skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities have a special kind of "city culture". It's not better or worse than the country side, but it rather depends on your tastes. Some cities have tons of artists, those have better cultures. But many cities don't.

As for the services, in smaller or midsize towns they are usually much cheaper at the same quality because they don't have to pay 10s of thousands of USD in rent each month. If you have high standards and only want the high quality services, then the air gets admittedly thin quite quickly.

As for educational institutions, it depends on your country. In my home country of Germany, they are pretty comparable between countryside and cities, but I've heard bad stories about the US. In fact, the city states Bremen and Berlin are renown for having low educational standards compared to the remainder of the country.

As for opportunities, I agree that this has been the main pull factor for many people. You simply couldn't get a good job in small to mid size towns. But that might change as we transition into the post-Covid world.

The core issue is that many middle class people (including non-FAANG-level earning tech folks) simply can't afford life in cities, or the life they can afford includes having roommates while they could easily buy a house with a garden in the countryside with a couple years worth of rent.
I used Figma at my last gig and while some of it is really nice, I found the productivity sub-par compared to even Sketch which I don't like very much. It seems that every new generation of design tools does less than the one before and is less productive while delivering gains in areas that are at best a nice to have. I'm scratching my head in this regard.
I have a feeling SMS/texting lingo will succeed at what others, including Benjamin Franklin, Shaw, Webster, failed at :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language
Is there any English dialect in which it's silent in "a history"?
I wonder if the audio are actual slowed-down recordings or re-creations? They sounded awfully sloshy for how little amounts of water there are.
c.1850: The feds camp out at AT&T telegraph offices and transcribe every single message with no warrants. Or something like like. It's in The Puzzle Palace.
Oh hey, that's a little nicer, isn't it? Cheers
Agreed. And I think there's a certain personality of people who are employed in UX that lean more towards the design than the conceptual side that often get lost in the weeds with this stuff, too, and you'll end up with a series of mocks that look great, smell great, and gosh darn it people like them... but are missing all error screens, corner cases, more complicated states, and leave developers in the dark on the bigger picture.

Back when I was doing iOS development for a bit I had one designer forcing us to go through every single screen and manually override the default vertical font spacing and kerning settings away from the (company wide) framework we were using -- a change that was fairly trivial on Android but a pain on our iOS stack -- and this ended up taking hours that could have been spent on functionality. And made the app harder to maintain, on top of that. But this was really important to this person that the font spacing match their preference, and also be identical to Android's.

I miss simple wire frames. Some of the more productive projects I was on when doing front end work were done like this: product manager / designer gives a rough idea of layout and flow; developer works with them to throw together the simple flow as just raw HTML, really. Iterate, change, modify based on what does or doesn't work. Then the lipstick came later, once that's all nailed down. Less time wasted.

For my own sanity I've avoided front end work at all now, and have been doing systems level work instead.
CindyJS: A framework for interactive mathematical content on the web
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> Note: this guide was extensively updated in May 2020.

Prior discussion may not be exactly relevant on some points.
-some professionals take great benefit from it. it's the fastest way to move around the US.
-look up STOL flying, that's a really fun hobby to get into, you can land anywhere in the world
-you can do a bunch of volunteer work with a license.
-I personally do it because of the challenge and I find it very fun !
Oh Sorry, I should had been clear; I use Android.
Afaik there's a variation on termite that produced molten copper instead of iron. Don't remember the chemistry.
The security versions have a raised part in the middle that makes it impossible to use the regular Torx bit.
That seems like a pretty testable prediction. If I can't tell the difference between GPT-5 or whatever it is and an adult human native English speaker by the end of 2022, you'll win the bet.
The root problem is a legal one. Electronic documents held by a custodian aren’t held to the standard that paper is.

Hopefully the aftermath of this era of corruption and grift in government is a better legal framework.
I'm sympathetic to this view but PA6T wasn't going to solve Apple's problems: it was clearly better than the G4, but Apple needed G5-level performance in their next generation laptops as table stakes, and PA6T just doesn't get there (see the AmigaOne X1000 as an example). It also was not at all clear at the time how scalable the microarch was, and it was coming from a company with even fewer (albeit some brilliant, as Apple has proven) engineering resources, so it would have been a big bet that Apple did not want to lose. We'll never know the answer, of course.
All of the slow mo sounds are recreations. In fact I’m pretty sure they use that same sloshy sound clip in about half their videos.
Fun, expensive hobby
The hashtag is not #RestructureSTEM, it’s #ShutdownSTEM, and he’s apparently had it up for 11 days. In a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands, in all likelihood eventually millions, of people. In my view, that says all I need to know about this person. He’s a raging asshole.

This is the same problem, by the way, as the people tweeting #DefundPolice who get upset at people who think they want to abolish the police entirely. The word “defund” means to remove funding for, not to reduce funding for. It’s the height of arrogance to come up with a slogan either intentionally or accidentally using a word to mean something totally different from what it actually means, and then get upset that I am not willing to learn more about a movement that is effectively engaged in trolling.
I've always known it as a classic adage in relationship contexts, particularly romantic relationships, where for the sake of the relationship it can make sense to stop trying to win the argument. I don't know if the saying is a reference to the book or if the book is referencing the saying.
totally agree, can't agree more, 1000% agree.
Random math doesn't imply intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30 is that shell intelligent?

Wolfram has an alright interview where he considers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez773teNFYA

My own thoughts: intelligence is something which you need to observe predicting the future, ie something proactively reacting to the future in order to achieve a goal. This means ideally you have a bit of interaction so that you can see that you're interacting with is capable of learning in response to you
There's no set value in that. You just can't pilot an airplane without a license.
I am yet to finish through the thread (I may not) but whatever I've seen are all comments on unintuitive and phonetically absurd spellings of many words in English language.
Now this is just an opinion and no doubt others will disagree but I think a very similar thing is happening or has already happened in Seattle.

The dynamics have been driven by "tech", namely you-know-who, named after rainforest in South America nd their newly-minted cloud computing competitors.

Influx of people from other areas, both within US and international. "More density" and "do away with rules".

Another comment in this thread actually proposes the high rents are being driven by zoning. I find that hard to swallow. People in both commercial and residential real estate tell us about demand that is by and large coming from one general source: "tech". This is what has driven the rates higher.

I do not want to sound like another person looking to take jabs at the tech industry however I think some of the folks coming into these places for these jobs lack a certain appreciation for what makes these places special. To put it bluntly their standards are lower. The market has reponded and is giving them want they want; the number of city residences being built for rainforest workers is staggering. Yet I think we are losing something in the process and I am not sure the people moving in really have an appreciation for what is being lost. We cannot expect them to as they are new to the area.
What are the odds of having enough overlap of suitable planets each suitable enough with overlapping periods?
On the hardware level in the most popular chips (Intel, AMD, Arm, Qualcomm baseband), and in various closed source OS.

Of the good HW I don't see it in Power or Risc V yet.
Still used for bonding ground rods in high power systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBnbB3fiux0
They continue to accelerate at the same rate for their frame of reference, but relative to earth or Andromeda their time moves slower and with their time moving slower their acceleration slows down to
It's a mac book, use a hammer.
You're being downvoted, but you're spot on. I can't quite put my finger on when the term "software developer" when out of vogue, but I suspect it has to do with titles at FAANG companies more than anything.

At Google in Canada we are no longer supposed to refer to ourselves externally as software engineers, for legal reasons. We're software developers again. Which is how I have always thought of myself.

Well, back in the 90s I called myself a "programmer." I miss that, too.
Finishing up mine now, couldn't get the checkride done last week but got the oral portion done. Just need to fly with the examiner.

Not sure what I'll do with it, it has cost a lot, but I enjoy flying and I've enjoyed learning a LOT along the way. You'll learn a little of everything: aerodynamics, systems, airspace, weather, etc.

Note this is NOT a cheap hobby. Not trying to discourage anyone, but I'm not sure I would do it all over again. I'm glad to be done, I'll have fun with it, but there aren't a lot of practical applications for a private (you'll need a commercial license to work for hire, plus a whole lot of flight hours).
I wish my English teacher told me this 20 years ago. It all makes sense now. Mind blown.
It's clear you have an insatiable need to have the last word, so I'll let you have it.
But look at the encoding, they compact the int down to the amount of bytes it needs for storage. There is no space to encode the type, and there is no way to distinguish encoded uint from an int. You must layer your own schema on top.
>forcing the use of incorrect English

What "incorrect English" is being suggested? If it's the singular "they", then you must at least concede there's some debate about it, but most scholars have no grammatical problem with it. Using the term "forced" here also does a bit of a disservice to actual cases of compelled speech and restriction of speech (by governments, corporations etc.) - GP was very explicit that you're free to use the pronouns you want. If that's not unforced, I don't know what is.

>will not help in the current situation of gender imbalance

I'm not sure about "they" because it's so commonplace, but "she" might definitely cause someone to do a double-take. In fact, in academic philosophy, "she" instead of the expected "he" in thought experiments is very common, and on amateur philosophy forums, you can see that it does make people double take. Maybe that fact is something in favor of the argument that we tend to assume, as English language stylists have frequently in the past, that a third person is for some reason by default a "he". Arguably, being 'forced' to consider by reading why we were thrown off by a 'she' instead of a 'he' could go some way to seeing if we have the unconscious biases GP assumed exist. That 'evidence' might just lie with some introspection.
What probability do you think that a civilization will decide they are in a dark forest?

So far our only example doesn't seem to act like we are.
If cities can survive the Black Death they will survive this.
well, I've been following thinmatrix on YouTube, he always share his models textures. Other than that I just Google free 3d models.

the models I'm using are just placeholders while I develop the engine. Im a 3d artist myself, so ill probably make my own models for my projects using this engine.
It has worse performance though. Not zero-copy.
Ars tends to have good science reporting, and Beth Mole in particular always seems to know her stuff. I don't feel that this article jumps to any hasty conclusions:

> The finding does not necessarily mean that people will no longer be immune to the novel coronavirus after a few months. The lower levels of the immune responses measured in the study may still be enough to thwart the virus, and there are other types of immune responses not examined in the study that play a role in immunity. Overall, there are still many unknowns about potential immunity to SAR-CoV-2 infections, including who is most protected and how long that protection may last.
Best decision ever. You don't see the world the same way. Nothing beats the convenience. Buy yourself a cheap Cessna and don't look back.
They use security screws to deter passer-by from unscrewing the screws. It's very easy to fashion something that will unscrew a flat or Philips head screw while security screw basically require the right screwdriver. Useful in elevators, bathrooms, or anywhere the public might be a nuisance.

This also prevents people from unscrewing their Macbook and messing something up then coming into the store and complaining. If you are willing to go out of your way to get the right screwdriver, you probably know what you are doing inside of the laptop.
It appears to be just tall enough for the city buses that use that roadway. Lowering the clearance would impede the public transit.
The letters "n" and "t" have the same place of articulation in this context so it's not surprising that <menshun> might shift to <mentchun> in some dialects.
As a 30 something, single developer in boulder, if I knew my current job was going to be remote for the long haul, I would leave this place in heartbeat for some tiny town in Wyoming. Boulder and the rest of colorado have become entirely too crowded.
I very much like it, it feels a lot quieter and cleaner; looking at the often more ornate and colorful older projects makes me feel claustrophobic.
The author also has a really nice Safari training video course[1]. Always worth reminding folks that Safari is included on a $99/yr ACM subscription, which is a great value.

[1] https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/effective-python/9780134...
Want to do machine learning without coding?
China reveals new details on security law for Hongkong
I'm one that believes that there will not be a long term vaccine for Covid-19. We will need to get a shot every so often, at best, similar to the flu shot every year. Given the potential deadliness of the disease working from home will be here until we come up with a cure or a way to control it.

Will WFH be here forever? Probably not but it will be here for most of the working life of most people living today.

I also think that it will evolve into something different than the way it works now. Most people can't work from home and deal with the distractions. Something different will evolve but I don't really know what. Maybe something like WeWork but offices that can be disinfected on a per user basis.
It's the contraction of could have. "I could've been a contender Charlie!"
Arrow would be schema-ful, zero-copy, yeah. Parquet isn't though.
> That's going to get destroyed by every 13' truck that smacks into it

Why, yes, a 9 foot pole would get run over by a 13 foot truck. There's a reason I used the words "something like..." and not "exactly this..."

> but I'm sure you wouldn't want random plastic objects scraping across your roof when you drive, right?

Again - it's used as a WARNING SYSTEM - you prefer returning the truck with a torn off roof, or a still-fully functional one with just some extra minor scrapes?
The distinctions in meaning, understanding, and nuance between vocabulary, grammar, and idiomatic or cultural grasp of a language are profound.

By analogy: elements, valance bonds, and van der Waals forces in chemistry. All matter, some are stronger, subtle variances can have profound differences.
In my part of the world, the term "slur" necessarily denotes a history of oppression. Yours might be different.
Imho I don't see it as attacking the English language, but rather an irregularity in it.
> The problem with long lasting alien civilisations is that if they do exist, why aren't they here already? Colonizing the galaxy only takes a few millions years even with 0.1c

The kind of colonization you’re describing requires exponential growth, but at least on Earth we’ve seen that birth rates dropping in developed nations.
But formatting.

You need to put the three commands into seperate lines for your sanity. Too close to &&
I don’t think we are getting to the bottom of what the parent’s parent comment is talking about.

Apple decided to use T7 security screws instead of just normal T7 torx. Why!? I am not looking for answers to the differences and what makes a security bit different. I am asking a more abstract rhetorical question - Why make it harder for the consumer to take the laptop apart? Especially, if it’s not impossible - just a little bit harder.
Are we there yet https://xkcd.com/927/?
That's a very uncharitable reading of what they said. They presumably spent time training these people. They can't afford to train up a bunch of new people because someone decided that they need to be kicked out of the country for no good reason.
Looks like a decent start, great to put these various sources together. Under algorithms, I found discussions of big o time complexity, one of the real killers for the non-cs majors in terms of interviews and career growth. Under algorithms I found it on the Coursera course by "Tim Roughgarden ... available on Coursera and elsewhere".
It should also be noted that Australia has had 102 C19 deaths. From a population of 25M that's a pretty good record.

The lockdown, which has been of different levels depending on the city, has worked well here. Schools have been back in much of Australia for weeks.

Australian numbers below.

https://covidlive.com.au/
I don't object to anything, at least not when English spelling is involved. English spelling serves me well, as I don't have a problem with it, and there are people that look down on those that do. I'll let you do the 2x2.

Given how useful writing is, I just feel we should be asking ourselves whether any part of the process could be simplified.
Do you want to travel up and down the California coast in 2 hours, or spend 3 hours in an airport getting groped by TSA?
https://capnproto.org/encoding.html

Records in Cap'n Proto are laid out like C structs. All fields are at fixed offsets from the start of the structure. For variable-width values, the struct contains a pointer to data elsewhere in the message.

Each new object is added to the end of the message, so that the message stays contiguous. This does imply that if you resize a variable-width object, then it may have to be moved to the end of the message, and the old space it occupied becomes a hole full of zeros that can't really be reused. This is definitely a down-side of this approach: Cap'n Proto does not work great for data structures that are modified over time. It's best for write-once messages. FlatBuffers has similar limitations, IIRC.
We've been using it across multiple languages too as the data serialization format between server and (web) client. It's fantastic.
> For a heuristic to be good, it needs to have a clear domain of when it applies and when it doesn't.

I see your point. I believe both of us are saying the same thing albeit using different words. In this case, the domain would be the context in which the aphorism is used, which is exactly what the 3rd point in my parent comment says. As with everything, the context is equally important. When you take anything out of context, there is a high probability that it won't hold. Simply stating an aphorism, without understanding the context is only half knowledge and not actionable which inadvertently reduces the signal.
A CLI application and HTTP service that manage custom import path of Go packages
Ask HN: How does GoogleBot index content behind Paywalls?
IceCast still exists.

I've been a di.fm subscriber for a looooooong time now. :)
I think all my major projects are in my profile... Cloudflare Workers (and Cap'n Proto, which it uses) are my day job; I don't get much time to work on other projects these days unfortunately.
The placement would have to be on a street where tall trucks are currently allowed. So now they can’t traverse the other nearby streets, even if they had no intention of using the underpass.
I’m from California and I had an Irish colleague there who, despite otherwise being amazingly well integrated, stuck to a hard “t” for certain cases of “th.”

So for instance if I might say “These three things,” he would say “these tree things.”

He was clearly able to make the sounds but in some cases he couldn’t. I never felt comfortable asking about it because I thought it might be a class thing.
I adore concrete cubes, and they often look so similar, what luck!
>>Here it goes: if the US wants to invest in local talent, the US had better invest heavily in education.

As some one who worked in US and returned to India. Let me tell you immigrants will support this as soon as they get their US passports and Green Cards.

It's just which side of the fence you sit on. Once these people have a stake in your country, they magically shift their loyalties to the exact opposite position to what they had before.

In India itself, many of these elites oppose policies like Right to Education Act. knowing well they can fund their kids higher education in foreign countries, and eventually their kids getting settled in US. They don't want poor people to have literacy or any edge in education. Meaning, less competition the better. Why work for Right to Education, when your kids go to expensive private schools, tuitions, coaching classes and then foreign universities, with jobs and citizenships overseas. You want less competition and lesser poor people and underprivileged people studying so that more opportunities are freed up for your kids.

People are deeply selfish at a personal level and unless they have a stake they feel no need to change. I honestly feel things in India will improve with fewer visas. People will work for good domestic education facilities once they realize they are trapped in their own country.
This is a very egocentric viewpoint. Just because you think something is clearly better doesn’t mean everyone agrees with you. Example: I’m in the middle of a move right now for work. I’m selling a 2,500 square foot house on a corner lot in suburbia with a nice porch and three car garage. I’m moving to an 850 square foot apartment in a big city and paying the same rent as my mortgage. I get one parking space so I have to sell two of my cars. I’m trading a ton of privacy and living space to get the benefits of a big city. A lot of people don’t think the trade is worth it, especially people with families.