skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I have a belief system that's coherent and arrived at through my personal experience, which had me thinking very poorly of the 'orange man' LONG before it became a political thing. In fact, I'm damn horrified at how far the guy got, and I think I understand quite well how it was done.

It's not just some abstract 'otherwise neutral orange man' whose identity is entirely constructed by news media, and that's a strange argument to make. I think many people thought 'Al Capone bad' too, particularly if he'd robbed them or shot somebody they liked. I'm sure the greedy news media HELPED people get mad at Al Capone, and that there were redeeming factors in the guy, but the notion that there were automatically as many redeeming factors in Capone as in everybody else is NOT sensible. Maybe he just was mean, and sucked.

Likewise with 'orange man'. Way before he was a political figure, he was mean and sucked REALLY bad relative to my sense of how things work in the world. Some people just suck very, very much.

If you assume anyone who has success automatically does not suck, I admire your optimism but I sure don't share it. Seems to me that without considerable oversight, the opposite is usually true, and that the worst people, entities, companies etc. win. Hence, the invention of means of oversight, and the attempt to codify what's good and bad.
I think the arguments will be

- FTC Approved these as as legitimate acquisitions

- Facebook has direct competitors that can overtake them in just a few years

- Instagram was made by a few python coders in months. This shows how easy it is to make a product that competes with Facebook
My suggestion was the Former United Kingdom.
I agree completely. My mom still doesn't really understand the difference between phone calls, calls over Facebook Messenger, and calls over FaceTime
The election isn't fair, be it from voter suppression, gerrymandering, reduction of polling places and ID issuance locations, voter roll purging, etc, etc.

Latest example:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/georgia-count...

That still doesn't mean there was any fraud.
Except a credit card number is a piece of information that protects your real money that the word "steal" could definitely be used in relation to. It's like copying a key to a safe. This one however?
This absolutely matches my experience as a full time Clojure dev at multiple companies. Leadership is desperate to replace the code with something more maintainable. It's gotten bad enough that I will switch languages for my next job, the headaches are not worth it.
Absolutely, UK has benefitted so much these past few decades not just because it was a well developed country on its own, but because it had English as national language, which basically made it the default location for any U.S. company wanting to establish another headquarters in "Europe" or the EU.

With UK out of the picture, a lot more companies will switch headquarters to a bunch of other EU countries, even if the language barrier will be a bit of a pain to deal with at first.

I for one with the EU mandated English as the 2nd official language in all EU countries to be taught in schools at all times, used in stores, all online services, etc.

It would single-handedly create an economic boom in the EU, for the simple reason that all EU citizens would speak the same language.
We can make fission plants that are also immune to run away reactions. Even with old designs, you have to do something really stupid like have nightshift take out all your control rods to get a run away reaction.

While the fusion reaction itself isn't very dangerous, the magnetic coils in a fusion reactor can potentially quench, causing them to explode, which because of their position will throw radioactive debris from the irradiated reactor vessel all over the place, as well as your tritium breeding blanket which will be highly flammable, toxic, and a bit radioactive. Worse, you can't make the magnets passively-safe.

Then there are the standard issues like tritium release. And you have nuclear proliferation concerns as a fusion reactor is great at making plutonium by just doping the tritium breeding blanket with some natural uranium. In fact, the first "fusion" reactors will probably do this anyways as they need to produce more tritium to get more reactors online and because this dramatically increases power output - so you get all the fun of dealing with fission products too.

I would be willing to bet complying with the safety standards for fusion will in fact be more expensive than for fission. Yes the general population doesn't have the same irrational fear of fusion that it has of fission, but once people start seriously proposing to put these in people's backyards that will likely change.
There's good change and bad change though. I'm not sure brexit was the way to go.
The scary thing is eye tracking data which could be used to figure out effective decision strategies and could be used to place more compelling ads. When this information along with facebook( used for oculus login), instagram and data they get from google, I would be spammed with all kinds of things.
I am hoping for nice privacy based VR headset but looks like most companies grade eye tracking data.
Having lived in CO + TX (both states that get 'water restrictions'), never once did I worry about not having water to drink or bathe. They usually just ask us to conserve water and not water lawns so heavily in the summer. Not really comparable to countries where you need to plan to acquire and stock water for your family for daily use.
Capitalism is a beautiful thing!
On some level I don't really know why you would get tested, except if you're curious. I'm a person in my 30s. If I got covid symptoms, I would warn everyone I've had close or transitive close contact with -- that is, our nanny, my son's tutor, and my son's classroom. But I don't know if I would bother to get tested. How does knowing you have it help? I guess if I was sure I had it it would be nice to get confirmation so that I could have a strong belief I'm immune going forward. But other than that I'm not sure how it helps.
You need to be happy they didn't ask you to install McAfee...
Intel AMX Programming Model Lands in LLVM Compiler
He probably paid 10k of dollars for his Compiler like in the 80's.
That’s not true, you don’t have the right to return digital products at the moment (discs, software, video games etc). For warranties, there are a lot of problems consumers face that don’t get talked about, but I won’t get into detail here.
So, the "goal" of CentOS in their minds was not the part that was valued by a large proportion of its users.
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I second this.

I'm nothing close to a trained psychologist or counselor, but maybe a good first step is to determine if it's only programming that excites you, or seemingly unrelated parts of life as well.

I suspect that finding a worthwhile path forward depends a lot on that detail.
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Humans don’t notice difference between 0.2 or 0.4 sec startup, but we do it anyway :-)

./configure –without-makeinfo –with-cairo –without-modules
–without-compress-install –with-x-toolkit=no
–with-gnutls –without-gconf –without-xwidgets
–without-toolkit-scroll-bars –without-xaw3d
–without-gsettings –with-mailutils –with-nativecomp
CFLAGS=”-O3 -mtune=native -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer”
Maybe if you make it known that you have some Clojure projects and that it might have even a possibility of a future with you, you might be able to attract and hire some good devs
The goal of CentOS, back when I used it, was to provide a bedrock-solid OS and package repository. CentOS machines would run for months or years without manual intervention.

That's as far from "innovation" as you can get - and that was the point. We didn't want the bleeding edge. We wanted the spine of the blade upon which to build our bleeding edge software.
Great thread.

> So said brilliant engineer in Amsterdam, built an annealing algorithm in the release build to reorder the optimization passes in such a way to as minimize size. This shaved a whooping 11 mbs off the total machine code size and bought us enough runway to keep development going.

> This terrified the Swift compiler engineers, they were worried that untested complier pass orders would expose untested bugs

This would scare me too.

> I had privately had the “we need to stop” conversation with my director. He told me that if this project fails he might as well pack his bags. The same was true for his boss all the way up to the VP. There was no way out.

This brings up an interesting point. The author attributes some decisions in the thread to the "sunk cost fallacy". The business costs were sunk, but if the employees and management are too afraid for their job to make the "cut your losses" decision, the costs are not really sunk, at least not in the minds of the right people.
The original founder of CentOS basically forked CentOS:

https://rockylinux.org/
> > But consider the alternative. FB are blocked from buying IG, so IG need to set up a sales team, an adevertising method and epxand globally. None of these things are cheap or trivial. There does exist a world where IG competes on a level-playing field independently, but I would argue that at least 80% of the time, this hypothetical leads to IG either under-performing or flaming out.

Both of these outcomes are speculative, but I'm not convinced about the 80% figure. I'm not sure that IG needed FB alone to get to a billion users. Many of those users aren't necessarily people and are companies, organizations and other entities which use IG for engagement. It's enough that people spend more time on IG than FB the app or website to convince those entities to engage on IG. Not sure what the proportions are exactly but just giving an example.

IG had less than 20mn users when acquired, literally nobody cared about it outside of the early-adopter crowd in SF. In general, value comes from execution rather than the idea, and I am definitely not convinced that IG would be anywhere near where it is today without Facebook, which leads me to believe that breaking it off at this point is pretty unfair.

Like, another way FB could have competed would have been to buy IG and let it die slowly. Given this anti-trust suit, that would appear to have been the smarter move, but it definitely wouldn't be overall better.

Lets also note that FB became popular not just because it was good, but because it was good and always stayed up, regardless of user growth. That has probably been one of the major engines for IG growth.

Finally, the success of IG was also driven by the use of free advertising on FB, without that it would have taken a lot longer (and cost a lot more money) for them to reach the scale that they have now.

Again, thanks for replying. I'm still not convinced by your model of the cost of IG/FB, but I appreciate that it's reasonably well thought out.
Every single paper on IFR estimation seems to mostly ignore that poorer countries without infrastructure aren't capable of and are not capturing a large fraction of the covid-19 caused deaths.

They all show a clear trend of lower IFR in places like Kenya, Peru, etc and significantly higher IFR in places like Switzerland, England, France, Germany, etc. It's not hard to figure out which is closer to reality.

The only odd-man out is China, and that's obviously because China kicked out all journalists and started faking numbers back in March and have continued to report falsehoods since.
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Yeah that's the embed. The players on the actual songbox pages themselves are nicer. I may pull the embed functionality as I don't think it's used much.

Maybe when songbox scales it will be useful but right now the main use of my product is for tracks that are NOT YET public, so the embed thing was probably a waste of my time lol.
"Shaving the Yak" is great. However I often think of the MITM video when in these situations; and personally refer to it as "Hal's Tangent" which has a kind of philosophical/mathematics feel to it.
> “Sorry, we don’t have the money” is a much better negotiating position than “can we please have our money back?”

I agree but why would you like to be in either position anyway? The so-called cloud services are terribly overpriced when compared to traditional servers.
Can someone enlighten me, what does it mean that RedHat bought CentOS? Who owned CentOS, who got paid for it? I never did any research about those topics, but for me CentOS was like Debian: just community under a single tag which can't be bought or sold. I guess I was wrong.
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Not the one you asked, but I want to offer two things:

How good it is depends on a person and their ability to understand help as opposed to owning other peoples problems. It can be easy to get sucked into all that and make things worse.

Assuming all that is reasonable, I find helping others energizing. And it exercises skills that may be getting dull or increasingly hard to relate to.

FWIW
As someone interested in the internal workings of the internet, do you have any further reading on current best practices?
>Senators can ask YouTube to try and stop running videos peddling conspiracy theories on their platform, because they believe YouTube (despite the large number of complaints about them) is generally speaking, a responsible and fairminded platform; and they expect that YouTube is broadly trying to do the right thing – not be political, but also crack down on unreasonable crackpot theories being peddled on its platform.

>Asking this of a less fair-minded source (say the vidoes on a Stormfront website) would be pointless, which is why the Senators don't do so. You will notice that the Senators aren't asking the creators of Gab to crack down on crackpot theories on their platform either.

That's an interesting theory. Someone else might argue they are targeting YouTube and Facebook because there are more swing voters on these platforms and because these platforms are far more viral than Gab or Storefront.
> non-romance languages that can't be segmented by whitespace

That can't be right? Surely Greek, Russian, Turkish, etc are whitespace delimited?
> Looking at recorded human history, the long term trend consistently is that the population has risen. This means resource availability has increased, either due to discovery of new sources, invention, efficiency increase. Shocking decreases in some or other resource have had little effect on this trend.

I've been filling this bucket with water, and it's never overflown. Therefore the bucket can contain infinite water.

Free market economics don't work so well when the biggest players decide to augment their value proposition with the barrel of a gun. Available biomass is not the relevant metric when determining the carrying capacity of the earth, with the obvious caveat that by carrying capacity, we mean some definition that includes the continuation of modern society.
To a non computer, non regulation person, this is a hilarious headline. A dog in France is apparently fining a number and a rainforest for presumably stealing some cookies.
True, but it seems like it's only a matter of time then.

What can you call a chronic 20 year drought when it stretches to 40 years?
Parts of IG in the early days involved filters on iOS, which at the time there was no library for. My understanding. The web version was Django, yes.
In terms of the projects, one way that I help myself with that type of thing is to just sit down and build the interesting part standalone (if possible). Just work through the hard part in raw language of choice, skip the boilerplate, project setup, assumption that anybody else but you is ever going to look at it and see if you can make it do the thing that you think you can make it do.

Get to the other stuff later if you decide to pursue it further, but the fun is often translating what's in your brain to code even in it's simplest form. Very few people sit around dreaming up ideas and just can't wait...to write a bunch of tests and setup a CI.
Finally - can't wait to buy the unfacebooked edition.
the lawsuit is one of the first of its kind in China, which has one of the most extensive surveillance networks in the world and has attempted to normalize the use of facial recognition.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. It sucks, I don't wish it on anyone. Highly recommend taking some significant time off. Like, off, off, not "I'm behind at work and behind on my hobby projects and behind on home maintenance and behind on my personal exercise goals, gonna take 24 personal hours Mon-Weds next week, I should be able to renovate my guest bath in that time, it's needed work for 3 years".

During that time, stop trying to be productive because you feel like you ought to. Wait until you feel like you want to. Read, take a walk, do some cooking, hang out with friends or family.

Gauge for yourself whether media consumption, especially during that time, is helping you relax or whether it's substituting both the motivation and reward for actually doing the thing you don't have the energy to do yourself. That was a big problem for me: We train our brains to reward us for accomplishing a cool thing with a boost of dopamine. Later, it optimizes the process to reward you earlier for just planning to do the thing - sketching, architecting, dreaming, writing task lists. Eventually, it gives you the same "I'm really proud of that accomplishment" reward for just watching someone on Youtube do it (you don't even have to look at all the off-camera drudge work).

Also, given the time of year, depending on your latitude, check for seasonal affective disorder as a potential antagonist of depression. Talk to a counselor, get some bright lights, bundle up and get outside if the sun is out, take some vitamin D supplements.
What stack of tools are you trying to use?

Personally, I think we hit the peak ease of use with VB6, Delphi, and HyperCard

It's all been getting harder ever since.
> It's a complete waste of effort

Why is that a waste of effort?
Oh in that case I'm not sure, but I would always be clear with the employer at the interview stage.

In my current role I mentioned that I work on things on the side and they were like... oh that's not allowed, and I said... oh well I can't work here then.

They changed the rule lol
Does anywhere not? It was visible when I lived in Missouri. It was in Illinois. It was visiting Baltimore, Atlanta, LA, the Bay, Buffalo, Cincinatti, Flint, Indianapolis, Topeka, OKC, Denver, Little Rock, Arlington, Milwaukee, Nashville, Memphis, Toledo, Sioux City, Davenport, and Louisville.

Here in Houston there are $500 per month apartments and $25,000,000 estates within the same city limits, yeah. There are some homeless folks, but not like Sacramento or San Francisco. Some people who work make less than $8 per hour right now. Other people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in just insurance premiums.

I fail to see the devastating difference in Texas when cities in California are adding to their own homeless populations by refusing to allow more housing to be built. Austin is a little more strict than here, but in Houston there are practically no zoning laws.
This is what uBlock Origin tells me when I try to visit the ublock.org page: "Found in: uBlock filters – Badware risks".

To repeat: I am not talking about Manifest v3. I was commenting on how ridiculous it is to say that we trust X to not do Y, when X already did Y once before.
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Facebook doesn't care about any PC Gamer on this website. Get that through your mind. They only care about the Facebook crowd who play casual games.
I’d say you’re maybe coming to your senses. Everything takes so much effort, computers and software are so tedious. Docs are shitty, googling error messages to figure out what’s wrong. Stuff all of it.

I’ve had a long and, I suppose, successful career putting up with that shit. These days I’d rather do anything physical.
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The truth is that the candidates we are receiving are barely able to code in Java. Not all know differences between linked lists and arrays and if they know what a breakpoint is they are hired.

Now, imagine giving the people environment that imposes no structure on your project and gives hyper powerful tools like macros and you are in a big problem.

At least with Java you get Spring and this is how you do endpoint, this is how you connect to the database, and so on. The structure is suboptimal and redundant but at least they are getting some guidance which are most likely already familiar with.

In Clojure, as a lead of the project, you would have to do the same but now it would be up to you to define all of that guidance. The question is, are you better at this than entire organization that supports Spring?

The only situation I see where Clojure would realistically be beneficial is when you only get like world class developers who know what they are doing and can work together.

I can't work on a Clojure project with a person that is unable to go through something like Let over Lambda with full understanding of the code examples and trust they will be able to make good decisions when building abstractions with macros.
Great idea, then do you think the corporations using our open source software should pay us billions in back revenue as well?
A lot of these answers are about finding things other than programming, and I think that's great. But as some additional perspective- I believe I was in a similar position to you, and what saved my career was functional programming.

Basically I had grown really tired of solving every problem in the same way (create a new class, getters, setters... the same ol' object oriented stuff). And so I dove into Haskell which required new solutions to problems. And it made programming novel again for me. I was a beginner for the first time in over a decade; it was really challenging, and there were tons of new concepts that never popped up in the other mainstream languages.

The thing I loved was that it allowed and encouraged me to find the _best_ solution to a problem, as opposed to just 'something that works'.
Here is the snippet from my notes. I am not sure it applies to the rpi0w:

Raspbian seems OK.

Regarding the post-install config, mostly about deactivating stuff to lower the power consumption:

# /boot/config.txt
[all]
# should disable wifi, bluetooth and hdmi at boot time, lowering power consumption
dtoverlay=disable-wifi
dtoverlay=disable-bt
hdmi_blanking=2
#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus

# builtin audio must be deactivated
#dtparam=audio=on
Also, HDMI deactivation could live in another place, so add the following to /etc/rc.local :

# Disable HDMI
/usr/bin/tvservice -o
Then, some packages should be installed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get pulseaudio pulsemixer pamix shairport
pulseaudio-module-raop pulseaudio-module-zeroconf cmus mpd mpc
Swift 2 was so, so horrible.

I really loved it and continue to from v3 onwards though.
> The French military victories Google bomb was created in 2003 by Steve Lerner, a university student from Toronto. Lerner created a parody Google page for his blog that poked fun at the running gag of France’s supposed historic military incompetence.
Thanks so much. I got goosebumps reading that comment lol.
FWIW, I personally found the gradients a bit too pronounced, and the "EPK*" thing stood out a bit because if you're going to put an asterisk wouldn't it be visually cleaner to just fully write it out?

Other than that it's a clean look. Congrats, your story is inspiring.