skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional engineer here, by education and trade.

The computer game "Civilization" by Sid Meier provides a succinct definition of what engineering is:

engineering is an application of scientific theories and methodology to solving real world problems.

(Perhaps not in those exact words, but you get the idea.)

There are two major flaws with the article:

1. the author assumes that licensing is the result of legal requirements, whereas in reality, state licensing exams exist to ensure that licensees all have the same common denominator of standardized, required knowledge to perform adequately and correctly within their profession;

2. core part of the engineering process is writing formalized requirements and specifications stemming from those requirements, but the article skips this, the most important aspect of engineering: "The third quality will be discussed in the next essay."
Htop does a good job at being a user friendly tool, but I think it doesn't empower power users the way it could.
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Are the microbes themselves that old, or simply made of old material?

Edit: quoting the article, it doesn't say the microbes themselves are 100M years old, only that they're in sediment which is that old. Big difference!

"99.1% of the microbes in sediment deposited 101.5 million years ago were still alive and were ready to eat"
Between Brexit and Covid I've read that the UK's population might have dropped by more than 1 million in 2020 [1]. For the time being, because of Brexit, it is also very touchy politically to do anything that might resemble free movement or easy migration with the EU. So if I were a little cynical I might say that this is a way of encouraging immigration without looking like it and it is actually a popular policy within the Conservative Party [2] (and probably the public at large). Two birds with one stone.
There's also quite a bit of arguments within the government about the stance to take on China so this can also be a way to placate some MPs so that they stop pushing for more serious measures.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/01/14/uk-populatio...

[2] https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2020/06/our-su...
Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation
>It's fully legal to read and publish the private letters and intimate diaries of historical figures, as it is to make claims about their deeds and motivations that might constitute libel if they were alive.

There are some resitcitions there, for example the Private letters and Diaries would still be covered under copyright and the estate of the person could come after you for Copyright violations if it was with in 70 years of their death.

Also the Estate of a person could absolutely sue you are defamation provided the Estate has a person actively working to police that activity and the resources to hire a lawyer to do it.

So your position that "dead people have no privacy" is really false as they have just as much privacy as people alive it is just most dead people do not have anyone around that will expend the resources to enforce it like a live person
The fired people disagree

> First Look Media’s decision to fire me after I raised concerns about source protection and accountability – rather than to demote or seek the resignation of anyone responsible for the journalistic malpractice, cover-up, and retaliation – speaks to the priorities of The Intercept’s Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed and First Look Media’s CEO Michael Bloom.

https://www.praxisfilms.org/open-letter-from-laura-poitras/
htop is one of the best tools available in your linux toolbox. Thanks, author.

While thinking about it, I'd like to inject htop in misbehaving kubernetes containers. Does anyone know if there is a static compile available somewhere or something.
I agree, it may break contexts, but the "idiomatic" form is mentioned in the article I linked and was found much less scalable than the final version.

It's all tradeoffs, I guess.
Why T-Shirts Promoting the Capitol Riot Are Still Available Online
Sure but even that's a bit of a distance from what they're arguing. I can imagine that someone can totally not read a book every year but still understand context of say a news article they've read. That is nowhere near functional illiteracy.
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I'm pretty sure that's what Turkey is doing here too. This is Turkey catching up to Twitter.

Let's hope the West doesn't try to catch up as well.
Yeah, that's kind of where I was leading ;)
A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants
> ARD, and a lesser extent ZDF (there are some legal differences between the two, including independance) are way more neutral regarding the ruling, or major, parties like, say, Fox News and the GOP.

That is hardly a strong endorsement.
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Social Media Marketing as a whole is a process of increasing valuable traffic on your website and platform. A huge part of the world’s population is on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The process makes people think good about your company, advertises its products and services and eventually increases the traffic and awareness of the company and its website.
I think parent was ironically saying that now even the governments that were criticizing china for censorship are starting to feel they should act in the same way over the main social media platforms. It is sad but is is what's happening right now.
If it doesn't meet this definition, I wouldn't call it socialist. Otherwise, the word socialism would lose its meaning. California having high taxes does not make it socialist. Austria having free education does not make it socialist.
So what the presidential order says is it's at the discretion of the prosecution if they press or drop charges, and the don't have an obligation any more to prosecute federal crimes? How is the "we, the people" represented in this discrimination? How is it supervised and controlled and "corrected" if the wrong crimes are not prosecuted?
I guess it's because on one hand the context is handled by the function directly (with the usual `process(ctx, job)` pattern) and on the other hand the context needs to be part of the job, which is less idiomatic ? Functions vs Types. Interesting.

The issue with spawning goroutines all the time is that spawning, while cheap individually, can become expensive if done in large numbers (like 1 Million times a minute as in the article). Is that not considered problematic ?
> it’s not about me, but about ways to improve the code

This is true for me, but I also would admit that it's not all altruistic.

Specifically, I will report problems that may be rare for others and unlikely to be reproducible by the maintainer. I often provide information about the operating system, version, etc. in those cases to put a reasonable amount of effort into it, but I don't always expect it to be fixed by the maintainer.

However, if I determine later that the bug was caused by something else, I'll go find the bug I created and add a comment indicating that it was fixed or related to another problem, if it's simple.
This looks like a direct competitor to the Local tool that WP Engine got through their acquisition of Flywheel. What are the differences?
> The mistake here is to treat both of these equally.

Oh, I absolutely am not, or at least did not aim to. I'm well aware that I don't have to explain where an egg came from just because I'm stating a chicken came out of it.

> Consider that most religions want people to behave in very specific ways, mostly because deities and their spokespeople say so. The "god" you are describing does not fit into that.

Sorry, yes, I meant nondenominational.

I don't disagree with anything you wrote, and did not intend to convey anything contradicting to that.
I discovered this paper while lost in a Wikipedia rabbit hole. For anyone curious about the phrase “human flesh”, the paper notes it comes from a literal translation and that it might be better understood as “people-powered”.

One takeaway (certainly not the only) from the paper is that most research is done by a few participants, even as participation size increases.
Would I Lie To You is my second favorite comedy show of all time, the first being Peep Show. I have been trying to score tickets to a taping of WILTY for years now. The form requires you to specify an address and each time I have to note that yes, I really would fly from California to Uxbridge to attend a taping. They never get back to me :)
This seems to be a great idea actually. An ISO standard cable with several tiers or power delivery ratings, mandatory for all EVs to accept should be the way to go. We have a standard gas/diesel "plugs" all over the world, why not have the same with EVs?

Edit: Obviously, a car should accept only the "tiers" that it is rated for, but the charging station and the car can negotiate which "tier" that they would like to charge.
Ask HN: Video Conference Software - Seperate Audio Streams
Anyone develop a video conferencing app that allows the audio to be saved into seperate streams per attendee?
The full-blown practice of this (so things like losing a tail) is referred poetically referred to the Russian intelligence services as dry-cleaning (Proverka? I forget the exact russian term)
The decision took a month ago to focus on Raku as my hobby language and learning since then so much about programming and different ways to do stuff is refreshing. The language is well thought and if some stuffs are note yet possible (like using grammars for binary data for example). I think the last time, I felt that a language is providing you a new world to play with it is when I discovered Racket.

I used Python and R mostly in work environment and always wished to leverage Julia. The overlaps between Julia and Raku made me realize how to do some stuff and have a better grasp on some Julia capabilities that where perceived as fuzzy concepts. Multi-dispatch for example but also the parallel between NativeCall in Raku and the C API access in Julia. Even if we fall more in the two languages fallacy with it, it is crazy to see how it is easy to provides binding for C, C++, Fortran or Rust libraries to Raku.

Besides that Raku is a joyful/fun language that does not block you if you want to do serious stuffs with it. For that did not come form nowhere. At each FOSDEM edition, I was always peaking for some talks in the Scheme/Raku/Perl room and each time enjoying the talks and the possibilities discovered. I was there in 2015 at FOSDEM when Larry Wall made the official announcement for Perl6, I saw a few talks by Andrew Shitov and others.

In these times where you find a load of articles "learn foo in X minutes", I really like to read more about Raku with the feeling I am "learning Raku for a lifetime".

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I really think that the parallel between what Raku and Julia have got right from the syntax and the integration of unicode, the lisp-ish nature, etc. Julia even got a few more think as having a AST and macro around it (coming in Raku when the RakuAST branch will lend later this year), using GMP binding for arbitrary arithmetic (maybe coming to Raku/do soon).

Raku like Julia have this Lisp feeling where everything is possible to reproduce due to the flexibility of their inner working.
Another one for the list: The guy who likely wrote TrueCrypt also was a drug lord and ordered multiple killings.
A Temporary Ban on Porn: a 1A-friendly stride toward gender equality (2011) [pdf]
(Context: my wife is a fourth year Medical Student in the US) they generally go with drugs they are familiar with because what each drug does is subtly different and complicated. Each drug in a sense is a skill to be mastered all on its own because it’s interactions with someone’s body is very multifaceted. This is at least my second hand understanding from my wife! So they know all the typical signs of when it is working well or not working, the kinds of people it works well for, etc. there are far too many drugs to gain that level of deep knowledge with them all in a lifetime.

At no point does a typical Dr. close themselves off to new studies, but it’s a large time investment to become “competent” at using a drug and a potential risk to your patient if you are in personally new territory.
Knew this was going to get downvotes. How very dare I apply the standards of the left to BLM. I've yet to see a good argument that this isn't s double standard though - your actions either aid bad actors, or they don't, whether through explicit support or indifference.

If you're part of a protest and it begins to turns bad, either repel the rioters, or leave - it's not impossible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzZ_VJXWtNs

Otherwise, how are you not complicit?
because signal depends on non-free libraries, and replacing those is a considerable effort:

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/signal-wickr-on-f-droid-2021/122...
Algorithmically Recognising Slice Knots
70% of Bitcoin mining is from renewal resources:

https://twitter.com/Melt_Dem/status/1351175859613429764

Netflix uses more than twice the energy that is spent in Bitcoin mining:

https://twitter.com/onybose/status/1351207551648616449

A lot of the energy used for Bitcoin mining would be wasted otherwise:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1351216547566669829
The Armed Forces Network (AFN) broadcasts American media to overseas troops, so long as they agree not to show commercials. Programs still have commercial breaks, so all of the commercials are PSAs developed for/by the military, hence why you saw that commercial.

Human trafficking is a real concern overseas, including in US military areas. The PSAs serve two purposes; to educate troops so they make good decisions and for leverage to hammer them when they don't. (How many times have you seen that trafficking commercial played on AFN a dozen times a week? You should have known better).
A textbook reformist democratic socialist policy would be giving employees a seat on the board of directors, or allocating some company shares of publicly traded companies to them.

If Bernie Sanders had his way[1] and this was implemented in the US, the country would become more socialist.

[1] https://berniesanders.com/issues/corporate-accountability-an...
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> The ZDF, if memory serves well, is allowed to be more of a government policy outlet than the ARD and the third programms.

This was the original intent: Adenauer wanted a federal public broadcaster to compete with ARD which he considered too critical of his government. The constitutional court shut that down as only the states have the right to set up public broadcasters with domestic transmissions (Deutsche Welle is focused externally). Today ZDF and ARD have the same legal framework, they are just organized differently.
Maybe they bought a high quality, off-the-shelf watermarking tool? Maybe the person hired to do the watermarking is smarter than the group in charge of security?
Anecdotal, but I've seen lazy/clueless developers in some companies who allow only a .com email address to be provided. And this was a few years ago. I don't recall the name. I'm not going to do any business with such services.
So what would the solution for Android phone be? Buy a new Android phone or buy an iPhone? They are very similar from the perspective of your data being owned by the phone OS maker.
No, you've described the caricature of capitalism that those opposed to it repeat to themselves to help justify their opposition. The central philosophy of capitalism is that voluntary trade leads, ultimately, to greater and more efficient production. That's not to say it's necessarily a straight line walk or that what is produced is necessarily pretty. Competition is a side effect that comes into play once you are producing something valuable to someone else willing to buy that something. It is a mechanism that keeps check on the bounds of prices and efficiency.

The real difference between capitalism and socialism is that capitalism requires voluntary action whereas socialism embraces compelled action. Socialist "cooperation" and "coming together to solve problems" are euphemisms for a politically powerful group to harness the productive output of the governed for its own purposes, without regard to if the perceived problems or the perceived solutions are real or not. Unless, of course, true socialist policy allows dissenters to opt-out of participation, in which case I withdraw my characterization. Assuming I'm right, I find the notion of "cooperate or else" far less appealing or moral than capitalism with all of the competition that comes with it.

Finally socialism doesn't eliminate competition... it only moves it from the marketplace to the seat of government. There is no grand collective, there is no "public good": there are individuals with differing beliefs, interests, and objectives. Once you put sufficient power in the government: the most ambitious individuals will compete for privileged positions within political movements rather than businesses, political movements will compete with alternative political movements for the reigns of government. Socialism doesn't remove fundamental human desires for prestige and power, it only redirects the energy into the mechanisms of state; and no that's not necessarily a benefit to the poor, or the underprivileged, or any other banner of victimization that you might fly to justify that state. The inability of a government program to fail means that the real world effectiveness any given government program (assuming that it's even a "right program") is secondary to its ability to attract political support. In capitalism, the voluntary aspect allows for failure if the business isn't producing the product efficiently or it isn't producing something that someone else actually wants or needs.
I have to disagree with such a broad statement covering a period of, what, 600 years. Neither do I agree with the premise that leaving small communities alone, not having the populace or these communities a say in larger affairs, and limiting access to te community decisions to a select few people to be more democratic than our current system.
The new chairman has apparently donated to the Tory party.

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/06/new-bbc-chairman-richard-...

The DG was also a former deputy chairman of Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party.

https://inews.co.uk/news/tim-davie-new-bbc-director-general-...
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Does anybody know if this move is in any way related to the recent Trump/Parler bans?

The article doesn't mention any relation but the timing seems to suggest it could be related
Previous discussion about why Signal is not in F-droid:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16432454
Nano has no fees or mining. Instead of traditional distributed proof of stake, it uses open representative voting.

https://docs.nano.org/what-is-nano/overview/#representatives...

If nano (or any other tech) achieves greater utility for transactions without using proof of work, then it is arguable that BTC's use of energy is wasteful.

However, to be specific I would defend the consumer/miner's choice to use energy in whichever way he subjectively feels brings him the most value. I'd say it is debatable whether BTC's proof of work is wasteful. Calling this claim naive appears as short sighted. Tech is a constantly evolving landscape. Increases in efficiency are arguably already here.
What we need is "diversity in unity and unity in diversity".

Let's take railroads for example: we want many constructors of rails and trains, but we want them to be interoperable - they need to agree on a common track standard. The internet - we want to have many independent websites, but they all need to use a common protocol in order to have wide reach. In politics we want multiple independent parties, but they should play fair with constitution and elections.

We need both the ability to centralize some aspects and diversify other aspects. For Google, FB and Twitter I'd like more diversity on the front end part - UI, personalisation of filtering and ranking, and on the user data storage part - portable user pods.
DW is financed by the budget of the federal government, not the broadcast fee like the other public stations.
Can I quote Matrix?

Anyway, the Matrix counterpoint (as explained by the Agent to Morpheus) was that the original Matrix was a perfect world. No famine, no poverty, everything was perfect, but the captive humans minds couldn't cope with such perfection, there had to be disorder for the environment to self-regulate and the original Matrix collapsed.
Yes, this is included into my phash tool, but 1st it's extremely slow for my size of data <100.000 elems, and second, I want to avoid perfect hashes only. I want a comparison with better data structures. Like 2, 3,4 way arrays, or 2 way with additional binary search, or patricia trees, or any other. Or just a simple range search, as many unicode lookups do. I can decide with my guts, but I really want to decide that properly, case by case.
Benefits Britain is C5, not BBC, so it's not funded by licence fees.

Indeed very few programmes appear to be made by the BBC.

It seems like what happened/happens is that producers form their own private company, do the work for the BBC but the public don't get to keep the benefit of the work paid for the benefit gets locked away to provide private gains.

Long running programmes are now made by third parties when they could easily be made by the BBC proper, Gardeners' Question Time, say.

In part is to serve 'talent', but BBC's remit is to fill the gaps where commercial programmes don't go, to be distinctive, so they should never be paying £millions for a talk show host.

If you're going to use public money then you should be benefiting the public as much as possible, not carefully twisting it to get private profits.
There are so many misconceptions about public broadcasters.

Deutsche Welle (which operates dw.com) is 100% funded by federal taxes as it is aimed at foreign markets.

https://www.dw.com/de/wer-finanziert-die-dw/a-279073
The US military granting R&R leave to Thailand, for servicemembers serving in Vietnam during the war, is the reason why Thailand has such a thriving sex tourism industry today.

Also, military members outed as homosexual (when it was illegal) were usually outprocessed in San Francisco, which may have contributed to it being one of the birthplaces of the gay rights movement.

Unintended consequences I suppose
That is an oversimplification. There is more defining Socialism than just healthcare. And having a solid social system in place is hardly a socialist thing.
Centralization without decentralized failsafes is a danger to democracy; FTFU.
Isn't Perth the city that's farthest away from any other city in the world? Obviously that depends on the criteria which I can't remember, but the people I know from there have all complained that if you're bored of the city it's almost as easy to go to another country as it is to go to another city in Australia.