skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encoders are required by the spec to emit uppercase only for this reason, since L is plenty distinct from 1 (whereas I and 1 can still get mixed up, and therefore the former is an alias for the latter). A bit unfair to uppercase L that it has to be so neglected just because of its lowercase counterpart :)

The original Tcl implementation treated uppercase L and lowercase l separately (i.e. uppercase was standalone and lowercase aliased to 1 like I/i do), but in the process of writing up that documentation site I quickly learned that it ended up just confusing me more than it helped, so I just kept lowercase and uppercase L together and distinct and called it a day, figuring that discouraging lowercase output (while still allowing lowercase input) was a good enough workaround for the lI1 issue.
I don't know about UK-US, but I think I've noticed a difference between the UK and Germany in this respect: in the UK the sign tells people that something is dangerous and gives some hint of why; in Germany it just says "Verboten" with no mention of the danger, which in the UK would seem to be highly negligent and asking for legal trouble.

Something that injures a burglar could equally well injure a police officer, a fire fighter, a representative of the water company, ... it's amazing how many people can legally enter private property without the owner's permission. Of course one should be allowed to assume that such uninvited visitors are cautious professionals so you don't have to make everything childproof, but if you're aware of a serious danger yet can't be bothered to put up a warning sign ... you'd better have good insurance.
"Killing"... What a sensationalist title with an article isn't even indicating " death". Why do you put up with subpar clickbait like this?
1. Polymorphism

2. Vendors are often pushing bad architecture

3. Architects often push things for the wrong reasons

4. Companies often push risk to their vendors, avoiding
collaboration, inherently increasing risk

5. ORM's hide business logic, preventing a company from understanding its business and adapting to change

6. Relational Databases are an operational anti-pattern

7. Graph databases are excellent tools for common problems like security, social media

8. Document databases are excellent tools for Event Stores and CQRS

9. Cloud native development (FaaS) is awesome

10. Domain-Driven Design and Event Storming are excellent disciplines to add to a corporate development group

11. Corporations inherently don't understand Agile because they have to measure everything through strong process definition
When I realized that the entire software industry is a farce; the only purpose of which is the creation of jobs in an unnatural supply-side economy driven by unequal, preferential access to easy money.
My complaint would be less the instrumentals (it's formulaic but that doesn't make it bad) but the lyrics. Look up the lyrics to any of the songs you listed and read them. If you don't have the melody in your head they read awfully. They say nothing, make me feel nothing, and make me think of nothing. They don't resonate in any way. You could obviously look at someone like Bob Dylan as a counterpoint but even if you went to see some average local punk band you would find them singing words that say something and resonate with you. That's what I want from music. It's not right or wrong to like or dislike either of these approaches by the way. A lot of people want music to listen to in the background and that's easier to do when the lyrics are meaningless.
But in Mortal Combat the players were casting shadows. The lack of shadows below the tennis players' feet makes it look like a green screen was used.
Jake Archibald has a great tool to clean SVGs https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/
> I used to think that novelty the key to making time go slow, I now think there is a limit to this.

Yes. Similar experience here. I moved countries at 40. The first few months it feel like being 20 years younger. I wanted to see everything and went around discovering each place possible.

But, I am not young anymore. Nowadays, my new country is my new home and it feel cozy an familiar and time passes faster than ever.

> This also happened to me when spending six weeks backpacking in Europe.

For me it took longer. I have visited Japan 5 times, usually 5-6 weeks each time. I have visited temples, museums, parks, events, ... The last time I spend half of the time shopping. As, I felt that each new temple is similar to the previous one.

Even traveling to South Korea, and China it does not slows time so much. I guess that the similarities with other Asian countries makes my brain feel like "I have seen that one before".

I would be very interested in knowing if the problem is just age or to have seen already many things. Probably a combination of both.
And how did their parents get their wealth by means fair or foul? No matter how many generations back of inheritance it still comes back to the same root cause.

The "exception of born into wealth" sounds a lot like the ancient Greek nonsense of philsophers and aristocrats justifying slavery ironically. While they themselves were willfully ignorant of actual means of wealth generation and thought it had to be stolen by conquest and holding traders in contempt.

And this sickness was modeled into the Antebellum US South combined with the projection of accusing the North of wanting to enslave everyone.
> I started putting defense mechanisms everywhere

Just weeks ago, the software I had just finished writing complained to me at first run that I had forgotten to configure a setting. Defensive coding ftw.

> never overwork and sleep the best I can

Your best work can be done while not at your desk. Don't mind taking frequent breaks.
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Agreed, with something like a C++20 JIT based workflows remove the dual language barrier, and then there is Julia, and other JIT based languages with GPGPU backends.
The checkout process of Amazon is good, the browsing experience...not so much
Did you see the tidal causeway at Mont St Michel?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel: “converted into a raised causeway in 1879“
Clean Code Is All in the Mind
I mean for some applications you're going to gave to have a desktop app, particularly anything that communicates with external devices or most OS related components.

Although the ways people will convince themselves otherwise are pretty comical. I had written a desktop app that communicated with a card scanning device via a simple protocol over a serial port. Someone proceeded to tell me that desktop apps in 201X are bad. They told me the preferred alternative was to write a webserver that did the serial port communication and also served a web based UI which seemed ridiculous at best.
1. Various topics, most often about electronics and software. I'm currently writing about a system for RF vector measurements I'm making.

2. Around 1 post every 1 to 2 weeks.

3. A self-hosted static-site generator I made myself 15 years ago.

4. https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/
I don't think the rings of the maths were concentric - didn't each one have their own separate gate - the tenners gate led directly outside the walls, not into the unary math?
but then the middleware or js could just strip out it's extra params. Though that invites it's own problems - e.g. if the application actually used the `s` param, and something came along and started using it too... but this case is in general a world of hurt.

I'm not really sure why we'd want a world where the server doesn't know about all query args, but seems like we're already stuck with this.
1. When I realized programming was easy

That's it. For a long time, when I thought of the hardest stuff to program, I was thinking of computer games. Mind you, not the latest AAA billion dollar development budget 300+ people on the team kind of games. No - given my age, I was thinking about single-programming doing code and graphics and sounds on a C64 kind of games. To me, it was incomprehensible how one person alone could manage to do a machine, especially with the hardware limitations, do all that.

And then one day it struck me. I had started to dabble with programming in my early teens and then never stopped but, I guess, gotten better at it over time.

Like with every process that evolutionary rather then revolutionary, there's a good chance to lose track of your progress. I remember clearly after finishing college, I really though that everything I knew then about computers and programmers I had already known even before I entered university. But then one day, a freshman asked me a question about a programming assignment in their class, and it was completely trivial to me. Yet, when I was a freshman, I would have probably asked the same question to someone else.

And yet, that was not my aha moment. It still took many years for me to realize that my idolization of game programmers was perhaps a bit much. Mind you, I do realize of course that someone specialized in any area will be able to produce better code than someone who's not - for any definition of "better". I'm still not a game programmer and never will be, so I still have the highest respect for their profession. But I do realize now that there's not outer-worldly skill that separates the game coder from the crop of all other programmers. Anything is within reach - what you need is not some innate talent, it's just dedication.

Life is somewhat better now and I'll never go back to thinking I'm not good at programming.
Nice twist, eh?
I was expecting them to do something with a tray of cookies.
SHA2 is hardware accelerated on many new CPUs, Blake family not so much.
Out of curiosity I ended up on your LinkedIn page. What a truly impressive resume. You have been exposed to such an incredible variety of companies and technologies over 50+ years. If this FAANG company doesn't sign you up, it's truly their loss.
If you're working in a job where developers are just dumb code monkeys who get told what to do and do it whatever happens, and that developers aren't considered part of the team behind a feature and have no way to influence what gets built, then leave. There are better jobs out there that won't make you feel ashamed of what you deploy.
*Chromium
Indeed. A lot of problems are solved by having less people on the planet, and ultimately that will happen whether planned or not.
Betteridge's law of Hacker News headlines
It almost makes more sense as an MBA class: How to respond to accusations of racial insensitivy 101.
Get Vodka at Your Door Step – Spiritzone
Some people feel insulted when someone thinks that their real problems are imaginary, so a hostile reaction is understandable, I guess.
Modern Fortran and C++ can be just as productive, and C++ based repls are starting to appear as well, which removes the dual language headache.

Python community better embrace JIT tooling, now that projects like TensorFlow and Torch are going polyglot.
I didn't read all these and I don't speak German but the gist of https://datenschutz.hessen.de/pressemitteilungen/zweite-stel... is close to the opposite of what you claim.

It says they will allow the use of Office 365 in schools.
That particular sign is for a different section of the river, the strid is further upstream.

The strid: https://www.google.com/maps/@54.0038749,-1.9035917,394m/data...

The pool by the sign: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.9827603,-1.8865086,233m/data...
Interestingly, the 1060 was mentioned among the suggested cards in one of the old versions of this same article (it gets updated every time Nvidia releases a new series).
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It's sort of one of those provocative statements that just mis-represents things to make controversy.

I also believe Python is not the future of ML but it's because the future is more about the space maturing and becoming commoditised and "boring" which probably means, being completely honest, things that people have no interest in happening like it migrating over to the JVM etc.

But who wants to talk about that?
Amazon has also prioritized customer experience both when things go right and when things go wrong.

Many other online stores are all shiny with nice slogans but if you have a problem and need customer support then good luck.

This is also visible in the fact that Amazon makes it simple to cancel an order before it ships (just one click) and that they don't charge until an item ships.
Stop Using JSON Config Files
The alternative is non-MWI theories, which typically introduce the Born rule via new axioms.

Regarding what's to explain, it's quantum randomness (which distills the Born rule objection). Our subjective experience is that we see spin-down 1/3rd of the time, and our theories say the result is otherwise impossible to predict, even in principle. But a deterministic theory cannot produce a random outcome, even a subjective one.
There was an IDE for ActionScript called FDT built on top of Eclipse.
Or complain that their browser is slow/ battery life is abysmal.
Missing-at-sea seven years ago... https://lwn.net/Articles/380038/
Talking of mental models: These are not "bash programs". Most of the ones where you need this mechanism have nothing to do with the Bourne Again shell, and are just generally-usable utility programs, usable even by things which aren't shells at all.

They are, generally, programs that happen to use library mechanisms such as (but not limited to) getopt() or the popt library to parse their arguments.
Recently had to register to get a substantial "discount" on an expensive item.
Gave them wrong data, of course.
IIRC you can mitigate this by lowering network.http.redirection-limit
My favorite example of these water experiments is sonoluminescence: a tank of water is driven by a high-frequency acoustic transducer to create a 3d standing wave, which forms a tiny bubble of air or other gas that, when collapsing, produces a burst of light.

That tiny burst of light is still an unsolved mystery. Despite it's trivially reproducible, there's still a range of competing theories that estimate the temperature of that bubble from 2,000K to 20,000K (some researchers add a few zeros there), and attribute the light to anything imaginable, including fusion and the Casimir effect. Quoting Wikipedia: "the rapidly moving interface between water and gas converts virtual photons into real photons."
I am not sure about compaction compared to a tracked forester.
Physics implies that tracked ones are better, for that, yes.
But they rip up even more surface. I believe it is a question, how often the specific path has to be passed by by a forester.

"It's why only tracked harvesters driven by highly-paid fellers are allowed off the gravel."

And this is sadly not true for germany or other parts of europe I know about. I think I never saw a tracked forester in europe.
Are they mandatory in the US? That would surprise me, given they have much more lax regulations in general (fracking for example)
Using shell as a REPL for C.

I learned C on Windows, and before I learned any dynamic languages. And before I had ever written a unit test.

I knew all the rules, but I was not good at making a reasonably sized, correct program in a reasonable amount of time.

---

But then I developed a good workflow for writing Python, shell, etc., and then went back to writing C, and it helped immensely.

C is a dynamic language in many respects anyway!
Which is why I ask people to consider sharing with their teams ;-)

If nobody on your team has a say on blatant ux issues and nobody is allowed to report problems up the chain of command that is a bigger issue I agree.
TLDR

https://twitter.com/markopolojarvi/status/130324298806421094...

- new hash function

- more efficient and less error prone .torrent files

- each file in the torrent gets its own hash meaning deduplication across torrents is feasible

- backwards compatible with v1
Good is relative, and situational.

A big part of why it's good is that it's familiar and you're probably already registered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language#Vocabulary : "The historical source of modern Maltese vocabulary is 52% Italian/Sicilian, 32% Siculo-Arabic, and 6% English, with some of the remainder being French"

AFAIK the most common words are more likely to be of Arabic origin, though.
Indeed. The first time I read that I was actually crying laughing on the train ... and then as the book progresses you realise the depth of the sadness that was underneath all along.
..and the buck passes.
1. When I first learned to program (in Pascal)

2. When I learned event-driven programming using Windows Forms in C# and I was able to create programs that resembled the ones I used

3. When I took a course in POSIX, programmed using fork and pipes and learned about stuff like race conditions

4. When I spent a year learning everything there is to know about coding (including assembly, lisp, smalltalk, rust) and realized I would never feel as happy as I felt during 1-3 because I had changed as a person
>> This is the number one reason Amazon is winning everything. It's not even the cheapest anymore. But it's such a hassle shopping at other websites.

Speaking as an online merchant, we default to guest checkout and we regularly get emails "how do we register for checkout".

It would seem customers have been trained that they need to register before checkout.
"My slow cooker is broken - it isn't cooking quickly enough!"
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something something xkcd 927 something something

(Though in my defense I'm under no illusion that Base32H satisfies everyone's use cases)
I am not sure why people put developers on a morally high status like they are able to choose what kind of job that they can do, then try to shame them publicly for the work they do, but I do not see any difference between a forced developer who wants to have a job and get by in their lives, and a telemarketer making calls to the potential customers.
"pipefail" is also available in the FreeBSD Almquist shell, but not in the Debian Almquist shell.
Very true, we all know there are 92 genders
That doesn't put the primary fault onto devs though. There is a significant amount of pressure to actually build all these stupid systems coming from multiple fronts (e.g. people who believe it is more secure, business who demand certain features). Surely primary responsibility goes to the person who demands the feature. If one developer refuses, they can find another developer without too much difficulty. It would require most developers to refuse, whereas it only requires a few business owners to make other choices.

(Senior Developers could probably respond "here's some better ways". But Junior devs often hardly know their own name, let alone what better alternatives there are to this security theatre.)
Yup this was one of my aha moment too.
We have the US for that military thing.
Enabling reproducible ML and Systems research: the good, the bad, and the ugly
How to Remove Gender Bias in Machine Learning Models: NLP and Word Embeddings
I often get people in shops ask for my email to send the receipt to, a paper receipt isn't even an option they offer. Thankfully when I ask for a paper receipt it's not usually a problem either. If I've just paid for the product, why would I want to give them my email address? Someone needs to make a receipt aggregator or something.
Agree completely.

The biggest threat I see to this though is Apple Pay (for mobile web). When sites integrate with this properly, it enables them to match the Amazon experience. No need to register or enter any details, just one fingerprint, and all done.
A levitating frog warrants even more skepticism, but it's levitating.
Google earns money from ads on all sorts of websites.
>It's almost like there's some force of nature making animated-to-live adaptations terrible.

I enjoyed 2015 TV version of Death Note. I mean, it was quite cheesy and deviated from the source material, but I still had fun watching it.
Assange Hearing Day 6
SICP made me fall in love with Lisp even more.
It taught me how powerful the tandem of function and closure can be.
I'm confident Bitcoin was based on Bittorrent, there's a lot of overlap. And I feel like it has a lot of the benefits. The main problem with Bitcoin is that it's not purely decentralized (big companies can throw calculating power at it and sway decisions / dominate) and really, really expensive to run.
>So much disingenuous corporate lawyer babble bullshit.

Surprise, surprise, that is exactly what you sign up for when you ask the government to get involved. Who do you think is going to write up these laws? What are standardly available tools? Who defines the standard? What defines inaccessible? If you are going to make a law these things have to be defined, or else Apple will just pay $10MM to a lobbyist to make sure that Apple iScrew is a standard. If you make it too strict, some troll will sue will you for everything because grandma couldn't reasonably repair the device.
4x 1080Ti are probably about as fast as 2x 3080 if you're able to use FP16. They are most likely faster for FP32. And in any case they provide almost 2x memory.
There are things more important than working software.
I assure you, a Big Mac in the Netherlands will cost more than a Big Mac in Latvia.
Well, it make total sense that for example Poland wanted to join NATO. Still, this move was certainly seen as a expansionist and threatening move by the Russian. And the fact the West seems to had informally committed to not enlarge NATO to the East [1] [2] makes the offense worse. And then Poland was not just a lambda NATO country, but a country where USA and NATO actively put a lot of resources that seem threatening in a Russian point of view.

If you add to that the "colored revolutions", well, it is clear that the West "actively" "attacked" Russia's zone of influence. Not saying it is good or bad, just trying to describe what happened.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shifrinson-russi...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#German_reu...
Argentina is literally in that situation now.
The government charges a surplus 30% tax on any foreign currency purchase (cash, Netflix, anything outside the country), and only allows you to buy 200 usd a month legally.
The inflation rate is over 50% there, Bitcoin is more stable than the Argentinian peso.
Basically, the government has made it illegal for you to legally save money on a different currency than the Argentinian peso.
Examples of Google Doodles
If I were to make $600k I would only have to work about 1-3 years then I could live of my savings for the rest of my life with my current expenses.

I don't get how people in SV can make this much and not be financially set after a few years of working.
I'm working on a desktop app, so sleep tracking might not be that useful ;)
The way men behave in this video makes me feel weird - am I homophobic? I don't meet people like this on daily basis, I don't meet them at all. Are there men like this or is this just acting which is an exaggeration? I don't recognize my feelings well, but it feels hard. I wouldn't feel like myself around such a man.
Huh, this blew up unexpectedly (posted this the other day and it seemed to fly under the radar, so I figured that was that; imagine my surprise when I suddenly see it's got a bunch of attention and an inexplicably-more-recent timestamp). (EDIT: apparently the powers-that-be put it in the "second chance pool"; thanks!)

Thanks for all the feedback, y'all! I'll try to keep answering questions as they come up.
Topological similarities can be meaningful as in they often provide great source of inspiration.

However, it's just an inspiration and it must be proven in its newly applied field - proof in context of category theory is not valid in the context of inter-personal relations.