skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could end up as a rich real estate mogul though as a unification condition. Still a decent deal.

Probably have to be at that position to understand that rationale I guess, right now it just seems heartless.
Agreed -- one can only hire like crazy in a growth phase. The frequently promulgated expectation that every new PhD can become an R1 professor is incorrect, unwise, and unhealthy. If that expectation alone were altered in the undergraduate consciousness, a lot of sadness could be averted.

The contrast here is that the US (in particular -- the EU seems to be more thoughtful) doesn't seem to be maintaining its robust research program, while China seems to understand that leadership in basic research has compounding benefits on decadal timescales.
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SIMH is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMH
It depends on each item. The yellowing or dusty ones I avoid. Also I disinfect the books when I get home. A lot of books are still very ‘virgin’
...or that hundreds of Tokyo buildings will collapse in the next big earthquake? Or have they been fixed, since we learned about it? If so, how?
It's interesting how basically everyone in the thread has an example of a badly awarded or maliciously used software patent and there even existed an entire industry predicated on lawsuits built on the back of portfolios of the things but clearly the community is suffering group think.

At this point the burden of proof is on the software patent holders/supporters; provide some examples where software patents have driven innovation done any sort of good. There's nothing to disrupt because the system is completely unequiped to evaluate and award software patents and probably never will be (if you have the skills to evaluate a software patent you could just work in software for a fraction of the schooling and equal or more pay)
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=9aca6c56-fe41...
This is pure disinformation.
The thing is - those go hand in hand. In order to improve the autonomous features of the vehicles they need to collect data. Tesla driving data is anonymized and data collection is not enabled by default.

As long as it's opt-in, I think it's a fantastic opportunity to improve the performance of these systems.

Remember you already have no privacy on the roads to begin with - traffic cameras, etc are already collecting plenty of data about drivers.
> I've merged larger patches,

In what kind of context? The Linux kernel?

Filesystem code is pretty tricky to begin with, and prone to very subtle bugs with very not-subtle consequences. And this isn't greenfield development of a new filesystem, but an implementation that needs to remain highly compatible with Microsoft's version. This FS driver has to be maintained to track changes to two operating systems. So this 27kloc can reasonably be expected to encompass a lot more complexity than your average 27kloc, and it requires a lot more review effort than something like 27kloc of GPU driver register definitions.
Ha, or worse, Japanese-American.
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I might as well add that Chinese universities respect research. They will not allow a mob to lock down a research facility in the name of social justice, let alone identity politics. They would certainly not let go a professor just because the professor wanted to unlock the building to do research.
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It's probably because I agree with the OP's assessment, though they seemed impartial or critical of anti-China sentiment.

I happen to think what we are doing is justified and an imperative to maintaining our way of life.
I believe your valuation discounts the persuasive storytelling value of the YT’s “longerish” content.

Not the greatest comparison, but YT : TikTok :: TV ad industry (2019-$70B) : Print Magazine (2019-$15B)

[0] https://www.marketingcharts.com/advertising-trends-108995
I got an email from an Amazon recruiter through it.
They are pretty xenophobic, if you are Chinese or worse Korean you might as well be a gaijin.
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I recall coming across a Twitter-like social network where people would post executable (javascript? processing?) snippets for tiny visual demos. Each post could be forked/edited/twisted/reposted.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?
No, a blue filter, like a blue plastic bag would let blue pass and absorbe the other colors. That's why if you shine a white light through a blue filter, things look blue on the other side.

Now, some of the blue light is scattered away, and that's why you see the plastic bag itself as blue.
Command-line programs should also be considered. So can various types of VMs (of which HTML might be considered one of the most complicated, but certainly not the only one available). Also, telnet and SSH should strongly be considered, too.
Of course. :)

I'm not sure "work-life balance" is even the right concept in Japan.

Japanese companies are structured around the idea that you devote your life to the organization. Overtime and weekend work are common. In exchange, the company will take care of you: you will never be fired, you will be provided with access to a broad social network, a group of friends, a spouse should you desire, and enough salary for your station in life until you reach retirement.

If you are satisfied with that contract, you will be happy. If not, you won't.

Working for a big US-based tech company here, you get the best-ish of both worlds. Salaries are much higher -- although not on par with the US -- and your working environment will be much more familiar.

The downside is that you are very insulated from Japanese society as a whole. The "Gaijin Bubble" is a thing, and it's incredibly hard to break out of.

One of my buddies -- who "happens to be black" as George Carlin would say -- describes Japanese racism as "racism done right".

I'd say I agree with his assessment. I've been denied apartments, had an ex whose family hated foreigners, and been refused entry to a restaurant once, but that's all fairly uncommon. You are unlikely to experience violence, although the police will -- very politely -- pay more attention to you than they would natives.

Tokyoites are used to foreigners, and outside of that, you're a curiosity?

Also, speaking Japanese opens many doors. I once had a nightmare of a time getting a taxi, but they would stop to pick up Japanese people. Once I finally flagged one down, I asked the driver why.

He was thrilled that I spoke Japanese, and mentioned that, in that area, most foreigners (a) couldn't speak the language; (b) wanted a long taxi ride; and (c) often fought with the drivers and refused to pay (taxis are not cheap here).

Remote work is a thing now, but before that, you lived in Tokyo. You can easily live in a bedroom community and commute -- some people do 4+ hours per day on a shinkansen.

On the off chance that I do stay here, I will likely move to a semi-rural area and telecommute full time.

Your company (nominally) pays your commuting costs.

Japanese is straightforward to learn, but you really have to devote time to it. Plan a few years of total immersion.

Also, it's not a European language, so outside of the grammatical differences, there's just a ton of culture where there is no overlap -- I didn't really appreciate just how deep Christianity's roots were in Europe until moving here -- it's crazy.

As a tiny example, the little grill that you cook "Ghengis Khan" on is called a "shichirin" -- which is a specifically-shaped wheel from Buddhist teachings.
It means some blue goes through, some is reflected.
It's a perfectly cromulent word. If you'd like to try writing that comment again, this time with less psychological projection and no distracting nonsense about deadly pre-teen ninja girls, we'll all read it again and revise our opinions about the licking of boots. "Maybe next time" it won't be downvoted to oblivion...
Are you suggesting online posting is the same as an in-person conversation in a somewhat intimate environment? I get that it might be the same for you but surely you can appreciate that for most people online discussions are about as personal as a trip to the dmv.
Not OP but what are some good resources for learning to read and write Chinese?
https://www.dwitter.net/
I've mostly heard of people using Magic Wormhole for this https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole Never used it myself
I have this exact problem. In my niche, I am the best. Most people post their opinions, but I collect data and do math. It makes the content better than competitors.

However I don't have a marketing team, and I'm not a hip hot girl.

Don't get me wrong, the website is popular and I've been on BBC, but I can tell my lower quality competitors are doing better.
I think the closest to that would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar and I've seen ones that were both valid shell scripts and Windows batch files. Of course, the actual polyglot part is tiny and serves only to direct execution to continue with the appropriate platform-specific binary.
I find the world consuming problem from yesterday usually solves itself as I wake up and lounge in bed and let my mind drift a bit.

These didn't come to me as easily when I was "on the clock" to get out of bed and be somewhere at a specific time. (sometimes, in the shower)

It does mean I have to have my phone near the bed to rapidly record these small insights that come to me.
Hi Wilson, this is neat. Thanks for the work. This is a way nicer page than the one Distrokid generates for sharing releases!
Just want to shout out my two favorite used bookshops in Boston. Commonwealth books and Brookline Booksmith.

Both still seem to be thriving but with COVID they were my #1 concern about closing, followed shortly by the long-established neighborhood pubs.

Vibrant neighborhoods need what have been called 3rd spaces (I.e. neither home nor work) where people can hang out without necessarily spending much/any money. Bookstores fit that bill.

Though, to be honest, a good library offers much, though not all, of the same benefits.
seems like youre trying to diminish the importance and significance of justines work by brushing it off as a polyglot, which you clearly watched youtube video of this past week . As i have and all i see everyone must also be subjected to via logic of mine
Missed a couple:

$ apache2
$ nginx

My point is that while lots of languages include a web server in their standard library (one of these was a damn install! Like yes you can pip/gem/npm/etc install a server, that doesn’t make it a one line web server), it is by no means a one liner any more than the above two examples can be considered bash one liners.
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Not only that, but in the past when a nuclear accident happens, TEPCO - a private company, and the USSR/Russia (twice now) have hidden information from the public during the accidents.

This makes the entire situation worse. Who does the public trust? The press? Watchdog groups?

It's bad enough it happens at all, but could it happen in the US? I would have said no until the last few years.

I kind of think this would be a good board game, actually. Kind of like pandemic but for a nuclear accident, and trying to make decisions based upon imperfect information.
Well an IDE would’ve been one option, as well as backend services for enterprise who are migrating to Rust. Otherwise as I mentioned the product is services like outsourced development, consultancy and training resources?
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i think in modern python, you leave out the (object) and just write class A:
I came to similar conclusions for similar reasons. For one thing I often spend some ‘work’ time dealing with personal stuff so it’s a fair turnaround to think about work (or even work) over the weekend.

Before covid, I was reaching my office around 7am and most of my team would drift in around 10am - and I’d be leaving around 4pm... Now that I’ve been working from home I still start at 7am but it’s much easier to take a multi-hour break (usually spent on some hobbies or chores, or just chilling) and then go back to work later on for a couple more hours. So I’m getting more sleep and putting more work hours in, but getting a lot more personal projects done. And yes, it feels liberating, so I guess I’m lucky. (And very lucky to have a great manager at work!).
I think it's often more about personality than talent or money. Founders tend to be the kind of people that hate the idea of being a cog (even a very well paid cog) in a big machine. People often start companies not because they can't get a good job, but because they can't stand working on other people's ideas when they've got a head full of their own.
If MS Office was truly cross platform in look, feel, and operation, then finance people who insist on using Excel wouldn't also insist on using Windows just to use Excel.

All those specialized tools can get away with having completely-unlike-anything else UI/UX because people are paying for them and they are considered best(and only)-of-breed.

Electron apps are cross platform only in terms of them looking alike on different platforms, because they use the same widget set. If slack was a truly, full native app on OSX, it wouldn't look like it does.
Last I knew you could buy games for the Xbox from people other than Microsoft.

Best Buy, for instance
Some feedback - the search doesn't work very well.

If I type 'Gigi Masin Tears of a clown' into the search, I get no results. If I type 'Gigi Masin', then the track appears near the top of the search results.
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One of the most valuable lessons you learn with experience is how to be resourceful. If you look at what's being asked on SO, it's mostly beginners who didn't know how to divine a solution nor read source code.
Energy density is only important insofar as it affects cost. So, if we have cost data (which we do), pointing instead to energy density is pointless (and is likely a deliberate attempt to distract from cost numbers that the person making the argument does not like.)

> If you have to put in roughly the same amount of energy into a system as it produces in its full lifecycle, you run into issues.

Renewables are nowhere close to that. Claims otherwise are lying. For example, they pretend that massive storage is needed and then poorly optimize the storage system so building it requires lots of energy.
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"I had wondered, if the present warming rate goes on indefinitely"

Why would it? There are plenty of mechanisms that prevent that. Don't worry too much. The earth doesn't care about a few degrees. Humans might though, at least 99% of the population won't be able to survive if the earth heats a few more degrees. The question is if anyone will care though. We advance pretty quickly in terms of technology. It's not a far stretch to imagine that humans simply convert into a philosophy of "earth as the first space colony". That would actually make a lot of sense too. If we can't manage to colonize earth when it goes to shit, we don't even need to try with other planets. This could become the catalyst for human space travel. There is a positive in everything :D.
You can, but Python 2 is still the default on some systems so I thought I'd just put it and make people's lives easier.
Why does the title font look pseudo Greek?
> Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant?

Not anymore! [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
What if I told you there are successful Fortune 100 corporations in the US where executives don’t bring laptops/tech to meetings, but rather paper & pen (there are). Tech isn’t really relevant, it’s a medium, and there are many mediums
+1 for the mention of Endoh's work -- Yusuke Endoh's YouTube channel with many of his quines is really fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/c/YusukeEndoh/videos

A quine that prints itself as scrolling text in an AVI file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMlJy5He-Tk

A self-similar quine that behaves like a fractal zooming out infinitely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7u2G52scc

A quine with source code that contains sheet music to a Bach song in comments and plays it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryXKUgRVOg
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Because that's the name of the post/"format"...

> I started a project which called Cosmopolitan which implements the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε format. I chose the name because I like the idea of having the freedom to write software without restrictions that transcends traditional boundaries.
But patronage of two big states which would be more than happy to keep a developed buffer state between US military bases. NK at least was rich in resources unlike SK.
What's super awesome is nearly every US voter (including the ones reading this) will vote for the jackwads that enable and fund bulk surveillance abuses like this.

In and outside the US, non US citizens serve as a proving ground, for tech that US Gov will eventually deploy against it's own citizens.

US Gov does this because it can, because news orgs are more interested in sportball, because both parties have successfully set citizens at each other throats for decades and because the public keeps gorging on whatever fear-filled plate of nonsense is put in front of us.

Ten years from now, an entirely new regime of surveillance abuses will be added to those already deployed against us. More than any other reason, this will happen because we endlessly reelect the people who are ultimately responsible.

We could do better.
>Similar to how the Super Mario Bros ROM has managed to survive all these years without needing a GitHub issue tracker.

Well yeah, but that might be more a function of it existing before git and github.

https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Super_Mario_Bros._glitches
I believe regulation is often the cause rather than the solution to stalled innovation. If you look at areas where innovation has stalled, high barriers to entry for new companies is typically a primary cause and in many cases regulations contribute to that barrier.

We should make it a goal to lower those barriers and encourage competition wherever possible. NASA's commercial crew program is one example of this. Another is how Illinois forced their electric companies to open access to the power lines, fostering healthy competition.
Seems pretty weird to waste substantial (1000x) CPU and disk I/O to figure out what you are missing, and if you have enough pieces.

Why not just use a reed-solomon based approach and turn 1000 pieces into 1100 and then you know you can recover the file with any 1000 of those 1100 pieces? That enables you to actively search for the rare pieces to improve the health of the network and as a side benefit you use 1000x less CPU and I/O.

Adding significant complexity so that sometimes you get a missing piece one time step sooner seems like a huge waste.
"spewing ... into the Pacific" actually dilutes it more than when it existed in ore in the first place. It had to be concentrated by orders of magnitude from ore, to make it radioactive enough to be fuel for a reactor. Before that, it was just backround that we've lived happily with for eons, and in the Pacific it is even lower level.
I don't understand this sentiment.
Do existing manufacturers even see TSLA as a threat?
Tesla has about 0.5% of the global market share for autos.
Toyota has 275 B revenue and 50 B gross profits
Tesla has 24 B revenue and 4 B gross profits
Toyota sells ~ 10,7 million vehicles/yr and Tesla sells ~400k

It seems that rise and fall of various large auto manufactures are dictated more by the competition between them, than anything the upstart Tesla is doing.
I definitely had a few classes in which the professor wrote the text-book which while impressive in some ways also yields a conflict of interest.
Can someone eli5 how this works? I sort of get that you can create one big binary file with all the necessary file headers for each platform and the actual x86 code being shared, but what about stuff like syscalls? The post also lost me when it started mentioning the need for shell scripts and emulators.
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The amount of fuckery American police get away with frankly really amazes me. These are humans, not animals. How did everything even get to this situation where police think potential criminals can be treated like slaves and random shit injected in their bodies.
Wait, I thought snap dragon was a full in-house design? Have I been wrong all this time?
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They did that because they were unfamiliar with a system that requires such a check. Every time I've been to Europe and used an American card it's been explained to me that because American cards are so far behind the times they need to specially handle my card instead of using Chip and PIN
I love your reed-solmon idea.
I wonder if the reason for the huge line count is overly verbose code, or if it's just the inherent complexity of NTFS. For contrast, I wrote a FAT32 filesystem driver (read/write) for an embedded system a long time ago, and it was less than 1K lines --- of Asm.
In my circle, everyone who used Inbox loved it. One of the most bizarre decisions Google ever made was cutting it.
>The real solution is to use Tor-like network where you're using multiple intermediate proxy-servers located in different countries with different laws

There are a number of Tor like anonymizing networks already, and they're all slow as hell and unable to handle bulk traffic. This idea has been raised many times and it's never worked out. Compromises have to be made, and if you want good anonymity/privacy then speed is usually the first thing to go.

>And make that network extremely popular for lawful content

There are already plenty of distribution paths for lawful content that can be fast because they don't have to hide in the shadows. Where is the value add? How will you get media companies to buy in? Almost no one is going to willingly buy in solely on the basis of "we need your traffic to help cover our illegal file distribution".

>So when you're downloading Ubuntu, some of your traffic will transmit encrypted parts of copyrighted cinema. You have no idea what are you transmitting, you're just obeying protocol (which you should, because otherwise peers will throttle you) and downloading legal content.

That's basically how I2P operates (you have to contribute disk and bandwidth to the network to store and serve files, and you don't have the key to decrypt unless you happen to request a resource that's already locally cached), and it's extremely slow. Not to mention the risk that you end up storing and distributing the really illegal stuff like child sexual abuse materials, not just pirated movies, which is far beyond most people's risk/comfort thresholds. You can't have a network like this "just" for pirate media without it being abused for darker purposes, and a lot of people are simply unwilling to support that.

>At this point US have to make that network illegal, causing huge collateral damage. Note that even torrents are not illegal, so it would be quite a precedent.

They don't have to make it illegal, just so unusable that the vast majority of people don't bother. Which it already is. Which is why we use torrents instead of already having a solution like what you describe. Not to mention that it doesn't have to be illegal for carriers to try and throttle/interfere with it under the guise of traffic shaping and fair use.