skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another vote for Code Complete. But coming from someone who's bought and gifted a few books, I'm thinking instead of the quote ...

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>[...] I point out to them that Claude Shannon proved that generalized compression algorithms can't exist [...]

What proof are you talking about?
In a lot of the United States at least, it's illegal to not have your children in school, and there's a fair bit of paperwork involved for doing homeschooling. The burden is there on the parents to force kids to go to school even if they don't want to.
> In "Star Trek," a warp factor of 1 is light speed, and a warp factor of 9.9 is more than 2,000 times greater than light speed.

And yet, warp 9.975 is only 1,000 times light speed, warp 4.5 is over 8,000 times light speed, and Warp 7 is 4-10 million times light speed.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_factor

Trek is many things, consistent about the relation between warp factors and speed is not among them.
this was part of my concern over the current dislike of tech's mantra "move fast and break things".

the mistake was tech thought it was somehow righteously above all others, so its good that people are finally saying 'no, you are you are jerks', but I think we are all jerks and we should accept that and move on. Furthermore, we should accept that making mistakes is a necessary byproduct of innovation. I think these concepts are tied together, I am just doing a bad job at communicating it.
So kind of like Red Hat?

Edit: thinking of it again - kind of like software on github can be open source even if github isn't.
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Google buys your payment stream, and can correlate that with your email, browsing and tracking history. Also other companies do this.

You have to be a tool to do most of your payments with credit cards now.
By definition, microdosing is taking a sub-perceptual dose.

So if you're noticing any effect, like having a hard time focusing, you're taking more than a microdose.
There is a situation I read about but can't properly search for some reason. An English monarch traveling through some town, centuries ago, was sufficiently impressed by something that happened in the town that he left behind an endowment to supply an altar with candles forever.
Sorry, meant transfer of learning.

Re: schooling as a means of promoting nationalism

> Education and Military Rivalry

> Using data from the last 150 years in a small set of countries, and from the postwar period in a large set of countries, we show that large investments in state primary education systems tend to occur when countries face military rivals or threats from their neighbors. By con- trast, we find that democratic transitions are negatively associated with education investments, while the presence of democratic politi- cal institutions magnifies the positive effect of military rivalries. These empirical results are robust to a number of statistical concerns and continue to hold when we instrument military rivalries with commod- ity prices or rivalries in a certain country’s immediate neighborhood. We also present historical case studies, as well as a simple model, that are consistent with the econometric evidence.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27759015/educati...
The Soul of a New Machine has an amazing passage on a software developer from Data General being too inexperienced to realize that what he was doing couldn't be done, and finishing it in record time.

It's safe to say that people who aren't aware of or ignore limits put out better work on average than people who don't.
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It's easier to get to know people in smaller communities where their common communication channel also allows chitchat. E.g. hobbyist forums, game guilds
Everything has unpredictable environment impact at this scale. Name one energy source that can replace nuclear that doesn't have hard-to-predict consequences of unknown but possibly gigantic magnitude on a global scale.
I'm a parent and I think school is a dumb decision and a huge opportunity cost. So I spend a lot of time and money to find a school environment that gives them more than I can alone. If at some point I can no longer afford it, I would homeschool.
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Yes - and you can also mouse over them and click now too. All three of these interactions are, imo, very intuitive and easy to do.
> If you're a kid and do the cost/benefit analysis, going to school looks like a dumb decision and a huge opportunity cost for time that could otherwise be used for things with known reward (playing). Bullying, exams, homework, sleep disruption, etc is all cost.

The benefit of going to school for kids in the US at least is that you get to move a year closer to getting out.

A cost is that if you don't go, you get held back (and get the according social stigma).

Another poster below asked

> But why did Japan's snap first?

I think one of the reasons here is perhaps that kids automatically advance through the public schools system for the first nine grades regardless of whether they actually attend school or not. So people can stay even with their friend groups.

I've known/worked with a few kids who didn't go to school, and while some of them had personal issues of some kind or another, others simply just didn't see any cost to not going to school and hung out with their friends when their friends were out of school and otherwise enjoyed life.

Another difference, I think, is that with bullying in US schools, you can usually escape it to a certain extent through different classes/activities, but in Japanese schools, you tend to stay with your homeroom class for every subject, so there's no chance to get away/make a different friend group except for club activities and the next academic year.
as soon as the data is public you should be able to scrape it legall no? you can always use something like proxy crawl
and how is that different to the NIH syndrome?
Apple's hardware recently improved by reverting some changes done over the last few years.
Many attribute this to the departure of a certain designer that was also in charge of iOS 7, so I feel like there’s hope.
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Not true, I've seen the most abhorrent pdfs generated by latex in academia. When I was working in the digitization department of a public university library we realized that we need to handle pdf just like every other scanned page, rasterize then OCR.
Thanks for letting us know - we've realised we were unclear with our initial correction: the modal that asks for mic permission and explains that all audio processing is done in-browser now only appears when 'Record' is pressed, so users can check out the rest of the website.
I don't buy it. For example in Germany MRI is usually called "Kernspintomographie" ("nuclear spin tomography") and nobody has any issue with that.
Do we have resources on alternative school systems? I remember, for example, that Elon Musk runs an alternative school.
Anybody ever attended one? Would love to hear experiences.
He almost sold Baremetrics for $5m
I think this is related to the other issue that functionality changes are often not readily visible; everything needs an explanation.

At the other end of the spectrum several times I thought Google maps had removed a feature, only to find they had hidden it somewhere else.
I just missed it on my earlier comment.

Homage to the Modula-2 OS, Lilith?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)

http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/lilith/
AM4 versions would be nice.
> Create affordable housing.

There's tons of affordable housing in the country.

> Universal healthcare.

If you show up at ER, they cannot legally refuse you healthcare. They'll bill you a lot, but since you're homeless, fortunately you'll never get it in mail.

> Basic income.

And when the basic income check gets immediately exchanged for drugs, what then? How does it help?

> Perhaps universal higher education.

That would destroy most of the value of higher education. If everyone has a degree, it makes a degree worthless: outside of some small percentage of students, higher education don't really teach anything useful, it's value is mostly in certifying that you're a kind of person who is smart enough to get admitted, and conscientious enough to jump through required hoops.

> Actually collect taxes from the very very large companies (Apple Amazon, etc).

How much do you think you'd be able to collect from them? We already pull trillions in taxes. Is everything else so much higher priority that we couldn't already shift our spending to fix this problem? Really, this is not a problem of lack of resources, though your eagerness to tax the big bad business shows where your priorities are.
> Should we even care for a mathematical proof that P=NP?

Should we care about the most important computational problem in the world today? I'd say yes.

> Suppose we'll be told that this is possible (i.e. P=NP): will this help up us to invent such algorithms? I don't see how, unless the proof will be by construction.

Why does the method of proof matter? If it is proved that P=NP, then it means most of the pressing computational problems today are solvable in polynomial time. So we can double our efforts in trying to find these solutions. If it is proven that P!=NP, then we can stop wasting our time or just work on solving subsets of these problems. The problem is that we don't know whether the problems can be solved in polynomial time.

Put it this way. Which scenario would you prefer.

Scenario 1: There MAY be a billion dollars hidden somewhere in Mount Denali.

Scenario 2: There IS a billion dollars hidden somewhere in Mount Denali.

Scenario 3: There ISN'T a billion dollars hidden somewhere in Mount Denali.

Currently, we are at scenario 1. We don't know whether our efforts are for naught. We don't know if we haven't found the billion dollars because it's in a place we haven't looked or if the billion dollars isn't even in the mountain.

Proving P=NP, would get us to scenario 2. We know there is a billion dollars there, but we just have to find it. Proving N!=NP would get us to scenario 3. We know the billion dollars isn't there so we don't have to bother wasting our time.

I'd say we'd be in a much better position if we were in scenario 2 or 3 than the current scenario 1 we are at right now.
Tricorders would be amazing. Imagine not having to be crammed inside of a huge machine that irradiates you for 30 minutes.
Not sure if it's the same story but there is also the Ivan Sutherland one reported by Alan Kay.

> When asked, “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?” Ivan replied: “Well, I didn’t know it was hard.”
Probably easier to find women still alive at that age. (Here in the U.S. at least, women tend to outlive men by ~5 years)
And very good. UnDraw is my personal favourite of these kinds of illustrations, the shapes are just right. As opposed to Humaaans, which I hate with passion and could write a whole philosophical essay on it (it seems to be going for making body parts sized inversely proportional to their importance to the brain, which I find uncanny).
As someone who does product design for a living and has used an iPad for almost 10 years now, I still get so confused with the Slide Over multitasking. There's no discoverability at all for this. You have to read the manual and memorize the gestures. Absolutely mind-blowing that they've made something this confusing.

I know when people say "it's like they don't even use their products" it is usually hyperbolic, but I don't know how they can explain the seemingly random continual prompting of Apple/iCloud login on OS X I see a few times a year.
No, it should be easy to get the entry point since it's defined in the ELF file header. The author simply tried to look for the `_start` symbol, which failed because the binary doesn't contain any symbol information (also the entry point doesn't have to be named `_start`, it's just a convention).
So how would this compare performance wise to a lightweight linux with lxde? Can you run this on a raspberry pi and get good performance? What are the minimal memory requirements?
Just curious, which parts of the new UI do you prefer compared to the old one? To me it seems like a huge loss in functionality (loss of the "long press + magnifying glass" method) with subpar alternatives being offered ("picking up" and moving the cursor without seeing what's under your finger, hold space bar to get a rudimentary touchpad, etc).
Very nicely done!

There was something recently about human-like illustrations that was too unrealistic.

I'd say these are realistic enough and general enough and as said above very nicely done.

2 observations:

1. "Pull request" really tell a story: it is not always effortless to pull in a contribution.

2. I was not able to figure out how to download vectors on mobile, just png.
+1.

Even as an adult, If I could do it all again, I would avoid school as much as possible.

School is an upgrade from child labor, but I now have enough experience to know it's a downgrade from what I can learn of my own.

Not saying every kid should do the same of course.

But personnally, after being in 11 schools, including fancy private ones and ones in poor neighbourhoods, I found extremly few decent teachers, a very violent and boring environment, and a culture that killed the best things in young minds while promoting unfairness.

And while I was often top of my class, I didn't learn much. Took me 3 months to learn to read, a bit more to write and count, and after that, everything was just more fun to learn alone than in the depressive and repressive jail of school.

Also, I don't miss having to fight for social acceptance, the bullying, the stress and pressure nor the hypocrisy of the ones in charge. All at an age I didn't have yet the skill and knowldge to deal with it.
Nationalists most certainly believe that, for example every small change to our children’s history books that can be seen as not conforming to our glorious past (or what the nationalists see as our “glorious past”) is seen by our local nationalists (I live in a Eastern Europe) as potentially the end of the world as we know it. Europe can be interesting like that, good thing that we (almost) stopped killing each other after WW2 over stupid things like imaginary lines drawn on soil.
Neither of your suggestions really get at the point of eBPF. That is, to safely (goodbye kernel modules) and dynamically (goodbye syscalls) instrument the kernel.
What is the answer to this risk?

(Cough coal cough.)
> And it's important to remember that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has caused one confirmed death so far.

I wish nuclear apologists with an agenda would stop repeating this.

250,000 residents were displaced, many spending their final days in gyms and other camps as rufugees in their own country.

An entire army will spend decades and likely trillions of dollars trying to do something with the shattered remains of the Fukushima complex.
FSF's "free" is neither. You can't do whatever you want with GPL software and if you want to do those forbidden things, you can sometimes buy permission using money.
Another one I use a lot
https://thenounproject.com/
> It of course depends on the demand

Do you require downtime to scale or is it seamless?
Different divisions, I'm sure, but I'm leaning towards "don't take Boeing's word for anything," given recent events.
I loved the short Netflix documentary on Death featuring Ram Dass, Going Home. He was an important influence here in the Bay Area and lived a remarkable life.
> There's a reason we call MRI machines MRIs, and not NMRIs

My dad sold microwaves when they were new; they were careful never to say "radiation" or "irradiated" or anything like that.
I think I agree with your specific point concerning facial recognition, but not your general point about un-diverse teams being incapable of delivering a good product for a diverse audience. This is because I have recently worked with a team that spent considerable effort on accessibility issues despite none of the team having any disability.
Lots of the crop of new languages with cleaner designs have huge problems with windows. V doesn't work on windows and zig's compiler fails if you use carriage return newlines. They even built in an error message for it instead of just making the parser work. It's kind of ridiculous how these languages shoot themselves in the foot.
Sounds like "Cognitive Dissonance for Fun and Profit."
Manufacturing the equivalent obscene number of solar and wind power plants also has unique and unpredictable environmental impact.
Analysis from a VFX supervisor: https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/ee7m0t/cats_from_a_vfx...

Original Hollywood reporter article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/universal-notifies-th...
That seems decidedly unsafe to say, but even if you’re right, the second paragraph doesn’t follow from the first. “Everyone generalizes from one example! At least, I do.”
If he's going to rely on experts this would certainly be one place to demonstrate that.
The window of opportunity to redesign reliably has closed. We have too much software now.
The inclusion of the Arcade tab on the App Store has pushed this change. I'm guessing that Apple feels like most people don't really update apps manually and just do an auto-update.
As a kid, it's very easy to make friends. You don't need school for that. Three of my child hood best friends were not in my schools. I sill visit one regularly, 20 years later.

In fact, I'll argue that school distort the child ability to socialize, not improve it. Because it's an artificial setup were the crazy values and rules only exist and make sense in the school. And worst, adults sell you values and rules from the real world while you are stuck in this alternate dimension.
Ram Dass has died
Surprise surprise, in a field dominated by white men, the technology is deemed production-ready when it’s accurate for white men.

Not blaming this group or anyone in particular – we all just need the be cognizant of the fact that we have our blind spots (racial, gender, and otherwise).
In real life, the few attacks that have been tried against nuclear power plants have "failed" miserably. [1]

It's not terribly hard to shut one down (or at least not much harder than your typical power plant) but extracting/releasing any radioactive material is very, very difficult.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/07/06...
"If there is an enduring figure emblematic of the consciousness revolution of the 1960s and 70s, it is arguably the Harvard professor and LSD researcher-turned-spiritual leader born Richard Alpert but known the world over as Ram Dass."
It makes way more sense when you have multiple profiles with a different set of apps for each of them.
Bigger hotels tend to have a reservations team. Not every hotel will give you a better offer than whats on booking but depending on how you'll put it on your email etc yes you do get some discount against booking.com. Don't forget that a hotel has to pay 15-20% fee on the booking at booking.com and also has to deal with booking.com's rating system afterwards.

For me so far its worked everytime I am emailing the reservations team at a hotel. (I am in their trade though and tend to use my business email when booking)
I reckon phoning a hotel might be harder to get you a discount because most of the times the frontdesk staff won't put you through to the reservations rep because he might be unavailable or whatever so they'll just give you whatever price the system tells them which is what you'll get on their website if you go to book directly. Its important to be able to contact the person that can amend the booking prices and frontdesk staff usually can't do that.
No absolutely no chance, it won't happen. Oh wait...
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> An RDBMS must enforce key and check constraints, if this is enforced entirely at a higher level then you’ve violated the nonsubversion rule, and you’re dealing with a system that is not an RDBMS.

There are well over a hundred companies using a sharded database layout. This typically entails not using the RDBMS's built-in support for foreign key constraints, since they can't cross shard boundaries.

In your mind does this mean a sharded MySQL or Postgres environment is no longer a RDBMS? That's an extreme view if so, and IMO not a terribly useful or relevant distinction in the real world.

> will lead to all of the performance bottlenecks I mentioned.

In the situation I've described (large number of sparse fields), serializing non-empty non-indexed fields into a single blob results in smaller row sizes than making all the fields into real columns. And generally speaking, smaller row sizes tends to improve performance.

Look, I've literally spent a significant chunk of my life working on some of the largest databases that exist. I post here using my real name and have my information in my profile. If you want to have pseudonymous pedantic semantic arguments about why you claim the largest database fleets are no longer "relational", I suppose that's your prerogative, but kindly refrain from trying to lecture me about vague unsubstantiated "performance bottlenecks" in widely-used real-world approaches.
I guess my question was more “what could that mean?”
If women are more optimistic than men, then that alone could be sufficient to yield the results of the study (correlation).
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