skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are opening the gates to hell, and don't even realize it.

The same is happening pretty much everywhere in society, where everything becomes contextual and should be adapted to the personal sensitivities of individuals. Which is fine for everything that's fashionable.

But code isn't (just) litterature or art or fashion. The first and foremost concern of code is to convey a precise meaning so that reader (and compilers) understand it correctly.

How do you know it is going to stop to slavery ? How about every single people in the world start getting offended by words in code because it may remind them of something painful in their history, or just doesn't suit their culture / religion / whatever ?

Will you have to create different branch of the linux kernel depending on where the code is going to be cloned ? Where is this going ?

PS: i appreciate greatly that you say you wouldn't force anyone to change their wording, and only change it for yourself. I believe that's the right thing to do. But i feel you greatly underestimate the long-term consequences of supporting for "inclusive terminology"
You got a good point. My school is listed as a school that has grade inflation but anecdotally I feel my engineering department was pretty brutal. Average GPA was below 3 when I was there.

It could be my personal situation was not representative of the norm.
China's state-sponsored IP theft has been called the largest transfer of wealth in history. I'm honestly curious what the best diplomatic strategy is to combat it, other than declaring war.
> A bit of an oxymoron there isn't it. How do you enforce a law without maintaining law and order.

Perhaps you should read up on the root causes of the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the US.
I'm very glad that I managed to visit it in the early 2000s.

One of my abiding impressions and favourite photos of the trip was a street where signage had proliferated so much that it was solid, and the only constraint on incursion into the street was whether or not it got hit by a bus. The ubiquitous vendors of fake watches and shops offering to make you a suit. Skyscrapers on every surface that wasn't a 45 degree slope. The outdoor escalator. Huge, neat, organised, airconditioned subway.
Yeah actually I did get a Black Mirror kind of vibe at certain times for sure.
I wrote the realtime sync and edit history code in cocalc.com, which is used by instructors to teach courses that use jupyter notebooks with realtime collab. Instructors do regularly suspect and diagnose instances of cheating by students due to us storing the complete edit history. We don't automate this - it's more that they are grading, get suspicious, and use the edit history manually to investigate further.
Well Canada really defied China by arresting Huawei CFO and (could then extradite to US). China is really in a weird coldish war with the West, especially when you throw in England defying them with sanctuary for HKers.

They must be getting pissed, curious how things could escalate.
I wonder if the big difference is the amount of crap constantly taking up our attention. Apes don't have to worry about waking up at a precise time, picking up groceries, the softball game on Friday, etc. etc. Physical exhaustion seems to draw on the same pool of energy that we use to ruminate and stress about all of this crap, so maybe that's part of the reason it helps.
I decommissioned my last Windows about 10 years ago, but Sandboxie was a killer app that I missed sorely. It was ingenius and saved my ass a few times.

Much the way people probably feel when iOS started showing clipboard access so you could physically see when apps were doing something invasive? That was the feeling I got constantly with every app and every invasive action when I was using Sandboxie. Truly a gem.
In that scenario I would say it's the management that's dead weight.
Yeah, I totally get that. Different people learn differently. :)
In the US, everyone uses credit cards (centralized identity) to pay for stuff.

In Mexico, credit cards are stolen and reamed for all they're worth by criminals. As a result, everyone uses cash (decentralized, anonymous, difficult to use). Everyone could move to decentralized in the face of significant pressure, even if centralized identity is more convenient.
IF opening schools meaningfully contributes to hospitals filling up with deaths and (potentially brain damaged patients), then of course.

...but the degree to which that is true is the exact data we're asking for here.
Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (2016)
https://www.hyperledger.org/use/hyperledger-indy
To be honest, as European I think China and US are pretty similar in many ways (propaganda, law enforcement etc).

So said each country has their own problem but if anybody focus more on resolving their internal problem before teaching everybody how to live would be better.

In this forum is very hard to discuss anything serious that doesn't follow the prevalent opinion that you get down votes without reason.
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Tweet-print (summary of the paper): https://twitter.com/pathak2206/status/1281656944718053378
> Please note!

> Cash only. EC and credit card payments are unfortunately not possible.

Wow, the amounts of cash some of the serious buyers must be arriving with!
I would LOVE to use Outlook. I’m sure I’d love other mail clients even more; it’s just that we use Lotus Notes.
If it’s a number “they’re not supposed to give out” how is anyone supposed to know to call this group and not the airport directly?
> So stop spinning ideas about how it may be in some fine layer between one dead zone and another. Such possibilities are interesting but not very inspirational.

The possibility is very inspirational to me.
What happens when the private key is lost? We can either have certificate authorities issue you a new one, or you would need to approach your peers and have e.g. three of them confirm that you've changed keys.
That's the one! Thank you for finding it.
The Soul of a New Debugger
So much this. Not to mention that even within the same language, the implementation can differ (e.g. Firefox vs Chrome).

I recently had to parse a bunch of dates in python, writing them to postgres, and then handle the same dates in javascript. And boy was it a PITA. The worst problem was the handling of "BC" dates. I had to hack my way around the boundary between python and sql. Javascript is no better, it simply doesn't compute BC dates without heavy hackery.
This is a very uncharitable and pedantic reading of it. If there were a law to "kill political dissidents of party x" then enforcement of that law would technically be enforcement of the law, but it would certainly not be for the purposes of maintaining law and order in the manner that the term is commonly understood to mean.
Welcome to the ongoing conversation!
And tactic #2 I've noticed often used now, when they refer to themselves as "we" or occasionally "we in the west", as if they are westerners being self-critical. Yah, right.
> Area was limited with huge glass panes

Having lived in Paris for several years, I don't recall ever seeing access to the Eiffel Tower area restricted at all except during restoration construction. It's a giant pass-through surrounded by park where thousands of people congregate daily.
Quite a big file for basic vanity...
And they have a long trail of abandonedware to show for it.
China is the bully here. Just see what they are doing at the borders with India at Galwan Valley! I don't see how you can come to that conclusion! US is doing the right thing!
Yes, and not just hypothetically; more generally, transfer learning is definitely a thing, and has been shown to reduce training requirements for unrelated tasks.
The best tech stack is highly dependent on who's asking the question. Use the one that you're most familiar/comfortable with. Don't feel compelled to use the "latest flashy trend" just because people are talking about it. For example, using HTML with vanilla JS is still a perfectly valid approach over React/Vue/Angular/etc..
Bekon Idealist (I32 - Version 3.0 Jan99) [0]

Sold as a personal bibliographic database, it is fully portable (on USB Stick) and works as a database, knowlegde store, document templating and generation tool. Much loved by users [1]

Features:

- Rock solid since 1995.

- Text based configuration with GUI tools.

- Simple model just define fields,records.

- Each record can have multiple parents/children.

- Automatic data entry forms with validation/spellchecking.

- Optional hand coded forms.

- Save part filled forms as templates.

- Every record full text indexed.

- Advanced search capabilities.

- Scripting - limited but functional.

- Multiple export formats, including "merge using text file" which can reference fields from parent(s) and children.

- Help file and manual.

The only weakness is the lack of basic language constructs within the scripting commands (I often have to create scripts on the fly to embed variables - then run them).

If the scripting commands could be exposed as an API, then this software would benefit greatly from retro-fitting Lua or Luajit.

[0] https://lhosborn.com/2019/06/11/idealist-still-going-strong/

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/idealistdb
I disagree with shorting stock, but I agree with some of the sentiment behind that choice.

I am not sure the best way to articulate the specific names for these, but I generally categorize our tech companies into 2 buckets when viewing this through the lens of an investor:

Bucket A: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, Netflix, et. al.

Bucket B: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Intel, AMD, et. al.

Bucket A seems to be the riskiest to me because there are virtually no barriers to entry on the markets and products these companies target. Sure, Google & Facebook have some hardware/cloud hosting angles, but the companies in Bucket B make those revenue streams pale in comparison. E.g. AWS/Azure vs GCP, Microsoft Surface vs Oculus Rift, Macbook vs Pixelbook, iPhone vs anything, etc.

Bucket B contains all of the companies that I would feel comfortable buying and holding long. These companies have a deep pool of products, IP and larger barriers to entry for their markets. For instance, if someone came along and made some change to the world where Microsoft no longer makes any money off of advertising, they would be able to proceed without much difficulty. If someone chopped Google's ad revenue stream, I think there would be a serious problem for the company.
Not the author, but yes, this is because the thing between "let" and "=" is a pattern, the exact same thing used in match, and in other places. For example, function arguments!

fn takes_person(p: Person) {

fn takes_person(Person {name, city}: Person) {

But I wouldn't inherently say that's the reason, it's also because structs are nominally rather than structurally typed.
- robotic process automation

- built-in collaboration

- offline storage, data cache

- internet-archive's client, permanent web
I've found a pretty effective means for me to fall asleep when I have insomnia characterized by racing thoughts: I simply count from one to four over and over again, non-stop until I fall asleep.

Now some details, background, and theory regarding this method. The idea behind it is to try to keep the mind occupied so that it doesn't have a chance to think about all those things that keep me awake.

In the past I'd tried a bunch of different methods for falling asleep, including the common one of counting from one to a hundred (or backwards from one hundred to one), but found that I would often lose track of where I was in the count, and have to start over. This minor annoyance was why I decided to count a much smaller number, so I'd never lose track of where I was.

Another problem that I had was that if I counted too slow, then some thought would sort of "sneak in" in between the numbers and there'd be some chance that I'd start thinking about that rather than continue the count. To counteract this I started counting faster, and found if my counting was fast enough and if I tried to focus on the count rather than letting my mind drift while counting automatically, it usually worked pretty well at letting me fall asleep.

Now, this isn't foolproof, as major anxiety, the effects of stimulants like caffeine, physical issues such as pain, etc, can overwhelm such a method, but for more "ordinary" insomnia caused by racing thoughts I found this simple method to be quite effective.

Incidentally, chamomile tea will make me drowsy, and so will small doses of melatonin, and if I don't fight the drowsiness and try to fall asleep as soon as I get drowsy, that often helps too.

Something else that helps is being slightly chilly. Not so much that the cold keeps you awake, but just enough for that the blankets feel comfortably warm. Being either too hot or too cold is bad for sleep.

Wearing earplugs and a blindfold can help, as can pot, if you get the right strain and the right dose.

Finally, I've found that certain types of food (like a big bowl of pasta) will make me pass out, even at inconvenient times like that middle of the day. I haven't tried eating as an insomnia cure, since I generally don't like to eat big meals before bed time, since digestion stops for me while I'm asleep and waking up with a half-digested meal can sometimes be uncomfortable.
Mark Rosewater, head designer for Magic: The Gathering, argues that specifically because of that total lack of agency, Candy Land doesn't even meet the definition of a game.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/w...
> It turned out that a simple drawing could capture the entire statement of the theorem, and from that drawing, the proof was trivial to derive.

Couldn't agree more. Some of the best CS books I've read have been ones with a tonne of illustrations, like the Head First series.
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Going into any hot zone as a small squad is always a big deal. There are always rouge actors and self interested individuals, that will exploit the lawlessness of a hot zone. Knowing how to deal with them can mean the difference between life and death. Most are like any other predator, looking for a easy meal without the risk of harm. These higher level soldiers (SAS, Seals, Delta Force, KSK, KSM) guys are trained in this type of psychology and know most secondary actors will disperse in the presence of a creditable threat of resistance. While the embassies where certainly not the target of the primary actors, they are a rich target for secondary actors so it certainly was not a walk in the park for these guys, but I am sure to them it was business as usual.
All central authorities are built on trust, fear, or complacency. Americans are complacent with the credit card system and trust it for the most part. The Experian breach has shown that breaches of trust are easily overlooked in favor of complacency, at least to a point.

Considering how Americans view other Americans (I hear "stupid" thrown around a lot), I strongly doubt that a decentralized authority would ever gain enough trust in the US to take hold today without a strong historical precedent.

For what it's worth, cash is still centralized. It's made "legitimate" by the power of the central government, and is managed & controlled by that authority. Given, it is somewhat "decentralized" because the value of fiat money comes from the people's agreement that the currency has value. On the other hand, the US dollar's global hegemony exists in large part because of global US Military presence, which is absolutely a "central authority".
As a skeptic of Rust I really appreciate this. I was very pleased to find the ASM option in the drop-down menu specifically. Coming from C/C++ I've found it difficult to understand how and why Rust generates the code that it does. Rust appears slightly less direct in its description of programs than C++ as it's shed the hardware-driven abstraction of memory and physical layout. My comfort level with seriously considering Rust for a next project is proportional to my understanding of what it's doing under the hood.

Thanks! Looks great.
Keybase kludge's it together, and yet still, no one seems to care or use it.
Could you share some information about the earplug type/brand that works for you?

I am looking for a decent sleeping earplug or earbud as I have recently moved to a noisier place. I’ve tried sleeping in noise-cancelling over ears and AirPods with white noise but neither worked for me, they were far too uncomfortable. I am also concerned that an industrial ear protector would prevent me from hearing alarms or emergency situations.
I understand what you're concerned about. Yeah they randomly audit a certain % labor condition applications by requesting more detailed evidence.

It's not like people don't lie on these forms and get falsified evidence. There are cases of people getting caught, and people who did attest to the falsified evidence have had their green cards revoked and deported.

Kinda like IRS I guess.
As long as those tests can be done within a single block of code, that works fine. A lot of ORMs and connection pools do not play nicely with complex transactions. It is surprisingly difficult to get a single transaction to work correctly if the transaction happens across multiple API calls chained together, as would happen in an integration test. It would be nice if SQL databases and clients all had support for named transactions that can be created, accessed, updated, and finished all on different connections or sessions.
The Michaels are not ethnically Chinese.
You call Clojure a cargo cult descendant, which implies it's failing to achieve what its ancestors did, by copying features haphazardly without understanding the deeper motivations behind them.

Clojure is a shitty substitute for CL, but that's just not what it is trying to be. It is an interesting and worthy system in its own right.
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We learned the hard way with the Rust book that this is important: one of the biggest structural changes we made between the first and second editions was re-orienting the entire book around "how can we get to Strings quickly", and for exactly the reasons you state.

And yeah, the intermediate area is where things are worst now, for sure. It's sorely needed.
Depends on the state and where the airline is based. And since we’re dealing with airlines, you may have tribunals/agencies available to you that are far more accessible/cheap/free.

E.g. in Canada: Air Passenger Protection complaints: https://rppa-appr.ca/file-air-travel-complaint

In Quebec, lawyers aren’t even allowed in small claims courts.
Well considering China's been harassing Philippino fishing boats and starting minor skirmishes along the Indian border. Both countries are trading partners and have ties with america and America's now sent naval forces to the south China sea.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a332183...

The threat of nuclear war isn't the only thing that makes a cold war. It's the constant small economic, social and military pushes by these countries against eachother.without ever formally declaring war.
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That's more to do with the unviability of VR than Oculus itself. If (rather, when) VR becomes viable, Oculus will be front and center - it has cornered mindshare in the space
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> Sure, they could be displaced by a better search engine, but that's a whole different kettle of fish.

I don't see how that's remotely possible. The capital costs are just too high. Currently there is only one other formidable English language search engine (Bing - all the other search sites like DuckDuckGo use Bing), and it's been a distant also-ran for over a decade now.

If anyone has any plausible scenario where Google looses their search supremacy, would love to hear it.
The reasons are simple. I don't want to be told what to do by greedy fools far away. They can mess up. They mess up big all the time. They don't get to tell me how not to mess up, which coincidentally always lands in their favor, getting more power and more money while I get killed. To tell me what to do, marxists unleashed a plague on the world after decades of poisoning everyone in poverty with fentanyl. marxist China only exist in the first place because Japan sneaked attacked us. If it wasn't for the USA, they would have all been genocided, and they betrayed us after we won the war for them because they are amoral zero sum monsters who participate in the worst slavery in the history of the world today in 2020.

I used to be nice and overlook everything I could for hope of a better future and others would recogonize it and be nice to me in return. That was a mistake. People are monsters and animals who will bleed you to death as long you allow them only caring about their own interest. I am going to return to isolation and obscurity through a path of destruction as large as I can make it. Get poor, get sick, and drown to death you awful awful people.
Depends on what language you are comfortable with.

If you want barebones minimalist stack and are comfortable with C++, then you can try Wt[0]. Wt is not a framework, it is a toolkit and actually works like Qt but for web development. And the team developing that are super helpful even though they are a small team.

If you want dynamic programming with virtual machine, then try Elixir or straight way go to Erlang.

For front-end I will prefer jQuery+Bootstrap, KnockoutJs or Svelte and use Unpoly[1] if doing server-side rendering. (These I am recommending because I am not a front-end developer, others may have better suggestion)

For mobile development, I would recommend Flutter for front-end and Dart and/or Kotlin and/or C++ for mobile middleware.

For DB, it is either PostgeSQL or CouchDB for me.

[0] https://www.webtoolkit.eu

[1] https://www.unpoly.com
2) is definitely true, and was how Brazil was able to "reset" expectations with the Real. But at the moment, expectations are low?

3) I'm not sure I understand this, other than a question of mapping quantities to sentiment - I don't think it makes sense to say that 10% would be "hyperinflation"?

4) Like the old joke about not having to outrun the bear, who's going to overtake you? Is the Euro sufficiently uncoupled? 2008 financial crisis suggests not.

(Possibly the most plausible dystopia is "US becomes a Latin American country", complete with US-backed coup)
> seems better organized over there

Until the cracks start opening up. What you see is just them showing their best side all the time. This is not "organization". This is theatrics. You should differentiate between the two!
Completely agree. Even in a desert, life is easy to spot in ecological hotspots.
I just visited your link, as I would like a Rust job.

Got back a page with nothing but this:

We're Sorry...
Commure is unavailable in your location.

We’re required to comply with US sanctions laws that restrict the use of our site
in certain jurisdictions. Because of this, our services are not available in Crimea -
Region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea and other US embargoed
countries.

But hold on a minute. I'm in England! Whatever happened to the special relationship? :)
> The guards posted at vantage points with rifles?

Your other points notwithstanding, rifles aren't particularly special in French policing. Gendarmerie are basically everywhere.