skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thing: the world is better by most metrics. Life span, literacy, crime rate,... There are some dips now and then but the net effect is mostly positive.

On the computer side of things, for less than $100 ($200 if you need a screen), you can have a full, general purpose computer you can code on, new. And with internet access you can have all the documentation you need to get you started.

And the "web revolution" not empowering users? A simple example: buying an uncommon book used to take weeks, if possible at all. Now a few clicks on Amazon and you get it delivered the next day. Realtime communication to people anywhere in the world is almost a given now, it was somewhat possible 10 years ago but at a much different price. And what about navigation? If you have a working smartphone and data connection, getting lost is more or less impossible.

The part about controlling, isolating, radicalizing, and depressing people is debatable. Tech certainly has an effect but is it a net positive or a net negative? It is used to control people but also raises awareness. It makes people stay at home but facilitates communication. It radicalizes people but also expose them to mind opening diversity. It makes some people more depresses but provides outlets.
There's a not insignificant number of professional economists who publicly support open borders. Example: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-02-28/wor...
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So you have zero bonds in your portfolio? Directly or through funds (mutual/ETF).
Very excited to use this for deployment to AppEngine!
And before the cynics note that open borders are incompatible with welfare states, that's not necessarily true

Ok, why is that not true?

And I'd argue that any Einsteins born in Africa are going to find moving to another country and near impossible task regardless of how open the borders are.
If you're getting a drug test it's most likely because there are safety and insurance implications. Don't pretend like most of us are being randomly tested at work.
You can! If you watch the demo video (https://cdn.tryretool.com/videos/4_minute_demo_4827ae.mp4), you'll see that every query could potentially come from a different datasource. So for example in our GDPR data export tool, we pull in data from Stripe, Salesforce, and a postgres database: https://retool.com/templates/gdpr-data-export/

Also — probably our coolest feature (IMO): you can query anything via SQL, including APIs. So you could query Stripe, Salesforce, etc. via SQL, since all data in Retool is in JSON. AND you can actually join across them too. Imagine joining a Google Sheet with Stripe data with data from your database. It's great fun! https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/querying-via-sql

For example, here's how you query a JSON blob via SQL:

select
*
from
{{ [{ id: 1, apples: 3 }, { id: 3, apples: 20 }] }}
where
apples > 5

And here's how you join data from two separate APIs (that return JSON):

select
users.*, payments.*
from
{{ usersApi.data }} as users,
{{ paymentsApi.data }} as payments
where
users.id = payments.user_id
The value you get from something has nothing to do with its price. When people say "X is worth Y dollars", "Y dollars" refers to what they can sell it for, not how much "value" its adding to society.
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Why use SHA1 if you’re building it from scratch?
Audible Genius releases new composition weball
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> These are the olives of technology. Olives aren’t candy, and tasting them the first time isn’t always pleasant, but soon you will develop a taste for them. They have been here since ancient times, and they will remain for centuries to come. They are good for you, solid, reliable, nutritious. Eat less candy and more olives.

For what it's worth, olives are basically inedible from the tree and require a considerable amount of processing before they are actually edible.
I couldn't get the Ctrl-L thing to work. (on a mac/chrome)

Ctrl-B works.
It's much more than just null pointer dereferencing. Time and time again, it's been proven that Rust protects even very experienced C++ programmers from bugs they didn't realize they're even making.
Is it official now that Github is becoming Gitlab?

Does anyone know how they are going to bill for the compute used in the CI?
"The company is free to implement their service in whatever way they want ..."

Yeah, and we're free to complain about it when they do so in a manner that's hostile to users.

Why are you so intent on defending this company against reasonable complaints about its product decisions?? If you don't agree with a particular complaint, just ignore it and move on. It's really strange how much you're inserting yourself into the conversation here though and shouting down and insulting everyone who says anything negative about the product.
That is unfortunate.

Perhaps government contracts to sequestration companies in order to hit emissions targets could be carved out of existing budgets. I'm from the U.S. and there is certainly money to be diverted. Maybe we just need sequestration contractors in the right districts for certain politicians?
Antarctica too: if you can get there, you can step onto the ice.

There's a pattern here: the only places with open borders are places where you wouldn't really want to live anyway, while the places with the strictest border controls are often those that are quite desirable.
> As we’ve discussed, inboxes are naive.

That's what I want from it
It usually always arrives the next day, so the package does come, just not on the day it is supposed to be delivered.
It is a myth that immigration creates a burden on the US government.

I'm so sick of "two side"ism taking over every conversation.

There is an opinion on this based in the weighing of all relevant facts, and there is an opinion about this based on the creative selection of only some facts. Decide for yourself, but what I've seen is that the full body of facts is much more supportive of the idea that immigrants are a net positive to the US than it is the opposite.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/are-immigr...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/4-myths-ab...

https://psmag.com/news/research-shows-immigrants-are-not-a-d...

https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213888/trump-undocumented-imm...

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

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-30/immigr...

https://immigrationforum.org/article/immigrants-as-economic-...

https://medium.com/s/story/the-bad-economics-used-to-target-...
I can give you my anecdote of a similar situation. I was pigeonholed into a job using legacy tech a couple years ago. I quit because it was a dead end. I found a company willing to let me learn modern tools on-the-job, which I did. That ended up not panning out in the long run because of work/life balance. But that is when the story gets interesting:

My next job was the old job. I got hired back into the job I quit, but instead of being stuck on the old tech, I'm working on modernizing multiple old products, including my own legacy products, into new tech.

It wasn't the original plan, but it ended up being a 12 month sabbatical to modernize myself.
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Transport is a third of emissions, most of that road transport, so if everyone bought an electric car it would certainly have an impact.

I think people have to bear in mind this is also about industrial scale. One person buying an electric car brings down the price for another, each new person brings down the price more and opens up the possibility to more people, and at some point you’ll get a mass transfer. Electric cars are only something like 0.3% of cars on the road but already have the scale to get quite close to competitive. They're already cheaper for high mileage cases.

Although I do agree we will need concerted effort, it’s likely this will be in conjunction with, not opposed to, these kind of individual decisions.
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Really interesting. My project just migrated to Azure DevOps and I noticed that their configuration file looks really similar. My suspicion is that Azure DevOps is backing GitHub CI/CD.
Heck, raising kids might even have helped Dan get better at moderating. Both in terms of doing it and handling the mental burden. Seems like there's some overlap in skills like trying to understand them, giving guidance, having patience about the process, etc.
I've been what many would call a climate change alarmist for a couple of decades now.

I think it's also quite unlikely that climate change, or even results from it, will make humans extinct. Even if climate change triggers some kind of global thermonuclear war, which I think is a small possibility, I'm pretty convinced that humans are here to stay.

Maybe not many of us, but some.

In my opinion, extinction isn't the main worry. Collapse of civilization should be what we're trying to avoid. And that is a real possibility I think.
The last time I sent a candidate a leetcode question, they got a 100% plagiarism answer and didn't make a single mistake or error.

Plagiarism in these tools is very easy to detect and I don't find Leetcode puzzles as a indicator for finding 'talent' but just another tool that companies use as a means to filter applicants because they don't know what they are looking for in a candidate.

So I'm afraid that it is useless for me.
I don't run exactly all, but like I said, YMMV. That said, bunch of people I know run this all the time, me included, and besides some trivial stuff Windows runs at least x2 faster and feels snappier. Those scripts are meant to be inspected and applied.

Besides, what kind of engineers are we if we can't fix something done with the script ? You don't recommend experimentation, I can live with that if we don't do work together... Otherwise, perhaps you should try running what looks to you like arbitrary setup and see what path it takes you.
Yes, there are lots of freemium mobile games which satisfy the "pay-to-win" definition I gave in a way that Magic: the Gathering does not. (Clash of Clans and Clash Royale are two very popular examples that I'm aware of.)
I wonder what they'll offer for Github Enterprise. Especially for organisations that are using it on prem and would prefer not to use Azure for builds.

Anyone know?
As soon as all the rich people stop flying their private jets I'll pay attention.
For the capitalists of course, need more consumers and workers, lets chase infinite growth!
I've also came upon Clojure after investing much time in Lua/Love2d, but my takeaways are different from yours.

I enjoyed Lua's simplicity, portability and execution speed. It shares much of JS strengths, with fewer quirks. I was productive after a weekend of reading Programming in Lua book.

Clojure took some more time because I had to unlearn some habits. It's for the best, I think. It's not just about homoiconicity and REPL. In Clojure it's hard to do the wrong thing, compared to JS or Lua. The language makes it easy to isolate a small piece of functionality, develop and test it, and then and put it together into coherent whole. Clojure may be harder to learn, but the cognitive load is smaller and it scales better for large projects.

Persistent data structures are also huge step forward. They eliminate whole class of errors and allow for traceability and reproducibility.

As for s-expressions, yes, they can be a nuisance in editor without proper support. I'm getting by with SublimeText + zprint auto-formater. For REPL I found no better than Atom's proto-repl. Also I hated Lua's "if..then..else..end" and other verbose constructs. I'd say s-expressions are more consistent and compose better. Still, your frustration is familiar to me.
Sorry, smart folks don't want black market product. Learn how the world works.
Rust and the other new zero cost abstraction languages. Reason being that I think performance is a solved problem. The future is in safety and readability. Not squeezing the last few percent of fps out of your hardware. Go is in the same category. People are inventing better versions of C++ when I want them to invent better versions of Python. :)
For me: I grew up in Europe in times where the wall came down in Germany, a shared currency was established (Euro) and all European borders within Europe where suddenly passable without passport, visa checks, money exchange, someone judging you, etc.. Of course this caused other problems to solve, but the general feeling of freedom and being able to go some other country and even being able to live and work there was very liberating for me and motivated me to travel a lot (easy and relatively cheap in Europe by railroad). I don't want to argue whether or not this is possible for the whole world and what it would take, but it surely is a dream for me to live in a (global) society that makes this possible.
Is there a guide/overview/doc/tutorial/whatever of how Hy is implemented?

I'm curious how hy modules can be imported in python directly.
https://github.com/features/actions near the bottom explains the pricing scheme.
OP said not necessarily true

Take universal basic income, if combined with open borders, you are attracting people who would like to also get (say) $1000/m, who will now use that welfare to induce demand on people who may like to trade this freshly minted coin for some service they can render, so the economy grows through immigration instead of debt.
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Closed two years ago. Resurrected a few months later.

Closed (again, finally) yesterday.
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Yes and no. I think as techies we think "of course". Because we know how you would go about analyzing that information. I don't think the average person does (anyone in the bay is likely not your average person in this context). Analyze could be a whole lot of things. It doesn't mean that a human is listening in.

So yes, I think to us this is nit picking. But to the general public this is news.

I still remember a few years back having conversations with people about how companies like Google, Apple, and whatever hire people to listen to your recordings when you use services like Ok Google and Siri. Of course no techies bat an eye at this talk. But people in the general populous called me a conspiracy theorist.

I don't think we realize the technical literacy divide that exists.
Nitpicking, but "Forbes" didn't write that article as much as "Medium" or "Blogger" wrote any article you see hosted on those sites.

Notice that the article you linked is hosted on forbes.com/sites/ericjackson...

Some guy named Eric Jackson (https://twitter.com/ericjackson) - who appears to be a PE investor wrote that article.

Forbes is a content farm that hosts opinion posts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes#Forbes.com

Forbes.com uses a "contributor model" in which a wide network of "contributors" writes and publishes articles directly on the website. Contributors are paid based on traffic to their respective Forbes.com pages; the site has received contributions from over 2,500 individuals, and some contributors have earned over US$100,000, according to the company. Forbes currently allows advertisers to publish blog posts on its website alongside regular editorial content through a program called BrandVoice, which accounts for more than 10 percent of its digital revenue.
Yes, parts of it now present in IOMMU(v2)
GDPR is actually very narrow, specific and clear, as far as privacy laws go.

The only unclear thing is the distinction between processor, manager and collection of data. That's because it's narrow in scope.
https://twitter.com/anoff_io/status/1159512381728407552

True? microsoft person on stage https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/author/jeremy-eplingou...

Sorry Github! Not good!
Two examples I recall are the albedo changes from melting of on-land glaciers and ice-sheets, the IPCC thinks think will take hundreds of years. And then the Methane Clathrate idea, which is very controversial but could contribute to some degree.

I don’t think anyone in the world can answer the question about how likely these feedback effects are, unfortunately!
The features page has a pricing table: https://github.com/features/actions

It is totally free for public repos. For private repos:

- Free accounts get 2000 free minutes

- Pro accounts get 3000 free minutes

- Team accounts get 10k free minutes

- Enterprise accounts get 50k free minutes

Additional runner minutes are:

- Linux: $0.008 per min

- Windows: $0.016 per min

- macOS: $0.08 per min (yeah that's not a typo, it is copied straight from the page, macOS is mad expensive)
I mean you have to get coreboot functioning before getting to libreboot don't you?
It’s not backed by Azure DevOps, the infrastructure is different and maintained by GitHub. However, the underlying technology is based on the Azure Pipelines technology (a sort of fork).
The impacts really depend on your use case. The mitigations make each context switch have a much higher fixed cost.

If you're doing something that's syscall heavy, you're going to see a big negative difference. If it's something that's CPU heavy without making many syscalls, you're not going to see a lot of difference.
I find it worrisome how preoccupied you seem to be with the skin color of others.
Someone with the drive and intelligence to make it in big law (i.e. a far above average lawyer) is probably not going to be making the salary of an average programmer.
Is the .pizza just for fun or am I missing a reference?
Skype until relatively recently was a fully peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted messaging (voice and text) platform, as part of Microsofts purchase and development of the platform rebuilt it as a centralised service.
There are self-hosted Build agents and eventually this will become available inside GitHub Enterprise Server too (after it GA’s)
Businesses used to rely on pop-up ads too, before browsers started to ban them.

If browsers ban JS in ads, HTML based ads will rise in value.
Ah, Martingales, classic scam.
I went down this path until I tried to run pdb or profilers on mixed language stuff, result was not great.

Python is already fairly OK, use decorators instead of def macro, metaclasses if you need to get into head-scratching territory etc. Use the 4 argument form of the type function, belabor __new__ etc it will still be readable instead of a pile of nail clippings
Currently partly cloudy and 48°F/9°C. Though, yeah, I imagine most days aren't like that.
Non web based approach using jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/):

json_source_on_stdout | jq .
I think the big issue with that is those institutions don't want to be acting as loan servicers. Someone needs to do all the work of processing payments, working to define alternate payment plans in some cases and doing foreclosures/reposessions when someone defaults. Who does that in your model?
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This comparison would benefit from showing numba (https://numba.pydata.org/) results for explicit loops.
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Functional Testing with GitHub Actions 2.0
Cutting out dependencies helps. If you just have to worry about Google and Apple the changes are usually slower and documented.
That approach has really serious technical challenges (poor fuel quality and proximity of suitable land to population centers vis a vis the energy necessary to transport it). It's not clear how it's going to scale up to the necessary level.
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China’s doing a lot, they’ve played a big role in scaling up solar and batteries. They’re accelerating into the transition, directing growth from a carbon economy into massive investment into replacement technologies, which is not a bad idea.
Depends. In some places public prosecutor could take interest, but it's unlikely for a single act.
Free 2,000 minutes per month, not bad. No info about ssh debug - top feature for any CI service.
> On the other hand, the interpreter is able to optimize accesses to stuff on the stack.

That is correct – there is no hash lookup for local variables and the variables in a list comprehension are local.
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Yes, that gentlemen certainly fits the "bad guy" moniker.
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I don't think I understand your question (nor am I an expert on Python regex!)...but just to be clear, Python's regular expression standard library is named `re`. But there is an external lib – ostensibly a drop-in replacement – that goes by the name of `regex`. It is the `regex` library that supports variable lookbehind, not Python's standard library `re`

https://pypi.org/project/regex/
Frequency matters. Greeting more than maybe two or three times an hour is quickly getting old, but never acknowledging a face is depressing. People adjust their threshold accordingly: in a dense city environment greeting strangers would put you far above the enjoyable range so you lower the threshold. To people you actually know, or perhaps to people who somehow acted nice specifically to you. People in a place where they don't know anybody at all will often tweak the threshold a bit to strangers that share some standout commonality with them. The opposite happens in an environment with few people. On a lonely road, people start nodding at oncoming traffic or the occasional wanderer, on a very lonely road I've caught myself saying hello to farm animals or wildlife. Lost in the desert I'd probably try to chat up a friendly looking rock. The village is sitting nicely between those extremes.