skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was clearly rocking the boat. His career was only not ended because he went so smartly about what he was doing.
Facebook isn't a real monopoly unless you consider "social network" a real product.

But in reality "social network" as a product is a bit thin, since it's really just a crossover of blogging and communication.

There's nothing of value that facebook does which the general populace can't replace with something else within a week.

People won't run out of ways to communicate with each other, and they won't run out of ways to shout and throw pictures into the void.

In fact people used to change platforms like clothes and the continued dominance of facebook in a lot of countries is a bit of an anomaly.

Also only about 50% of Australians even are on Facebook, which is slightly more than Europeans, but way less than north Americans.
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In the song he argues that he has no need for doing mental maths and no need for abstract maths.

Yet he argues someone should teach him how to trade stocks and give financial advice.

This summarizes why Robinhood broker is a bad idea.
I get your point, but no. This is the type of thinking that led to the stagnation of the auto industry.

Why not roll out EVs that easily? The most profitable case company is doing it.... why would anyone go anything else?
I agree. When oil went negative, it was because there was nowhere to put it.
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This is a great place to be. Do you think one needs a certain level of mastery to come to that point though?

When you are still struggling learning, the endless reading on topic X can be tiring and exhausting, especially in the context of deadlines.
Linux has Linus Torvalds to prevent breaking "fixes".

Your JS fad of the day likely ain't even considering.
And that is correct. We are indeed not running kubernetes because it is not supported on our hardware and some assumptions were limiting. So we have a new system, but having kubernetes as our ideal.

Hub and spoke is the underlying architecture of the net, but we are achieving mesh like functionality having hub as our central router. The wording might be a bit confusing.
No source? Why install?
Sci-Fi tells us in the Planet of the Apes series that this is not good. They will rebel and take over.
Regarding U-turn toward Soviet Union one Russian singer said: you look at the events and understand -- you lived whole you life for nothing.
Very bright in some aspects, maybe. But also apparently insensitive, abusive, narcissistic, myopic, and apparently clueless about corporate realities, and either delusional or dishonest with extreme bias in many communications.

Not my idea of bright ..
This is also the entire message of Mark Manson in his book ‘the subtle art’
The "real problem" is a futile entity to identify.

There are an awful lot of real problems.

I really like this technology. It's not going to fix the world. I like that the source is biological because it won't depend to the same extent on petrochemical supplies. I like that it is designed thoughtfully to have good mechanical properties while being nearly entirely recoverable. It's clever.

I don't understand the hate. It's a silver BB but it's at least cool tech.
Correct -- EPUB is still not supported, and IMO, is a very deliberate exclusion. MOBI is still supported, which was always funny to me... until I looked it up again just now and found out that Amazon bought the parent company way back, so that makes more sense actually.
> According to a post here on HN a couple of days ago, ERCOT has more stringent regulations on winterization than the Federal regulatory body requires, so basically everything you just said is bullshit

Do you have a source for this? The entire purpose for Texas independent grid is to avoid federal regulation, so I find this hard to believe.

Also, the idea that democrats hate you is mostly from the right and IMO incorrect. Many on the left hate Trump, just like people on the right hate AOC. But that doesn't extend to the average person.

Right leaning media in the US is notorious for fear based reporting. You don't have to look far to see that there's no left leaning equivalence to Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, and similar right wing icons that sell news largely on fear and outrage. They sell views based on the idea that democrats are destroying America. This is also the basis of the Tea Party, Pizza gate, and QAnon which also have no left equivalent.

There's a reason why most mainstream media is sedate and frankly boring. Democrats are the party of change, and Republicans have to keep their base afraid so they go vote against it. A lot more Republicans think democrats hate them than the other way around. Because Republicans need it that way to be competitive.

I used to be a republican until I got tired of the constant fear porn. Democrats have been in charge for a large part of my life and the only thing to directly effect me was the ACA which turned out to be a net positive in my life. Nothing scary the Republican pundits always raged about came to pass and I got tired of always being worried about the next big disaster that never came.
The difficulty with this alleged "clarity" is there is no single entity called "the Chinese government" either.

See also:

Using "China" but assuming .hk and .mo are included

Using "China" but assuming .hk and .mo are excluded

Using "China" to mean the area administered by the ROC

Using "China" to mean the area administered by the PRC

Using "China" to mean the area claimed by the ROC

Using "China" to mean the area claimed by the PRC

Using "China" to mean any area historically associated with the rule or influence of the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Xin, Wei, Shu, Wu, Jin (1st/2nd), Sui, Tang, Wu Zhou, Liao, Song, Yuan, Ming, or Qing dynasties and their associated interregna and feudal periods.

Using "Chinese government" to mean the CCP, but not the State Council, the NPC, or the PLA

Using "Chinese government" to mean the CCP, the State Council, the NPC, and the PLA

Using "Chinese government" to mean Xi Jinping.

Using "Chinese government" to mean the KMT or DPP.

Using "Chinese government" to mean any and all the above, except the KMT, DPP, or PFP.

Using "mainland China" to try to be more specific (it still isn't, and now you've started a war)

Using "Greater China" to name your regional offices. Looking at you, Apple. (no such thing, it's a western fabrication, like General Zuo's chicken)

Referring to the Chinese language (which one?)

Referring to Chinese characters (hanzi? kanji? jiantizi? hanja??)

Referring to "Chinese food" (this is like categorizing haggis with paella)

Referring to "Chinese people" as though it's one ethnic group

Calling anyone who you think looks Chinese, Chinese.
I’m not the OP, but I have a similar situation. I’m on the west coast and work for a company based in the UK.

For the most part, it’s a minor annoyance that any problems I have or questions I need answers to are a 24 hour turn around, but otherwise I get my work done and deliver it and they get it the next day. If you’re on top of things, it’s not too challenging.
They removed HTTP? Yesterday I tried to download a .zip from HTTP and now Chrome does not allow that?

Now I have to paste these instuctions next to all the .zip downloads I link to: (right-click select "Save link as..." and press the up arrow in the bottom left and select "Keep" for Chrome, you can fix this permanently by going to chrome://flags and disabling #treat-unsafe-downloads-as-active-content. For any google morons reading; .zip does not execute)

This is retarded, I need to encrypt penguin pictures?
Only looked up Aviation Herald after you mentioned. Very informative, almost HN like, but even more dense and topical.
Vote with your money. Don’t buy stuff from companies that are doing the wrong thing.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to become BULA ? So just add to the joint venture?
As always I keep coming back to the beautiful Japanese concept of Ikigai - "a reason for being" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

Imagine four intersecting circles depicting:

1. What you love to do
2. What you are good at
3. What you can get paid for
4. What the world needs

It's about finding a balance between these factors.

See http://www.forastateofhappiness.com/ikigai-the-happiness-of-...

and http://www.forastateofhappiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/...
I think there's some demand for this sort of thing. People definitely collect way weirder. I've dabbled in retrocomputing, and spend e.g. a couple hundred bucks on rare but totally useless hardware because I enjoy it.

But there's wasting money on a hobby and, well, spending tens of thousands of dollars. The union on a Venn diagram of people with tens of thousands of dollars of disposable income who are fanatical collectors of obscure Disney VHS tapes and shop on Etsy has to be vanishingly small. :)
First of all, depending on the OS there are no syscalls to call to, Linux is the exception here.

Everyone else has to go through dlopen, LoadLibrary, or whatever alternative the OS offers.

Which is exactly the same code path that at some level the OS dynamic linker relies on.

If you are statically linking everything, then there are no libraries to give input to dlopen anyway, it doesn't load .a files, and .so is not what we want to support anyway.

But lets keep the assumption that in the world of static linking advocacy, explicitly loading dynamic libraries is acceptable.

SO now, not only has the application to do the job of mapping dynamic library symbols to function pointers, they are constrained to C ABI function calls, which is not Rust anyway.

As for you Linux based assumption, there are OSes, where dynamic linking doesn't take place before the PC jumps to main, you can do deferred dynamic linking. The call sites are marked for triggering a page fault on call, which only when it happens, will the OS look around for code to load.

This is how managed languages like Java and C# work, which many keep forgetting there are also AOT compilers, just in case the VM arguments comes into play.

But since we are talking about systems languages, you can find this feature on Windows and Aix, just to give two examples how the OS world isn't everywhere a Linux clone.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/linker-...

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_71/gener...
It contaminates compost if you put PLA into a regular composter. It requires a special industrial compost facility to handle it and most aren't.

So it's trash.

If you put PLA in the recycling bin it is making sorting even worse because if you get a bit of PLA mixed in with your other plastic it's not going to be good. So it's definitely not even slightly recyclable.

So it's trash.

PLA is trash. Unless you have an industrial composter. It's horrible.
Isn't ULA a consortium of Boeing and Lockheed Martin? I believe buying those would be beyond even Bezos means...
Seems to work fine on Firefox
Bicycle and motorcycle travel works too. You can think about things, but you're mostly focused on staying in movement.
> Re-posting because I don't feel the flag is fair.

You earned that flag just for saying downvotes "prove your point", let alone the petty arguing.

But sure, reposting the first half of that comment without the extra hostility is pretty reasonable.
Try that on an OS that isn't a Linux distribution.
> continued dominance of facebook in a lot of countries is a bit of an anomaly.

Scaling for cheap is the winning strategy here. Google had its social network before facebook too. Orkut. Didn't scale cheaply. Invite only to limit load.

Facebook could do it. Fast loading pages serving billions. I was trying gab.com recently. Too slow. Too much non responsive. Even after they are trying their best. And even though they make money from premium membership.
It's not if you use hydro power. They can have their supply lakes filled with pumps when there is over generation.

Additionaly a hydro plant can go from zero to max power production with in seconds.
Ugh, that "loosing all teeth" dream is very disturbing, quite annoying and even painful! Good thing is that I usually don't get it unless I had quite a few drinks the night before.
> the last line of defense against appstores everywhere

Package management on Debian has started to look much like an app store (in a good way) with Gnome Software[0], just without all the non-free stuff.

[0]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Software
A lot of adversarial attacks tend to correspond to very narrow peaks though and are not robust against some very simple image transformations. Often by slightly disturbing the input image with e.g. blurring or brightness/contrast changes and seeing how the output layer changes you can often eliminate many adversarial attacks.

A simple example would be if an image identifies as a basketball but you blur it slightly and it identifies as a cat, you might be looking at an adversarial attack.
I doubt that everyone is being as deligent as you. I suspect leaving security updates to upstream is not a recipe for secure distributions.

For the record, I see both sides as having legitimate concerns.
Do you have any example code that enforces the idea of romantic to you? I've always just worked on business related tasks, and might have missed out on the romantic side of programming
> But in reality "social network" as a product is a bit thin, since it's really just a crossover of blogging and communication.

> There's nothing of value that facebook does which the general populace can't replace with something else within a week.

This is a very engineer-y way to understand the value of Facebook. No one logs on to Facebook because it automates publishing and messaging extraordinarily well.

They log on because it's the only place to access enormous amounts of data created by friends, family, groups, and local businesses.

If using Facebook is the only way to see daily photos of my grandchildren, I'm going to use it.

> Also only about 50% of Australians are even on Facebook.

How many are on either Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp? I guarantee the number is far more than 50%.
I think it depends on how frequent the thing in question is. If an engine losing parts is something that happens yearly, twice in one day is still pretty rare.

But then you have to deal with degrees of freedom as well. If your search space is just 'two uncorrelated ~yearly events', there's enough of them that you'll always find false positives.
I didn't realize that every post on twitter, Facebook and Reddit was exclusively posted by the owners of said sites. Oh, wait.

I'd also point out that almost 40% of the US population live in coastline counties[0]. So even if the OP's claim is that "those on the coasts hate" Texans, that's still painting an enormous group (~127 million people) with the same broad brush.

[0] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html
Surely the person who finds undergrad math easy will get further into advanced topics before things become too hard for them?
Nowadays? As long as I can remember all the work I delivered into production used some form of vendoring and I started during the ZX Spectrum heyday.
There is no way it would be effecient to perpetually store 1000X your regular demand just to upsell in an unprecendented crisis, regardless of price gouging policies.
> No, unreliable power sources such as wind, solar and gas are the problem.

> Except for a short outage due to a sensor failure, the four nuclear reactors have been steadily supplying electricity.

> […] To avoid such outages in the future, Texas needs to build more nuclear reactors.

From an article I've read the other day:

> “This is a perfect example of the need for reliable energy sources like natural gas & coal,” tweeted U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, on Tuesday.

> In reality, failures in natural gas, coal and nuclear energy systems were responsible for nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, said in a press conference Tuesday.

"Texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy": https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-blackouts-fuel-fal....
I agree. I mentioned it in second sentence ("expansionist philosophies"). But what I said is Modi/RSS is also trying to create a monocultural image in order to strengthen their political power. India is a spectrum of cultures.

What I also don't like is people influenced by one (Hindutva) ideology of Modi turning into fascists slowly, and anyone who criticises Modi for unrelated (eg economic) reasons is called anti-national. Being strong Hindutva ideology shouldn't give him a pass in other areas.

Never mention Savarkar's "Hindu Atheist" progressive ideology shadowed by current RSS activism and them using all kind of religious sentiments to get high PR. Congress is fucked up minority appeasement party, I am not a Congress supporter. But what I am saying is BJP is not doing much better.
The argument goes that if prices were unbounded above, demand would drop, and suppliers would move heaven and earth to deliver more to take advantage. No one fills their tank ‘just to be safe’ if the gas is $50/gallon; if they really could charge $50/gallon the oil companies would have private road clearing crews and tanker trucks outfitted like storm chasers? I don’t know.

While such a policy might maximize economic utility I think you’re correct that it’s advocates gloss the obvious physical - but also social - constraints.

Sometimes gas (or whatever) just can’t be delivered for any price. Since demand obviously drops off with price, it’s hard to believe suppliers could justify mammoth investments in delivery infrastructure.

More importantly, such a policy means rationing a essential resource proportional to wealth. Those with the most get what the need; the well off get a little at a painful price; those struggling under normal circumstances just go without. The argument does that a little at a painful price is better than none at a artificial price. I think that misses the size of the lattermost group, and the risk that expressing a fundamental inequality between humans during exigent circumstances - that if you don’t have money, you can’t have gas or heat, or whatever it is - puts social cohesion in jeopardy. Rationing resources either
by explicit (1 gal per customer) or implicit (first come first served) policy might be economically inefficient, but socially expedient
Just one data point, but doesn't Google advocate for living at head? Long-lived software can't be static.
> Obviously I'd never discourage anyone from pursuing study in their chosen field, but in my experience the people who didn't grow up in environments with strong structure, frameworks, and feedback loops from their educators and parents is often ill-equipped to follow their academic desires when they arrive at college or the business world.

Eloquently summarizes my situation precisely.
Neither Ubuntu packages haven't been updated nor the official PPA. The latest version of Ubuntu mentioned is .. 19.04 .. so I think the page hasn't been updated in ages.

I guess maybe it works if you build from source? But last I checked it was a hairball with build scripts
Do the tapes still look okay? I remember when I was a child near the end of the VHS era, my parents tried to show us a copy of Back to the Future they'd bought when that movie had come out. The color had noticeably faded, to the point where I remember it almost looked black-and-white at first.
I think the question should rather be: How can people accomplish things today by using devices that are connected to the internet?

Having internet access increases the potential for distraction by a lot. Some websites are specifically designed to be addictive. The easiest way to deal with this is to block them on your device during certain times of the day.
Yep, the larger and more prestigious conferences may be harder to break into (as they have so many people submitting) but there are smaller conferences that are probably desperately hoping for more people to submit proposals. Or they were before COVID. I'm not sure how the transition to all (or mostly) virtual has affected the conference scene, but that's the way it was in the past.

Based on my own experience, I'd say that you can always start out by speaking at local user groups or Meetups, build a resume of talks you've given, then apply to smaller / regional conferences, do a few of those, and ... well, that's where I stopped. All Things Open is the most prominent event I've presented at. But the point is, bootstrap and work your up the ladder.

Look at the whole thing holistically too: blogging, putting content on Youtube, open source projects, etc, all go towards building your overall image and presence "out there".
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'Hard vs Easy' is probably one of the worst dichotomies to invoke when you are trying to get people interested in something that you think is hard.

And more importantly, no one ever who does hard stuff thinks to themselves that they are doing hard stuff. Almost every inch of such work is a combination of interest and constraint i.e., you want to do it or you have to do it.

Secondly, you want emotions helping you here. Emotions evade this trap tactfully by being abstract in their appearance. Every person I know who works on hard mathematics is either a romantic who does it because of their love (interest) for mathematics or a foot soldier who does it because they have to. There is no way you can articulate your way into anything if there is no emotional vector involved(negative or positive). Hardness is just a detail that can be abstracted if you are emotionally aligned.
It’s a shame because of bad actors (naive consumers) the rest of consumers will be punished by likely legislation prohibiting things like griddy
I remember so well being ashamed that PC users were still typing docs in such primitive UIs while I was "desktop publishing" with WYSIWYG on my Atari ST. "Reveal codes" blergh a modern computer should be better than that!

30 years later, I love writing markdown and stay away from GUI rich text editors as much as I can.
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Not sure but why would there be? A server is a server whether it runs in the same machine or somewhere else.

But for development purposes yes there is the complication of having to acquire and install a certificate to your server which your browser will trust without questions. So yes, that is (at least) one factor making PWA development more cumbersome than it should be.
Until the NTSB investigates, there's no way to know whether age has anything to do with it. It might. It might not. There could be a common cause, or there isn't.

We don't know yet.