skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of "Snow Crash", specifically when Y.T.'s mom games reading a memo at her .gov job:

"Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary."
Not sure if anyone else shares this anecdote, but I've noticed the most DRY-hard programmers tend to be the most resistant to things like functional programming, monads, and other generic approaches which are the ultimate realization of DRY. And often the most inscrutable.

Another anecdote on DRY: I'm currently refactoring two interrelated systems that share a single function, and very horrible bad things happen if the systems disagree on the return value of that function. However sharing the same code is more complex than duplicating it and this has a nontrivial impact on how the systems are distributed. So today I'm undoing the original work I did to make it DRY - turns out that sometimes, you need to copy/paste.
Beset by the multitude of issues we face today, I have rarely given civil asset forfeiture the attention it deserved, despite my strong feeling on the matter. I also do think it is clearly unconstitutional, if not in literal, in the spirit of the Constitution. I support this bill 200%.
You undermined your own point because you couldn't help but bring up a partisan political point from five years ago completely unnecessarily.
Open-source based AmiSSL library for Amiga based operating systems
if only there was a completely different branch of government we could get to limit how the courts could rule, if someone figures it out they should do it and make an article about it

i might even write a comment about how thats the most effective way to change the reality, I wonder if people will read that part though, what do you think?
Wait, so if I go and make a YT channel I suddenly _deserve_ to be paid for it? When did that become a thing? Perhaps those earning mere pennies per view don't make enough to support themselves. In that sense, it feels similar to any of the gig companies that pay below minimum wage -- it's not good for anyone, but at the same time no one is forcing you to work with them. If making content doesn't pay the bills, maybe you should leave it to the luckier/more apt creators.
Interestingly I think this may have been on certain spheres. For me, I only heard about the dangers of this game to people who are photosensitive or have seizures triggered by flashing lights, and also complaining that Cyberpunk 2077 reviewers without glowing reviews were facing harassment.[0]

However, I'm not a gamer, I'm a science fiction writer who follows a lot of disability advocacy, so my spheres may be very different.

[0] The author who pointed out that the game gave them a seizure later said they were facing harassment for it. https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/12/07/cyberpunk-2077-epile...
Psychological junk, you know.
This was a complete waste of time. He's out of Congress, and once the session ends here in a few weeks, the bill evaporates. Where was amash before? Why didn't he introduce this bill two years ago?
So many are in this boat, though; having the chops they've built informally but not having the paper to get in the door.

I really like WGU because it focuses on competency rather than time in a classroom. I hope more educational orgs follow suit.

That said, my wife, who is getting a Master's in Nursing from WGU, is learning plenty -- but she can focus on the actual learning while testing out of areas that she already knows well.
Keep in mind console versions were not released to reviewers either at all or not until like the day before release. They only got the PC version which, compared to PS4 and XBox One is not nearly the same order of bad.
Ah, the old "unauthorized content handling is the same as theft" nonsense, because a more fitting metaphor wouldn't justify police-state copyright enforcement.

Also, what do you mean by "disruption"? Using "their" content in a way they don't like? content manipulation on my machine is my house, not theirs.
I mean he did it in three months. Can't imagine the opportunity cost is that high. $100ph is a lot, on average.
Sample prep, particularly if you want truly long reads, is 100% the hardest part.

Funnily, there are people out there who want to teach army/marine grunts on the front line to run minIONs. Most of the work is on making the sample prep automated and idiot proof.
Going Big
You're obviously not an Uncle Tupelo fan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtdUkqhSgk
One of the best purchases I ever made was JetBrain's all products package about 6 or 7 years ago. The prices for their products keep going up, but I was grandfathered in at about $150.
I don't know, from that perspective my biggest gripe is that it breaks a lot of functionality.

It breaks zoom on a lot of pages, and the pages don't load with whatever settings you have saved on the site (nothing fancy, maybe a night mode or something).

It also removes the url, which is really annoying.

It's full of little things like that, I'd be interested in knowing if when consumers encounter things like that they'd even know to blame google.
Neil Gaiman said that when he doesn't feel like writing, he gives himself two choices, either sit there and do nothing, or write.

Then, he'll sit there, and after a few minutes, the boredom of doing nothing gets very strong, and he'll be motivated to write.
I also dropped out of a Canadian computer science degree program but in my case I will likely never get a degree.

I left University of Alberta in 1989 after completing about two years of my degree to co-found a startup with the thought that if it failed I would go back to get a degree at a better program. The startup was a success and I have never gone back to school.

Sadly, in 1988 the University of Alberta CS program was stuck in a 1970s data processing curriculum and, for undergrads, had neither PCs or Unix. I had already been making money writing applications software for PC for several years and there was no way I was going to go work for an oil company or provincial government doing mainframes.

I did miss out on some things by not completing. I had very much wanted to take the compilers course offered by Jonathan Schaeffer (of Chinook checkers and poker bot fame). Had the U of A program included internships or co-op, more unix or PCs and a more modern curriculum I probably would have stayed. Indeed they closed the program to new students for a year in the fall of 1989 to retool it and modernize. The revised program was much better (In irony, I was hiring interns from the program about the same time as I would have originally graduated).

It is still strange when I have to explain sometimes that I have no degree. I can't imagine getting a CS degree just for the piece of paper. I can understand why someone might need that paper in addition to the skills, such as for a TN work visa. Thankfully I have not. If I did go back, and in my 50s I would feel like I was stealing a seat from someone who really needed it for their career, I would go for math, statistics instead of CS, a degree complementary to the CS skills already have.
Safety is top of mind for a large percentage of the Rust community. There was major political drama when the fastest http framework liberally used unsafe. That framework was almost universally shunned because of it and now the vast majority of the use of unsafe in that project have been removed. I think we are in a good position, but there could be in effect, a Sybil attack against norms where if unsafe was an Ok thing to do for perf or expediency that the value of Rust would be largely obliterated.

My personal hope is that lib.rs and docs.rs replace crates.io and that safety, code coverage, perf and other dimensions of quality are prominently displayed and queryable. Crates.io as it is now has outlived its usefulness.

I believe you and I agree on this issue completely.
Skimming can help sometimes, but this article makes it harder. No summary at beginning/end, no topic sentences at the beginning of paragraphs. Maybe that was intended: long-form narrative to create an emotional point, exploring experience and questions, more than an informational one.

So many problems are solved by having purpose in life. I've written a lot, but one possibility is helping lift humanity, finding joy through growth (learning, improvement) and unselfish service to others. Much revolves around my beliefs which seem like they would solve so many problems.

Somebody famous (Dickens or Tolstoy maybe?) said something like "All happy families are alike, and all miserable families are miserable in their own way". I think there is much to that: multigenerational unselfish service in a widening circle. Seeing what families' and/or cultures' traits allow them to persist over time is also interesting.
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Virtually every VC startup I've worked closely with or learned about in detail is doing something nearly everyone would agree is unethical, and a fairly large amount are doing things that are down right illegal spared only by the fact that they aren't big enough to warrant prosecution or even investigation.

Perpetual lip service is always paid to the notion that "we're a user focused company". While the mental gymnastics performed to convince everyone onboard that this is the case are fun to watch, it tragic to see nearly all good projects slowly devolving into ways of tricking the users... and in most cases still losing money.
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As an anecdotal point of one, I can confirm that literally none of that is true for the startup I am working for, and we are doing quite well.

Of course, it probably helps that our founders have actual industry and startup experience, and are not pushover adult children like you might find on the Silicon Valley hbo show.
I had the same happening, created an account and it was locked the same day only to be unlocked when I provide a phone number. I wrote them an email telling them I refuse to give them my number for privacy reasons and they unlocked my account the next day.
I think a lot of it is to do with what you're paying attention to. If you show up every day to make and think about art, then your brain will stay in that space, and eventually reward you with ideas. If you completely give up and disconnect, then your brain will leave that space. You don't get ideas for things that you never think about.
Some SMB's that I have met over the years are great at pretending they don't have money when hiring but are very profitable. I think that fits the "bad company, no financing" and is worth mentioning.

This thread is interesting because we're talking about success for different people. Success for the founder? The money? The employees? The answers are relative to the stakeholder we're talking about.
Still, if you start your day building one thing, I strongly assume you know what you're going to build that day. And you start with writing a test to confirm you actually built at the end of the day the thing you planned. Will you keep that test? Maybe yes, maybe not, but you got your confirmation at the end of the day. This is TDD for me.
I agree 100%

This was an outgrowth of the 80's and the war on drugs.
It ruffled the feathers of average Americans that drug dealers got to keep their fancy cars and boats. Hence this was a legal way for the state to take those ill gotten gains. Over time its use has grown. Since the initial 'victims' were so unsympathetic, case law was established that everything was legal.
Unpopular opinion: Unions should not be allowed to strike during an emergency.
Also the death rate as a catchall metric completely ignores people who here in absolutely critical, life-or-death condition but were only saved from death by incredible medical intervention and/or just pure luck.
Even in modern uses of the hero’s journey model the world of the story is usually thematically supernatural, even if it isn’t literally magical. The protagonist is leading a normal life, until they answer the call and next thing you know they’re surrounded by explosions, secret agents, treasure, gangsters, etc. The hero leaves the mundane world for the magical world of the story, which plays by a different set of rules.
I can think of no better way to get more people selling drugs that taking all their property on the mere suspicion that it aided the selling of drugs.
Agree.

I’m a huge fan of this approach when developing complex UIs, but you can definitely run into “state explosion”.

When you rigorously enumerate all the implicit states in your system you quickly realize that your system can have a lot of states.

It’s a balancing act. How much rigour do you need vs. how much code are you willing to deal with.

The implicit states will always be there whether you make them explicit via a state chart or not. But for simple things, it may not be worth the overhead.
But if it goes (really) wrong, you have nothing until the supply issues are resolved. Sounds like a bad plan right now. Especially if there's a perfectly good Steam backlog to get through (when is there ever NOT a Steam backlog!).
AMD is doing fine. "The writing on the wall". Zen3 is going to very competitive, their interconnect on chip is great.

Sure, add a line for ARM.

What's interesting to me, I feel like a lot of this started when intel wouldn't do the chip for the iphone. All of a sudden you had this leading edge mfg pushing arm hard which drove volumes through the roof, and all the copycats (android etc) copied the chip selection, screen style etc as well.

I wonder how different the path might have been if intel had come up with something for apple.
The US government for one requires ABET accreditation for all engineering degrees regardless of licensing requirements for the job. I'm currently a government contractor who is hoping to eventually convert. It's not yet clear to me how much the lack of ABET accreditation on my UC CS degree is going to hurt me.
You could use GitHub issues for posts and comments, fetched using the GitHub API. I did a proof of concept of this a long time ago [0]. Not sure if it still works.

[0] https://github.com/mateogianolio/issuance
As a Swede: Practically none, it's all just for show.
options:

1) massive mutation rate, altering exterior structure making a single vaccine impossible (e.g. influenza)

2) touch-based transmission, with 72 hour surface viability

3) incredibly "ugly" death process (e.g. ebola) with huge risks for health care providers

4) high death rate but very slow deaths
That was a restriction for 32-bit Arm Windows devices, which were indeed locked down. (I ended up breaking the Secure Boot implementation for Windows RT devices later on, and they didn't bother to fix it)

For 64-bit Arm Windows devices, they had the security policies of a conventional PC since the very beginning.
Yeah, they are cheap (for US professionals, at least). I've subscribed to their products for over half a decade now and have it on auto-renew without thinking.
Ew everyone gets 3.0 GPA? What's the point of that? Are all of the exams pass/fail?
I'm close to 60 hours on the Stadia version now, haven't run into any gamebreaking issues. I have had some hilarious ones though, like when NPCs drive me around they miss a turn and plow pedestrians. I'm able to skip the driving sequences so it hasn't been a big deal.
I think you may mean https://micro.blog/ ?
Abstractions are addicting for many developers, including myself. I switch between Go and Java. Go is the language I want my coworkers to use. I'd rather read "bad" Go code than "bad" Java code all day long. Bad Java can be truly excruciating to read and review, particularly due to the poor choice of abstractions. Whereas, Go mostly gets out of the way and may be written poorly but is straightforwardly written poorly.

Still, there's a certain sense of aesthetic beauty that I just can't derive from Go, and why I kind of hate working in it. There's lots of things about Java and OO that I don't love, but reading a perfectly factored Java code base can be just beautiful. Mostly due to good choice of interfaces.

Now, those code bases might be rare and not worth the lift of a million bad abstractions. I'd probably agree at this point, but still, I find it odd that most Go code bases just feel dirty and thrown together to me. Hacking stuff together in a mostly procedural language with good deployment story is probably the right way to write for-profit code, but I'm not sure I love it.
New nanobiomaterial from the silk of a mite with promising biomedical properties
National Archives Adopts Geospatial R&D Data Licence as Public Sector Standard
I’d love a browser that can do this for iOS if anyone has recommendations
I'd love to see RISC-V or another open source ISA become the dominant design. But I'm not sure RISC-V is there yet. Companies have been pouring resources into optimizing ARM CPUs for years now, and they're now starting to get to the point where their performance competitive with x86. RISC-V is just getting started. I don't know if there's a RISC-V CPU that's comes anywhere close to the raw performance of higher end ARM CPUs, nevermind x86.

Having said that, I hope AMD doesn't decide not to develop a RISC-V CPU. I'd expect them to have the resources to start working on ARM now, while planning for RISC-V further out.
If property doesn't have rights, how can the 8th ammendment protect it, yet it doesn't have protections under the others? The 4th explicitly requires the seizure of property to be based on at least probable cause. Just seems like a massive contradiction.

I guess someone needs to file a civil rights suit because they were deprived of that property under the color of law. The 4th ammendment is quite clear that one is to be secure in their affects. Doesn't matter if the case was filed against the property, the effect was felt by the person.
The Broken Data Pipeline Before Christmas
I'd bet that this graph is actually reflecting the gap between the worth of the wealthy and the poor widening in America faster, due to the rarity of stimulus checks for people and the many accommodations for businesses. It's just that (due to a history of racist laws - many of which are still around) Black Americans tend to be in lower economic classes while Caucasians tend to be in higher classes.

I'd like to see the same statistics based on the students' parents' economic class - so the percent of the average test score for schools where the majority of the students are in the economic lower class, middle class, and upper class.
For a layperson like me, can you help me understand how it is that a case can be filed against property with respect to civil forfeiture while ignoring the constitutional violations against the person? I mean, how can anyone with a straight face claim that seizing property does not have burdensome negative consequences directly against the property owner, a real person who does have constitutional protections? How is it that the law in practice can become so far away removed from what seems so obviously wrong to those of us not familiar?

I trust you that there probably are many court decisions that have found civil forfeiture not to be unconstitutional. But it feels like it comes down to some pedantic twisting of words which go against the spirit of the constitution.
> People are seeing textures not load.

I think this only happened in the pre-patched versions of the game (plenty of other last gen console problems though)
"Free" is a big part of the problem.

It does not cost a lot to run a blog (in terms of computer resources) but it does cost something. A something which isn't necessarily very much, but could grow to be a lot if you get a lot of traffic and which readers would prefer that you will keep paying forever so the content doesn't vanish.

The advertising model has succeeded in some ways so far but has all the problems we see everyday.
This is really interesting! What about applicants who didn't go through a bootcamp, but have decent projects on their website/Github/whatever? Is it the fact that you can't verify if they actually built that themselves or just copied/stole it?
Forbes: The New Hybrid Cloud: Quantum Computing and Classical Computing?
Oh are we playing a link game now?

https://www.fastcompany.com/40561811/greenpeace-to-apple-for...
Give CamelUp a look! Great for kids or bigger groups!

You also might want to give "Liar's Dice" a look - some of the variants are similarly great for bigger groups, and still rely heavily on strategy.
Fixed the typo. Thanks!
> If eating gluten is that unpleasant for you why wouldn't you get the biopsy?

Because getting the test would require about a month of agonizing pain with constant diarrhea, perhaps? Just to get a formal confirmation of something they're already pretty sure of.
alpha here means "information"
Citation needed.

Perhaps equipment, running presses and website, etc. are large expenses too, but humans tend to cost a lot of money.
Some of the language specific IDEs do not have a free (community) version like CLion for C/C++ or Rider for C#/.NET/Unity (and Unreal Engine in the near future) and bring a lot to the table for those languages.

I am a heavy user of CLion and enjoyed my education license while I was in engineering school, I will happily buy a personal license when it expires !
I didn't state my opinion at all. Why do you think there is no latitude to just write accuracy statements? That shouldn't be a foreign concept. I don't feel the need to write disclaimers.
No, their current licensing thing becomes the other one after a year. For instance if I stopped paying I'd have IntelliJ IDEA 2019 forever.

There was a huge controversy when they switched and the backlash made them re-evaluate to this which I think is a fair license.
I try to explain to my junior devs why a 3-column layout was considered the "holy grail" at the time. Why we needed Firebug. SWFObject. Why I can type -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)" from memory. It was ridiculous!

The last centering example (left with translate) was fun to explain to junior devs too.
Diversity is not a natural occurrence. When left to their own devices, companies, communities, and people will always gravity to what is most similar to them. Diversity is only possible at the end of a government bayonet, which only makes the problem worse. When you force people to accept a specific view, you're going to have blowback.
The government cannot keep civilly forfeited assets unless it wins a civil case in court, the same process by which anyone can sue and take everything to your name if they win. It also has a long pedigree, being in continuous use before, during, and after the founding era, making it unlikely that it would violate the 4th Amendment.
And zstd keeps evolving contrary to xz, which means they'll outperforms xz compression ratio in the following years