skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's too important to be something we should decide individually

I've been struggling with thoughts of suicide since I was ~10 yro. The reason why I haven't done it (yet) is that I keep telling myself to take 1 day at the time - if I still want to off myself there is always more time for it tomorrow. But not a chance that I let society/religion/psychologists/science (those who consider themselves "sane" and above those of us who are like this) dictate (or guilt) me into changing my mind. It will need to be a terrible accident or a sudden sickness that actually prevents me from ending it on my terms, which brings me to the second point.

Control. It is my life, my terms. Not my parents, or relatives, nor my children's, or friends, and definitely not the state/law. _I_ decide when I go and how.

> so I believe it is okay to put your dog down

it's the kind of people that make me hate humanity more. It might be a flippant comment that was carefully chosen to trigger those who have been let down by people, and who prefer to find true friendship in a dog/pet. But trust me if we were to go hiking and I would have the option saving my severely injured dog (who might not make it) or a stranger who I know nothing of, except that they don't like dogs: I would 12/10 save the dog.

Humans are not special no matter how much art they create or books they write, in the end we're a parasitic life form that thinks it's superior (the sheer fucking arrogance in that alone). I would never kill another human but when it comes to animal cruelty or perhaps violence against my family (that includes my dogs) I would probably enjoy the act if I were inclined to do so.

edit: there is a saying "those who live by the sword shall die by the sword", which to my ears always seems to be uttered by the biggest fools I know (who know nothing about death or fighting or living). The real wisdom in this phrase is not that it contains a warning but that it is a promise that you "go out with dignity". Not withering away on life support, shitting into adult diapers, in an old-peoples home where family only has time to squeeze you in every 1st Sunday of the month between 14:00-15:00. No thanks I'll rather take the knife, the cliff, the needle or the rope - all of which are more dignified ways to go. And besides if I have lived all my life by not killing other people for their cruelty to those with less power than them (even I had more), at least I should be able to off myself without getting judged by these entitled and arrogant pricks?
If these licensing models were worthwhile, they would be able to stand on their own merits. I've no objection to someone coming up with a new licensing model and trying to show that it's a good way to make software, good for society and all that. What I object to is freeloading on the success of the open-source model by obscuring the differences between your model and that model. If you're genuinely trying to pursue a new model that you think is worthwhile, own it! Give it a name that doesn't sound like "open source", that could never be mistaken for being the same thing as open source.
Yes. Using Bitcoin to buy drugs from other people is not fraud. It's transactional.
Let's put all the D&I bullshit aside. Someone, immigrating from a country, with so little money, working hard, going through the process of building rapport, reputation and delivering results, to attain a title of Director, taking up new responsibilities is inspiring to me. Really, it feels great in the heart. NASA PR is one thing - they gotta do what they gotta do, but if you see past all that, its nice to hear the story of someone from Columbia, perhaps going back home and telling their families that they work for NASA. Can you imagine the pride their loved ones feel? I feel your frustration with the publicity, PR machine, etc though.
Why are dependencies hardcoded to be in /usr/lib instead of $ORIGIN/../lib https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

I would love to use this as a regular user without needing chroot.
I, too, have signed up for a few newsletter subscriptions——just in the last few months——that I never seem to read. Is there an email-newsletter equivalent for "tsundoku?"
The tool chains are there.

This is really about a single environment that will just assemble a program that will run on that CPU, and it will do so in a really really super accessable way.

There are times when dealing with 6502 computers, and I honestly many small computers, or you just want a little tiny bit of machine code.

Now that said, people have written nice libraries with this thing, that can be called from the basic on Apple 2 for example.
I guess the point here is that an object pool isn't the default anyways: theyve chosen to do something non-default for performance, which you can still do in immutable by default languages.
100% agree. I've met her and I like her. She wants to enjoy her 15 minutes which is understandable, but it's over the top. It's par for these times.
They settled before trial; one of the settlement terms was Atari donating a certain amount of money to a specified to an open-source foundation.
> with no marketing

Hard to believe when you’re in fact promoting it here.
Well, I'm thinking that AI could observe the sync issues, determine what the right thing is (based on patterns from other prior performances), and then adjust dynamically. It won't be perfect but it might have enough syncopation to make interesting music.
Has there been a massive surge in crime now that all the criminals feel comfortable wearing their covid-masks? All this stuff is handwaving. Reminds me of all the pre-covid arguments about not letting demonstrators be masked and how muslim women's face coverings would bring society to a crashing halt because you could not interact properly with someone who had a covered face.

In other words: little or no evidence. Just some people have a fear of the dark and others find that the indiscriminate lighting of streets disturbs their repose and relaxation.
Run a linter, think about the changes (eg new language feature) then fix the code, and try to write it that way going forward.
The main caveat is that it only applies between Nitro instances: not AWS services like load balancer or databases, which would be one of the areas where it’d be most useful for anyone with legacy apps.
I was interested in selling a kidney to help a guy pay for life-saving surgery but found out it wasn't legal. Probably for good reason. I could donate instead though.
This is a book that embodies its thesis, that learning to design programs is like learning how to write or do mathematics. In the same way that academic treatments of writing or math abstract out the things you might actually do with writing or math, HTDP abstracts out the things you might actually do with a computer program. Instead you work through exercises that illustrate the fundamental concepts. I don't know that a practicing professional will learn all that much from HTDP, but it's an interesting perspective all the same.
What they have become sort of reminds me of this Experts Exchange site back in the day. That site use to have the best SEO on search results. You would see the answer to a tech question, but it was behind a paywall.
I never understood the appeal of this, or SICP, or Scheme in general. I learned much more about computer science reading algorithms and data structures textbooks, especially Knuth.

There's a reason MIT uses Python for its intro courses now, after all.
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Cows don't have magneto-reception. So can't.

If they did, then it's a big deal because then next step would be to assume humans do.

The big news study was around people looking at Google Maps and alignment. Someone went back and said no. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mystery-of-th...

Lots of wacky things like hiding magnets under things and looking at power lines. The studies never replicated. Wishy washy 'alignment' of animals and poo measuring proving 'big' things.

It's the 21st century, 20 years post internet. It should not still be considered 'unknown', but it is, old articles still online, that clearly have not actually proven anything.

And it does matter, it could change the way we look at whole eco-systems, farming and human behaviour. It's how our bodies work. I do not understand what scientists are doing. I can only assume there is no money or prestige proving magneto-reception isn't in most mammals, or perhaps it's to hard to fight the dodgy research / media machine.

Cows do align with stuff like the sun though.
Japanese indeed are very (or overly) cautious anything related to their personal information. They'd react overly especially when it comes to anything related to South Korea for certain obvious reasons. Their media depicts anything about Korea very bad (or the worst thing ever). So nothing to see here, move along.
The private key is the dead-x-wallet contract.
Wow that brought back memories. I use to clean mine daily.
Linux dark arts if I ever saw it. Really cool work!
The obvious question I have: How did she handle the visa situation? I know lots of people do it, but doing housekeeping jobs while on a visa is technically illegal, and they really started cracking down on it after Sep 11.
Stupid AF
Often, when people discuss how easy or hard Kubernetes is, they mean running it on a managed platform like GKE.

Running it on your own metal is supposedly what requires that team of engineers.
Is there any license which requires contribution in order to use the code commercially?
Wow neat! I’ve been working on something similar, just optimized for keyboards only with midi data, intended for use as a complement of having a remote teacher on the line while using it.

The project is called Midishare https://github.com/corytheboyd/midishare. The site is live but I am very much working on core functionality still. If you do want to try it just reach out, or hop on the discussion forum linked in the nav!
That perspective fails to consider some things like really good healthcare and a pension.

The perks don’t look like tech but they are really really good
OK the above isn't exactly correct in the last sentence. If there is URE due to medium error then we get a bad stripe and repeating rebuild will most often achieve nothing to remove it (although see SpinRite which can sometimes recover data from bad sectors). However, even if the bad sector can't be read, the "RAID failure" is still just loss of single or few sectors, which usually isn't a big deal. The array filesystem data is then best copied to a new array on new disks and then the old array discarded.
Pride is fine... pandering and focusing on everything that divides us isn't.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is really good. You might enjoy this lecture, too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBJPz8hF_M
ah, and yes I just read your more in-depth About page which details some of the same history and trends I'm talking about. So good luck then!
> Can you imagine the pride their loved ones feel?

As a fellow immigrant, they do! Unfortunately it can also come with a lot of sour grapes.

“Heck yeah you’re going to USA!!” from your friends soon changes to “Bah USA, I bet it sucks anyway”
Except it isn't really idiosyncratic since there appears to be widespread confusion as to the meaning of that term.

You can't just hand wave that ambiguity away and pretend that only the OSI definition is understood and used. You have to accept the "open source" is an ambiguous term and you will need to use qualifiers or additional context if you want to avoid ambiguity when using that term.
The area is a agricultural wasteland, scoured by repeated glaciation shoving everything down to and including the granite bedrock into the Atlantic. If nutritional value is coming out of something other than a bog or the ocean then someone first added it in as fertilizer.
I have to say the IPad is pretty amazing. 20 years ago we had palm pilots, but those are no where near what the IPad has become.
You sound like you might think ideas have to be innovative but go look at how many CRM solutions are out there. CMS. Email marketing automation. Etc.

None of them are perfect. None of them can satisfy every single potential customer. You can build yet another one to satisfy some small unhappy segment of the huge market.
Bear Notes and 3x5 index cards, along with a Pilot G2 pen (they write well and they are cheap. I buy a big pack of them at Costco, and then buy another big pack when I run low).

I'd also like something to effortlessly record voice notes, but I still haven't found anything (though Just Press Record is very close)
Unless you use proper index types (Offset and Ordinal) instead of naked ints, all indexing is error-prone.
This is really cool, it seems similar in intent to Rust's "shared or mutable, but not both" philosophy. I hope it spreads to C# more generally somehow.
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Since the project I work on (https://spdk.io) largely produces a set of executables as output, it was most natural to write the tests in bash. There's one top level bash script that kicks off the full suite of tests and thousands and thousands of lines of tests all written as bash scripts stringing together calls to these executables.

One of these tests is to run shellcheck against all of the scripts in the repo. We don't allow any modifications to scripts without shellcheck giving them the green light now. The quality of our tests has increased dramatically since this was instituted - it's a really great tool.
It does both. Your brain interpolates the image, but the eye also uses interferometry to generate extra detail by moving the eye back and forth really quickly (microtremors). The result is that we glean more true information than can be determined by just measuring rod or cone frequency.
Anders Hejlsberg – The Future of C# – pdc (2008)
That's why the archaeologists are supposed to be a disinterested third party, you essentially pay them (and they forfeit their collateral) to not unwrap it.
Setting up and running Kubernetes binaries across many VMs is not hard. The hard part is managing all of the addons, extras, and post setup tasks (roles, quotas, etc) to make (and keep) it production worthy. Operational experience is still rare
Graph is from NOAA ice core data.

What's false?
The main thing I want for Async Rust is the ability to not use it.

What I'm doing involves a virtual world viewer with maybe a dozen threads. Some are compute bound. Some are talking to the GPU. Some are waiting for I/O. The normal situation is about 2 or 3 CPUs of work. Sometimes more.

I don't want an async model, which assumes you're I/O bound, interfering with keeping all those CPUs busy. Already I've had to switch from using "reqwest", which now seems to always bring in tokio, to "ureq", a minimal HTTP client. The way to do HTTP requests used to be with "hyper", but that became a lower level for "reqwest", and then "tokio" was slipped in underneath to make it "async". It always uses async, even if you make a blocking request.

"Async" is a specialized tool for web servers with very large numbers of clients. Outside of that niche, it's seldom needed.
You might well be undercounting there, according to a 2016 study[0]:

> Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws.

[0]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160502161058.h...
We hace middle and upper class relative to our own levels of income.

A person with a median income in the US probably lives much better than a person with a median income in Bolivia, yet they're both middle class relative to their own countries.
Imagine what society would look like if we had a basic income and someone like this could work on projects like that without having to worry about the commercial implications of their work. There's no reason we can't live that way now except that we choose not to.

We find it preferable to live in a society where a handful of people can accumulate billions of dollars. Dollars which have been extracted from the labor of others and influenced by the duress of losing food and shelter.
I'll raise you-- I have one that I keep powered off...
I would recommend they read the Mom Test book, then have them talk to the business side. You can learn a lot more than what was written down by doing this.
What's "smartass" about taking the time to acquire NOAA ice core data, graphing it, and presenting it? We're at a recurring peak, that's scientifically plain.
Hm, I've been searching for a good replacement for Google Play Music, and this looks like a compelling option - the library of youtube, the recommendations of last.fm, and the UI of Emacs - an excellent set of ingredients!
Hiring practices demand it. Other qualifications being equal, who gets hired: someone who works on personal programming projects or someone who doesn't?
Indeed. I presented facts, he resorts to insults. Who's scientific?
C# ties you to CLR and is also garbage collected by default. That’s very different from C++ and Rust both.
Although I’ve been concerned about climate change for a long time now (remember watching Soylent Green?) I would tend to agree with the remarks in the piece. Not just with the degree of risks to the “system”, but also with the idea that policy is being misapplied here.

The probability of “black swan” events is always difficult to assess. “The world is a few years from catastophic collapse” in the 1980’s was not borne out- catastrophe can be in slow motion. If it’s slow enough, the financial system will adapt, more quickly than many of its participants. If the gulf stream collapses, the depth and speed of the impact could maybe be swift and dangerous, but probably will take months to play out.

However, one thing left out of the discussion of “losing money happens in a functioning financial system” is that choices will get made over who loses the money. 2007 was a great example of choosing large, even demonstrably criminal businesses over voters. I would expect the financial system to figure out how to robustly protect its home team.

And, some things such as the quality of our environment, seem beyond putting a monetary value on.
> Well that's embarrassing.

An IDOR is embarrassing - this was a complex bug and Github's investigation/response was great here. I'd be proud if my company handled a security incident like this.
Ha! I love that there's a word for that.
The thin machine could be your laptop where you'd occasionally want to do a heavy operation on a workstation or server on the data you happen to work on on your laptop. Sounds like a decent usecase.

Of course running it there will work too but will need more setup. So the occasional thing is what really makes this worthwhile.

It's a bit of a niche but I see the benefit.
The Curse of Knowledge is shorthand way of putting this.
I can top that: I don't have one.
> but also somewhat incensed that there are thousands of large corporations that have a dependency on this stuff that they aren't giving back any support for.

Usually, this is due to decisions the author made, and the author is in full control of changing the situation.

I come from a society where it's normal for people to give stuff with no strings attached, and then later claim I have a moral obligation to pay back for all the benefits I received. It sucked being in that society.
We erred by applying ideas from the industrial revolution to our personal conduct. Humans were not meant to live the way modern capitalism demands.
Pensions are deeply under-appreciated when comparing government to private jobs.
Creators in the Passion Economy Deserve Better
Instagram is building an app for kids under 13
The gas fees to store 32kb of TXT would be incredibly high, but I see your point.
It doesn't seem like they took this security incident very seriously. It's a pretty serious bug that was reported by two different users within a few hours. It could have been abused by others, but it doesn't look like it occurred to them to roll back recent changes whilst they investigated the problem.
There should be more of a creator middle class through better distribution platforms for creators.
When I saw the name "Vuiet", I looked at the dev's name as I was like 99% sure you're Romanian.

It looks cool, though I've never used emacs or planning to do so.
Title reminds me of a criminally under-appreciated work of sci-fi: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Real « French style » puts spaces inside (they should be thin spaces).
Only if you need zero, which you don't need for indexing. Peano's original axioms started from 1 (which is logically equivalent to starting from 0, or -1, or potato) if all you are doing is counting)
What I have found to be helpful is that sites that I might find myself wasting time - Twitter, Reddit, etc. - I block these sites via the `hosts` file. I do this on the machines on which I want to find myself productive.

On my whatever laptop - the Internet is fair game.
It changes as the years go by, but for the last decade I've not had problems with WD.

Of course, a failure once in a while is expected. With Seagate I had a string of failures over a few years. I tend to think that randomness was not alone in explaining it (or I was really unlucky).
That's like saying that if my lamp uses 3W when I'm at my desk, surely it'll use 6W when I call someone over.

Blockchain energy usage is not really proportional to transaction volume, they're only connected in very indirect ways (more usage -> more adoption -> higher price? -> reward for mining a block increases in value -> miners can pay for more energy while still turning a profit)
You're right, I'm using 8.8.8.8.
Are you saying the examples in the book are insufficiently real-world (ie, they should be more like creating websites and less like Tetris [https://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/part_two.html#%28part._sec~3a...] or XML [https://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/part_four.html#%28part._ch~3a...])?
DACA? F1 to OPT, to H1B to Green Card? Marriage (real, or not)?

Those are a common paths....

Her house cleaning job might have been something under the table.

Either way, kudos to her. Dealing with immigration over time is a true burden/hassle. People that jump all those hoops tend to be extra motivated.
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> licenses trying to protect the business built on the open source code

A fundamental aspect of open source is that there is no limit to the number of businesses that can be built on it. If a single company wants a monopoly on building a business on the software, we have a term for that: proprietary software.
Well, yes and no.

You’re right everything is relative, but I think US media often gives off the impression of South/Latin America as a completely poverty-stricken landmass that people can’t wait to escape from so they come by foot or boat from Honduras or Cuba or Venezuela or Ecuador or Nicaragua or something.

Also, I know people who own large properties in Colombia and a friend of mine owns a 500 cattle ranch in Bolivia (called La Pradera)... These folks are very well off, even by international and US standards. There is significant wealth in South America if you look in the right places.

And many parts of Colombia are very metropolitan and modern, which has come as a surprise to people I know in the US/Europe.