skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those statuses are updated by people (after bureaucracy and only with very high level approval), not by anything based in reality
What's your take on the pushback against Hockney?
Plenty of atheists go to church. Participating in a religion does not require actually believing in it.
Let's not forget that this neutron star is measured at 5.8 kiloparsec distance from earth which is 18,917.1 light years.

Even if observable electromagnetic radiation was traveling at the speed of light, which most is not, we are looking at ancient history, because once this EM reaches earth we are studying phenomena that occurred >189 centuries ago.

We don't have a way to know if this star is even still there.

Everything studied in astronomy at significant light years distance is ancient phenomena, we are just seeing it/sensing it/evaluating it now.
Great engineers are also really great salespeople.

The problem is that engineers often feel like they have to put on their salesperson hat on and it all goes out the door.

Sales is a "state," the sales system you use varies greatly based on what phase you are as a company. The same tactics don't apply when you are looking for product market fit vs when you have reached it.
Market calls for competition...
They push the Qatari line pretty hard but honestly they are a very good news organization
With middle class incomes stagnated since about 1980, it's no surprise everybody feels a lot poorer now. They have a quarter of the effective income people in a similar position had in 1980.
same here. the 4 quadrants limited tiling works pretty well. Sometimes switch over to KDE as well just to have a change of pace but unsurprisingly it works a lot like cinnamon, just with a lot more options that I dont' really change from the default :)
As someone who has this problem to a lesser extent than the author, the question is how to have that healthy social circle.

I’ve never met anyone at a gym or bar before. Other than hitting on girls at bars, I’ve never seen anyone else in my social circle meet anybody else at any gyms or bars. I’ve certainly never seen anyone approach me at a gym or a bar. Has your experience been much different?

I don’t mind leaving my comfort zone, but to do what, exactly?
>In NYC, any bicyclist over 12 years old or with wheels over 26" is required to ride in the street.

Here, that's a good way to die. We can say that because bicyclists are regularly run down. Pedestrians too.

It's the natural outcome when you densely pack retirees with drive thru pharmacies/liquor stores.
CUDA is basically just C/C++ with parallel-programming concepts. The "alternatives" like OpenCL are still tied to their graphics API origins.
When it comes to console pricing, there is no such thing as "first-mover" advantage. In fact, it's much more advantageous to be the _last_ company to price your console.

I wrote a bit about the dynamics here: https://www.stevenbuccini.com/console-wars

but I would also recommend playing MIT's simulator to develop an intuitive feel for the forces at play: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/platform-w...
This comparison is invalid. They are two different games with overlapping but not identical fan bases. There are significant demographic, marketing, and competitive differences between the two releases. You really can't draw any conclusions about drm, positive or negative, from the relative sales figures.
Good point️
Additionally, people seem to forget about the term CONTEMPORARY..
It annoys me out that I can't use the word 'contemporary' when talking to 50% (~a lot?) of people.
Somebody whose talking about some band they like and, I ask if they are a "CONTEMPORARY act?", they OFTEN reply, "No, they are a new/modern band".. lol
Oh, here's a big list, with links to articles from all over the world.

But it does talk about how it might be 5G, which fit's pretty well with the comments here.

https://fendaux.com/why-are-dead-birds-falling-from-the-sky/
The only change I've noticed in Dropbox is it's getting less and less convenient to simply open the Dropbox folder in Finder. They really, really want me to use their fake file browser app thingy, which I loathe
In fact there are ways in C (e.g. `volatile`, though not all are portable…) to get closer to the raw integer pointers the OP seems to want… but the compiler is forced to generate worse code if you try to use them. That's probably why they're not the default.

The OP's viewpoint, which seems to be a fairly popular one, seems to be something like “why can't C be as intuitive as it was in the 1970's, didn't it work fine then?” Well, it probably still does work if you're happy with the level of optimisation a 1970's C compiler would give you (-O0 maybe?), and that's a valid choice! But compilers didn't get stricter about undefined behaviour for nothing, it's key to making those “zero-cost abstractions” actually have near-zero cost.
The fact users can become confused of something doesn't affect whether it's a fact or not. An insistence upon truths that contradict the facts works just fine except for the practical implications which are stubbornly unchanged.

During WW2 there was tremendous innovation in the field of electronics and radio. Some way through the war, both sides began fitting relatively small radio transmitters to aircraft, which enables an equipped aircraft to actively transmit. So one obvious idea is to transmit "Hey I'm friendly" and then you know not to send up interceptors.

So there's a nice switch on your bomber aeroplane that activates this fancy new "I'm friendly" transmitter, you are trained to switch it on as you return to base, and the chap fitting it seems damn sure it's important to switch it off when leaving. Which is odd right? I mean, it prevents getting shot down, stands to reason you'd turn it on all the time. And so, despite the urging of those who understood how it works, leaving it switched on was indeed common practice, and commanders would defend their crews for doing this, arguing that the perceived safety of the "Don't shoot me down" transmitter allowed them to press home attacks in conditions where it might otherwise be prudent to withdraw.

Which is funny because of course the reason to switch off the transmitter is that it's a free homing beacon for enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, so in choosing to do this they were actually significantly increasing their danger of death.
Sorry, I wrote "landfill" but I really meant "transfer station" -- i.e. the place you go to drop off rubbish/garbage/trash/recyclables, some of which gets plowed into the landfill.

Re: schools.. Many school grounds are not open to the public. Special events, perhaps, but you can't generally just wander in. In the odd circumstances you describe (journalists, parentally-designated temporary guardians), arrangements must be made in advance and can often be denied, or are on behalf of the resident.

Again, I'm just not sure where the line gets drawn. Parks are open space, and traditionally open to the public, but many other city-operated and -funded facilities are not.

You might conclude that the marginal operating expense of parks is not high enough for most towns to justify gatekeeping. But it's imaginable that some municipalities calculate expenses differently.

All of this is aside from PA's history of racial exclusion, which I know nothing about. Appearances matter too!
True origins of gold in our universe may have just changed – again
I find the BBC to be amazing for everything but UK politics
Ha, well I'm sorry if it's a partial disappointment, but Magaluf is a Spanish holiday destination for, stereotypically, drunk-before-they-get-there British yobs; and Wetherspoon's (aka 'spoons') is a large (down-market) pub chain (proprietor J D Wetherspoon).

Land's End is pretty GoT-y though - that's the most Westerly place in England (possibly GB? Probably a Scottish island is further West.) though I'm not sure if the meaning was ever literal, or if it was named after knowing that there did in fact lie other lands out there.
Yeah certainly the existence of credentials etc must be replicated to deal with cross-region connectivity issues etc. - which I guess explains why authentication is still working fine

GovCloud I believe is technically separated in this regard, I don't think IAM credentials can operate across partitions.

Though it does seem to be possible to link the existence of a standard AWS account with GovCloud, the same is not true of the China partition
I never felt that. Few of my friends are programmers. Horse trainer, corporate lawyer, landlord, city building inspector, medical illustrator.
The opposite of modern is quaint. Modern means that it uses new technologies (Web/HTML5/React), quaint means that it uses old technologies (Win32 UI/HTML 4/command line)
Oh yes MDI was horribly bad. Window management within other windows... Ugh.
KDE? You would be surprised at how small it's footprint has shrunk, it's as small or smaller than cinnamon now.
You explicitly claimed it wouldn't be worse. Consider applying your own standards to that claim.

Consider also that it's possible to assert something without perfect knowledge of its truth. Usually context is sufficient to gather the level of certainty being expressed, or the implicit perspective from which it holds true, without hedging and defensively weakening every little statement.

> > Perhaps that's because you want the wrong thing for some reason.

> Allow me to make it very simple: You didn't give any reasons for your opinion. You just gave your opinion.

I'm glad you translated it because I'd never have gotten the second claim from the first. Phew.

> What about that speaks to "theory of the mind and epistemology" in your opinion?

Your entire objection, which seems to carry some unusual assumptions about the power and utility of thought experiments and the extent of the value of comparing similar, but not identical, things. Notably, it appears to reject them as being to any useful degree, even for evaluating a user-facing OS feature valid or enlightening.

> Gee, I wonder if your whole problem couldn't just be solved by letting you opt into the whole idea of PWA notifications?

Making them opt-in and off by default, ideally with no way for the app to tell whether they're enabled, would be an improvement, but allow me to repeat my reason from my post which, you claim, contained no reasons: I do not want features that make webapps more viable on iOS, because I do not like webapps and prefer an environment that makes me less likely to encounter them for any reason. So simply not having the feature would be even better.

[EDIT] nb. I entirely get disagreement with my position on a variety of grounds, but I find such apparent failure to even engage with it, and rejection that it is a position, harder to understand.
It'd be considerate if they wore name tags. A brief bio would be nice too.
Where do you find these atheists? I don’t know of any atheists in my church, or any atheist friends that go to church
Try volunteering. I had this exact conversation yesterday on a firetruck on the way back from a hazard reduction burn, that one of the things we all valued most about our volunteering experience was that we were exposed to people we wouldn't normally hang out with in our professional or social circles.

That said, on this particular truck three people out of the crew of four were programmers. We thankfully pulled up the conversation about the merits of Jupyter Notebooks for BI tooling before the fourth crew member, who is studying forensics, got so bored her eyes rolled right out of her head.
A good thing is still a good thing. And for the vast majority of Americans, we aren't talking about starvation, or even homelessness.
Likely because profit-per-user falls off a cliff very rapidly under $10, due to increased support and admin costs and ballooning storage requirement. They would rather make $12.50 from 1 user than $0.50 from 25 users. Other players have different requirements (most of the value they get is into keeping people locked in their ecosystems).
Because I'd have to write a lot of variations of that one-line function to handle different date format variations from various systems.
> at least 0.04% of people with SARS and in 0.2% of those with MERS

Neglible.
> App Store developers are also customers

I found the concept of monopsony to be quite interesting here.
I didn’t read it as a moral argument. It’s simply that if you only hang out with people that are very similar to you, you are very unlikely to encounter a diverse set of viewpoints and are more vulnerable to group think.

This isn’t isolated to tech, it would apply to any insular community. To use a tech analogy, if you trained a machine learning model based on the preferences and viewpoints of only people who worked in tech, you’d end up with an overfitted and not very general model.

Your brain is trained on viewpoints you are exposed to as well, and you risk over fitting your brain to a narrow set of viewpoints if you never leave an insular community.
You say it like it's super simple...
Hong Kong Construction Costs
The Tiles app works fine for me. Usually i have floating windows but sometimes I need tiling and I use Tiles for that.
We keep coming up with ways to overcome this scarcity, however. Fracking has led to tons of cheap fossil fuels, for instance. I'm much more concerned with the disastrous effects if carbon-based fuels remain so cheap; we need to tax the hell out of it now rather than waiting for scarcity that might always be on the horizon.
With the Quest, you have to buy through their store (unless you're using Link to connect to a PC.)
The morally reprehensible stuff is justified by their perceived higher moral cause.

It's powerful, dangerous stuff that works as motivation for good and bad.
Tracking Hammerhead Sharks Reveals Conservation Targets
Comparing RT and al Jazeera is laughable. RT is hot garbage.
I hope they start offering something similar to the Android call screening feature https://www.androidcentral.com/how-use-call-screen-feature-p... That has been such a huge quality of life upgrade.
We're failing to maintain a million randomly selected invariants, though. "I can measure it" is a terrible motivating reason to keep something the same, and it would be impossible to maintain every invariant.

So instead we should look at actual harm and/or cleanup cost.
We spend it differently because supply and demand (yeah, duh), but what I mean is that we make about the same as our parents, but the cost of housing went up, while the cost of travel and electronics went down. So we buy cheap stuff while try to figure out what to do with housing (and healthcare, and so on).

Everything that requires local labor is very expensive (partly because our expectations and requirements increased, we are willing and able to spend more, so a very high equilibrium point formed), everything that can be mass produced is cheap. (And not just because externalities are hidden, but because technological progress.)
Third party obviously. Check whois.
Skyrim, The Witcher 3.

I'm actually surprised how many there are.
Move to a properly managed state
> - are under 35

> - live in San Francisco, Berkeley or Oakland

With those criteria, assuming you are in the tech field, you're probably making an order of magnitude more than your age-group peers.

It seems entirely reasonable that you wouldn't bump into the non-tech crowd since they can't afford the same lifestyle as you.

Over here in the Midwest, software jobs pay much more in line with other college-educated professions.

As a result, I'm the only programmer in my friend group, and most of the people make the same ballpark of money as I do.
It's odd because I have never really felt this living outside of sf. my personal circles include lots of other professionals like doctors, lawyers, consultants, accountants, (non software) engineers, etc. Don't these people exist in San Francisco too?
GovCloud is a separate partition from Secret. Different regulatory framework alignment and customer onboarding.

GovCloud customers only need be a US person or entity, beyond that any further regulatory alignment is up to the customer. AWS does not audit the IAM user base for nationality or any compliance requirements.

Disclaimer: I am an AWS Public Sector Solutions Architect.
Yes, I agree that church is an excellent group of friends.

Also putting the teaching into practice, by feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, welcoming strangers into your home (CouchSurfing/BeWelcome).

I analysed my Facebook Likes, and drew some symbols of the things I enjoy. Some of them have plenty of geeks (hardware, software, education, games), others do not (travel/environment, NGOs, music concerts, church). There are common-interest groups beyond sports.

https://github.com/peterburk/sortlikes
sweeeet, thanks for the heads up
I mean, is he wrong?

And I'm pretty sure he could find plenty of other activities that don't involve a high risk of brain damage.
It's true, but I think that's not the point. It's not because people don't care that it won't impact them.

Many people don't care about Privacy, Ecology, etc... yet it will have catastrophic consequences down the line.

Similarly here, yes it's true people don't care about the web engine, yet given Mozilla situation and Microsoft who switched to chromium, the web is seriously not in a good shape and it will have consequences on the long term.
I am currently on a long path towards a central machine that I can remotely access from an iPad (and a laptop). In addition to connecting via ssh or screen sharing, I'd love to be able to clone git repositories on the iPad and edit locally.

If I could Handoff something like a shallow clone of a git repo and its working index between iPad and mac, I'd be in love.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f...
Do you have examples of buildings that you've printed as a demonstration? What kind of printing device can operate on this scale?
The aim of small nuclear reactors is to be "safe" and "reliable" so the chances are the states that switch their electricity supply to small reactors aren't going to have lots of backup power. We don't have significant backup power as it is, because we're not expecting all our power plants to fail on the same day.

On the other hand states that use nuclear to supplement a "hydrogen economy" powered mostly by renewables (typical plan is 500% over-production with surplus converted to ammonia for shipping) will already have heaps of backup power and the nuclear plants would be redundant anyway.

So either you only have nuclear, and most of it will be the same thing because that's how it got cheap enough to use, and when the fleet is grounded you're screwed — or you have enough "backup" power that you never needed the nuclear reactors anyway and the government of the day takes the opportunity to shut down your white elephant project which was only ever intended to funnel public funds into your colleague's pockets anyway.

I don't honestly believe there is a middle ground where nuclear is selected as a supplement to renewables by a government that isn't corrupted.
could it not just be facebook messing with the browser history via javascript?
Compared to the extremely slow trial division algorithm (~2^(n/2) for an n bit number), it’s true that Grover’s algorithm (and perhaps this adiabatic algorithm) gives a significant speedup (~2^(n/4))—but that’s useless, because the best known classical factoring algorithms are already much faster than that (~5.5^∛n), and Shor’s quantum algorithm would be much, much faster still (~n²).

(Note that, strictly speaking, the best classical algorithms are already sub-exponential, i.e., faster than C^n for all C, so there’s no such thing as an “exponential speedup”.)

Quotes from Scott Aaronson about the adiabatic factorization of 143: “It doesn’t ‘know’ about the special mathematical properties of factoring that make that an easy problem for quantum computers. In contrast to Shor’s algorithm, we have no reason to think it would be able to factor 10,000 digit numbers in less than astronomical amounts of time.… I didn’t see any evidence that quantum behaviour played a role in finding the factors of 143.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21699-controversial-q...
It has some big issues (first hand). Avoid for a while if you do mission/life critical work on your phone. As for some of the devs saying it is great, many of them have crappy apps. The top devs like Rambo are tweeting to avoid.
I don't think it's the obscurity of the website that is doing it these days. I have plenty of money so I haven't downloaded warez for a long time. But if I were even tempted the possibility of getting hit with embedded ransomware would completely deter me, my multiple offsite backups notwithstanding.
Isn’t the author’s point that the hobbies he picks are also filled with people from the same profession?

He could pick a hobby he doesn’t enjoy, but that would defeat the point of a hobby...
But what does this really change in that regard? Some industries could no longer do that because they rely on generative modelling or ATC?

But designers of small PCBs (whatever their worth) or people 3D printing can continue unimpeded?

And I'm sure ATC can be added back in as a post-process, since it must at least stop for a manual tool change, or its CAM would be useless for even hobbyists.
> Any pointer which points to that integer value can then observe its value

With a() as written, there's no legitimate way to obtain the address of x, so there is no such pointer.

Am I wrong about this?
Yeah, because real poverty doesn't exist in this country right? It's all just about feelings!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-low...

> The average income is just $18,046 (£13,850) a year, and almost a third of the population live below the official US poverty line. The most elementary waste disposal infrastructure is often non-existent.

> Some 73% of residents included in the Baylor survey reported that they had been exposed to raw sewage washing back into their homes as a result of faulty septic tanks or waste pipes becoming overwhelmed in torrential rains.
You know, apple did a really good job on this in the past - with rosetta to emulate PPC when the first intel macs came out.

It's too bad they just don't make VM stuff available, and make it available for a long time.

Yes it might be only nostalgia, but why don't they have something simple like dosbox for macos that would run mac classic apps or recent stuff.

I guess you just have to keep your old systems around
I found that doing activities not related to nerd culture really helps you connect with non-programmers. Dancing, sports, volunteering (aside from Code for America, which is great, but filled with programmers) all help.

Also, regularly socializing with non-programmers seems to be a check against some of the anti-social habits we're all prone to pick up
No. I know the poster’s point. It’s argued badly. The poster is trying to argue that tech is a monoculture using their perspective as a lens. The author instead looks like a sheep and doesn’t notice all the other tech that are not like them.

The real problem is lack of rationality.
I agree. I've actually coded the same project in both and personally I like Rust
Apple unveils A14 Bionic processor with 40% faster CPU and 11.8B transistors
Insider joke:

K8s was born to solve the same problem Borg solved or simply design in such a way to not have that problem.

One of them is the config files hell.

Borgcfg files ranks #3 in terms of line count across all of Google. (Borgcfg language is similar to Jsonnet, helm)

In terms of the amount of power wielded buy a single CLI, `borgcfg`, this little program that has less than 50k lines of nontesting code, stands at a peak dwarfs almost anything else inside Google.

I declared in 2015 that k8s will eventually enjoy the same borgcfg problem. And I was advocating code driving application management approach as you suggested, not the configuration as code (behind the infrastructure as code facade).

Well, it seems I am still on the track to be on the correct camp...
Somehow the title reminds me of Madonna's song Material Girl.