skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is total whining. I'm proud of my white father who came to the US with not so much education, worked four jobs, and put all his kids through college. Don't fall for this victimhood mentality of "I'm white so I have so many problems boohooo". That's divisive.

Props to Trujillo. She worked hard, did a bunch of cool stuff, and at this moment also has the communication skills to do a bunch of science outreach. My daughter & I watched the NASA broadcast in Spanish (first one!) and the kid actually learned something about what this rover plans to do. Great way to spend an evening. Good message. Better than Paw Patrol.

Of all the crappy things in the world... I'll take a feel-good science story any day.
I would read an article about people trying to find out.
If you’re having an existential crisis over interpolated/extrapolated/hallucinated images, and have been assuming that every stage of a camera throws away bits instead of interpolating, here is a list of stages in most camera pipelines that try to interpolate information already:

* demosaicing: interpolates color from nearby pixels. Each pixel gets just one of the tree color components. The other two are interpolated.

* decompressing jpeg: tries to guess information the compressor lost.

* black field correction: adjusts the brightness at every pixel to compensate for the different sensitivity at each pixels.

* de-vignetting: compensate for the border of the image being darker than the center.

* auto white balance: compensates for the fact that your eye’s color consistency doesn’t work as it would in the natural setting. This is a complicated way to get you to see the color you would have you seen the full scene.

All of these try to recover some aspect of the signal that was irretrievably lost by a previous step. They do this by making plausible guesses.
You say that, but resetting all the sessions is very publicly visible and plenty of smaller companies would paper over such things. Honestly I don't really expect any less from Github or Microsoft scale but don't kid yourself into thinking that kind of things goes un-noticed, un-investigated or un-actioned elsewhere.
'Soldier crab' is a name attached to several unrelated crustaceans. The crustaceans studied in the paper are a variety of soldier crabs that are, in fact, true crabs.
It is common for contracts to stipulate that performance under the contract must conform to various public standards, recommendations, best practices, etc by reference to an external document or authority (RFCs, standard body outputs, industry consortiums, etc) that are not required by law. People create these publicly referenceable outputs precisely because it allows them to be added to contracting language. NIST is such a reference source. In some sectors, virtually every contract has the same conformance requirements.

In practice, this often has the force of law. There are many domains where regulatory bodies arbitrarily require that all contracts conform to one or more of these recommendations to be in compliance or fit for purpose even if they don’t come from the government. Government contracts often have language that product and delivery must conform to a long list of such reference documents.

This is less common in web tech, but in other market sectors compliance with a set of common public guidelines is a cost of doing business and contracts sometimes have long lists of things to conform to. The real issue is that most organizations do just enough to check the box, even if violating the spirit of the requirement, because it turns out that customers just want that conformance for ass-covering and don’t care about rigorous compliance. Rigorous compliance would be expensive, especially if anyone tested it (which virtually never happens).

People will comply with the NIST guidelines because their contracts will require it. The problem is that is not enough.
To reduce the liability of the credit card company maybe, by making the process so complex and onerous that it is virtually impossible to complete a survey without some error or omission that would almost assuredly be used as a reason to invalidate any liability for the credit card company should some bad event take place. Source: have had to complete PCI surveys from multiple vendors.
Thanks for the feedback, it's always helpful to hear people's thoughts!

I agree that blog content would be useful. Planning to add it in as well, but haven't decided exactly how it's going to look yet.
Holy shit it was chilling to read those articles, knowing full well what they represented.
Chris from Clickspring has done an amazing amount of work recreating the tools and methods the Greeks would have used, I'm fairly certain he's got all the right answers.

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/12/hackers-discovery-changes-un...

I made gears for 5 years of my life, and they are a pain, but the ancient gears didn't push metallurgy to the limit, expecting decades of continuous service... they had a lot more leeway. Even so, there were a lot of very skilled craftsmen who put in an enormous amount of time building these things, probably in a small shop.
Hey, thank you for the note. I just bought an iPhone and the autocorrect turns lowercase “colombia” into “columbia.” It does the opposite for cased versions of both words (Columbia -> Colombia).

Either way, both spellings come from the same person (Christopher Columbus/Cristoforo Colombo).
That's not really incompatible with him just sincerely believing what he's saying. I'm not saying he's right because I think what he's writing is nonsense, but I doubt there's a master plan here.
I had understood your concern as wanting to avoid the complexity of asynchronous code execution in your codebase, I did not realize your concern is about writing very low level systems code. In that case, you are doing the right thing: libraries like ureq, minreq, Isahc, curl, and more all offer what you want.

It is unclear to me what you mean by keeping the community "in check". There are a lot of people who rely on and enjoy the async story, and they will continue to produce code that improves that story. Simultaneously, there are people who do not need that, and they are not hindered by this. People will build what they want and need. You've just picked some libraries from some of the biggest async contributors in the community and requested that they be kept in check so that you don't have to switch to a synchronous alternative, of which there are plenty.
Er, can you explain what you're meaning?
The ultimate offshore team.
Probability and consequences of living inside a computer simulation
Puppet does 80% of what Kubernetes does, but you have to manually distribute your services across your hosts, and if you want failover or autoscaling then you have to implement them yourself.

Imagine Puppet but instead of saying "run service X and Y on host A, run service Z and W and the hot spare for U on host B, ...", you just say "deploy at least 3 instances of service X with this much CPU/memory, deploy at least 2 instance of service Y with at least this memory, these are the hosts you have available, you figure it out".
Ultimately both commemorate Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo and/or Christophorus Columbus respectively).
He did say that he was space constrained.
What you're describing is basically the top 1% of US households, which starts around $500k/yr income. Even in NY or SF, very very few people are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on childcare and private schooling.

I'd agree there is a status/social signalling element to it - I suspect if these households didn't have children, many of them would just spend their wealth on expensive cars, clothes, vacations, or other similar luxuries.
My imposter syndrome is lessened by reading this and so many other comments that feel familiar. (Unless I'm up so late because I'm not 10x? Oh no.)
> Is this a post-BLM world?

Pretty much can be confirmed by google trends:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Fair to say it will be back in 2024?
That would be Colombia, not Columbia.

I’ve spent some time there. Bogota feels like NYC.

Medellin is a gem. Cartagena, Zona Cafetera, ...

When Americans talk about places like Colombia, it sounds like some dirt poor place. There is a healthy middle class

Colombia is a great place where many Americans are retiring.
As mentioned, I've not found a good accessible podcast or YouTube video on the matter, so maybe that means it's up to me to make one. It's not my forte, so I don't know when that will happen.

However, here's an experimental method you may find helpful in your quest for knowledge: Find a creature, any creature, who appears in your life somehow... a cat, a dog, a worm, a rat, an insect, anyone you notice.

Rack your brain as hard as you can until you begin to see some semblance of feelings and desires in them, as well as a way in which you can help them achieve it. Now, go ahead and do that thing, and do your best to ensure that it works out.

When you're done, start paying attention to what happens to you in your daily course of existence. If you're into mindfulness meditation, here is where you apply that.

If you like, please return here and report your results, I'd love to hear from you! If the thread is already closed, you can find a way to contact me via my profile.
Not the GP and have been out of the game a bit but CRM products were a nightmare the few times I had to select one. Security products are tricky as well.
Or gold, or dollars, or art, etc.
The Endless Stream
> C# ties you to CLR

C++ and Rust have runtimes as well. For C++ that’s normally a DLL like libstdc++ or msvcrt. CLR is larger but still reasonable, for 64-bit Windows VC_redist.x64.exe is 14 MB, dotnet-runtime-3.1.13-win-x64.exe is 25 MB.

> and is also garbage collected by default

By default yes, but that’s avoidable. Modern .NET with their spans, value tuples, ref structs, ArrayPool, etc., make it relatively easy to write C# code which doesn’t allocate much. Or even at all, as you can see on the link in my previous comment.
A large majority of software developers and related professions use OSI's definition in my experience. Even the ones apathetic or antipathetic to the movement. The elements of OSI's definition have practical consequences for them.

People talk about permissive and copyleft licenses when the distinction matters. Covering both doesn't make open source vague.

Alternative definitions restrict the freedom to run the software at all frequently. Never mind modifying it.
She’s 5.

Did you never write a letter to Santa? Or at least wait up to see if Santa came on Christmas Eve?
The problem I have with Kubernetes is the Docker part. I get why people who are running Python need to use Docker for all their deployments (because anything is better than Python package management), but I've got well-behaved programs in a language that has decent package management, so I just want to run a bunch of them on different hosts.

Is there an alternative that lets me orchestrate deploying a bunch of processes on a bunch of servers without having to interpose Docker in between? Anyone using Nomad?
AWS S3 Object Lambda
Let's make "bigit" a thing. Just start using until it becomes a thing.
Frameworks v0.2
I have a rather metabolic disorder which will likely end in it being ... quite bad. An acquaintance opened up to me and revealed that a great deal of his watchfulness around me (I could not help but notice) stemmed from the fact that his mother died of what I have when he was just a teen. According to him, she spent the last decade of her life in the furthest room of the house, intermittently screaming and/or begging for death, so I can understand some of the lack of ease he exhibits: he's waiting for the other shoe to drop.

While I'm aware of the various slippery slopes (and who might be greasing the plane), I can't help but think that a few people could have been spared quite a bit of suffering had euthanasia been available.
Indeed. I have a pension through a state job with a pension and my partner has a federal government job with a pension. It makes retirement planning much easier and it allows us to be much more financially aggressive in our 30s.

Also good health insurance, paid parental leave (in the US!), job security, a known and transparent progression path...honesty I’ll take lower uncertainty for slightly lower pay because it saves me money over time.
Things change, for sure. To say things change is probably an understatement... Just look at the history of the Middle East. From vast, wealthy empires to barren destruction, the Levant has seen it all.
Worse than that. They charged a (yearly?) fee to get behind the paywall only to find out that the question had no answer!
Children can have interesting relationships with their favourite stuffed toys, a pet goldfish or a completely imaginary being. They'll often make up characters and talk to themselves if there's no one else to bug right then.

So to me this falls squarely in the rainbow of "pretty normal behaviour for a child".

The bit that's troubling to me is the idea of a corporation behind it all, with its own agendas around promoting certain behaviours or ideas, and hoovering up the data. That's not so great.
A Turing machine, that is, the mathematical formalism, can definitely simulate quantum mechanics.
A classical Turing machine simulating a quantum Turing machine, or other model of quantum computation, would, aiui, incur a super-polynomial slowdown (maybe exponential? My impression is that that it might not be known to exponential. But at worst basically exponential).

The randomness is not an issue. Just don’t add any wave function collapse, or just list the probability of each outcome.
The family feud behind America's Covid test swab supply
1. The most important point is, this is indeed an inspirational success story to many people. While discussing the rest of the points, let us not overlook that. Kudos to her.

2. For those asking how she was able to work, while being here: A student can work part-time under OPT program. The catch is, your work needs to be somehow related to the course.

3. Most immigrants I know came to this country with a few dollars. So that is not that rare. However, when an immigrant succeeds, there will be press releases and news stories about that. It is not unique to her case. In some cases, it may be them promoting themselves. In most cases, it is the media running away with an inspiring story (if it is not sufficiently inspiring, don't worry - they will make it so).

4. It is better to see these kind of stories (albeit slightly hyped, dressed up) than those spreading gloom and doom.
I used to live in the southern California area in the United States. I made a bit better then you average salaryman. Home prices varied wildly but I was able to get a 30 year loan for a new construction house. I did benefit from for low interest rate and liberal lending practices.

In Japan, I make nearly double what an average salaryman. This made getting a 35 year mortgage possible. I spend about 30% of my income on the home, its taxes, and upkeep. The current house is customized to higher spec then what is typically offered.

Like many places, prices vary quite a bit. This home was purchased during the "before" times and my commute into central Tokyo was between 90 to 120 minutes, by train or bicycle. Land prices is a quarter of what it is close to the center, about half compared to places within an hours commute time. For location reference, my station is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhino_Station

The building itself is relatively cheap for the quality. I was able to spec it out before it was constructed. Most pre-built houses do skimp on insulation, ventilation systems, and typically have primitive co-generation power.

The curious thing about Japan is that buildings depreciate to zero in 30 years time. Land prices are stagnant or loses value the further out from major metropolitan areas. I had to get a realtor estimate on the house, and in the four years since the house was constructed, I would only be able to sell for about 80% of what I purchased it for.
I click my claws therefore I am.
Do something nondeterministic qualify as a simulation
I don’t see a way out of this, I suppose we should all just get used to living in reality tunnels and learn to get along with people with opposite beliefs.
affirmative action at work
I often see not 'just' AGPL, but AGPL+Source Attribution Policy (if you contribute to the main repo, you must assign copyright to the owner), and specifically around network/web oriented software.

This combination is pretty antithetical to the 'spirit' of open source (and especially 'libre software', which AGPL is supposed to be) since it basically ensures hegemony on any commercialization ecosystem to the original developer, unless one manages to create a 'leading fork' where contributions land, since only the original rights owner (who also gets the rights to the sum of all other contributions) has the legal means to commercialize (i.e: provide commercial hosting around) any extensions above and beyond what the community develops.
I run docker-compose inside supervisord. Surprisingly it works great, they play well together and I highly recommend it for managing multiple compose projects per machine.

[program:some-docker-project]
command=docker-compose up
directory=/opt/some-docker-project
...

[program:some-other-docker-project]
command=docker-compose up
directory=/opt/some-other-docker-project
...

This style of setup has served many millions of visitors across dozens of projects in production at our company over the last ~3 years. It's like a poor-mans kubernetes, it handles autorestarting failed projects, we handle ingress with cloudflare argo tunnels in docker, and deployments are easy (just git pull && supervisorctl restart all).
lots of beautiful young women too like thiland
> however the reasons you listed are not reasons at all because the concerns you have don't exist.

You've only attempted to address 1 of 3, and the other reply indicates that there is absolutely attack vectors from bitwarden.com if bitwarden LLC wanted to, was forced to, or was compromised.
Felleisen taught the first CS class I ever took. I think part of the point of the class was to mess with people who think they know what to do because they've coded before, when in actually they are now on even footing with everyone else. In my position, I was glad for it. Everyone was perfectly intuitive!
Welcoming Evo into the Playstation Family
Oh wow. I love SICP. I still pick it up every now and then—just for the poetry.

The intro CS course I had taught from SICP (but the course was python, & scheme, & sql). I wasn’t so interested. I didn’t read or see the book until months after the course ended, but by then I was hooked.

I’ve never heard of HTDP, I can’t wait to read it.
Case and point "SSL added and removed here! :)"

https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-her...
Intel – Only the Paranoid Survive (1996)
Justin Kan Almost Sold Twitch to Google for $1B
thx. really didnt like paying hundreds of dollars for something so trivial. let me know how to donate please
That'll never happen most likely.
I live in San Francisco, you can get screamed at and assaulted for "getting along" with people.
Yet another great feature for my favorite OS!
However, also for comparison, Backblaze is ~$5/TB/month.
Amazing, our free trial of GraphQL Editor that we used only for its documentation generator ended, so this is literal a time/money saver.

Thank you!

EDIT: Have you thought about accepting Github sponsorships[1]?

[1] - https://github.com/sponsors
That was a good read, thanks. And good job on successfully preserving that floppy in the process!
The reason the local mall is failing (2018)
I was also a student of Prof Felleisen, and his class was both challenging and rewarding if you could stick with it.

Among other things, I learned one of my most memorable quips from him: "Don't put your ego in your code." Basically: don't consider attacks on the quality of your code as attacks on the quality of who you are. Learn, improve, and teach others the same.
Our Experience Offering an AppSumo Deal (and Sorta Miffing It)
True but people and nations have more agency than people give them credit for. Finland was invaded and at the mercy of imperial Russia, they also were under Swedish control, etc. in other words subject to imperialism. They suffered famines in the XX cent., not too long ago.

People think, oh, imperialists messed with you, no wonder you’re poor!

No, it’s local mismanagement. Look at Panama. From banana republic to a democratic republic. People have to work for it. Their government has to be more honest than not. Eliminate corruption as much as possible.

Conversely look at San Francisco. So much money and so much corruption and waste. A decent government and it would be such a better place for everyone, including the poor.
Genuinely curious, based on how you described yourself, if you’ll be getting the COVID-19 vaccine?
question is why now? what is their motive?
Yes, computers have problems that humans don't. But this isn't one of them. This is a problem that humans don't have, and that computers also don't have. (Or rather, a problem that humans do not have trouble telling computers how to solve.)
These data are not based on 24 hour power contracts.

Wind and solar power backed up by coal generation 'owns' a proportion of 24 hour coal or gas emissions.

Similarly where a worker whose productivity relies on coal or gas power pays a subsidy to wind and solar.

And there should be buttons that turn off nuclear and biomass power.
PCI QSAs are notorious for being complete jackasses. You have to be very careful about vetting them. That isn’t the dumbest thing I’ve heard like that!
> So the police found exactly what it expected when it saw that expired registration with your name on it.

What are you talking about? I wasn't driving a vehicle with expired tags, the vehicle in my name triggering the DL suspension had been DIY scrapped and the plates destroyed. I was pulled over for speeding, driving a friend's car on a road trip during my turn at the wheel.

Reading comprehension fail...
I see two sides: the numericals and the algebraists.

I've talked with people who also see these two sides but call them differently.

As I see it, this book is closer to the algebraists side. Thus, you probably lean closer to the nuemerical side.

I also like to think about it as the Turing perspective (numerical, algorithmic) and the Chruch outlook, which is more algebraic-symbolic.

At the end of the day, it's both "contrasting" viewpoints coming together that truly animates the science of computing.
I find Scribble [1], Racket's documentation tool to be easily readable and accessible. I wish more projects utilized it.

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/