skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is about this being a global phenomenon, with emphasis on France and the UK. Weird to believe that this is any worse in America than it is anywhere else.

It's human nature to have an in-group and out-group. Sometimes it's as simple as language. Generally, anyone who claims they have absolutely no bias against X people for Y characteristic aren't aware of their own biases.
“As of February 2017, it had compressed more than 203 PiB of user JPEG files, saving more than 46 PiB.”

Not too shabby.
Like a needle in a haystack.

But what if there are many needles, and this is just the one that was found?
I was doing that years before VSCode was even a thing. In tramp-mode. In Emacs.
That's very progressive!

I struggle with the opposite in Europe. (Many) Less progressive companies still ask for CVs with date of birth and photograph.

Even if they're fine with "blind" CVs, the first interview will invariably be just a 15min video call with someone from HR who doesn't know the first thing about the position, and is just there to look at your face and listen to you reiterate your CV.
I guess the iterator example would give similar results. I usually like to include an easy to read log message when I catch an exception to give more context about the error.

return '\n'.join(iter_tb_lines(e))
> Artificially restricting the number of people who can go to medical schools by imposing ridiculous requirements is not going to make better surgeons; it will mostly just drive up prices like in the US.

This is largely untrue. A recent debate: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k2ofqw/the_a...
Device Location Using LiveData Architecture Component
The media is a consensus-building machine, and there have been indeed more articles/papers/whatnot pushing for increased hallucinogenic usage. The real question is who benefits from this Overton Window shifting.

You're not square at all, these are a good set of questions to be asking.
>Isn't the idea of building the "next big app" itself based on the same kind of get-rich-quick mindset those schemes are exploiting?

Perhaps, depending on the app, a ponzi scheme is based on wanting to get rich by taking advantage of people's gullibility and non-understanding of how ponzi schemes work.

I suppose some apps could have that kind of disregard for how users of the app are harmed, but I think in most cases people building apps also think they are helping their users in some way. Ponzi schemers know they're only helping themselves.
Why not do both? In any case, most countries do already "increase tax" by levying taxes on gas that they don't levy on electric.
But with self-hosted Wordpress, especially with large number of plugins, you will have to constantly update your Wordpress installation or get hacked and spammed, no?
Iran is well aware that this is a Mossad job. They're not going to start attacking US bases in retaliation - that would just hurt Iran even more.

The point of this assassination is to make it harder for Iran to restart even with a softening US stance. Iran obviously has other scientists who can pick up the baton, but don't underestimate the amplifying power of a visionary, and the impact on morale when you lose someone like that. You've also got the gnawing fear factor of anyone who succeeds him, having a giant target on his back.

These are classic tried-and-true intelligence service tactics, and they work well.
I really hate that expression. Nobody EVER reinvents the wheel. We all know about wheels, and how they work and why they are useful. But we invent new types of wheels all the time. Maybe we put teeth on it and invent the cog. Maybe we invent the tire to improve traction and reduce bumps. Maybe we put spokes between the hub and the rim and to reduce rotating weight. These are all new and useful inventions despite still being wheels.

Sometimes an existing wheel design is perfect for our use case, or at least good enough that creating a new one isn't worth the effort. Sometimes a tweaked wheel is what we need. Sometimes a radical departure from established wheel design is required to make a new machine possible.

Build vs buy is an eternal question, and it's reasonable to examine and reexamine it for any project. But "reinvent the wheel" is just hyperbole.
So it looks like an O(n^2) search, to try all combinations of two plants where you have to get the intersection right.

However, banisteriopsis caapi is orally active on its own: a brew of just the vine will change perception.

So it's an O(n) search to find the ayahuasca vine, then another O(n) to find DMT bearing plants (there are several), which go with it. A typical preparation of the medicine will have a dozen or more plants in it, with two or three recognized as "active" by the standards of Western pharmacology.

So it's plausible to imagine the curanderos adding a bit of this, a bit of that, as guided by the spirits (or intuition, whatever looked good, your choice), then hitting on the combination.

This might sound like I'm being dismissive of what was most likely a directed search for medicinal plants, which isn't my intention. Just simplifying and glossing over that part, to point out that it's a two-stage discovery, and you don't need both plants in a brew to start using one of them.
Yea, seems like a neat library but I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to turn it on for all stack traces globally. Could see issues like the one you mentioned and others like variables that are secrets that shouldn't be logged.
> However, I feel incredibly welcome as a foreigner, and I believe that most friction between native Japanese and foreigners can be attributed to a language barrier.

I felt this too. All of my interactions with Japanese people during a short trip were positive. They were super kind and friendly. The one unusual interaction was when I was sitting on the side of the road, scrolling on my phone. A guy comes up to me and tells me not to sit there. I try asking him why, but he’s unable to explain to me. I try using the translate app but it didn’t work for us. It’s possible to interpret this as him being unwelcoming but it’s probably just that I was breaking some unwritten rule and he didn’t know how to explain it in English.

If anyone can explain this to me, I’d be grateful. I was sitting on the tiny bump on the side of the road near Meiji Jingu (like this, but not near any structure - https://images.app.goo.gl/SY8mqcym2jNS9tsdA)
How does one start something like this, or is it a matter of luck of having land that the cell phone company reaches out to you wanting to put a tower on?
These first generations Apple Silicon Macs are really publicly available DTKs for developers.

I think Apple is expecting all developers to jump and port their apps so they are ready when the high-end Apple Silicon devices hit the market.
I found it hard too.

Here’s what I did:

1. Start by making notes on your favourite podcast episode or book.

2. Use the notes as an outline.

3. Then expand with your own personal stories.

Search for PG and Seth Godin “on writing”. I found them both useful.

Also I used this method on my first post last week. And it got 25k views.

Edit: you can find it pinned to my Twitter handle
Step Inside the World’s Most Dangerous Garden (If You Dare) (2014)
"bespoke" is probably the one you'd want to use.
I've read most of the writing book on this thread and would recommend them if you wish to improve your writing.

Two other books I recommend are:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353358.Keys_to_Great_Wri...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22458828-write-everythin...

I'm not the best writer. But I can churn out quite a bit of content when I need to. Here's some tips.

1. Allow 1st draft to be bloody awful. It's a brain dump. Just get it done. Don’t edit or correct any spelling as you go. Worry about editing, argument order or spelling later. The Pomodoro Technique is a great way to force yourself to get your 1st draft finished.

2. Write way more than you need and then cut ruthlessly in your 2nd, 3rd drafts. Rule of thumb is that your 2nd draft should be 10%-30% smaller than your 1st.

3. Proofing your writing is hard. If it’s an important article hire a proof reader - they’ll spot mistakes which you won’t be aware of. If it’s just a personal blog post, then listening to your article through text to speech software is a great way catch errors. Also consider using this app: https://intelligentediting.com/

4. Writing is a skill. You’ll get better the more you do it. I recently decided to redo a personal blog of mine which I started 10 years ago. This was my first attempt at blogging or writing since my school days. The stuff I’d written 10 years ago was horrible. However, it was good to see how much my writing has improved since then. But it’s taken a lot of practice, hard work and time to get there.

5. As Stephen King says: You should read as much as you write. And make a habit of reading good writers often. I recommend anything by George Orwell & PG Wodehouse. Some of their writing is nearly 100 years old but it still shines today. Orwell’s prose is masterful. More modern writers to read are Elmore Leonard and Stephen King.

Here's some software I use/recommend:

https://www.wordrake.com/

https://intelligentediting.com/ <<great for proofing. If you are writing technical stuff this is an excellent tool have.

https://prowritingaid.com/

Lastly, practice, practice, practice.
I’ve done it too, but wget is pretty “dumb” and will try to save files as main.js?v=1.2.3. Also wget doesn’t support everything so you have to carry over some files manually.
Yeah, we're REALLY conscious of not selling snake oil. Life's too short to make useless crap. We've got a background in commercializing research and met in health-tech at CSIRO (Australia's science and technology research agency).

I want to write about efficacy of what we're doing, and how we approach that, as well.
Or.. I guess for your example you can set a max string length.

max_value_str_len max length of each variable string, -1 to disable, default=1000
This reminds me of a trick Monotone VCS in C++ had to print out specific variables upon failure. Usually they'd do nothing, but upon hitting an invariant or similar it would dump all the listed ones out. A bit harder to do cheaply in a safe language like Rust I guess...

MM(variabletodump);

example https://github.com/graydon/monotone/blob/master/graph.cc#L49...
docs https://github.com/graydon/monotone/blob/master/HACKING#L252

The implementation was a bit hairy https://github.com/graydon/monotone/blob/master/sanity.hh#L4...
A gun has even a lower barrier of entry if you want to kill someone, and kitchen knives even lower.

Small drones can’t cary a lot of payload getting your hands on high explosives that would actually do enough damage isn’t easy, rigging this up in a safe manner isn’t as easy as you think either.

Like I’m not saying you should try to do this to prove a point but you have much higher chances of blowing yourself up or even more likely be arrested prior than you think.
I meant Brave's adblocker was written in Rust, as the context was about how Brave's adblocker differs from others.
...this is a weird thing to say in reply to a post about killing lab mice.

I don't think the corpses were eaten, they took out the parts they needed to autopsy and tossed the rest in a biohazard bag, if it's anything like labs I've worked in.
This policy is fine, easy to implement, and discourages the sociopathic behavior of ICEing charging stops.

That said, it's not going to fix the problem. The root cause is cars -- both electric and petrol. Yes, EVs are an improvement over petrol cars. They decouple energy generation and transportation, so they will get cleaner with time.

But fundamentally we should be looking at ways to reduce the number of cars. Parking is a blight in urban areas, trains and public transport are massively better people movers, and even EVs produce significant pollution from their production and tire wear.
The Forgotten Hawaiian Islands in Canada
Ask HN: An efficient way to manage product listing of an e-commerce website?
DMT lasts about fifteen minutes, and is completely over after an hour.
I think you’re being ungenerous with the interpretation of the quote. I believe that he’s just speaking about how he’s driven, and there’s at least a recognition that this is a double-edged sword (“Even in gambling”). The article sure seems to suggest that he has come to terms with the negative impact he’s had on his family and friends and the fact that he took it all for granted.

I think this is true of driven people (and narcissists) generally, and it doesn’t make them innately bad or worthy of scorn, just as you shouldn’t get upset at a child for lacking the emotional control of an adult. He’s not really so different from other driven iconoclasts, like a Musk or Jobs. Their personal lives often have a trail of strained relationships (divorces, estranged children). This story is particularly good IMHO because his drive ultimately ruins him, but he finds some small redemption in the end.
Evolution of tree data structures for indexing: more than it sounds
> I am still not really clear on why such a property is necessary or even desirable in the context of high dimensional statistical learning algorithms

Law, regulations, and human trust.
Neither case is really static and you still need the server running.

Also for whatever reason even with the right headers I could never force CloudFlare to actually cache everything. I think it will just keep a copy of a visited page in some servers, but not in all, and definitely it won’t cache the whole site at once.
They really, really don't. This is one area where Stockholm syndrome usually kicks in hard for people who desperately want it to be true that Linux is polished and ready for the masses. Truthfully, I think I have the same issues on Linux nowadays as I had in the late 00's, just less consistently.

The things that might work better nowadays (sound is a somewhat fixed issue?) work inconsistently (`pulseaudio -k`) and for some people might not work at all. Open source has done very little to remove inconsistencies and all three of your "try ..." remain very relevant with tons of software on Linux.

Having used a Windows 10 box primarily for the last two years I can say there are way less issues and way less blockers involved when using Windows for development than Linux. I'm almost mad I didn't give up on Linux as a daily driver earlier, because in hindsight it really wasn't a productive experience.
Vancouver youngster uses pandemic downtime as opportunity for good
Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths[video]
We already have that in Europe, it’s called trains and taxis.
I'm surprised there aren't more SSCs (shitty Scrivener clones). Scrivener is by far my favorite writing tool, but it's also the tool that most frequently makes me wish I had the time to write my own version from scratch.
Which is ridiculous. The value of the software produced doesn’t depend on where the code was written.
It seems you're right that Dropbox has the plaintext server side from elsewhere in the thread.

It would also have been possible that they did the recompession client side though, and send enough metadata to calculate metrics. I had thought that's what they were doing, to save bandwidth/reduce upload times as well as save space on the servers.
In my school we spent five years on the intersection of math and programming that would make Dijkstra proud with only around 2 tiny courses for learning to program.

I don’t like to call me a software engineer because then people assume I studied git flags for years. Computer Scientist would be one term but people starts to assume that’s programming. If I say Theoretical Computer Science then programmers starts to understand the subjects spent learning (I was one course away from having that as my speciality). Even so I feel quite silly being irked about it because school was a long time ago and I’ve forgotten most of it and now I do remember a lot of git flags...

Any way, I’m rambling, my point is, Software Engineering as applied science does exist and thrive, you only need to look at some award winning research papers to convince yourself of that. The problem is that people assume they are training engineering when they are coding because the allure is so strong, when what they should try to do is write a research paper.
In most companies, a laptop is a standard issue. In my company, you are given a laptop on 1st day, but you have to put in a request for a desktop.

It also greatly simplifies working from home. Not just for portability.
How can you scrape it if it’s on their computer?
file system behaviour is also a Linux thing

It's required by POSIX, so all modern UNIX-like systems have this behavior:

When the file's link count becomes 0 and no process has the file open, the space occupied by the file shall be freed and the file shall no longer be accessible. If one or more processes have the file open when the last link is removed, the link shall be removed before unlink() returns, but the removal of the file contents shall be postponed until all references to the file are closed.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/u...
But that’s the point it’s not can it be done, but can it be done effectively enough to be selected as a method of assassination.

Too many things can go wrong with a finicky toy, you still need to be in line of sight most of the time and at that point two guys with AKs or an RPG are going to be a safer bet.

If I had to kill someone in a hostile country I rather have to be the one that empties a mag into their car than the one controlling an RC car trying to get under their vehicle in traffic hoping the battery won’t die, the remote won’t crap out and that no small pothole or pebble on the road will send my toy car flying ala rocket league.
Victoria has announced it's going to tax EVs per km driven to make up for losses in fuel taxes.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2020/n...
Static site generator in 130 lines of Python (excluding comments, docstrings, and blank lines): https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite

Disclosure: My wife developed this project.
There used to be a web site named modchip.com or something like that which sold mod chips for various video game consoles.

Why bother with PSX systems when you got PSX emulators for the PC that can display in a higher resolution?
You know, Apple runs a lot of servers too. Those servers run Linux. Why wouldn't Apple want to run Linux on their own chips? The power savings would be enormous.

Apple could port Linux without much trouble. It's just Linux drivers -- they are very capable of the work.

Something like a less beautiful Mac Mini M1 would probably suit their server needs decently.

I wish they would sell the chips and boards as XServe again though, and perhaps offer some cloud computing too. I don't see it happening though -- they are going all in on the consumer market.
> to hammer WordPress (and more importantly its plugin ecosystem) to act as an SSG

I don't have recent experience here but, last time I used WP (10+ years ago), they had caching plugins. Isn't that kind of the same? If not, couldn't you just yank out the editor of WP if you think it's more pleasant and put it into anything else you wanted?
Thanks Jake, I took a look at your profile, we're also Sydney based!

TBH, I'm a bit surprised as many people give us their email address as do. We really want this to be a waitlist, for people that want the product. We took a page out of SuperHuman on design.

In many ways, it's different strokes for different folks. Your response is the opposite of what we've heard from others, who love the design.

We're still in design of the final product, and have prototype units. If you want to see ugly, we've got that!

How would we show our research? The stock imagery seems to be working, so we'll stick to that until we have something more professional to show.
It's themed and timely. I'm not a great coder and don't have a CS background, but have found it very useful to stretch my abilities to the limit. Its much more friendly than any code competition site I've been on, abs also it's useful being able to go to reddit to get tips or occasionally help others (very occasionally in my case!).

I look forward to it each year.
And the irregular? Care to share?
"Bespoke" implies made to order for someone else.

I would just use "personal".
Non of these actions are uniquely European or religious.

You'll find similar outcomes throughout history and the world. Whether it's nationalism, communism, religion, tribalism or what ever. Us and them dynamics are constantly being created and exploited by various groups throughout our collective history.
It's less complicated however than to get 12 assassins out of the country without trace after such a messy kill.
While there are indeed lots of people doing this sort of thing, I notice people being accused of it who are in fact successful and are giving out actionable advice. (They're easy to spot if you look, because they don't ask you to buy their course).

Imagine, for example, that you had stumbled across a Magic Formula to create a niche Software as a Service business that brings in $5,000/month while only taking up 10 hours of your time each week. Why would you give that formula away when you could just use it yourself over and over and become a zillionaire?

Well, let's think about it. Assuming you do have that Magic Formula and have used it once, what are your options?

1. Go live on the beach in Thailand. Forever.

2. Build another business that brings in $5,000/month for 10hrs/week effort.

Notice that each spin of the Magic Formula cuts another 10 hours/week out of your schedule of growing your hair and hanging out with that blonde girl from the article. Spin it 4 times and you're back to having a full time job like the rest of the world.

So you don't do that. You hang out on the beach, wondering why more people don't do what you're doing. And you from time to time try to nudge a few more people into doing so themselves.

At least that's my take on it, having spun that formula twice.
Some of the depression engulfed people already on the edge to hell. They are willing to take a risk.
Building Glimmer.js Apps with Snowpack
Lots of monkeys banging away on typewriters, too
Messaging apps such as WA or Signal have no means of verifying keys, require phone numbers tied to the users’ real identity, operate based on a client-server model in which the server could be compromised by well-resourced agencies and require black-box phones that are not secure against phone manufacturers and agencies with whom they collaborate.

Users should be warned of perils of phones not quite under their control. Set up a proper FOSS machine that you understand, and use own encryption (be it PGP or some other tool serving the same purpose).
Chromebooks would be a perfect machine. Except that most chromebooks don't have premium features: dim screens, capped at 1080p, cheap Intel CPUs, plastic chassis, ...

I am still waiting for a premium chromebook with ARM CPU and great battery life to hit the market.