skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used this when buying an apartment. Judging the lighting at different times of the day.
I'm right there with you: completely, impotently furious at the lost year my school-age children have had, at the hands of selfish extroverts who just can't stay away from each other and gutless, toothless politicians.

> The people who have suffered least are the people who are basically at home anyway [...] and those with kids.

hol up. Not to downplay what you're saying (I personally know it can be tough wondering whether you're going to find somebody to spend the rest of your life with), but do you think raising kids is easy?

After this is all done, the world is going to be split between people who spent lockdown with one or more 2- to 4-year-olds, and those who have their sanity.
You clearly have a different experience using 1-based index than me, it has caused me many off-by-one mistakes. Also, I almost never need to -1 with 0-based index, but in 1-based index its pretty common, specially if moving slices inside an array, the new index of the element is move_position + old_index - 1 (see example). Also see arguments by Djikstra [0].

Example:

# python
lov = ['l', 'o', 'v']
o_index = 1;
array = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
move_position = 3
# elements moved here
array = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'l', 'o', 'v']
new_o_index = move_position + o_index
print(array[new_o_index]) # prints 'o'

-- lua
local lov = { 'l', 'o', 'v' }
local o_index = 2;
local array = { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f' }
local move_position = 4
-- elements moved here
array = { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'l', 'o', 'v' }
local new_o_index = move_position + o_index - 1
print(array[new_o_index]) -- prints 'o'

Note that I'm not saying 0-based indexing is always absolutely better, but I generally prefer it and believe it usually makes more sense even outside of programming (including math), we're just not taught that way.

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
transcript: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
I have three small things to add - your perspective is a very interesting one.

1) I think you are conflating America and the American opinion with the opinion of the political left. Not everyone cares about history and inequality here. The political right in America would love to integrate native people and don’t much care for native land rights.

Excuse my lacking knowledge about your country, but it seems like you are also conflating the general UK sentiment with labour supporters. Wasn’t brexit a direct response to immigration and cultural changes of the sort you said isn’t taken seriously? It certainly seemed that way to an outsider like me.

2) I think you hit the nail on the head when you said

> I will say that in my experience isn't true, at least if you're looking on an individual level.

My take is that neither political party individuates in the way you are. A rich black man here, to the left, is black and therefore a member of an unprivileged minority who deserves help and further advantagement. To the right, he is rich and needs no help. Both parties generalize, but their heuristics for doing so are different.

3) I’m not sure our countries are so dissimilar! There has been much talk that Trump was a consequence of white fear of being a minority. Popular sentiment on the left is that those whites need to shut up and accept it. That sounds very similar to your example, with the minor difference of whites being nonnative in America. Google “the war on Christmas” for a silly example of how the American right feels culturally alienated by minority encroachment.
Sure, yeah, you can try to make future Lua do both what current Python and current Lua do well. I, personally, don't see the appeal, because Python already exists - the only reason I use Lua is that it fills a niche that Python doesn't.

It's great at filling that niche but if I want something like Python I just use Python.
> I can see a place for this helmet among people who have to stay inside for long stretches, particularly anyone working in retail or at a restaurant. I can see employers GIVING these to their essential workers to keep them extra safe as they toil away.

This is exactly what should happen. Why are nurses and police wearing napkins during epidemics? We’ve had sixty years to perfect the space helmet.
Likewise there are a lot of working class Christians who would be strong allies in a labor movement but if that movement is inextricably linked to a pro-choice party it is a non-starter for them.
How is your daughter?
While I don't have an RFC your you (I'm not the same person), here's an interesting thread on maybe tweaking the interface: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/is-custom-allocators-the-r...
Oh no. Better remove it from the app stores, and restrict the impressions of posts that make mention of it on other social media platforms.
Since Lua 5.2 non-locals are loaded from the table/object _ENV. Every lexical context has either an implicit _ENV, or an explicit _ENV (e.g. nearest `local _ENV = ...`). The default value for implicit _ENV is the global table (i.e. _G, but not literally _G; it's initialized as if from lua_rawgeti(L, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX, LUA_RIDX_MAINTHREAD)). See https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#2.2

Lua 5.1 had something similar, but the implicit environment was per-function.

A common pattern in Lua is to change _ENV to an empty table with a __newindex meta-method that writes-through to the real global environment, and an __index meta-method that throws an error if the key (i.e. global symbol) doesn't exist. You can fancy and have an __index meta-method that that throws an error string with suggestions for a possibly misspelled symbol, similar to clang or GCC compiler diagnostics.
better analogy would be that in this case you are unaware that crossing a road is dangerous and you are most likely to die. 90% chance.
So maybe licensing dies off and it will have to be the patent holder who actually executes on creating something with it - is that a pro or a con?
This mischaracterizes my point.

We agree on the problem: some people don’t have housing.

Second point: if some subset, which I say is the majority, of people who can’t afford housing are in this situation because they literally can’t work ...

Decreasing rent or raising wages does nothing to address this.

Since these are the most vulnerable people, I feel that bringing concepts like the imbalance between rents and wages actually muddies the waters.
I'm not sure there's an up-to-date RFC, but here's what it looks like: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/boxed/struct.Box.html#...
Linux is only one of many, many different environments in which the same Zig code can be compiled to target. That's the point, you write your code in a portable, reusable manner, and it behaves correctly everywhere.
> C++, D, and Go have throw/catch exceptions

Pretty sure Go doesn't have throw/catch.
I also wonder how much access to material resources matter. For mathematical exercises, you don't need much and if you do a modern laptop and open source tools are probably fine for most subfields, but access to high-energy conditions, or wet-labs are harder to come by.
Word has it (supposedly sources inside the white house) due to Trump's habit of making impulsive statements / demands that sound like orders, the folks at the Pentagon put in place the expectation that orders went through some white house staff / filters / had to include written orders before they did anything extraordinary.
It’s an impressive number for something that Just got approval.

Often you have to build entire factories to get these kinds of numbers.

It took many months just to restock shelves with toilet paper.
Now I am the fool for making a few people switch to a platform that broke down a week after I did so...
But what are the types of those fields it is "adding"? What are the semantics of "adding" for those types? These things are not obvious from reading that statement.
I think in reality the risk of going to jail is far lower than you might assume.

If you were worried, you could evade capture forever by just moving around with a bunch of prepaid SIM cards and a 4G modem that lets you change your IMEI. Even if the police could somehow track down your Tor connections, they'd never be able to find you in a big city.

The risk of getting caught can be eliminated almost entirely without taking any unrealistic steps, an actual security pro would be able to get away with this with ease. Perhaps this is why we haven't seen any infosec people go to jail for operating darknet markets?
I don't know if I got this correctly:

> When we look at the fsync() and fdatasync() man pages, we see that those system calls only guarantee to write data linked to the given file descriptor. With ext4, as a side effect of the filesystem structure, all pending data and metadata for all file descriptors will be flushed instead. This creates a lot of I/O traffic that is unneeded to satisfy any given fsync() or fdatasync() call

Does it mean that, under ext4, a call to fsync is essentially the same as a call to sync(2)?
Okay yeah, that's fair. It just seems like the advantage of "is easier to build larger programs in a coherent way" is more useful than "is easy for non-programmers to get started right at the beginning" for a lot of the contexts it's used in.
Recruiters on LinkedIn. Put some work into making your profile clean and concise along with good recommendations from past jobs.

Recruiters will sell you to the client, and help during rate negotiations. Good luck!
Back then, people could point to specific examples of applications that depended on the sync-on-rename feature. What specific examples is he able to cite now? The entire discussion seems like a discussion of hypotheticals.
Interesting idea, that's worth thinking about. It still has the bad part of the complexity: the feed mechanism. But it could be used as a set extractor that way, and if you start with the largest sets you get the least # of bricks passing through.
> TSMCs 5nm is 1.8x more dense than 7nm, 30% more efficient and 15% faster

TSMC's 5nm is 30% more power efficient OR 15% faster.

When Apple's 5nm cores first started shipping, it became evident that Apple took the power reduction and not the performance increase.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16088/apple-announces-5nm-a14...

AMD may choose differently when they do their own die shrink, of course.
I'm using math in a colloquial sense to refer to "mathy math," not "computer science math." So linear algebra would be a leading example, along with stuff like vectors and complex numbers. Accounting math would be another example, because it requires a bignum implementation that doesn't drop decimals like float can.
Oh I don’t, I was just fascinated with the whole idea when they implemented it.
Is this why many database yield better performance with XFS vx Ext4.
Never mind Lua tutorials. Just read the manual, https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/, and maybe the canonical Programming in Lua book, https://www.lua.org/pil/

Lua is an incredibly simple and elegant language. All the myths and bike-shedding on Stack Overflow and elsewhere can only lead you astray. For exceptional situations, use the mailing-list. The authors and almost all experts are on the mailing-list and will be quick to correct errors. (Everybody is wrong sometimes, even the authors! But you need enough experts in one place to be paying attention, and the only such place is the mailing-list.)

Another thing to keep in mind is that Lua maintains strict feature symmetry between what's possible in Lua code, and what's possible from the Lua C API. This is important to understand if you want to have a good mental model of the language and why it's designed the way it is. If you're not a C programmer or haven't heavily used the Lua C API, many of Lua's choices may seem arbitrary, especially coming from other languages where their C ABI and FFI interfaces are mostly an afterthought or don't otherwise constrain the in-language semantics. Most "better than Lua" projects are written by people without a sufficient appreciation for this aspect of Lua's design.
the caption above the example says:

> ...without needing to know the types of anything:
10^27?

Then for bytes we also need 2^90. Hebibytes?
That's a bit of a special case as well - historically overall good relationship even when there were cuts / restructuring in 2017.

Situation is very different in places like greece / italy / france even with much more militant unions and more protectionism for sectors. So it's def not EU wide.

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“I cannot complain about the cooperation with the works council,” VW brand chief executive Herbert Diess said at a news conference, citing “very constructive” dealings with the unions.

VW’s mass-market brand has been undergoing heavy restructuring since it agreed with the works council on plans to cut 3.7 billion euros ($4.41 billion) of costs per year from 2020 and slash 23,000 jobs in Germany via natural attrition.
Do you have any examples of software patents that survived post-Alice? IANAL, but it appears that it's been a difficult question to answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_...?

> What software patents will survive Alice analysis?

> The question has been raised, therefore, what kinds of software-related patents will survive the analysis prescribed in Alice and Mayo. The question was considered during the oral argument of the Alice case, although not more than cursorily in the opinion. Counsel for CLS Bank suggested that data compression and data encryption were software technologies that are likely to be patent-eligible because they address "a business problem, a social problem, or a technological problem." The Solicitor General, as amicus curiae, said that it would be difficult to identify a patent-eligible business method unless it involved an improved technology, such as "a process for additional security point-of-sale credit card transactions using particular encryption technology" – "that might well be patent eligible."[40]

> At least one commentator has questioned that, however, because encryption largely consists of mathematical operations using modular arithmetic and theorems of Euler.[41] Yet, as the commentator points out, in the Flook case the Supreme Court said: "As the CCPA has explained, 'if a claim is directed essentially to a method of calculating, using a mathematical formula, even if the solution is for a specific purpose, the claimed method is nonstatutory [patent ineligible].' " Furthermore, in July 2014, just after the Alice decision came down, a Federal Circuit panel held a patent ineligible, quoting Flook and adding: "Without additional limitations, a process that employs mathematical algorithms to manipulate existing information to generate additional information is not patent eligible."[42] Judge Bryson's comments, quoted above, may therefore be more predictive of the likely outcomes of future software-related patent cases, including encryption ones, than counsel's assurances during oral argument in the Alice case.
The point of the example is that in Zig, that statement is exactly as simple as it looks.

What looks like a field reference (`c.d`) is just a field reference; there are no getters or @property functions that are doing more complicated things.

And similarly with the addition operator, that plus sign is just addition and doesn't call a function somewhere else.

These abstractions are considered useful by the designers of other languages, but they are specifically excluded in Zig. The benefit of not having them being that it's easier to follow the execution flow of the program.
Totally normal in enterprise environments. "We only have Windows, you'll run it on Windows."
Not specifically. I assumed the distinction from the two below.
"We offer end-to-end encryption for our Services. End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us and third parties from reading them. Learn more about end-to-end encryption and how businesses communicate with you on WhatsApp."

And the following link
https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/end-to...
Ah! Might be helpful to specify that up front. Even so: Interval math could be quite helpful for lots of things that ... aren't using it.
Thanks for sharing that link, I haven't seen that. That's a well done page for sure.
tried to create an account on app.element.io just now and got:

> Cannot reach homeserver
> Ensure you have a stable internet connection, or get in touch with the server admin

wise prediction of yours ;)
Alright dude. If you see nothing wrong with setting fires at a federal courthouses (does it matter if it’s inside or outside a fence) and shining lasers in cops eyes, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s clear that even if they burned the building down you’d find some way to weasel out of condemning it.

And surprise, surprise the initial reports about “kidnap and kill squads” during the Capitol riots turned out to be false.

No doubt the mainstream media will print retractions...right?

”The comments by Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin appeared to be an effort to walk back claims federal prosecutors in Arizona had made in a court filing late on Thursday, in which they alleged there was evidence that rioters intended “to capture and assassinate elected officials.””

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-capitol-arrests...
As someone who has lucked into what I'd call a few good jobs, I would say that finding a job has NEVER been easy for me. It is always a grueling process, full of uncertainty, embarrassment, unrewarded effort and stagnation. From what I've seen, heuristics are heavily relied upon: Ivy League school, brand name companies as prior experience, an online presence. If you don't have this pedigree, life gets much harder. That being said, the only way is through.
You're frustrated by the fact that he invested in an asset that 4-5x'd his money in 10 months? Ok...
No, it's done by the grad-students, postdocs, and hired research assistants of a small elite.
I think this post's title is heavily editorialized, and is not reflected in the study's conclusion, which is quite confusing:

With mitigation measures such as surgical tape or an ECG
pad secured inside, the FFRs can perform nearly as well
as an FFR with no exhalation valve

Note "nearly as well". This will be contradicted by the conclusion. Also it's quite logical that if you tape over the exhaust valve, it will behave like a non-valved mask? When compared to models without valves:

the maximum particle penetration through the unmitigated
FFRs evaluated in this study was 55%, which occurred at
55 lpm, while the maximum penetration for surgical masks
was 17% for the filter media and 76% when considering fit

17% seems quite a bit better than 55%. And then they conclude with

FFRs with exhalation valves can reduce 0.35-μm MMAD
particle emissions more consistently than surgical
masks, procedure masks...

followed immediately by:

With mitigations that cover the exhalation valve, 0.35-
μm MMAD particle emissions can be limited to 5% if the
filter media does not interfere with providing a good
seal to the exhalation valve

5% is where the number in N95 comes from, that's not any better?

the exhalation valves could be improved by establishing
criteria for valve performance

Why would it matter to improve the valve design, if it's being covered?

The conclusion is that taping with micropore performs just as well as a non-valved mask, but blocking the valve completely with an ECG pad performs better than not having a valve at all. How?

Are there other design differences in valved masks that account for the difference? If I attach an ECG pad to the center of a non-valved mask would it improve performance?
I wanted to move to Signal for years. This announcement was enough to make all my contacts with me. I'm so glad they tried to pull this off. Good riddance.
I Spent $35,000 on a Video You Can Find All over the Internet: Here's Why
The implication of the SCOTUS ruling I'm talking about appears to be that there's no real limiting principle, since effectively every software is just the automation of an abstract business process or mathematical theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_...?

> What software patents will survive Alice analysis?

> The question has been raised, therefore, what kinds of software-related patents will survive the analysis prescribed in Alice and Mayo. The question was considered during the oral argument of the Alice case, although not more than cursorily in the opinion. Counsel for CLS Bank suggested that data compression and data encryption were software technologies that are likely to be patent-eligible because they address "a business problem, a social problem, or a technological problem." The Solicitor General, as amicus curiae, said that it would be difficult to identify a patent-eligible business method unless it involved an improved technology, such as "a process for additional security point-of-sale credit card transactions using particular encryption technology" – "that might well be patent eligible."[40]

> At least one commentator has questioned that, however, because encryption largely consists of mathematical operations using modular arithmetic and theorems of Euler.[41] Yet, as the commentator points out, in the Flook case the Supreme Court said: "As the CCPA has explained, 'if a claim is directed essentially to a method of calculating, using a mathematical formula, even if the solution is for a specific purpose, the claimed method is nonstatutory [patent ineligible].' " Furthermore, in July 2014, just after the Alice decision came down, a Federal Circuit panel held a patent ineligible, quoting Flook and adding: "Without additional limitations, a process that employs mathematical algorithms to manipulate existing information to generate additional information is not patent eligible."[42] Judge Bryson's comments, quoted above, may therefore be more predictive of the likely outcomes of future software-related patent cases, including encryption ones, than counsel's assurances during oral argument in the Alice case.
Didn't they already do this though? The mid-2020 MBP got the new keyboard which moved away from the super thin keys and back to a thicker switch. It's still thinner than the 2015 keyboard, but it's the exact same functional design.
> Looking at upsides on their own is meaningless.

Which is why I've been mentioning "risks" in just about every post I've made. Which is why a big part of OP is how taxing and difficult it's been. Why is why we keep talking about how 9/10 businesses fail. There's no free lunch.

But my original point was that we already know this. So it's not particularly insightful to point it out on a forum almost exclusively dedicated to people working on startups.
You can look into Malta, they are basically selling EU citizenship (you have to have an address there) and in contrast to “E-citizenship” you could get an EU passport. A bit of warning though, that country is much more corrupt than Estonia. So if you set up your business there many other EU businesses might not be willing to deal with you.
Odd. Sorry about that :/ It's working for me on desktop. Roam is a highly-used service, so I'm really surprised it doesn't work on FF mobile. It may be that it just take a little bit to load? (as Roam always seems to)
the irony of your post is priceless
You can find a million more horror stories related to corporations abusing workers than you can of unions keeping bad workers employed, yet one of these types of organizations is always under an existential attack.

If I didn't know about the sustained US corporate anti-union messaging as a thing, I might wonder why that is.
From the very next line:
> The agency has investigated 13 of the deaths so far and concluded that common adverse reactions of mRNA vaccines, such as fever, nausea, and diarrhoea, may have contributed to fatal outcomes in some of the frail patients