skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scaling the payment with the importance of the software is already how enterprise software largely works. Often times customers actively want to pay more for software so they can secure more attention from the vendor, if the software is critical to their business.
This is your mind on postmodernism.
why would i do any of that?

it’s usually downloading, fixing the tags (if needed), moving it to its subdir in the music directory. that’s all
I can hear it without an AM radio! It's very clear but extremely quiet. My machine is muted and I'm trying to work out where in the world the audio is coming from. I wonder if it's just the speakers in this monitor picking up the signal. Or one of my switched mode power supplies that also sometimes whines very quietly in the background.
I have two comments on this:

a) I feel sympathy for the young, single-types who benefit most from working in a busy environment. The WFH change is wonderful for the older types a bit fed up with long-commutes and open plan offices. I hope the hybrid approach allows us to treat the office like an old-school marketday where once or twice a week, everyone is there and the goal is to be as social as possible. The softer skills of work arent easily passed on via a Zoom call

b) The world has had to quickly adapt to WFH, and I suspect much of the dislike some people have experienced with WFH is due to things that arent fit for this purpose. Many of my colleagues live in small London flats with both parents trying to hold simultaneous zoom-calls and with schools being shutdown, having to manage their children while also doing their jobs. As WFH (hopefully) sticks, these problems iron themselves out
I'm not saying that nothing should be stockpiled. A country should have dedicated emergency services, that should also plan for stuff they need in case of various emergencies. I don't think such a service would stock shipping containers, though.

Even with Covid we saw some of the hindsight comments. In the early days it was thought that ventilators were the bottleneck and they should have been stockpiled. But that seems to not have been an issue in the end. And if you were now to stockpile ventilators, perhaps the next pandemic would require something else.
Steve Jobs famously did this at Atari.

As a student, at Reed College, Steve Jobs came to believe that if he ate only fruits he would eliminate all mucus and not need to shower anymore. It didn’t work. He didn’t smell good. When he got a job at Atari, given his odor, he was swiftly moved into the night shift, where he would be less disruptive to the nostrils of his fellow colleagues.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/freekvermeulen/2011/10/17/steve...
IME if you are not doing video editing, it will be docker and VMs. So it makes sense that devs would want the 32g (standard at my work, too). When I got my own personal laptop. 16G was fine, and I haven't had issues.
An alternative to blockchains, Corda does something similar instead of the wasteful proof of works.
I think it's easy to get into a mess as an applications complexity increases regardless of which state management approach one chooses. Every paradigm has a trade off.
I agree with that. If a logician like Gödel talked about an "inner contradiction", then I'm inclined to believe he really thought he had spotted a contradiction, not just some way of slowly eroding an article.
That's amazing, thanks for the tip
> To confuse things even more, 此処 is valid Chinese as well

There's a lot more in common between the writing in Taiwan and Japan since Taiwan kept the "older" kanji while the CCP went thru the cultural revolution and the simplification of the number of strokes in each sign.

Still, there's a bunch of stuff that kind of looks like it would make sense when reading a Chinese word in Japanese, but turns out there's a lot of meanings are very different, either because the meaning evolved over time, or the Japanese simply imported kanji using their original sounds and not caring about their actual meaning.
What's interesting is that most people seem to expect that carrier to be on it's way within a day or two at best, my personal estimate is that this could take weeks to get resolved, if they decide to unload on the spot it might even take longer. This is not easy to fix at all.

Essentially they have one more shot at a quick fix: todays high tide. And if that doesn't do the trick they will have to come up with another solution but those will likely be much slower to put into effect, 224,000 tons (!) is a lot of mass to try to move, especially when stuck.
Agreed - they should not only do some scientific research, but historical research as well. Folks have been bathing regularly - more than once a week - for generations. It all depended on where you live in the world, the tech you have access to, and how wealthy you were.
Ideally, you want the former and the latter to be equivalent.
No it's not a regular amendment, as tempaccount99 explained.

More here -

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/kas...
Let me give you a title: "Saving old people from death: An idea whose time has passed?"
Well, you can actually make a pretty good objective case for Japanese writing being the most complicated writing system on the planet, since no other language that I'm aware of regularly mixes 4 scripts, where basically entirety of Chinese forms just one of those scripts. Except that whereas in Chinese it's rare for a character to have more than one or two readings, in Japanese there are characters with over 70：

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F#Japanese

It's telling that there is what's effectively a reading test for Japanese people, where it requires 12 years of schooling to take a stab at Level 2 (covering only the "daily use" kanji!), and Level 1 requires years of additional study on top of that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_Kentei
The other thing to be aware of with Google Fi is that they will eventually cut off your data if you spend too much time outside the US.
Hahaha, maybe they got me. I bought a ton of vacuum sealed coffee in different formats -- even Ogawa's camp packets -- after reading this article.
I've found that if I use soap on my face I get breakouts, and shampooing my hair always makes it worse. Pits, feet, and balls absolutely need soap, though.
My favourites are people who have some personal projects (finished or not) to show. They're usually more interesting and telling than open source contributions, though I definitely respect that.
Some Texts from Early Modern Philosophy
www.stackazam.com is a cloud application built with Go

I have started falling in love with coding/CS again with Go.

Our philosophy is to keep things close to the metal and not use layers as much as possible. Go enables you to follow with approach with the standard libraries that come with the language.

Problem with layers/frameworks is that while they seem to solve immediate problem quickly, layers will rear their ugly head down the road , making you feel helpless during debugging

We use standard libraries

database/sql for database
html/template for UI

Only external package used so far is gin-gonic/gin for middleware&routing
What is the catch here? How can it be cheaper than b2 while essentially offering the same service to the end-user?(geographically distributing data does not directly result in any reduction of costs). It’s okay to say that “we have lower profit margin” than B2, what is it technically that enables this lower cost? , and what are the trade offs made to get there?..
In the Classical period Latin was so punctuation-free that words weren't even separated by spaces.
Well it doesn't, but there are other people "supposed" to prevent it.

But yes, law people sometimes forget that it's all words on paper.
If you want people to upload data to your system, it helps to give them more information about your organization.
> An even more subtle point is that kanji usage is fluid, so it's perfectly correct to write many words as kanji or kana, but with subtle shifts in meaning. For example, いい and 良い are both "good", but the latter is more formal and may even be read differently (yoi vs ii).

Correct, and sometimes words who are otherwise written in Kanji can be written in Kana in order to put emphasis on them, similar to how we use italics in Western languages.
> A video at 500kbps in h.265 should be the same visual quality as an h.264 at 1000kbps.

Sure, that's true. Then the only problem is you said "smaller" and not "better looking" above.
RMS never harassed women? Have you spent any time around MIT or other RMS haunts? Dude was well established as a serial harasser. When I was a grad student in 2002 it was common knowledge that he was afraid of spider plants and many women at LCS had spider plants in their offices to keep him away.
> Dealing with this sort of complexity when writing optimizing compilers is very very hard

Which is why we use JS and allow V8/SpiderMonkey/JSC to do it for us :)
> I think it was a very bold move to have him on the note

There's a lot of wacky people with wacky ideas in the UK... but I think almost literally nobody disbelieves evolution here. It's just not a thing on anyone's radar and the small component we have of evangelical christianity is strangely quite an urban middle-class thing. I don't think it was bold at all.
OP's point is that you can write anything in the constitution - that it can never be changed, or whatever - but that's of no value whatsoever, if a large majority of people agree and decide that it's an invalid document.
I went to one of FB's early internal meetups about React and I was initially skeptical of JSX but very excited by what it offered.

I was working at Groupon and using Backbone at the time and found nesting components to be a major hassle. We used a framework called Thorax on top of Backbone, which helped but still fell far short of React's convenience.
> RMS is somewhere in the pig, bore, masher triad

You might want to cut down on the adjectives if you want your argument to be taken seriously.

> With no one left to protect him he got run out on a rail.

RMS wasn't "protected" by anyone. RMS has made several controversial statements in the past 30-40 years, most of which are on his website. People did notice it back then too. But apart from rolling their eyes at some of his stances, no one cared, no one felt victimized by those statements, and people went back to their lives as usual. But in today's world of outrage culture, some people have made it their personal agenda to destroy a person's life if they've uttered anything deemed wrongthink by them. RMS is a victim of this attitude.
Are you saying you think they bathed more or less frequently?
On your b. topic, that's what my company has been pretty clear about: we aren't working from home, we are at home, during a global crisis, trying to work.

It's not the experience I had before, around 2010-2011, working completely remote/from home for 2 years with processes and companies adapted to that. Being able to take 2 hours during an afternoon to meet people for a coffee somewhere, or go to the gym.

We are just trying to work from home now, not really living through a proper experience of that with all its benefits.
One thing making it okay is that it's not really stimulus, it's disaster relief. A lot of it is going to repay debt, which instantly destroys it, and more is going to savings.

If it was spent it would cause inflation, but that's fine because we've been under our target forever, not that there was ever a real reason 2% was a target.
It is "a complementary English course book for computer science students and their teachers."

Basically, for people learning a foreign language, those learning often need to learn a _specific subdomain_ of the language. If you're a computer science student, there's a lot of English you need to know there that you would not find in a general ESL (English as a Second Language) course.

This is an English textbook for computer science students. It contains standard learning-English components, such as short essays on topics followed by questions to demonstrate understanding, but all those topics are around computer science.
Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1
You also need to beware of the american perversions put into their meaning of "free", where the F stands for fascism. Free to overcome civil liberties by private contracts, taking away all your personal freedoms. The essence of the american freedom.

Which is closer to the other politically charged word "liberal". Which has nothing to do with education, but liberal, uncontrolled markets. The power of the strongest. In free and liberal markets the dominant forces control everything, the law, the law enforcement, the work, education, press, politics. Which leads us to the american freedom of fascism.

Beware of charged words. Libre was chosen for a reason.
"Open source with a non-free license" essentially doesn't exist.

The opensource definition [0] and free software definition [1] are similar enough in outcome (if not intent) that such a thing is basically impossible.

Last time I looked the only difference between the OSI's and FSF's lists of acceptable licenses was the OpenWatcom license, which requires you to release the source even when you just deploy it privately. This was a mistake on part of the OSI and should not have been accepted. At least Debian, Fedora and the FSF consider it to be unacceptable.

[0] https://opensource.org/osd
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
“Studies showed reduction of blood pressure and headaches in those using the micro biome regimen.”

What the hell?
Isn’t this a problem of efficiency and optimization? Running the system lean leads to lower costs, but with risk of occasional shortfalls due to exogenous effects. But to optimize for those relatively infrequent events would increase the cost of the frequent events (the everyday shipping).

Given the challenge of finding an optimum it seems like the world hasn’t done too badly.
> Svelte is compiled to essentially vanilla JS

How does this scale to anything remotely complex?

I've found that if you have a decent knowledge of React it's hard to make anything slow with it.
Which goes to the point that redux is not perfect and has its own downsides. I generally take the simplest solution to solving a problem and favor readability over abstraction whenever possible.
Your testosterone levels lower themselves once you're married and have kids, so that you'll focus on raising them and not leave to start a second family, or get yourself killed in a fight, etc.
I'm not sure to which phone you're referring to. Is there one that runs FreeBSD?
And what I wanted C# v1.0 to be as well.
I thought it was pretty clear that the FSF has accomplished little and is prepared to accomplish less going forward. An advocacy organization without a legislative agenda, whose messaging remains ineffective and unchanged for decades, isn’t very good at advocacy.
> as sinograms are used at least in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnam

While technically a true statement, the usage of kanji in Korea and Vietnam is now fairly limited - Korea uses typically a system based on combining sounds together nowadays (while you still see them use Kanji for names or titles here and there) and Vietnam has moved to (an accent-rich) alphabet during the French colonization .
Sure, let me just pop down the pub.

Oh wait, everything is closed, because we're in a global pandemic.
Ah you are still on Xperia X, that explains. For me, Xperia X was great for a year or so circa 2018, before:

* everyone started to abandon the perfectly capable android 4.4 API, mostly due to the support of TLS 1.2

* payment / transport / banking / e-commerce / travel / food / coffee all started moving to mobile-first

Following that, there was a rather rough 2~3 months transition period when I upgraded to XA2 in early 2019. It has been smooth sailing since.

I once was a strong proponent of small form factor too, but I am afraid that boat has sailed, and well, XA2 Ultra actually still fits in mine :)
Supposed indeed. But in the US, the top tier of said people is also heavily political and partisan.

Anyway, the rule of law quickly becomes irrelevant when something takes over by force. Currently Myanmar is controlled by a military coup, for example, and there was an attempted coup by civilians in the US not too long ago (while the legal and military branches of it stood by and did nothing)
Thank you for making a web version (don't have Android)!

I like it, but there is one usability aspect that I would spend more UI refinement on is the boundary between Wikipedia and the app.

For example, when I click on a related article, it opens that Wikipedia page in a frame, instead of opening it in Wikiyarn. I understand why, because you want to show detailed information. But that does prevent the most important function Wikiyarn could serve: guiding the user on a journey.
Nah my go to is node, although recently I used a PHP script and the simplicity for a quick job is pretty nice.
At work it’s C#
What carrier do they use for delivery out there?

Just taking a wild guess from "rural" that Amazon may be handing off the delivery (or at least the last mile) to USPS. The issues may have been more USPS-related than Amazon stock issues or anything.
A food crisis causes the currency to "go down the shitter".
The important point in the FAQ:

> The encrypted data pieces are scattered across our community of users, using small portions of our member’s unused hard drive space

So it's not really comparable to S3 or B2. It's more like storj or sia.
I'm a big DeaDBeeF user on mac, and it has reasonable Cocoa UI (so it looks and feels native!) - this is actually pretty unusual for players on the platform!

I make a few tweaks (it's open source, so you can!), but it is very pleasant to use and lets me treat my music as just a collection of playlists rather than railroading me into a big complicated media library tracking system.

Additionally, the main developer is pretty active and it is getting a lot of love in bugfixes and updates for newer macOS, and pull requests and issues get actively looked at as well.

edit: oh, and the codebase was quite nice and easy for me to dig into as well :)
Clock of Flowing Time
"The Clock of Flowing Time (German: Uhr der fließenden Zeit) is a 13 meter high water clock extending over three floors in the Berlin Europa-Center. The clock was designed by the French artist Bernard Gitton and set up in 1982.

The water clock displays the time by filling glass spheres with brightly colored liquid, in a cycle that repeats every 12 hours. The whole system is controlled by a pendulum swinging in the lower half of the clock."
I actually find it quite funny that humans have planned their own obsolescence.

What's funnier is that whatever "safe" substitute humans will devise will prove to be more harmful a couple of generations hence.
Gnome Shell 40 and multi-monitor
It's true, and I've seen it in a lot of old school books on hygiene, and conversed about with with the older generation.

Though the alternative wasn't "do nothing", it was to scrub your face, neck, ear, armpits, and crotch with soapy water and a washcloth every morning.
> Yes, the constitution can be ammended to be less democratic. It can also be entirely ignored by everyone, and things can also happen in ways that go against its text, with judges looking the other way!

Or the words of the constitution can be reinterpreted to mean something entirely different than what they originally meant.
> compiles to who knows what

You can easily read the compiled Svelte output and see how each piece of template is wired to the state. There is very little cruft in it, and no real runtime library to speak of.

The debugging experience (not that I have needed it much) is light years ahead compared to going through React's internals.
Getting around the React Ecosystem in 2021
Sorry that this was not clear, but my comment was deeply sarcastic. I thought the "Rant over" was sufficient as a sarcasm marker.

I think the "stupid redneck" definition of freedom, which I share, is way better than the "sophisticated philosopher" definition I mentioned.

I see a very worrying tendency, in the context of Covid, to re-establish the absurd GDR/Hegel definition of freedom in German state tv and other media. People seem unaware what a fundamental change that is.

E.g. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/hegel-geburtstag-fre...
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/mit-hegel-durch-die-cor...

Regarding Hegel's definition of freedom:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/state-sovereign-political-e...

"To Hegel, the state was the culmination of moral action, where freedom of choice had led to the unity of the rational will, and all parts of society were nourished within the health of the whole."

To me, this is hell...
> I mean, nobody opens a Zoom call to just chit-chat about mundane stuff. Well, some do but I‘m sick of taking any additional video call beyond the 4h I’m enduring every day.

Some indeed do, but for some reason it requires more effort than meeting physically did. I never did that, but I had co-workers who did it regularly even pre-pandemic.

What more people do, though, is chit-chat about mundane stuff on IMs. Depending on the company, your subordinates may already have their own #random / #offtopic channel. Of course, as a manager, you need to stay away from it and pretend you don't know it exists :).

But I wonder if there's a space for managers to create a second off-topic channel for their team - one that contains the manager as well. Most of the casual talk will of course stay on the original #random (the boss/subordinate separation cannot be bridged, everyone knows it's there even if they pretend it's not), but the #random+boss chat could capture the kind of conversations you'd ordinarily have on the corridor/around the doors to your office. I know I had plenty of semi-casual chats like this IRL with my boss back in my office days, and they were good for morale. I think this concept didn't translate well into pandemic/forced-WFH world.

Of course, if you don't like casual IMing and prefer synchronous communication, then that's not an option for you.

> I can see how this benefits introverts and people with social anxiety, but as for extroverts me, I‘m getting more depressed every day.

I sympathize. I hope this will end soon, and that we all find balance again. Your company may not return to full-office, but when the restrictions end, it'll be easier to see people IRL even if everyone's mostly working from home.

For what's worth, I'm more on the introvert end, and yet I sometimes feel I'm on the verge of losing my mind - we introverts have limits, too, and this pandemic situation is stressing them.
Steve Jobs in 1991 [video]
As "simple" as GtkD might be, I suggest to actually learn Windows Forms, WPF or WinUI, including the visual designers and Blend.
I also wonder how much it might heat up the brain? And whether that would be a problem for sustained use? (In practice this heating effect is occasionally limiting for some other forms of ultrasound (e.g. TEE) requiring you to take a break or reduce the power.)
> Names are serious business!

It's also serious because names are accepted as signature using hanko (official stamps) for official business and procedures.
Ah. You see Turing’s suicide as entirely disconnected to his abuse at the hands of the government?

As for scarcely different - Churchill is an idol to the current government, and their regressive policies, their proposal to reintroduce the death penalty, their isolationist nationalism - all of these are things I’m sure he would support.
Haha, absolutely not. I get almost nothing out of it. I sat the exam out of curiosity, but if you qualify and want to join, you have to do so immediately — you can't decide to later on. I've been a member for 3 years, and doubt I'll renew next year.

There's a private Facebook group for members, which has some lively discussion from time to time, but that's about it. To be honest I just posted my earlier comment to stir the pot a little :)
What tweaks do you make? (If you don’t mind sharing.)