skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for secrecy, the church got screwed pretty hard early on (driven from place to place, leadership beaten and murdered, forced to move west, investigated by the military, etc). It makes complete sense to only give out as much information as you can, especially when there are so many looking to destroy the church and if you assume that the devil is literally behind people trying to destroy the church. It's a very different type of secrecy compared to other groups, like Scientologists, at least that's the way it feels to me.

And yes, I completely agree that the church should probably adjust its focus a bit. I think the church has plenty in the bank, so what's wrong with having most of the income used for feeding the poor and everything else Jesus recommended?

However, that's really not my call, and IMO it's not really my business. I give my tithing because I'm asked to, not because I think the church will use it optimally. It's a show of obedience to God and faith that the leadership is being a good steward of that money. It isn't my choice how the church leadership chooses to use that money, it's my choice whether to give, and it's my choice whether to give extra to causes I believe in. So I do. I give to the church as well as other causes I believe in. Jesus recommended to give everything, and I feel like I do pretty much the same thing as the church (most excess goes to investments, which I hope will allow me to dedicate my life to helping others once I retire, hopefully early).
This article is about blades that are actually 25 years old and being replaced. The video is testing is to ensure new blades can handle both peak stresses in the static test and less stressful cyclical loading for 25 years. So, 25 years from now those blades will also reach the end of their service life and need to be replaced.

That said monitoring and inspection can maximize the lifespan of individual turbines even if nobody is aiming for 50+ year service life.
That was the ethos behind the app I wrote, https://screwnotes.com - I just wanted a note taking tool that syncs everywhere and I there's only one way to add items. I don't want to wait for a product to load, or to have to make any mental decisions about organisation, due dates, or relationships between items.
The closest I know of is `rg -uuu`. From the manual:

> -u, --unrestricted ...

> Reduce the level of "smart" searching. A single -u won't respect .gitignore (etc.) files. Two -u flags will additionally search hidden files and directories. Three -u flags will additionally search binary files.

> rg -uuu is roughly equivalent to grep -r.
Backwards compatibility causes a lot of evil. I would prefer that breaking changes come with automated tools to migrate. Sometimes bad decisions get made, and we shouldn't have to carry the burden of that forever out of laziness/stubbornness. What ends up happening is the opposite of what you wanted, because after enough backwards compatibility debt adds up, someone starts a fresh competitor that takes over.
Of the FAANG companies i think Netflix builds the least of their own stuff. Still a lot more than smaller companies do and should but they tend to only build their own if there isn’t something suitable out there.
That's not going to directly solve this problem since the globs are expanded before the invoked process is even called with its arguments.
Facebook has literally endless money and talent, and they still comes up with React Native which makes apps slow and bloated
Half is pretty generous, for mid/seniour developers it starts at a quarter and gets worse.

I was looking to move because I like colder weather/climate change related reasons and I had one recruiter tell me "You can't possibly ever make that much, that's CEO pay!".
Axelrod: A Research Tool for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
> Learning to improvise and to write your own songs requires 1,000+ hours of the type of "playing/dancing/exploring" I was mentioning above. You'll learn the theory on the 10% of those 1,000 hours that you are resting and browsing the internet.

This has been my experience as well. When I first started I thought I would rush into the theory and that would allow me to improvise, but what was lacking was the playing of songs and getting a feel for the music. Learning the theory was easy -- getting a basketful of songs under my belt and then getting good at playing them took much longer, and required much more effort -- and now improvising comes more naturally, including being able to use use my ears to hear things like keys, intervals and so on.

Practice, practice, practice! Learn a lot of different songs well, and fully understand the Circle of 5ths.
My high school (Leland HS) didn't have a named group, so much as what would be called now an extended hackerspace / "AP computer class" around the mid-/late-90's. It was full of random PS/2 25 and 30, PC jrs and random donations and casts-off. A lot of students were working on VGA/audio demos, code, trading wares and writing joke viruses.

Fond memories of pointless techno-factoids:

0. It's possible to instantly lock-up a system by trying to copy any file to one of the special IBM DOS reserved file names like CLOCK$ or some-such. COPY CON CLOCK$ or COPY CON > CLOCK$ ?

1. The giant capacitors of the linear PSUs held enough charge so you could flip a machine's power switch on-and-off fast enough without it resetting.

2. It was awesome to code on systems with actual IBM VGA adapters, and more challenging to code towards 286's lacking FPUs rather than 486's.

3. Floppy disks were terrible: slow and prone to developing errors if you looked at them disapprovingly. If you wanted something, you better make two copies because looking at a disk wrong would lead to corrupted sectors. Wares was a slow business back then.

4. 10Base2 was awesome so long as no one disconnected the line between nodes or either terminator.

5. There wasn't much open source back then. In fact, the prevailing paradigm led to pointless code hoarding for things that weren't ever going to be products. And, so much was lost and less exchange of knowledge occurred because of it.

6. There were some really artistic coders in the bunch who combined mod tracking and VGA tricks into awesome demos.

7. Oh and we had a "satanist" who I think was trying to troll society as much as possible.

8. I remember writing my own "rawrite" floppy image saver that could copy 5¼" and 3½" disks including DMF disks too.

9. At home, I was probably the only kid with my own computer on a UPS and networked access to an HP LaserJet 4. I remember there was a class where a final (test) could have one (1) 3" x 5" (7 x 15 cm) notecard worth of notes, and so I used WordPerfect and a 0.5 pt font to print out over 50 lines per size and 4 columns of text on each size. Thank you 600 dpi and youthful better than 20/20 vision! I don't think many word-processors (except a publishing system like InDesign or LaTeX) allow text in decimal fractions < 1.0 pt.

Without Dr. Thaw letting kids do their own thing for the most part, I don't think it would've been as cool.

IIRC, Nolan Bushnell visited my AP Physics class, although I didn't understand his significance to tech until later in life.

PS: I was about 6 and was taken with my family to see this random house under construction in the hills that had a castle theme. More enticing that whatever it was about, the steepness of the grade of the street in front of it seemed like a good place to launch a skateboard or see how fast my bicycle would go. :D Years later, I found out it was Woz's house. |-d :-B
I think the point you’re trying to make is that political stability of the US is a necessary condition for the promotion of sustained scientific activity, and I agree with that.

What I disagree on is that the silly political arguments have anything to do with that political stability. Arguments about abortion, tax cuts and gun laws seem to be the thing that animates most Americans which I would argue aren’t really things that make the country stable; on the contrary they actively harm the populace (if the conservative position on these issues is to be taken). Again the scientific consensus tells us what is the right choice (increase access to improve women’s health, increase taxes to reduce inequality and decrease availability of firearms to reduce gun violence).

What I’m sad is that the issues that animate most Americans aren’t that of eg discovering the vastness of space or combating climate change (perhaps this is changing?).
> I really am thankful to that man for bringing the future to my high-school so that many of us had a headstart in the industry ourselves.

Unless you know that man to be a private person, you should mention his name.
Also with easier immigration, Canada’s talent pool will only get better. Already the US is losing people to Canada due to overly restrictive immigration laws. I’ve even heard immigration offices offering to help with Canadian immigration on the radio in the SF Bay

https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2019/0304/Go-north-young-g...

https://movnorth.com/
Hello, author here. Yes, it was very surprising. The rationale given to me was this:

You can't compete with Apple, which is fair. However, you're also not privy to what Apple is or isn't working on at any given time.

If Apple gave you permission to work on something, you could infer that they're not working on it, so it's not allowed.
How can I get started on learning the low level c stuff with direct system calls and such. I learned about assembly, pipelining, cache, and memory allocation during a systems architecture course, so I'm really interested in the low level of the machine. The problem is I don't really have an idea of a project that I could do to learn the level right above. Of course I learned a bit during the course, but I really want to get a solid grasp.
Nix was a huge innovation in operating systems. The wider community has not caught up yet, but it will.
Author here. The argument the data commissioner makes is that, while the images are public, users can assume they are protected from other purposes, e. g. facial recognition, because of the ToS which disallow bulk download. Thus, by violating the ToS, we also violated their personal rights. However, you need to be aware that this is an interpretation of the data protection law, we don't know of any court ruling that would confirm such an interpretation, yet.
I'm similar, but with vimwiki. <leader>-w-<leader>-w will open an entry for today's date, so for me ~/vimwiki/diary/2020-02-08.md. `<leader>-w i` will show a list of all entries. Pretty convenient stuff. I have mine start with a template as well, with a few common headers.
This is the first time I am hearing about this. Could you please expand on what the policy change is?
I do wonder sometimes just how effective nukes would have been as a deterrent, if Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't there as a case in point on just how devastating they are to civilians specifically.
From TFA:
> Asked why he didn’t just give corp.com to Microsoft as an altruistic gesture, O’Connor said Microsoft actually offered to buy the domain several years back for $20,000.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...

Both Facebook and Google were nurtured by In-Q-Tel and Highlands Forum members. I don't think this is wrong or bad. Just like Huawei and ZTE are highly correlated with the Chinese government, our biggest tech companies are interwoven with our national defense organizations.
It's either default or part of oh my zsh, because I've had the same experience and I don't have any custom configs.
Toronto has none of Vancouver's rain and almost none of Calgary's snow. I wear running shoes for all save maybe 3 or 4 weeks of winter. -15 is considered a deep freeze and happens about 3 times per winter. What are you waiting for?
Sure you could add other cities, but the result of the graph is the same for Canadians. We are getting absolutely hosed on salary considering that nearly everything (minus housing) in Canada is pegged to the US dollar. It makes it really hard to attract talent when someone looking for a job could move 4 hours south and make 50-100% more money to have more purchasing power. Other countries being similar to our level doesn't change this fact, they are also being screwed over in purchasing power, but they at least have some insulation from being directly dependent on the US.
> As is always the case with protectionist policies, the country imposing them experiences a net loss.

Both sides lose equal amounts. It's just that the larger economy notices it less.
When was the last Mac that could even run HyperCard? 2006 I think?
I was surprised that it's not recursive-descent/precedence-climbing, and that ~20% of the linecount is copyright/comments.
> please—don’t make a theater

Why not? If Microsoft is unwilling to pay a reasonable amount for the domain, the logical action to take is to publicize the flaw in their system.
I made just this for my pet project https://rankfirst.me/ipban.html
I'm using ipban and ipgeo.
After I typed that I worried it would be misinterpreted.

Not true as in a something that happened, but true as in the underlying concept.

Gladwell talks about hours of practice, but it has to be conscious practice.

But this parable has always been strange to me because if your target is quantity, it seems errors, in that context, are things that slow you down in production not quality issues.

You will learn to be fast, not good.
My parents were apart the Atari club in Eugene Oregon, US. I grew up with the 16bit, 32bit, the STE and the Mega STE ataris before stopped making them in the early 90s. My parents still have them around. My earliest memories were loading games off of a cassette tape
How Bricks Are Made
What, a successful engineer with tenure at two of the most successful business operating at scale?
The FreeBSD core utilities are reasonably short:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/bin
Or what kills people is the health care system being overwhelmed, lack of respirator, supplies, monitors, care. Which is in fact the biggest risk and why closing Wuhan was probably the right move... at a huge cost to the people there - it delays and staggers new infections and allows time to shore up resources.

I content that there is probably no healthcare system on the planet that could handle a sudden emergence of a new virus with R0 2-4 and weak initial symptoms meeting a population with zero preexisting immunity out of nowhere.

A bad flu or dengue season regularly puts beds into hospital corridors in many countries, even very advanced ones like Singapore. In fact, this year's flu season was vicious and is still ongoing.

So capacity, which is an almost static constant from many individual factors (people+consumables+space+tools)hard to scale (few countries can create new hospitals in 10 days) to keep serious cases alive become saturated at which point many additional critical cases become casualties.

There is probably delays and even some lies in the numbers, but a vastly increased casualty rate in a city out of treatment capacity is entirely believable of the rest of the country is not in a crunch (other provinces do not seem to have overwhelmed hospitals yet - the great firewall is not nearly sealed enough to hide such things)
Someone who wants to work at Apple despite that.

The vast majority of Software Engineers I’ve come across don’t write OSS code, don’t write blogs, maybe read Hacker News. For most of them this is sort of a non issue.
That's a question for PR review, not what intermediate states they can push to their own branches
Win32 socket API doesn't do it. Python wraps it more or less directly, and:

Python 3.8.1 (tags/v3.8.1:1b293b6, Dec 18 2019, 23:11:46) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyname("example")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed
>>> socket.gethostbyname("example.com")
'93.184.216.34'
> On mobile, users spend less than 7% of their time on the web. https://vimeo.com/364402896 All of the rest of their time is in native apps, where big corporations decide what you are and aren't allowed to do.

And the web isn't controlled by big corporations? You literally just linked to a website on the web owned by a big publicly-traded corporation.

I am in favor of using the web over apps but mostly because it has less tracking features. A more high-performance, bare metal implementation of the web would most likely give more stuff for websites to fingerprint you with. You want WASM, but WASM makes the web just as bad as apps in that respect. WASM is going to make it impossible to hide ads (because it will be painted without the DOM) or to block tracking or otherwise malicious code (because it will be heavily obfuscated).
This needs to be more visible.

I'm a Canadian working for a US FAANMG company, and I've been based out of both their Canadian and European offices.

I make way more in Vancouver than my peers in ANY European office (which include Zurich, London, Berlin)

And those places are more expensive than Vancouver (not counting buying real estate which is not relevant to me as a renter)

But of course I'm keenly aware that I'd make 30% more in Seattle, and 50% more in Silicon Valley.

Does it bother me? Not really. I've been to those places and I would take the lifestyle quality of both Vancouver and Canada over any part of the US. Plus these days, I don't see a way of living in the US, and not feeling complicit in all the evils of the country. Not without radical participation in trying to destroy the system from within.

And despite what people say about the similarity in work culture, it's more reasonable in Canada from sick leave to vacation, to day-to-day expectations of work-life balance.
Website That Tracks Coronavirus
I wonder if the choreographies are stable or not.
Author here. I've heard from current and former employees that they believe that Apple doesn't actively police it. However, telling people not to makes it easier to shut down later if they want.
What are the best questions to ask a CEO during a job interview?
I think the problem is that "communism" has a ton of baggage that implies a lot of things that aren't actually part of communism. Communism is actually a stateless ideology, which is completely different from the common usage of the term in describing countries like China and the USSR.

With the law of consecration, there's a clear, but voluntary state, and the end goal isn't the dissolution of the state, but the ending of the expectation to give up your property (the law would go away, but you'd continue to give because you want to). It's not socialism because it doesn't matter who owns the means of production, it only matters that the production is given to the church to be redistributed. It isn't communism because there is a clear state, but I suppose it's close since ideally there wouldn't be any social classes or coercion.

The main similarity is the ideal of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need", but I think there are enough differences to make it reasonable to say it's not communism, but it is a collectivist system with similar goals.
https://hdmi2usb.tv
The ones I'm thinking of are mostly for internal environments.

It's my understanding (could be very wrong) that ICANN did a survey of some sort to see what TLDS are currently being used by companies and was intending to not release TLDs that are in that list, for backwards compatibility, at least for some time.

And even if it isn't, ICANN should have known that some people weren't following the official rules, and should have adapted, to maintain compatibility. It's not that big of a list of TLDs they needed to avoid. Pragmatism is important, you know?
Thanks, and yeah - it's made a rainy Sunday afternoon quite a bit brighter :-)
Directly drawing on the hardware graphics pipeline with WebAssembly, having identical performance to a native application
For enough TC I would contractually agree to stop touching a computer between the hours of 6pm and 8am.

More realistically... most engineers don't code as a hobby. HN, /r/programming, and other software dev hangouts are small echo chambers.
Just add an ENV var containing a JSON with this metadata. There's tons of env vars that get ignored by programs that don't care about each specifically.
> He owns the domain, and it's worth millions of dollars because of Microsoft's mistake.

I think it's worth millions itself as a 4 character .com. It's value because of the mistake and potential that represents is likely orders of magnitude higher than that.
How would currency factor into the situation?
In private elementary school in the mid 1980's, I remember LOGO and Oregon Trail on Apple ][e's. For some reason, I recall the power indicator light on the keyboard (an incandescent bulb?) would have a cover that would be missing or burnt away, and hot and sometimes painful to the touch. Oh yeah, I went to summer school once that had Pinball Construction Set.. it was one of the first open-ended, sandbox-type games, a kind of "spiritual predecessor" to The Incredible Machine series that really did UX well.
And the central government has a long history of blaming its incompetence on the local governments
I do this exact same thing except I prepend at the top of the file the days notes. Also the only consistent structure is the putting the date before each note.
That's weird - works fine on Chrome on my s8
Communism is usually coercive, at least in the implementations we've seen, but there are plenty of theories that don't require coercion. That being said, the common usage of the term "communism" implies a dictatorship with heavy coercion.
If you really want to understand modern x64 or other ASM, write a simplified compiler for C. I would recommend starting with a tiny subset of the language focused on whatever aspects you want to understand. You can then compare your output with a modern compiler to get a better understanding of the intricacies involved.
I have LDS in my family, I have an anecdote just this week

I was looking up genealogy of my family and found my Aunt already added my great grandparents back in Poland. The church runs the website and offers it free of charge (https://www.familysearch.org/), you don't need to be a member to use it.

Another anecdote is Matz, creator of ruby is a member: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkh0gPf4Noc

Also they make really nice music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msoqtX4YAIY

On the subject of churches asking for tithes and donations - I've seen various denominations do it and never felt odd about it. Back in my hometown, our church was the ones doing outreach to help the local homeless and getting them back on their feet (not the city or country, that's for sure). This was the early 90s though.
The interview strategy that landed me my first data science job
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obj...
I moved to the US from Canada on a TN. I would've liked to stay where I was but the local job market wasn't great at the time. At the time I viewed it as temporary. Now I have no plans to go back. I'm making twice the base salary and I'm in an area with a significantly lower cost of living.

The TN wasn't responsible for my leaving and it isn't the reason I'm staying away.
I think the NSA might.
can you not think of corner cases to your vague notion of "obviousness"?
Thanks. You sound very knowledgable.

So if I think about it correctly, there are three ways to dismiss it.

1) Invalidate the patent on the basis of novelty (101).

2) Invalidate the patent of the basis of the prior art.

3) Invalidate the claim on the basis of non-infringement.

[ Am I missing something? ]

Which one do you think is the best strategy (with the most chance of success? Or based on your experience, what will likely work.
Add in the 50% taxes it really makes things very expensive.
The gas is not for transactions.
It pays the Ethereum network to execute the smart contracts.

The idea is to have a decision making app where no one controls the app itself.