skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me rephrase.

Too high or too low temperature environment can hurt people. People with a soldeing iron can hurt people. People putting other people in the fridge can hurt people. Just temperature is not something which can do anything to anyone.

Capitalist companies, people living in capitalism, governments under capitalism, taxes and so on may be good or bad for people.

But saying "capitalism does not give a shit about people" is just literally nonsense. Of course it doesn't because an economic and political system is not an actor.

I could infer from the original comment that all actors under capitalism "do not give a shit", but that's obviously untrue. For example, wikipedia lives under capitalism and benefits from the capitalist system, and obiously it is good for people.

I could assume that the actor mean very narrow group of actors when they said "capitalism", but I won't because I will likely be wrong about understanding what the author really wanted to say (rich people? all people? large corporations? any corporations? including non-profits? and so on). It would be better if the author added some clarity to their comments. Would be better if the author said what exactly they wanted to say without throwing literally meaningless socialist slogans.
I have to guess not much and that's part of the reason people are angry about how policing is conducted in the USA right now.

A personal anecdote: a friend of mine is a former cop and reported one of his colleagues for lying about an arrest. Not even a week later, he was fired for "not being a team player". From what he said, this type of stuff happens all the time.
How long would you go jail in a foreign country for a stranger?
> If you complain to McDonald's, you don't really expect to a proper investigation of that wrong burger incident.

Apparently McDonald's franchisees take complaints from corporate very seriously, much to the dismay of their often teenaged employees.
Redistribution is just a technique to avoid a conflict of interest. They may end up redistributing between more- and less- wealthy people, but that's just a side-effect. Considering that low-carbon technologies are more capital-intensive than high-carbon tech, the redistribution may actually be from less-wealthy to more-wealthy actors.

We want the tax rate to be high enough to disincentivize carbon-emitting actions relative to carbon-neutral (or carbon-capturing) actions. But if government's ability to finance public operations is also affected, then we have a problem. The revenue-maximum tax rate is based on a completely different optimization problem than the carbon-minimum tax rate.

Making carbon taxes revenue-neutral decouples the two policy objectives.
If I had long-running servers at home or were using a runtime that didn't run on Windows very naturally, I supposed I'd feel differently - but that's not the case at the moment.
> it's more in the realm of COBOL

If you're talking about programming style, I don't see the resemblance (have you seen COBOL code?), and if you're talking about usage, then Java is much more popular and used in many more domains than COBOL ever was. If you must compare it to anything, then the C of large server-side software would be a more apt comparison, I think.

> The bulk of the Java applications are inside banks and insurance companies

And Apple and Google and Netflix and Amazon and Alibaba and governments and militaries and telcos and cedit card companies
and airports and power plants and factories; wherever you'd find big, mission critical server apps, really.
Not sure how these restrictions evolved over time, but the fact stands that I almost routinely get emails that are not meant for me.
Some services like Instagram are extremely obnoxious about it and those who aren't registered there get annoying pop ups to sign up that block the whole screen all the time.
It's true, but I would be surprised if the Auschwitz memorial director is really against _all_ blasphemy laws.

France just jailed an intellectual, Herve Ryssen, for the contents of his books and documentaries about jews. In the meantime, French political elites, including President Macron, are lauding the re-publication of Charlie Hebdo caricatures about Islam. Some animals are more equal than others...

Except for the United States, no country has real freedom of speech, and all countries have taboos that can land you in jail if you write books about certain topics.
Sounds like a terrible thing.
First create a life for yourself that is content enough on its own.
If you check, you'll often find they assume shorts and t-shirt.
I remember reading - long time ago - a story of a developer who used http://xxx as a placeholder for unknown domains, until at some point the browsers started resolved single-word links into www.<word>.com... :-o
Friendly reminder that vitamin D is not harmless, either. Overdoing it can have permanent consequences for your health. If you think you may be deficient (you probably are), have a medical professional assist you with blood work and safe dosage.
> As the director of a memorial to a place “where children were imprisoned and murdered, I cannot remain indifferent to this disgraceful sentence for humanity,” he said in the letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, posted on the Memorial’s Twitter account.
A Raku Manifesto (Part 1) – Daniel Sockwell
That’s pretty frequent for a healthy adult. How do the appointments go? I can’t imagine going without something to discuss.
There's a lot of overlap between file extensions and TLDs though. .py, .sh, and .app are some more examples (but a fully exhaustive list would be in the dozens if not hundreds). At some point you have to just treat them as the separate namespaces that they actually are (and not somehow try to block a TLD from being used as a file extension, or vice-versa).

Besides, accidentally resolving a file extension to a TLD is only one of many possible different serious errors that can result from exposing an API that can load files locally or remotely, and thus make network calls that you might not be expecting. Fundamentally you need to fix that API either way.
No Internet, No Problem. Venezuela Gets Bitcoin Satellite Node
But blasphemy laws are justifiable as well. They try to avoid riots on the streets by true believers and also limit the punishment to a well defined point.
>It’s been repeatedly debunked that in terms of real estate and operating costs, open plan offices don’t save money compared to one-office-per-worker designs

Source? I can't imagine there would be enough space for individual offices larger than a phonebooth per employee in the same space as open offices.

Anyway, to play the devil's advocate for the move fast and beak things type of companies, open offices are not only about cost, but about the ease to move people and teams around instantly as projects/resources change and more people are onboarded without having to constantly tear down and erect walls to accommodate the various sized teams.
JK Rowling is already a millionare, she can make pretty much any unpopular opinion on twitter or elswhere and apart from the outrage almost nothing will happen to her. She might stop being invited to some events, boo hoo.

If you or me posted on twitter that(as an example!!!) people shouldn't be free to pick their own gender and I'm like 99% certain I'd get fired or at least reprimended at work, and I'm sure finding further work would be difficult.

And I think you might be a little bit off the mark, because I do actually come from a formely communist country - and yeah, making unpopular statements against the ruling party wouldn't throw you in prison(at least not straight away) but you can guarantee most jobs would fire you on the spot and you'd have problems finding any further work. It's not as different as you think.
Just walking the last mile, taking the stairs consistently at work can be enough if biking isn't practical.
I agree with you entirely. I think the sweet spot is more obvious to me and you: software applications don't really need to be open source, but if the Operating System is, it allows a lot of flexibility, not to say people can't be flexible on proprietary operating systems, but I think for systems utils and kernels open source has strong benefits.

What I really think we're all missing out on is companies pushing more legacy GPU drivers out under an open source license, or opening up a spec for the community to build a correct open source derived driver from at the very least. It's a shame I can have a really irrelevant GPU that would be perfect for a Linux OS (I'm talking ATI level of old) and yet I can't get proper drivers and they wont be releasing any updates but I'm sure the old drivers are probably still functional enough to make my experience on Linux slightly more pleasant.

Engineers need to get paid, and not a lot of people become as successful as quickly with fully open sourced works.
Battle of the $350 laptops: Acer Swift 1 vs. Gateway Ryzen 3 3200U
Probably less problematic, as you dont have to merge your changes with a new release from SAP, it's justy your code that needs to be maintained.
It’s a great question. That depends on if an emotion and image would be language.

Given we had no language and communicated telepathically I’ve imagined that:

1. Using a feeling

2. Using a mental image

May be enough to form abstractions but that may in of itself be within the set of languages.

Said another way though, does language require symbols? It’s certainly possible to imagine language without words and we live in a time where symbols are abstractions for entire concepts within the noosphere.

Language is fundamentally based on abstractions.

Abstractions are fundamentally based on mind.

If the mind conjures abstractions then is it fundamentally a language no matter what? Probably.

What are the ways that we may use language to communicate? Far more than we think of today. Every time we extend the abstraction we are essentially evolving as a species. Almost to the point where our evolution is entirely dependent on our ability to abstract novelty continuously.
Urban doesn't mean 'metropolitan city', it means 'built up area'.
Large-Scale Geophysical Surveys of the Earth’s Crust with High-Power EM Pulses
As long as you stay away from sites that are purposely for that audience like Gab, you will be fine.

Most Mastodon users feel the same way we do, and block users and instances that promote toxic content. Join an instance with similarly minded people and you will never see people be shitty in those specific ways because they're blocked from engaging entirely.
Apparently, Google/Facebook contractors take complaints from Google/Facebook very seriously. What's your point?
Fair! Do you build workflows around the diffs themselves (collaborate, review, update)? I can already put my svgs in version control and have history/versions. But I've never felt compelled to look at a textual diff of viz code.
Why do you need an analogy at all? Are your students deeply familiar with the construction characteristics of wood and brick already and ready to draw parallels to software? How do those things relate at all to the subject at hand, strings as “means of display” (data?) versus strings as “computational” (keywords, operators, etc?).

Personally, I avoid analogies because they usually mean I don’t really know how to teach the topic, and I’m “hand-waving” on the fly. I either find a way to build on the student’s existing knowledge or I “park” the topic for discussion when the student has enough knowledge to give a correct answer.
I'd take that as evidence that Hal was not Nakamoto. I didn't know Hal very [1], but I'm pretty sure he was smart enough to realize that if doing something under his real name might have negative consequences, doing it under someone else's real name might bring them negative consequences. I'm also pretty sure he would consider bringing such negative consequences down on someone without their permission unethical and not do it.

[1] He was a senior engineer at APh working on Intellivison and Atari VCS games [2], when I was a fresh out of college junior engineer there. (And he was amazing at it [3]).

[2] http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/APh_Technological_Co...

[3] One of the big projects while I was there was the next generation Intellivision. It would have a significantly more powerful graphics processing chip than its predecessor. The prototypes for the new chip implemented via discrete logic on big wire wrapped card in a big card cage. We were all working hard to get some games working on the prototype, which was going to be shown in some closed demos at CES.

This was made difficult for most of us programmers because the hardware guys were still fiddling with the design. We'd work very late until we could not stay awake anymore, and go to sleep for a few hours. Then we'd wake up and head back to work...and many times we would then find a note on our development system that the hardware guys had made a revision, and replaced some of the boards with updated ones.

Those updates would often do things like change the function of control registers, or the number of sprites, or the way color worked. That sent most of us into at least a couple hours of changing our code to work with the new hardware. (This was all hand written assembly).

Not Hal.

Hal would spend just a few minutes, and his code worked again. Oh, and his code was also better performing than the rest of ours, and made better use of memory.
Yeah, but too much is really quite a lot. Let's not scare people away from taking a reasonable amount.
Why does there have to be a connection? It's a fundamentally unjust law, so people are trying to do two things in response:

1. Help ameliorate the punishment for a less unjust outcome in this specific case.

2. Take a symbolic action to protest blasphemy laws as a whole.

No need to look for hidden motivations!
Among the options in the US, but vehicles like this really do.
This is a really cool tool, but all the example images are using Rpg Maker assets, which is a bit of a turn off to a lot of folks I'm sure. Do you plan on building your own asset set? Kind of like the official RTP packages?
Yeah, Azure managed Postgres DB is slow. Using on a producton server right now and thinking to move to a VM, but it qoul reqeuire a lot of DB admin that we are not capable of (human resources, basically).

My question: Is out there any other PostreSQL managed service faster than Azure and as simple to set up?
If there's any common political rallying point in the USA, it's how expensive healthcare is!

Relief does exist. I know two close people who each had around $70k of medical debt wiped clean by hospitals.

But yes, healthcare costs need to drop. See this graph for a symptom of why healthcare is so expensive: http://www.ibj.com/ext/resources/blog/The-Dose/Physicians-Ad...
Because it doesn't happen during a renovation. An office is moved or opened and they don't buy cubicles in the first place or spend time and money to move them.
There's this guy who got an authentic Mobatime in his kitchen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmcHuL3Gpg
And Micro-Soft (yes, two words at the time) bought the core of what would become MS-DOS from a third party.

Is there something else going on here besides noise about who invented something or who purchased an idea?
I have no doubt about the existence of the Holocaust, but I put the laws in the same bucket of forcing people to think or speak in a way or else. People should be free to think and speak whatever they want, from flat earthers (plain stupid) to Holocaust deniers (ignorant) to religious (no comment) without stupid laws to force them - this is why I love the idea of the USA' First Amendment.
These days I find if it's not something antibiotics or steroids can fix you just get deposited on a conveyor belt of specialists that recommend you to the next specialist.
The benefits which come from scientific advances aren't distributed equally. My take on this is that for many people religion offers the only justification of suffering on Earth. Otherwise people with low education level and socioeconomic status don't understand why they have to live on 1$ a day.
Cloudflare isn't the only one with this sort of problem. I continue to get email from FedEx every month instructing me to update my credit card information. The information they have on file is from a card that expired over 10 years ago, and I closed my account with them 12 years ago.
I called them last month to ask them why they continue to send me these emails, and asked them to stop. Their response was that they cannot stop the emails. Even when I pointed out that my having no business relationship with them, and them not offering a way to opt-out is a violation of the "Can Spam" act, they shrugged.
Well, if you're on this site you must have heard something about adblockers? That's the first halve of your problem fixed.
I came here to say this: the domain is important here. Are trying to do web retail? then maybe you should just learn php and do Drupal. Are you trying to do a business that depends on some sort of data or analytics? Then python is probably the way to go. It all depends, and I would be very apprehensive to say "use X" without knowing the problem set.
I personally felt that Brexit / Trump marked a turning point where the foundations of the Western world were fundamentally called into question. Things have felt a lot less stable to me since then.

Geopolitics is one thing, but climate and environment are another. I remember in the 90s growing up as a kid hearing all this talk about the environment and if we act now we can turn it around etc. That turn around never came. Global weather events seem to be getting more extreme / frequent. The number of animal species we've wiped out is pretty mind boggling.

It feels like the combined trajectory of geopolitics, the climate, and biodiversity are heading in a direction that won't support life as we lived it in the 20th century.

Id be happy to be dead wrong about that. But it seems to me we've definitely wrecked the planet and that'll have huge consequences that'll change the nature of life on earth. It also seems to be the case that when a society collapses and another emerges the default seems to be an authoritarian regime with democracy being somewhat of an anomaly.
one of my pet theories was driven by a language observation. look at these two names written out side by side:

Nick Szabo
Satoshi Nakamoto

the writer in me looks at those two names and sees a kind of echo/mirror/rearrangement pattern, as if someone was either trying to give a clue as to their real identity, or, to mislead in a playful way

not decisive obviously. and might have been a coincidence. but if so its a weird one
Sounds an awful lot like the Twitter Blue Checkmark Hack a few months ago where a hacker got into a db and just reset all the accounts to his own/his friends email addresses

www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/7/15/21326372/twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-new-tweets-shut-off-verified-accounts
Lunch Roulette with Coworkers
No, they get spotlighted because when stuff like this happen, it's impossible to resolve or get in touch with a human. If it was resolved after contacting support it wouldn't have been a story.
Maybe a brief read up on gulags, knowing what got you there and what happened might help you.
Cooking is essential. Jumping into meal prepping for there, is another thing. Meal prepping saves you some time, but if you actually like cooking and enjoy fresh meals, this is not necessarily a good thing.

Meal prepping falls into the productivity porn category for me.
Hotel guest in Thailand jailed for defamation after posting bad online reviews
You mean comparing the one where a car with its headlights off turns up at your apartment around midnight and you're never seen again to one where you're a billionaire who gets angry comments on Twitter and, maybe, a non-material reduction in ongoing revenue from a work you finished years ago?
I bet the majority will beg to return to the offices as soon as the world returns to normal.
I think HN users are convinced in their immunity to various things: propaganda, conspiracy theories, advertising. I also think HN users are very good at coming up with reasons for why this might be the case.
You're probably right. London is over 51° N latitude. Most people in the hemisphere are well south of that. Most people in Canada live south of that.
> every sprint we either fail to deliver the work we commit to, or deliver work that ultimately fails the QA process
> people seem to indicate everything is fine until 3-4 days before the end of the sprint.

How long are these sprints? I wonder shorter sprints would help flag things earlier. Think about "velocity" as a metric to base sprint length on. How much wall clock time does it take to get a spelling fix into the release? Something that should pretty much always pass QA, peer review, etc. How often is your reworking a deliverable after QA fails it? Those two numbers should inform how you set sprint length -- long enough to get through the release process in the happy case, times enough iterations to reach that happy state.

What are the daily standup status reports like? If you want earlier warning signs, I would suggest a three tier approach: Green, Yellow, Red.

Green: deliverable is on track and expected to be completed on time.

Yellow: deliverable is at risk, but a minor amount of additional information, discussion, attention or overtime can put it back on track.

Red: deliverable is unlikely to finish on time and to spec.

The thing you as a manager/project manager want to avoid is a deliverable going directly from green to red, as it means your team is unable to assess or react. It will probably happen with juniors and new teams, but your job is to communicate displeasure at the event, and coach them privately (during weekly 1:1's) how to avoid that going forward.
Is that something PyPy would even accept patches for, or they haven't done it because it doesn't interest them?

I would hate for someone to do all that work only to end up with a fork
Mouse ball helps too. Theragun and learning all the trigger points to release for carpal tunnel has kept me out of the surgeon's office so far.
Is this a serious question? Are you comparing actual executions to the treatment of Rowling on Twitter? You must be trolling.
A lot of my ideas are already listed, so I’ll add Drawing. A lot of things can be made so much clearer through a drawing, and learning to draw effectively is easier than you might imagine. That doesn’t mean anyone can easily become a master — but practicing fundamentals can get you from 0-1 pretty quickly, in terms of being able to express ideas.
The author mentioned just such an energy storage tech: water.
> Except for the United States, no country has real freedom of speech

Ahem...

- https://youtu.be/TIClA57jWmQ

- https://youtu.be/xuAAPsiD768

Particularly the second link, the journalist is forbidden from interviewing an inmate. Also he's under special surveillance.

Call that "freedom of speech".
Ahh yes, nothing like melting the ice caps and flooding several countries to "find the balance" between being able to be alive and everyone on the planet owning 3 automobiles to ensure GM has a profitable quarter
Before open offices people had cubicles. So no need to renovate, just throw out the cubicles and buy new furniture.
> In the UK expressing politically incorrect opinion about genders may turn an otherwise successful writer into an outlaw.

An “outlaw” whose latest book went on to top the UK book charts: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/23/jk-rowling-thr...
This worries me because I assumed the lower tier that I'm using right now (it's a staging environment) for that project is slow because it's the lowest tier but performance would improve significantly once we upgrade to the production-grade tiers.

If that is not the case then I'm in trouble. I write and benchmark applications on my own laptop and always assume that if my low-end laptop is fast enough then whatever production-grade infrastructure we deploy it on will be on-par or faster. Seems like this assumption breaks down when it comes to Azure.