skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, one case out of how many elections? It would also be nice to explain what happened and how. The AfD insisted, together with more right leaning media, on a recount. The happened and gave, initially, one additional seat. The SPD, who lost one seat, challenged that. It went to court, all 33k vote were recounted, roughly 500 corrections were necessary. 13 votes were lost. The AfD lost one seat (they failed to gain more than 5% of the vote). The election was deemed legit, not reelection was necessary.

So yeah, we are doing it on paper pretty much solved that problem.
I think there is a difference between "it's raining" and it's raining enough. The last two summers lowered the ground water levels and that takes a lot to refill. Here in the mid east it's all "rainy weather" too, but two days of clear skies let's the vegetation's leaves droopy. Humidity is super high all the time, I think most of the water just evaporates and does not reach deeper grounds.

Seeing trees sick and dying put climate change on my immediate threat plate 2 years ago. Too late but oh well, I am trying to change the people around me vigorously :)
Agreed. China's wages have risen steadily to the point that they are substantially higher than the competition (Vietnam, India, etc.). Yet during the same time, their share of global manufacturing has also increased. Low wages are only part of the reason for China's manufacturing dominance. A lot has to do with supply chains, industrial expertise and skilled workforce.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_ma...

> "C is still one of the top 10 languages," answered Torvalds. However, he said that for things "not very central to the kernel itself", like drivers, the kernel team is looking at "having interfaces to do those, for example, in Rust... I'm convinced it's going to happen. It might not be Rust. But it is going to happen that we will have different models for writing these kinds of things, and C won't be the only one."
I noticed the same for streaming. They have Spark and Flink rather than use Spark Streaming.
To me what the author is describing as 'healthy self-doubt' doesn't sound like self-doubt to me at, but rather admitting one doesn't know everything, one needs to surround oneself with competent people, etc. If you feel you're good-to-go except there are some things you just don't know, I'd say you're not suffering much self-doubt at all.
"Whenever the subderivative of a convex function at a point includes 0, that point is a global minimum of the function"

* you mean a strictly convex function
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Obviously?

When you talk about "native Americans" you would assume it's more than just being "born there", there would be the assumption of ethnicity and culture included. Likewise with other "natives". Even legally speaking being born in the UK doesn't necessarily make you a British citizen. I am curious why a different definition from what seems to be the norm becomes "obvious" to you.
I've seen two models that I've been to recently:

- large arcade, all games set to freeplay, you pay $x for a couple hours of unlimited play

- a "barcade", cheaper entry fee and you can stay til closing time, where the games are more of a loss leader to bring people in to buy food and drinks while they play. more multiplayer games here to aid in the social aspect. also cupholders at each machine.
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Exactly!

OSE has a permaculture page on their wiki, though hardly anyone added anything in there. This kind of stuff is not well-organized.

I thought, for example, building a graphdb-based lookup system for planning companion planting.

Another is some kind of decentralized barter system. Without being beholden to generating huge returns, I think this would be really useful. But like pioneer plants and “weeds”, I see a lot of permies using whatever adhoc means they have to trade information and barter for services. (But it is why I became very interested in Free Software, mesh networking, and raspberry pis. The supply chain that supports the internet is still fragile, and is currently coopted by Big Tech).
It's hard for me to tell exactly what makes me feel about it the way I do.

Maybe the message is actually benign but the amount of denialist crap that I've seen in the past makes me react to it strongly as something similar and untrustworthy. Maybe it's that many of the the arguments it presents aren't, at least when picked apart analytically one by one, that good [0]. Maybe it's that parts of it feel more like rhetoric than actual arguments, and rhetoric always makes me a little uneasy.

Your other comment treats the excerpt somewhat more generously than my perhaps cynical gut reaction was, probably for the better.

[0] in the form they are presented in the excerpt; it's a good point that it's not originally a full standalone article
The title is perfectly accurate, it’s an email thread about Linux kernel in-tree Rust support. Sure, you could misconstrue such a title to be implying that the Linux kernel supports Rust in-tree already it if you wanted to, but half the titles on a site like this could be similarly misconstrued.
In the non-strictly convex case, the minimum is still a global minimum; it's just not unique.
As critical as I have been of the current political regime in India, calling it "Putinesque democracy" is a gross exaggeration.

My state is a prime example - it's governed by a party that came into being barely half a decade ago and its first election victory was largely fuelled by grassroots activists and workers. It's about as democratic as it can get.

Even within the ruling party, democracy is quite active - the party presidents change every few years.
Flight and consciousness are not in any way compareable concepts. We literally cannot perceive the constraints of the latter's underlying physical system.

Sometimes I feel computer scientists choose to misunderstand physicists because it would make them feel stupid if they did understand.
Writing safe C and C++ is even much more difficult than writing Rust code (especially with many developers). And when you are writing kernel code, both safety and performance are crucial.
So when Japanese romanizations is discussed in English(or any other Latin) expressions in question are written in Latin alphabet e.g. “katsu” or “furafu-pu”, but maybe it should be explicitly noted, in Wikipedia or somewhere, that this form is almost never used in actual Japanese texts.

When an “alphabet” representation of a word is used in Japanese texts, the version of the word in either the original language or English is used.

e.g.

> タミル（Tamiḻ）という名称は、ドラミラ Dramiḻa（ドラヴィダ Dravida）の変化した形という説もある。[0]

[0]: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/タミル語
> 1. Boycotts - OK we should be forced to purchase things (like Goya, or ads on Tucker Carlson's show) that don't share our values? No, that's crazy...

No you should not be forced to purchase anything, but you should not use your economic power to punish speech.

> 2. Organizational politics - The Pinker thing[1], and the issue with the Poetry society, has more to do with the internals of some organization. Should we restrict those advocating for changes to organizations they belong to?

Organizations should serve their purpose, rather then being used to punish dissenting voices.

> 3. Firing - Either organizations are able to have 'speech' or they're not... And without cultural norms, we're not going to from on high create top-down standards around which values are 'correct' or not.

Firing people is speech now? There are substantial restrictions on firing people, most importantly civil rights law. I guess this is also an attack on freedom of speech in your view?
Also, consider physical servers from providers like Hetzner. These can be several times cheaper than EC2.
I was in same situation.

We bough 2 Dell servers via their financing program. Each server is about 19-25K. We paid AWS $60K per month before that. We pay $600 for co-location.

So my advice is try to get hardware via financing of provider Dell had a good program I think.
Is the metric individual job performance, or outcome on the whole?
Really difficult to notice any difference when you're just having fun playing it!
"1. Mineral Resources."

This is the first time I heard this. Source that this is/was important? If it is, why not Brazil?

"2. Cheap Labour."

I am not sure that African countries are so much cheaper than India. Also, you need educated people too, something that is not available in Africa, at least not in quantities.

3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals.

Why is this necessary? Source?

China has:

1. Very educated people (most communist countries had the highest literacy rate)

2. A very supportive government

3. A huge market with the necessary infrastructure, starting from Universities, Airports, roads, trains...

4. Clustering of industries.

The phenomenon of China can not easily be repeated. It is nearly impossible in Africa:

1. Uneducated people

2. Tribal societies

3. Corrupt governments

4. Lack of infrastructure

Look at a map. If it is a "non-integrating gap country", it won't be the next China.
Yes, hence my weasel word with 'common' and 'most'.

It's good to see that they are taking the likes of Phil Wadler serious. (Perhaps his beard helps?)

> We’d like to thank Philip Wadler and his collaborators for thinking formally about generics in Go and helping us clarify the theoretical aspects of the design.

In the older post at https://blog.golang.org/why-generics you still see them pretty much mix up parametric polymorphism and ad-hoc polymorphism.

Thanks for the link to the paper!
I was referring to Lena being invited to conferences like IS&T's[0] or the ICIP[1]. At photos of both events she is rather older and more modestly dressed (unlike booth babes).

[0] http://www.lenna.org/lenna_visit.html

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/icip2015/22077638933/
A 'regime shift' is happening in the Arctic Ocean, scientists say
The farmers are supported by climate scientists and meteorologists. I don't get your sentiment.

What's the point of "the issue is more nuanced!!1!" all the time? We collectively need to act now. Everyone of us. You are draining momentum to what end?
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tbf with an electorate of just 110 people casually acquainted with each other, it might not be too difficult for some to guess who cast the Fringe Party vote. But yes, you're not likely to deanonymise them all.
Then these should be permissioned separately, the patterns perhaps available for inspection
Yes, dumplings don't need a fillings. But Spätzle are usually too thin to be called dumplings in my understanding. I'd call them a kind of noodle or pasta.

Wikipedia, the final arbiter of all truth, agrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A4tzle
In the same boat myself. Been using Notion for a decent bit now. I like it for a great many things, but wiki-style knowledge management just isn't one of them.

TW, on the other hand, excels at this.

You're right on all accounts. Notion is a slicker experience right out of the box. TW takes some fiddling to set it up in a way that you really enjoy using. And, it still has pain points. The editing experience is not my favorite, switching in and out of edit mode.

But, it absolutely shines at Zettlekasten and networked thought. In addition, several recent TW projects have really upped the value for this. Check out the Krystal theme to essentially recreate Andy's Notes. Then, add the Streams plugin to get easier outlining functionality for quick creation. I like this much better than what i was attempting in Notion. Backlinks and transfusion are crucial to networked, non-linear thinking, in my experience.
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Yes. As so often, the link for background information actually is the better text than the article under discussion.
it should be split into "local clipboard" and "global clipboard" so that you still have copy paste within the program but paste outside the program require privilege

there's plenty Android sketch/mind mapping apps for example that require access to storage, for saving and exchanging media, and the is doesn't allow for "allow access to some folder without giving them access to everything" and it's annoying

most permissions actually should have that kind of don't allow global access without breaking the app functionality or even telling the app itself
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right, you're correct sorry
Immunant folks wrote a blog post [1] about automating conversion of Linux kernel drivers from C to Rust by using their tool c2rust[2].

[1] https://immunant.com/blog/2020/06/kernel_modules/

[2] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
There's a lot of good advice in here about how to work around this situation but the best thing you can do here could just be: email this company and ask them.

If you are paying for this proprietary software, especially if you're still in the "evaluating whether we should spend a lot of money on this" phase, you should absolutely push back on them. Ask them all the questions you need, big or small. It's really on them to give you something well documented, and if they don't, they better be willing to answer all your questions about it.

I've seen this sort of customer behavior be the catalyst to get companies to actually document their stuff because all their engineers time was spent answering the same questions over and over.
"Open Source" versus FOSS
>for my whole career I've been interacting with people on Windows using standard Windows/MSFT tools, and so any inconsistency / glitch in document exchange would automatically be my fault if I insisted on using LO or Apple's tools or whatever. //

How long is that career? Over my working life StarOffice/OpenOffice/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice have been far more compatible (for relatively basic documents) with other versions of MSWord than MSWord has, I don't really have experience of cross-compatibility from the last 5 years or so though.
Haha, touché :)
maybe its just me and my avoidance of unit testing but often when i tried this it appeared overly complex at setting things up for testing and the code you need is buried in between some dozens tests and their setup. I think its a good idea to look at them but more often then not i did not want to get through this and just tried to understand the code flow by reading the source.
One thing I haven't seen people suggesting here yet is to use a repl!

Import the thing, and then look at what it provides. If something seems useful, try calling the function/instantiating the class, if it gives you an error message, try with different arguments.

Hopefully, you should have some idea of what the library is trying to do, so you should be able to see some functions that look like they accomplish the kinds of things you want. Guess what kinds of arguments they take and try it. If you can't figure that out, jump into the source and figure it out.

I find it's much nicer working interactively like this than just reading the source because you can immediately try things out rather than jumping back and forth all the time.

Also, some languages like python have a `help()` function that you can call with any class/method/function to get to the docs on it (I can't remember anything like that for javascript, so you might be out of luck there).
No it isn't. See "Why isn't this open source?" here: https://frinklang.org/faq.html
This is a well-balanced take. Maybe we will see emergent properties at that scale. If that were the case, then we could catch enough of a glimpse of what is really happening...

But another part of me says that is silly. We had an expectation of what the Higgs was before we found it. Here, we are shooting in the dark.
>It really does feel like there are bigger problems these days

Not even a red herring, but just gesturing at red herrings somewhere.
The source is the documentation. So read the source code. If the source is not available or obfuscated make sure you charge per hour.
I think you're right actually!

Thanks for finding it for me.
I generally don't tend to amass hardware that I will have to sell off later. If I buy something, it's because I expect to use it for as long as possible, basically until it is so far behind the curve that it is effectively useless. At that point I either give it away for someone to tinker with, or hand it off for recycling.

Both my desktop and my laptop are from ~2011, with a few token upgrades here and there. My last smartphone was from 2014, I replaced it last year because it bricked itself.

However I am actually in the process of having to sell some hardware. Some it I have gotten for free (refurb Thinkcentre M72e Tiny PC, old single disk Zyxel NAS), most of it stuff my dad left behind when he passed away earlier this year. Old PCs, various electronics and so on.

Generally if it contains any data, I will either securely wipe the drives or destroy them and sell without storage.

For my particular situation, I already knew his band mates and some of his old colleagues, so they got first dibs on the band gear (amps, speakers, mixers, HDD recorder) and electronics tools. Some stuff was donated after that.

Then I set up basically an open rummage sale, advertised it locally and let people have a look around and make bids (I did look up the general price ranges for most of the interesting stuff). I'm on the third weekend of doing that, once enough stuff is gone, all the rest will go to recycling.

Honestly the most painless way to sell stuff for me has been the local Craigslist-alike, I put a decent description and don't try to get the absolute highest price. That usually makes sure my stuff sells quickly.
The algorithm, the type system, and some of the logical background are explained in this tutorial, along with an implementation in standard ML.

http://steshaw.org/hm/hindley-milner.pdf I found this 30 page PDF document very helpful in understanding the Algorithm.
Since you're a programmer and value customisability & open-source, have you thought about trying emacs org-mode?

I was also in a similar position trying to decide between TiddlyWiki, Notion, Evernote, OneNote, Confluence, etc, for a personal knowledge base, but eventually settled on org-mode. Lots of people use it for managing TODOs, planning, and organising things, but I use it as a personal knowledge base.

org-mode out of the box supports hierarchical note taking with headings and links to other files or headings. You can also use org-roam (https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam) to get something like a Roam or Zettelkasten workflow (with backlinks etc) without having to use separate software (since you said "I plan on keeping a personal wiki and then taking out core ideas from them into my zattlekasten" maybe you will find this useful). If your notes include references/links to academic papers, then you'll love org-ref (bibtex integration).

If you're interested, I'd recommend having a play about with vanilla emacs and the Doom Emacs configuration (https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs).

It's definitely more work to set up than Notion, but much more customisable and you're in full control of your data (and can store everything under version control!). I've not used TiddlyWiki enough to form a useful opinion though.
> I'm not sure why it's supposed to be a good thing that people can force other people to subsidize their life insurance after the risk of early payout is already known. It's like letting someone's family buy life insurance after they've already died. That's not insurance, it's charity. Insurance is what you get if you bought it before the risk came to light.

This is one of the most callous and uncaring things I’ve ever read on this terrible website. Congratulations.
The illusion of control, and how to give it up
They apply to everyone, regardless of political stance.

Articles 12, 20, 21, 23, 29.

You do realise that while not a blanket prohibition on treating you differently, employment, wellbeing and political leanings are expressly covered for obvious reasons.
A locked box that is counted by who exactly and then those figures are sent were and verified by who?
Finding a person not offended does not mean an image does not contribute to a particular environment, or is an example of it. The image need not be offensive to most or even many for it to be true.

Also, be careful not to attack a strawman: the issue is of course not just the image.

As a man I experienced plenty of unpleasant conversation about women, conversation which might be referred to as men-talk or some such. Also, I'm not competitive at all, while many men would identify that as manly behavior. One of the few women in my university program confided that this (usually unfounded) self-assuredness was very annoying and a huge turn-off, a feeling we both shared, but would have been regarded as an essential ingredient to participating in that program.

Of course, such issues are also present in the reverse. My wife had similar conversations but about men amongst some female colleagues. Fortunately, we've met enough people to not have to settle for such juvenile views/conversations. I can absolutely see how a woman would find it very difficult to be comfortable in such an environment however, when I didn't even feel part of that mildly macho culture.

Just because something is 'anti-women', does not mean it can only bother women. Our cultures associate many things to gender, which in my view is a leftover of centuries past and we would do well to remove that sort of association. Maybe then, a picture of Lena wouldn't represent a (sub)culture so accurately and be therefore an indicator of the problem.
No worries.

For something like an income tax, you can basically always describe any phase-ins and phase-outs equivalently in terms of marginal rates on different brackets without any phase-ins or outs. No matter whether you talk about EITC or negative income taxes.

Even the British example I cited can be re-contextualised as just a 60% marginal rate for people with around 120k GBP of income, that then slides down again to a 45% marginal rate at a higher income. (Or something like that. You do the arithmetic.) Even though the law as written is formulated in terms of a phase-out.

The blog post you linked talks about exactly that reframing.

Many economists find it useful to talk in terms of the marginal rates instead of phase-in and phase-out. Mostly because the former lends itself more to a net perspective over all taxes and welfare programs.

When those net marginal rates approach 100% or even go over for some people, you can immediately see that earning an extra dollar from work would make people worse off after taxes.

That's less obvious in the other formulation.
Well to be fair he was replying to another sweeping comment.
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You didn't read Linus's response, did you?
Anyone have a recommendation for a similar organisation in the UK?
Yet I'm being downvoted for pointing it out
Xadoc's advice above is good; unit tests. I work with poorly documented protocols that have been implemented "around the theme of the protocol" by hardware from a variety of suppliers, and this is how we work out its quirks.

A battery of unit tests, starting with the simplest functions it offers, and thence upwards into more complicated tests (i.e. chained calls of the presented functions) where we track what internal state we think the system should have at that point in the tests and interrogate it to discover what internal state it really does have.
Except that one of Linus' most vocal offenses on C++ was due to operator overloading and how basic, seemingly native things like + can actually do a lot of hidden stuff unknown to the programmer. He must have softened on this since Rust offers the same facilities for operator overloading.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/trait/ops.h...
This raises an interesting follow up question. Do those surveyed consider themselves to be the wealthy? Or do they expect someone else to be making do with less to make the redistributive policies work?