library — plus the little bit of stuff I like from the JavaScript world — fast boot time, stuff I make can run on the web, good enough debugging/profiling tools, and all the included batteries of the web platform (for audio, video, React if you want it, etc).

I personally use Figwheel to compile my CLJS and do live-reloading, but if I were starting today I'd probably use shadow-cljs. I like to do my own DOM stuff, but if you want to use React I'd do so via re-frame.
You'd pay for my flight so you can call me names in person but not to help save someone's life. What's sad is that there are way too many people who think this way. They'd do anything except help another human being. It's practically built into the culture.
>you wouldn't be doing major database (or other production) changes at 3 pm in the afternoon.

Coinbase isn't dedicated to one timezone. They fully support tons of countries and have customers all over the place.

Things like this have to happen at some point, and there are benefits to doing stuff like this during "work" hours (like having all of your staff online and available)
>the implications of an omnipotent, omniscient being

There is nothing in the premise or conclusion about omnipotent or omniscient. Just "most powerful". If there is nothing which is omnipotent then the most powerful being is not omnipotent.

said another way: while I can (sort of) imagine omnipotentence, it does not follow that there is an omnipotent being in the same way. That is to say, there is necessarily a most powerful object in existence but there is not necessarily an omnipotent object in existence.

Indeed we can infer no attributes of this most powerful object except its power: we may just be talking about the largest black hole or something.
Genuinely curious - is there any reason why person would potentially prefer a less smart dog? I always thought that, the smarter they are, the better companions they can be, so your comment got me wondering.
> Yep, it'll break dependent installs, but that's the point: get dependents to move to the proper version.

Probably more realistically, you'd put a note in your @delinka/ExcellentPackage repo readme saying that the package is deprecated and to use @fredralphbob/ExcellentPackage instead going forward, and simply not publish any more new versions. In fact I'm pretty sure npm has a built-in system to warn users of a package that its canonical name has changed.
The terminology is a little confusing. By "strong" total ordering do they really mean "strict" total ordering? If not, what's the difference?
the article doesn't describe a new string type anywhere, only a hypothetical one for the purposes of demonstrating the new operator
I think to do this properly you need to implement the argument parsing the command is doing; e.g., use getopt(3C). After all, "ls -la -h --" is valid too.
> It provides a counter-offer, rather than just "No.", whereby advertisers can feed you unambiguous and untracked ads.

That ship sailed in 2001, hit an iceberg, and sank with all hands.
Prepayment fees perhaps?
Save it for performance reviews. Be a professional.
In my experience that leads to the organisation hiring more people at the upper ranks of the management track, and the end result is that management becomes the easier path to promotion and most of your senior staff are managers, not ICs.

If you have a team of engineers rangining from L3-L7 (on Square's scale), and you want to hire a new engineer you'll interview, and then decide on a level based on the person's skills & experience. Probably you knew up front that you were targeting a 4/5 or a 6/7, but generally, you don't go looking for a L7 IC, you look for an experienced engineer and then put them at the level that is appropriate.

But if that same team needs a manager then your policy is that they need to be a L8 or above (otherwise you'll need to do a big reshuffle to move all the L7 ICs out). So now you interview looking for a L8+ EM, and you hire the best person you can find, and you make them a L8. Maybe they're at the lower end of the L8 scale, and you know this role will be a stretch for them, but that's OK because it's good to stretch people into new roles and you think they'll step up.

But, you would have made a different decision when deciding what level to give an IC. My experience has been that for ICs, companies (rightly) err on the side of caution and if they think that the new hire is on the lower end of the scale they'll bring them in at the lower level, and let them prove themselves.

So if you're asking Is this engineer a N or (N+1)? you'll be more likely to bring them in at N. But for a manager, there are incentives to bring them in at N+1 so that they can maange the members of the team who are N.

And now your standards for an (N+1) IC are higher than your standards for (N+1) EM. And when it comes to promotion time, the new hires form part of the benchmark. And your existing Level-N EMs are performing just as well as your new N+1 EMs, so they're good candidates for promotion. But your existing Level-N ICs are really only performing at the same level as your new Level-N ICs, so things seem to be balanced.

I don't think there are any easy solutions to this problem. If you have a policy of ICs reporting to higher-leveled EMs then you create a system that makes it easier to be promoted on the management track. But if you have ICs reporting to a same-(or lower)-leveled manager, then you have a perception (and possibly an reality) that being a manager gives you more organisational power than the same level IC.
> But more colloquially, it shows that by accepting some premises that are reasonable, one reaches the conclusion that God exists. Ergo, there's an argument a rational person would accept whose conclusion is the necessity of God.

I think that is a very weak conclusion, there are an infinite number of proofs for god that are valid so long as you accept their particular premises. It is the specific plausibility of the premises and definitions implied in St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument that make it of interest.

What this shows colloquially is that if you are arguing against god, you must either reject this definition of god or one of the other premises. If you don't your argument is self-contradictory.
The laptop was seized due to his sexcapades, then discovered to have much more interesting data.

Anthony Weiner's wife is Huma Abedin. She was deputy chief of staff to Clinton. Somehow, his laptop had come to contain lots of classified emails to/from Clinton. It is simply not believable that those emails were adequately studied in the available time. This has even been admitted in responses to FOIA requests, with the government claiming in court that more time is needed.
What concrete points of concern? I don't see any...?
If we’re talking about a syllogism, fine. If we’re talking about some mixture of logic with historical recollections, suppositions about other peoples’ state of mind, etc... the narrator starts to matter more. If I can trust him to be objective and reasonable, it weakens the piece.
Technology: How the US, EU and China compete to set industry standards
I didn't see anything about a new string type. This does greatly simplify writing comparison operators and makes the compiler smarter about != Is actually a composition of ! (==). The spaceship operator is going to be a huge change.
I like how complex relationships between many people with a rich history and daily awareness of their surroundings are nailed down to simple stupidity in your comment. A guy just tries to tell that a harsh language doesn’t define a person.

“nice to have adults accountable for what they say”

As an eastern bloc citizen, I don’t even.
I am a fan of Leo, but he also tends to fall on my nerves with constantly interrupting people. Atkinson is great in just not letting that happen, FUN!
If your original lender were to refuse you could refinance with a different one. Your lender knows this and therefore will let you refinance to keep your business (I'm actually doing this now).

You do have to pay loan original fees again though which can be 1-2% of the balance of the loan so you have to compute when it actually pays off for you and whether it's worth it.
No. People committing suicide aren't doing it because they're curious about the sensation of it (which VR wouldn't be able to replicate anyway).
World’s largest steam locomotive rolls through Chicago area
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It is lab-tested and nothing beyond this

"""“What has been developed is a dip-coated method—we do not know the strength of this coating and its ability to resist wear and tear in real conditions outside the laboratory, or the commercial viability of the product,” Gosvami says."""
Question: I may not verbally greet people I don't directly work with or interact with. Is that considered rude? I am just not a good small talker,but I am not sure if my intention with small things like this will be misunderstood.
I've spent 5 summers living outside in Colorado. You are completely unrealistic. I think you want to rehash an argument that was settled a long time ago. You seem to agree with Elizabeth Jennings, from The Americans, that the ends justify the means, where you could not be more wrong. We will not submit to your power play, and if you push for more political power out of a place 2 thousand miles away from me, I will not hesitate to retaliate. I'm not sure you are even American, but if you are you should probably leave to a place that places the government in higher regard. The US Constitution is a list of the very limited roles the federal government should play. Negative rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
I agree - it is a bit of over-correction.
"obscure"
I'm still waiting for the version of this that removes invasive crops from non farm land. So DOT could unleash it on any road side, removing kudzu etc and allowing natural plants to take back over. Or under power lines, only letting trees with a max 10 - 15 ft height survive so further maintenance is reduced in the long term.
A Guide to Writing Your First Software Documentation
Feel free to share your experience on writing your first technical/software documentation, what you find most difficult about it, and how you overcome the challenges, etc.
> just because you don't charge for it, doesn't mean you aren't providing an implied warranty and aren't taking implied liability.

Open source software is almost always distributed with a license that explicitly disavows any such warranty or liability. This is pretty widely understood...
What makes this “open” is - I presume - other trackers used to be tied to a forum with a registration, while this is supposedly not tied to a forum or a torrent search website.

However, from what I read some time ago, it’s actually connected to Pirate Bay, and when Pirate Bay used to be down, OpenBitTorrent was also down.
Thanks for sharing! I always thought it'd be fun to do table analysis as a side project. I know BGPmon got bought out a while ago and was always curious if anyone would do full tables via iBGP peering. Obviously it would be more adventageous to have a few geo disperse peering points to make it worthwhile.
Dogs differ widely in mentality, behavior, and energy levels. A border collie - for example - requires lots and lots of time and activity. If you haven't got that to offer, both you and your dog are much better off if you pick less demanding breed.
> the temporary throes of delusion and irrationality

On the other hand, this phrase describes about 80% of all human behavior in my experience.
I like Julia a lot.
I’m skeptical. Do you have an argument to back up that claim? Doctors and nurses that provide direct healthcare are more than 1% of workers, are you saying AGI that replaces a doctor can’t be considered “strong AI”?
> “All these years I have been feeling like I’m doing something responsible,” said Pai, clearly dumbstruck as she walked away with a full bag. “The truth hurts.”

All is not lost. Consumers can be responsible by radically cutting consumption.
The argument blurs two things:

1. "in order to imagine the most powerful thing possible then you must imagine it exists"

and 2. "anything which exist is more powerful than anything which is just imagined"

In the case of number 1, there is nothing requiring it to exist just how you are allowed to imagine it.

For number 2, even very simple objects will be stronger than the most powerful thing you can imagine.

To rescue the argument a third interpretation is often given: god is the most powerful thing in existence. But this provides no details and could be a very uninteresting but powerful natural phenomenon.
I'm curious how it works technically. I thought Apple did not allow Apps access to the phone functionality.
What percentage of those with chronic suicidal ideation attempt suicide?
runit is a modern rewrite folling djb's principals...
http://smarden.org/runit/
>UV damage is scary.

Can you expand on that? Curious to know through your experience.
Indie Game Cuphead Is Headed to Tesla Vehicles in August
I don't see this as an issue? Would we want our security software written by foreign interests. Especially places like Australia
I saw a fascinating interview with Kevin Hines, a guy who attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, and lived. He said he immediately regretted it after he jumped.

It seems like there is something about there being no turning back that totally transforms one's perspective. Why, after weeks, months, or years of planning suicide, are peoples' perspectives able to totally flip in an instant, precisely when it's too late?
Industrial battery will eat it.
Slack spends a lot of time promoting itself as a “work hard, them go home” culture. Do others fimd tat to be true? If so, why would burnout be a risk for someone at Slack?
Probably parent means something like creating a much more realistic and believable experience of imminent demise, like jumping off a tall building. The idea being if you can make enough of the brain believe it is about to die it might trigger whatever it is that changes its opinion on whether or not it should commit suicide.
why is it "so hilariously wrong"?
This has always been going on.

Eli Whitney patented his cotton gin, but never managed to collect much in royalties because carpenters everywhere just made them.

The Wright Bros. invented and patented the airplane, and spent the next decade more or less fruitlessly suing copiers.
> I trust these people

why?
It was even clear from the terminology: anyone who made stacks in Hypercard was called an "Author" -- which comprised both "developers" AND users. That naming couldn't be more to the point about the intention of the system.
Uncalibrated Deflectometry with a Mobile Device on Extended Specular Surfaces
Skin cancer.
No actually the opposite. I’m saying we have a finite capacity to imagine magnitude, though it’s not readily apparent. Infinite is easy conceptually, but most people’s pragmatic place holder for “basically infinite” is going to be a really big number. Very big to be sure. But Graham’s number is so large it’s beyond the scope of numbers you’re likely to have conceived could exist. It’s not something you can quite fit in your head even reading about it, like something out of Lovecraft.

Whatever you imagined in imagining God as the greatest thing, Graham’s number is inconceivably larger still.

And that is why Cthulhu wins.
So first the SKY IS FALLING because demand is greater than supply and now the SKY IS FALLING because supply is (forecasted) to catch up to demand.

Sensationalist media articles win both ways :-)
Is it different from iStudiez in any way?
https://istudentpro.com/ios.php
The smarter they are, the more they observe and learn. This means they also learn bad or annoying things and it can be very difficult to then train them out of it. A good example is a border collie I know that accidentally broke a screen door, then suddenly learned that all screens can be opened at will and no window was safe.

Smart breeds also need to be kept busy and entertained or they get anxious and angry. They'll start destroying property or fighting with others. If you don't have the time and energy, it's much better to get a less intelligent and mellow dog instead.