skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes agreed, the idea of getting better "value" bc an author spent more time on a book is dumb, its based on a labor theory of value, when it is completely irrelevant. I think books are highly redundant especially non-fiction ones,when most often their contents (of average 250 pg book) could be summed up in a 10 page paper (at most). so it would make more sense to re read a cliff notes summary, but maybe books are like a built in study tool, forcing you to connect examples and stuff with each concept so it becomes memorable.
I find comments like his to be humorous, and comments like yours to be falsely sanctimonious.
To quote Thomas Frank, we have created a system that offers most people two choices: “toil without hope, or go to jail.”
But that would be a nice project for a hacker looking to learn CLIM internals, no?
There’s been information about the power of FMT floating around out there for a while now.

I’m convinced that pharmaceutical corporations have nothing to benefit from more effective treatments, which could largely be why we see smaller players doing these types of honorable and groundbreaking studies.

One study I’d love to see is the effect of treated tap water on our microbiome. If tap water is designed to kill micro-organisms, what could it be doing inside us?
No you're not. It's entirely a loophole being regularly exploited.

Now whether the existing IPO requirements could/should be streamlined is another question.
How to bootstrap to higher paying work (not necessarily tech specific)
I have understanding of technology, advanced unix, linux skils, manufacturing, quality control, R & D experience...a Bachelors degree from a number of years ago in Economics from a decent school...nevertheless since 2020 I am stuck doing basically manual labor, not figuratively but literally. Looking for suggestions how to boot strap. Potentially interested in software development but really I think I would like something maybe a little more physically active...like industrial automation or skilled assembly...

My "career" started in the last recession and since then has been mostly a downward trend. Now I am earning the same low pay as I was a decade ago in a different job, when I got out of school, and not even working a full time.

I am a good problem solver but the job roles I have had mostly don't value problem solving.

I am socially isolated and introverted by nature...maybe I have Aspberger's syndrome but I think schizoid is really a more apt description of me. I understand the world and social interactions I am just kind of cut off from it. Working in non-knowledge roles obviously doesn't help...since that is where my comparative advantage is...

Anyway I heard of the IBM "New Collar" apprenticeship programs for various technical trades. Anybody know about these?

I might get A+ certification and try to get into IT. It seems like a crowed space though.

Kind of caught in a poverty trap approaching middle age...

Anyway if anybody has any stories to share how they turned a similar situation around, I am interested in hearing them.

I have no debt, no dependants, and essentially no money.
For many entry level tech jobs today, I think you'll find the bar is considerably higher.
There were some great tools for that platform. I used a different brand ICE, but also an HP1630D logic analyzer with a processor chip-clip and a built-in disassembler so you could see where your code failed. (Worked great for finding hardware problems too.)
That's interesting. What's common from what you observe? Notification per user per month wise?
The flip side of that is "do you want to have two scripting and compiler toolchains installed on the machine - one that gets updates from the vendor and one that gets updates from volunteers?"

The spot where this becomes an issue would be say... (making up a story here) there's a vulnerability found in Ruby which is part of the toolchain for the system and in MacPorts toolchain. Apple pushes out a security update that updates the system toolchain... but the issue in the MacPorts toolchain remains until that is updated.

I had an issue with MacPorts many years ago when I was trying to install a python library via MacPorts (I forget exactly why) but wasn't being found with python on the command line (which was using the system toolchain) and then when I resolved the "I'm using the MacPorts version on the command line" other issues with software that was expecting the system toolchain version started cropping up.

That's a "my experience" story and isn't meant to be defining.

I believe that both Homebrew and MacPorts have made design choices that reflect how they want to take their respective projects and I respect those design choices. They solve problems in different ways and have different repercussions for how users use them.

For me, on my systems, I've found that I tend to prefer to fix the problems that Homebrew causes than the problems that MacPorts causes. The big thing that made that preferable is that the services (databases and such) are not run on the bare machine but rather in containers.
Okay, sure - but many, many more reads than writes. That is cheaper to implement with caching, CDN, etc.
> As a counter-example, when I was at Sago Mini, I was getting incredibly nitpicky and subjective feedback about the precise way in which to procedurally animate sheafs of wheat in a field in a game for toddlers. While the same culture of quality and branding concerns apply, this felt like a waste of time past the first few iterations.

For what it's worth, as the parent of a 5 year old who has loved Sago mini, the quality, care, and polish in the game/app and the subscription boxes has definitely shone through (I'm an iOS dev myself). Which is not to say that it was taken too far internally. Just remarking that the work you and others did there hasn't gone unnoticed, despite it being a game for toddlers.
I am interested in whether there is any actual evidence retribution works, in terms of recidivism. My first guess would be that the awful experiences in prison just fuck up people more.
Maybe my wording was a bit strong, but the US is a pretty small minority of Wikipedia's usage. If we look at article counts, about 12% of articles are in English (5.8M of 49.3M): https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm
How about calling it the anti-douche. Who wouldn't want an anti-douche.
Russia Expels Diplomats from 3 Countries, Saying They Attended Navalny Protests
I doubt the US govt will break their top surveillance partners and 3/5 companies responsible for most of their GDP growth for the past decade in any meaningful way. After all of this saber rattling, they will still stand, with probably stronger positions because all the new compliance cost will shut out new entrants.
Section 230 reform feels to me like gnawing around the edges of the problem. I've started thinking that we should consider going nuclear on online platforms with some version of "social networking platforms funded substantially by advertising revenue are prohibited". Something that will restrict, as powerfully as we can, the existence of platforms incentivized to solely maximize user engagement. Congress can strip them of their liability shields. Facebook can set up all the moderators and review boards it wants. In the end, we all know how their bread is buttered.
This seems like a relatively easy issue to fix. If they included a "password" to the proxy (and stuck it on the share URL) then the proxy can reject requests unless the password authentication passed. This way it would look like any other HTTPS site that was password protected. Only if you know the password would you get proof that the other end was connected to Signal.
Why must you trigger my inability to stick to a programming language? Elixir, Clojure, or Rust - round-a-round in my head they go. Will it ever stop, hell if I know. sigh
It's been best practice for a while in the 'enterprise' realm to do disk-to-disk backup first so that the streams are all sequential and then copy to tape. Enterprise-y software can also generally multiplex multiple clients to a single tape.
Some people think it's to get them to stop doing bad things to other people, not to get even.
> I think that retribution, which is of course the principal component of justice, is a key part of prisons.

One of the arguments that Foucault makes in Discipline and Punish is that prisons, by virtue of hiding the retribution from public view, can perform nearly arbitrarily heinous retributions on people. When we tore people apart in the street as punishment it was public and could provoke outrage. Now basically nobody knows what happens inside prisons.
I don't buy the premise that package managers are the reason why companies need DevOps.

Software deployment has gotten complicated for a variety of reasons (containerization, micro-services, continuous integration, cargo-culting FAANG practices, etc). When I first started my career, I FTP'd my code changes into the single production server that ran both Apache and MySQL. Homebrew is not the reason I don't do that anymore.
That emulator looks amazing. It must have cost a fortune at the time!
Weird... In Australia (last I checked at least, maybe it's changed) it's commonly in chocolate, ice cream, and any kind of soft sweet, to the point where it's nigh impossible to get any of the above without it.
What Lehman Brothers, GameStop and the Next Financial Crisis Have in Common
To add to what others have mentioned, relevant features that come to mind (when comparing with C++):

a) Module system lowers the complexity overhead of using third-party libraries, which means you aren't tempted/required to reinvent as many wheels

b) Easy, reliable, monolithic build system, particularly for cross-platform builds

c) Ease of writing bug-resistant concurrent logic (my understanding is that concurrency doesn't get used much in games because it's so hard to get right)

Of course the above can mostly be said for C# too. But Rust could maybe be seen as the best of both (C++/C#) worlds

I would say its biggest disadvantage is simply that neither major engine uses it (officially). Unity and Unreal are so powerful at this point (and free for smaller projects!) that you're better off using them for nearly any game project, unless: a) you just feel like writing your engine from scratch for fun, b) you're doing something wildly novel, or c) you're a AAA studio that can afford to hand-roll an engine in order to save on licensing fees down the road. Maybe Rust will see adoption in category c one day, but there's a huge amount of institutional momentum to contend with.
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I invested in one of Chamath’s SPAC plays (not because of Chamath). He is legit as far as I can tell. The company is solid, has an amazing hard tech product and everything has worked out great so far. I have no doubt that everything is honest and that the company will do amazingly well in the next decades. The founders have great track records. This is something like the 4th unicorn the CEO has created and gone public with or exited via buyout. I don’t think he would choose to partner with Chamath if the guy was shady.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion here, but I don't think developers have to do much about deciding about design - designers do.

On the other hand, if everyone would do the craigslist 'brutalist' design you people would say the same thing - how every website looks the same. And not every website has the same target users as craiglist's.
1. general UI

2. keyboard shortcuts

3. moving around tabs/ windows

4. crashes/ memory issues
It's not the first time that Ford has sullied the name. I'm sure wikipedia has an article on the Mustang II ("let's make a Mustang out of a Pinto!"). Ford isn't the only guilty one. I remember driving a relatively new Chevy Camaro in the 80s, and I wondered why it was such a dog. That was because Chevy took the 2.5L four-banger out of the Vega and Citation and dropped it into the Camaro.
Yes, that is essentially how laws and government work. I give up my own individual rights to extort the public, and in exchange I get the security of knowing I won't be exploited.
Parent's information is outdated, but originally/historically Homebrew did want you to chown /usr/local
The market is telling you what you should be putting your time on and here you are in the comments section envisioning a fake controversy instead
I upvoted you, but I want to make sure my reasons for doing so are accurate. This was sarcasm, yes? It might not be so obvious if others read through this so just want to clarify.
With technological progress, the path towards reaping the benefits and mitigating the risks is difficult.
> by the Wall Street-funded academic paper

citation needed
Does someone know why this project was supported by the German ministry for research and education?
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Andrew Yang – The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 45
In my small town diner there was a prominent sign:

"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone".

My mother, who had traveled 1000 miles to campaign for black voter registration (this was the '60s), always bristled when she saw the sign, but kept her peace in public. It was the only diner in town.

One mind-boggling trend in my lifetime has been the embrace of liberals -- formerly so fiercely protective of free speech and equal rights -- for censorship and silencing of unapproved narratives by giant corporations and the agencies of state.
What's crazy is that you think that most Americans think even the smallest crime should mean life in prison plus anal rape.
Even if it didn't hurt sales, it would still have been shitty and embarrassing if the big reveal of this massive multi-year investment had been torpedoed by the risers, and (to the story'd point) after the risers had been explicitly called out as a problem.
Well, maybe. By finding a valuable use for an otherwise unused part of the animal, you're increasing the value of raising and slaughtering animals, and increasing the value of something usually encourages more of it. But it's more interesting than that because the main market is for the meat, and if the availability of meat were to decrease because it's not as profitable, one would expect the price to go back up a bit, which would in turn encourage more production.
So glad I sponsor this project. The mac would be entirely harder to use as a development platform without these package managers (this praise includes all the efforts not just that of Homebrew). Donate here: https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations

Note: I am not affiliated with the project in anyway other than being a backer and a user.
sounds like you need to open a dialog with your congress-critters with your concerns then.

these companies are going to do whatever they want in the meantime.
This is nonsensical peddling by a techno-crypto bro.

Simple retort: currency is meant to be stable. He points to crypto being a trillion dollar "industry". Isn't that the same with any gambling/poker-like venture?

Edit: removed name calling.
Yep, and that is what "I don't need Java" #KotlinFirst movement doesn't get it.
Backing the INR with BTC is a moronic idea. Since India doesn’t currently have any significant semiconductor manufacturing facilities nor surplus power to burn on mining BTC (many more important human development use cases), India (and the INR) will be under the thumb of whoever does control the mining. As it stands currently, a lot of the mining is done by bots hosted in China, with whom India has geopolitical tensions. It might even be speculated whether the central coordination + semiconductor prowess might allow China to execute a 51% attack.

It’s one thing to consider blockchain-backed databases and smart contract technology for specific use cases, and a totally different thing to peddle crap and drive the hype train with reasons such as:

> Elon Musk: The world's richest man has said that Bitcoin is "inevitable" and changed his Twitter bio to simply "#Bitcoin".

> The website coinmarketcap.com has a higher Alexa ranking (#324 at last check) than the website wsj.com (last ranked as #440).
CDK has `ecs-patterns` https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/tree/master/packages/%40aws-c...

I'm a pretty big fan of CDK if you are willing to make cloudformation and AWS your lingua franca. I use it for most of my personal projects, but professionally bias towards terraform.
That's not really the argument that I'm making.

I am a deployment engineer.

Deployment is actually really easy.

I'd argue that it's not far off from FTPing your code changes over in terms of difficulty.

No, my argument is that more engineers today do not know how computers work. I'd even argue that many engineers would find FTPing over code changes to be too difficult (or they'd screw it up). My argument is that homebrew makes some amount of contribution (not 100% the reason for) engineers remaining ignorant about computers.
Hopefully, what else are you going to do with hooves and bones otherwise, throw them away? That's wasteful!

(in reality there's almost no chance, synthetic glues are way easier to manufacture and manage, outside of gelatin animal glues would near-only be used for restoration or specialty applications e.g. some lutherie and other speciality woodworking)
Nowhere did I make that claim.
> On another hand you have Google and Apple, yet again, being the complicit chokepoints of “free speech”, with regard to app developers.

And how is that detail is pertinent to this discussion?

If it wasn't Google or Apple it would be other companies. Even if it wasn't large companies it would be 100 smaller companies and all those 100 smaller companies would have to comply (even more so because they have fewer resources to fight a government deciding things in their own country).
Morals of animal consumption aside, adding demand for any part of an animal will add some degree of financial benefit for using animals in general (ie: reducing waste by making use of an additional part means more $ in the farmer's pocket per cow).
I think the interesting part about "capital returns" in the past year, is that they're almost all on paper. There's relatively little actual wealth being transferred.

Almost nobody is actually realizing returns by pulling money out of the market, because there's nothing meaningful to spend the money on in 2020. Even the people pulling money out to buy a house, are mostly buying reasonably sized homes at inflated prices. Or to pay inflated education costs, which people without such large nominal wealth often wouldn't pay in the first place (or have forgiven via IDR etc).

Obviously each of the new tech millionaires with 50+% gains COULD cash out and buy, I dunno, a semi-truck full of flatscreen TVs. But they won't. And if any meaningful % of them did, the paper gains would evaporate in a heartbeat.

So I dunno. There's a lot of fake gains showing up in bank accounts, but I'm unconvinced that meaningful wealth accumulation has happened, or that most millionaires are actually converting that wealth into a higher standard of living. I think society is in a holding pattern, with inflated capital investment prices for lack of anything better to spend money on.
We have been seeing deplatforming happen more and more these last few months. Seems like this is going to accelerate a decentralized Internet.

It's going to be exciting times with a lot of societal questions and problems to be answered as these new technologies take off and the old model of advertising and free services for personal data get replaced with a new model.
In my experience hiring for jr webdev and full stack roles, about 1 in 5 people could pass fizzbuzz (even when the mathematical algorithm was explained in writing). About 1 in 100 completed the basic web app demo (untimed, take home, expected to take between 30 minutes and 2 hours, in any language, with a test suite included as a shell script). I often hired the first person even remotely qualified with the intent on teaching the gap because hiring took so long. This was in Chicago from about 2011 to 2018.
The unconnected dots here are why some group of old moderators have to ban newer moderators in order to garner some sort of lucrative movie deal just for themselves?
If you have better or different sources explaining how SPACs work and what their effects are I am all ears.
Hey! I was making Freecodecamp like app for mobile devices for quite some time (you might have seen it - CodeNGo) and CodeMirror was the only library that worked well on mobile. Thanks for all the hard work!
> What makes you think retribution is the principal component of justice? That seems very wrong to me.

It seems right to me. In my opinion, justice comes from the concept of reciprocity. In other words, if someone does bad, it is just that bad is done to them (retribution). The reverse is also true: it is just that good things occur to people who do good deeds.

> Justice is a deep concept - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/ is an overview, and it's not short - but on plain sight, I'd say that the fact that it is the public, through the medium of government, that enforces justice, it should do so with a utilitarian view.

It's wrong to write as if this is a closed question. There are plenty of philosophers who aren't utilitarians and who see justice grounded elsewhere than "whatever I think will be good for society".
if getting to 2-3x pay by converting the USD->CAD then you have to convert the COL into CAD and it's much lower in Canada than the US. If you don't convert either then it's maybe just slightly cheaper in US, though in the markets where 2x non-converted comp exists, the COL is still probably higher.
it wasn’t about good, it was about how bad

many and possibly most employees were living in a delusion though, that was pretty funny because when I polled them, many didn’t understand any of the financial meme lingo as wall street was making fun of wework for a whole year. So, they didnt get the jokes to even know it was a negative view.
We'd consider buying one, we really would. The next vehicle will have to serve as sedan, dog-mobile, and must be BEV (we've already had a Leaf for ten years). But that hideous fucking growth in between the driver and passenger says we're not buying this version. I mean, ignore that it's a touch screen to begin with, but did they have to make it look like they went out of their way to make it look like an afterthought? Like, "oh, shit, we forgot to put an interface on it. Can't we just stick an iPad on a stalk or something?"
Best of luck. Even applying from within the US to Data Scientist roles takes quite a while to get through. At least compared to a few years ago organizations are providing rejections rather than simply ghosting.
I am struggling to understand why anybody thought that "outsourcing" blog comments was a good idea. It seems like a really simple database function that could be self hosted easily.
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