skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find all these slavery comparisons in poor taste. Across history you will find slaves that were treated well, accumulated wealth, were educated and held in high regard - yet they still legally were the property of another person. The fundamental distinction with slavery is not a bad paycheck.

How do you hold someone in high regard when they are your property? You cannot see me as less than yet hold me in high regard!

Right! A slave or two that were "treated well" speaks for generations that were maimed, raped, erased from existence.

The only thing I could discern from this is that you would have owned slaves were you born in that era.

Hot garbage!

> bad/corrupt the legal system must be.

Ah! So, slavery?
> Isn't that what's meant to happen? If your kid starts talking about converting to Islam and becoming a jihadist, surely parents should alert the authorities.

Err..., definitely not. I would hope most parents have a word with the child instead, and certainly not because the child is interested in Islam, as others have also stated. I find this thinking rather bizarre, to be honest - dobbing your own children in to the authorities, for thought crime.
This brings up an interesting issue in OS design, and that is:

What are the responsibilities of the OS's Kernel if/when all files are deleted, and all processes are similarly deleted?

In other words, the worst-case of all worst-case scenarios.

Under that scenario, philosophically, OS-design-wise, what are the responsibilties of the kernel?

Well, we might start by designing our future OS with a tiny shell inside of the kernel, for emergency use only.

Also, we might consider using a file system that doesn't actually delete files when they're deleted, but rather flags the disk space as "empty" -- for future recycling.

Between these two things, if they were implemented, we'd get a lot of leverage to resurrect a dead system, but there's more to this than that.

You see, the above scenario should become an active unit test (tested at each recompilation) of that future OS.

Also -- we want to know the fewest number of steps necessary (given the above scenario) to fix everything back to normal.

In other words, a very interesting topic for future OS designers to think about!
Whether the story, which you have as good as accepted as plausible [1], does closely parallel the proposed Neanderthal case, is a separate issue (in that regard, note that all OP says about that is "it is likely these people have the same bone deformities.")

>And [OP] suggested those North Koreans were likely doing the same. [my emphasis of the weasel word]

So it seems you will read the anecdote literally when doing so allows you to attack its credibility, and you will find an unstated assumption in it if doing so allows you to attack its relevance.

As noted above, the OP merely seems to be suggesting something that other posters have also mentioned: the physical evidence mentioned in the article might have been the result of winter famine, and not definitive evidence of hibernation; furthermore, there may be people alive today, or recently deceased, in whom this physiological damage might be found. I can't say for sure, but OP may be suggesting that they might help with the further studies of this hypothesis.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25490193
> On the other hand, I don't think it's a healthy situation if companies need to own the entire hardware platform to be safe from another company's whims.

Maybe we (as humans) shouldn't have tried to over-optimize everything and squeeze every bit of whatever we wanted out from something.
> unless you do non-idiomatic things

I wonder what exactly makes code "idiomatic" in a GC language. It is one of the greatest misconceptions about GC languages that you shouldn't worry about allocations at all. For me, GC mostly means the correctness guarantees which come with it and the convenience, that I don't have to track every single allocation and mange it manually. However, it still means that I should be aware of all the larger allocations and avoid them as in any other language, if I am looking for performance. Not reusing allocated memory where reasonable is detrimental to the performance in any language.
And of course, the choice of the right GC approach can also help with applications like games. Lispworks even provided a Lisp environment for a Nasa probe, the GC had real-time capabilities.
Lose weight, loose pants.
Ah, thanks. I assumed the comment I replied to was talking about Apple's shareholders. My mistake.
The contractor example is a broken analogy. Apple’s manufacturing experience is as deep as any firm in the world and their ability to audit manufacturers is much different from your ability to audit a contractor.

They will rise and fall to the level of accountability that the public is willing to hold them too.
Not going to lie, I feel pretty vindicated about avoiding the hypetrain. I had a feeling something like this would happen. I still want to play the game, but I'll wait for a few patches before I purchase it.
Apple don’t employ them. I mean I’d like Apple to be held accountable for not auditing their suppliers. However, they don’t have any legal obligation to the workers.
I don’t know, if Apple actually cared, why not hire people itself? Why contract at all?
Gas rationing in the 80s? I think you're off a decade. I lived in SoCal in the 80s and there was no rationing. During the Oil embargo in 73 there was the odd/even rationing, but that didn't continue into the 80s.
How is this different from Ghost's hosting service[1] (besides price)?

[1]https://ghost.org/pricing/
While not impossible, I would say that it would require a significant change in our understanding of quantum computation. That is, everything we know so far about quantum computing suggests it is only useful in certain complex use cases, and even then, with much help from a classical computer - we don't know any quantum algorithm that could be computed entirely on a quantum computer, they all have classical parts.
I read your comment and felt like I was doing magic mushrooms
The ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit That Could Sink Right-Wing Media
I accidentally wrote the worst pathfinding algorithm
I have an app, metro.drone [1], on the App and Google Play stores that I created with LÖVE2D. While I haven’t seen many other examples, I’ve seen a lot more cross-platform game engines than UI-explicit engines, many of which have (at least limited) GUI capability. I’m relatively new to programming so part of what attracted me to LÖVE2D instead of something else was the simplicity and modularity; LÖVE2D-compatible packages existed for exactly what I needed with metro.drone. I’ve come to the broad conclusion that it’s more about choosing the right ecosystem for a project than the right ui toolkit; I was originally going to use Elm but it didn’t have a good synth library.

I should again recap that I’m a novice programmer, so this should be considered more a description of my thought process than advice. :)

[1]: http://dmitrivolkov.com/projects/metro.drone
I'm planning to add more and more integration to this DevTool Application with the goal to help as many developers as possible, with Short-live credentials for CLI and SDK.
Corona: Germany and Europe Could Fall Short on Vaccine Supplies – DER Spiegel
You can even bake a cake!
WTF MAN do you always spout lies so confidently xD
lol! SOC2 is a joke. it’s checkbox compliance and rather easy to achieve.
Ha I actually liked tcsh and didn't switch to bash for a bit after OS X did. But we are a little naive in our younger years lol.
> It might seem impossible that a game this prominent, that’s been in development for this long ... could launch in such a state

The author is failing to account for the fundamental rule of software development: no matter how soon the launch date is, project management will demand that you add new features right now but never adjust the release date.
Not only that, real cyclists may be riding for transportation instead of fitness, and this means they're probably carrying extra mass. Most of the time, bicycles aren't equipped for this, so the cyclist carries items in a backpack, making a climb even more difficult.
> I'm fed up because so many people flout the rules with no consequences.

Been that way since Barnard's Castle.

The latest decision that says MPs can see their siblings for Christmas Dinner on the 25th, but a Nurse working on the 25th can't see their parent with terminal cancer for dinner on the 26th, will hopefully be ignored.
Speed and competence, that’s easy.
> But I can definitely understand why people settled on Python

I think people settled on python because for a spell it was really hard to install ruby (1.6-1.8), it got worse around 2.0, (by the time python also ran into these issues, it had way more momentum) and:

- schools (high schools, colleges) were teaching python, because "it forced students into code indentation discipline"

- linux distros shipped with python because core features were being written in python
The proper locution is "it's worth noting".
End of 2020 rough database landscape
Fibers are more like Python green threads, or generators when you abuse them to do coroutines, where you explicitly yield from one to the other. The thing is, if your Fiber calls a blocking IO operation you can’t explicitly yield to another Fiber unless IO unblocks. The scheduler solution attempts to yield to another Fiber when IO blocks.

Ractors resemble Node workers: you get true parallelism, but the two worlds are entirely isolated, sharing nothing. You communicate by passing messages between both, where message content is either copied or moved (ownership change) if it’s not immutable.

(What I described is not 100% accurate, more of a flawed bird’s eye analogy for Ruby foreigners)
That's for a single bedroom with parking which are always priced at a premium. You can do better. I just didn't. In the Boston area anyone with a flimsy wisp of a skill (or is able to pass a drug test) is making at least $20/hr and nobody is expecting the poor to be able to follow middle class budgeting rules.
This article features very little images for something so visual (a dance).

I strongly recommend giving this video from
Georgia Tech College of Computing a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDGPgXtK-U

(Note: This is a video from many years ago and the explanation is not as accurate as it once was thought to be. However, this is still a great visual explanation of this "dance".)
True, but I'm talking about the data collected specifically. Not all of it is gained from tracking users across the internet - lots of it is just building a profile based on what you do on their site, and potentially their partners' sites. That data doesn't seem to me to be owned by the users. But I totally agree that what is an obvious problem is the following of users around the web.
In a way there's something very interesting in this situation. Facebook is known for cutting the API access to competitors, like it happen in the past with Vine. Today it's the other way around.
There now is:

- Fibers

- Also fibers, but scheduled

- Threads (Not what you'd normally calla thread, because GVL)

- Ractors (what you'd normally call a thread)

I wouldn't say this is a bad thing per se, but I imagine it will be quite confusing for people trying to learn the language.
I thought it was a pretty good article. Shame it didn't get traction here. FWIW, I'm going to try out Pytest today thanks to this.
The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes
Yeah. My only USB-C device is my employer MBP I got two weeks ago. I've never owned a USB-C device. It's pretty laughable that Apple thinks there are enough USB-C bricks in the world when first-world tech workers largely don't have USB-C bricks/devices.
From the Github page:

> For this hackathon we used data about whether a street is lit or not from Open Street Map. Later we could incorporate official UK gov data about street lighting or even incorporate satellite imaging data.

It sounds like getting the data right wasn't the focus yet:

> Later we could incorporate many other kinds of data such as safe checkpoints trivially. The core technical challenge was wrangling the data and writing our own custom routing algorithm.
If it is anything like the Cable TV Industry, Apple absolutely knows and is in on the game.

I've noticed a pattern where large companies use a -lot- of contractors, sometimes under many layers. When I worked in Telecom, we were usually the contractor for Comcast, but sometimes there was another contractor above us and we were the 'sub-contractor'.

But then, below us, were often 1 or 2 more layers of subcontractors.

1/3 of the time we had decent contractors and scope of work and everything worked out. The other 2/3 of the time, it would be one or more of the following:

- The contractor mis-bid the project in a way that would lead them to go bankrupt in a year or two

- The contractor did a cut-rate job to maximize their profits.

- The deadlines or work rate were unreasonable and led to mistakes.

But, the important thing about all of this, is that the number of layers involved in the transaction lets everyone point the finger at each other and never point out that maybe it's the system itself that is broken.
I believe you are misunderstanding how this new feature works in Ruby. You've brought up destructuring assignment in javascript which flows right-side values by key to left-side variables. In Ruby, this new syntax is "rightward" assignment, values flowing from left to right:

3 => x # assigns 3 to x
[4, 5] => [x, y] # assigns 4 to x, 5 to y
requisite link to other potential correlations to 1970s changes https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Wow this is like a plot out of a James Bond movie. Great reporting. I do wonder if the part on how Navalny pulled this off gives away too much and will cause the FSB to tighten their op sec. And of course, the question remains - now that all these people are outed and their faces are on the Internet, what if anything does it change?
Is it really a net negative? There are _plenty_ of things wrong with Facebook but I still wouldn’t consider it net negative for society.

Facebook has done a lot to connect people that we don’t read about in news articles.
Western USA, far from the coasts

Asian vegetables. South Asian, southeast, Asian, east asian, whatever. Bitter gourd, drumsticks, curry leaves, kang kong. I really hate broccoli but it's hard to escape.

Having a maid. While common for the middle class in SEA, US labor laws preclude this. This would also help the majority of needs for the commenter seeking a pre-packaged lifestyle for sale.

Foreign programming. Sometimes I want to watch a shitty cop drama or the news in french without getting the super duper directv package.

Public transportation that runs more frequently than every hour, and fare cards for buses. In Singapore, bus 851 has run every 12 minutes between the north and south of the island for the last 20 years at least. Try getting that level of consistency here.
Companies like Apple have entire supply chain management departments. Heck, I think that was Tim Cook's job.

They know for sure. They'll just ignore it because ... shareholders.
Do more boutique camera companies like Leica just survive on their (what I assume to be) large margins?
I still get the excitement from time to time. Don't quite understand the whats hows or whys though. I still work on projects I think are cool, but they continuously seem to stray away from programming while still being anchored in tech. It comes are goes these days. Going back I'd never have gone into this as a career. I'm not particularly good at anything anyway, and it would be nice not to have any pressure, even form myself.
I was literally looking for something like this instead of downloading the full dump. Thank you!
> What is the difference exactly?

The difference is that when widespread systemic labor abuses are revealed in a manufacturing industry, people who aren't members of the capitalist class or spokespeople for the firms in the industry have no problem recognizing that the factory workers are victims.
Ya bash is at least installed on everything modern now.

Maybe that changes, but if you right for bash that's portable enough - you need to balance the work required with the risks of not doing it.
Recursive glob:

**

You can enable it on recent versions of bash with:

shopt -s globstar
You can't be serious.

Are you insinuating it has nothing to do with executive wages ballooning (CEO compensation growing nearly 1,000% since the 1970's) and is instead because women are working?

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/
I completely disagree with your comment. Learning for the sake of learning is great, and "homework problems" are an excellent way to achieve that goal. It's not a waste of time. Profit is not always about making money, there are more things in life.
I get that feeling. Just getting old I guess.
>> I don't buy this explanation. Very few employees are paid in any financially complex way.

It depends on the class of workers. I'd agree with you w/r/t most wage earners being paid in transparent manner. But I think the GP comment was referring to technology workers (given the context of HN.) In the case of tech workers, many are paid in very complex ways.

If you have illiquid stock options in a private company, and especially if you have taken a below-market salary as many startup employees have, your compensation is about as complex as a CDO. Just like a CDO there are multiple tiers above you that need to be paid out before you ever get paid.

Unlike a CDO, where you can actually pull up the details on the tiers above you (tranches), at startups as employees, you dont get to see the cap table, so the whole maze is invisible too!

Worse, unlike a CDO where you can sell at any time, here you have to exercise and hold stock for some far-away liquidity event that usually doesnt happen. So you have an invisible maze, and then a pot of gold at the end, perhaps. Or not.
Ian Richardson, Bernard Hepton, Michael Jayston, Ian Bannen, Joss Ackland, Beryl Reid, Anthony Bate, Sian Phillips and even Patrick Stewart.

Definitely not just the Alec Guinness Show.
Wont really solve anything. Social connection and interaction is a fundamental human need and if FB goes away some other company would be fulfilling that and we probably would be going through a similar cycle again.

Edit: Assuming there are no laws or regulations in place from the learnings we have got from FB. If there are effective laws in place, then FB stays or go does not matter much.
Relevant, recent article on EVE Online as an engine for personal development: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/eve-online-players-lives-bet...
This could also happen politically when governments make it a requirement. Facebook has the luck that not many in power understand what problems they cause and how they should be fighted.
While not for profit, I run a small community DB website for a podcast I like.

Front: Vanilla JS (just the littlest bit), Jinja2 templates

Back: Python + Flask, served via Gunicorn

Data: SQLite (mostly reads)

Server: Wrapped in a docker image and deployed on a $5/month VPS with a few other small websites I run. Small and easy to set up development or deployment.
Plenty of other ways to use tech to connect people without such intrusions into security and privacy.
The majority of the ozone depletion has in fact recovered. The planet is currently experiencing a greening of massive plant growth. The worst thing we do to ourselves as a species and to all other forms of life, is pollution. Chemical pollution. All life on this planet is carbon based. Plants eat carbon. Plants are in fact, up-taking more carbon via evolution.
Timiun Introduces Time Market, Emporium, and Special Offer as an App
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https://jsfiddle.net/eqym2ac0/

Working with shrew. 240 char with script/html or 217 with as JS.
State management patterns in Data oriented programming
The Lonely Legacy of Spam
Also, can you imagine the money saved by removing all the teams and infra dedicated to ads and data collection.
You're being overly literal. The definition of "oral history" in this context is telling a story through the personal experiences and recollections of people who were there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_history
For anyone from India, have you found any fuzzy logic or above average rice cookers here? Everyone eats rice and most homes have rice cookers, and yet it's impossible to find a zhojirushi. Only cheap shitty local brand cookers seem to be available here (except via shady sellers from Amazon)!
Yet it worked well. In Cheshire (not badly hit), daily cases halved between the start of lockdown and end, having doubled in the previous month. In Cumbria it was even more of a drop

Overnight covid paitents in the NW went from a peak above that of April in Mid November (i.e. had caught it in October), dropping to 70% of the peak a month later, same in NE+Yorks.
The Nikon P1000 has a 539mm zoom lens with extremely small sensor: 1/2.3". And it's probably a contrast based focus system. I would not expect good results from such camera.

Sensor size comparison: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sensor_sizes_overlai...
My trust in Ubuntu was greatly reduced when (about five years ago) the installer would put GRUB on the primary drive regardless of where the Linux system was installed, and even when you explicitly told it not to. This was fixed within a few months, but not before it trashed several Windows installations (using whole-disk-encryption so they were not recoverable).
More like lack of liability and reduced costs.
The puzzles aren't fun at all. Like you said, they're basically "write a parser + complete a tedious word problem." They require substantial time investment for little creative reward, it's basically masochism.

Perl Advent Calendar is my jam.
> cut its tuition by $10,000 for all new students

I find it insane tuition is that high. I finished grad school before 2010, and at least with the smaller state schools I went to, total cost of tuition and books was in the $3k~$5k range. Boutique schools like Vanderbilt were like $25k+ (per semester). I had a friend who got a free ride there for graduate school, and he said it wasn't really that different than our state school. You get out of any education what you put into it.

All that being said, the Pandemic is not going to be enough to fix the tuition problems across the board. Federally subsidized student loans need to GO AWAY. They've allowed students to enter into debt, the only long term contracts kids under 18 can legally sign, for something they can never declare bankruptcy on.

Schools have soaked up that student loan money, increasing costs as the amount kids qualify for goes up. It all gets sucked into administrative costs. Very little of that money even get to professors, many who still depend on grant writing to fund their departments.

Schools will scream and moan if the federal government stops backing student loans, but it needs to happen. They've exploited a system to take more public funds without actually contributing significantly a better education for students.
The “launch disaster” is possibly more overblown than the game was overhyped. I guess probably avoid it on base last gen consoles. Everyone I know in real life is enjoying this game despite occasional bugs. Cyberpunk is about as buggy now as Fallout 4 is after years of patches. People on the internet get way more enjoyment being overly dramatic about games than actually playing them.