skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should be able to cover the 99% cases by making your ~/.emacs.d a Git repo and cloning it as part of setting up a new machine. This will bring along all your installed packages as well; 'package-list is a customization and thus preserved with your init, and #'package-initialize will install any missing packages it finds when called.

(Speaking of preserved customizations, by default those are written into ~/.emacs.d/init.el. As part of setting up for a version-controlled ~/.emacs.d/, I'd strongly recommend setting 'custom-file to e.g. ~/.emacs.d/custom.el, so that those are stored separately from your init logic proper - it's not a huge issue either way, but customizations are a fertile field for merge conflicts due to the way they're written and stored, and I find this makes those conflicts significantly more comfortable to resolve.)

You could in theory also add init logic to check for the presence of needed external binaries and, if necessary, install them via Homebrew, apt, or some Windows equivalent - I've thought about doing this since I already do have some platform-specific logic in my init, but it hasn't been enough overhead to bother since I rarely need to spin up a new workstation machine.

(Also, of course, ensure that you store any secrets like passwords or other credentials in a separate file, not checked into version control.)

To ensure you reliably have a specific version of Org, you can add the orgmode.org ELPA [1] to your 'package-archives and install a given version from there, rather than relying on whatever comes with a given Emacs build. I do this myself and recommend it to others; Org changes a good deal between versions in my experience, so version pinning helps avoid unexpected behavior that has otherwise been fairly common.

In the same spirit, it can be worth building Emacs from source on a new machine. I also do this, again in order to ensure the behaviors of a specific version to which I've become accustomed; I generally upgrade only when a major new feature or bug fix makes it strongly worthwhile, and then on all my machines at once. (It's a manual process, but not a difficult one. I guess I could automate it, but for something I do a few times a decade, that hasn't seemed worth it so far.)

[1] https://orgmode.org/elpa.html
That's why I always take multiple copies of my CV with me to any interview that's arranged through a recruiter and give the interviewer one at the beginning of the interview.

I once had a recruiter do the opposite to yours and remove something really important that I'd included specifically for the kind of role they put me forward for. They had just decided that they didn't think it was important. The interviewer disagreed and we spent a while talking about it.

The interviewer in that case referred to the recruiter as "the car salesman" throughout the interview. He said the guy was a bit rubbish, but better than all others they'd tried. They were a small firm so had turned to recruiters to take some of the workload. I think he was regretting it.
Data centers frequently burn down, or are destroyed by natural disaster.

These days, fire suppression systems need to be non-lethal, so inert gasses are out. Water is too, for obvious reasons. Last I checked, they flooded the inside of the DC with airborne powder that coats everything (especially the inside of anything with a running fan). Once that deploys, the machines in the data center are a write off even if the fire was minor.
It’s more complicated than that.

You’re an engineer with a certain degree of experience and the recruiter will have an idea of how much that’s worth when they start the conversation with you, so they know up front how much money they stand to make as a ballpark figure, and how much work is worth putting into getting you an offer.

Once they get you to the offer stage, and most of the work is done, they want to close the deal as soon as possible for as much money as possible. They know the band for the position so, if you’re lowballing your ask, they have every incentive to bump that up.

On the flip side, if you’re asking for something on the top end of the range, and it looks like a long negotiation, they’re looking to spend a lot of incremental time for not a lot of incremental money, so it’s better to get you to accept an offer - any offer.
Is anyone surprised someone commented without reading the content?
Please, calm down. I do appreciate your work on Rust, but people do make mistakes and I strongly belive that in the long term the async stabilization was one of them. It's debatable whether async was essential or not for Rust, I agree it gave Rust a noticeable boost in popularity, but personally I don't think it was worth the long term cost. I do not intend to change your opinion, but I will keep mine and reserve the right to speak about this opinion publicly.

In this thread [1] we have a more technicall discussion about those models, I suggest to continue that thread.

>I assure you, the problems it present are not related to Rust's polling model AT ALL.

I do not agree about all problems, but my OP was indeed worded somewhat poorly, as I've admitted here [2].

>Pin is not a hack any more than Box is. It is the only way to fit the desired ownership expression into the language that already exists

I can agree that it was the easiest solution, but I strongly disagree about the only one. And frankly it's quite disheartening to hear from a tech leader such absolutistic statements.

>It is simply FUD - frankly, a lie - to say that it will block "noalias,

Where did I say "will"? I think you will agree that it at the very least will it will cause a delay. Also the issue shows that Pin was not proprely thought out, especially in the light of other safety issues it has caused. And as uou can see by other comments, I am not the only one who thinks so.

>the content your consuming is usually from one of these kinds of people:

Please, satisfy my curiosity. To which category do I belong in your opinion?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410359

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407565
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Thanks, I didn't know about straight.el. Looking into that and the Doom distribution that is built on top of it. Looks far more sane.
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Also recommend this article on the kinds of things people actually say on their deathbeds:

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/how-do-pe...

It usually doesn't make any kind of discernable sense.

Probably the saddest example:

>They quote a 17-year-old, dying of cancer, distraught because she can’t find the map. “If I could find the map, I could go home! Where’s the map? I want to go home!”
Staying in hostels is great for this purpose. They have private rooms as well, not just shared dorms.
Hmm, I am just confident in my ability to follow instructions. I am certainly highly skilled in electronics, but repairing stuff isn't necessarily limited to that.

With good instructions, I can set out to repair mechanical parts as well (replace parts of an engine for instance), high-voltage devices, masonry, or other stuff I have never done before.

A good manual can make the whole difference between a successful repair, dealing a finishing blow to a product, or endangering yourself/others.

Making repairs easier probably makes them cheaper as well (less skilled employees can attempt them, it takes less time and is much more enjoyable). I know I would charge less.

Of course, the product has to be designed to make repairs possible, otherwise it requires a whole other level of skill (unglue parts, precisely cut where you need to).

And lastly, you can only go as far as your equipment will allow you. Sometimes all you need is a (included) screwdriver, but not everyone has a milling machine handy (though that would be an interesting use-case for fablabs).
I believe heat (through air density) affects the accuracy of the smoke detectors. Even if you aren't fully burning the toast, I believe the heating process still produces some particles as the malliard reactions occur and small portions start to get a little black, like a rough edge. Even though it's not much, it would probably be enough to trip the sensor if it were an integral part of the toaster.
Raising animals has made me think a lot about maturation. Our babies are helpless and incompetent longer than any other species on earth. Compare a human to a dog at 3 months and clearly the dog is smarter and more capable. Slower maturation often ends up as better total cognitive adaptation as an adult. For some reason, boys are hormonally behind by about 4 years now, also with significant differences between haplotypes. But I see same thing over and over, the fast ones stall and the slow ones just keep growing in their area of interest. This is true even in college students. If I had to bet on one of my students for the Turing award, it would be my worst at the time, already quite famous. It’s a little upsetting for me because I was more on the precocious side, and this observation has greatly humbled me. Specifically because I think you’re right; catching up is probably rare for institutional reasons, and maybe half the people turning wrenches would be much better than me at whatever I’m feeling challenged by. Maybe we have it all wrong, and we should be looking for the slowest learners, as in, the ones that have to take in everything and won’t accept anything until it’s 100%.
> SQL makes it easy to write and read simple queries, and ridiculously complicated and arcane to write slightly more complex logic.

This is the thing that makes ORMs sound appealing: let's make the complicated things simple! In my experience, the complicated things are truly-complicated, not just because SQL makes them seem to be. So by the time you make Use Case A "simple," you've run into Use Case B and Use Case C, and by the time your ORM handles all of those, well, there's a good chance it still doesn't handle all of them, and however many it does handle, the syntax ends up being... complicated.

There is so much to be said for a known and well-supported standard, and we are so quick to assume we can do better. Most of them, we really can't.

But hey, keep trying! Coming up on 50 years, we should manage to surpass SQL at some point, right? And in the meantime, we'll have our five-thousandth ORM or DSL to reach the limits of and have to revert to SQL anyway for just those last two or three queries.
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> I visited New York and it completely blew my mind. [...] I visited San Francisco and it was kinda meh.

Haha, my experience was the exact opposite of yours. The first time I visited NYC, I thought it felt dystopian and was glad to leave. Easily the least favorite city I have visited.
But my first time visiting the west coast was intoxicating. Growing up I lived in a few different states in the southeastern U.S. and even lived in Paris, France for three years. I traveled Europe extensively both as a child and in my late teens and thought some places were interesting and nice to visit, but the first time I arrived in the Bay Area I thought "What is this place?! I have to move here."

I had traveled there for a Hackathon in 2010, and the first place I visited after leaving the airport was Palo Alto. It just blew my mind to see sunny weather, blue skies, trees with leaves, and green grass in December. And once I saw San Francisco, I was hooked. The beautiful terrain just captivated me. There were giant cliffs, ocean views, rolling hills, and interesting plants everywhere. Plus, I really missed the walkable cities in Europe.

My wife and I just moved away from the Bay Area in October after living there for almost three years to be closer to family, but I miss it everyday and hope to go back at some point. I miss the food and tech scene (although I still have my same job, remotely now), but I think what really captivated me is the climate and terrain. It's just otherworldly compared to what I was used to in the southeast.

> I visited Tokyo and it was dope

Tokyo seems like somewhere that I would really enjoy living, culture-wise (although my impression is that the climate is pretty similar to where I grew up). Hoping to visit after the pandemic. Any tips on where to go? More interested in unique local experiences and maybe taking trains to some other cities than tourist attractions.
Great advice. Another variation on that is just getting them to look something up for you that is at least tangentially related to your work. Anything where they are now helping you changes the power dynamic and will make them super uncomfortable.

A good project manager will be confident in their position and in doing whatever they can to help the project and won't mind. But that type of person wouldn't be looking over your shoulder unless invited.
> He emphasises that money transfers are an essential infrastructure that belongs in public hands. As far as he is concerned, De Nederlandse Bank (DNB, the Dutch Central Bank) is the appropriate body to bring the digital euro into circulation after the physical euro becomes redundant.
I had a recruiter say "XML and UML are basically the same, right?".

There's almost a dangerous level of knowledge among some recruiters where they think they know enough to do crap like this.
Thx. S3 seems to be the best way to go.
the thing with sales is one you develop a sales skill and network - you go and set up your own shop and become an equity owner.
consider sales as a learning experience to set up your own shop
Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel
They vaccinate wild foxes against rabies, so this idea is not that implausible as it might appear at first.
That looks interesting. I pay for Colab, and your prices look OK. I wish I had a few spare hours to try out your product. Good luck to you!
There is a reason why people are moving away from shared memory parallelism.

It's not fun to deal with NUMA domains efficiently.
For hardware engineers, it's not fun implementing cache coherency protocol efficiently.

There is a reason why even Intel was experimenting with channels back in 2010 and you see more and more "network on chip", "cluster on chip" designs with non cache coherent memory.

As we need more cores, shared-memory synchronization becomes too costly.

Source:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-chip_Cloud_Computer

PS: I'm not even talking about the difficulty of writing correct concurrent data structures.

Even glibc authors get that wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26385761
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> I was visiting an overseas team in Bangalore for a week and the team took me out to ... a steakhouse.

Right, this is exactly the problem I was talking about! And to be fair, there probably are a lot of Americans who would prefer a steakhouse; and many more who want to try "real" Indian food but just aren't ready for how different cultural food tastes actually are.

But when you've eaten chicken feet a dozen times, and incorporated "century egg" into your own personal cooking repertoire, it's a bit frustrating to make your way to a third-tier city in China and be fed breaded deep-fried bits of chicken with a bland sweet-and-sour sauce!
lo-fi basement dweller black metal is another one, I mean feast your ears on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFnjWS4cpU. Ironically, that album has been released on everything; cassettes, FLAC, 4 lp wooden box set, and a wooden USB stick with 128kbit MP3. The medium is part of the art?

Anyway, taste aside I can appreciate this particular artist and their work, it's a lot of midrange noise but the musical elements (mostly percussion tbh) emerge from the swamp with a good listen.
Sabbatical, 3 months, solo bike ride through Europe.
Would do it again with no hesitation.
This report isn't from Japanese authorities, its from the UN.
> As far as I know we simply do not have evidence if or if not gain of function research played a role.

You can examine phylogenetic distance -- the degree of evolutionary drift that the initial virus had from others which are subject to natural (in-the-wild) evolution. COVID is way out there. And even then the closest "natural" virus had its genome published by the Wuhan lab long after the initial outbreak.

The lack of any close relatives suggests that gain-of-function very well may have taken place, as does the heightened vulnerability of typical lab-animals. What there isn't much evidence of is zoonotic transfer.
University of Göttingen alum here, in our astrophysics courses we used to make jokes about how generous the approximations were. Comparing x^2 with x^5, take log on both sides, 2 ~= 5, so x^2 = x^5 ... Appropriate xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2205/
Biologists are interested in sugar only insofar as things alive are using or making it.

A biochemist decides whether a chemical is interesting according to whether it is made by or affects something alive. And so on.
At least in the version of that game my daughter plays, most of the outfits can be earned in game and traded with other players. My daughter has never bought an outfit from Robux.

The point of the game isn't to have the most expensive outfit but to design an outfit that best matches the given theme.
Oh tremendous.
Great quote at the end:

> "It's phenomenal to me that code I've written in the last 20 years gets used in all sorts of places that I would not have thought of. My son's PS4 runs my code all the time. That's just bizarre. That's great."

It must be really cool to see that and be able to tell your son, "I made that".
I remember feeling embarrassed when visiting the US in my 30s as a Brit and realising I'd never heard of the 1812 war, even though I thought I was fairly well-read in US history.
My personal experience with Chinese drivers: No, the reverse is true.
I don't understand the original article as stating that all data maps well onto an RDBMS, but rather than if you are using an RDBMS, you should use SQL rather than adding additional layers.

If you want to use a non-RDBMS, then by all means, SQL won't be a good fit. I use Amazon's DynamoDB all day, every day, and I wouldn't dream of using SQL there.
but a bitch ain't one.... sorry I had to, I'll take my downvotes.
Thank you, I should have included a definition or link myself.
The OSes designed at Xerox PARC, ETHZ, Microsoft Research, Olivetti, UK Navy, some of which used for quite some time in production, were quite clear, there wasn't any fuzziness on them.
Honestly, I don't really try to integrate everything into Org-mode. I use it very heavily for planning and tasking of programming projects, for example, because if I'm programming something, I'm already doing that in Emacs anyway. Likewise for time tracking in contract work, or projects where that's othwrwise needed. And I use Org for writing, for much the same reason: I do that in Emacs, anyway. But for general-purpose calendaring, reminders, and so on, it's much easier and more convenient to just run a CalDAV/CardDAV service that everything else integrates with OOTB.

I do keep my ~/org in Dropbox and have a phone app I can use to make quick edits, and which I have used for longer writing on trains and such. But it's definitely not a first-class UI, and I don't try to use it as such.

(On the other hand, I'm getting ready to redo my blog in Jekyll rather than Wordpress, not least to improve the authoring workflow by being able to bring it into Emacs...)
Should it be symmetric? Code + Data... either on the client or in the cloud. You'd just check which is bigger!
That's not the bankruptcy court's job. That's the SEC's job.

Ever heard of the phrase "you cannot have two masters" ?? By splitting the job into two organizations, we ensure that both jobs are accomplished. Otherwise, only one job gets done (at the expense of the other).
What about this. Ask a person right now, what would they do if the knew they only had a week to live. Or if they had plenty of money and no obligations. This seems to help getting at parts of life they are neglecting. But not everyone is good at hypotheticals. Maybe that's why we put more weight on the deathbed words - the situation is very real?
That's only going to become a solution if you can convince people that the process preserves continuity of experience.

How do I know that I actually wake up on the other side, instead of dying and having a clone with my memories wake up instead?
The venues for Olympic Winter games are by definition where people go for ski trips, they may build varying amounts of infrastructure for non-skiing events but they will have an economy already geared around tourism.
"Would a person ever prefer a process [A] that, after three rounds, diminishes wealth from US$10,000 to 0.5 cents over one [B] that yields a 99.9% chance of US$10,000,000 and otherwise US$0? Ergodic theory predicts [A] [... but] [v]irtually everyone will prefer B"

The answer is that the person prefers A not B. The physical interpretation of that is that you have a 99.9% chance of getting $10,000,000 and 0.01% of being killed where you stand. People naturally avoid sudden losses of resources as it usually means death. [If you want me to explain to you, why it's totally irrational to choose B, I'm happy to do so]

You are using maths without understanding what that maths actually means.

You could argue that you should be calculating the effect of making a decision a very large number of times rather than infinity times. But that would be a minor tiny issue rather than a reasonable refute.

I have read the paper of refutes and they are no good.

@sweezykeezy At the end of the day, Ergodicity Economics is a revolutionary idea for economics and like with most revolutionary ideas it has a lot of people who don't want the status quo to be upset. In this case an outside's unbias opinion is more valid than an insider's heavy bias opinion.

The other incredibility telling thing is that all the detractors can't agree on what actually their disagreement is with Ole Peters work.

They can't attack the maths, they can't attack that it applies to the real world, so they are all over the place.

"Nobel prize IN PHYSICS" I think there is a big hint here that Economics is in the scientific dark ages where people are more interested in advancing their pet theories then are actually concerned about the real world or what is correct. If economics didn't want people from other fields coming in, then they shouldn't of let their field fall into a state of disrepair.

In your next reply to this, explain to me what an ensemble average and an time average are and why they are different. At least show me you understand at least a little of what you are talking about.

There are certainly no comments on this article that successfully refute Ole Peters, I have read them all.
Usually I try to avoid American Coca-Cola and prefer Mexican Coca-Cola. If Mexican Coca-Cola is not available, I prefer not to drink it. While visiting US, I buy the overpriced Mexican version.

And yes, the taste is different, even for Coca-Cola light.
So, I'm going to argue that GDPR didn't go far enough, since the intended (or at least, implied) goal was to put Ad-Tech firms out of business. If your business cannot operate without spying on people, it shouldn't operate.

Being able to confuse people into "consenting" was an unintended consequence, but hopefully the European court system can put a stop to this dark pattern nonsense.