skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who’s a likely candidate for CRM acquisition? Seems like the space is a bit crowded and Salesforce is the big dog and lots of second tier but who’s a good fit for Twilio?
Oh come on

"So I was a holding an interview and my interviewee was a witch who used Clojure to write a low level implementation of a list rather than using the one in the stdlib. And at the end of the interview she just flew off out of the window on her broomstick! Rude! Apart from anything else, when she was concentrating hard, black snow started appearing in the room, I just don't think that would work in the office. Hard no from me!"
I did that every day and started to have muscle pains and weakness after a while. After doing some research and experimentations, turns out you also need to take magnesium if that happens.
There can be only one (centaur).
...and people have died from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Elite Lowell High School admissions would become a lottery under new SF proposal
If you have never met a representative sample of half the country it seems reasonable to assume anything you don't like is done by someone evil outside it.
Try running `firefox MOZ_LOG=PlatformDecoderModule:5`, navigating to a video and checking that the decode is being done though VA-API. Depending on your GPU, you might have to use something like enhanced-264ify to force Youtube to use formats that are supported by hardware decode.

More info here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/firefox#Hardware_video_...
How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus
Firstly: If you don't direct or mention about the external payment system in the app it doesn't break any of Apple rules. They can charge 1000$ on their own website and not pay a penny to Apple if they just don't link to their payment system in the app.

Secondly: My main issue is that the article is misleading the public to think Apple forced them to monetize a plan that was free. That is the farthest thing from the truth it can be. You are allowed to sell free apps and services on iOS.

Whether the app is free/paid or a service on top of the app is paid is not really Apple's concern. The concern is directing users to an external payment system.
What I found worked for me was to find a font that I liked and imitate it. Computer fonts are nice because you can use it for a bunch of text to practice copying, but you can do it without that and just take care to imitate the style as you write. Don’t rush through things and take as much time as you need to imitate the example style.
That's exactly my point, it's not actually based on any given accomplishment but more on "influence".
I installed a browser extension which keeps it set to latest
> I'd say if management routinely burns out programmers and prevents them from having long careers, that in itself is a form of age discrimination.

It's not management though that may be a part. Building complex systems with cutting (i.e., bleeding) edge technology is hard. A lot of projects fail, often with career consequences for the people in them. If you experience 2-3 of these you start to look around to see if there's an easier way to make a living.
>studies suggest that malnutrition might confer a longer lifespan.

There are some data suggesting that inadequate supply of this or that nutrient reduces certain aging mechanisms and leads to longer lifespans in a laboratory setting. However, outside of a laboratory setting these nutrient deficiencies can affect the body's ability to fight infections and heal injuries, which on average cancels out any benefits.

More generally, trying to increase lifespan by adjusting the diet seems to me like trying to fix a car by playing with the buttons and knobs on the dashboard. You might obtain a small improvement, but you're not really going to get anywhere unless you open the hood.
Note that you can totally do all of those if you root your device. Highly recommend.
The majority of people are not worth talking to.
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Why not? Lawful aspect aside, Apple states the conditions in their ToS upon which the app will be accepted and will stay available in their ecosystem.

It may seem unfair and counterintuitive, but I suspect that there is non-zero portion of Apple users that happily subscribe to this model.

What we're discussing here has strong political flavor, but this isn't the only case of Apple censoring Telegram's content. For example, all even remotely pornographic channels have been banned in native Telegram apps on iOS for years. Somehow Durov is silent about this (probably because you can't score some cheap publicity over defense of pornography).

His double standards aside: parent buying his child an iPhone is probably much happier due to this policy than not.
And the Neo-Assyrians. It's easy to lose track, but they get credit for arcade-supported aqueducts, while Romulus and Remus were still in diapers, to water the Hanging Gardens of ... Nineveh.

But they were known at the time mostly for impaling their enemies.
If you do strenuous workouts frequently then this helps you recover faster and workout longer. If you are just couch potato then it’s actually detrimental and you can develop all sorts of problems including peripheral neuropathy.
Delphi was extremely fast, and later much heavier releases such as Delphi 4 still were a lot more fast back then on older machines than Lazarus/FreePascal is today on modern hardware.

To give some figures, I've installed an old non legit version of Delphi 7 on Linux through Wine, and timed some compilation tests, from start of compilation to application running.
Well, on Lazarus an empty form takes like 28 seconds to compile first time, or uncached, while from 2nd time on it takes from 2 to 3 seconds. Another form filled with objects takes 3 seconds on Delphi 7 uncached, and about 1 second cached. All this under Wine, i5 machine, mechanical disk drive; the difference is astounding. I wish Lazarus/Freepascal received some optimizations to get more close to the speed of Delphi.
very obvious study result
Except Sun never charged for handset/embedded deployments. They charged for access to the J2ME trademark. This case is neither about trademarks nor J2ME.

That means they wouldn't have gotten any money from SavaJe like phones either.

The only people who "torpedoed" Sun was Sun themselves.

And yes, switching from an interoperabilty argument to 'they were morally obligated to buy Sun' is very much pivoting to a different argument.

Also, here's James Gosling later saying that APIs should not be copyrightable. http://nighthacks.com/jag/blog/397/index.html
Some of the business models they use should be outright illegal. I think that money made on harvesting and processing personal information should be confiscated and distributed among victims.
Oh I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing to want static type checking. I’m just saying that the type annotations in current Julia are absolutely not for that. It’s for multiple dispatch and for helping the compiler choose optimize your code.

The thing that’s interesting about Julia is that it’s sort of like a verb first language instead noun first. You describe the behaviors that you want by creating methods with one name, getindex, setindex!, etc. that defines the API. Then you can implement that for any type by creating a new method with the same name and a different type signature.

Edit: In fact, I think that over-annotating your methods is probably the number one mistake that new Julia programmers make. Adding a type to the type signature doesn't make your code fast. Adding too many types will restrict your code and it won't work when you think it will because you've told the compiler that this only works with 3-dimensional arrays of type Float64 and you're trying to call it with a 3-dimensional array of type Float32 or Int64.

What makes code fast is type stability, but that's a whole other topic.
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Men have breasts. Also, my "theory" doesn't need to explain why women have breasts?
This can be just MS relapse, non related to Vit D overdose.
There are plenty of matrix uses where 1-indexing is more natural. I think the main reason Julia uses it is to be more consistent with Matlab.
Sounds good.

So tell me, factually, are blacks responsible for 52% of all violent crimes yet constitute 12% of the population?

Gee wiz turns out science and facts get swept under the rug by liberals as well when they don't jive with their world view.
So this gets you also different behaviour that may be what you want, or may not, depending.

Specifically if you use SChannel, you get the CA roots from Microsoft's CA Root programme, whereas ordinarily you'll end up with (some derivative of) the Mozilla CA root programme.

You also get the local policy root overrides. So for example in many corporate networks with a middlebox ensuring employees don't look at porn, the middlebox is trusted according to Windows Group Policy. Now your Curl program works the same way as Internet Explorer does, if the site is trusted in IE then it's trusted in Curl.

On the other hand, this means that the SChannel enabled Curl trusts different things from the Curl on platforms with OpenSSL. Maybe this new setup works "fine" in SChannel Curl, but only when you try from a Linux do you discover that your new site doesn't work at all any more without Microsoft's trust list, which explains the thousands of new tickets filed by (mostly Linux using) customers whose product just mysteriously broke even though it looked fine on your Windows test machine and you've just closed a dozen of those tickets as WORKSFORME...
B3 overdose is dangerous if you have susceptibility to gout.

This happened to me after I inadvertently megadosed by consuming a knock-off Berocca drink containing something like 10x RDI.

That was over 10 years ago. I have not had a gout attack since.

Edited: Risk is actually for Vit B3 (Niacin). The drink I had contained massive amounts of B12, B3 and others.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-niacin/art-2036...
I loved Delphi. And Borland and Borland-progeny products.

I have a shrink-wrapped box of Turbo Pascal 7 for DOS.

It's been long enough since physical acquisition of software that I'm not even sure how to say that. "Box of Turbo Pascal" seems awkward.
The statistics are well known, and they do not support your conclusion.
Thank you very much for saying that. I'm glad to have been of service.

Making arguments in good faith sometimes feels like pointlessly shouting into the void.

Obligatory xkcd: https:// xkcd.com/386/
It's a winner-takes-it-all industry. Sometimes I have the weird realization that it's the same way if there was no GFW or regulations in China, there would be no Chinese competitors now because those tech giants in China would have been killed by the US counterparts years ago.

So domestic competition is not likely to happen anytime soon.
The last element is cashless society. They'll be able to delete your means to survive if you don't obey the t&c.
What if you knew how computers work? (2015)
Productivity goes into reducing prices, not increasing pay.

When a whole market can make 10x more solar panels for the same cost, solar prices go down by you guessed it - about 90%.

You don't suddenly have 10x more profit to pay your employees. Maybe a monopoly would, but not a competitive market like most businesses are in. These people have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.
>Reuters doesn't 'accept' the allegations, it's merely reporting on them:

What does that even mean? They clearly accepted the allegations into their reporting. You can evidence this for yourself by reading the article.

Legislatures are not independent bodies; 5-eyes member legislatures in particular. They are self-interested, self-serving, political entities with long histories of deceiving the public - especially regarding matters spun as national security - in order to advance their own interests.

This self-serving body, Parliament, self-published their allegations. Their message was readily available to the public. Zero news orgs were required to complete that task.

That done, Reuters opted to insert itself into the process, to the end of amplifying UK Govs' narrative. Assuming Reuters has at least minimal competency, they are painflly aware that MPs frequently lie and mislead the public about national security matters - often by parroting carefully crafted IC/LEO messages.

Given the source's nearly unbroken history of lying and misleading the public, choosing to "merely report" without any effort to protect the public from a high likelyhood of false information doesn't even rise to the level of neglect.

Willful collusion might be a better description - which, btw, is the same misdeed that Parliament is accusing Huawei of.
> does not directly answer to any legislative, judicial, or executive authority.

This is patently false. The Securities and Exchange Commission accredits and oversees all national SROs.
I have no problem with how he makes his living but when i wrote that he hadn't said a peep about it and it colors his arguments quite differently.

Now him making money from ads also doesn't give him the right to call someone a selfish asshole for not displaying them.

If a website wantsto block me for using an ad blocker that's fine by me, I leave the website no harm no foul.

But to act as if it's theft to view a page with adblocker on is just asinine, and he also did just that.

As others have said it's not just the ads, its the invasive tracking, resource hogging, auto playing videos et al. Ads have had their chance and pissed enough of us off that we said enough is enough.

We did not agree to be served an ad you jjst present it to us upon landing on your site. Ask away so we can deny but let's not for one second pretend any of us owe you our attention or our cpu just because we clicked some random link.
> A digitally-signed (by the bank) copy of the transaction would also suffice instead of a check.

You'd think, right? But the utility company said they never got it, talk to the bank, the bank said they delivered it, talk to the utility company.

> Decimal places can't shift with electronic payments.

When they're OCR'd, yes they can and did. I had to present an image of the check before they would fix it.
From the company webpage:
https://theseedcompany.ca/products/onion-walla-walla-sweet
A more detailed answer (but still somewhat vague) for those wondering things like "how long are the lines" and "on what hardware" can be found in the linked thread: "110 cycles per source byte".

Of course, that can vary significantly based on what those bytes actually represent (e.g. scanning through comments should take far fewer cycles than parsing keywords, numerical constants, or other expressions) so the actual "texture" of code being compiled will make a difference.

...and as someone who has spent a lot of time decompiling binaries, the lack of (any!) optimisations Delphi has reflects itself in the code it generates: It's extremely fast because it generates code extremely stupidly. Redundant moves, duplicated instructions(!), and other perplexingly stupid things are frequently seen. I suppose some of that might be a reflection of the quality of the source it was compiled from, but normally those don't show through with C compilers even at O0.
As I said, Google could have created new packages with the same functionality, but they didn’t. They copied Oracle’s Java libraries exactly. Even if you reimplement the implementing code, you’ve still copied a lot from the creative expression. One could argue that there’s more effort needed on part of designing the libraries than their underlying implementation, which would be much more straightforward.
The main power of Brazil is that every buildable unit ("package" in Brazil) can have multiple branches and then a software stack can be defined in terms of the set of branches ("version set" in Brazil) across all the software in the stack. The "version set" defines the complete build, test, and runtime closure of the application.

In that sense, a version set is very much like a branch in a monorepo. The difference is that version sets are more composable and a version set contains only a subset of the repo. Like branches, version sets can have an upstream version set, so a common pattern is to have three layers of version sets: the central one (called "live" at Amazon) which contains your build tools, open source packages etc.; a shared platform version set which contains code shared across many applications; and then a number of downstream application version sets.
Conservative versus Liberal Ideology
being able to hide the “liked by” (and "replied to") tweets is the only reason I'm still using Twitter at all
That's especially beautiful after having seen your replies to this thread. See my other replies on here too if you'd like i know better than to argue with you about ads, it wont get anywhere as evidenced by this thread.
Never heard of him. Was he one of the power rangers?
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The Scourge of Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
That book is in my top 3 technical books of all time. It's basically data structures for 2D/3D space.

It's also the only algorithms book I've found that actually has a whole section on how to write cache aware algorithms, pure gold.
This is utter garbage. This rag fired their journalists and has been muckraking their way to the election in hopes moral panic will support their numbers. Our institutions and our leaders are representative of our people - and we are a fundamentally good people.
As easy as starting up the interpreter with -t auto and then using, e.g., pmap instead of map.
> Or take the programmers who worked on Walmart.com. They didn't invent the transistor, Linux, or Java. They just used them to build a crud app.

Likewise, the shelf stockers who work at Walmart didn't invent pasteurization, the tin can, or the grocery cart. They just move the cans around.

What does that have to do with the fact that programmers contribute (on an ongoing basis) to improved productivity, while shelf stockers do not?
Julia's main parallel primitive (@spawnat) [1] is heavily inspired in Go, in which you just run anything in a managed lightweight thread, using a channel to pass data and sync with a fetch. That API is quite recent though (Julia 1.3), so there is still a lot of work going on both on the language side and on the library side to give higher level mechanisms, such as [2].

[1] https://julialang.org/blog/2019/07/multithreading/

[2] https://juliafolds.github.io/data-parallelism/tutorials/quic...
Fair enough. The decision to allow someone else to copy the code should be up to the owner and not be given away.

Also copyright protections aren’t given up because it makes a third party’s life easier. That’s also what was said during the hearing.
And I really wish I were good enough at, like, lambda calculus and category theory and whatever other black magic is in there to understand them!
Where did you get your credit card? Name-and-shame is important when dealing with corporations, but so is name-and-praise for the few that actually work correctly.
> "If your boss gets fired, this is your opportunity to get promoted."

If your boss gets fired and you are seen as part of their clique, expect to get shoved out the door as well.
Probably, but the 1% of places would be amazing and worth missing out on the other 99%.
OF course seasonal storage doesn't have significant usage... YET. It makes no sense to have it when we're still burning fossil fuels. But without seasonal storage providing power from renewables at high latitudes becomes very expensive in the winter (and countering weeks-long rare correlated production outages becomes very expensive too.)

> Anything. Anything is better for seasonal storage.

Let's go through that list.

Methane: you make that from hydrogen and CO2. Where is the CO2 coming from? The cost of capturing the CO2 will likely overshadow any savings in cavern space.

Flow batteries: obviously not economical. They might be good for a week or so of storage. For half a year? No.

Pumped hydro: the water volumes involved are too large (see other response.)

Molten salt: this will be stored in tanks above ground, and these will be more expensive per unit energy stored than underground hydrogen caverns. Getting the heat out of the salt is also problematic. Heat exchangers (and heat rejection on the other side of steam turbines) are not that cheap.

I don't think any of the alternatives you have proposed actually are superior to hydrogen.

> We don't know how to store hydrogen. Still. After decades or research.

Yes we do. In underground caverns. This is a known technology; it's already been done.
Turbo pascal was single pass, parse and compile.
> Emacs allows you to substitute any text for any other when viewing a document

Do you have a reference or search term for that? My Google-fu is failing me.
I've always defaulted to squaring the radii for circle collision to avoid the sqrt.

Is it a premature optimization these days?
> suspicions uBiome was billing its client’s medical insurance providers multiple times without the prior knowledge or consent of their clients

> Growth-hacking on the wild-west which is the internet is one thing, but when you try to use similar tactics in traditional, heavily regulated industries in developed, heavily regulated markets - that’s a recipe for disaster.

Was this growth-hacking or outright fraud? Are those the same thing?
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Same here. Datalog is superior to both, but alas.
For the record, I'm a fan of both Python and Julia (though, I believe that the latter is not yet ready for general programming mainstream industrial use). As for Python "stagnating as a scientific programming _language_", it is totally understandable. It tries to be the language of choice for everyone. However, as we know, "you can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time".
If you juggle while you write or process some data maybe. I don’t have that ability and personally can’t tell but you may be onto something. Writing on a keyboard is phisically easier and engaging fewer circuits in the brain. It has some advantages and some disadvantages, one of them being worse retention. It’s also the amount of information that we process these days that contributes to that as well.
Steel can be MELTED with electricity now, but that's not reducing iron ore to metal. Doing THAT with electricity is still at the lab or pilot scale.
Data isn't necessarily how you build great PC/Console games. Amazon probably killed this with an over-reliance on data. Just look at the mash-up of features were included in the launch. See: https://www.businessinsider.com/one-phrase-shows-amazons-dat... & https://www.pcgamer.com/crucible-review/

It was basically was a paint by numbers game with limited creativity.
On the other hand, it's never been easier to start a company and instantly reach a global market.
Babel for PHP: Coding with PHP 8.0, converting to 7.1 for deployment
Setting direction for others has always been the job, and the difficulty of that can vary.

If we measure a CEO’s job difficulty based on how many years a typical company in their industry can safely operate while stagnating, then the job has become many times more difficult in the last 40 years in some industries. In others, perhaps only twice as difficult.

That is not to say that salaries should stay high, but we would look for reduction to come from systemic productivity gains in management that have come to other white collar professions: software, more efficient management hierarchies, cultural changes in communication, etc.
It's just capitalism; there's nothing special about money having power. What's weird is that they're trying to diminish their power. It seems likely that while doing this, they're still selling more influence or making choices about what people see to benefit their shareholders