skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I would be very interested in the methodology they used to come up with that 70% and I am wondering if that is a snapshot in time or is that over someone's entire life. Addiction almost always starts out in a more controlled manner until its not. So if 50% of those 70% of drug users become full blown addicts, then its a BS number. I'm also really curious how they found those high functioning drug users, because I can't imagine anyone that is successfully hiding their use from the world would divulge it to anyone they don't know or trust ("hey, are you a high functioning drug user?" sounds like something a cop might say).
> It's probably no consolation that it doesn't seem to be as bad for most others.

I stopped using Coq after that course and moved to other interests, but I'm relatively happy to know that, if I ever need Coq again, the chances for it to be the same PITA I remember are pretty low.

I might not ever need it anymore, but it's a small consolation to know that I don't need to fear that possibility.
Right, and as mentioned in the article: The markets were guessing Trump would win after he had already lost. If that's not evidence of a political bias to you I'm not sure why.
I was a huge Ultima VII fan and played the game for hundreds of hours. I remember getting Ultima VIII and playing it for an hour or two and never playing it again. But until reading this article I didn't understand why Ultima VIII didn't capture my interest like VII did.
I wanted "squash merge" to work for me to handle this. Full history in the feature branch for detailed git blaming and a single 1000-line merge commit in main with "New Checkout Flow" but i never fully groked getting it to work when you are merging upstream branches into you feature... You end up taking credit/blame for the upstream commits on main and I feel like you could overwrite the real history of that.
WhatsApp pushes ahead with changes despite backlash
The Electron alternative that possibly isn't one.

Electron apps are usually quite heavy because they bundle Chrome. Tauri doesn't and instead relies on webview, which uses a different browser engine dependent on your platform, with all the incompatibilities that come with it.
On their web site I don't see a quick answer to the most obvious question: How's it better than Electron? Does it require less resources than Electron and if so how does it accomplish it?
Researchers clone endangered black-footed ferret
This-Repo-Has-Xxx-Stars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes major u-turn on Bitcoin
The Lighthouse for the Blind. I donate to their charity annually.

Here is a link to a virtual tour of the facility I visited:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfCNQatw00
As a developer shipping executables to MacOS, Windows, and Linux today this is the only assumption I can make. I cannot assume that dependencies exist or are the correct version, I can't assume the user knows that package managers exist or that the dependencies shipped by the package managers are correct, I can't assume anything exists on PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and I can't even assume that libc or libc++ on a system will work with the executable I compiled on mine.

Meanwhile 16GB of memory is becoming common and 1TB SSDs cost less than $100. So taking up a little bit more space saves me time and money and reduces the cost to ship to my customers. Oh well.
A new lead-based anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries
agree about freedom re: healthcare. it would also mean freedom to take risks as a creator or entrepreneur, if you don't have to rely on an employer for health insurance.

the gun issue is a city vs rural thing. you don't want them in a city, but you might in the rural context.

> freedom from hate speech

but reframing censorship as freedom is blatantly Orwellian. also, the left is not a monolith.

the liberal left advocates for free speech and liberty. aligned with freedom.

the illiberal left advocates for censorship and control. the opposite of freedom.
> But then, for the eighth game in the mainline Ultima series, Origin decided to try something just a little bit different. They made a game in which you played a thoughtless jerk moving on rails through a linear series of events; in which you never went to Britannia at all, but stayed instead on a miserable hellhole of a world called Pagan; in which you spent the whole game adventuring alone (after all, who would want to adventure with a jerk like you?); in which the core mechanics were jumping between pedestals like Super Mario and pounding your enemies over the head with your big old hammer.

ah, so this is where Blizzard got the idea for the travesty that is modern World of Warcraft
>The publishers see it as people just read the headlines and summary on Facebook, then never ever go to the actual web site to read the story.

This is going to be a hot take but maybe it's because people have been conditioned to think that the articles themselves are often low quality clickbait offering little beyond the headline and stuffed with more ads than content. Quality of journalism and consumer trust in media has been declining for years.
Oh, I've been around since the 1.2 days as well. Somehow, exception chaining didn't register as a big change when it happened. But yeah, incremental improvements have been pretty important as well.
I took a quick look at the 'whats new' part and I still prefer the rather more open ADS-B Exchange for this sort of thing.
Depends on where you live. I recommend just going around and meeting machinists. Look into local meetings...Society of Manufacturing and such. Typically there are things like shop tours put on monthly (non-pandemic times). Talk to local machine shop instructors and/or metal suppliers and see who might be interested in hiring...they usually know everyone.

My area has many very, very large machine shops but it has a larger number of small "mom and pop" shops which just run a few machines. I have found that the people who run either type are equally as approachable...it is hit and miss if they are willing to even let you in the shop at all without NDAs and such...then there are others who have no issues with it.

Most of the really difficult to learn stuff in the field is fixturing and CAM setup. Once that is layed out it is mostly just changing parts and watching the machine run...but there is a lot to be learned while that is going on.
>The underlying assumption of such markets is that no player has more than one vote in the actual election, out of some 150 million or so votes, so each individual player's ability to affect the outcome is negligible.

But this is not necessarily true. In the extreme case, a bettor could be one of nine Supreme Court justices. Or a participant in some sort of fantasy vote-rigging conspiracy. Or even a political insider tanking their candidate's own chances and betting against themselves. There's a pretty wide range of people who could plausibly (or not-so-plausibly in the conspiracy example) have more than a one-vote influence over the result of the election.
by "personal spaceship" Do you mean something to carry you from earth surface into space (escape gravity well);

or something in which you can travel and survive living in space (mobile space habitat).

How will you overcome the lack of gravity causing muscle/bone-density loss?

assuming you camp out near the sun and derive power from solar - how do you get food and oxygen? you'll have to assume extreme air, water recycling, and some way of producing food.
Why do you believe that technology is centre-left? Crypto is basically a libertarian fantasy come true.
Well, yes. But while the targets used to be people employed by companies dishing out company money ... now it's A LOT small time advertisers. Like civil society. You would be surprised how few people, who advertise on Facebook have heard of the concept of ROI. Most of these people are not advertisers ... but are spending a lot of money on it.
With Symfony back in the day, you could turn on a little toolbar that would show in the top of your rendered HTML. You could see how many SQL queries were run, what the statements were, how long they took. I think there was some other tracing information as well. This strikes me as a basic and necessary kind of testing to do when developing with an ORM. Perhaps more systematically you could get ORM business into Zipkin or Jaeger, and then have some kind of staging vs. prod or canary vs. prod statistical comparison to see if you’re about to release something dumb. Or maybe simpler to keep generated SQL in unit test assertions. You wouldn’t have to write it, but you would have to read and update it on changes, so you could notice if you were winding up with N+1 queries or a ridiculous join.
And apparently distributed RPC is ‘microservices’.

I think we can all agree that straw man architectures don’t work. Everyone should employ the true Scotsman architecture.
“Findings: 236,379 patients survived a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. Among them, the estimated incidence of neurological or psychiatric sequelae at 6 months was 33.6%, with 12.8% receiving their first such diagnosis. Most diagnostic categories were commoner after COVID-19 ... including stroke, intracranial haemorrhage, dementia, and psychotic disorders.”

It would be interesting to do a relative comparison of physical and psych effects of lockdown versus post-Covid complications. It isn’t clear what the severity for the “33.6%” was.
Me and my brother, we loved Ultima VI and Ultima VIII. I guess we were an exception :)
They are already illegal in multiple european countries because of this issue.
My employer lets us upgrade our MacBook Pros every 3 years from our start date and I always do so regardless of whether I need it or not.

The "use it or lose it" factor can be major in a large company. Similar to how departments use up budget at the end of the fiscal year, if people stop upgrading their laptop when it's offered, they'll stop offering it so often and it'll be harder to obtain an upgrade when I actually need it.

You also have to consider IT support and EoL. If 4k people hang onto their laptops until some required software/security update no longer works, now the company has to make a huge 4,000 laptop purchase instead of spreading that purchase across multiple quarters or years.

We also recycle our old laptops back into a rotation as spares for interns, loaner laptops during RMA, presentation or demo machines for customer sales opportunities, etc. It's nice to have a stock that's not 7-10 years old, and also not go out and buy a $2k laptop for an intern.
If I remember correctly, FB said everything behind closed doors to Signal's leadership and had them blog and handle PR about how much reassurance they received that nothing would change. This is probably why Acton became the largest donor to Signal.
When Covid Spread to Gorillas
> Anonymous source? Check.

> Unverifiable anecdotal evidence? Check.

Have you ever wondered why there is no Edward Snowden of China, despite the fact the Chinese equivalence of NSA is undoubtedly as much aggressive, if not more? Such a person would have been suicidal, not to mention no news organizations would be willing to publish their information. In such an environment anonymous source is the norm. It has to be.

Unfortunately that also provides plausible deniability, as your post illustrates.
I can't find the link anymore, but a few years back they were looking into using pulley systems with large blocks of concrete to store kinetic energy in a similar fashion to pump back. I think something like that in theory could work.
That’s what I am always saying. If you can’t manage libraries you will fail at microservices too, just harder.

I am working on a project right now that was designed as microservices from the start. It’s really hard to change design when every change impacts several independent components. It seems to me that microservices are good for very stable and well understood use cases but evolving a design with microservices can be painful.
?? Some countries don’t have the resources for high precision maps. They have old maps from whenever they were commissioned.
That sounds correct. Unless you have a sensor, there's no way to make a meaningful detection and decision to stop something.

And sensors that are reliable and durable cost $$$$.
Even if it was going up, you'd still spend all the good years working all day long. If you spend 90% of your healthy life working it doesn't matter if you live 70 or 150 years
What's the alternative? Hooking up to the car's OBD II port to get the data from there directly like some insurance companies do?
Thanks, will surely keep this in mind.
> and as things stand the right is advocating for freedom more than the left

I don't think that's quite clear cut. The right politically makes more hay about freedoms these days, but they have equally strong positions that are anti-freedom (pro-life, voting restrictions, immigration policies, drug policies, religion) and the left has pretty strong advocacy areas for freedom (religion, drug policies, "gay marriage" ) etc.

Crypto has always been about a number of things.
examples for what?

From your cnn link

'"Prepare for an increased number of infections in the days following a protest," the letter says. '

> “The right to live, the right to breathe, the right to walk down the street without police coming at you for no reason . . . that’s different than me wanting to go to my place of worship on the weekend, me wanting to take my kid on a roller coaster, me wanting to go to brunch with my friends.”

This is obviously an emotional response. She didn't do A/B testing of various activity outcomes on public health and base her conclusions on that. Can't somone simply say going to church is good for metal health of the population, she didn't obviously measure the outcomes of that activity.
Absolute not.

Even disregarding your false promotion comparison, what about the other side?

CCP 'promotes' (actually carries out) the brutal persecution of non-Han and specifically Uighurs in part facilitated propaganda ('ads')

US corporations are not forced by the government to include for instance only one community or exclude another in their communications.

Us corporations are not de facto owned by the government and do not have the same goal of consolidating power to maintain the CCP's (and increasingly just one man at the top's) grip over its own citizens.

In the US many spend lots of money lobbying to keep the government out of their business!
Many people will not move from C to Rust because Rust is non-standard, doesn't have multiple implementations and multi-platform support at the level of C. The C language, despite its shortcomings, is at another level compared to other languages and it will take decades to make this comparison even possible.
This isn't really true though. It's not like you're suddenly adding consensus problems or something, you don't need to reinvent RAFT every time you add a new service.

Microservices put function calls behind a network call. This adds uncertainty to the call - but you could argue this is a good thing.

In the actor model, as implemented in Erlang, actors are implemented almost as isolated processes over a network. You can't accidentally share memory, you can't bind state through a function call - you have to send a message, and await a response.

And yet this model has led to extremely reliable systems, despite being extremely similar to service oriented architecture in many ways.

Why? Because putting things behind a network can, counter intuitively, lead to more resilient systems.
It isn't your fault that you have to do this, it is that our industry hasn't created enough quality, easy to use, cross platform gui libraries for popular languages, such that the only viable place to turn is to use a whole web browser.
America also took a massive rake on the costs of rebuilding countries on their credit.
It's a positive vs negative liberty difference. Decentralization and unregulated currency is aligned with the right wing ideas about freedom.
I assume you have done nothing wrong here given how you wrote this, if you crossed any lines my advice would be different and I'd advise you to get legal representation immediately.

Privately document everything you did from the time things started going bad at the company. Be as detailed as possible, if you have any emails preserve them, but don't access any of their systems to do so. If they send you any communication trying to blame you get legal representation and give them everything you just documented. Do not make anything public, don't write blog posts about it, keep it professional and quiet. If they don't do the same then find an attorney to help you pursue them. Do not even visit their website.

I also wouldn't overreact initially, the reality is that companies going through troubles like this operate in chaos most of the time and are knee jerk reacting to many things at once so they are their own worst enemy and will hasten their own demise. Let them tie themselves in knots not you.

Outside of the above and as a general rule, don't interact with them or give them any information at this point, anything you say can be twisted into "facts" to trap you. You are better off keeping your mouth shut and just letting them spin. If they reach out blaming you the only thing I'd due is reply once something to the affect that "I left your employment and have had no access to any of your material, systems or IP since the day I left and only wish the company the best." You aren't giving them a defensive response, you aren't stating any detailed facts they can try and tweak to fit a narrative they want, you are simply stating you left and left all their materials there. Of course if this isn't true you should rethink the reply and likely just get an attorney, but just some basic advice. Also beware of any existing/former employees reaching out, even "friendly" where they ask you any questions or try to get you to detail anything.

caveat on all this: I'm not a lawyer and if you did something shady you need to approach this very differently.
That got ugly too until they prevented people from taking out life insurance on people without their knowledge/consent
I, like many others, have been saying this for years. Too bad I didn't see this link before, it would have helped convincing a few people in the past. Now, fortunately, it doesn't seem that much of a heresy to say that monoliths (or SOA) is the right architecture a lot of the time (maybe most of the time).

I remember, a little more than 4 years ago I was brought on to save a product launch for a startup. They were, as far as I can remember, already creating the 2nd iteration/rewrite of their MVP with the first one never released and just few months short of doing their first release one of their developers started to convince everyone that the code base was a pile of crap and that they need to rebuild the whole thing is microservices. Because there is no other way around. The system was built in PHP and the otherwise smart and motivated developer wanted to rebuild it as a set of JS microservices.

He almost managed to convince the management, including the devlopment lead and the rest of the team. And it wasn't easy to convince him that that would have been a pretty dumb move and that it wouldn't have just taken a few more months, just because creating a 'user service' with a mongo backend was something he could pull of in his spare time.

Then I realized that there is something inherent in these kind of situations. Some people come around stating that a new piece of technology (or other knowledge) is better and then suddenly the rest of the world is somehow on the defense. Because they know something the rest don't so how could you prove them wrong? Not easy. And funny enough, this is actually a classic case of the shifting of the burden of proof fallacy.
Well technically we all do...
This is very interesting, thank you! At first glance, it does perhaps gloss over a few things still: instruction encoding, jump-target backpatching (or its moral equivalent), the system call interface, the fetch-execute cycle, and a debugger; but not, for example, function entry and exit, or, as you point out, garbage collection or the reader. Also, on p. 16, there's an error seemingly due to the author not knowing about the Y-combinator:

The LABEL special form,
as implemented by EVAL,
was a clever construct
for defining anonymous recursive functions.
Anonymous functions
("lambda functions")
cannot usually recurse
(apply themselves),
just because they are anonymous,
so there is no name that can be used
to invoke them.
Belarus has a lot of reason to operate NPP. First of all - to get cheaper electricity. Secondly - to shutdown a lot of old thermal plant. Thirdly - to spend less on Russian oil and gas. Finally - to decrease CO2.
Opening the bet that they die on a particular date is a problem because they know when to be careful.

Opening a market on when they will die that goes to the person who is closest to the right date, now any would-be assassin can place their bet and try to win. And the target may know that people are hunting for them, but won't be forewarned of when.
Your reply to that comment reads a lot like "It's not a phase mom, you'll never understand". I won't get in to what I actually think on the matter though.
I heard about a similar project a few months ago but I can't recall the name. I think the downside is that each OS has its own idiosyncratic webview.
Prediction market positions are not capital gains in the same way that lottery tickets are not capital gains. It is gambling.
It just means you no longer waste your life on stupid shit like Reddit and Imgur.
Slashdot, osnews. Your age is showing. I'll join your club.
I understand your point, however I still think it's unacceptable to have 1-1.5 GB of RAM consumed by simply two Electron applications running idle.
Plenty of space in our own solar system

assuming close enough to the sun to derive significant energy - why wouldn't the earth-based government have the technology to track you just as easily as they could on earth?

After all, what can you hide behind floating in space, fully illuminated by the sun?
I don't understand why people think that microservices are monoliths are 2 only options.

https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/
I haven't used WhatsApp much, I've just co-opted this whole thing to move people off SMS. But, comparing Element now to WhatsApp when I used it years ago, Element is more polished with more features.

It's dead easy to download the app and sign up on Matrix.org though, just to test it all out before you go through the trouble of setting up your own homeserver.
Why do you have fake accounts? Just curious. The only reason I’d want a fake account is because they don’t have developer accounts. I hate doing anything at a job that requires me to use my personal Facebook account.
Reverse Engineering Strike Commander
We have to use the technology: animate bars on the X/Y scale on the graph, speed of the animation should be tied to the current max value represented on the graph. This way, humans will naturally recognize the value the current bars represent.
But you can't just add types to C and it becomes rust. It needs serious refactoring. You'd probably go lib by lib, whereas you can rename a JS file to TS and it starts checking types (even without, if you configure it that way).

By the way, I love rust, but I just don't understand the "rewrite all the things" hype. Being battle tested means a lot for low-level libs. You can't guarantee that you ported everything exactly, with bugs and all. Pragmatic solutions like "Checked C" prove a lot in that regard.
> It causes less to be consumed

obviously. and yet politicians forget that when they're not talking about sin taxes.
I have this dream constantly. Always that I forgot to ever go to the class, never that I'm struggling in a class or that I'm going to fail I class I've been attending. I wonder, did you skip a lot of classes in College?
Why is America getting a new $100B nuclear weapon?