skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The upside is that you modernise your city.

In some cases that is true. But I've been to Tokyo twice as a tourist and didn't see much in desperate need of modernization.

And even if your city is in need of modernization, hosting an Olympics is a very inefficient way to go about it. The only argument that can be made is a political one where it is easier to convince the government to spend $10 billion on hosting the Olympics (and spending some of that on infrastructure renovation) rather than just spending $2 billion on infrastructure renovation. In fact the Mayor of London even said: “I bid for the Olympics because it’s the only way to get the billions of pounds out of the government to develop the East End – to clean the soil, put in the infrastructure and build the housing.”

However as many cities have found, the modernization done to host an Olympics aren't necessarily the modernizations a city needs the most long term,

In this case, they would have receive X thousand/million of tourists

Would they be getting more that they would otherwise though? As I mentioned elsewhere, London saw a clear drop in tourists visiting over the Olympic summer (with a matching decrease in restaurant and shop revenue), since it turns out many people who want to visit London would rather do so when there isn't a major sporting event causing massive chaos.

I mean yes. Spending all that money preparing for an Olympics and having no one show up is probably worse than having people show up. But not hosting the Olympics in the first place would obviously be the most financially prudent move
That was a great read - thanks for linking.

I had trouble with the one class in uni that used Haskell and I've been working in a Python shop for some years now, so I kept expecting to encounter some impenetrable section that would make my eyes glaze over and my hand close the tab. I was probably closest around page 9!

But the writing was excellent, and clear, and satisfying, and little concepts I was so close grokking kept catching my eye and pulling me back in until I understood them, then their neighbors, then the section, then I was done.

Guess I've picked up some things since college. Wish I could go back and take that class again. I think learning to use Rust's Option type in anger on a personal project helped me understand monads more than anything in that class.

Also, I'm happy to see the method described by the paper does seem to have become the official GHC build system [0].

0. https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/building/hadrian
I can't imagine a lot of close minded arrogant westerners doing a lot of travel to begin with.

I think it's more likely that they want you to feel more at home. I was visiting an overseas team in Bangalore for a week and the team took me out to ... a steakhouse.
Most of the team didn't eat beef but they wanted to take me somewhere they thought I'd like. I was appreciative of their consideration but ended up ordering the chicken, felt weird otherwise.
I've yet to read an article like this where the person had experienced Scrum done properly.

Here's a check point that will tell your organisation if you've adopted Scrum properly:

You fail to deliver everything you bring into the sprint backlog 50% of the time and this is not a problem and is accepted.
At SamKnows we're looking for an Embedded Software Engineer.

https://apply.workable.com/samknows/j/39CF703343/

It's a great team and an interesting job based in the United Kingdom.

If you have any questions please let me know.

SamKnows

A research and monitoring service for internet, in-home and application performance. Founded in 2009, SamKnows is recognised as a leader in internet performance measurement. Over the last 10 years we have built a global measurement platform, considered vital to governments, ISPs and consumers, especially now.
Nemlig looks clean and good, with the category sidebar that mostly will not slide away, and as you type search, that's actually useful, and product list that's immediately in your face. Great! :) And this is exactly why I'd love the open API. To be able for people to make a client like this or better, and just use it everywhere.

Here we have to suffer through websites like this:

https://www.rohlik.cz/c300102000-ovoce-a-zelenina

where you open a category, then you see a whole screen useless stock image for a category, then you scroll down through a bloated list of subcategories, then there's half a screen of recipes, and then quarter screen of filters, and then finally you get to a algorithmically selected grouped product lists.

And you have to scroll through this every time you change a category, which is also a hassle, because of all the huge multi-column popups and annoying category images everywhere and the constant scrolling you have to do to get to the subcategories from the product list.

Other websites are not that great either, due to this being the first mover in our market. So they copycat it: https://www.kosik.cz/maso-drubez-a-ryby

It takes more time to select all I want online, with this interface, than a bus trip to a shop and back + typical 15 minutes in the shop for a moderate grocery shopping session.
"At moments like those I feel a deep sense of pessimism. The whole recruitment process seems broken from end to end and has been for a while. "

I feel you, but right now I am more concerned about quite some other broken processes to the point of ... what is actually working right?

And then after a while I realize again - actually quite a lot. It just works not by my high theoretical standards.
I always wonder how china didn't succumb to crippling levels of infrastructure corruption affecting India. There's corruption but wasn't large enough to stunt GDP growth.
How could it possibly? Is there a way to do this without requiring all open-source software?
Winter Olympics locations rarely end up as tourist destinations because people take fewer international vacations to cold locations. Summer Olympics have a better shot, and the stadiums can more often be useful long term. But, it’s still low odds of success.

The best bet seems to be a lesser known location which can use most of the infrastructure and has some non Olympics tourist destinations. Which isn’t a huge list, but there have been a few.
This was a massive benefit that came from the UK Olympics. Almost every facility that was used throughout the games continues to be used to this day.

"When the Park opens fully in spring 2014, it will provide a world-class hub for performance and community sport, offering a range of 25 indoor and outdoor activities every day, all year round. The iconic Aquatics Centre will offer two 50-metre pools and a diving pool, as well as seating for 2,500 spectators, while the Velodrome will be reopened as the Lee Valley VeloPark, providing state-of-the art cycling facilities. The Eton Manor hockey and tennis facilities, meanwhile, will operate as Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, offering two outdoor hockey pitches, six outdoor and four indoor tennis courts. In 2015, the venue will stage the European Hockey Championships – the first international sporting competition secured for the Park after the Games.

The centrepiece of the Park – the Olympic Stadium – will also host elite international sporting action, including five matches during the 2015 Rugby World Cup and the IAAF and IPC Athletics World Championships in 2017. From 2016, it will also be the home of English Premier League football club West Ham United, who will take residency as the Stadium’s long-term anchor tenant.

The Olympic Park’s Copper Box venue has already reopened for public use, offering courts for 20 different sports including basketball, boxing and badminton as well as a state-of-the-art gym. The venue will not only provide fantastic facilities for the community, it will also be a home for elite sport, with the London Lions basketball team set to play their home matches at the arena.

But the Games have not only provided London and its residents with new sporting facilities, they also led to major infrastructure improvements, with Transport for London investing GBP 6.5 billion in its transport network in preparation for the 2012 Games.

This investment included ten railway lines and 30 new bridges, which will continue to connect London communities after the Games, while at least 60 Games-related projects were initiated to promote greener travel, including a GBP 10 million investment to upgrade pedestrian and cycling routes across London.

The Olympic Village, meanwhile, will also provide a permanent legacy for the whole of London, creating a brand new residential quarter of the city, to be known as “East Village”.

The Athletes’ Village is being transformed into 2,818 new homes – including 1,379 affordable homes – providing essential new housing for more than 6,000 people in east London. New parklands, open space and community facilities will also support the communities that develop in the area following the Games."
Preserving Sound of Consoles and Computers – Uplink 2021
OT I guess but the Wagner Group have recently dug a 43 mile fortified trench near Sirte - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/22/africa/libya-trench-russi...
To add to that: if your entire company is "an idea + a week of learning and combining zapier and ITT" it has no sustainable business model.

It may be a neat way to get an MVC or demo out. It may even be the seed to grow from. But you will need to grow beyond this really fast.

Everyone can steal your idea now. And if you can learn+build something in zapier in a week, so can anyone: there is no competitive advantage there at all.

Which does not mean that your product is no good, just that there is no business-model: the product is basically " free as in beer".

The only businessmodel that I can think to service this, is one that makes the "marketing/brand" the competitive advantage. Sell a brand, instead of a product.

I, personally, very much dislike these kind of "products", because I believe they hardly are one.

Ninja-edit: businessmodel, not development model.
Another take on this - I have google nest outdoor cameras. Recently, a car park company tried to claim I was in a car park for 7 hours. In reality, I had gone earlier in the day, come back home, and then gone back hours later - but their ANPR system must have had a glitch.

I was able to send them links to the video clips on the Nest site, with embedded timestamps.

If this was a local system there would be no way to prove I hadn't just faked the timestamps.
Grass root of Norwegian soccer is now calling for a boycott. Of course easy to say, as we probably won't qualify.. But i hope it could gain momentum.
Is this not also true of Rust? Are you saying Rust in some sense hardcodes an implementation to await in a way C++ doesn't? (I am not a Rust programmer, but I am very very curious about this and would appreciate any insight; I do program in C++ with co_await daily, with my own promise/task classes.)
I know. It's a figure of speech, not a reference to the demographics of emacs users.
> In the 1990s we saw the mass industrialization of web development with PHP and Apache HTTP Server.

This isn't really true. PHP4 wasn't released until 2000. Sure, OK, while there were people using PHP3 in the 90s, it wasn't nearly as ubiquitous to the point of "mass industrialization". PHP3 wasn't even much of a language to begin with and if anything, Java/J2EE was the stack used for "mass industrialization" (Java's role is still dominant in most domains today). Perl was also a much more popular scripting language at the time.
I think you’re spot on about C++. I am one of those people who wrote C for many years, worked exclusively in C++ for 4-5 years, but haven’t touched it in about 10-12 years.

In one sense it feels silly to leave it off my resume because it was literally what I did. But I’m not interested in writing C++ and really haven’t touched it in a decade, so I could never pass a technical C++ interview.
Authentication as a Hypermedia API
" I really hope that that's an isolated case."

On a global scale? Sadly no.

I rather suspect the tech sector is a very safe space, in that regard. Because of demand and supply. But overall life is cheap on this planet.
UN also said there is no human to human transmission of Covid

https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?lang=en
A colleague's kids use Fortnite this way. It's a place to hang out where you can also do stuff.
(3) remembering the joke
>It would be reasonable to suggest that if the first one is flexible enough to be stored in a container without any fuss, then the second one should as well

I don't think this a reasonable in Rust (or in C/C++). I 90% of the pain of futures in Rust is most users don't want to care about memory allocation and want Rust to work like JS/Scala/C#.

When using a container containing a function, you only have to think allocating memory for the function pointer, which is almost always statically allocated. However for an async function, there's not only the function, but the future as well. As a user the language now poses a problem to you, where does the memory for the future live.

1. You could statically allocate the future (ex. type Handler = fn(Request<Body>) -> ResponseFuture, where ResponseFuture is a struct that implemented Future).

But this isn't very flexible and you'd have to hand roll your own Future type. It's not as ergonomic as async fn, but I've done it before in environments where I needed to avoid allocating memory.

2. You decide to box everything (what you posted).

If Rust were to hide everything from you, then the language could only offer you (2), but then the C++ users would complain that the futures framework isn't "zero-cost". However most people don't care about "zero-cost", and come from languages where the solution is the runtime just boxes everything for you.
Japanese I-Mode phone games service shutdown and preservation
Vikers comment has a bigger id number so maybe thats newer? Can we see exact timestamps? I cant find one on mobile.
In 2018, I left my engineering job at Google, packed a backpack w/ a few sets of clothes, and got on a one-way flight to London. I was born, and educated, and employed within a short drive of my hometown, and gravity was pulling me to get married and buy a house there. After twenty-six years of following the beaten path, my dream was to live like the kid in the Alchemist, without plans and open to whatever seemed promising. I didn't even have a hostel booked on arrival or a jacket for cold London March; that's how little I wanted set in stone.

In the first couple months, I spent a lot of money. My habits were shaped by my cushy job and my friend group's hobby of wining and dining whenever possible. Besides looking at my weekly or monthly spending, my best learning was to measure the "jollies per dollar" of each purchase (as my old coworker would say). A 20 dollar meal doesn't necessarily make me twice as happy as a 10 dollar meal. I still keep that practice in "happiness math" with me today.

After London, I flew to the Netherlands where I met my current girlfriend, who was on a weekend trip from a Germany. The next few months were awesome. She was finishing up her grad studies, and I had nothing better to do but to chase her around different German towns she needed to visit. After she turned in her thesis, we drove through Italy together for a month. We got a lot of jollies out of the cannoli and gelato there... Not sure if it was more than the cost though.

After that, I followed my dream to go to southeast Asia. We parted ways, and I stayed in Thailand and Vietnam for another couple months. By that time, I had lost some steam and was much more introverted and reflective than in Europe. As an aside, an important change for me on the trip was that I stopped my regular habit of heavy drinking. I probably got drunk five times on the whole trip. Anyways, I loved it in SE Asia. The food, culture, and nature were amazing. Driving a scooter through the hills of Northern Thailand is one of the highlights of my life. I almost died a couple times driving a scooter though, so I can't wholeheartedly recommend it.

After returning home for a couple months more, I moved to Berlin to live with my girlfriend. We've been here for two years and are quite happy with our lives at the moment. In all, I'm so grateful that I got the chance to do that trip, to learn that I could live out of a backpack, to meet great people and my amazing partner, and to take control of my life for the better.

But that's just a high level overview. There were some tough parts and there wasn't any enlightenment moment where I realized my true destiny. That's said, I learned a lot about myself and what I'm capable of. I'm a much happier and healthier person today than I was when I left. Happy to share any more details or stories if people are curious!
I hereby declare this to be a fire.
Apple wasn't experimenting with Objective-C for drivers, NeXTSTEP drivers were written in Objective-C.

macOS IO Kit replacement, Driver Kit, is an homage to NeXTSTEP Driver Kit name, the Objective-C framework.
Why Chatbots Are Important in CRM?
Aside from it destroying future business (we've had recruiters change candidates' resumes on us and that recruiter is blacklisted - by name - forever, to anyone who will listen), most contracts will have a 30-day clause where if the employee leaves for any reason within 30 days the fee is returned. Some even have if employee is fired within 30 days that the next placement fee is discounted.
I just went through a round of job hunting and got plenty of private sector responses using a latex-made PDF. My resume is really not obvious that it was made in latex though.
And Zap (scheduler for Zig) is already faster than Tokio.

Zig and other recent languages have been invented after Rust and Go, so they could learn from them, while Rust had to experiment a lot in order to combine async with borrow checking.

So, yes, the async situation in Rust is very awkward, and doing something beyond a Ping server is more complicated than it could be. But that’s what it takes to be a pioneer.
The blocking is worrying.
You not having to pay an unfair fee for parking one time hardly seems like a good tradeoff for massive surveillance overreach by truly incompetent companies but maybe that was one really expensive lot or something
Virtual reality to prevent military suicide
I agree with you that it is wrong for people to fear retribution for their political beliefs. However a couple of things to consider:

How is fearing to be labeled a capitalist different than fearing to be labeled a socialist or communist?

I don't think it's fair to imply that the only alternative to being a capitalist is identifying with Cuba or Venezuela.

McCarthyism or, until recently, being labeled LGBTQ seem like apt comparisons. My point being that the right engages in the same sort of behavior when given the chance.
Not saying that you should never do a full mysql dump. Nor that you should not ensure that you can import a full dump.

But when you already use ZFS you can do a very speedy full backup with:

mysql << EOF
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;
system zfs snapshot data/db@snapname
UNLOCK TABLES;
EOF

Transfer the snapshot off-site (and test!). Either as a simple filecopy (the snapshot ensured a consistent database) or a little more advanced with zfs send/receive. This is much quicker and more painless than mysql dump. Especially with sizeable databases.
Obesity does not really explain order of magnitude fewer cases, and obesity is much less of a factor than age for mortality. I can't find the numbers now, but it is better to be younger and quite fat than much older and fit. Japan does not lack people above 85 years where the fatality rate is double digit if you catch the disease.

The only reasonable answer I have seen so far about Japan is that we don't really know. It is certainly true that many people don't wear masks properly in Japan (e.g. every time I get out, even just to combini, I see people not wearing masks on the nose). But is it worth than not wearing one ? I am not sure we really know. I've seen conflicting info there.
As I've mentioned several times, in this model you can not simply "drop the task" without running its asynchronous Drop. Each state in FSM will be generated with a "drop" transition function, which may include asynchronous cancellation requests (i.e. cleanup can be bigger than one transition function and may represent a mini sub-FSM). This would require introducing more fundamental changes to the language (same as with proper self-referential types) be it either some kind of linear type capabilities or a deeper integration of runtimes with the language (so you will not be able to manipulate FSM states directly as any other data structure), since right now it's safe to forget anything and destructors are not guaranteed to run. IMO such changes would've maid Rust a better language in the end.
> Even if you're some weirdo who thinks there is no gender discrimination in the workplace, you can't deny that many women at least perceive there to be gender discrimination,

Sample size of one, but if my company has the option to hire a male or a female engineer which are known to have the exact same skillset and experience I expect them to choose the female one 10/10 times:

- hiring the man gets the job done

- hiring the woman gets the job done equally well and gets you a pat on the back (both immediately and also whenever the statistics are brought up)
Isn’t that why things like statuspage.io exist, though?
I think its a matter of taste. I have friends who say what big deal about mountains or beaches ..its the same everywhere.I accept that its their taste , and there nothing to look down upon it. To me every mountain n beach has a beauty to it when you hike them . To me when you travel , there are many aspects which you can experience , the people , the smell , the weather , the noise and chatter on the streets ,the food ( the most important aspect of my travel) . I love to visit offbeat villages and towns , personally that where i experience the feel of travel . These are experiences which IG cannot express
"and there is no incentive to do so. "

Still, after the accident some of the engineers went for a literal suicide mission to open some ventil to make it all less catastrophic. And unlike the poor construction workers, who died, too, they knew what they were doing.

I doubt they did it just for the postmortal fame. Some people have actually moral standards and can stand by it, even if it means disadvantages.
> As far as I'm aware ColdFusion is a bunch of "firsts" and in particular the first "Application Server".

Especially true for Windows. Interest in commercial web development exploded at a time when Windows NT still held a dominate position in the emerging small- and medium-sized business markets. Perl bootstrapped web development in the Unix world, but Windows didn't have anything like the Unix software ecosystem--Perl, Apache, mod_php, etc. ColdFusion was where it was at for dynamic page generation in the Windows world. (I was only ever a visitor in that world. I had originally discovered programming thanks to Slackware Linux and Perl.) In the beginning ColdFusion was all Windows, IIRC, with Solaris and Linux ports coming about the time ColdFusion seemed to peak.

ColdFusion programmers also tended to use Allaire's HomeSite, one of the first web-oriented IDEs. Allaire being the creator of ColdFusion.