skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Panasonic makes good ones as well.
I think the reason is probably what you mentioned - very few people are starting large Perl projects nowadays. And I think they'd like that to not be the case anymore by making it attractive to newcomers. Feels a bit like a bird in the hand vs two in the bush type thing honestly - be a bit antagonistic to your existing user base and make up on the hope that you'll get a new rush of users to make up for it.

Edit - to be clear - I don't think this is a good idea. I'm not inverting the meaning of the "bird in the hand" idiom, I used it specifically because I think this is an example of chasing after a fantasy that's going to leave them worse off in the long run by compromising their existing user base. I don't know why you'd expect a sudden rush of new users coming to Perl today and try to tailor a release to new users when, as the parent comment mentioned, new uptake is really limited and most users are working with existing systems/value stability.
FHE gets brought up all the time. There are great discussions down thread about why this isn’t practical for most use cases.

The killer thing is the performance penalty for doing FHE on any dataset of meaningful size. This is because if you want to do an operation on one member of the set you need to do an operation on all members of the set otherwise you leak which member you care about. For sets of a very small size this performance penalty might be ok. For sets of a large size, like the set of all users of a service, the performance penalty will grow at least linearly to the size of the set.

This is the problem at the core of ZK-style proving systems. You can push the proof construction work into the client and have a sub-linear verification time relative to the proof, but the proof construction in the first place is going to be slow and expensive (and slower as the size of the set increases!).

The edge of research here is being done by cryptography labs all around the world. If someone does manage to solve this in a purely-software based manner with a performance penalty that is acceptable for a monotonically increasing set, that’s the holy grail. I remain unconvinced that this will be solved in a reasonable fashion for this use case in my lifetime (but I would be thrilled to be proven wrong!!). If you know of research which makes inroads on this problem, please point me at it.
In the rest of the world: CV and resume are interchangeable.
We have a rice cooker that we use at least once a week.

It has a single lever/switch - when pushed it cooks.

It is over a decade old and works perfectly.

Do yourself a favor - don't buy smart appliances.
To me it's really not about whether it's a good idea or not. What works for an 8-year-old project that has always done it that way, may not work for a 33-year-old project which has never done it that way. The latest perl will run a huge chunk of the perl 1.0 test suite unmodified. That's a long history of backwards compatibility. This sudden change in focus and project-management may really backfire on them.
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Everything is "terrorism" these days if the gov't doesn't like the thought/action/person/group.
As somebody who also struggles with math, I feel that the problem is it's extremely unforgiving. For instance, when I was trying to write some simple 3d rotation matrices in lua, I kept on getting crazy results just because I'd invariably mix up one cosine with a sine, or a plus with a minus. I don't really have any thoughts about how to get around this though.
Very interesting. Can you share what type of code you write and what some of the gotchas you found with IDEs?
Until you can't.
What do you personally recommend instead?
The world isn’t black and white. Just different shades of grey. Some darker than others. You will find inconsistencies everywhere.
> Just because Ember is "some JS framework" doesn't mean it has no good ideas.

No, but time-scales matter. A good idea in a notoriously short lived ecosystem is not necessarily transferable to an environment in which one has to maintain 20 or 30 year old, mostly write-only code.
> One accomplished athlete I knew talked about how he'd tell himself that he'd put in the training to be the best. Therefore he knew that he could do it.

In case your individual based sport is not climbing and if you haven't already watched it, I highly recommend "Free Solo" which is a documentary about Alex Honnold and his extraordinary preparation to climb El Capitan. I warn that this is a nerve-wracking film. However, the way that Alex talks about "becoming perfect" is interesting. He practices a part of the route so many times with ropes/harnesses that he becomes perfect at it. In other words, he has no fear because he is perfect at the route.

https://films.nationalgeographic.com/free-solo
I had to Google what 4Chan means. Fair enough.
As far as that scoreboard is concerned, the US has yet to be caught using applications to spy on its own people for the express purpose of automating who should receive “free” re-education.
I think Harvard kid vs Auckland kid is a false dichotomy. The article makes the argument that there is no difference before college. Harvard takes in kids who would have been Auckland kids and changes them into something else, and that's a problem.

Anecdotally, I've seen similar at the top private school that I went to. I had to give up on idealistic things I did in high school, and would have otherwise continued doing in college, because of the workload I experienced at school.
> At any rate, presuming the evidence holds up, it's unlikely that this person is going to find any leniency at all. High profile is tough but survivable; monetized is tougher still. High profile and monetized? My guess is they're going to make an example out of him.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Look at Paras Jha, Zachary Buchta and Mir Islam.

All engaged in similar high profile crimes, all monetized. I think only Mir spent a little bit of time in prison.

I have a hard time thinking of any young, high profile offenders that were handed severe punishments for cybercrimes by federal courts in the past decade.
I wonder if Perl 8 will also be a fork of Perl 5.
Agree. That's why I wrote, "If FHE ever becomes practical..." -- because at present it isn't.

Currently it's a wet dream for a lot of businesses.
I've talked to people in China using encrypted messengers that are obviously not made in their country.
Right, one works with the US and one works with China is different. US = good and China = bad. This is how world works. Grunt grunt
Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, as well as strong regimentation of society and of the economy. What could this president argue that he has done that doesn't characterize as the above?
As of a couple of years ago, last time I checked, macbook’s wifi stack was totally nonfunctional on Linux. Has that changed?

Update: I see from your link it works on 2/8 tested. Better than nothing.
This makes no sense. China constructed the largest fence in the world to achieve what you say they achieve, then you say constructing a fence is showing weakness. This is utter nonsense.

"The US needs to recognize they're behind the game and behave like adults" okay so who is the adults? China? Then this IS behaving like adults as I outlined.
>demonstrates they actually care at least a little about this role at this company

But why does that matter to you other than ego? Barring some exceptionally unique work your company does, we know that the applicant wants to work there because you offer money for their particular skills. Why perpetuate a culture of bullshitting?
Who do you think that statement is targeting in their marketing? Clearly not full techies that would probably pick up that it's BS. Your everyday non-tech person wouldn't care about this service anyway since who cares what a javascript is, linkedin works fine. I guess there's a band of somewhat tech-aware folks who've heard a out wizards of privacy that go a step beyond adblockers to block javascript, and so think that no javascript==good?
For myself and my family, I wrote my own tool [1] that runs everyday on an "input folder". A quick google on "github photo organizer" shows a lot of others having done the same :)

It organizes all traversed photos by date (extracted from exif or from filename), and puts them in a "failed" folder if it can't parse the date.

If any photos get the same name, they are either deduped because they are exact duplicates, or are marked as conflicts (e.g. A.jpg and A_conflict1.jpg) if they are different.

Last time I used it for a large input it took 3h for 200GB, though I suspect network latency was the main bottleneck.

It's around 300 lines of python - verify the code for yourself if you want to use it! You probably also need to fork it if you don't intend to run it on a Synology NAS.

However, as I mentioned last time I pitched this, elodie [2] might be more suitable for others than my little hack. Haven't used it though!

1: (https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer

2: https://github.com/jmathai/elodie
And they never tell you how many blazing-fasts there are to a regular fast.
Apple is the richest company on the planet

The answer to your question is simple.

$$$ buys everything. Plus Tim Cook rolls pretty hard with the CCP in his mouth.
USDA identifies some of the mysterious, unsolicited seeds
Whether this is enforceable is another question entirely and will reveal the extent of China's influence. Much like how Canada's response to America's extradition request of Meng Wanzhou shows Canada solidly within the American sphere, we can use successful extraditions to China to map out a Chinese sphere.
Perhaps spreading out the breaking changes as PHP has done from 4 through 7.
It's also a good idea to source your claims.
That's sort of a typical ratio for Basmati rice. Not good for East Asian varieties though.
My immediate question to that CEO would be, "OK, so what is it you're marketing?"

In the case of open-source software, they're probably marketing consulting, books, training. (I think conferences would likely be part of the marketing.)

And that, folks, is how we end up with those crapulacious open-source software tools (libraries, whatever) that are deliberately incomprehensible to anybody outside the producer bubble. e.g. Bouncy Castle: Utterly shite API to the point of unusable, despite the undoubtedly well done implementation underneath; completely absent documentation in any useful/usable form. Everything around it is just, "Buy our books, come on our courses if you want to use this library." The code itself is obfuscatory. Not a design document or user-guide in sight.

(Other examples abound. I just pick on the one that burned me the worst.)

So, back to music. How is this a good result for the "market"?

We end up with a flume of mediocre-to-crap music (but frequently! as if that's a good thing all by itself) all in the name of marketing,... what precisely? Where's the passion gone? Where's the art? Where's the music I'll listen to over and over again for decades?
Why?

Turkey needs NATO more than the other way around
Are you entitled to clean air when 0.000000000001% of the population can make billions from selling fossil fuels ?
The article makes general statements about cooking rice, but it is really about cooking rice Japanese style.

In some rice eating countries, automatic rice cookers never really took off because of the 'quality' of the product is obviously East Asia centric, which is considered 'mushy' rice in West Asia.

With some rice cooking approaches, the amount of water makes no difference as whatever is left is drained after a fixed period of time, and then it's simmer time.

"Burning" of the bottom is also locale dependent. In Persian Cuisine for example, the art of making 'Tah-Deeg' (lit. bottom of the pot) is one of the stepping stones of becoming a serious cook, and generally this is the bit of the rice that family fights over at the table.

Bottom line, OP is correct, imho.
I got mine with very little studying, I happened to already be working within a lot of AWS tooling and knew some general cloud architecture concepts, so in my case it was more of a validation tool.

So far it’s hard to tell if it has helped with anything. I might have gotten a look for an interview with it. But that’s hard to say, companies don’t usually tell you what resume items made them interested.

I would imagine it would make sense to get one if you want to work for Amazon, or maybe another big company that likes certifications. I don’t know that it would help elsewhere.

Try to get your company to pay for it!
So does China.
> 3 virtual "site visit" interviews - 0% pass

I wonder if this can be chalked up to lack of sufficient practice for the virtual type of "site visit" interviews that lead to nerves, decrease in the all important self-confidence. Or perhaps it has to do with the always troubling you can't look at the people in the eye with a standard laptop embedded-top-of-the-screen webcam because it looks like you are not looking at them.

I would read another blog post from the OP just about their virtual "site visit" interview experiences.
I am talking about how they may rationalize it, not what the actual goal is.

Take the Iraq war. The goal was to further assert ourselves in the Middle East, settle old scores, signal to our official enemies we mean business and enrich a bunch of military contravtors.

But the rationalization that I think made it possible for a lot of these people to sleep at night was things like defending the country, empowering women, bringing in democracy etc.

These are different things.

Also, as an aside, I may be wrong on this, but I think people sometimes underestimate the foothold of the CCP in mainland China and assume a coup would happen a week after YouTube was let in.

I feel this is incredibly naive; I mean if you look at how in our democratic societies narratives are regularly constructed to strengthen the status quo, often by pretending that the 2 parties actually have major principled disagreements, while nothing fundamentally changes almost no matter who gets elected, to the point where there are studies showing that the majority of policies people in the U.S. are in favor of don't get enacted.

Hong Kong is a bit different, because people there don't necessarily see themselves as having that much in common with mainland Chinese, but I don't think CCP would actually collapse if YouTube and Twitter were to be let in.

I happen to think the bans have more to do with wanting to empower local companies, (which yes are more easily controllable too), so that there's a strong internal economy that would ultimately be able to withstand sanctions etc.
So now that Perl 7 wants to actively remove backwards compatibility from its culture, where are people to turn now for stable/non-moving scripting languages?
FHE style systems are possible if you use a hardware-based encryption approach like a Secure Enclave, but then you have a trust narrative that includes a Secure Enclave. For most use cases this is unacceptable.

Note: I work on a system design that I believe is acceptable that uses Intel’s SGX which we detail in this tech talk entitled “why sgx”: youtube.com/watch?v=Hwf_Q31woLo&utm .
I agree this is a novel interpretation. Could you elaborate on what the computation performed involves ?

I'm of the understanding that you send me ciphertext, I transform it with some operations you define, and I send back ciphertext-v2.

I can discern how this could exfiltrate data safely. They send in a bunch of zeros and I fill in a one for each minute I used this lightbulb, by dynamically creating the FHE circuit to reflect the data saved.

It's not clear to me how this could change my lightbulb. By 'change' I mean 'affect the behavior' or update the firmware or something. I say this with the expectation that the blobs I received and produced are ciphertext on my side, without keys to decrypt it (unlike, say, dvd drm).
Doing a exact string match on 200-ish rows in 80 seconds on a modern computer is so inefficient that I have a hard time seeing any less complex but useful operations whatsoever. Perhaps I'm just not clever enough, but for now homomorphic encryption seems like it isn't useful for common, real world usecases to me.
I still have issues that the font is bigger on my laptop screen than on my external screen. This is really annoying.
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One of the assistant's could stand out if they allow 3rd party devs to use it and allow an incognito mode. Otherwise it's just a way for them to collect data^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbig brother us.
In many ways the American left is more authoritarian than Trump. It's not black and white, not Trump, nor the Chinese App.
Synthetic bovine insulin, 1965.
Hence the “prophetic” bit.
These are the libraries that most GTK applications are using for those purposes. You can bikeshed about whether they call themselves an application development framework or not but Qt is also split up into separate projects in separate git repositories like this.
You don't believe those speeds are possible?

When I was commuting to work before the pandemic, I would regularly keep up with city traffic at 40 km/h on a level road for up to a few minutes at a time. (Now that they'll be lowering the speed limit from 25 to 20 mph, I'll be able to break the speed limit if I wish.)

I've only once gotten up to 72 km/h on a downhill, keeping pace with traffic on a highway with a long downslope. I don't think I want to do it again, since the bike started to give a rather worrying 8 Hz shimmy, but I did it. I probably could have done 85 km/h if I'd kept it up continuously rather than sometimes coasting to keep my spacing.

Both of these require me to give it pretty much all my power in my highest gear, but this is on a hybrid commuter bike with a full pannier and an 85 kg rider.

I'm no star athlete. These speeds are well within normal bounds.
Creating a new value only gives you a stale data problem if you had pointers to the old value. You don't have to have pointers like that, it's a choice.

To take an obvious example, you might load a value from a database (company or employees, say), create a new value (with the higher salary, say), then write the new value to the database.
I was told by a rice cooker salesperson (in Asia) that Korean brands should be avoided if you plan to cook brown rice. Apparently brown rice isn’t eaten in Korea so the machines don’t have a brown rice setting.

I don’t know if the former is true but the latter seemed to be on the ones I saw.
People bring this up, but honestly I’ve never noticed trackpad quality issues on other higher end PCs.

People are basing their OS choices on marginal difference in trackpad quality?

How about the fact that with macOS your tied to one vendor and their hardware choices (keyboard /ports etc). I don’t have a new MacBook(work machine 5yrs old), but I didn’t love the giant trackpad on the one I borrowed.
There appears to be some issues with scrubbing input data (or escaping it when output): https://imgur.com/a/IUBHLsa
The fact there are simultaneous vaccines entering final phases of testing as I'm typing this is breathtaking. These usually take years, decades even.

And Yes, I've really enjoyed getting my food selected, paid, and delivered from my phone.
...80% of what an equivalent Googler makes...

This is still pretty OK, when compared to the average human being.
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This could only lose him votes. He's obviously isolated himself from the savvy political operatives that rode him into victory last time.

I welcome the continued missteps
> Running Windows or Linux as a VM in macOS has terrible performance in VirtualBox right now (people are discussing it at length in VirtualBox forums).

That's my experience as well. Running macOS VM is even worse. My understanding is that it's because all of these rely heavily on 3D acceleration for the GUI and VirtualBox's acceleration support has not worked properly for a few years now. It's slightly better if you run VirtualBox in the low resolution mode but still not ideal (and of course the graphics are... low resolution). It's quite obvious that macOS hosts are not a priority for Oracle, I mean, a few VirtualBox releases couldn't even be installed (missing notarizations and one other occasion I cannot remember right now) and Oracle noticed only after people started complaining on the forums...

These says I use VirtualBox but in the headless mode and I connect to it via SSH and VS Code's SSH remote extension.
Did Tik Tok even explain why they were capturing and transmitting clipboard contents? (unfortunately not the only ones doing it) It's a little like inviting someone round for dinner and catching them routing through you things taking photos. They should probably be blocked and not invited around again.

I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned GDPR. Yes, it was a huge amount of hassle and a lot of work (inspiring many memes). However, it did make people realise how much of their data was being used.

GDPR's implementation was pretty poor. Like how every website is legally required to tell users they use cookies, which is pretty redundant as there are many ways to track users and cookies are just one of them. It made very little difference to likes of Google and Facebook, who know where you are, who your friends and colleagues are what you like, what you like to buy and even what you are thinking at times - now that scares me!

GDPR had a lot of potential but it has been lost in it's current form. Cookie warnings seem like something a politician would do, not something someone with any real understanding of data security. Very little has changed especially for the big players. Hell Google Chrome was recently caught collecting data when in incognito mode. A Google spokesman stated "Incognito mode in Chrome gives you the choice to browse the internet without your activity being saved to your browser or device" - that doesn't make it ok to collect the information and send it to themselves. It's pretty deceptive and this is recently, long after GDPR was introduced.

PS: The comparison to the East India Company (EIC) is a good one. The CCP is very much like the EIC (ironically it was the EIC supplying the opium for the opium wars). They have their own military, have a huge amount of power politically, openingly admits to using underhand tactics and breaking laws to enforce monopolies, as they are virtually untouchable.
Just a note, that the idiom, "bird in the hand" is a statement that one should value that which they already possess over that which they do not yet possess, even if the latter is ostensibly worth more than the former.

The full proverb is "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." I recognize that you didn't quote this directly.

I am not sure if you meant to invert the common meaning here. The thrust of your post reads as if favoring this new direction for Perl, on the basis that it will bring in new users. The "bird in the hand" proverb would counsel the opposite - favoring stability to cater to current users, regardless of the impact on potential new users.
EFI really was a step in completely the wrong direction. Massive complexity & feature set for no good reason.

Legacy BIOS had to go, it was designed at the time of 8086 and DOS and was really out of step with modern HW and OS needs. The replacement could have been even simpler though, now that OSes really want to take over everything themselves and no longer lean on the BIOS that way that DOS used to. Instead EFI created a monster and now we're stuck with it.