skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I have lived in places where the main language is not in the family of those you speak and I have experienced two situations: a) you have to work every day and there is little to zero chance of being exposed to the language at work, plus, little over the weekends, no possibility of finding courses outside working hours, etc. and b) spending the first months six hours a day exclusively learning the language. Well, in my unscientific experience, with b), in months you get the fluency that adults typically get in about two years.
> It’s very cool, but unfortunately inaccessible for those without sky high budgets and time to talk to sales reps.

I've spent some time looking to see if it would be possible to spin up a POWER based VM in the cloud (just out of curiosity really). While it seems possible in theory in the IBM Cloud, it seems IBM themselves is only interested in offering this to their enterprise customers moving to the cloud, focusing it on getting people to move IBM's AIX/iSeries lock-in to the cloud. When looking at it before, I was not able to spin up a POWER VM from a regular IBM Cloud account at least.

There might be a bit more interest in POWER if it wasn't so damn inaccessible but it really is. If the easiest way to get into POWER is paying thousands of dollars to a company retrofitting IBM's decidedly non-desktop hardware into desktop hardware (talking about Raptor CS), your architecture is doomed to wait for all your enterprise customers to move to amd64 commodity hardware. Maybe that is IBM's goal even, I don't know.
What would you consider understanding the tech? I can't write a single line in Apache config nor can I do a Hello World in PHP or query anything in MySQL, but I can setup and install WordPress on a local machine or a server.

I don't feel like that I understand the underlying tech, but as long as you know how to install WordPress, you can install WordPress.
> There is the Web Payments API now, but it's a clunky ball of JavaScript with limited support. This could have been demoed in 1997 and universal by 2000.

If it is so simple, why was it not? Are you suggesting it was purely incompetence of the people who standardized the web back then?
If you do what @jack do, namely eat only once a day at 13:00 hours, you'll start sleeping like a baby again. Long uninterrupted sleeps with vivid dreams. When you wake up you have take a moment to sort out which things are real and which only happens in the dream-world, which forms a static continuum of unique persons, themes and storylines. @jack does not mention these crazy dream issues, because it would effect the Twitter valuation and his own valuation too.
Sure, but if you already have code execution on the target to run the rename or directly invoke the JRE, either (1) you've already exploited the target or (2) lack of signature validation (since the rename script or equivalent to invoke it wouldn't be signed) wouldn't have been a barrier to running the malicious JAR.
Higher taxation is probably the most realistic we can get. I do wonder if it would succeed in actually limiting the amount of flying done. The cost of an all-inclusive trip to the Turkish coast by plane should become high enough for tourists to consider the alternatives.

The taxation level should be somewhat dynamic and simply rise or fall to discourage flying as much as is needed to remain below a predetermined yearly ceiling of Revenue Passenger Miles (RPM).

On the bright side: in recent years train travel in Europe has been getting better, with a renewed interest in sleeper trains. I just hope this whole Covid-mess doesn't stop these developments completely.
And if you like it, then the sequel "7 Billion Humans" (https://tomorrowcorporation.com/7billionhumans) is fantastic, as it expands on the concept with parallelisation!

I really enjoy playing them both every now and then. I found them to work really well on my Nintendo Switch, where I would just unplug the controllers and play them like a mobile game with the touch screen, as they are perfectly suited for that.
Response to Google open letter
> Most Australians I know are more aware of American politics than their own

Gosh this is so true. My sister and I are Americans living in Australia, she recently posted celebrating Kamala being named Biden's VP and got 20+ negative/derogatory DMs from aussie men in her network. I can't believe they care so much.

Meanwhile, you rarely read much about Australian politics in social media besides satire (Batoota Advocate, etc).
“Why does it take your operating system 10 seconds, 30 seconds, a minute to boot up? Why does your word processor freeze when you save a document on the cloud? Why does your web browser take 3, 4, 10 seconds to load a web page?”

Bloat !!!
Aren't you mistaking your compost heap for what I described here?
So you are saying democracy is magic?
Notepad++ Banned in China
"we can't" in a lot of times actually means "we don't want to"
Those 120-121F days last January that Port Lincoln round to Port Augusta got would have felt hotter than 130F in Death Valley due to the relative humidity. Just not the same.
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One thing I've wondered about: I see it frequently written that someone new to Julia sits down and write an algorithm, and despite that language's marketing, the code runs at a fraction of C++ speeds. Eventually, the code gets a speedup only after significant and non-obvious tuning that requires a lot of Julia experience. That concerns me that this would be the common scenario, and I see this written often in articles, blog posts, forums, etc. It's the one point that has turned me off of diving too deeply into it.
Basically. Although I wonder if the trade-part can be kept fair and accessible for people willing to part with their air-miles (the majority of people on Earth I think).
Exactly - Nextcloud is just WebDAV. No diffs, no smart change tracking, no duplication.

Dropbox is the best syncing solution technically, though GDrive is probably competitive.
Blockchain, the Two-Edged Technology for Decentralized Finance
That was probably the least useful thing to criticise in the comment you replied to.

I know, I know, pedantry is fun. But I don't think the Queen makes much of a difference to Australia's problems one way or another.
> By omitting digits after the decimal you are misleading people into believing that your number is more accurate than it really is.

Digits omitted at the right mean we don't know them, not that they are zero.

> and convert that back to Celsius you end up with 54.85°C instead of the original 54.4°C.

Yes, inaccuracy accumulates when you convert back and forth. But it's common practice in physics not to increase the number of significant digits to not give the impression a measurement is more precise than it actually is.

In this specific case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significance_arithmetic#Multip...

And when precision really matters, then one should explicit the range (eg. +/- after the absolute unit)
Well, Germany has a saner voting system, but they also have problem. (The Kiwis have a similar system to the Germans, I think.)
How about a plastics allowance?
If everybody has access to the pool of fake money: you get inflation.

If only a handful of fools do, you will get economic devastation sooner or later, because you remove the feedbacks of capitalism and hand the reins to monkeys that just happen to have access to the money printer.
Over here in the UK, brits are doing the same.
Imagine if schools could teach like that.

Oh, the world we'd be living in... one can only dream.
While "handmade" code may be faster, it's also a big time sink and as a developer your job is to make tradeoffs.

For most software, you should probably focus on architecture instead of the lower level of your code. Sane code and architecture solves most performance issues. This includes technology decisions, like using web tech for applications instead of the native platform.

For example, Apple has had a lead of at least five years over Android when it comes to performance and user experience, because their system and apps were all built in native environments, instead of the JVM abstraction layer. It took at least five years for Android to catch up, and it took quadcore CPU's to do it. Around then, Apple carefully started using dual-core CPUs.

Meanwhile, companies like Facebook and Twitter spent dozens of work-years on trying to make web technology feasible in native apps and never really cracked it.

If they had just focused on building good native apps they wouldn't have wasted so much time.

Caveat / Aside: IIRC Facebook is having / has had massive issues with having too much code / classes / files in their app(s), on both iOS and Android. Which is (I believe) one of the reasons why they split off Messenger into its own app at the time.
I would suggest to vote with your feet.

Pick a government you like and move there, instead of trying to change the government in the place you happen to be born in.

Voting with your feet also changes where you pay taxes. (Unless you are American, then you need to jump through some extra hoops to make sure your mother country doesn't get your money any more.)
You completely misread his answer. Read it again. He just explained that they SHOULD give things away to gain peace of mind.
My brother here in the Netherlands just got his average grade (of the test throughout the year that count toward the final grade) for each subject as final grade, which seems like it's fair enough.
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I find it a bit amusing that we treat as gospel the use of in-band signaling to try to cram a half-assed error propagation into the value we're trying to convey. It's not a terrible system, but there's nothing inherently better about throwing away a modest amount of information about both a value and its error than throwing away a negligible amount of information about a value and a majority of what we know about its error.
Yeah, it’s really confusing. Unless I don’t understand the term, it hasn’t been a zero day vulnerability for the past two years...
If it has a (recursive?) model of itself and a sensory input representing its operation, I would argue it's conscious. For instance, I believe computers are conscious in this sense; not in the sense that anything that computes is conscious but in the sense that `top` (or the Windows Task Manager) fulfills many of the listed traits - self-awareness, self-modelling, discrimination. Of course, computers can't actually do nearly as much as we can with their consciousness, but that's a question of skills that are not themselves consciousness.

For the closest example, I think there's probably something it is to be like the Linux OOM killer.
> transparent memory encryption designed to support end-to-end security

Does this work with process isolation? I.E. can I make it so that each process's memory is encrypted with a different key, to prevent snooping by other processes? How (if at all) does that work with debuggers?
People actually use Bitcoin in Venezuela [0], not en mass, but still, it provides some very useful escape hatches for a part of the population.

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47553048
Google complies with all the relevant laws.

If Australians want Google to pay more taxes, they should change the tax laws to make them pay more taxes.
Looking at news.google.com, 100% of the first few pages is from those old, dying media publications. The news displayed by Google is not from JoeBloggsYT2020. It's not even close.
> So, yes, Wordpress is a nightmare.

> But no, static site generator plus headless CMS is not the answer, regardless of how many comments here enthusiastically say so.

> I’ve been down the static site generator rabbit hole for the past 7 years...and realized they aren’t really well suited for anything other than tiny developer blogs that don’t ever get updated (dev writes his occasional post in VScode)—-or, giant company marketing sites that get hooked up to enterprise-y headless CMS products like contentful.

> If you’re somewhere in between, I’m starting to think Webflow is the answer. In fact, I’ve started moving all my side project marketing sites/blogs over to them and couldn’t be happier.

> The problem with [insert static site generator] + [insert headless CMS] is that getting off the ground is a massive pain in the ass.

> If you’re trying to set up a static site for your side project, let me give you a preview of what your next couple of weeks will look like:

> First you have to pick a SSG. There goes a day of research. Then pick the next hot CSS framework (of course, you shouldn’t waste your time on this, but you will). Tailwind! Sick! Then setup a build process. Then troubleshoot the inevitable issues. Fixed. Then setup a git repo. Then hook the repo up to Netlify. Then hook up continuous deployment. Then get the domain. Then configure the domain to talk to Netlify. Then realize your hot new SSG doesn’t do any SEO stuff for you. Setup xml sitemaps. Generate proper tags & structured data. Then you have to create the actual site. Realize your CSS framework is overkill. You’re already a week in. Optimize for breakpoints. Cool. Almost ready. Now let’s write some content. Shit, I’m never going to write if I have to fire up my code editor each time. Look into headless CMS options. There goes a day of research. Pick one. Now Setup models in the CMS. Try to figure out how to hook it into your git repo and trigger deployments to Netlify. Realize the UI of the headless CMS you picked is clunky. Never actually write any content. Forget how you even set everything up. Get frustrated. You haven’t even hooked up any analytics or email signup capability yet. Give up.

> On Webflow I’ve managed to cut the previous paragraph down by about 80%.

I'm sure Webflow is a delight to use, but some 20 dollars a month is an insane amount to pay if you run several projects that might or might not be profitable.

I'm already paying some something like 12 dollars a month for domains on average and 10 dollars for a small web server which adds quickly up. If I had to run all the projects on something not-self-managed, we'd be talking about hundreds every month.
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.#1900...
"Some people who've taken a lot of psychedelics tend to all too easily believe in conspiracy theories and to reject mainstream science. Thus I know too many people who believe in chemtrails, 9/11 as a conspiracy, are anti-vaccination, anti-fluoridation, etc." [1]

Coincedence that some people who took a lot of psychedelics end up as gullible as children?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5r2wn7/im_filmmaker_c...
The handmade hero community is wonderful. It is a portal to a lot of knowledge transfer. If you're looking to approach C/C++ in a welcoming environment and/or love getting closer to the metal, I highly recommend the community.

I also recommend the handmade video series.

Casey Muratori has been live streaming himself build the same game for the past few years. He try's to build everything from scratch, which is entertaining and quite the brain dump.

Also, the video archive and live chat is searchable. I can't count the number of times I

- searched for some keyword or phrase, like "CPU"

- was greeted by a link that read something like this

"Day 025: Finishing the Win32 Prototyping Layer (01:38:59) Isn't the CPU Memory bandwidth only valid for on-die memory?"

- clicked the link to receive 3-10 minutes of extremely dense but well-explained information on a topic.

- spent the next hour or so googling technical terms and subjects that filled massive holes in my knowledge.

If you love learning, treat yourself to jumping around the video archive :)

https://guide.handmadehero.org/

Two favorites of mine from the archive
Undefined Behavior: https://guide.handmadehero.org/chat/chat011/

Modern x64 Architectures and the Cache: (https://guide.handmadehero.org/chat/chat017/)

P.S. Its worth mentioning that you can buy the game hes building and get access to the source code. I'm not associated with handmadehero.org or Casey Muratori in anyway. The community just led to me becoming a better programmer over the past 5 years. I hope someone reading this finds the value I did in rabbit-holing for hours and laughing at the rants of a seasoned game dev.

*edit: formatting
You assume that every employee at Moz is a principal engineer or senior scientist. This is not the case.
But you only need iron and copper plates to make green circuits; in bigger factories, if you want a central place to make green circuits, you'll end up having to use 3 dedicated belts just for green circuits.

But that's what I had anyway in my last game, a big central line with a lot of the essentials. I think next time I'll go for a central line with just iron and copper and mini bases that take from it, or something. More trains as well, bringing in ore from all over the map.
The first game I played, it gave me a corner with a forced random choice:

1 *
| 1 3 *
| ? ? * *
| ? ? 3 2
+ - - -

I assume that's the exact situation it was written to avoid, right?

I clicked one of the 3 possibilities and it gave me a mine and ended the game. By the description, I expected it would have created an alternate universe where there was no mine in the square I chose.

So I guess it needs more work.

But I did like being able to click anywhere on an empty board and have it open up a "safe" area. That was always the annoying thing about the original.
Google scholar is your friend.

Breat feeding is associated with a (small) difference in IQ: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apa.13139

Just search breast vs formula milk systematic review on Google scholar and you should be able to find loads of studies.
Not sure how easy it would be to recycle those as chips, given it will have dopants [1] inside. It will likely be unfit for computing applications unless purified, but since it's on the order of one dopant atom per 1e12 silicon atoms, it would basically be 100% pure in other industries.

Some metallic contacts (mostly aluminium), silicon oxide and other residues are likely present as well, depending on the masking process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_(semiconductor)#Silicon...
Also a crucial difference: You can get your hands on a Pine Phone, while Librem has yet to ship a phone.
Extremely high pre-COVID rents meant many adults were living in roommate situations that seem a lot less acceptable when your health is tied to the willingness of everyone in your unit to behave responsibly.

Unless you're practically retired, this is not a real issue given the COVID mortality profile. The sort of people who have flatmates tend to be younger, so the idea that COVID means nobody can or should have flatmates anymore isn't backed by any sort of medical reality.

But there does seem to be an issue here with the type of people who live in SF not seeming to perceive the risks around COVID correctly. Why is Google keeping their offices closed until 2021? All you have to do is look at the stats or the history of epidemics to realise that this doesn't make sense, especially for a workforce as famously young as Google's.
Street view of 1940s New York
"Stop reinventing the wheel people."

That's really bad advice. Re-inventing the wheel is a good idea, and should definitely happen from time to time. If you can use new technology and ditch old preceptions, you may actually be able to make a better wheel.

Even if it fails, it's a good idea to try.
I'm from one of those northern areas. Very few people leave because of the weather even if they don't like it. It's mostly because of studying and career opportunities.

North is sparsely populated because the crops were historically poor and prone to losses due to weather conditions, not because people don't like the weather.
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"coworker has no legal expectation of privacy on a work computer"

That does rather vary by country - Germany has some strict rules about what employers can and can't monitor.

Also, some organisations explicitly choose not to monitor computer usage too closely (e.g. by using proxies that intercept HTTPS traffic) out of the fear that this would expose the organisation to greater liabilities in the case that someone was doing personal banking from their work PC.
Europe is a much bigger market than Australia. Many companies don't do business there.
It's not so much about stack size as it is about how much you can fit / move on a conveyor belt. A lot of the setups I've used involve having a copper wire factory (or two) right next to the factory that uses them, no belts / buffers in between.
That sounds more like a religious belief than a philosophy you have consciously arrived at.
The 9 -> 10 -> 11 upgrades are allowed to make breaking changes. I have apps running on 11 that i can't upgrade further without significant work, because there are things that were retired in 12.

To me, that means those changes are major upgrades.

pron's article says that there are no major releases, only feature releases, and that may well be the terminology the project uses, but that terminology is pure mendacity.
Giving me a choice of two or three mendacious, self-serving, incompetent cliques and then saying the one I grudgingly picked as the temporarily least appalling is what I /wanted/, is a bit of a long bow to draw.
IMO, there's room for disruptive product(s) there.

I've seen Grasshopper be a great tool for non-coders; though as with all visual programming tools, you are bound to run into a problem you can't immediately address with it.

I'm less familiar with the workflow principles of Revit as they pertain to ushering data through to end users, but I can definitely see how a well developed "CAD with metadata" system could be useful, especially for driving simulation experiences for stakeholders, and possibly being the backend for an increasingly digital construction site. I have heard both good and bad about revit, the bad mostly centering on the fact that it's a behemoth Autodesk product and therefore not prone to user-responsiveness.

My own personal experience has taught me that some pretty basic coding chops can go a long way to creating data pipelines that can supercharge an organization's output.
It's like the Event Bus pattern, instead of designing loads of point-to-point supply chains you build one big one where everything is pushed to, allowing random factories to consume the products alongside the bus according to need.
“Am I ready to put someone else’s needs before my wants for a significant portion of the rest of my life?” - let's say you are ready. Why would you want to do it?