skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read some of the beginning. I didn't know who he was at the time, just another commuter to me, but I rode the same UTA bus regularly as Brook Hales to work for a time (it traveled through 2 counties across various towns). No glamour or special treatment there.

In the 2nd link, I believe those individuals, as is common with GAs, had successful careers before becoming full-time Church workers, and are probably wealthy. Elder Ballard worked in a family auto dealership (probably more to it than that, that's what I know), Gong was in international relations, Nelson a ground-breaking, internationally known heart surgeon, etc. When GAs are called, there is usually a blurb online about their previous careers (which they give up), that someone could easily find if desired. So they could easily pay for what they like. It sounds right about the president's apartment, and thankfully so (security/health help). Etc. (As I have now noted elsewhere here, Elder Gay previously founded and was an executive at a private equity firm.)

It is good, though a lot of work, to build something that lasts, which is what these are trying to do. Those good efforts bring long-term peace and joy. I wrote elsewhere here about my personal experience and knowledge of the Church's long-term influence on individuals and families, that I personally know (some more than others), in the hundreds, and of whom I have read their journals, and knowing enough of individuals now, and personalities, to see consistencies in personality and behaviors and culture, to have some confidence there is not deception in the journals that extend back, to Joseph Smith. Regardless of what anyone else says, or the human faults we all do have (I do; and they will be found in any large organization), I have seen and know what I know, both with my human eyes and mind, and in answers to prayer. More, of personal thoughts and experiences, at http://lukecall.net .

Edit: I found a page with links to their bios (fairly international, if you read down & click photos), that indicate education & prior careers: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leaders .
The reason for the timing is likely that The Sims was released on february 4th in 2000 so it is the 20 years anniversary.
The Church, with the Book of Mormon, are far and away the single best influence in my life. I experience peace amid hard health and other challenges, friends everywhere I go, people who help me and are a good influence, personal guidance in quiet but important ways (I see both the good and the bad based on whether I follow that guiet guidance), and I see the same things in long-term multigenerational ways among very many others (in writing and in person). And, based on experience, great reasons for hope of eternal life in the world to come. For those who distance themselves from it, they are loved, we are close, but I have seen that the multigenerational peace and joy are not the same. I am exceedingly grateful for the Church's influence in my life. Further, I have learned for myself, that God is real, helpful, and kind (both just and merciful, actions have consequences, and extremely patient with us as we repent, aka change back to doing things that help us rather than hurt ourselves).

These are things that no amount of hint & innuendo from others can change, because I have personally seen, experienced, and learned.

I have tried to explain more at my web site (which has no sales or javascript): http://lukecall.net . I think I lack the adequate words.
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Single top-priority for software engineering - testing to improve quality. If a lot of organisations are still not writing 100% test coverage to reduce ops and increase reliability with quality then something is broken. It's mostly got to do with engineering culture itself. Google famously did Testing on the toilet experiment which paid off.

https://testing.googleblog.com/2007/01/introducing-testing-o...
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I'm inclined to argue that ditching a SIM card in favor of Google voice is simply trading one form of "Surveillance Capitalism" for another.
Back to the Future CyberTruck
> feel dramatically more complicated, even though they're nominally more "abstract" than they would be on bare metal

One problem I have with most of these systems is that they use completely foreign concepts. A programmer needs basic old-school sysadmin skills anyway just to develop a program. But most of those skills, however, aren't useful when using Docker on a server. You need to speak a very different language.

It reminds me of developing for small embedded systems. You get an IDE on your regular computer to write the program, but then after you've compiled it, you have to load it onto the embedded system and run and debug it there. Suddenly, the tools are all different, and most of them are crap.
The largest difference should be that VCs are transparent about their risks. I don't think any investor expects not to lose nearly all their investment in the case of a bubble popping, what is different from people buying home loans.

But it was a description of VCs.
Meanwhile the Iowa opposition party cannot properly run an election with software produced by members of their own party.

The only disinformation campaign that will re elect trump are the Democratic candidates themselves. They're so boring and drab that it'll be unsurprising when Trump wins again.
> While we’re on the topic, it’s worth noting that the only other restriction on filenames is that that they cannot contain a /, which is the character used to denote directories. Filenames can contain arbitrary other binary data, including spaces and newlines, and there’s no defined character encoding.

I've seen this byte people when junk gets written to a filename (either accidentally or maliciously). Especially in shells but also in other programming languages. Issues that aren't always handled well include file names that:

* include a newline or some other control characters

* start with a `-`

* aren't valid UTF-8
My manager just pings me via IM when he gets up on what the status of my current work is. And I respond when I start working (he usually starts an hour before me).

I'm more senior at my company, so when I notice more junior people get on I like to ping them via IM to make sure they aren't having any problems with what they're working on.
Brainwaves podcast: latest in neurosciences research at King's College
You're basically never 100% safe. In this particular case, the broker at which you bought the index fund units can scam you. It actually happened in Poland maybe 10 years ago - managers at a respectable brokerage firm were taking in orders from people but, instead of buying the requested papers, bought something else which they believed would be more profitable. They ended up being wrong and, when the clients wanted to eventually "sell" their papers (which were never bought in the first place), the company folded as it didn't have enough to pay the clients.
But is mostly unused and mostly irrelevant
Ask HN: Could a Handfull of Esp8266 Deauthers Have Derailed the Iowa Caucasus?
50 or so battery backed units strategically placed at polling venues would cost less than 1k USD. I know it's probably not the case but regardless of how it really happened, I can't help but think it may be another possible attack vector that should be secured in the future.
But not passive income though
Both. They are able to optimize things on Intel processors that no one else since they are the ones that make the processors and have more proprietary information and such. It's closed-source freeware but they make money on support.
Well given that LA is the second largest city in the country by population, that seems to support the idea that it’s heavily under utilized.
Avoiding racism, anti-semitism, etc.
To me Eiffel and its pre/postconditions are clearly inferior to Dependently Typed languages like Idris. (Also check Agda, Liquid Haskell...)
It is certainly not true that every wealthy person is entangled in litigation. Your typical not-famous, post-exit startup founder just doesn’t have any reason to get sued by anybody.
In interviewed at Intel & DEC in '95, worked at DEC 96-97

Corporate infighting, incompetent sales, and misaligned vision pervaded the culture. It didn't help that PPro came out of left field and took everybody by surprise

When I interviewed at Intel in '95, they were absolutely giddy with how they stole Alpha's thunder. DEC was a better geographic choice for me, and, well...

HP didn't come into the picture until long after - DEC sold to Compaq in '98, Compaq to HP in '02. The race was over at least 7 years before that.

Edit: Not to mention the absolutely hostile stance DEC took to MS wrt NT. Due to Cutler's involvement with NT, DEC sued MSFT and somehow thought that would make MSFT become a loyal partner.

I remember Office 97 performing terribly on Alpha. We sent a compiler guy there to figure out why; turns out the Office team had a single Alpha in their pipeline, set to compile -O0, and pretty much said "this is there to check the lawsuit checkmark"
Maybe its Alberta that's not representative of Canada ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVa8NaYTMIQ
Here is a link to their forum: https://discuss.streamlit.io/
PETA ends 'I'd Rather Go Naked' anti-fur campaign after three decades
The "safe save" protocols that editors usually use to write file contents are pretty good. I've never worried about this and I've never lost a file to a mis-save, not in decades.

I don't think it's a concern. And you need to make backups anyway.
Money Stuff by Matt Levine is a gem. You don't need to work in finance to appreciate Matt Levine's insider take on the people and ideas that are in the news.
They are using all legal avenues and loopholes as any rational actor would. Whether that is right or wrong is another matter. They are also aware of moral hazard and thus averse to settling and opening the floodgates of more lawsuits, which depending on future cases could severely impact the Catholic Church in Australia and even bankrupt it.

The other issue the Catholic Church has to battle is adverse selection of priests, who can have access to a captive audience of young choirboys. It seems that prefer to kick the can down the road on that front and opt for vigorous legal defenses of lawsuits from sexually assaulted parties.

This is not particular to the Catholic Church in Australia and seems to be pervasive everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_c...

Here is the South Park take on sexual molestations in the Catholic Church:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Catholic_Love
Narrowing the gap between serverless and state with storage functions (2019) [pdf]
I did something similar recently using my custom terminal diff tool. Here is a more colourful terminal-based view of the differences between MN908947.3 and sars NC_004718.3:

https://twitter.com/RobertElderSoft/status/12226906294923796...

To produce that image I used this tool:

https://github.com/RobertElderSoftware/roberteldersoftwaredi...
With these two genomes:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_004718.3

with the leading numbers, spaces and newlines removed from each genome file.

My tool (as well as unix diff with --minimal) uses the myers diff algorithm which just compute a mathematically minimal diff. More advanced algorithms exist for computing phylogenetic trees that take into account the biological likelihood of certain sequence change (deletions vs. additions vs. translations etc.).
Here is the NASA Inspector General’s report on JPL cybersecurity practices from last year: https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-19-022.pdf
True, but the order of things will never allow this to happen, either the old standard lags behind, some people disagree on something (just look at the tabs vs spaces discussion) or some people just have inherently different personal preferences. Then there is always the eb and flow of of convergence and deviation. Thats why I've given up on pushing my preferred standard in a team and just enforce the rule that is must be automated so I don't have to spend time on it no matter which way the current standard wind blows.
> This is basically because the b=1 part might get ignored by Thread 2 unless that thread also goes through a memory barrier of its own.

Note: without a memory barrier on BOTH sides, your code is factually wrong anyway and is open to memory-ordering issues.

With the modern "acquire-release" memory model, you need a release-barrier in Thread#1, and an acquire-barrier in Thread#2, for code to be fully correct. Acquire and Release barriers, also known as "half barriers", weren't invented in the time of DEC Alpha. But DEC Alpha's full barrier ("mb") would make the code correct.
> Healthy happy people simply do not spend much of their time that way.

But what if making comments makes you happy?

While I don't disagree with the premises of what you are saying I think you are not considering that for some people saying something makes them feel good and they are perfectly mentally sane.

I could also say that 'healthy happy people do not spend their time socializing with others at parties' but we know people do that because 'it makes them happy'.
I think the underlying mechanism is feedback (even your own). The more times you try, see the result, and adjust, the better you’ll get.

You need to either have good taste yourself or an arbiter who can tell you where you went wrong.

Of course at some point you reach a skill level where this no longer works. You still need as many cycles as you can get, but the cycles get longer because it just takes time to do the bigger and better things you can do now.
Keeping Warm with Starlight: when knowledge re-appears after half of a century
I've been working on LoopVectorization in Julia, and benchmarking against a few compilers.
Intel's compilers are far ahead of GCC and LLVM in vectorizing loops.
LLVM (even with Polly) fairs worst in my benchmarks, so it does not look like a future where Intel is obsolete is on the horizon yet.

However, I am excited for Flang and its FIR MLIR-dialect. I haven't benchmarked MLIR-optimized code at all. I'm sure that will change things, but until I test I have no idea by how much.
Few years ago on desktop PC I played with Corebird (Vala-based) until its development was abandoned.

Choqok looks interesting, but it would be cool if there would be an option to strip-down it during compiling so it wouldn't depend on the KDE libraries (in same way as kdiff3-qt package).

As for now on Android I use Twidere[0] app & on my Linux desktop use just legacy https://mobile.twitter.com throw any browser (with JS disabled; and if I need upload some media switch to regular https://twitter.com with JS enabled), but still keep watching on Cawbird[1] (Corebird fork) and retcon[2] (wxWidgets-based) as my next desktop client.

FTR, There are also Qt/QML-based mobile Twitter-clients for MeeGo/Maemo[3] and Sailfish OS[4], which (with some additional patches) also could be packaged for Linux desktop.

[0] https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android

[1] https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird

[2] https://github.com/JGRennison/retcon

[3] https://github.com/tlaukkanen/twimgo

[4] https://github.com/Wunderfitz/harbour-piepmatz
A bit of a tip: while `*` is a search for a word onward, `#` is a reverse -- a search for a word backwards. Might help sometimes
Right, standard _agile_ daily stand up should help.

My team does daily video stand up (it is good to see the team face to face each day) but if too many timezones involved slack channel updates can work just fine.

Remote teams are ideally communicating with each other throughout each day.
TLDR here: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/01/29/narrowing-the-gap/
Nothing wrong with trying to make money for your hard work. For the lurkers, here’s where the Polymath markup language GitHub repo may end up residing: https://github.com/jwmza/polymath

For my own site, I wrote a text-to-HTML converter in PHP to handle the basic kind of markup I need so things look better than just having simple HTML tags on a web page.
Not solely, but index funds are probably the most common investment. Just look at the total money Vanguard has under management.
Indeed, thankfully there are enough business out there where using CVE friendly languages is not an option.

NVidia has adopted Ada/SPARK for security critical firmware, for example.

Likewise, Genode is now replacing C++ with Ada on the security critical OS layers.
> This suggests that the cost of living adjusted salaries of today is half of what they were in 1960s if two people need to work now versus when only one needed to.

It's that, or people's "needs" (wants really) just got inflated over time.
Hi, just a heads up that I already have a FOSS project that might be a direct competitor: https://github.com/zyrolasting/polyglot

Not here to talk about which is better. I am excited for you and your project in any case since I understand the problem you are working on. But if you want to monetize this, you might want to be aware of Polyglot.
Except that you are now required to get into an agreement with Apple or Google for use of their app-stores (banks don't offer alternatives to that route).

Bunq is also a troubling development, because it is the first Dutch bank to require the use of their app, offering no alternative authentication methods (like the larger banks do). If they are allowed to do that, then what is stopping the other banks besides good customer service? ING is already notorious for having waited as long as possible before offering an alternative to their app to users of their former outdated numbered one-time code system.
This has also led to the in-joke, "it's impossible to die of the flu in China."
Great read. Been following Arweave since 2018 and this is one of the best things I've seen come out of it so far.
If they completely retire and just live off interest, sure.

If they invest in real estate, other businesses, etc? They're going to be involved. I'm sure there's some exceptions.
There are two statements in this that seem totally false to me, that make me skeptical of whatever point the author is working towards. I don't know anything about this author or the point they're trying to make, beyond what they say about it being related to identity in academia (presumably tenure).

> As divorce and infidelity are becoming more common than ever they are also more painful, shattering one’s life story along with the relationship.

I don't think this is true at all. First of all, in many places, divorce rates are declining (as are marriage rates). Second, while I understand the point about how marriage expectations are different now, at least for roughly half the population (women), divorce is much less painful than in the past -- women are less expected / forced / taught to define themselves as extensions of their husbands and families, have more options, etc., meaning they're less likely to be in the "I don't know who I am without this" trap.

> Not to be outdone by romance, companies also jumped on the identity-producing game. Jobs used to be described in terms of action ... Now they describe a persona ... You no longer merely work at BigCorpInc; you’re a Googler, Postie, Amazonian.

On what timescale is this true? Historically, your whole life was defined by your job. That's where many last names come from -- something way more permanent that being a "Googler". More recently, we had the era of lifetime employment, strong unions, etc. that meant you had a job for life. People were loyal to their companies in a real way. In some ways we still largely have this in the public sector. Instead, I think the "identity-producing game" modern corporations are involved in is about reproducing the parts of that system that were beneficial to the corporation without those that were costly for it -- bad, but different from what the author is saying.

Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding or missing context here.

Edit: I read the previous few posts in this series, and while there are some odd references and lots of things I can't tell if they're true or not, I don't immediately notice anything false. I have only a light background in what the author is talking about (a few college courses a long time ago).
also death counts?

prediction: 808

reported: 811

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sources:

EN: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-outbreak-has-killed...

probably the original: http://www.nhc.gov.cn/yjb/s7860/202002/4f28ab5ca87d42d284833...
I'm not sure if counts as a newsletter but the essays published semi-regularly in From the Diaries of John Henry are like, I don't know, pretty cool.

https://www.turingsquared.com
Jupyter notebooks are a bitter reminder that worse is better.

I'm a data scientist and I hate them.
I am publicly in close proximity to someone famous for my job and with a modest (~15k) Instagram following because of that, I've experienced most of this behavior to one degree or another. I was completely unprepared for it and it really freaked me out.

I love the Bill Murray quote, and I've been living by this, also from the article: "You want everyone to know your name and no one to know your face.” It really seems to affect people that I don't post selfies and pics of myself anywhere....second to requests to be put in contact with the famous person to whom I'm obviously connected, people really want to know what I look like. As someone who is fairly private as well as nothing special in the looks dept, I'm in no rush. I'm googleable because of the absurd name under which I started, but most people can't or won't put in the effort.

I've definitely concluded that in my particular case, some respectable form of following on IG is necessary (I'm a photographer) and I certainly won't get rich, but damn I was utterly not ready for nor was I expecting 5-screen-long tales of woe and death and disease and pleas for help and mercy along with the same kind of "I know what you did and I'll expose you" shit several times a week.
Machine learning prediction of the coronavirus outbreak
Look at Barry Bonds before and after- definite jaw/skull effects from the steroids and HGH.
As I have noted elsewhere, I have personally known one where I know for certain his family (also not rich, visited their homes for years) was worried about his old car tires' safety for a long drive home, and two others tangentially who I'm somewhat confident were not rich. Another, Bassett, I knew when young, then he made good as a founder/owner in the auto-auction business (where I have a little grunt-level experience). Elder Gay was founder/executive in a private equity firm (quick wikipedia search). The prior careers are available on-line, I'm pretty sure, because there is always some blurb about their prior bios when they are called. Another I knew of in another state who started and ran a locally successful accounting firm. Nelson is widely known to have been a heart surgeon, and it goes on & on.

Edit: I found a page with links to their bios (fairly international, if you read down & click photos), that indicate education & prior careers: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leaders .
That $30b is just their guestimated properties within Australia, but they have been landowners within most major cities of most western countries since centuries before Australia was even established. Wikipedia suggests the Catholic Church within Germany rivals the net worth of their Australian entity. They must be worth $100s of billions globally. [1]

Dishonesty and the scale of their crimes are the only reasons they are struggling to pay for justice. The world's rapiest, most corrupt organization simply cannot afford to be held accountable for the 10,000s or more times they raped women and children, buried the evidence and relocated the criminals as even $1m each to their victims would require selling one or two major properties.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_organizatio...