skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry about the position you're in. For the last several years I have been balancing taking care of my terminally ill wife who recently passed away, all while working remotely in the web hosting industry. It's hard to balance. Harder than you think. Setting boundaries will be vital to being successful in any WFH role.

Now that that's out of the way: You need to focus. You've described your abilities and that's fine, but you lack focus. Your qualifications are great, but your presentation is all over the place. You need a single one page resume that focuses on one aspect of your knowledge and experience, and lightly mentions the others. Make multiple resumes, each with a focus on one thing. Use the resume that's best for the job. I recently saw somebody who must have had 20 different resumes to match the jobs they were applying for. It worked.

Also, you might consider looking into the Web Hosting business. If your temperament is as you describe, and you like talking on the phone or live chat, most web hosts will overlook any technical gaps. Those can be taught. In fact that can lend to your focus! Focus on the fact that you know things that can't be taught: Customer Service, talking down angry customers, talented writing, friendly and always willing to find a solution under dire circumstances. Those are GOLD. Once those are on the table, the rest is negotiable. I'll email you a link to at least one that is hiring full remote entry level.

Additionally, you need to step up your confidence level. Let an employer know that your family is important to you and that you're dedicated to working hard so that you can support them- and leave it at that. They don't deserve the other details, and they aren't relevant.

I hope this helps.
I think Factor is too high level to give you an impression of Forth. A multitasking, stand-alone Forth, with an optimizing compiler and assembler is something an average programmer can reasonably implement for themselves. The whole thing will definitely fit in your head, as well as your L1 cache.
This is probably thanks to schools.
> Yes, they do need need electricity.

Some do, some don't. Mine has a pilot light and a thermocouple. I used it to keep warm while our power was out for three days this past weekend.
No. Texas does not have 15 GW of import capacity.
I think there’s a general cultural malaise; everything is rehashed, even radicalism is rehashed old forms of radicalism.

I think tho that the aftermath of covid will shake everything loose finally.
Punishing bad driving is - I assume - intended to incentivise better driving.

If a company makes a self-driving car and that car then drives badly, surely the response needs to be to incentivise the company to improve their engineering practices, eg, spend more on testing, or require more levels of review of changes, or whatever other organisational changes they need to make safer cars. You don't need to find an individual person responsible to create that incentive. And if you really do want to find an individual responsible it can easily just be the executives of the company (and the executives are probably pretty easy to find even a decade later).
I think in many cases the QA job is harder. The developer needs to implement the feature according to AC and cover known error conditions. The QA needs to test the feature according to AC and also throw everything under the sun at it to uncover unknown error conditions.

However it's been a sad reality from my experience in the industry that the average QA engineer is a less capable coder than the average developer. There could be many self-reinforcing reasons for that which includes lower pay. There are few things good developers wish for more than equal or superior QA engineers who make developers' job writing quality code much easier.
How being locked in apple's ecosystem good for the customers.
Yeah I guess I hadn't noticed that.
> I think eInk is a great example of how the patent system discourages useful innovation.

Could you explain this? Because which patent is discouraging useful innovation? I'm actively working in the display industry and have no idea what you are referring to. I've asked this question before and I only get conspiracy theory answers like "secret consortium", or lazy answers like patent thicket. If you aren't actually working in the display industry, then how exactly do you know what is blocking useful innovation? Because if you were to ask me what's blocking useful innovation, it is the fact that investors are much more willing to put billions into AI/ML or an internet service startup than they are into scaling up a niche display technology or improving yields so that the price can come down.
Technological Revolutions That Will Accelerate Us into the Future
Perhaps... Perhaps righteous indignation is not helpful. Perhaps some humility and resolve would be more helpful. Perhaps each and every Texan, myself included, should take personal responsibility for this failure to prepare for the consequences of this foreseeable (and [foreseen](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Tex...)) disaster, and resolve to prepare both individually and by electing competent governors who won't prioritize corporate profit over resilience.

> A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that’s sin. That’s failure to hit the mark. And the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). The ancient Jews always blamed themselves when things fell apart. They acted as if God’s goodness—the goodness of reality—was axiomatic, and took responsibility for their own failure. That’s insanely responsible. But the alternative is to judge reality as insufficient, to criticize Being itself, and to sink into resentment and the desire for revenge. - 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Mitsubishi units can still extract energy down to -13F / -25C:

* https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/benefits/hyper-heating

These are designed in Japan, where they often have earthquakes, and so any flammable materials (natural gas) seem not to be used for heating. Things can get quite chilly up north:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikubetsu,_Hokkaido

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaidō#Climate

AFAICT, the units do not have external thermometers, but rather look at the refrigerant temperature. So if the piping from the unit into your wall is short, then the refrigerant isn't exposed to the cold that much, and so may not effected as much by air temperature.
>I'm just not clear how we could keep living in anything approaching an approximation of our current world without the existence of interest. Having idealistic visions of constant charity is not workable.

VCs don't take interest on their investments into companies.

The problem with interest is that it's basically a gamble. For everyone who wins the bet that in 30 years they earn enough to afford the interest on a home loan, there are people who lose that bet, people who get injured, lose their jobs, have to take care of an infirm family member, etc.

Eventually, we'll have to live in something that's far less high in terms of quality of life than this world because we can't keep winning the interest gamble forever.
The built in Linux environment (Crostini) is more or less vanilla Debian, and is extremely easy to install. Want to use Firefox, or VSCode, or GIMP? Trivially done, and integrates seamlessly with the rest of ChromeOS.

Yes, the $200 devices are not as good as $1000+ laptops, but for the price, I think they are pretty great. I use one for both personal and work stuff (not as a primary machine, but for travel and field work).
I made a start on type inference for stack-based languages in the context of Joy, but I kind of wobbled off at the end: https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html#conclusion
It turns out to be easier to work in Prolog.
Starcraft was solved in the sense that the winrate against top players was high, but the production model often found itself in pathological absorbing states that it couldn't escape from, which no human would ever get itself into.

That's important, since if we are using it as an analogy for driving, it's not just the win rate we're interested in, it's the ability to consistently avoid pathological states when presented with edge cases (e.g. not braking when there's a strange looking object in front). Some would call this "common sense".

Also, games like SC2 are distinct from the driving problem as far as RL goes, since you have unlimited training data which allows you to explore all edge cases given enough compute. In self-driving, the data is scarce and you can't explore all edge cases by just throwing compute at the problem.
been very satisfied with i3. haven't tried any others, unless tmux counts.
Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America's largest animals
It was "created in a weekend" like I might get this quarter's big new API done in a weekend. Still gotta test, document, bicker over variable names, etc. I imagine "created" is as small a fraction of vaccine development as prototyping code is of software engineering.

As to say, not very "created in a weekend."
India is enamoured with the idea of surveillance for the greater good, really? I find this very hard to believe.

Given the results of gold confiscation in India, it seems that revealed preferences of citizens in India are not aligned with such an idea.

Germany is not alone in this approach, but they are a little unique in some aspects due to some historical events. Canada and many others do not even have a national id at all, and it works great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...

You simply present multiple sources of identification, and de-facto in many cases driver license is the national ID. However, you can always present a combination of multiple documents. e.g. birth certificate + photo ID of some kind. As such, there is no central database, but multiple databanks in most of those countries.

I think central databases are an extremely misguided approach, because even with biometric databases - people just end up selling their identity for money to fraudsters. It just hikes the cost to commit fraud a little bit.

Estonia's e-residency cards were obtained by the truckload, and then resold to "evil doers" who then proceeded to launder something like $250 billion. That's for a country of 1.5 million.
No. Not that one.
Apple is imposing its will on thousands of American companies and robbing them. We put up with it because we have to, but we've had enough. This is painful.
It is about my family, friends and people from business.
If you have to use a battery, then that's probably true. But then again, once you have an electric furnace, the battery requirements are going to go up far more dramatically.

As an anecdote, my furnace blower pulls about 11 amps on 120V AC. So I can run it with a little 2000W inverter generator but won't have much spare capacity for anything else.
>Bitcoin backed

>$17B worth of crypto.

Ah, so there are Bitcoin "backed" loans but they are denominated and paid in dollars. The supposed "value" of Bitcoin in dollar terms is what serves as collateral for these loans.

Here is a hint: price does not equal value, especially when it is as volatile as BTC price is. So essentially these are unbacked loans...

If BTC eats the dollar in the future, e.g. under USD hyper inflation, then BTC x USD creditors are still screwed like all other creditors lending dollars. Their debtors will be able to pay the loan back with depreciating dollars.
Accounting for financial aspects is not silly. People who are desperately poor will do desperate things for money that they would consent to otherwise. Taking advantage of that is unethical.

And I’m not sure if you’d have a ton of unpaid volunteers or at least enough to power a trial. It’s not a simple “lets get a shot” it’s having to travel to a clinic several times over a period of time. It’s a serious commitment of time, that’s why trials are normally compensated.

Otherwise your entire pool of patients are just upper class mid-white collar career who can work from home and skip work in the middle of the day.
Exactly, Epic tried to get people to install their Fortnite app on Android via their apk from their website but they ended up just putting it on the appstore because not enough people were doing it. Likely because of the extra work and "scary" warnings Android gives you when you try and do this.

So yeah this method does work to keep people using the more "safe" options while also letting others have more freedom with their device if they desire.
I kinda abandoned email as a tool of communication long ago and just use it to centralize slow notifications. Slow meaning, things I kind of like or want to know about eventually but not important enough to show a distracting notification on screen. Having them filtered gives me a way to more or less easily check in every now and then what is happing on a given topic

But for me, the more import aspect is being in charge when to use a tool than what the tool is and having habits around it.
Define injustice. Are you talking about serious hate crimes, i.e. physical violence? "Softer" but still awful actions, such as discriminatory hiring practices? Or impolitic comments that cause no actual harm? If you are talking about the first two, they are not merely injustices but crimes with legal (often criminal) remedies.

Cancel culture typically refers to instances of the third option, someone saying something mean and having his life ruined for it. A good example: a guy's business was ruined because his daughter wrote some mean things online as a kid. https://forward.com/news/448382/the-ceo-of-holy-land-hummus-... They were certainly bad, and her parents ought to chastise and punish her for them. But neither she nor her father should face "cancellation". I feel just as sorry for her; she may never get into college or get a good job because of this. These weren't "injustices"; no man was harmed.
I think that very much depends on the Lisp in question. Even if you want a Scheme style Lisp which really needs some form of GC, you can implement a very rudimentary one using bump allocation. Basically just allocate memory by bumping the stack pointer and clear out everything at specific boundaries (i.e. you have some memory that is fixed at startup with the interpreter, basic functions, and constants but after that have well defined points where you clear out everything).

If you want something closer to assembly, you can just use a normal Lisp and have the Lisp compile itself to an assembly program, but with the benefit of things like variable names whatever other abstractions you can come up with. This approach is taken by Fairlylog[1] which is implemented in Racket but produces Verilog. You are basically writing a new language which compiles to assembly, but with the benefit of better tooling. Racket gives you the benefit of things like syntax-parse for writing the parser in a way that gives good error messages and more flexibility than a parser generator.

[1]: https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/Fairylog
Has Google earned charitable initial judgements with regards to consumer privacy?
[edit] having just read https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ as posted by /u/phreack, it turns out Scott Alexander has already written what I wrote below, point by point, much more eloquently than I ever could. Read that instead of this comment, if you have the time.

The problem is that bad behaviour is incentivised. It's like the prisoner's dilemma - what you're wishing for is for everyone to cooperate, even though any given individual stands to benefit from betrayal - some individuals will betray, and in an iterated prisoner's dilemma others will see that "crime pays" so to speak and do the same.

What we need to do as a society is to reshape the incentives, through systems engineering, so that the best incentives encourage cooperation. This is a herculean task, I have no idea whether it's even possible, and if it is, who would be in a position to enact such widespread societal changes. But as long as one can personally benefit from a collective harm (or even just reducing the collective benefit), collective harm will be done.

I think some of these arguments are Marxist ones, to be honest - but so far, Marxist attempts to reorganise society have produced even worse societies. I think the only way forwards is incrementalism, tweaking our social structures little by little in the right direction, as total societal reinvention was clearly a catastrophe when attempted.
I was surprised to learn when I moved to a cold climate that some gas water heaters can operate without electricity. Modern ones use a small piezoelectric igniter to light a pilot light.

Probably obvious in retrospect, but took a bit of brain rewiring to realize no-power != no-hot-water given I had mostly dealt with areas with electric water heaters with fairly small tanks up till then.
I used to live in Maryland, in the DC Suburbs (Rockville, Gaithersburg).

Anyone who has spent much time there, knows that they have wide roads.

Roads that say "Take me, you gypsy stallion! Do 65 on me!" (with 25MpH speed limits).

And they have some very aggressive cops that basically hide behind hedges, waiting for free spirits.

They might not like forcing people to obey the speed limits and red-light cameras. It would be a significant hit on the bottom line.
What Kpop fans are these? None of the Big 3 Kpop companies are worshiped and the men who founded them are hated. Smaller Kpop companies are not worshiped either. There's some BTS fans who like Big Hit but that's about it.

Example of an established artist with power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSo9NTb1llI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGW99ilZ7oQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFELwBpskpU
How fully was it de-regulated? An advantage of regulation is that it generally shields you from lawsuits. If you follow the rules, you generally can't be successfully sued for negligence. If there are no rules more of the responsibility falls on the courts. If things were fully deregulated the producers should be hit with some massive lawsuits from the families of those who died.

IANAL.
Gas predates electricity. See: George Westinghouse
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this headline was not corporations/companies, but administrations for public school districts and universities.
> This ends in hyperinflation.

Except for the part where the fed said (and continues to say) it would raise rates if it saw sustained high inflation
"uninfected super-spreaders"
That's not a thing.
And I would die on the hill of plugging the 2nd Amendment as a damn near sacred and last insurance policy for the average person. That it is attacked when it's the obvious conclusion or tool of choice for the scenario you two are describing in this thread, is just evidence that it must continue to exist.
We do not need to do business right? I do not want to do business with 99% of companies that want to "reach me".

Can I pick phone from manufacturer with eco-system that takes my wishes into account?
> Do you think the existence of a chilling effect is good reason not to do something?

Yes, because I value personal liberties.
Thank you for the hard work! I've been a long time follower and am excited to give it a try and post about it -- thank you for the additional links. I haven't dug into the wealth of knowledge that is FOSDEM 2021 yet but excited to see your update, giving that a watch now.

Unikraft is really one of the only ways I see unikernels actually taking off now that rumprun is somewhat slowed/unmaintained, and the implications I think are really great -- I would love to be able to completely switch out implementations of schedulers, IO, network, and even mid level libraries and be able to observe differences in unikraft application performance and the work you're doing will make that so much easier.

If containers are a local optimum, I think unikernels + lightweight VMs might be another one. Good things seem to consistently come out of UK computer research.
But he changed his stripes on Climate Change to become Prime Minister, and then changed back once he got ousted from the position.

He had the opportunity to act on Climate Change and he stuck to Tony Abbott's script. Weak as piss.
Prices used to be higher too, in the past.
In one of four nuclear plants in Texas, "According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the shutdown of the nuclear reactor was caused by a disruption in a feedwater pump to the reactor, and that caused the plant to trip automatically and shut down early Monday."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/how-and-why...
History doesn't have to repeat itself though. We could learn from our mistakes. The War in Afghanistan/Iraq (and now Yemen) was not inevitable at all and could have been easily avoided.
Google still does cache them do they not? I am pretty sure all the emailer would know is that the email got received, but I don't think they actually know if you open it. However if you click a link they would know.
> Wouldn't you agree that the world would be a better place if we had less of them?

No.
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In many cases they (Google) don't know the impact of changes until they try deploying the changes, and there's ML in the picture, not just algorithms. As I understand it, they often run tests that expose the change to a limited subset of users first.
The miner hash power secures the blockchain and is independent of transaction rate.

Increasing the transaction rate does not require any additional energy expenditure and transaction rate (block size) has already been increased twice since Bitcoin's inception.

Dividing the total power consumption of bitcoin by the relatively small transaction rate makes for good headlines so I'd expect it to continue even though the two are unrelated.
[You sent me searching]

Published by "Bureau of Public Secrets":

http://www.bopsecrets.org/cat.htm
My brain hurts when reading these silly replies. It is like you don't want to learn how things work. BTC has value because people assign to it and there is new money coming in (fiat converted to BTC) which is what makes the existing investors rich.

You all do deserve to stay poor and be labeled as #nocoinists.
I use Strava to track walks, then import the data into the CityStrides website. They work well together.

Route planning is tough, even with automated helpers like Every Street Challenge (http://www.everystreetchallenge.com/). Automated ones don't take into account things like being able to cut through a park as a short cut.

Usually for route planning I pick a chunk of streets bound north and south, east and west by some primary streets, then print it out and hand-optimize the route.
What's the make/model? Presumably not forced air?
It's important to know who in government caused this so we can assess their performance on the next election day. It's the entire point of voting in the first place. In this case, all available evidence points to the Republican officials in the government of Texas, so keep that in mind if you're a resident of Texas.
Were the losses worse? Yes, workout a doubt? People died. Pets died. Homes and water mains were destroyed. People have to boil their water. Having power wouldn't have prevented all that but it definitely would have prevented some.