skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And not just hard, but without any clear payoff.

We're evolutionarily fine-tuned to live on Earth. We love a blue sky, room temperature, certain levels of gases in the atmosphere, and so on. It takes very little work to live here, relatively speaking.

Living long-term in outer space and other planets means either forgoing most of the things that make people happy, or else attempting to recreate them in incredibly incredibly expensive ways that ultimately aren't as good.

It's cool to dream about living under glass domes on other planets... but the reality is that after the novelty wears off after a couple of weeks, I think you'd realize you'd just rather go back to Earth. It's way nicer.

"What about if we ruin Earth?" plenty of people counter. Well don't. It's a helluva lot easier to apply our intelligence to normal prosaic things here like taking care of the environment, than to building interstellar spaceships that can colonize other planets.
One problem with e-books is that you have nothing to show for it. Books have lost their collector value.
Well NO ONE I personally know buys or keeps physical books any more except for children's books if they have kindergarten or primary school kids. Everyone's book collection is on the Kindle including middle school and high school kids. Living in a tropical/sub-tropical humid climate, the tendency of physical book collections to deteriorate or grow mould is a major liability especially if you have small kids.
While I agree and think I generally approve of tech companies banning political ads, these bans are still not an apolitical move.

They're going to disproportionately affect underdog and non-incumbent candidates, as well as anyone who needs the voters purged in places like Georgia.
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I can't help but compare this to the tabletop RPG space, something I've gotten into recently for inspiration.

Over the last few months I've spent a good deal of money at DriveThruRPG. Distributed via (usually) watermarked PDF, with limited security.

Prices are cheap, and often the electronic version is included for free if you get a print on demand version.

Buy a product and want to get a bundle it's in later? Bundle price of the product is discounted (not the price you pay, which is fine).

When I was buying electronic versions of programming books about a decade ago this is what I was hoping for. Instead I have useless files since they can no longer authenticate.
That may possibly be a solution for many, but Microsoft and Apple both forbid emulators (the software I create and distribute) from their app stores, in spite of repeated and unanimous court rulings establishing their fair use legality.

I still don't in general like the slow erosion of the web, however.
I recognise a lot of what you write in myself.

My initial reaction in a stressful situation I often regretted, it wasn't a calm and considered response but a knee jerk reaction. Meditation has really helped me. Lets me respond initially in a thoughtful and considered way and it's a lot quicker that having a spike in emotion and saying WHAT!, then sorry, then trying to calm down and think and respond.
you can visit https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Main_Page.
I have been looking into locations for a database of food and barcode information in prep for next years project of shipping my own fitness/food tracking app.
Surely they did happen, a tiny set, meanwhile the C flaws that allowed the Morris worm to happen 30 years ago, are still present in C11 being written today.
Risc V is made to be boring. It does nothing to "challeng[e] existing assumptions about Von Neumann architectures and instruction sets". It is also very unlikely to become the next high perf ISA for tons of reasons, it is more suited for embedded stuff.
It seems that convenience is an important factor; access to retail in the most populous province is low, so alternative means of access to the good are still in favor (i.e. black market). Purport the bubble is bursting after examining the system when it is functioning in a less constrained way that rivals the current system (i.e. black market).

"This is especially true in Ontario, Canada's most populous province. Red tape and a cap on the number of cannabis retail outlets have made rollout slow. Retail licenses were awarded by lottery, and the province held the number of licenses at 24, to serve a population of 14.5m."

"In December, the Ontario government announced that after a slow and fitful start, the province will open itself up to more cannabis retail. It will do away with the lottery system, the cap on the number of private stores and cancel some pre-qualification requirements."

List of Canadian Provinces by Population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and...
Note that this is also in the UK privacy policy[0]

> We may use automatic content recognition (ACR) and other technologies to capture this information. Your Smart TV transfers video snippets or TV tuner information in order to determine the programs watched.

And in the german one[1], which is just a translation

> Wir können zur Erhebung dieser Daten die automatische Inhaltserkennung (ACR) und andere Technologien verwenden. Ihr Smart TV ermöglicht die Bestimmung der gesehenen Programme durch Übermittlung von Audio- und Video-Ausschnitten bzw. von Informationen vom TV-Tuner.

I doubt that this is defensible under GDPR.

[0] https://www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy/
[1] https://www.samsung.com/de/info/privacy/
Furthermore, eBooks just aren't a very good format for many types of books. Fiction that's 99% flowing text--and some non-fiction? Sure. But even though I buy $1 and $2 eBook cookbooks when there's some special going, it's mostly a lousy format for that sort of thing--much less "coffee table" books in general.

eBooks have ended up being a sort of niche as you say. Not a wholesale revolution of the publishing industry. Probably not that much of a bigger deal than print on demand at the end of the day.

TBH, a lot of the same forces that helped create eBooks have actually limited how many books a lot of people read. I'm pretty sure I read as many words as I ever did but I read fewer books.
I do, but only as a present.
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The platform is not and cannot be neutral; they necessarily remove porn and copyright infringing material, plus whatever they are legally obliged to do in various countries. An endless series of judgement calls.

Moreover, we're talking about the recommendation algorithm. The only neutral recommendation algorithm is a random number generator. Everything else is making a decision that video X is "better" than video Y for user Z. What it means to be "better" is difficult to analyse, but Google themselves must be constantly reviewing that question.
I happen to have a hobby of reading law cases on intellectual property that was sparked by my business being affected by IP issues.

I used to read all kinds of cases as a hobby even before that, for fun. I remember reading through much of Ross Ulbricht's trial documents and comparing it to what his advocates were claiming, which was enlightening.
You’ll still be able to reference the company after you have left. I’ve always left my jobs before finding another. Providing there is a market available and adequate funds I would recommend anyone to do it.

After a short period of regaining your breathe and what purpose you had before you started then you will start to work on marketing yourself - GitHub profile/LinkedIn/meeting with a few recruiters...

You’re situation will probably remain the same until you jump. But you have to do the jumping, is my experience.
I do feel that the dot com bubble was different. In that case, the whole industry was brought into doubt. "Maybe this whole internet thing isn't all it's cracked up to be." That notion is clearly ridiculous in 2019.

The much scarier "bubble" today is "actually most of this stuff isn't all that hard". There are probably also smaller bubbles to be had in AI, blockchain, venture capital, etc., but I don't think those will be nearly as broad-reaching as dot com.
I have a Kindle, but I often find myself buying the physical copy of books just for the satisfaction of having something I can physically touch. It's the same reason I go and buy physical copies of games from BestBuy when I can rather than buying games from Nintendo's e-shop.
You can get convicted a very harsh sentence for using just a single word, and don't you citizen dare to use "hate speech!". There is no Meinungsfreiheit in Europe/Germany, it exists only on paper
Tbh I would rather have to take painkillers sometimes than do keto intermittent fasting every day with organic vegan weeks.

Besides, you might be confusing correlation with causation a bit? My sister and mother probably eat healthier than I do and still get disabling migraines sometimes. My diet is "basically whatever, just no animal parts and not too much junk food" and I've never gotten one.
For me a few things

- Doubled down on focus. Went back to using a single monitor, cut down notifications on my phone and carved out time in my diary to do focused deep work. Constant task switching has always been bad for burnout for me.

- Was much more intentional about how I presented my work to others. I used to think that if I needed to focus on how I communicated my work upwards, that was somehow a reflection on the quality of the work itself. Instead I learned that taking time out to focus on how you present your ideas acts as a force multiplier on them.

- Get out of toxic environments. Often I’ve found that the cause of burnout is not hard work, I am capable of hard work for sustained periods, but hard work with an expectation or repeated experience of failure in forms of projects being scrapped or canceled. Success isn’t always its own reward, but it does seem to help ward off against burnout.

- I also spend a couple of hours in the gym nearly every day. It’s a high end gym and this is my splurge for myself. For other people, their release may be family.
"./gradlew clean build", according to its developer documentation.
Thanks for that, author. Tips of this kind are very useful.
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640k more than enough for anyone

Multiple overlapping windows not useful
How does an average user becomes an advanced user in your model?
Just installed it. Love the project's features and goals. Looking forward to playing with rx more.
Both aspects are far from mutually exclusive.

This does not change the fact that splitting people and processes in little groups is an excellent way to get otherwise unspeakable deeds done.

Ben Griffin, an ex UK SF trooper turned pacifist, talks about compartmentalisation in detail [0] (00:30:10).

Yes, Goodwins law. And yes, Ben has an obvious agenda. In our context here, he does bring forth a few valid and concrete examples that underline Snowdens observations.

0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHvtFibhic
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What's significant about the shell script and curl? The entire repository is software that they wrote that you can chose to run or not. Seems pretty straight up and clear to me. Running it through curl and bash or downloading it doesn't make any material difference.

Not sure what the need for the snide comment is.
Kinda snarky way to show off those deductive skills Mr. Holmes
>If I completely buy Guzeys citation, sleep deprivation works for half of people temporarily. So, kinda useful but not sustainable. It also ignores memory and other effects sleep has on mood.

You'll be interested in reading this study: "How to preserve the antidepressive effect of sleep deprivation: A comparison of sleep phase advance and sleep phase delay" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004060050092 and googling the keywords from that study

Also, you again ignored the point I was responding to in that section.
Samoa Ends Measles State of Emergency as Infection Rate Slows
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/meet-safe-and-unsafe.html
"A mass vaccination drive covering 95 percent of population brings deadly disease under control."
> Growing up simply with not much money isn't that hard to get out of.

I might be misunderstanding but are you saying that upwards class mobility is easy, specifically from the lowest end?
There's a very little overlap between the purpose and use case of the two projects. There's not that many good, short names. I personally wouldn't worry about naming conflicts with another project, unless it was a similar project in more than a name.
I think the whole point is that Sonos misleadingly calls the operation of permanent deactivation of a device as "recycling", when the true meaning of recycling is the exact opposite:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recycle

Sonos uses the word "recycling" as a marketing tool to increase their sales by giving naive customers discounts, who fall for this marketing stunt or don't care at all but like being associated with a (false) "environment-friendly" company. Yet another case of greenwashing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing
If your environment's JSON serializer is fundamentally capable of producing invalid JSON in normal operation, you probably have a lot of other problems to overcome.
Regarding VPN, you probably have your VPN config wrong.
Either you want it to use a DNS server on the remote network (connecting to a LAN at the office for example) or not.

Check your VPN config, it should update systemd settings automatically when connecting/disconnecting.
Don't pay too much attention to the goal. The purpose of the goal is to get you to plan. Plans are worthless; the act of planning is invaluable.

Once you have the goal and the plan, design a process for it. It should excite you. If it doesn't, you simply don't have faith in the plan and need to fix the plan until it's something you're excited to do.

Sometimes plans are hard, and so get a mentor. A mentor can be as simple as a book. Or sometimes pay to have an hour long chat with someone. But you need to trust the process.

Then ditch the goal. Don't look at it. A runner doesn't look at their stopwatch. Just have faith in the process and keep at it.

If you didn't do well that year, then you rip apart your process like a machine and analyze what you did wrong or could do better. You're doing that now. Just keep at it.
Physical books are gone. The people who actually read books have already switched to e-books. I haven't bought a single physical book since i bought the first iteration of the amazon swindle.

Some people who also read books will try to refute this argument, saying they still buy love and read physical books. So do i. I love physical books. I love them as a commodity. I love holding them, reading them, putting them on display after finishing them, but sadly, it's simply not convenient for someone who really reads. When i finish one book and want the next in the series, when i find out about a book that i am actually curious about what it is saying, i will simply get the e-book. The desire to read and convenience simply wins.

I thought the last iteration of the generic ebook reader was my last purchase because it had the backlight, but now they came up with the yellow backlight so i have to buy this. Blue light causes macular degeneration and yellow light is so much more comfortable.

Ebook readers are like a dream come true. When they came out, i thought wow, truth is probably solipsism.
> Here's your hard slap in your face.

Not really. I said 'reduce or possibly eliminate'. I already entertained the fact that even Rust has bugs. But I can't see how one example of a documented Rust vulnerability which even requires a tricky exploit chain in practice, would change my mind given the tens of thousands of memory corruption CVEs in C/C++ software. The effectiveness of Rust's claims to 'reduce' these cases of memory corruption vulnerabilities have been proven over the years.

Rust is no doubt already being tested with confidence in production by many companies for years, making it possible to compliment or replace C/C++ based programs. You too are more than welcome to change my mind. :)
> The Job of a sysadmin is to build and deply systems, keep them running, document and plan new things. It is NOT the job of a sysadmin to help people learn how to use software, which they should know about because they knew they had to use it, when they applied for the job. That IS helpdesk work.

Unless your company is too small to have a helpdesk, then that's precisely what they're often hired to do, hate doing it, and are shitty and toxic about it.
he didn’t give any actual reason, just threw around some credentials.
I'm sure SBCL is committed to follow the Common Lisp standard, so as long as you don't stray outside of that you don't have to worry too much.
Thanks for letting me know, I've replaced them with archived versions.
the one people try at first is CHIP8. Really simple and even with that you can not get it right on the first try
The GC is neither parallel nor concurrent. Luis Oliveira implemented a parallel GC in SBCL but it was slower IIRC.
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Further with this specific example, "ReactiveX" doesn't even call itself Rx, at least judging by the website. Closest to "Rx" from "ReactiveX" is the different implementations, but they are called RxY where Y seems to be the language. So "RxJS", "RxNet", "RxClojure" and so on. So the name collision doesn't even apply with the mentioned project!
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Dunning-Kruger.

Folks in the middle of the curve are blissfully unaware how much there is to know and how many difficult problems must be solved to put together those backend services they are gluing.
> we are right, they are wrong

Vaccines work; the safety risks are minimal; there is no reliable evidence that they cause autism and the primary proponent of the theory was eventually struck off for malpractice. Getting this wrong will cause the unnecessary suffering and death of small children.

The earth is spherical, and this has been known since ancient times. Some things are not a matter of opinion.
There’s a lot of awful work that many software engineers simply don’t want to do and naturally the ones that do work the awful stuff do a pretty piss poor job because it’s hard work.

So as long as there’s awful work, there will be a market for high paid software engineers.
> And that is to say nothing of the risks you take these days online by publishing your legal name.

I understand that you're in a risky line of “business” with emulation, where one wrong step can get you some lovely letters from lawyers. However, for the sake of argument: Is there any reason you couldn't get someone else to lend you their name so that they act under their real name for you? Surely that'd be an option for risk-averse people.

> In my own case, this has effectively prevented me from releasing compiled binaries of my own software going forward. If code signing is a requirement to distribute free software, then we need a Let’s Encrypt-style alternative for code signing—yesterday.

The whole point of a code signing requirement is to add a paywall so that only two kinds of people will have access to it: Bad actors sophisticated enough to steal a code signing certificate from someone who has purchased them.

It's a net gain for security. Software freedom, considering increasingly prevalent SaaS and closed-source apps on mobile devices, is already lost. So if we've already lost software freedom—as far as I can tell, more or less irrevocably—then we might as well at least reap the security benefit for the common person while we're there.
Jane Austen was the first author to came to my mind as I saw this thread. I've read two of her books (Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice) ~2 years ago. What they made me realise was that people are not absolutely good or absolutely bad. Human character consists of so many gray areas (as americans or... I don't know... english-speaking world puts it), it's not like black/white.

The second one is Science and Method by Henri Poincare. I'm not in a position to fully understand and appreciate this book, but I just want to share a few quotes[0] that stood out for me when I read it:

"The subliminal ego is in no way inferior to the conscious ego; it is not purely automatic; it is capable of discernment; it has tact and lightness of touch; it can select, and it can divine. More than that, it can divine better than the conscious ego, since it succeeds where the latter fails. In a word, is not the subliminal ego superior to the conscious ego?"

"Under this second aspect, all the combinations are formed as a result of the automatic action of the subliminal ego, but those only which are interesting find their way into the field of consciousness. This, too, is most mysterious. How can we explain the fact that, of the thousand products of our unconscious activity, some are invited to cross the threshold, while others remain outside? Is it mere chance that gives them this privilege? Evidently not."

"All the difficulties, however, have not disappeared. The conscious ego is strictly limited, but as regards the subliminal ego, we do not know its limitations, and that is why we are not too loth to suppose that in a brief space of time it can form more different combinations than could be comprised in the whole life of a conscient being."

[0]https://archive.org/stream/sciencemethod00poinuoft/scienceme...
I think, therefore, we should try to use different labels for different kinds of developers as much as we can.

E.g. "software engineer", and "programmer" should be labels for different roles/capabilities, as should be "computer scientist". Using the terminology incorrectly should be frowned upon, similarly to how this goes in other disciplines.
The processor package was made in Malaysia at the Penang assembly plant.

The chip inside that package was fabbed elsewhere, most probably the USA.
The irony of a talk that speaks out against decentralized systems being only available on decentralized backups of the centralized original…
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Article blows it around the third para by asserting that publishers could/should make ebooks much cheaper than paper ones (because obviously paper costs money, right?).

Then asserts that the retail price for the paper edition is the point ebooks should undercut by, oh, 25%.

This ignores the fact that publishers are not retailers, they're manufacturers; the retail sector takes 50-70% of the price the customer pays for a book, and this includes Amazon's kindle store. In actual fact, the physical cost of goods for a paper book is less than 10% of the price the customer pays. Another 10% is editorial/typesetting costs which are exactly the same for the ebook, maybe 10% goes to the author, and 50-70% to Jeff Bezos and co.
It’s incredibly easy to build yourself. Literally just

sh make.sh --fancy

(--fancy isn’t even required, but builds all optional additions.)

Installation?

sh install.sh
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