skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a hotel? Also, a week every couple of months isn't a bad trade off at all. Many people who drive trucks or are in sales or consulting travel every week for the whole work week.
Whether a tech-savvy person can run boolean searches on 5 different search engines ( that may not even be English-first engines ) and then find a "Daily Stormer" or two is not the point here - youre either missing the point entirely or deliberately gaslighting here.

The point is that the content is hard to reach and nearly inaccessible to wide swaths of the population if the forces that be, deem that content troubling, to the people in their walled gardens and the ideological bubbles, they operate in.

This way, you can effectively screen and curate what views and slants reach the masses and manufacture consensus around an issue easily. You and me and the tech-inclined can find easy workarounds but that is besides the point.

Thats a huge problem.
Yet the worldwide spread of this news story has done a million times more damage than a few reviews could have. Smart, now people are talking about avoiding Thailand all together.

If you want to be a tourist destination and at the same time threaten the freedom of your guests with such draconian laws, then you got a problem.

I read years ago that an American woman in Pakistan was arrested for walking on the street wearing short pants (wasn't modest enough). Tourists should know these things to be able to adapt or avoid.
Perhaps this is an effect of a new rise in "local tourism" necessitated by Covid-19. Locals reviewing tourism industry businesses instead of international tourists.
Nope, as proven with Limbo.

Go 1.0 is basically Limbo with a bit of Oberon-2 syntax.

Outside the chocolate factory, it would have been just as successful, to the point that everyone forgets about Inferno and only talks about Plan 9.
We have a few generations worth of managers who lived and breathed on-site culture before Covid disrupted their entire approach to managing teams. Many have adapted to the new normal, but clearly many others are going to fight for the old ways until they're forced to change for good... or not. We'll see.
Why is this a twitter thread? It should be a blog post.
A perfect time for Apache Foundation to admit OpenOffice demise, and endorse LibreOffice instead. They recently were removed from Gentoo Linux, hopefully other distributions soon.
Did anyone else expect this to be Doom running in Emacs?
Great idea as book, instead to following the traditional ones with bytecodes or plain old C.

A very nice introduction into modern alternatives specially for younger generations.
> I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America.

I don't get that statement. For example, there are a lot of banned TV series in "America" (I assume USA?), too. Not even going to mention all that other censorship there ... I didn't read your article yet, though. Just in case you clarify on that statement there.
If you don't want to leave your family for a couple days every quarter, you can still live close to the office.

But the point is that you are now also flexible to go live wherever you want.
The problem is smaller employers, which simply can't afford to shoulder the burden of paid maternity leave for 1 of their 10 employees. You can set up a graduated system like the UK has, where all employers have to pay and can reclaim a variable amount. But one way or another, any benefit the government won't foot the bill for is a benefit many parents won't get.
> The opportunity to buy that debt and call it as leverage to extract political gain is so easy and obvious

If this happened, you don't think he'd be able to get another institution (or GOP constituent) to re-finance/backstop his debt for him?

2-300m in debt is a lot but his businesses pull in 4-500m in annual revenue. It's not a crazy debt-to-income ratio.
Repos to PR for Hacktoberfest
It’s a totally different story with 2 or more children.

Your toddler won’t be quite as accommodating to the schedule of a newborn. Having two parents at home makes it much easier to manage a newborn, erratic sleep schedules, and other children.
nojs: https://nitter.net/Foone/status/1310377930661351424
Yes, MPLv2 does what you want. Consider that it's also used by Eigen. I strongly advocate for MPLv2 for math style libraries.
I also recently hacked up a simple FORTH-like system, but mine just emulates the effects making IF/ELSE/THEN and DO/LOOP be built-in primitives.

In short I let you define words, and work in a FORTH-like manner, but without the real extensibility of an actual FORTH system. That will be something I tackle next:

https://github.com/skx/foth/

Nice to see more FORTH stuff posted here!
Use cheap (above, but close to zero) to liquify air, store liquids in one set of tanks, store the heat in salt solution in another.... there was a recent story about a company that was getting 60% round trip efficiency.... they could store energy at the rate the compressor worked.... I imagine getting energy back could happen quicker.

With large enough tanks, it's not unrealistic to imagine storing 5MW-10MW for several days worth.... so about 50-100 MW-hour.
> with coastal access

At a finer grain, looking at the top 20 CSAs[1], many are non-coastal, but to my guesstimates only 20% are not on a navigable river:

7 8'000'000 Dallas-Forth Worth
11 6'900'000 Atlanta–Athens-Clarke County–Sandy Springs (160 km to Columbus)
13 5'000'000 Phoenix-Mesa
17 3'600'000 Denver-Aurora

(Boston-Worcester-Providence is almost as large as my entire country, and has far better water transport options.)

> ... and we have what's left of the United States. Not a great scenario if you follow it to its conclusion

Why not? While "Civilian aircraft and aircraft engines" probably takes a hit, the remaining US should continue to have its major exports:

1 Food, beverage and feed: $133 billion. Soybeans were the number one product in this category, with sales of $22 billion, followed by meat and poultry at $18 billion.
2 Crude oil, fuel and other petroleum products: $109 billion.

(and I'm pretty sure all three of those categories are things the chinese are currently importing?)

[1] by population. Anyone have a source for GDP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area

[2] https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/economy/top-us-exports... (2017, anything more recent?)

Colorado I wouldn't believe: unlike the west coast, they're tied into the national pipeline network. (On the gripping hand, it, like many other states, is on the western electrical grid.)
It's especially funny considering I'm a Singaporean citizen.
my favorite part of this bullshittery that there's quotes around my name. it's just my name. it's on my license and everything.

anyway you can keep linking to my threads. I just won't like it.
The anatomy of a non-technical founder
Well, with all due respect, that doesn't result in me (or I would argue, most workers) being able to live wherever they want. Plus you would still have to live relatively close to a major airport or something (and I don't even know what that's going to look like yet post-covid).

MAYBE it makes things better for a handful of relatively rich, highly paid workers/companies who don't mind spending significant time away from their families/homes, are happy to travel and who are willing to spring for regular accommodation for their workers, but I think for most workers springing for an office at home would be widely preferable.

And I say that as someone who, pre-covid, had to do a couple of nights per couple-of-months away from my family because my employer's work was already distributed around the nation...(honestly, the travel was personally one of the worst aspects of my job, though I know other people loved it).

Now with covid, i'm bitten with the "not enough space at home" problem (though thank god we got an in-built study put in beforehand), but I no longer have to travel long distances or stay overnight at any of the interstate offices, which i personally find a blessing.

But i'd take the all-remote or "two days in" model in preference...
There is no preacher like a recent convert.

For me, using C++, types have always been expected to do the heavy lifting. A language without sturdy types is a language that doesn't help you; you are left to do everything by hand.

C++, like Haskell and, to a lesser degree, Rust, make types power tools, engines of coding automation. Java types, by contrast, do not much for you, and C types are little better than none.

If you are new to programming with strong types, you will not reflexively unburden youself onto your types, and continue doing things the hard way. That will feel comfortable, but will limit your reach. To level up, you will need to consciously, and frequently, ask yourself if a type could shoulder another burden. You will know you are succeeding when features you didn't notice you were coding pop up, unbidden.
2x is very reasonable compared to alternatives like full emulation and electric fencing. It is production worthy. I use -fsanitize-address with static linking all the time. You just have to roll your own runtime to do that. All it entails is a little glue to veneer mmap() and malloc() so it calls memset() to poison (ADDR>>3)+0x7fff8000 appropriately.
Spying on the floating point behavior of existing, unmodified scientific
DeepL.com's JPN->ENG is better than Google Translate most of times, but still far from usable.

Also, it has "bugs" that sometimes it will just drop an entire sentence or half-sentence for no reason.
Your narrative sounds like you're claiming that we didn't learn from Chernobyl and that Fukushima is proof of that. That's not true, no one is going around claiming that ancient designs are somehow becoming safer and safer. Fukushima was constructed literally before Chernobyl was. Back then generation II reactors took an active approach to safety. Operators might have to take action and power to the plant needed to be always available in order to safely manage some faults. They took the approach of "lets get five redundant diesel generators and have triple redundant control cabling, sensors, and valves" whereas newer Generation IV reactors are passively safe when things go wrong. Even on the AP1000 which was approved by the NRC back in 2005 is passively safe even in a plantwide blackout with a gravity based evaporative cooling system that can last 72 hours before needing an additional source of water to fill it back up. Around 72 hours after shutdown the decay heat should be able to boil a little over a gallon per second of 30C water. All things considered it's pretty trivial to get a gallon per second of water to the reactor within 3 days time. The new SMR from NuScale that just got approved is even better given that the pool the reactor sits in is sized large enough that by the time the water in the pool is gone it'll have reduced to the point where it's cold enough to just air cool the reactor so it's passively safe indefinitely.

Even in the case of Fukushima, I'd like to point out that all things considered, zero people died from acute radiation poisoning and IIRC only one case of lung cancer was likely attributed to exposure from Fukushima. Fukushima was basically a worst case scenario for any Gen II reactor. The only reason Chernobyl was so much worse was because of the incredibly unsafe design out of the USSR. They didn't care, they didn't bother with a containment building at all, had operators blindly following orders from management even more incompetent than the operators were, operated the reactor way outside of the limits that were placed on the reactor by removing all the control rods which was never supposed to be done, etc. You can pin Fukushima on the Nuclear industry, Chernobyl was solely because of the callous indifference and incompetence of the USSR.
I’m curious if there will be any repercussions for listings of this hotel (and the inevitable “rebrandings” to follow) on platforms where these reviews were left.

I imagine either the listing has to go, or a platform can be sued. I bet none of them show any notice a la “by leaving a bad review you are rolling the dice on some jail time”.

(Personally I prefer to leave a good review or none at all, save for extreme cases.)
> Big Sur has been moving closer to the look and feel of iPadOS so that the new Apple Silicon machines can run iOS-native apps

Look and feel has little to do with the ability to run apps. The primary reason Apple Silicon will run iOS apps natively because it will be the same processor architecture.

However, a desktop OS being shoehorned into a mobile-like design is a very bad thing for a great amount of extremely obvious reasons.
California can't leave the USA, some states tried that before and it didn't turn out too well for them.
I agree I think especially for supporting a large number of languages your going to want to use online APIs so you don't need to store a lot of models locally. For common language pairs, or ones you use frequently it would be nice for privacy and offline use to be able to seamlessly do it locally.
IPO Market Parties Like It’s 1999
I always thought shell scripts are intended to avoid using GUI altogether?
Although I am 100% in agreement with your stance on the issue, I do feel that you are far too emotionally invested.

Your comment reads like you care what random strangers say on the internet. You shouldn't.

Despite the fact that you are right, others will not agree with you, and in fact may not even give a shit about the issue at all. They're humans, and every human is different. That's why we're so damn interesting.

The more you emotionally invest in what these people have to say, the more you will be dragged down into the abyss by them. Remember, that's not their abyss, that's your abyss. You created it by being so bothered by them.

This is my take on it, and if you have a different opinion, dude feel free to share I'm happy to hear! You have to approach everything on the internet as if it were an LSAT question you have to argue from an opposing viewpoint to pass the test. Make the best argument you possibly can, but don't be emotionally invested in it!

Again, I'm on your side. But I want you to hang around for the revolution, instead of having a heart-attack before we storm the gated communities.
Print developed as black-on-white because ink/dye is expensive, and a light paper with dark ink is much easier to achieve in general than the opposite.
I watched the whole thing. 2 things stood out to me.

- It really illustrated the point made in the article of how labor is really what makes it difficult to accomplish. Weeks of effort sourcing materials, constructing furnaces, bellows, and refining. When it came to extracting ore, they just dug a hole nearby.

- If the Wealden group (the attempt cited in the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsywnQJMJEk&feature=youtu.be) had watched this documentary, they might have had less furnace cracking and less trouble forming a bloom. I didn't see them add flux for example
Exactly. This is like when tax was put on foreign motorcycles to protect Harley Davidson because it clearly was an inferior product that could not live on customer demand alone against Japanese products. I own one of the products that came out of this debacle[1] which might be the reason I still remember this unlike most who seem to believe this is a new way to do things in the US.

1: https://bikez.com/motorcycles/kawasaki_kz_700-a1_1984.php
There are quotes because most people have never heard of you and without the quotes the title would be hard to parse.
Underwater datacenter modularized (Microsoft), Test results/PR
There’s a good book called “Drive”. Read that. It goes into what brings intrinsic motivation.
There’s a very vibrant backend community for Swift, Vapor is growing and used in production for a lot of companies.

https://vapor.codes
Encrypted SNI has been in talks for a long time now. It was meant to be out now but it was shot down at the last minute. And yes, its the last thing that allows a MitM to work out which site you are on if its hosted on a shared hosting platform. Likely this is the reason its hard to get approved.
Mandating 40 weeks off strikes me as excessive, but I think there are reasonable arguments for mandating 2 weeks or a month - it's hardly an unprecedented imposition. Forcing people to not work is a common strategy for addressing systemic issues. For example, many bankers are required to take a contiguous 2 week vacation at least once a year as an anti-fraud measure.
Totally agree that users have lost.

> GNU/Linux on the desktop has improved a lot, but it's still very far from being good.

What do you think is lacking for it to be 'good'?
114 points, not flagged - "As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash" (Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24561534)

264 points, not flagged - "You're Not Allowed to Film: The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland (Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390909)

Funny how stories about right-wing corruption and mal-governance get instantly flagged to oblivion, while culture-war stories that favor right-wing and right-libertarian agendas stay up.

These examples are hints that at least some of the flagging is politically motivated and not simply about relevance to hackers.
If we retaliate against every country that has disallowed something that is allowed in America, we're going to run out of imports very quickly.
I meant that maybe the original article was trying to exaggerate to make a rhetorical point about U.S inequality.
The market hasn’t fully adjusted yet, but once a lot more people are remote, salaries might also fluctuate depending on how far(cheap) you are allowed to live, with a higher price tag if you are required to be close to the office.

For now some companies use your local area salary average as a proxy for that adjustment, but I’d expect they come up with a more straight and easy to justify scaling rule in the future.
I actually came across your project yesterday :) Great work!
I'm glad you like it. Definitely I will add more features in the next few days.
Coloring period is a nice idea. Thanks!
You'd probably write these off as "$BIG_CO reinvents the wheel", but a few things these things did really well:

- Big bright LED ring around the outside that glows red or green to tell you if the room was available. This was very useful when performing one of the most common big company rituals, craning your head while speedwalking to try to find a free meeting room.

- 1-tap to book a room when you found such a free meeting room. They listed a bunch of common durations, including ones that rounded up to the next half-hour/hour.

- The "outside" Gizmo is integrated with an identical Gizmo inside the room that controls the VC equipment, providing a consistent UX. This is something I only appreciated after leaving: at my current company, the two are sourced from different companies and don't integrate -- you have to exit the meeting room and use the "outside" tablet to extend your meeting or check in, for example.

- When a meeting was running over and people checked in on the "outside" Gizmo, a loud ping sounded on the "inside" Gizmo to tell everybody to GTFO. This was not always successful.

Some pictures: https://andrea-locatelli.com/facebook-roomtool
> Younger devs will work longer, not have families

I work in a country where work hours are 8.5 hours (the half hour is for lunch). Period. If you consistently do more than that you'd be seen as someone who can't get his work done in time. So it's just not culturally encouraged to do that. I come from a much more capitalistic society originally, so I know first hand these companies/societies you speak of exist, and I'm hesitant to ever go back also because of this issue.
The sad thing is I know for sure I write shit code after 8 hours, and I'm sure it's true for most people. So while some startups can churn out young devs like that and get away with it, I'm sure there are businesses that actually care about code quality. Even in the most capitalistic of societies.
But we stray: within web dev, the question is how can I be more valuable to a Ruby team - as someone who did 3 years python, 3 years php and 3 years elixir or as someone who did 9 years Ruby?
no young children :)
Any source for that, looks pretty good to me? Been to 30 or so different countries but not entirely sure why traveling abroad is relevant.
> I just wish I could figure out how to use the thing.

We've talked over email. Hope my pointers were enough to get you unblocked :)
First Ever Self Charging Battery That Can Last Upto 28,000 Years
Eh, I think you just read it wrong. This doesn't seem confusing nor deliberate. Right above the list of the sponsored open source projects, it says in bold:

"""
The inclusion of the pledge recipients on this page does not constitute or imply any endorsement of Handshake on the part of recipients but simply reflects gratitude for the grant recipients' contributions to FOSS.

Some of the Current Pledge Recipients (Net 10.2MM USD + coin grants to some recipients)
"""

It has said this at least since August[0].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200817152057/https://handshake...
What is even more concerning is that the ban seems to be widely supported even though it is used for something obviously corrupt: The forced fire sale to Oracle with its personal connections to mr. Trump and the setting up of the 5B "education fund".

Really third world country stuff where extreme nationalism is used hide crony capitalism.
Thank you, but I don't use a notification server.
> Like, could I have a traditionally C++ app (Qt app) but have most of my code be in another LLVM-compatible language

It is possible! I mix Swift and Rust in my day job. I use the C ABI to interface between the two. The Swift layer is very thin and pretty much just a bridge between Rust and Cocoa/UIKit/Metal, but there's nothing stopping you from doing the opposite.

If you're going to bridge Swift with Qt, the sanest way is to use Objective-C++ to wrap Qt calls and call it from Swift.

However keep in mind that the Swift experience in other Operating Systems might not be as good as in Macs. That's why I went with Rust for this project. But things might have changed in the meantime!
In exchange for fewer top paying jobs, France, Germany and most other European countries in fact, favor a more equally distributed income and opportunity. This is motivated by a few centuries of experience: in turns out a more equal distribution (I.e. fewer poor) means less poverty related costs (financial and mental).

Somehow companies are getting by just fine paying all of that leave in Europe (in fact, government pitches in too). It's just the kind of world you want: more disparity and lots of poverty in exchange for a lottery ticket to wealth or a solid baseline and fewer economic tophits.
A quick google search would show that most of the people Coinbase has donated to support cryptocurrency. The only one I can't find info on is Patrick Davis from New Mexico. This is in line with the message of the blog post.
> Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians

What's the source of this statistic?
Interesting! What engine did the use to make it?
To determine which certificate to use the web server needs the client to send it the domain.

To send the domain securely the client needs to know the public key of the certificate the server is using.

This chicken and egg problem has gone unresolved for a long time, and only now are there efforts to fix it (see the work on esni).
Well I don't want 12 kids, but my mindset changes if enough kids means early retirement ;)