skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, he ran off to Mallorca with George Sand. My impression is that composers work intensely, but manage to find time to do other things.
"The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolp...
Even if there's no exodus, it would still relieve some pressure on those urban areas.

Instead of having to pay exorbitant prices in an extremely in-demand real estate market, people like me could move a little further out and still have reasonable access to those social, leisure, or other opportunities with slightly more time invested without requiring spending 5 hours a day commuting.

Spending 2-3 hours in transit one way to get to work is not reasonable. Spending 2-3 hours in transit to spend the day in the city on the weekend is a little more palatable.
Mine used to send them out to 250 of her closest friends every Christmas card time, and get them included in the church newsletter occasionally.
> the new, upcoming chapters of a still ongoing story :)

I love this spirit. Glad to see it will continue with or without TIs blessing. I have been using ticalc.org since I was a teenager and calculator enthusiasm is and was a great way for kids to get interested in software engineering.
If the direction is to go full / mostly remote, I believe most companies will insist on ensure that working hours mostly overlap with US business hours. So I think the big winner here will mostly be tech workers based in South America.

At my previous job at a SF based ad-tech company, I was the lone SF based engineer. Boss was in Australia, rest of the engineering team was in South america.
Why “The Quick Brown Fox” is no good for modelling a typeface
Call it what you like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_American_Civil_...
This is a great time to sell any retro video game consoles and equipment -- the third party market prices for lots of old controllers and consoles and games jumped 25-100% in the last two months.
Great! I'll buy one without hesitation.

I still have my beloved HP-48 GX on my desk, I created a multitasking kernel and a few apps for this hardware while I was a student (1998)

https://www.hpcalc.org/details/79

If you want some input or beta testers, I'm in :)
He is a oncologist so not an expert in the field of epidemiology.

The virus is getting "tired" ... really.

Lots of these contrarian "experts" popping up in youtube channels with rather slick production values (wonder who is funding them) about social distancing and lock down policies.
Ethically wrong?

Are you saying she is ethically obliged to employ as many people as her bank account makes possible, for as long as her bank account makes that possible?

Or that, having committed to a certain number of employees, she is ethically obliged to maintain that number indefinitely?

You seem to be making a large assumption with the latter: that the dip in revenue is a blip. However 1) general trends in the industry have been pointing down for years, 2) we don't know if business will bounce back to the same level, let alone when. Making an ethical judgment about someone else's business from the outside is fraught enough, but with this level of uncertainty, why would you even go there?
Do you have a link / more info?
Yeah note the line after that. This is a new wrinkle to the norm.

Not saying these issues can't be addressed, just pushing back against the notion that UBI is simple to implement.
But we didn't have school districts actually incorporating it into their curriculum and standards 10 years ago. 5 years ago is when the efforts really got rolling, and I remember talking to many district leaders who were excited to see change coming to education... the first new core subject area in decades. More school districts are bringing the programs online every year.

It isn't just talk anymore.
> Typography is about the spaces between the letters as much as it is about the letters; to optimise the spaces you need more and better-fitted “pangrams”, which is what typographers call the test sentences, frequently invoking foxes and dogs and lynxes, used to evaluate fonts. “The seven most visually awkward letters are among the nine rarest in English, but pangrams force them into every sentence”
Yes. Colorado hates on Texans for scooping up real estate and driving up prices and taxes. And Texans hate on Californians for scooping up their real estate. You can't have it all. And if you do, it won't last forever. Such is life.
As for the moral reasoning, because (a) advertisers are scum, and (b) they should not have powers over content publication. The same reason advertisers putting a billboard don't get to dictate what cars can and cannot pass by it.

Honestly I think politicians are bigger scum and they have the power of the state to impose their will. Do you really think if you gave the state power they would use it fairly?

I'm all for giving power to the government, which people vote for, and have established mechanisms to control, instead of private interests that talk by throwing money.

Elected officials don’t get into the minutiae of enforcing those types of laws. Unelected committees like the FTC do and most of your recourse if you don’t like it is to file lawsuits that are decided by unelected judges that have lifetime appointments.

Not to mention that even those appointments are made by the Senate where the flyover states in “Middle America” and the “Bible Belt” have power far more than their populations would call for thanks to them having two seats in the Senate just like the more populous states. Those are both the last people I want to give more power to.

Yes I’m well aware that the other side is just as bad.
I think the 150k is “the value you bring to the company” adjusted to “the location the company forces you to be at”.

If they demanded you to be in SF, one can guess a part of your comp was to adjust for crazy costs of living there. If you move away, that is adjusted.

Having been an expat, there are purchasing parity tables that are used in these relocations.

Imagine you were hired on Tulsa money and then forced to move to SF on the same amount...
The linux desktop security model is severely broken [1]. Just use Qubes if you want to control access to resources without losing your mind.

[1] https://forums.whonix.org/t/fixing-the-desktop-linux-securit...
Censorship kills. The whole COVID pandemic could arguably be avoided if China haven't decided to silence another doctor who disagreed with the official point of view.
uBlock Origin needs to be on the list. It doesn't make remote work or school better, specifically, but it makes the whole web great (again).
My nextdoor community is pretty quiet, mostly people seeking handymen, landscapers, etc., lost and found pets, overall pretty quiet and boring. Every now and then there is flare up around some issue, such as, fireworks, junk cars, prowlers, and so on. But they are pretty minor compared to FB or Twitter. Few people engage in that behavior in my neighborhood nextdoor I guess.

The city and police share out the same stuff they do on their facebook pages and official website.
I did some more research and it looks like I got the one for JPEG wrong, so maybe you have a point.
That is a sad news. What a trip down memory lane though... I remember since I discovered that TI-83 is much more powerful than simply running BASIC programs, I've been spending most of my free time on TICALC. I remember installing a gameboy emulator that used some neat tricks to make TI-83's monochrome display render 4-shade greyscale. I think there was a Doom port. There's been a way to load and play rudimentary music through the IO port. TICALC was/is a treasure. I wrote and published a simple sprite and asm editor which since has been deleted. I had a z80 opcode table pretty much memorized so I can try writing small native programs in hex directly on the calculator. I think it helped me pave my life path for the next 20 years.
That's one possible reason, but anyway, that's implicitly why I brought up Power Automate, to determine if that was the reason. Would you call it (formerly Microsoft Flow) visual programming? Because it certainly is frustrating to me in a way that traditional programming is not. Anything this awful must qualify as visual programming...

Today I was trying to figure out if I could work around some of my problems by converting everything to XML and using XPath to manipulate it but I didn't get far and apparently Microsoft only does XPath 1.0.
So he is a paid shill.
At least he does not promote drinking bleach.
at least 4 like playstation, compare this nightmare https://mcretro.net/sega-saturn-photographing-has-begun/

to https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/trimming-your-... revercse engineered pcb layout here https://gmanmodz.com/2020/01/30/2020-the-year-of-n64-again/

One was thrown together by committee with some function goal in mind, the other designed top to bottom with huge influence from process engineers. Simplified layout and reducent component count/variety means less time in pick&place, faster optical alignment, faster optical inspection, less opportunity for process flaws.
The dev in Eastern Europe may do well to be reminded that the dev in SF is losing almost all of that on costs of living, and may actually be worse off in terms of disposable income (relative to its purchasing power in the area).
Microsoft plans support for GPU acceleration and Linux GUI apps with WSL 2
A few of these have the "Access your data for all websites" permission and honestly, I can't shake the feeling that I'm giving away all data on all websites at all times if I install any of these
Not personally but some people do and it's their right to do so. It's basic right of expression.
The only risk in my opinion is AI and the possible automation of development. The curve to being an efective software engineer is too steep.
My experience with remote interviewing/onboarding
why did they not include a picture?
Around 1977-1978 I tutored a friend that was a fellow engineer. I could not get him to write structured programs. He insisted on creating large flowcharts with lines going in all directions. He had been introduced to this "visual" form of programming, and he kept going back to it each time he tried to construct a program.

His programs ended up with state distributed all over the place and an impossible to keep track of control flow.

Around the same time, I was intrigued by articles promising easy visual construction of programs; it seemed to be in vogue then. I took me several years to realize that the nice examples in journal articles were just that, nice examples. Visual programming is appealing, like flowcharts to my friend, but they suffer from lack of good support for building abstractions and an inefficient method of building visual programs and keeping track of changes.
Honestly Postgres is probably my first choice for storing some dynamic JSON and I have used it for exactly that in the past. In particular, I used to to build a simple time series db for reporting on data from JSON payloads that the potential to hold arbitrary data.

The OP has harped quite a bit on connection limit issues and this is a valid concern but also something that you can mitigate by using connection pooling. Geographic replication is an issue and it's one of those things where I'm not really convinced any sql or nosql db offers a really good solution. For example, if you run mongodb in replica you must take extra steps to ensure your replicas do not suffer from split brain during a network partition. And as another commenter has pointed out, mongodb's transactions are flawed. I would not trust it for anything transactional beyond single document transactions in a non-replicated configuration.

DynamoDB is pretty decent for a document DB but I personally dislike working with it. It requires you to make many sacrifices that RDBMS's like postgres offer out of the box. For example, if you want to fetch all records you will have to do it in a loop because there are limits to the number of records that can be fetched at the same time. But of course you can't self host it.

Another hosted option is Datatomic. I've heard great things but have never used it so I can't really comment.
It's always appreciable to try to comprehend stuff through new ways and tools, but I fail to see the aim of the post. Isn't it a matter of properly defining the domain of application and associating a way to visualize it?

Representing the result of a function from R to R requires two orthogonal axes because the element pre-transformation is 1-dimensional and the result is also 1-dimensional.

For C to R, this would require 2+1=3 orthogonal axes, so it can be visualized with a 3D representation. Likewise for R to C.

From C to C that would be 4-dimensional and becomes already trickier without some effort to conceptualize it, and certainly becomes less intuitive without resorting to alternate ways to conceptualize dimensions.

It quite probable that beyond that, one would really encounter decreasing returns on trying to visualize the situation because the cost of abstraction would increase in order to rely on multisensorial approaches to compensate for our inability to visually perceive much beyond 3D.

It's entirely possible that the whole post flew way over my head and I absolutely did not get it though, in which case I am truly just a confused commenter.
"But compare a farthing with£1000: relatively tothis greater sum, the farthing is of no more importance than11000of afarthing would be to a sovereign. Even a golden sovereign is relativelya negligible quantity in the wealth of a millionaire."

I bet the SJWs of his time went out of their way to get him cancelled for using such a class-and-culture specific way of teaching math.
A one time payment of $250 is not UBI. I don't understand how anything will be learned about UBI from this.
no employee making $300k per year in California gets to keep that amount.. tax rate is 40% + overall last I heard, differing slightly by county and tax details
Multiplayer Windows NT Machines
File formats change fast. It was not too long ago PNG was the newcomer, and people were touting how much better it was than GIF for non-photographs (alpha transparency, better compression, etc.). It has been successful, and now almost all applications support it. Same thing with moving from AVI to the MPEG formats in video.

New formats are a good thing, and fast adoption of them is good for users.
Last time I bought a very cheap Windows 9? (circa $35) it was simply an OEM edition that required you to call MS and tell them you are registering new hardware. It obviously implied you could not reuse the key for new hardware.

But that was a genuine key.

PS: I just checked the listing you gave and yes - that is an OEM version where they clearly describe that you would need to personally register your copy over phone and that you can only use it for one PC.

It seems like you are at least partially wrong about them being generally a scam.
This is perfect for freelancers. When someone commissioned them to build a wordpress site, they can offer them to host the site on that platform. No need to spend time to build their own hosting infra each of their clients. It's also pretty cheap as you can cram three or more Wordpress site into a single $5 vps on DO.

Another use case is people in 3rd world country sometimes need international hosting but don't have any local payment method accepted by international companies (they only accept visa/mastercard/amex, not small regional card/bank network). You can tap that market by offering local payment processor support, essentially become a middle man for those vps companies. This service doesn't support this kind of use case, but other web hosting kits are very popular in 3rd world countries for this reason.
Well that’s in a sexual context which is pretty different..
Crappy managers stress delivery over quality, and then engineers pay for it when they're oncall. The manager doesn't care how much their team gets paged because they'll be sound asleep while their engineer bangs their head against the wall at 2am, and the manager gets their pat on the head for delivering more projects.
>Is he the best apologist you can recommend, or is there someone else?

Take your pick from here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_apologetics

Some come more heavily from science like Francis Collins, some from theology like Sproul, from philosophy like Craig, pick your poison.

the one thing you need to do however, is to give the benefit of the doubt - because it really comes down to splitting of hairs. Once you are able to grasp their arguments and its basis, then you can see if you agree with it.

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the bible itself is a set of writings over the ages - with its dates proven as a fact. Within it, we see historical events that were foretold come to pass.

Maybe you might want to look at the bible from a fresh perspective ( from a Hebrew lens ) - [1] would give you a deeper understanding of the history, culture, reasons behind some of what appears to be crazy etc. At the very least, you will leave with a deeper understanding of that culture etc.

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the next question you might have is 'why do I need to trust this literature'
It has to be divinely inspired. Written at a time when the worldview did not know the ends of the earth and people believed that one would fall off, the bible stated ( in Isaiah ) that the earth is a circle; people thought it allegorical till they found out it was; just 1 example.

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About the Hebrew language itself -- it too was not man-made. One example, in hebrew, the words that are variants of the same letters have related meanings -- so the words for 'ear' and 'balance' were almost the same and no one had a clue why -- till they found out last century, that balance is tied to the ear. ( i am just giving you small examples ). There are tons such out there waiting to be studied.

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> I just want to understand what makes religious people believe what they do. I'm not even remotely open to accepting religion

Just be careful as you may get more than you bargain for! I myself, was on a quest towards getting more rooted in atheism that I started studying books and debates, and then found about apologetics ( I was not exposed since i was born a christian and lived a nominal christian life). I turned out to experience the faith and now I am in a dialogue with you.

In the interest of full disclosure, I would love for you to accept Christ but am humbled and also comforted that it is not me who can do it, it is only you with God's leading. I share my experiences hoping that something on my journey can help you in yours. This journey has made me live life with a purpose and am much joyful than before ( even though I have lost some things along the way)

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[1] https://torahclass.com/teacher/author/tom-bradford/old-testa...
vi can easily deal with hundreds of MB if not multiple GB on your custom made machine.
Have any of them gotten WSJ, NYT, and one or more other heavy hitters onboard? If not, I don't think we know whether it'd work or not. If they have, I'd be interested in learning what happened so I can stop wishing for this.

Also, I think pay per article is doomed to failure, the amount of friction it adds would shrink the market by too much. It needs to be a fixed sub with all-you-can-read a la Spotify, with your subscription fee being split between the orgs you actually read.

It seems like it'd need to be a JV between news orgs, and not a third party. No sane news org with any leverage would hand their customer relationships over to a third party over which they have little control.
>That's legal? That's not a blatant free speech issue?

Why oh why does absolutely everything have to boil down to "free speech"?

Do you want to only have one human right? Free speech but no other rights?

People have the right to a private life as well as the right to freedom of expression and a list of other rights (the right to life, the right to a fair trial etc. etc.) and often these rights conflict.

In this case it's the right to a private life and the right to freedom of expression.

Neither right trumps the other, having both is important for society to function well.

And when the right balance between them is struck, actually having the right to a private life can protect the freedom of expression.

As an example: If one thinks anything and everything they say is _likely_ to be published publicly or to an authority that might then be prejudiced against them then they're likely to self-censor.

That's bad for free speech.

But if one has the right to a private life and is thus in control of what they say then they're less likely to self-censor.
The “billions of dollars” these people have can’t be used, at scale, to pay the salaries of workers during the economic shutdown. Almost all of that wealth is paper money—the promise to receive a share of future profits from operating companies. If the economy is shut down and those companies aren’t making profits, that equity isn’t worth anything.
>> The problem is there's no real money in the a la carte model.

True, but sometimes these things are true until they are false.

I'm not saying there is definitely or obviously a workable business model using pay-per-article... but I wouldn't write it off as impossible, or even very unlikely.

Theoretically, the financial fundamentals aren't too bad. Really good writers often struggle to reliably get $500 for an article. Say $1000 + editing is a more sustainable rate. Say an average ppv reader reads 3 article at a go @ 10c each...

If articles can get 10,000 paying (10c each) readers, it is, broadly, viable... at least at this unit level. To be actually good, the business model would have to crossfund (or somehow fund) harder journalism. Hard journalism costs.

Anyway, I'm not saying I have a solution. Just saying nothing seems improbable about ppv articles. Tens of thousands of readers willing to pay pennies to directly fund (and access) journalism on any given day. Doesn't seem like that big an ask.
A number of European public broadcasters have some sort of balance rule along these lines. It can get pretty weird.

A memorable example, in Ireland, during the campaign for the referendum to legalise same-sex marriage, was a radio news article where they were talking to someone in the hotel industry about the potential impact on the industry from wedding bookings. Because of the balance rule, they then had to have on one of the three available complete lunatics they had for all discussions of same-sex marriage to rant about how the gays were going to transgender all the unborn babies or something (due to all political parties supporting the amendment, and the Catholic Church staying out of it, there were a very small number of public figures available to go on the radio/tv for 'balance', and most of them were conspiracy theorists).

Some broadcasters have recently changed the rules around certain subjects; for instance the BBC no longer invites climate change denialists or creationists for 'balance' in most contexts.

I'm uncertain how I feel about it. It can produce truly bizarre results, like the marriage one I mentioned, but it does seem useful in some cases. A major concern I'd have about it is that it certainly _is_ used to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories, especially where one side of the argument is "basically everyone" and the other side is a weird fringe, or where the natural proponents of one side are sitting it out (common on social issues in Ireland, where the Catholic Church is skittish about opposing liberalisation too visibly).
There are all sorts of nuance that are not captured in a short post. In 2012, I built a micro front-end framework for front end because I wanted something closer to what turbolinks is today, and I am sure people have cursed my name in years since. (Of course, the alternatives were things like knockout and backbone, and I had issues with those and my use case.)

So, to be fair, many of us have done it. The best case is that you can open source it and everyone can benefit from your work.