skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not just singapore . It is common in many parts of the world like middle east.

Economic Slavery has always been there and is still there. There are plenty of jobs which people don't want to do unless they are poor. Either countries kept parts of the population always poor or imported from poor countries. Like mexicans in america. Exploiting the working class is a feature of modern variants of capitalism.

Legal slavery is the only thing that got abolished.

P.S. on a seperate note and no means a defense of this, the salary is slightly misleading as it usually includes stay and food.
The democrats have fumbled this election cycle. One minute they’re encouraging riots, Pelosi and other politicians, next minute Pelosi is asking all violent protesters and looters to be prosecuted.

During the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton wrote its the Republican Party‘s duty to the American people to push a Supreme Court seat before Obama’s tenure was over (2016), now they demand the process is halted once the cards are dealt to the opposing side.

We’re seeing a shift of the Republican Party representing the working class, and the Democratic Party representing the wealthy. Both have issues, but don’t pretend one is ostensibly worse in totality.

Each party takes turns being the villain, and currently the Democrats pushes for chaos in the streets, and it backfired.

Just like Nixon was elected after the riots and bombings of the 60’s, this election too will be a landslide similar for both Nixon and Reagan. Democrats pushed too far with ideological baggage that the average blue collar, working class American doesn’t want to deal with.

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/1969-a-year-of...
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> All of the deliverable code in SQLite has been written from scratch. No code has been taken from other projects or from the open internet. Every line of code can be traced back to its original author, and all of those authors have public domain dedications on file. So the SQLite code base is clean and is uncontaminated with licensed code from other projects.

The reasoning is sound. I actually really appreciate the public domain licensing. I've always used MIT since it seemed the closest, but public domain is the most pure in my opinion. You can literally do anything with it.

Good on the authors for following through on this vision, even if it means having to do more things on their own.
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There are more aspects to productivity than typing efficiency.
jetbrains for work, vscode for personal
At that point though, bigcorp might look at the case say “F-it, let’s move on with our lives.”
Had no idea that SQLite is actually created/"owned" by a company, I figured it was just a group of people or small foundation that was sponsored by a lot of companies. I find it kinda funny that in the same page where they list SQLite as one of their products[0] they also have a Java applet from 1996 where you move blocks around to get one of them in the right spot[1]. It's pretty fun though, works great with the CheerpJ Applet Runner extension for chromium.

[0] http://www.hwaci.com/sw/index.html

[1] http://www.hwaci.com/sw/puzzle/ex7.html
Changing to Rank Choice voting is on the Referendum Ballot in Massachusetts this election. I'm in the city of cambridge which has a form of it for local elections already

I think its a good idea. Though Cambridge takes a long time to deliver results (Usually its 9 winners of about 27 candidates.) .

If your interested in the state ballot question, it 2 of 2:
See the states voter guide which is pretty decent:

https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/IFV_2020.pdf

Also info on "right to repair" (ballot question 1 of 2)

edit: you can kind of see how cambridge does "Proportional Representation" which is a little different. We still have to rank our candidates 1..n. on the ballot. the results pages show how its tallied: https://www.cambridgema.gov/election2019/official/Council%20...
s/If Florida had ranked voting in 2000/& and the candidates, campaigns, and voters all behaved as though it didn't/
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This entire discussion is strong evidence that the GIF is not crystal clear at all. (-:
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What about the mobile phone, though, has it been a greater invention? Mobile phones have brought communication everywhere, keeping us always connected. The internet compounded with smartphones is probably a bigger societal change vector
Thats not necessarily to its benefit.
yes the readers are probably going to block the ads.

however, let's assume whoever built this blog also know how to not let you block its ads.

1. put a sign saying please no-block, otherwise the site can not sustain.

2. embed the ads into your own blog server, the readers have to block the very site to block ads.
> They have to prioritize resources

Hence pjmlp wrote: "Poor Apple, budget cuts have been hit really hard". I think that's entirely fair.

Apple's resource is not infinite, but it's certainly more than enough to port Swift to Windows. Hence pjmlp says it shows "how important this is to Apple", especially in comparison to Java (Oracle) or .NET (Microsoft). I tend to agree.
I think different organizations have constraints that lend them to prioritizing different values. Because more of the population supports democrats, especially oft-disenfranchised groups, it’s in the party’s interests to expand the rights of voters.

It’s similar to how Apple can value privacy more because they are a hardware company.

You could look at this cynically and say that these organizations are all amoral agents who only behave according to their incentives. You’d be right. Another way to look at it is that these organizations are tools for humans, and their differing constraints mold them to be useful to further certain values. I don’t naively support democrats because I believe they are better people. I support them because their values align better with the world I want to live in.
Books work well when they are helping you solve a problem in your life. They are vital in communicatung new concepts and exploring old ones.

Who needs to remember more than the general idea of guns, germa, steel or darwinian memes in their life?

People who prosper from retaining a broad general knowledge tend to remember it better. I don't see the failure to instill articulated memories, people read books they don't need to consciously recite.
I wonder how many people accused this way are convicted and not fortunate enough to get help?
> Would testing it be easier if it were broken out further?

In my experience, you get the most effective use of your time by testing at interface boundaries.

How the code is structured inside of those doesn't terribly matter in most cases.

That said, you are almost always better off structuring a method as a linear set of steps rather than trying to turn it into some sort of "choose your own adventure" journey.

Basically a typical method of the sort I'm thinking of would be something like:

#{ Check early out conditions
...
#}

#{ Prepare the values
...
#}

#{ Perform I/O operation
...
#}

#{ Clean up / build return value
...
#}

You could break that out into four or five methods, but most likely the contents are going to be a bit of filler and then calling into some other library.

Easier to keep everything consolidated and avoid the spaghetti.
Maybe VSCode could show a little traffic light next to each plugin indicating its latency impact.

What IDEs have going for them is that the features are generally constructed by people who know what they are doing and test them at the same time. Whereas a plugin could be written by anyone. Also there's a great "works on my machine" when it comes to performance: the plugin author will just test the plugin on its own rather than with a bunch of other plugins, so their performance target is artificially low.
A wargame designer defines our four possible civil wars
I think he means how simply it is to 'decline'. Most websites will have an 'accept' and an extremely convoluted 'decline' or no 'decline' at all.
It was developed alongside React originally, but the syntax definition is now widely used in many other tools. Babel and TypeScript know how to parse JSX and compile it down to raw function calls, IDEs know how to parse it and highlight / autocomplete appropriately, and many other UI libraries are usable with JSX (Preact, Solid, etc).
The inhumanity is nothing to do with economics of it. It is do with how they are being treated.

What rights they have if they are selected out a shopping mall. They have zero avenue for support when they face abuse whether physical, sexual or emotional. visas in places like these ask you to leave immediately if you get quit or fired from a job.
Basically you're right. I'm extremely progressive on human rights, gender freedom, lgbqt rights, universal health care, etc but I refuse to bend to the whims of the current far left that teach we should hate ourselves (at least if you're a white cis male) and that we should shut up and let those outside that group decide everything and anything. Well I don't play that game and neither should others. Basically they think we should just walk around self flagellating in the public square.
Remote and Docker based Python environments have worked for a while in PyCharm.
I know a lot of people on the left who listen to and like JRE.
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> What does this mean?

I meant, the reason college sports are such a big deal in America is that they've been growing for decades with the support of tuition, donations, etc -- which is due to the perverse state of American university system. It didn't necessarily have to end up like this, but it would be hard to undo it now because it has become so important to so many people.
My startup's target is actually to close the AI gap. We are re-exposing the entire TensorFlow Python API in C#: https://losttech.software/gradient.html
I learned Perl and mod_perl from your articles on LJ and at the time they really helped me level up in my career! Thanks!
Him not being Yet Another Gatekeeper of the Anointed Opinions is actually pretty nice. Having a blank slate, laying out all options, even fringe ones, and letting people form their own opinions, it's a huge advancement in a media world where everything is ultraprocessed and spoonfed to the audience.

You shine light on conspiracists and fools, for everyone to see, not just hide them in the shadows. That feeds them.
I just deplore winner takes all in a states electoral college. California and Washington are not completely blue just as Texas is not completely red. They are actually more purple than half the rest of the country. The electoral college results should reflect this appropriately.
It’s also silly to say it “ripped the poker world apart”. There isn’t a competent poker player in the world who doesn’t believe Postle cheated.
On a beefy enough host, you could probably run massscan[1] while out at lunch and probably touch every ipv4 host on the internet.

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
My friend, I am doing my best and really hope to catch up. But I always seem to be almost 600 days behind you. Please, can we do something to fix this? (Without any danger to either of us, of course!)
Unless they discontinued it recently, you can still get a $35k 3 off menu.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127490_the-35k-tesla-m...
> In dissecting the exaggerated New York accents of Bugs Bunny

When I was a little kid in the 60s, I remember someone interviewing Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs). He couldn’t decide whether a Bronx or Brooklyn accent sounded tougher, so he chose elements of both for Bugs’ voice.
Having grown up in CT, it was the first time I realized there were different regional accents even among the different NYC boroughs.
I'm not super jazzed about where Scala sits on the syntactic complexity vs expressive power plot. Seems uncomfortably close to C++ from what I've seen of it, although I know that Dotty/Scala 3 is supposed to clean it up quite a bit conceptually.
Following in Maine's footsteps, both Massachusetts and Alaska have ballot measures this year to determine whether the states will adopt RCV for various elections. I believe that anything beyond FPTP is necessary for a healthy democracy in the long run, so I'm crossing my fingers that this can be the beginning of a trend among the states.

The details of the two bills, from https://www.fairvote.org/rcv_2020_ballot_measures:

> Alaskans for Better Elections collected enough signatures to put Ballot Measure 2 to a vote this November. If passed, this ballot measure will implement several changes, including: 1) "top four" blanket primaries for state and congressional offices, where all candidates would appear on the same primary ballot and the top-four vote getters would advance to the general election, regardless of party affiliation; 2) ranked choice voting in the choice among four candidates on the November ballot, with write-in candidates permitted; 3) ranked choice voting in the presidential election among all candidates who have qualified for the ballot and any write-in candidates

> After a multi-year educational campaign led by Voter Choice Massachusetts, an initiative will appear on the ballot as Question 2 that, if passed, would implement ranked choice voting for Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate and U.S House general and primary elections, state primary and general elections, and county offices, beginning in 2022. The initiative is supported by Yes on 2 for Ranked Choice Voting.

(Notably the MA bill doesn't include implementing RCV for the presidential election, but honestly that's not as big a deal as it could be given that the bill does apply to the federal legislative elections; the only reason the presidency has gotten so out of control is because a complicit legislature has allowed it to happen.)
Definitely all over eastern Queens
Some people outside of NYC think it's rude the first time they hear it! No "please" or "may I" in sight.
feed2exec is a more flexible version of rss2email:

https://feed2exec.readthedocs.io/
I think vim is like a rock, so it takes quite an effort to even scratch it then.

But even if you use a drill, can vim even become as useful as IntelliJ or VS code?
I doubt that.
I would be surprised if we didn’t get great software for making software. We have the domain knowledge.

Software engineers are not meteorologist nor doctors. We don’t want to know or understand meteorology or whatever doctors do, we like software (i.e. the problem solving).

HIPPA, atmospheric models, etc. are not why engineers get into it. So it takes effort to learn enough of a domain to build software for it.

It’s so hard and annoying to do that we even invented entire disciplines to be better at it: Scrum, Domain Driven Design, etc.

We do that for money because we find those domains incredibly boring or we just don’t want to spend the time learning about them.

Building good domain specific software requires a lot of domain specific knowledge.
Consider Wilkerson, chief of staff for Collin Powell, says the US is in Afghanistan to be able to disrupt BRI coming through Xinjiang and to be able to provide direct support for insurgency to destabilize China through inciting Uyghurs, I think we can say there's a bit more than the image we're presented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3f_EKnH7Tw
Mexico looks like a naked power struggle from top to bottom on all sides; the US hasn't yet broken all bonds in a civil war.
taking what he says

No one that knows this podcast takes JR serious on anything else than MMA/fighting, hunting, or the stand up comedy world.

Guests supply everything else, which is the point of bringing in people so different to each other.
Maybe it works for literal remote development, but the jetbrains support for remote dev in a docker container is a complete afterthought. There's tons of critical, relevant feature requests that have been stuck in the pipeline for years. In vscode, it is well thought out and polished. My team desperately wanted development out of containers to ease on-boarding and standardization of development environments. Trying to make it work with CLion was a nightmare that was practically dead before it started, and we thought we'd never get it. Then we found vscode's support and have never looked back. I sometimes laugh looking back at what we were having to do to get it to even slightly work, and think about all the troubles we would have had ahead.
Fair enough. I read that post again, and it clearly is indefensible. I was trying to address a different point.
I, for one, welcome our Y Combinator overlords.
Not sure what VSCode will become in future but for now VSCode is amazing for JS projects, quick browse & edits on adhoc files

But IntelliJ, GoLand, PyCharm etc.. is way more convenient for significant changes in code base.

And the data grip plugin provided by Jetbrains for Postgres / MySQL is light years ahead of any other DB GUI I came across.
For those wondering what a "ginger group" is:

> A ginger group is a formal or informal group within an organisation seeking to influence its direction and activity. The term comes from the phrase ginger up, meaning to enliven or stimulate. Ginger groups work to alter the organisation's policies, practices, or office-holders, while still supporting its general goals. Ginger groups sometimes form within the political parties of Commonwealth countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_group?wprov=sfla1
Implementing my own extended memory support in the supervisor is indeed an interesting idea, I might try it out :)

Another idea I had after reading the dosemu source is implementing a DPMI server to allow protected mode DOS apps to run. It might even be possible to run an early version of Windows this way too.
> There exist tests that can distinguish between the merely very good and the outstanding.

What tests are these?
never really watched

knew enough to know he was polarizing
Throughout my academic career, I've met quite a few brilliant mathematicians with no interest in such competitions. And quite a few "goes to competitions" folks with little interest in higher pursuits. Placing too much faith in any measure is fraught
How did you know he was polarizing? Did you know why? Did you care?
When someone gets labeled "polarizing" I tend to check it out and decide for myself, because those are the people with the most interesting ideas.
Thanks for that. I've wondered where this drumbeat of Xinjiang stories (and little evidence) was coming from. The idea that some far-right German fundamentalist is building a following behind some of it makes a lot of sense (particularly under Trump).

That said, there's little question what's happened in Tibet in the 70 years China has occupied it ... and what they've already done there (and here ... re the NYC Thai cop reporting to the consulate) (not to mention the Cultural Revolution or Tiananmen) makes it a lot easier to entertain the Xinjiang story. China plays a long game.
> "With is just building on the anti-pattern where .NET programmers are too lazy to implement constructors."

What? And aren't records just a lazy way to make classes then?
My point was that there is likely diminishing likelihood that the a test with such granularity would return a meaningful score. One would need to include a both a wider and deeper set of subject matter that still conforms to the context of the test. Eventually such a test would pick out the best studiers of generalized aptitude tests. While studying for a test is useful in academia - it's not "The" skill.

It's much simpler to have a candidate include notable achievements on their CV including competitions and after-school programs. However, even here you'll find factors that don't correlate to future performance e.g. those with the means and desire to min-max a CV for college admittance ( A very important life skill ) may not be the best leaders, academics, or students.

While both of the above skills will be correlated to future performance there are almost certainly diminishing returns from selecting the top .1% according to a single dimension.

Curiously the list of fields medalists does not appear to contain a mathlete at present. Providing at least one datapoint that performance in math competitions may not be correlated to future (Academic) mathematics achievement.
I thought that was a Jersey thing. Never came across it until college when a Jersey person mentioned it. Sparked a nice debate around terminology and pronunciation in the group (otherwise made up of MA and CT).
In that situation, why not cross compile?
Only if we kill theives and other criminals that take away people's time and energy.

A spammer is steals time and mental energy out of our day. It adds up over time.

Let's say each adult in the US spends 1 minute a day going through spam to make sure nothing important got mixed in. That's 6 hours a year, times 200,000,000 adults. That's 1,200,000,000 man-hours or 50,000,000 man-days, or divided by average life expectancy: 637,000 lives wasted each year by spam.

How many spammers are there? Even if it was 637,000 different spammers, they're each wasting the equivilent of a whole person's life.

Criminals aren't stealing money; they're stealing the time away from a person's life that they spent earning that money.
I've only got experience with Next.js, but I think it's less on the framework and more on the developer to design a site that degrades gracefully.

The framework's job is to upgrade gracefully - e.g. to facilitate building runtime functionality that meshes well with the statically rendered output.

Next.js and its fellows let you statically render anything you want. It can be a fully static output if you like.

The benefit of building it all out of React components is that there's no integration or binding that has to be done between the "static" elements of the page and the dynamic ones. They're one and the same, the only difference is the first render happens at build time.

A Next.js page that degrades gracefully is just one that's useful even if it only renders once.
1: If this is in the places where ads would normally be I wouldn't mind, however I absolutely dislike popups.

2: Do you really think people who use adblockers will like this?

Obviously this also depends on how annoying the ads are.
Is this correct, mathematically?

I understand the point that PI contains every possible piece of information, theoretically.

However, the chance of finding a given string in PI depends on the string’s length. The longer the string, the more the probability tends to 0.

The paradox therefore is that PI contains every PDF, but you will never find them, so in what sense does it really contain them at all?
New Zealand doesn't even use Ranked Choice / Preferential Voting (for the national parliament)!

It uses MMP, where the voter gets to vote for exactly one party list and one candidate for local member. Preferences are not involved.
We’re looking to rewrite a legacy C++ shared component that had become unmaintainable and are considering Kotlin native, mostly because it will be easier to hire for a mobile component written in one of the four primary mobile languages. How is your experience using it on iOS?
Economic apartheid. Justice isn't blind, some people only pretend it's a meritocracy. Just ask Chris Hedges about the students he teaches in prison who are mostly black and poor who will die there because they couldn't afford decent lawyers. The US, for example, has the highest incarceration rate in the world of every country except Seychelles and has for-profit prisons, immigration detention centers, and legal slavery of convicts working for corporations and as firefighters for slave wages.
> I'm used to it

That about sums it up. People use what they are used to. I don't try to convert anyone. I use the tool I like and to each their own.
So what happens next? 300 million people in the USA pull up stakes and move back to their (or ancestors) country of origin out of guilt?