skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I simplify a bit, I see two different approaches:

1. You write something broad as you say. You present many options to the reader. The book is not practical anymore, because you don't speak about something in particular but some general ideas. As a result, the readers can't really practice with a concrete project, and they might end up lost in an ocean of links. If I wanted to do that, I would have created another "Awesome list of Linux tools" on GitHub.

2. You write something more focused, as I did: the readers can practice, you can describe and explain everything they're doing because the focus is more narrow. You eliminate a whole class of problems as well, because you know exactly the tools they're installing and using. As a result, you enable them to understand what's happening.

I went for the second solution, because I think we lack books which are really practical. I wanted the readers to be actively engaged into a project, learn by practicing, and be able to swap every tool they want afterward. Because they'll have a deeper understanding of Linux, a modal editor, a tiling window manager, and so on.

It's not because I use these tools that I want to impose them to the world. I choose these tools for the book because they allow the reader to understand what's happening under the hood. Even if I was using another wm or another distro, I still would go with these tools, because it allows me to teach what I want to teach. Because they're not too difficult for beginners if you explain them right. I think people are smart, and I think they can learn way easier than most people think.

To me, Ubuntu is highly opinionated. Who cares? It's not about me, it's about what the readers can learn from the experience. I'm not convinced you learn a lot by installing Ubuntu, or that you understand the benefits to work with a tiling manager, or you understand the important place of the shell in the Linux ecosystem.

Thanks for the good luck :)
A Year or So Studying Clojure
How do you plan to fill the database? Is it just one big database and you will cycle it or you plan to add to it every day?
If you are interested about the tool, I’m happy to answer any questions.
I think Gridcoin offers a happy medium. It's proof of stake, but it also offers rewards for participating in BOINC-based research projects.

https://gridcoin.us/

Not exactly "proof of work" in the same sense its being used, but I wish that the project would get more attention.
If the majority is 99% and that other fraction of 1% use an ENORMOUS amount of resources on their hobby, then yes it is reasonably to consider making it illegal.
I wonder if gold being useful in semiconductor design influenced the Greeks in adopting it as a currency. Maybe they just used it because it was portable, fungible, and scarce?
Does that mean you would take food production in-house to be able to scale your “model 3”? My comment was from the perspective of partnering with existing restaurants as a service. If you do that, what will be your advantage and scalability over existing delivery kitchens?
Don't forget getting ridiculed for a "Useless Use of Cat"
Coal plants can't dynamically ramp up or down to partial capacity but coal plants can be activated and deactivated according to demand - there is, essentially, a priority list of plants in the US dictating the order in which to turn them on in times when demand is exceeded - there are also some bi-modal plants out there (some hydro plants on lakes which can pump water into the lake during low demand times and run their turbines when demand is high).

Coal plants tend to be quite low on this list due to their poor scaling and obvious environmental impact - in fact for a while (I'm not certain if this is still accurate - it's about a decade out of date) one of the last entries on that list was a rarely activated coal power plant in downtown boston that had an extremely inefficient conversion ratio and was deemed exceptionally dangerous due to being located in a population center - still, in times of extreme demand it was standing ready to be activated.
It's not too bad on modern Ubuntu-based variants in my experience. There's a font manager GUI that lets you drag and drop add stuff, one click install font, etc. like on Windows. You can also just copy ttf or other files into your ~/.fonts for your user and they work fine too (I like this since you can just sync and backup your fonts across all your machines).

The real mess, sadly, is configuring all your apps and such to use different fonts. There are an unbelievable amount of obscure configs, tweak tools, etc. if you want to change system fonts.
AWS Lambdas are an easy way to get scheduled scraping jobs running.

I use their Python-based chalice framework (https://github.com/aws/chalice) which allows you to add a decorator to a method for a schedule,

@app.schedule(Rate(30, unit=Rate.MINUTES))

It's also a breeze to deploy.

chalice deploy
Ethiopia will boom in the next decade. It houses many institutions of the African Union and Addis Abbaba is the sister city of both Bejing and Washington.
Marx’s ideal was far more nuanced:

>“from each according to their ability to each according to their need.”
Anacdotal, but my History class in highschool covered the Jim Crow laws, and that was at a pretty rural public school. The books we were using were pretty old so I don't think it's that new.
not every linux or system has apt. not every user has root permissions. not every system has sudo.
I'm with you on that.

But my understanding of slide 55 is that requiring a credit card up front doesn't pose much of a problem to growth.
An important nuance: such a bitcoin transaction is worth about a billion dollars. It's not a grocery store kind of transaction.
Fwiw, I've seen a number of cases of the other way around: the WebKit/Chrome CSS implementation had some shortcuts for performance reasons that caused them to not follow the spec, where Firefox did.

The link you posted just indicates that Firefox rendered the page faster than Chrome; did it render it _wrong_?

One other note: the linked issue here is layout, not the CSS system per se; this part is not parallelized in Gecko and is still in C++, not in Rust.
Software as a service.
I can power a small furnace with the amount of sarcasm you emit.
- How the founders were selected ? And where ? initially they say "hundreds of non-venture track" but then 14% raised money

- What is a MRR Growth in dollars ? Thats not how we compute growth

- Is that data statistically significant ? there 2% of companies which had 4+ more founders and still you try to make a correlation between growth and founders count.

- There is 66% of companies who have employees but only 66% of founders who work more than 30 hours a week ? That doesn't seem right...

I like the initiative, but we need more clarity to really be able to trust the data from this report
A big green 'Accept Windows Defaults' button on the first boot that bricks the computer would be a pretty big incentive for vendors to sort out their drivers.
I dunno.

From what I've seen, most people are pro-sciencism, not science. Science is difficult and rarely provides easy answers. If it does not affect them, sure---nobody really cares about the big bang, dark matter, etc., and astronomy provides pretty pictures---but if the question interacts with their jobs, cultures, or lifestyles then they are very happy picking the result that agrees with them and ignoring any nuance or counter-evidence.

Would you or the parent have any specific examples? The only thing I can think of is the different values assigned to human life by different agencies.
Hopefully Snap will get into the dumpster, too.
i think the main focus are different, jina is more on searching multimedia data, image, video things like that - things that can not easy to be solved by classic symbolic search/keyword matching
If someone wants to mimic the Mac, I'd suggest they start by making it easy to port apps from macOS. Worst case scenario, you run binaries from macOS directly on your OS.

Then it starts making sense to build your own.
I thought this was going to be about affirmative action denying Asian students entrance to universities, STEM programs, or science jobs. That does seem like real institutional racism. The fact that some college students created a fake Asian restaurant or people ask this person where he is "really from" sometimes doesn't seem like a big deal and it doesn't seem like racism "in science" either.
From the article alone it's not clear to me how "anti-asian racism" is a problem in science specifically.

It's a no-brainer to combat these things, but after reading it's unclear to me why there should be a focus on science.
Yup, was planning to use ffmpeg (or, more likely, OpenCV), and a subset of the frames.

Thanks so much for the tip on DeepSpeech!
Here's the one I made after watching those lectures: https://github.com/EvidentSolutions/toodim
Windows has that feature now. It's surprisingly effective, and is smart enough to preserve, for the most part, user files as well.

A major reason that CD's stopped being used is the straight up lack of optical drives on modern computers. In most cases these days you specifically need to look for a device that includes optical or other physical media that is not USB.

Given the ubiquity of internet access in most markets where computers are sold (even in developing countries), it is very reasonable to expect that even as a last ditch, the user will be able to connect to the internet on a tethered cell phone, and this is reflected by the fact that on consumer OS you can specify that a connection is metered.
You can have an LN channel worth 10 dollars of bitcoin left open for years, over which unlimited transactions route worth 10 dollars or less each.
> Also, even the general approach for game development--presumably there's some white boarding phase followed by a wireframe phase etc like you have with app dev? What does that look like in game dev land, what are some reasonable tools for hobbyists for each stage, etc?

This is called "greyboxing" in game dev, where you build functionality (often levels) with plain grey boxes rather than actual art assets to test whether a concept is fun, playable, etc.
Thanks for the heads up! Will definitely check it out.
bruh merge or decline your PRs
Step one, back in the day when computers shipped with cd drives and a windows cd, was to format c:, and then re-install windows from scratch to eliminate the crap ware. I haven't used windows in many years. I assume that's still the way to go.
Bitcoin is far from unique in this. When gas prices fall people have been shown to drive more. And buy less efficient cars and drive them less efficiently (faster, more aggressively).

When water prices are lower people water their lawns more and take more baths.

When shipping ePackets from China is cheap, people buy more stuff from there.

I just don’t see how Bitcoin responding to supply and demand is different from any other consumable.

It feels like the argument makes the unstated presumption that Bitcoin has no utility, which is a separate debate. Bitcoin advocates would say that more and more miners arguably provide greater security assurances making the currency itself more valuable.
It's a spectrum. My hierarchy for Mac apps goes something like: Cocoa > Java > QT >>> Marzipan > Electron.

On old OS's, Carbon would be between Cocoa and Java. And individual apps can vary a bit. But Electron apps generally feel less foreign than QT apps, which at least makes some attempt to use native Mac elements.
>I’d love it if more people realized that what they are being told are ‘mass shootings’ are not what they have been led to believe.

That's what OP's sources are showing, lol. Hey I don't like how the law differs from any technical dictionary, but such is life.
We need a filter to make a cat look like a human.

(I meant this as a joke comment, but now I'm thinking... those filters aren't that hard to make, and I've been wanting a project... this one would have my wife's support.)
This container is a piece of art. Ever since using this, Facebook no longer has any "Off-Facebook Activity" about me.
Well, right, that's why the Firefox CSS implementation actually aims to be parallelized and has been for years. I'm just saying that the wins from that on current hardware are not as large as one would hope. And that the increase in number of cores has not been increasing nearly as fast as one would like, in devices that most people actually own.
https://preciousplastic.com/
On the other hand Apple Watch costs like 400$ and UK just bought 400M lateral flow tests for 1.3Bn pounds

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n287

Or you can buy it online for 250$/10 tests (if you can swallow that you're being fleeced this much)
Companies these days expend way too much energy interviewing people

The only thing that wastes more time than interviews is hiring the wrong person. Many companies take interviewing seriously, my company meets before each interview to go over the candidate's resume and discuss what we each want to talk to the candidate about. Then we have a debrief after the interview. Anyone can veto a candidate for any reason and only candidates that get a majority vote to proceed move on to the next step. If everyone is lukewarm on the candidate, then he doesn't move to the next step.

Interviews don't guarantee that you'll hire the right person, but do help screen out the wrong people -- like bad personality fit, insufficient knowledge of what they claim to know, etc

Good thing too, a month later the entire division was shut down.

Perhaps your experience at a failing division was not typical at this company
that is true. but everyone knows apt, so if you want to explain something similar in usage, i'd refer to something people know about. of course your description: "wrapper around curl/ar/tar" is on point, but would anyone have understood it? the missing important features are a good idea.
I wonder if over time, Golang will pick up more type features like Java and other languages have.

The general consensus seems to be that powerful type systems are very effective.

Personally, the low footprint runtime and concurrency primitives are enough for me and I wouldn't mind the language becoming "less simple" if it helps the ecosystem.

Once generics are implemented, I can imagine people requesting for the next "missing" thing.
GitHub has their own ASN though (all DNS records I tried resolving pointed to this AS), and you could just not block api.github.com or raw.githubusercontent.com.

https://bgp.he.net/AS54113
This was a developer job. I doubt making presentations was a key part of the job. As such, they emphasized that I shouldn't spend a lot of time on the presentation. It functioned as a conversation starter. For that it worked well.
It's one way to bias the interview towards extroverts. Based in the percentage of extroverts to introverts developers they will probably end up with less technically able development and the amount of meetings will be higher than average and meetings will be filled with people who need to add in something so meeting length will increase.

Should have more people wanting to come into the office.
Maybe it's, you know, people caring about a livable planet. The "Big survival of humanity" lobby.
Warren Buffet, while amazingly successful, never innovates or creates anything new. His M.O. is to buy already successful companies that need cost cutting and streamlining. I would never expect him to endorse new technology.

But to be fair, he did merge Kraft and Heinz which lead to Kranch and Mayochup, which are revolutionary in their own right.
What do any of the given examples have to do with "Anti-Asian Racism in Science"?
For my part, as I maintain some complex academic research software, I would be much more interested in continuing
support for Python 2, and more comprehensive numerical, math and vector libraries for Racket.
I think BTC mining provides a needed incentive to invest renewable power. You have a customer that needs infinite electricity and they’re okay if supply is not 100% available as long as the price is low.

In the future I hope we use this supply for something else but in the short term it solves the issue of no one wanting to invest in and improve renewables.
As someone who hasn't followed the discussion all this time, is there an up to date example of what the generics syntax will look like?
> someone even managed to run linux on the harddrive

I had to look this up because I could hardly believe it.

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

Wat.
cofounder of analytics company says it's not worth building an analytics solution.

I welcome the competition.
That seems like a natural rate limiter that would prevent wasting any meaningful amount of energy on bitcoin.
America Should Default (Video, 2013)
This will probably be downvoted, but I personally never felt a huge need for generics. C doesn't have them and is arguably the most successful language in history. Yes, they are convenient, but they also add a lot of complexity to the language and toolchain. I suspect that this proposal being accepted is largely due to the huge growth of the Go community - I bet the original team (in particular, I'm thinking of Rob Pike) are at best ambivalent about this proposal and were outvoted.

Personally, the proposal I was most excited about was to make ints be arbitrary precision by default. As someone who does a lot of math, this would have made Go much easier for me to use. Sadly, this proposal was scrapped a while back.
You are fooling yourself if you believe using a credit card affords you any kind of privacy.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/consumer-privac...
I agree with your example.

I think the problem, though, is with the concept of value itself.

To my knowledge, the value of something is necessarily a personal assessment that individuals 1) make for themselves and 2) by a process that they do not and can not fully comprehend.
Polyethylene is highly flammable. The article isn't talking about how they're solving this (are they?).

This has been a problem for quite sometime now, with many high-profile cases (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41680157).

This was an excellent ABC documentary I saw sometime ago on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnTZLzXq8fU
This was to be expected. But I'm glad for Go.

In some years a language that interops with Go comes out, where all the Go types have a ?-suffix indicating they are nullable. The language will be mostly null-safe. Also it will sport sumtypes and pattern matching/ destructuring in switch statements.

It will be called: Gotlin.
https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
That applies to bitcoin too, but gold doesn't also become twice as hard to dig up just because mining equipment became twice as efficient.
Making purchases and settling debts.
Download ISO, burn to USB, boot from USB and install is the modern equivalent.
You don't need sudo for any of this.

You do need root privileges if you want to install font packages so that everyone on the system can use them. If you only have yourself as a user, you can just drop ttf or otf files in an appropriate $HOME subdir.

You can also build yourself a read-only disk image and run overlay, or run NIXos, or guix, or whatever. I find it baffling that you find it desirable to sneer at instructions on how to do things appropriately for the specific system that is being referenced.

Hopefully other people will find some value in what I wrote.
To be fair, whatever time you prepare for this specific company is useful preparation for your current job search cycle anyways.

My job search cycle is once every 2-4 years. Within each cycle, I've always found my later interviews go much smoother than the early ones, due to incremental preparations adding up to much smoother execution.

The first new interviews are always rough, after a long hiatus. I generally look at those as warm-up interviews...

So it's not necessarily a net-zero reward, for the story portrayed by the author.
Because the idea is that sunlight during a particular part of the day is more valuable. One reason I've seen given (not saying I agree with it) is that if you "move" the sunlight to the morning, it means kids won't have to wait for the school bus in the dark. Or if you "move" it to the afternoon, then there will be a little bit of daylight at the end of the day for people working 9-5, which might be useful if you want to go for a run or something.
Hmm. "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck", then it is a duck, probably. (As the Ruby people know.)

But if looks like a cat, and talks like a human?

> non-zero percent

A cat, + these new deep learning speech generation neutral nets?
Eth2 with PoS is already running with Phase 0 on mainnnet though.

https://beaconcha.in/

The merge from Eth1 to Eth2 is expected to happen this year or after. There shouldn’t be any significant delays now because Phase 0 was the biggest hurdle with research and technical dependencies that didn’t exist yet, like BLS signatures.

There’s no way Bitcoin will move to PoS without another contentious fork.
Gridcoin: Support Scientific Research via Boinc, Earn Crypto Rewards
I thought this would be about criticism of the Chinese academic publishing incentives???
On another hand, as mentioned in the report, if a SaaS operator does manage to close a sale to a larger business then that larger business is likely to provide the SaaS operator a much higher lifetime value due to lower price sensitivity and lower churn rate. But at some point it crosses over into high-touch enterprise sales process with multiple approvals from multiple stakeholders, long time horizons.

It'd be quite interesting to have survey data on what the sales process is like. But probably only relevant for SaaS businesses that sell to government / large business customers.
FWIW Apache has a new stapling implementation that is not suffering from all the major problems the old one did. Can be activated with "MDStapling on".
In the context of Jevons, wouldn’t that explain why we have bitcoin?
The first rule of running a megacorp is to tell your customers to take a hike if they don't like your terms.
There is truly nothing comparable to the application of the concept of race. In fact, race is already a catch-all term of sorts for an ideological byproduct of industrial capitalism. See chapter 4 of Barbara Fields’ Racecraft for a history:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kC4oWIwS84gBQaVhJiFmCd42b0e...
Makes sense. Senior developers do often give a fair number of presentations to external audiences but I wouldn't consider it a core competency of most developer jobs. (Though general ability to communicate can be important.)
Scrolling Alone: On Covid and Social Capital
C may not have generic types, but much of the standard library does use generics, just through the unsafe mechanism of `void*`. Likewise, go already includes some generic code (the array type), it's just treated specially.
Source? All these whatabout takes I've seen compare the sum total of some hugely popular activity to the relatively small userbase of Bitcoin. I'm highly skeptical Bitcoin would compare favorably on a per-user basis.
Additionally, the demographics on slide 7 point to the majority of founders being over 30. This age group often coincides with a greater likelihood of having a partner, mortgage, children, etc. Thus the risk aversion for that group is likely also higher.

Finding 2+ people with the risk tolerance alone limiting, much less having a complementary skill set, interests, goals, etc.
Slide 62 does present some of that context:

Survey was sent to 25k founders in the MicroConf database, 673 respondents (534 completed the survey)
If you think the average user understands a single word of what you just said, you’re in for a rude awakening. Not meant to diss you the slightest.