skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abhorable. Root cause may indeed be poverty and greed but also the uncontrolled population growth that in itself is the cause and effect of poverty.

Pakistani government (read military for all intents and purposes) is focused on concentrating wealth, power and land in the hands of generals, their children and a few land owners while the population at large is fed a steady diet of lies about enemies at the border and beyond.

This fear of others (india, isreal, america even) is used to spend and therefore siphon the resources into the pockets of powerful few. The stage is different, the story not so much.
At the time the code was written, the security ramifications were not quite the same as they are now. Even now, I would suggest that there are times where such a construction would be just fine.
CPUs have much faster (2-5 cycles latency) and much more precise (<0.04% relative error) version in hardware, since 1999: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/rsqrtps
How are they not substantial enough if you started with Bitcoin in 2011??
Even with GM crops there are still ongoing legal battles on their patentability, e.g. on cotton seeds between Monsanto and Indian farmers:

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/agriculture/was-there-a-...
I always found it insanely funny how The Yes Men would create these fake Corporate personas, especially with their names. I'm sure they have complete biographies of each persona they create because each one seem well put together :).
> There were many times where I refactored code that never received any additional updates or to have the feature removed.

Since we're throwing out anecdotes, I've lost count of the number of companies I've seen that were essentially zombies due to technical debt. They had aging, rotting codebases that were impossible to add features to at the rate needed to continue making sales. No senior engineers who could improve the situation wanted to set their careers back by working for them.
I like the Windows one, too. It looks a lot simpler as well.

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What do you want to compare Read performance or write performance? with how many concurrent connections? What MySQL engine you will use Transaction (InnoDB) or Memory engine?
Which is a distinction without a difference since all that happens is the base pay number is different.

The take home pay, and the tax paid is identical.
I remember this in one of the three Yes Men feature film documentaries. They went to Bhopal and residents were happy about The Yes Men trolling the media, if only to bring more attention to how horribly they were treated before, during and after the incident.
>For sure, it is a neat experiment to create something like this, but time and time again, people always resort back to tools like Sketch

The difference this time around is that the visual designer language...is the real development language.

I've also tried using these visual designers before. They all seemed half assed and had glaring limitations.

This one may end up being no exception. But I think, combined with Flutter, there may be something gold here. The key being that this visual editor is really a glorified text editor rather than a glorified art program. Sketch, for example, outputs PNGs at the end of the day. You can't throw those into your app and call it production ready. This "widget maker" outputs dart files. That's real, executable code. If the overhead visual designer is flexible enough, the only walls you may end up hitting are the ones set up by the widget implementations themselves. At that point you'd have to deal with those walls manually anyways, so you haven't lost any time really.

One of my fever dreams over the summer was to build a voice controlled Flutter widget builder, such that I could sit in front of my TV and simply transcribe a UI from my head directly into the emulator. OP's project is a good first step towards that goal. Just imagine:

"Give me a scaffold with a column layout..."
"Add a raised button to this container's body"
"Set its color to sky blue"
"Show me this widget's properties"
"Make this a stateless widget called SpecialButtonBar and have it take three arguments..."

Again, it doesn't have to do all of it. But having written code to play with is a much better starting point than having nothing. Flutter's composability means that there aren't many different approaches you or a machine can take to arrive at the same result - you will end up with very similar widget trees which means this is a task ripe for automation.
> The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

> If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelego. Frankl found evil in prisoners who were promoted to guards and good in guards who were supposed to use and unceremoniously dispose prisoners.
I think there's plenty needed to get to a fully funded Kickstarter too
He mentioned on a podcast that he even uses his own text editor.
Most of the managed healthcare plans base the patient outcomes on a number of factors, and the doctors report is either not a factor at all or a small factor. If the patients are being readmitted multiple times that will outweigh what is misreported.

But more generally I agree that there will always be financial pressure weighing against ethical issues or patient outcomes. But a managed care plan is strictly better than fee for service in aligning patient outcomes and incentives for healthcare providers. And there is market pressure going the other way, patients can switch healthcare plans or switch providers if they have a better alternative with better outcomes.
Machine Translation from Natural Language to Code Using Long-Short Term Memory
I've been thinking about doing the same thing, but I want to automate it in such as a way that it knows what food is still unused in the house. Haven't found a solution for that yet, but maybe with smart fridges and/or image recognition we're not far off. Unless the hn crowd knows an existing solution.
Debt can also be taken on accidentally. You can build a couple of features one way and expect future features to be similar, but then reality bites and the way you've built them makes the next feature that happens to come along harder, and the next, and the next. Or the way you've built them doesn't allow for the rate of change in that area - something in code wants to be in config, or something in config wants to be in a CMS. In the debt analogy, it's like having a variable interest rate: you can make a decision which is correct for today's conditions, but the market moves and you're paying twice the interest and suddenly it doesn't make sense any more.
Here's what normal people see and hear when you enter the room: Nerd opens mouth: "Blablabla quibberish, you're all idiots, hear me express your problem way overcomplicated. Also, I need more budget and cannot promise to actually deliver a solution anytime soon because of more quibberish."

If you want to be trusted start acting like normal people. Stop talking in technical quibberish. Stop behaving like a nerd. Shape up. Get some social interaction with normal people. Stop complaining all day long and start delivering what was asked on time and on budget.
For non recursive quicksorts see code at bottom of this link:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/iterative-quick-sort/
Thanks, was trying to remember that first trick just last week. For log files I had to make a slight adjustment to filter the time at the front:

!seen[gensub($1, "", "g", $0)]++

For anyone wondering, it filters out duplicates by storing the first occurrence of the line and skipping subsequent ones.
Super scratch-notes version:

- Use sendgrid to send emails, it'll be free at your usage

- Make the login form only accept an email address, dont risk saving passwords, display a generic "if you signed up you'll get an email soon" message on submission for all values.

- Whitelist your buddies' emails, send them a link to login with. Ignore the rest.

- The link can be a UUID without the dashes or something similarly sufficiently random (could sha1 hash the time and be good enough for your purposes). yourdomain.com/login/somesufficientlyrandomandlongkey

- Save that key in the DB, that's effectively the password. Delete stuff after a while so they have to re-login.

Feel free to hit me up on Keybase or whatever (details in my profile) if you want to follow up in detail.
I think you and grandparent post's author are both right. I've seen both. It depends on the type of engineers that inhabit your team, and therefore are not mutually exclusive.
"Virtual" scrum master
I guess you could make the case that windows is written in C++, which is a superset of C which was designed while writing UNIX. Sure the OS is different, but it ended up being built from the same blocks. If we didn't have C, would we have Windows as it is today?
Stfu you stupid fascist shit. "Lets just throw the sick gays in a camp!" fuck you.

> many people would have had their rights violated

The worst part about you is that you fucking know this is wrong but you're making it out like a 'rational' decision. That's straight nazi shit.
They can sell in non-plastic packaging.
They can invest in research of biodegradable packaging.
They can collect the packaging.

There's a lot a company can do.
What does it take for CA to modernise their intake? As a customer, you should really them to change, rather than settle for a band aid around their drawbacks.
There’s a lot of good computer history books, but a book about the early days of Unix at Bell Labs has been missing.

Glad it has finally arrived!
It’s not in our road map right now but if there is a demand for that we can add that. We are mainly focused on subscription based model as we provide cloud solution (so there are server and computing costs we need to cover). However if you do not need the app for some time you can cancel the subscription (we will return your money for the rest of the mont/year) and you can still access your files. Only thing is that you can edit just the number of documents that you have in free plan (10 by default but you can increase the quota by inviting people - 3 documents per invitation), other documents are read only and you can’t edit them until you start the subscription or increase your free quota of documents.
I'm with John Searle on the Chinese room [1] opinion, i.e. that a machine cannot be said to "understand" language even if it is able to pass the Turing Test. That is because when we say "understand", we are referring to particular kind of human experience (qualia?) that a machine simply doesn't seem to have, but animals, for example, do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Memory is more structure than stuff, providing foundations of future thoughts. Meaningful insights shape your interaction with the world and change how you interface with reality. the details fade but the evolution of mind's empowering constraints continues on.
Is The Lean Startup a “dumb and bankrupt philosophy”?
I agree fully. I would be really interested in generalizing their security model amongst more (probably inadequate) hardware. We can dream :)
I would argue that this is better than most alternatives.
I like the idea of a fleet of nanobots that transparently and progressively replace defective neurons with API endpoints, until ultimately I get a chat message, "Hi MonkeyCanType, just wanted to let you know you've been 100% software for two years now. Would you like to chat about your options for printing a new body? We currently have specials on fire engines and triceratops."
I don't know where the "hate" is coming from... Or maybe I just see this more as art and not something to be taken seriously as a technical suggestion.
Everytime i sit down at a computer and stare at a screen I wear blue light blocking glasses. I experimented with different intensities of the yellow and found a subtle one to fit me the best. This reduced eye strain by a lot.

What could also be a factor is bad posture, sitting down allday could tighten up the area around through your neck which could cause headaches. I suggest stretching out everyday for 20 minutes to ease that.
There are already so many software projects called Snap.
Ninth House (Alex Stern) by Leigh Bardugo
Considering the magnitude of its impact on science, engineering and culture (as well as the tremendous force released), this line from the IGNITION subroutine in the BURN_BABY_BURN module of the Apollo AGG source code does it for me:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
In the natural world, ants of some species (initially) wander randomly, and upon finding food return to their colony while laying down pheromone trails. If other ants find such a path, they are likely not to keep travelling at random, but instead to follow the trail, returning and reinforcing it if they eventually find food

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori...
Yes, business stakeholders often mistrust software and IT people, because relative to other industries we do a poor job of meeting our commitments.

McKinsey did a study recently which found that large IT projects ran on average 45 percent over budget and delivered 56 percent less value than expected [1].

An executive is interacting with people from multiple industries or business functions and this is on the high side. It's much worse than a function like accounting, and it's also worse than many industries with bad reputations, like construction. So over time they are going to come to regard estimates from the tech guys with more suspicion than most. To the extent that other industries have this problem, yes you will find similar trust issues.

If you are a PM/product manager then the best way to handle technical debt is to focus on the benefits that come from paying it down. You are not scheduling time for technical debt, you are scheduling time to improve reliability, security, scalability, etc. and from day one you are lobbying for more time to do every feature so that it's done right in the first place. Yes, sometimes one of these things has to go wrong before the business people start listening, but if you were calling it out from day one they will respect your input that much more.

If you are a developer it's important to understand what work has business value and what doesn't, and make or inform decisions appropriately. Frankly there are developers out there whose attitude amounts to "Your job is to pay my salary, my job is to make whatever technical decisions I want without oversight, and if we don't deliver on time/on budget it's not my problem."

Not all tech debt is worth paying down, the decision generally should be made based on the "interest rate" of the debt (how hard is this going to burn us in the long run?) and the term length of the "loan" (will this component be around for one year or ten?).

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital...
on second thought, you are right. if the supervisor is good then this situation would not even arise, and if they are bad, then the boardgame won't help.

the situation i was thinking of applies more to cases where the supervisor is remote and you have no personal contact.

so really the problem here is that in remote communication people come across differently than in person. they may actually act differently than in person, because they may not even be aware how they come across.

in such a situation knowing the supervisor through a different activity (and that could be to play boardgames at the yearly company meet) can make a difference.

i have seen this example from FOSS developers who got a certain reputation online, but came across very differently when i met them in person at a conference.
Related, but I was looking for an audio format that could embed these loop points inside of it so the file would be small but play infinitely. Is there anything "standard" that does this? I looked into WAV and AIFF, which seem to have "cue" points, but they don't seem to quite do what I want…
Magician was super popular at the time, but having already read Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey, Moorcock and a few others I found it more of a join the dots exercise spotting where he pinched pretty much everything from. It was like reading a whistle stop tour of fantasy fiction from the 60s and 70s. I did read some of the later novels. The sequel where Midkemia was invaded by a blatant clone of the Empire of the Petal Throne from Tékumel was fun.

That might come across as faint praise, which it is a bit, but like a few novel series of the time, it was a toy box of fantasy fun. Most of the readers of novels like this were never going to wade through all the source material, but here all the basic concepts were in compendium form. They certainly had a niche to fill.
I bet driving sedans/trucks powered by 4.4-8.2 liter (!) engines consuming 15-35 liters per 100km didnt help the situation either.
I also bring up that example quite frequently.

I believe that is because conceptually, radiation is such a foreign concept to people. Who can blame them, they only hear it in the context of danger (for example, when getting an x-ray) or catastrophe (Chernobyl). But they'll happily eat a banana.
FYI - the Free plan is limited to 10 notes/mind maps. However you can increase that quota by inviting new users - 3 documents per invitation.
No, it was definitely not true in the past and is not true now. First, technically there is no much difference between a given app self-hosted by you and hosted by a company charging you for that except that in theory they should worry about these things instead of you. In practice, your experience will vary - companies happen to be as vulnerable as you, and for various reasons their reaction time might be longer.

Second, bugs are found every day, and your best bet is to use automatic security updates provided by your distro. Yes, if you host anything, you need to be a bit of a security guy and a small amount of paranoia won't hurt. But to say you must not self-host for security reasons is a gross oversimplification.
Not everywhere has road bike friendly weather year-round. Riding a bike in the snow to commute may be desirable for its own reasons: saving gas/parking money, beating traffic, being environmentally-friendly, whatever. Doing it for exercise, with all the gear involved, sounds supremely not fun.
It’s interesting that you said the machine doesn’t seem to have the experience, but animals do seem to have it. Can you explain what you mean by that?
I can say that you don't have qualia and you can't prove me wrong.

Does that seem dangerous to anyone else?

I also don't see any distinction between "qualia" and "soul" other than spelling, but perhaps it's because I don't have one.

Finally, I have this question for Searle: Say you understand English. Does any specific neuron in your brain understand English? No, the larger system of neurons+neuronal connections does, so why doesn't the system of grad student+book understand Chinese?
I'd note that Union Carbine paid out 470m dollars (970m 2018 dollars) to resolve claims - they also paid for and funded a hospital in the area as well.

While its pretty clear that UCIL was very very negligent in plant maintenance, training and operations - its not abundantly clear that any of these were the proximate cause of the disaster - but rather contributory factors (which greatly enhanced the death toll) - its also somewhat unclear exactly how the water ended up in the MIC tank - as subsequent testing was unable to reproduce the condition that set off the disaster. The wikipedia page speculates that it was sabotage, which from my perspective does seem somewhat likely.
So you expect America to come in and police other countries? No, sorry. India is a sovereign country, and is the only country empowered and expected to police industries operating in India.
I agree with this - but Altered Carbon had this interesting couple scenes where more than one copy of a dude exists. What’s “you” in that event? If we can guarantee teamwork of the clones, we have a new status symbol - else we have created some severe ego/identity problems.
I suspect that, if a scientist in his fifties knew that his cognitive function would remain at the same level up to at least age 150, he would be a lot more willing to spend years rethinking things and familiarizing himself with new and better conceptual approaches. Something similar could probably be said about programmers that seem attached to old and allegedly inferior tools.
You sound like such a shill. You don’t need anything in this life dude. But let’s say you do, or let’s say a subset of people do, and the feedback they comeback with is ‘this thing could be a lot better’, and shills like you come back with ‘well you probably didn’t need this’. Give it a rest.
Why copying scripts into docker images does not always work on Windows
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Organizations like the AMA are themselves run by doctors.
Poverty also correlates with lack of education, so there’s also that. I heard (without any verification) that until recently a large percentage of rural population in India find nothing wrong in drinking from and shitting in the same river (let’s put aside technicalities like upstream/downstream).
In other words, if we make privacy illegal then only criminals will have privacy?
Hopefully it's not the same kind of land grab, where a large company will "nick" successful products off of their asset store and release them "free of charge".
To be honest, given the description, who would not be interested with that description on the top list?
In the example there was no talking about floating point numbers. The ordered type _has_ a total ordering as shown by the Ord typeclass restriction.
While I agree with your general sentiment, you do realize that “the poor in the US” and the poor in Pakistan are orders of magnitude apart, don’t you?
Dangerous? No. To me it just seems to mean that “qualia” is not a particularly useful concept, particularly when discussing the capabilities of computer software.
I don't think it's difficult to design an IPC mechanism. But I DO think it's difficult to design an IPC mechanism that everyone is happy with. Some people want only synchronous IPC, others also asynchronous (out of order responses), some want multicast, some want events without associated request, some want pub/sub, etc.

If at the end people continue building their own IPC mechanisms on top of TCP/IP or unix domain sockets then the in-kernel mechanism will just be another thing to maintain.

There had been some endaveurs to bring new IPC mechanisms into the Linux Kernel (AF_BUS, KDBUS, BUS1). I think those failed for similar reasons (although I'm not sure were BUS1 now is - the others are definitely discontinued).
To what extent is their claim true?
Legitimate-Ish Use of Alloca()
An expression of distaste at the amount of "do-it-in-the-cloud" projects that appear on the front page here, and in general. What exactly is the intended purpose of your comment?

This little text box that I'm typing in is for comments, right? Or is there some hidden rule that we can't type stuff in here that isn't jerking OP off?