skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’d also be surprised if moderate voters actually give a crap about anti-trust issues, at least not enough to sway their vote one way or the other.

It’s not about anti-trust per se, that’s just an excuse. The goal is to hit the big tech where it hurts, and effectively diminish their power for a long time. This is very popular attitude among Trump voters.
Protect yourself. Actively manage permissions and kill apps when not using. Stop downloading dodgy apps.
Ambiq has chips that can draw as little as 6uA/MHz and soon will reach 3uA/MHz:

https://ambiq.com/apollo4/
Which they also want to make illegal.
> Amazingly it's like music.

Maybe he means like jazz musicians? (I'm one.) Every musician I know has transcribed solos. You pick some solo you like but have no idea what they're doing, transcribe it, and learn to play it along with them. Bits and pieces perhaps will rub off in your own playing. You don't want to sound like them, but it's good to be able to if you want – and for that you need to absorb their style, so your body can just go into that mode, without having to think about it. I'm a piano player but have also transcribed sax, trumpet, bass lines, gospel songs, reggae, funk, .. even taps dripping, babies crying etc etc.
I think this is more or less correct, but I'm not aware of any conclusive evidence tying COVID to "meddling with nature". I guess you could consider dense, highly-connected human settlements to be an example of this, increasing susceptibility to pandemics, but I don't think that's a very useful criticism.
Hawking could joke about it. From one of his guest appearances on "The Big Bang Theory", where Sheldon is having some issues when a rival has outclassed him, and Leonard brings in Hawking to have a talk with Sheldon:

Stephen Hawking : I understand you're struggling with professional jealousy.

Sheldon Cooper : Thanks, Leonard, now he's not going to think I'm cool.

Stephen Hawking : Don't worry. I know how you feel. I have never won a Nobel prize.

Penny : Oh, wow, that doesn't seem fair.

Stephen Hawking : It's fine. I've been on The Simpsons.

Sheldon Cooper : How do you deal with the success of your colleagues?

Stephen Hawking : I remind myself every scientific advancement is a victory. Also, I was on Star Trek.

The first meeting between Hawking and Cooper was pretty funny. Hawking couldn't make very much in the way of facial expressions, but you could tell he was having a good time [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrOKpQ6UBI
This should be the top comment until remedied. This is super dangerous.
Workers fear humans implanted with microchips will steal their jobs
Why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever
Thanks for the correction. I’ve even confused myself on this one because of the title of https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8918 before, and I did it again now a few years later! My apologies.
> The article explicitly explained that personnel from PR moved into External Relations.

What's the difference between Public Relations and External Relations?
Azure Static Web App is free and no limits compared to this offer, I can also scale Web Apps in Azure, not sure why I would choose the digital ocean option. Competition is good for us at least :).
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> It's deeper than that, the shaders are _binary_ compatible.

I'd be surprised if this fact was true.

GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.2 aren't even binary compatible. Opcode 0x1 is "ReadLane" in GCN 1.0, but is "Add F32" in GCN 1.2.

https://github.com/CLRX/CLRX-mirror/wiki/GcnInstrsVop2

Vop2 are the "2-source / 1-destination" instruction format. You can see from the table that GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.2 don't even line up at all.

It wouldn't be hard to compile GCN 1.0 into GCN 1.2 instructions, but it wouldn't be binary-compatible, just assembly-language compatible (like 8080 -> 8086).

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Some other facts:

* RDNA is Wave32 native. Wave64 compatibility is available though, so that should mostly work for backwards compatibility (aside from DPP, which you do point out may not exist in PS4)

* S_WAITCNT ("wait for memory" instruction) has grossly changed in RDNA. In GCN, waiting for VM_CNT(0) will wait on loads and stores. But VM_CNT(0) only waits for loads on RDNA.

You need to change every S_WAITCNT VM_CNT(0) (GCN) into S_WAITCNT VM_CNT(0), followed by a new S_WAITCNT_VSCNT 0 instruction (wait for 0 outstanding loads, THEN wait for 0 outstanding stores).

This isn't "binary compatible", but if you just inserted one instruction on every GCN S_WAITCNT, you'd get the proper behavior in RDNA.

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I'm seeing GCN -> RDNA as a "mostly easy compile" between the assembly languages. But it doesn't seem binary compatible to me. I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two issues that popped up however.
Plan2Explore: Active Model-Building for Visual Reinforcement Learning
I have read report of people not recovering their sense of smell after months post recovery.

We don't have much experience with Covid and post recovery effects yet, so not catching it is my priority (rather than rolling dice and hope for the best).

I wish you full recovery.
Google Tables by Area 120
I've had several friends tell me they have had covid all who later say that the tests were negative. this is a form of mass hysteria of course. While true that tests can be wrong. It is unlikely that 100% of the people I know who have had it hav had negative tests. I personally don't know anyone who's had it and had a positive test. I know 2-3 that claim they've had it but test negative. Again this is extremely unlikely. We are in denial that other infectious diseases are scary and that it's not just covid.
Minnesota, Iowa State, and the University of Ohio State are very good schools too for tech prospects.
I don't think it'll work anyway. Previous actions to disassemble companies worked because they were the only ones able to serve the customer.

Phone companies, operating system installed on computer, airlines, railroads, etc.

The behavior here is not related to the companies being big.

Break up a tech company, and some other company will equally likely feed you the same info, find your personal data to sell, deliver you biased news, etc.

You've solved nothing.
Mapcode Japan is a simple way of sharing location
> Unless you instruct it to interpret the field as a string.

Except double clicking a CSV does not give you the option to do this. At this point Excel already decided to corrupt your data. And guess how most users open CSV files? That's right, they double click.

> I'm wondering, if you expect 10 digits and you get less than that, how difficult is it to add some padding zeroes?

If you expect 10 digits and get less than that, you have corrupted input data. Trying to "fix" this is exactly the sin excel is committing. Don't do that.
I was looking for a simple way to share longitude and latitude information when I came to this system used by almost all navigation unit in Japan.
Just wait till all the companies start to figure out that they can hire highly talented people in places like the Philippines or India for one tenth of the price of the Midwest.
A formerly poor neighborhood in the process of being gentrified.

Hilariously enough my artist friends are moving to the racist white trash neighborhoods because those are the only places where they can afford the rent. Here's hoping an art school drop out doesn't get ideas in such an environment.
Last year I was lured from New York City to one of the US's big 25 metro areas, not in the Midwest.

In New York, I would go to topic-focused programming meetups at Facebook's NYC headquarters and there would be over 200 people there, meeting after meeting. There's nothing like that here. The local university has some tech meetups, and there are some in the city center, but they look nothing like in New York. Due to Covid, I have not gone to any (and they seem to be cancelled any how).

Right now here, there are a handful of job openings that I am well-qualified for, but I can count them on one hand. In New York there are more job openings I could go in for. It's one of the biggest drawbacks in terms of a long term future here.

I have friends in the Phoenix metro area. The Phoenix metro area is larger than the Bay area metro area population wise, but the tech scene is smaller, and it small enough that everyone seems to know each other.

One nice thing in 2000 is as the dot-coms imploded, the job market in New York was not as heavily impacted as the Bay Area market. I started 2000 working for a startup that had IPO'd and ended it working for an investment bank. My salary was bumped up slightly, whereas some more junior people I knew in the Bay Area were laid off as their startups went bust and had trouble finding jobs out there as the market was flooded with junior or even mid-level talent.

I do know good, senior people who are tied to this area for one reason or another, who have moved around the handful of companies that are here. There are only a few big companies here employing a lot of programmers, so just like Phoenix, everybody seems to know each other here. When people are unhappy at my company, they contact former co-workers who moved to one of the other big companies and get pulled into their teams at their companies.

There aren't many "tech" companies, you're working for a Fortune 1000 company in their IT department usually here. Or a smaller company, although startup funding is not fantastic here.

I am not capable of senior level pay on my current stack yet, and a nice, large apartment in a nice, convenient neighborhood is cheaper than in NYC (although not incredibly cheaper). So I don't have much to complain on the salary front. But as it stands, there are less openings on the job market locally, and as I become more senior, it might even feel more constrained. Local companies have trouble attracting and retaining senior talent, and there is a reason for that. My company has been changing compensations rates around and making other changes in order to lure more talent.

Primarily due to the smaller number of job openings locally I don't see much of a long term future here outside of my current company. If I ever decide to look around, it will probably be in New York City or in the Bay Area. And my reasons for going back to New York City would include personal ones. Although one very good young programmer I know said he would prefer New York over San Francisco as he thinks New York would have more of a nightlife etc.
I don't think it's easy to describe in words. You actually have to be there. I've lived in a suburb of Toronto for most of my life (similar to a random American suburb), and when I went to Florence for the first time, I had a sense that the city was alive, independent of the people in it. It felt as if I was a part of something, even though I was just visiting for a couple of weeks. On the other hand, I didn't feel that in Rome.
I don't know if I would call it a crippling disability, but there are likely some permanent bloodclot related problems afterward for many.
Again, I haven't actually read the books or seen the show, so I'm a poor reference, just wa paxoniseki unte wa beltawala, an earthling stanning the language like an otaku.

I like what I've found online of the gestural language, and apparently it gets used far more in the show than lang belta itself (being much easier for anglophone audience and actors).

My impression is that it is normally a supplemental redundant channel (pair go with the outstretched arm, ya with a raised fist, kori or sensa with the hand on heart, tugut with the hand beaks, etc.) but an area I can easily imagine it would play a paralinguistic role is in telegraphing sarcasm: one might say something in english while gesturing the opposite[1][2]. IIRC Naomi does this to Martians at one point?

[1] I'd imagine spacesuit comms would often show talking heads, leaving the belter gestural language —which uses everything but the head, because helmets— with a clear channel for side messages to one's crew, in one's immediate presence, versus the ofisha comms reporting to management.

[2] having noticed the strong resemblance of "Oi, mush!" to "Ой, мужик!" I now wonder how coincidental the resemblance of "Guv'nor" to "говно" may be?

Edit: found a thread, https://www.reddit.com/r/LangBelta/comments/5w3puf/gestures/
No, it and other oil companies offload the costs of cleaning up their messes on the government (ie. the taxpayers) instead. Definitely better.
How is stating your observations, as the OP did, "virtue signaling"? The act of denying that racism exists is a popular tactic of white supremacists.
Awesome! I came here to say the same thing. Great work BTW!!
I highly doubt that this will ever succeed due to the S&P 500 and similar stock indexes. Over the past year (looking at September 6 2019 comparing that to today) there has been 15% growth in the S&P 500, which is insane considering the global pandemic and economic shutdowns. This means it is on track to double every 5 years. For a bit of context, if you were given 1,000 dollars on your 18th birthday and instead of buying a cruddy used car you invested it and made 15% interest every year, you're have over $700,000 dollars by the time you hit 65 and can retire on it. This 15% is including the massive dip that happened as the world came to a halt, without it who knows what insane growth there would have been reported.

Now with that out of the way and established, this was literally all due to big tech. All the profit is from monopolies. Apple specifically experienced over 100% growth over the last year, taking into account its weight[1] of 7% in the S&P 500 that means if my math is correct that roughly half of the growth of the S&P 500 was entirely apple. When you calculate out the weights of AAPL (Apple), MSFT (Microsoft), AMZN (Amazon), FB (Facebook), GOOGL (Alphabet stock 1), and GOOG (Alphabet stock 2) you have 24% of the total S&P 500 index. Their total change in value over the past year averaged based on their weight in the S&P 500 shows that they had a growth of 69%, when multiplied by .24 you get a bit over 15%. Making the S&P 6 most of the S&P 500s profit. By this math, which may be incorrect, it appears the remaining S&P 494 unsurprisingly is slightly down about 1% over the last year, pretty good considering the pandemic and all but the people demand stonk.

The % of S&P 500 profits attributable to each company (google stocks combined) according to my excel sheet:
Apple - 48%,
Amazon - 26%,
Microsoft - 20%,
Facebook - 7%, and
Alphabet - 5%

With this in perspective, it isn't that surprising that lawmakers will never bust these companies. The DOW is slightly more resilient to big tech (only a quarter of their total profits were microsoft and apple, they didn't have the other 3 big tech companies) and there are of course other stock indexes. However, politicians love to point to the stock market as proof of their economic successes and the S&P 500 is one of the common ones. If big tech is broken up, these companies will obviously make less profit once they're no longer a monopoly and with them the stonks go away.

It also really isn't a surprise why Buck is focusing on "conservative allegations that some platforms have tried to stifle conservative voices". Of those companies, only 2 could really be considered as having social media platforms. Both of which are the small fries when it comes to weighted profit on the stock market.

Sorry for going so long winded, but this article sparked over an hour of poking around and I wanted to share.

tl;dr, big tech monopolies cause most stonking and politicians love that too much

[1] - Apparent weightings for S&P 500 https://www.investopedia.com/top-10-s-and-p-500-stocks-by-in...
A vast majority of developer issues can be boiled down to RTFM, as usual.
I actually don’t see why a PaaS couldn’t do all of this better. Especially at larger companies, where containers and monitoring have been the norm internally forever, it is unclear why PaaS offerings still feel primitive... maybe there is some technology limitation here.

Edit: disclaimer, I have not used a PaaS service in a couple years.
In St. Louis, almost all of the engineers working for me in the past 5 years have had total comp between 100 and 170. New grads were in 60-80 range, but I think one or two job changes should have you at 100 in your first 3-5 years.
Getting Fewer “Likes” Than Others Elicits Emotional Distress in Adolescents
Is there a plan to support voice/video through the server?
Definitely there is a problem with people not realizing the oligopoly problem.

That said, I'm not as confident that changing public perception will actually have any impact on what the law does. There is pretty compelling evidence that in cases where public opinion and the opinion of large capital holders diverge w.r.t. a law, there is no relationship between the public opinion and what law is actually passed. [0]

[0]: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
When I say "personally heard" I don't mean just my peer group, but media and whatnot too. Government use seems consistent with people who don't understand computers though.
Because historically this happens in every technology.
Presumably, you are doing something other than just incrementing i in the loop, though.

Most of the time with Frama-C, all you have to provide is function pre- and post-conditions and loop invariants.
Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka
That is a really common response I get. I’m not coming from the frame that the past is better than the present, or that the past was somehow a paradise. I am also not coming from the frame that the present is better than the past, or that the future is better than the present, or that just because we got to industrialization, that it is necessarily the best we can do.

I am talking about a different way of seeing and relating to the world that is not the same as way of seeing of the world that lead us to our current industrialization. That, while this frame does share some of the way of seeing from the past, it does not mean that it is the same. That this way of seeing considers people as whole beings, and ecologies that are not separate from people. That humans have a particular role in ecologies that includes their ability to reason, develop technologies, and cultivate the land.

The kind of seeing that lead us to industrialization have been extent since the rise of civilizations and the separation of labor.

I know a lot of people from developing nations seek out to become more like the modern world. I also see people from the modern world having lost some part of themselves, who they are, their sense of place and belonging, and desperately seek out remedies for it. I see people joke about “First World Problems”, but for me, those are symptoms of a much deeper psychological malaise. So they seek out the jungles of Peru for psychedelics. Go to India to find a guru. Search for social justice at home. Cling to traditional values as they watch the rest of the world erode. Or just resign to the grind and hope you are lucky enough to win the social lottery.

I’m looking at a way of seeing that is not what had come before. It is not an escape. It taps into the tremendous power of human creativity, but one self-directed in a way that makes meaningful contributions to the world and society. I think that includes growing at least some of the food yourself, as that changes the participant’s psychology and relationship with the world and people around them, as well as building a decentralized food system. Not everyone is going to do that full time. But not everyone who can contribute something meaningful (art, music, etc) are able to do so now with the current systems in place.
I wonder if this would work with open source software
Tables, a Product from Area 120, by Google: One tool, many uses
It's not disngenous; they could have done more, but I don't think 1 then caused it and 2 had any material impact on it. It was a military/government run operation - did they need Facebook?
Sitzfleisch
Nearly all end-users open a CSV like this:

1. They see a file (they have file extensions turned off, which is the default, so they probably don't even know what a CSV is)

2. They double click it

Excel now corrupted the data. That is the problem. Good luck teaching all end-users how to use Excel properly.
I think I would be generally suspicious of people who are soliciting your support or affection by telling you most people are out to get you. (You're right that happens a lot here these days.)
When factoring in the cost of living, there isn't much of a pay difference. This is especially true once you have a family and have to care about living in a good school district.
Haha fair. I realize I sound very elitist there. Apologies. I agree that Minneapolis probably has wonderful theaters, food and other attractions, but I am skeptical that they're better than Boston or New York.
I think many people can resonate with the desire for more physical space than afforded by a city condo. To describe it as "consumerist" seems a little excessive. The ease of access to nature is another huge plus of getting outside the city
The issue is that the authors expectations didn't match with reality, because he hadn't yet read the docs.

The moment the author wrote "I normally use PostgreSQL" I knew that this would devolve into a "MySQL Bad" even if it's well defined and documented behavior.
I don't use Ruby much anymore, and my regular inbox is cluttered. Just signed up for JavaScript, React, Node, and Golang weekly in my hey.com account :)
Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)
I agree. If we allow the state to start reading all of our correspondence, we are going to start losing our freedoms at a far faster rate than we already have.
Love this idea. I've recently decided to do some deliberate practicing around typing. I've been using keybr [1] which is a great site that randomly makes up phonetically accurate pseudo-words and has you type them. The goal there is to have you practice weak combinations of keys, and they have an excellent stats dashboard to show you your progress over time. I was able to raise my typing speed from ~90 wpm to ~110 wpm as measured on that site over about 40 days through 10 minutes of practice per day.

Based on my experience with that site, which I really love, I'd love to see some additional tracking of keys. The downside of your core idea is that you can't really do the trick of forcing deliberate practice of weak key patterns to engrain them into you.

Some other suggestions for stats, based on what exists on keybr and what I'd like to see

- Time practiced today and stats for today

- Daily streaks to encourage practicing

- Cumulative time practiced

- A 7 day running average of your typing stats

[1] https://keybr.com
May I plug my own project? As a long time Celery user, here is what Celery would be if it were written by me:

https://github.com/NicolasLM/spinach