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Pretty much any public library selector or cataloger will be the first to tell you to just go buy your highly specialized technical manual on Amazon and keep it in your personal collection. If you have access to a large research library you could also try that. A mid-sized city library has shelving for maybe 100,000 books with 10x that many books published each year. It's all about serving the entire community and making decisions on what will circulate. No public library has the budget or room to keep esoteric volumes that might appeal to a couple of people per year. Sometimes it has to do with lack of expertise, but generally librarians are expected to stay reasonably well-read in their selection area and just have to make tough decisions. It's more a tension between what will get used vs. budget vs. space rather than ignoring an educational mission.
Why are you concerned? We’re able to detect pharmaceuticals in water at several levels of magnitude lower than any actual impact. We’re talking parts per trillion.

I’d be more concerned about things like lead and other toxic metals.
If a micro runtime is 100K LOC then 1M LOC wasn't unrealistic.
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It is completely avoidable, just shut up.
Short answer: no. Longer answer: currently no.
Can we be done with capeshit movies and go on to making movies on The Culture or some cooler scifi already? Must we still be making multi-million dollar live action B movies to be sold just to China?
Hi everyone, Josh here the writer.

I’d like to give thanks to all the people here on Hacker News who supported the project during that launch and any questions or comments just let me know!

The short version (summarized from the article):
I spent 2 months building an app to detect trends. Launched as a Show HN and reached #1 on Hacker News (briefly!). Another 4 months growing and improving it but failed to monetize. But I got enough traction to get acquired by Brian Dean founder of Backlinko.
Aldous's pill popping from Brave New World isn't as interesting as what he said in his interview with Mike Wallace, https://youtu.be/alasBxZsb40
To me the real utility of this, is testing "concepts". The way I would see myself using this is to create a few keyword campaigns, and then send them to these pages to see how much actual interest there is for the idea.

Perhaps this might be a "premium" feature, but what would go along with this is a root "project", with multiple landing pages. Then I'd like some analytics to compare. Basic conversion funnel stuff. If it integreated with google keywords directly, that would be awesome.

I'd also like the customize the page a bit more too, it's very generic looking today.
The US has done a fantastic job of legalizing its bribes. It's not bribery! It's lobbying! It's not corruption, it just happens to be that the guy in charge of the agency for co-ordinating economic policy is also the head of Goldman Sachs. It's not corruption, because we made it legal and so it can't be corruption, because we've redefined corruption. It's great!

This is one of the reasons why people around the world are a little sceptical of American exceptionalism.
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Toyota, Lexus owners warned about 'relay attacks'
• Support channels for various open source projects

• Fallback in case the new-fangled webshit breaks for the fifth time a month

• Old communities that see no point in moving to said often breaking webshit

But none of this has any growth potential, so we'll see for how long I'll keep using it.
Off topic: this is the same Brendan Gregg of flame charts fame [0][1]. It has solved my skin quite a few times when trying to figure out performance bottlenecks in Python apps (using pyflame[2] to capture data and FlameGraph[1] to convert it to displayable SVG).

[0] http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html

[1] https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph

[2] https://github.com/uber-archive/pyflame
FreeNode seems to have some really active channels... outside of that, all I see on the servers I connect to now and then are a lot of lurkers.

The cool thing is, in general when I've exhausted my options, a lot of people deeply involved in various projects do tend to hang out in freenode's channels. I don't keep hexchat open all the time, just fallen out of habit, but I'll be in ##javascript and #csharp mostly, lately I've also been joining in on ##rust (though I have to manually enter as I'm blocked until after NickServ validation).

One key is to really keep one's expectations in check. You'll get a faster response in IRC than say a Github issue, but nobody is under any obligation to help you and it's good to be mindful of that and respectful.
Isn't this a bit like saying "many of the regulars on reddit are rude assholes" but you mostly see subs like r/inceltears or r/tumblrinaction ?

I think the community has a lot to do with it and each channel is often its own community and culture, even on the same server.
Slack is just too hard to understand. I still don't get it. I have to go to a webpage and enter a server / channel name. I have to create a password for each one, if I get approved it then takes me to a slack web client with no obvious way to open the chat in the app.
If you install the app on a different machine, you have to add everything again.

It's not a good user experience.
Toasters are still a basic kitchen essential here. Maybe because we don't have as much space in our kitchens...
I really hope he publishes how he went about finding it. I'm having difficulty even after looking at the images.

Any idea how he identified?
Shhh, it's my secret weapon when it comes to software engineering. Freenode is the place. Whops.. now it's out.
For those seeking the direct audio link:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/cowenconvos/CWT-BONUS-Zuck...
I am an X-Microsoft employee. Pre-Nadella era, most teams had a patent budget. People would file patents for all sorts of reasons. The game was who can get away with vague-ish patents and collect the most cubes. There was a cube you got per patent.

Needless to say the number of cubes someone had, the more clout they had and it became a dick measuring contest.

There are VPs and distinguished engineers with 100s of cubes.
Could this speed up the shift to remote work? Why even bring people to the US when you can employ them where they live?
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If you use the same email address, then I think Slack will not automatically log you in to all servers you're part of at the same time.
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I'd love to hear as well!
It's so hard to stay angry and not just default to sad.
Anyone know if they are cracking down on TN visas too?
As in any area of law, (glibly) it only matters if you get caught.

The Security Services of the UK Government have statutory exemptions allowing them to use these tools. These statutory exemptions are contained within the Intelligence Services Act 1994 Section 5 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 Section 99.
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In my experience offline twitch chats are the new irc. It's pretty much as close as you can get to an irc experience like gamesnet or quakenet in the early 00s.

Discords are mostly a waste of time. Barrier to entry is too low/easy/obvious. You just get tons of low quality content and people just speaking in memes with immature high school environment.
I'd rather see IRC usage expand over discord and slack use myself... It'd be nice to maybe see an open-source application and bots that allow for better integration with source control and CI/CD options though. This way it's easier for everyone to interact with a more open base standard.

While discord isn't too bad, it's sometimes hard to find and join the communities you might be looking for. Where as with freenode, and irc in general, discovery is imho easier.

I don't bother with efnet anymore, but do also join irc.synchro.net for a couple channels (also very inactive).
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We use IRC at work and it's just as useful and fun as ever, there are IRC clients that consume a few megabytes (hello Slack). SET autolog ON, then keep all your chat history grep-able in your home folder (again, only consuming megabytes - oh hello Slack, again).
Only if you have national standards and you use weighted pass scores and not absolute ones ie top 5% is a A

Otherwise you get grade inflation for example when I left school an Civil service ASO (assistant scientific officer) you needed 5 or 6 O levels (age 16 exams) now its a Degree entry.
I don't think Slack is based on IRC, no. I believe the best-known IRC-based system (that's not obviously IRC itself) is actually Twitch chat.
I used to do this as well until it got to the point where family members would get upset if I didn't like or post a comment on something they posted. I left facebook because it was only a negative in my life.
> Spending money on anything puts people on the disposable income demographic which is the exact audience the advertisers want to reach.

Why do we care what advertisers want? Use regulation to force ad-funded companies to allow people to pay the average revenue per user to opt-out of ads and forbid using the fact they’re paying as a signal to raise prices.
Looks interesting! Few bits of feedback:

- The signup widget doesn't submit when hitting enter after entering my email in the text-box, which is a reasonable expectation from an accessibility POV

- On the 'complete' page I see that the email I entered is part of the page query string, which makes me really uncomfortable. It's commonly accepted practice (in places like adtech[0]) to not pass PII in the URL as it can easily be leaked

- As a potential customer, when I view your Privacy Policy and Terms of Service it reads pretty ambiguously if the customers that signup for my service and this services stores will only ever be used by me or if Referlist retains some rights to use my list as you see fit. Worth clarifying

- Pricing seems reasonable, but I'm pretty sure you could charge me more. Also, I'd love a CTA I could click on directly within/under the price columns (I had to go hunting for a bit to find out how to pay you)

0: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6156630?hl=en
wee_slack.py (if you can create application tokens) works wonderfully for the same purpose.

Since everyone is really pushing slack it makes my life easier to have it natively in my favourite IRC client.
The Ergodicity Problem in Economics
Anything that happens happens. Anything that in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.

Systemic (read business cycle provoking) risk takes this form, by definition. That's what's systemic about it.

Interest rates are low. Credit is cheap. Junk bonds are junk because more junk bonds will default. When will they default? Do defaults pile up during a credit "crunch?" Will a pile up of defaults trigger a credit crunch?

Does the thing that happens cause itself to happen again?
I used IRC a lot for some time a few years back. I avoided the big channels like the ones for javascript and python, and stuck to smaller (< 100 people) channels. People were very nice, responsive and helpful. At one point IRC channel-presence became one of the main criteria by which I chose new technology to work with: it correlated with something good if a community maintained a good IRC presence.
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What happens when screen readers can't identify things properly? Can Facebook be sued for not providing proper accessibility, given that their site is deemed to be essential by many?

If screen readers can identify something as an advertisement, then so should ad blockers be able to. If not... then aren't we depriving the blind and the sight challenged from valuable advertising equality?
As someone who owns .org domain names. That might be what it's for like .com is for commercial and .net is for networks. However that is not at all how they're used.

Perhaps by some percentage of them are registered non-profits. However not the majority.
Most of the channels I've been in on freenode are active... efnet and other nets, not so much.
D is pretty much the opposite of Go, a pinnacle of feature bloat instead of stripped down simplicity. A C++ killer that turned into a kind of C++ with GC.
Well coding and software engineering are two different things anyway, so the article begins with conflating the context.
Coding is just syntax awareness, good at coding is one thing but to start engineering software(And hence where the ethics issue mostly lies, say with bias inheriting algorithms) requires that gap of discipline that you don't necessarily have if you just play in code in a rudimentary fashion.
Thanks, https://searx.be/ is the best for me. I hope hacker news can help me again.
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As someone that knows SQL I find that the ORM enables me to have decent queries rather then getting in the way.
You know where they are headed instead? Canada.

There has been an huge influx of Indians from US coming to Canada. I've seen it first hand in the Toronto market.

We had shit salaries to begin with, and this isn't helping.
I can give you 1.0 error. Take a handful of numbers that add up to 1.5, sum them, and then round that result to the nearest unit.

I'm too lazy to figure out a specific example, but sets of numbers where doubles round up and decimals round down (or vice versa) aren't terribly uncommon.
I have always seen it this way too: a broken or completed circuit. But I've accepted that my initial understanding of the visual metaphor doesn't match its intent. I think misunderstandings like these result when we abandon written language to point and grunt at tiny pictures.
Over 90% acceptance in all cases (IBM excluded, as the article states it's probably due to their service business), 95% for the majority. Why is that discouraging? Looks to me as if even with very stringent checks they didn't find many reasons to block.
Yup, that's a good idea. I think that's pretty effective for e-commerce and consumer especially where paid advertising can be used to test CTR, CAC and general interest.

I think the next step there would be to build a landing page generator. There are a ton of them like Unbounce and Instapage. Maybe I should partner with them since building one of those out is quite the task.

You can customize message, colors and add your logo today. What else would you like to customize? Will definitely consider adding it!
If they’re forced to offer a paid tier without ads for a fixed price then their incentive would be to do so in the most profitable way possible by reducing engineering overheads & the cost of storing that data.

Currently they do it because they assume there’s a correlation between the extents to which they violate your privacy and revenue. If the revenue is locked static then this breaks down and the incentives change.
And companies opening branches in Canada as well.
Extend your domain lease by 10 years at the current yearly fee. Gives you some time to migrate if you choose to.
A.I. Could Change How People Experience Religious Faith
You can put a lot of effort into crafting a way to ask a thing, and it'll probably work in that specific instance, but it doesn't solve the broader problem.

My working theory of "how to answer questions" is about making my thought process transparent. And, especially, explicitly stating what information I'm lacking.

"I'm looking at your requirements, and I see X and Y so my immediate inclination is that I'd simply use sshd.

And if that doesn't work for you, knowing why can probably nail down what would work."

The transparent thought process gives them an insight into why you're saying the things you do.

And explaining what I need helps them move the discussion forward. It avoids me being a brick wall of incomprehension.
Why should every student record the lecture with notes? Isn't it better if they get a copy of the lecture notes, and they only add their own notes, thereby paying more attention to the lecture instead of copying things manually which can be printed/photocopied for all sutdents?
I'm more worried about the government's debt, which stems from the budget deficit. At least all the corporations are producing something of value, but too much of what the government does lacks sufficient value.
Zig is beautiful, I'm having high hopes for it.
Take a look through https://qmonnet.github.io/whirl-offload/2016/09/01/dive-into...
The obvious problem for Shift-JIS roundtripping is 0x5C (is it ¥ or \), not the kanji.
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I'm glad to read your comment. I I still remember the good times of Facebook, it was a great to see this little website with a lot people connecting with friends and also total strangers, that being said People You May Know is indeed bad because this feature never really took care of your history with the suggested accounts.
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They're mostly optimized for my specific meetings. Since the meetings are weekly, I do a fair bit of optimization from week to week.

The biggest tip I can suggest is to create the template with a pen, instead of making a formal template on the computer and printing it out. Iteration is your friend in this case.
At a certain point it becomes much simpler to encode your "text" as SVG rather than use a convoluted and bloated standard like Unicode.
"What are the limitations that prevent us from using sshd?" This has the best chance of being interpreted as Response 2, allowing the person to provide this information.
There are many solutions like the one below.

[] https://keylessprotector.com/
Simple Dynamic Strings library for C, compatible with null-terminated strings
You don't pay extra on your mortgage. A mortgage is a loan to buy the house with the title to the bank as collateral plus some bundling like insurance. Otherwise people wouldn't walk away from "underwater" mortgages.

It may come with inconveniences of linked job changes and relocation but that is a real gain of wealth. The locational value has gone up - which is why they can even afford to "displace".

Assuming that buying a home elsewhere will automatically have comparable price or displacing is also a bad assumption. Despite the rhetoric a single person with a collegd degree in a neighborhood won't cause appreciable rises in real estate value.
The home built experimental powered lift aircraft are lacking a lot more than properly safety-certified electronics. The big gaps are in power reserves and systems redundancy for fault tolerance.

The FAA generally requires certified helicopters to have a 30 minute fuel reserve in order to allow a safe diversion to an alternate landing site. With lithium battery power, once you subtract out the reserve time there's hardly any range left. (It might be possible to obtain some exemptions to the reserve regulations in limited circumstances.)
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It’s not right for everyone, but I find IRCCloud to have a really low barrier to entry.
Adding to this, it was common to drink very low alcohol beer, called small beer. It was usually below 1% alcohol, so very different to beer or wine that people typically drink these days.
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Agreed with you, but also worth noting the US gov would likely take over the fed in a time of crisis. If interest rates hit 10%, the fed was refusing to buy bonds because of inflation risk, and the US gov's choices were between 'default on debts' and 'take over the fed and make them do it' there would be some emergency clause pulled out by whitehouse lawyers and they would do it. My evidence for this is the extreme measures other governments have done in the past when faced with debt crises; they do print more, they seize private assets, the run price controls, etc. They'll do anything to survive and taking over a private monopoly over money printing (even if that loses the trust of the bond market and greatly reduces their ability to issue debt in the future) is well within things the US government seems willing to do.
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> However the 'no debt' option means you must find a home in a market where nobody else has access to a lender.

As someone who bought several houses without debt, I really don't understand what you are trying to say here. Please explain...
This is a micro runtime that acts as a tiny WASM interpreter. 1M LOC sounds fair when complex runtime features such as JIT or AOT are included.
This is absolutely the future of work. There's increasingly high friction for acquiring a Visa and increasingly low friction for working remotely (with tools like zoom & asynchronous workplace cultures).
> being ‘in the flow’

that is by definition a fun place to be
Maybe, but a lot of the denials from services/consulting companies are of on-site semi-technical project managers who really wouldn't be that useful offshore. The technical people are already offshore.