skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java has been leading the TIOBE index for 20 years. So, yes, there are still lots of Java jobs. Java uses static typing but not manual memory management so it's a good next step after JS.
Failures of Actix will be “ergotic”; individuals experiencing the failure will be able to play again, experiencing the long-term average failure rate.

Failures of a roller-coaster are “non-ergotic”; individuals never experience the long-term average failure rate, since they’re, you know, dead...

This has got to be the most common and tragic type of mis-application of statistics I’m aware of; I know I used to do it all the time! Virtually nobody teaches/talks about it, but it is arguably more critical to understand than “causation vs. correlation”, or “post hoc ergo propter hoc”.
On the old fsf machine* I used Emacs as my login shell (in /etc/passwd), but this takes it to a whole new level. Outstanding!

* yes there was a time when the fsf’s only computer was a fax 750 (“soon to be running gnu”)
I always thought the term was near-sighted. "Short-sighted" means "done without consideration for the future."
Yes due to how the economics of traditional venture funds work, in order to achieve the returns that limited partners expect, investments are made in companies with unicorn potential. Some will do well, most will fail, sometimes one will actually become a unicorn but because you don't know which is which you need every at bat to have a path to a home run.

This means that if your business is the right shape, VC is a fast way to raise a tremendous about of money.

But that's NOT to say that every company can or should raise a tremendous about of money. There are less traditional VCs, angel investors, debt, and other financial vehicles that can help businesses succeed. There are tons of examples of companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars who raised little or no money to get there (Webflow and Atlassian are two top-of-mind examples).

- Ansel from PSL
This is greenwashing PR.
Adults with fully developed minds are responsible to themselves for navigating power imbalances. People can quit jobs, deny meetings, file lawsuits for harassment, block numbers or email senders, et c.

Navigating power structures and circumstances might be one of the defining characteristics of adulthood, quite actually.

Most importantly, adults are capable of informed, intelligent consent. Children are not.
Yeah, it's not like you could melt it down and mix in anything you want
I don't know that I'd call what I have "vanity" so much as "not wanting to come to terms with the state of bodily decay as a reminder of my inexorable march to the grave". But you're right there's money to be made hand over fist. How much to press the snooze button on the mortality alarm?
This is "fake news" libel. Flagged.
In addition to my other comment on amortising manufacturing pollution of electric cars, see the below scientific articles on the time required for energy payback of solar panels. Many people are investigating this.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012385...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00380...
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I'm somewhat disappointed that the list of questions was displayed on the site, and not as a downloadable file.

Because everything in UNIX is a file ;-)

I'll let myself out now...
I thought land ownership was the de facto means of storing wealth since pretty much the advent of human civilization. Is that not true?
Maybe not if it's as simple as "how the government is supposed to work", but the general subject of Civics would have plenty to do with:

- How social media might affect democracy

- How AI surveillance could impact human rights

- The emergence of tech companies with the resources of nation-states

etc.
What exactly are you doing that isnt using TLS? That's not most peoples usage on the web.
>Taking things into account and shaping our policies accordingly means making a prediction about future supply. Predictions of impending supply exhaustion have historically had a very, very poor track record.

"Historically" we have been caring about such things for about one or at best two centuries, most of them with primitive technological means to gauge resources supply, so I'm not so convinced about said "track record".

It's not like we got it wrong for millennia. It's more like some warned ahead of time after we've started looking relatively recently historically, and because they got it wrong, we assume like the people in the boy and the wolf story that no such thing is ever possible (or possible to predict within some accuracy).
The article is an unsubstantiated lie though.
I have had it with these motherfucking [horses] on this motherfucking plane!
A good solution would be if the news media wasn’t owned by billionaires.
In the US, most people do say "near-sighted", but in the UK "short-sighted" is common. For example, on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Short-sightedness/

The reason you can use "short-sighted" as an adjective to suggest that someone isn't thinking about the future is by analogy to this condition. The same thing is true for "myopic".
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Does this have anything to do with Dell support info - it used to be literally right after buying a dell product (within a week or so) you'd start getting scam calls with your dell info.

Dell always denied it, but it was pretty funny. They had service tags and everything - anyone else get that?
Airlines have allowed dogs and cats on planes and in cabins for decades...but they charge for it.

ESA classification is being used by pet owners to avoid paying for transporting their pets.
And many (or most) of the TLDR project pages are wrong because they refer to the GNU-variant reimplementation instead of the actual tool.

With a man page you know you're getting the right info because it came bundled with the tool.
I actually put 20% down 7 years ago on the house and I can tell you that if I had invested that downpayment purely in index funds, I would have a lot more cash today. So again, housing was not a good investment from an economic perspective. I bought it for my children but I look at it as a major expense and not investment.
I agree.

There's nothing worse to me, than the "Champagne Socialist" who hand-waves about the righteousness of socialism, but fails to tip the uber driver. I hate that.

I'm with Taleb in that it's best to judge people when they have "skin in the game". No, I've turned down real-world jobs or gigs or deals where deception was involved and was not in the client's best interests. Sadly, "tactics" and dirty tricks are extremely common in the real world, particularly in sales and law area (sometimes tech). You would be amazed at the number of people that would use dirty tricks if:

- "money can be made"
- "I can get away with it"
- "my co-workers are doing it"
- (or) "my boss told me to"

And the guys I knew who did this were hardly starving. hell, some of them LIKED doing it. And then they would go on to church or rally or whatever, feeling all self-righteous about themselves. It's god damn bizarre.
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Making and distributing anything always requires energy. Making and distributing things that lead to fewer carbon emissions is the only way to slow climate change.
Honestly I doubt we’d find 500 people who thought nuclear power was important enough a hill to die on that they’d move to Nevada to ensure its future (and I sometimes wonder whether the majority of pro-nuclear experts can be bothered to get out of their armchairs and vote in the first place).

A better option would be to move to Australia and campaign for a nuclear waste dump here. The voting margins are lower (often measured in low triple digit votes) and the politicians are more cheaply bought. Those same 500 proponents could more easily effect change in Australia than any state of the USA.
Ancient African skeletons hint at a “ghost lineage” of humans
If we’re being snarky, ships also move over water you know, and you can ship your animal in a crate and the crew can feed it and clean up after it, regardless of size. People shouldn’t have to put up with your dog peeing/crapping in the cabin on a long transoceanic flight. It can ride in the cargo hold or on a ship just fine.
This is really good to know, but this experiment makes me very uncomfortable. It sounds like they had to torture several mice for days to get this result.

I suppose they didn't know what they'd find, but I don't think it's appropriate to intentionally induce high levels of pain in animals just to see what happens.
I don't understand. what do you mean?
I believe GP is saying that the quoted statement comes from a position of immense privilege, where people can safely assume that they have plenty of options that will keep them out of poverty while also being ethical.
Honestly, I think the most applicable courses to that situation are civics, logic, and law. Civics to make you realize how important it is to get the actual facts of the situation, logic to understand what they mean, and law for numerous applications of those two learnings.

In this case, the most relevant part is whether Eich was fired. As far as can be determined externally, he was not. Depending on your leanings, you may decide to believe (perhaps based on evidence, perhaps not) that what probably happened was morally equivalent to being fired -- but again, logic and law say that doesn't matter. If the law says you can't do X when condition Y holds, but Y is kind of blurry and hard to determine precisely, then all that means exactly nothing if you didn't do X.

Feel free to debate the legality or the ethics, but please don't get them mixed up.
Could stress turning hair white actually be an evolutionary adaptation that provides an advantage to stressed people? Perhaps white hair is associated with maturity, and the appearance of maturity might confer social advantages to somebody who's being stressed (younger people might be more willing to assist them?)
Not sure I buy the "getting fatter" part of the reasoning. I'm 6'2", 245lbs, and I can drive a Smart Fortwo quite comfortably.
Brainstorming and validation rarely starts with a perfect idea. It starts with some about of demand, an unsolved problem or an inefficient market. We start to dig and as we talk to potential customers we get a better understanding of the problem and pivot accordingly. Sometimes we end up unearthing a great idea, sometimes not. It's worth remembering that finding billion dollar business narratives often involve some amount of market creation or expansion. It's not just "can we capture enough of the market that exists". It's "would customers pay more for a better experience?", "would more people become customers if the process was easier? Or cheaper?".

- Ansel from PSL
The process to ensure your cells get enough oxygen is a complex one. When you're exercising heavily certain chemical signals are sent out to ask the heart to increase blood flow to compensate for the high consumption of oxygen - similarly injuries produce stressor signals when the body is damaged and bleeding (since the lowered blood pressure decreases the efficiency of the heart's ability to deliver oxygen) - if an inert chemical was introduced into the blood stream slowly it'd gradually reduce the amount of oxygen carried in blood as it flows through your body by decreasing the proportion of red blood cells per volume, to compensate maybe your heart needs to beat a bit quicker deliver the same amount of oxygen via blood. Keeping your blood clean of impurities is traditionally (mostly) handled by the kidneys, if some PTFE is introduced into the blood stream does PTFE recognize this impurity as a dilution - will it properly filter it out? How efficient is that filtering and how much will it stress your kidneys?

Basically, bodies are complex objects - this is what studies are for and long term effects can take time to be detected. I don't have any evidence to the contrary, but I am skeptical of how conclusive the supporting evidence is and would place the onus on proving harmlessness rather than harmfulness.
Sorry - but Uber is very much a app first app. Most people using it are coming through the "proprietary" ecosystem parent wants to get rid of.

I don't use starbucks, but I wouldn't be surprised if it also had a proper app store app and didn't require users to use a web browser to access the app.

If anything - this proves the user preference for apps vs websites.
For what its worth, nothing about commercial airplanes is a "closed-air-circulation system". The air is continually refreshed from the outside at a rate of about 20 times per hour.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34708785/ns/travel-travel_tips/t/a...
If you’re looking for a service manager written in a lisp, there’s always GNU Shepherd. Written in and configured with Guile scheme.
Sold to the man in the floppy pink bunny rabbit hat.
Why are loops better with line numbers and typed commands?
This just screams nostalgia.
Hmm, I'm twenty-nine years old, and my wife started noticing white hairs a few months ago. I thought that the "stress turning hair gray" was a myth...now I guess I have a good excuse to actually use my vacation days.
How we got from an era of common sense, to an era where everyone can declare all kinds of bizarro pets as a "service animal" is a mystery...
How would that save money?
This rant almost sounds like it was written by a AI gone crazy
What you describe is a valid reason for Windows to continue shipping with MSHTML.dll — not a valid reason to continue shipping the actual iexplore.exe GUI executable.
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right, exactly - I'm ~200 times angrier at Comcast for their $22.7 billion in profits than I am at Verisign for their $100 million.
>This is inconsiderate. Would you write "hire a babysitter, maybe?"?

Lest we forget, in this 21st century nonsense, dogs are not actual children.
> The roads aren’t getting any wider.

I wish that were unequivocally true, but at least here in Switzerland, the standards for lane widths and parking spot sizes are creeping up, explicitly explained with the trend towards larger cars.
From what I recall, iexplore.exe is actually only a small wrapper around mshtml.dll. A lot of software depend on mshtml.dll and related DLLs. So you might think you're not using IE, but other non-browser software you use might be using IE under the covers. If Microsoft doesn't install IE by default, these programs would not work correctly (which is why Wine also implements these DLLs).
I don't think the right need to sweep Bernie under the rug. The Democratic party is doing a good job of that themselves, and essentially telling every democratic voter that they don't give a damn what you think, they'll pick who's best for you and you'll like it no matter what. Votes be damned.
Your ability to dismiss something you know nothing about is impressive, as is your focus on superficial interfaces over deep semantic content.
> "We now know for sure that stress is responsible for this specific change to your skin and hair, and how it works," says Prof Ya-Cieh Hsu, research author from Harvard University.

Interesting! I would have guessed stress's involvement was mostly myth and actually just natural aging based on genes.
That's fair. I'm hoping this'll become less true over time as folks get used to there being lots of TLDs.
And yet all their old help forums and documentation pages somehow they can't keep those exposed on the web.
I think the simpler explanation is that the easiest way to have a diversity of thought is through a diverse workforce. We all have different lived experiences, I have many blind spots due to my upbringing. Can I learn these and overcome them? Of course, but it's a lot easier if someone with a different viewpoint is on my team or in my organization.

Diversity of thought isn't just important to cater to a diverse user base, it's important because approaches to problem solving and engineering doesn't have a singular solution.
But if these electric vehicles were not built, then people would buy icev's instead that over their lifetime put 10 times as much co2 into the atmosphere.

I am guessing you are someone who wants us to stay on fossil fuels forever, and are only pretending to care about the environment
> a/2^b. Then the mantissa is a, and the exponent is -b

Why not just write a * 2^b. Your a here, if supposed to represent the mantissa, is not an integer. This form doesn’t really clarify the relationship to the concept of a dyadic rational.

To write the floating point number as a dyadic rational treating a as an integer you would have something like (2^(53) + a) / 2^(53 - b).

But arbitrary dydadic rationals cannot be represented by a single floating point number. If you want arbitrary dyadic rationals you need the sum of a list of floats.

* * *

I think what you might be getting at is starting by teaching people about fixed-point binary numbers? Or just binary fractions in general, analogous to the usual decimal fractions?

That would be clearer to say than anything about “dyadic rationals”. After going through a typical primary school, people have the concept of “terminating decimals”, rather than a concept of “ten-adic rationals”.
Yeap. I'm surprised there aren't more "Citizens United for Climate Change" astroturfing PACs to Hoover-up money from individuals to transfer over to desperate billionaires. Oh wait, that's what tax breaks, loopholes and corporate welfare are for... silly me. Maybe billionaires could go door-to-door with hat in hand if they need a 12th yacht?
If we can modify our desires for growth to be oriented toward metrics that don’t scale with physical resource consumption, we can solve this problem. Such sustainable growth metrics could include miniaturization or quality increases in physical goods, or even changes in some information good. And the happy news is many parts of the economy are already undergoing this transformation. You can read about the decoupling of GDP and carbon emissions for some interesting research on this topic.
Can you clarify a bit here?

I believe most people, when executing a name look up, will usually just end up talking to one of a battery of ISP provided DNS servers. So while the registry's name servers need to feed those servers (and probably be heavily redundant and reliable) they wouldn't actually end up handling an insane amount of traffic. I'm actually a bit curious now if there are any sorts of requirements on how much traffic registrars need to be able to support or if everyone just over-resources and still makes enough money that the question has never been deeply investigated.
Well you can also not lie and pay for the animal to travel in the cabin.
I think of a float as an integer with a shift. Take the mantissa, stick on the implicit leading 1, put it in the middle of an infinitely big string of zeroes with a decimal (well, binary) point at the right-hand end, then shift it by the exponent (which can be positive or negative).

If you're comfortable thinking about shifting integers, then perhaps this is a simple way to think about floats. For me, it's easier than thinking about them as fractions.
Thank you for these. The solar articles talk about the energy payback of the PV systems, but is this necessarily equal to the environmental cost to produce them? I would think that energy usage != CO2 cost, as energy may not factor in mining, refining, etc.
Yeah, speculators/investors are winning for sure:

> In 2018, 396 homes were sold [in Silver Lake, Los Angeles], with 60% not intended to be primary residences.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-23/airbnb-shor...
"I'm going to buy a car that's safer for pedestrians / other cars in a collision, but less safe for my family" said one person ever.
In California property taxes are not re-evaluated when a property changes hands by inheritance. So, they really aren't paying anything close to the actual value.
Mass producing affordable small cars with modern safety and features is 100% a dream of mine as well.

I don't see myself selling my 2018 Fiesta because I doubt any other new car could replace it - objectively speaking based on specifications.
Would you happen to support Canberra, Australia? Or is there a way to request a city if it's not listed?
Male and female brains are built differently (2013)
Making and distributing fewer things could also slow climate change.
if advantage is associated primarily with reproductive fitness it seems unlikely, at least as a direct cause.
Ah! I get it now. I was confused; float toy is correct here.

Thanks for the explanations.
I have been looking for that too and could not find much, at least not much that is available for free. That said, I give a series of example of miscellaneous complexity in Kingly documentation site (https://brucou.github.io/documentation/). Kingly is a state machine library that replicates pretty much the formalism of statechart, without its concurrency model (i.e. no parallel states). Interestingly the amazon book you quote is also recommending to make spare use of parallel states (if I remember well, it recommends to use it only at the top-level of the chart, and when possible not at all).
Anyways, on the Kingly site, you will find the following examples:
- a counter (yeah there is always a counter or hello world somewhere)
- a keypad app (with Svelte)
- a password meter (tells you if yuor password is strong enough)
- a two-player chess game (with React)
- an interface to an online movie database (with 7 different UI libraries, including Vue, React, Svelte, Ivi)
- a wizard form (with cycle.js)
- an implementation of suspense functionality (with Svelte)
- an implementation of Conduit, a clone of Medium. Conduit is considered to be, like TodoMVC a benchmark of miscellaneous approaches to UI implementation, but for a real world complex application.

I also published an article on the subject on infoq: https://www.infoq.com/articles/robust-user-interfaces-with-s...

All of that may be useful to you, with the benefits that you won't have to make the examples, as I had to, to evaluate the applicability of the technique to UI implementation.

If there is anythign you do not understand let me know.
Somewhat serious question: do you think it matters if it looks absolutely silly?
When someone says a link is all wrong, but doesn't say what they think the truth is, I assume it is probably because they know the link is right, but don't want to admit it.
I wonder how long until instead of installing itself it finds and infects an existing Electron app?
If you run a service that predators use in service of their goals, and you're in a position to do something about it, then I think you're obligated to do so, especially if no one else is in a similar position to do something about it.

I've had a personal experience recently where I had to report a situation involving older people and a minor to Discord. (Discord banned the minor, which I guess is one way of dealing with the situation, but it leaves something to be desired.)

Not every call for "think of the children" is a baseless call made by a strawman that just loves censorship or something. "Think of the children" is a silly phrase when it's about rock music. It's not silly when it's about a dark creepy alleyway that people keep complaining about running into pedophiles in.

I love using Discord, but I hope they focus enough on keeping it safe and take their position seriously.
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≥ Yes, but it is (as of this moment) an experimental feature. Add "?svg=1" to the end of the URL to enable this feature [0].

[0]: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads/issues/4
Correct, iexplore.exe is itself a small wrapper. But that doesn't stop Microsoft from not shipping that small wrapper. Software that embeds mshtml.dll does not require the existence of the exe file.

(Or alternatively, Microsoft could put some hack into Windows so that attempts to run iexplore.exe are passed to Edge unless the administrator has twiddled with some arbitrary registry key or group policy.)