skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I am familiar with this technique, and have tried using it in the past (as my "spatial" memory is very good, despite a total lack of visual imagination), but I've never been successful.
I only have limited perspective, but the people I know who are really interested in free software (including most notably my girlfriend) are really not interested in the other aspects or RMS or anyone else's politics, in relation to FOSS. There is this perception that people are sitting around saying "oh, well I like free software, but thay movement is dominated my mysoginists or whatever, there's no place for me". I don't buy that. Positive contributors are drawn to FSF over free software advocacy. Other personal/ personality issues only matter to most people when they are made so distracting they can't be ignored, and that just breeds apathy.

So tldr, I agree with you, this may be appeasing people who have just taken an interest to make trouble, and sponsors that dont want to get involved, but it is completely alienating people actually interested in free software.
sorry, was using python2 - using: python3 ./FindingPrimesMulti.py

Find all primes up to: 10000 using 256 processes.
Time elasped: 0.36 seconds
Number of primes found 1229

Find all primes up to: 100000 using 256 processes.
Time elasped: 15.7 seconds
Number of primes found 9592

Find all primes up to: 200000 using 256 processes.
Time elasped: 58.07 seconds
Number of primes found 17984

(this was debian 10)
Time is now for an unencumbered SoC with fully available documentation, 1k+ pages downloadable as a complete set of PDFs along with a reference design.
Stallman said [1]:

The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky:

“deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one
of Epstein’s victims [2])”

The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault”
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:
taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it
as Y, which is much worse than X.

The accusation quoted is a clear example of inflation. The reference
reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem.
(See https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-island-court-records-unsealed.)
Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).

The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence,
in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.
Only that they had sex.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is
that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to
conceal that from most of his associates.

I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.

Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with
a specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the criticism.

Media said [2]:

Computer scientist Richard Stallman, who defended Jeffrey Epstein,
resigns from MIT CSAIL and the Free Software Foundation

Stallman reacted to media [3]:

I want to respond to the misleading media coverage of messages I
posted about Marvin Minsky's association with Jeffrey Epstein.
The coverage totally mischaracterised my statements.

Headlines say that I defended Epstein. Nothing could be further
from the truth. I've called him a "serial rapist", and said he
deserved to be imprisoned. But many people now believe I defended
him — and other inaccurate claims — and feel a real hurt because
of what they believe I said.

I'm sorry for that hurt. I wish I could have prevented the misunderstanding.

[1] https://itsfoss.com/richard-stallman-controversy/
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/computer-scientist-richard...
[3] https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
Are you saying there is no middle ground between remaining completely silent and pressing criminal charges? That doesn't seem obviously absurd to you? Does a person have to have committed a crime before people are allowed to think poorly of them? Which crimes, specifically, should disqualify one from membership on an executive board?
Interesting question.

Since this is integer division, I think you can do:

size_t low_s = low >> 1;
size_t high_s = high >> 1;
size_t mid = (low_s + high_s)

...With no overflow worries. (expanded for clarity)

That would effectively be distributing the division. So it's equivalent to low / 2 + high / 2.
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How would you propose building a nest egg for retirement? Real estate has traditionally been one of the ways. You can look for other ways, but more and more are being shut down by the government. Providing housing is a service like any other.
Your inner 13 year old may also enjoy the route that the Ever Given took prior to entering the canal... https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal...
Anyone got issues with this?

In my opinion, there are some cases where it is a gray area: professional portfolio, case studies website with an email collection form, blog posts where you mention that you are a freelancer, a site where you link to your YouTube videos, some simple JavaScript app that don't require a backend but might make some money with ads...

So I'm just wondering how often they strike down at people who operate in this gray area.
n=1.

In addition, that individual is likely wasting mental resources gaming performance reviews, or their manager has identified their struggle and is protecting them from the ceremony. Systematically, Netflix is not equipped to deal with them.
A "company" might only exist for a few months during a construction project. When the project is over and the house sold, the "company" disbands.

The idea that we don't need fire codes because company owners or employees care what happens decades down the line is misguided.
Oh dear. I was hoping you wouldn't notice this discussion. Another step off the cliff into the Turing Tarpit... well, I hope my twisted piece of appalling SQL brings joy to your heart, at least, even if supporting it makes SQLite worse. And you are of course in a much better position to judge what would make SQLite better or worse than I am.

Have you thought about offering an interface with an intentionally-Turing-incomplete subset of SQL in SQLite, for making queries that can be guaranteed to terminate? Because it doesn't sit right with me that SQL is Turing-complete now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26529789 goes into more detail on decidable query languages that can still accommodate transitive closure.
At least oracle is actively evil

IBM just kind of... exists
Residential? Yes it is.
If you're making Mac & cheese from scratch, why not just use real cheese? Or multiple cheeses (and herbs and...)?
Stallman is no wacko like Alex Jones.

Look up RMS's opinion timeline completely and then try to say the same about that person.

Do not cherry pick as the whole SJW mob is doing
to spread hate and malice.

RMS it's just the modern Diogenes with crazy philosophycal points on everything. That's it.

With ESR you could be right. But, RMS? Most of its
timeline it's pretty progressive for anyone.
If the top engineers at your company are churning out random CRUD software from specs, you may want to reconsider where you're working.

Good engineering is about understanding the problems of your customers, designing software that solves these problems, and improving their user experience.
I'm not that familiar with that drone, but it seems to be a very modest R&D cost to develop. And by all means, when such an acquisition process works I'm sure it generally works somewhat well.

My concern was more with larger more complex projects, where no individual company can afford to take the risk to develop it and then having the government say "nah, we're fine, we'll pass this time".
Hugo, nearly free speech and a Makefile.
Yes, and generally avoiding tricks to increase engagement. I don't think it was consciously thought through—we just (going back to pg) have an instinctive aversion to that. Also, since HN isn't a startup that has to grow at all costs, we have the luxury of not needing to.

It fits with trying to optimize for (intellectual) curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... If something is interesting enough, you'll be motivated to look at it. If you're not motivated, probably you're more interested in something else and should look at that instead.
It's you who doesn't know shit about the world. I live in Germany. The "Jews are parasites" angle is literally what the nazis used.

There are still many cheap places in Germany. Most people move to where their jobs are, which implies their jobs pay enough to pay the rent. The socialists who want to get the buildings for next to nothing here are mostly unemployed, so they could as well collect their unemployment cheques in the countryside.
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Congratulations to Fairphone. This sounds like a massive task especially for such a small team. I run a Fairphone 3 and I couldn't be happier. Sure it was on the pricy side but it's served me well, takes great photos, has survived numerous drops (the phone protector shipped with it is great), looks cool,strikes up interesting conversations now and then, and will apparently have Android updates well into the future. Fairphone's a great company shipping a great product. Well worth the investment!
Agree. I just passed a certificate by writing down all my study material for the past three weeks. It's a lot, but the act of writing things down really helps cement info into my brain.
The product packaging, if you buy them by the bag (instead of bulk).

Here's an example from Sam's Club web site:

https://scene7.samsclub.com/is/image/samsclub/0003338353070_...

At the bottom right, it says, "Store potatoes in a cool, dark, well-ventilated place."
That does not remotely justify ousting him on the basis of lies, which is what happened before. If you do that, it's really hard to argue that the correct course is anything but reversing the actions you took that were driven by lies.
> This particular F-35 has an externally mounted gatling gun that fires a 25mm armor piercing high explosive round. Sometime during the training, the gun discharged and the round exploded, damaging the underside of the jet.

There's probably redundant software to ensure that the gun never shoots the jet so I speculate this was a mechanical failure.
Restrictive zoning. Look at an old 1920s brick NYC-looking apartment building in a California city standing amongst single family homes. It might be 5-6 stories tall and lack parking. That sort of building is illegal today in that neighborhood, but it wasn't in the 1920s.

A lot of good can be done if we reset California zoning ordinances to what used to be allowed, just as a start.
I tried but you have a waiting list.
I'm not sure what kind of alternative reality the author is living in.

As a matter of fact, there already is an existing "Suez Canal rival through Israel", albeit for oil and oil products only - the Trans-Israel Pipeline[0]. It can pump oil between a port on the Red Sea and another one on Mediterranean. Predictably, no one is using that.

The situation where lots of oil tankers go through Suez in opposing directions each day is clearly suboptimal anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Israel_pipeline
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Useful to whom? Who reads that fluff?

Sorry, but unless there's a larger multi-year strategy, which would be ill-suited for ICs, this is just HR incompetence at work.
To have a right to live in your home town, you should buy land. That is the traditional meaning of right to live somewhere, to own the land.
Why do they need to be at higher or lower pressure? That doesn't explain anything.
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The handwriting thing makes sense, since I don't think aphantasia necessarily affects motor memory. Drawing/writing by hand could actually be more important for people with aphantasia in that case, since it could provide a motor memory that directly corresponds to something visual.

Also I think at the core of the "visualizing things in different parts of space" memory trick is just making good associations. If you're much better at verbal/internal monologue type of thinking you could still do something pretty similar, by mapping the things to memorize into a story.

Granted certain things are easier to map to a visual space than to language, but that's true in the other direction too. Anecdotally it takes a lot of effort for me to visualize things and I barely do it naturally, but I seem to have a much stronger internal monologue and a better memory for things people say than most of my friends. I wouldn't be surprised if poor visualizing abilities during development could strengthen verbal reasoning a bit like how blind people have other senses heightened.

I really hope research into aphantasia will become more commonplace, but a lot of it is speculation for now unfortunately.
This.

I was a hiring manager for 25 years, and this was exactly what I did.

I made very, very few mistakes, and actually had some pleasant surprises.
I think the formula for Kraft must be different in the UK where I grew up, vs the USA where I live now.

I have already proved that US Kit Kats (made by Reese/Hershey) have almost no chocolate smell compared to Euro Kit Kats (made by Nestlé) which have a rich cocoa aroma.
I have a really hard time writing down notes while things are going on. I have very good memory but if I'm taking notes while something is happening, I often don't remember anything other than writing it down. If I don't take notes, my memory of events, topics and discussions is often far better. Writing things down post facto also does not help me much, other than I know where I wrote it.

However I find the act of discussing a topic helps cement things. For me, the engagement with a subject is what really helps me remember things, and I suspect writing notes removes that.
Yeah in nazi Germany many people were fed up with the Jews, so they started the Holocaust. By your logic, that was OK, because it was the will of the people.

First time I learned that turning nazi was just "becoming human". OK.
Practically speaking the "Call to Action" is wait while it loads.

I understand your reasoning.

I think that landing pages and demo pages are orthogonal. Imagine if a database landing page ran an analytics query as part of the initial load. Or an IDE ran a complex compile.
Sorry, but most managers have negative interest in you advancing your career.
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I can say this will give a lot of businesses false sense of security. It is already bypassable.

the Web scraping technology that I am aware of has reached end game already: Unless you are prepared to authenticate every user/visitor to your website with a dollar sign, lobby congress to pass a bill to outlaw web scraping, you will not be able to stop web scraping in 2021 and beyond.
> Can you expand on this? I don't see why knowing the number of code units would be useful except when calculating the total size of the string to allocate memory

I’ve used this for collaborative editing. If you want to send a change saying “insert A at position 10”, the question is: what units should you use for “position 10”?

- If you use byte offsets then you have to enforce an encoding on all machines, even when that doesn’t make sense. And you’re allowing the encoding to become corrupted by edits in invalid locations. (Which goes against the principle of making invalid state impossible to represent).

- If you use grapheme clusters, the positions aren’t portable between systems or library versions. What today is position 10 in a string might tomorrow be position 9 due to new additions to the Unicode spec.

The cleanest answer I’ve found is to count using Unicode codepoints. This approach is encoding-agnostic, portable, simple, well defined and stable across time and between platforms.
okay I see where you are coming from. I will keep that in mind.
There's the Geekbench 5 measurements:

Apple M1: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...

Raspberry Pi 4: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...
I think the problem is that strings are ambiguous enough a collection to warrant extra semantics.

The alternative to a collection would be an iterator or other public method returning a collection-like accessor, which would be a good compromise.

Though if you were to choose a canonical collection quanta, the it'd probably be the grapheme cluster, yeah.

Unfortunately OOP can never be based; only functional or procedural programming can attain such standards.
How can you have an opinion that something is better without trying the thing you're comparing against?
Scrapers don't care about robots.txt. I have scraped multiple websites in a previous job and the robots.txt means nothing. Bigger sites might detect and block you but most don't.
It's not about landlords, it is about the encroaching evil of socialism.
Vercel. Sign in with Github, push and it's deployed. Probably the best Developer Experience I've ever had.
lol, that's not colonialism.

Colonialism: the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

However, with that in mind, I'm alluding to the kinds of people in a city like San Francisco. The older, rich, land-owning class tends to be very activist and tends to vote. The younger, less-wealthy, renter class tends not to vote. Therefore, the needs of the few are outcompeted by the needs of the many.
Is this your first time seeing dark humor? Yes, it's a joke about something that's not funny. That's why it's funny.
Though I think it's an even more general mechanism of association. And places might also be easy to remember because they also contain many elements we can associate. You can call it the connectedness of a memory. You can also try to repeatedly explain to others something you want to remember or whatever.
Same experience here. I like chrome for all the features it has and I'm totally dependent on the devtools for work. But certainly safari feels a lot faster and more lightweight.

Also, the speedometer 2 (just discovered it a few days go, so not sure how reliable is this) shields a lot better results when using safari.

https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/
> This is the excuse, not the reason right? As in, the real reason is the FSF is generally incompatible with the way in which most of these companies and organizations want to make money, and blaming Stallman is the current easy out?

Yes, that's why plenty of nonprofits orgs and their leadership have also complained about the same things, and why an FSF board member resigned over it. All the complaints about Stallman are false-flag objections by people with a covert agenda of making money undermining software freedom.

That's much more likely than that Stallman, like so many other prominent figures in a number of fields, is genuinely being impacted by society’s reduced tolerance when it comes to broad subject of sexual harassment.
I think the intangible aspects here aren't relevant because the original poster was talking about the financial investment aspect itself being a reason to oppose development. I completely agree that qualitative reasons will cause people to want to control development, and personally am fine with this, versus just letting the people with the most money dominate the market.

For (D), though, I think this is generally overblown. There are no guarantees, and situations vary, of course, but trend-wise, I don't believe "partial" in-transition up-zoning has been a value-killer overall. In parts of the US that are densifying, these sorts of things are generally radiate outward from high-demand areas. But the single family homes in the high-demand city core areas still have more value than the ones further away, and if you look at the appraisal reports, it's because of the land value, not the structure. In the long run, that development cycle creates the demand that pushes up your own land value even if yesterday vs today, it was more attractive in isolation as a single family home next to another single family home. "Location, location, location" is a cliche but a valid one.

As long as your location stays in demand - and in our current city planning paradigm that's not been something that's been threatened before potential post-COVID reorganization - you're more likely to hit a virtuous cycle for property value here than a vicious one. The types of developments/apartments that are gonna be put up are gonna be determined in part by how much it cost to get the land, so if it was already valuable land, building a slum next door won't make any sense to the developer.
Standardized interoperability enables overall progress.

Every airline doesn't need their own webpage. They could all provide a standard API.
OVO Energy that’s the one! Sadly I appear not to be in the pilot area.
Interesting, I've never seen a captcha on archive.is. I'm on Android on wifi.
You're in luck! Driver's Seat Co-op is currently hiring for a software engineer and UX/UI designer. The founders are smart and committed and also just really thoughtful and kind guys. https://www.driversseat.co/careers
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Why not just create buildings designed to last hundreds of years instead?

In many European cities (at least those that avoided becoming battlefields) there are apartment buildings hundreds of years old. I live in a 200 year old building built during the Austrian Empire, which has gigabit fiber amongst all of the other modern conveniences.

The interiors are typically redecorated every 20 years and the apartments themselves overhauled (ie. replace the floor, update wiring) about every 50 years. The facades and roofs are periodically maintained by the city.

The walls between neighbors are about 50cm of solid brick, so I also have complete silence and isolation.
And some security.
This would not be good for my rare book collection
But that's entirely my point, yeah. I don't know if a single-level store address space is better, but if the reason for its decline on IBM i is merely that mainstream software doesn't mesh well with it, I feel like it doesn't tell me much about the paradigm itself.

By the way, I'd argue about whether all of b) is technically inferior or not. Object name limits certainly are, but I got to really know data entry with block mode terminals long, long after its hey day (I've certainly come across it back then, but I was rarely a user). I feel that it can be enormously efficient for data entry and maintenance tasks. Many a person who had to move from intensive use of a block mode data entry terminal to performing the same tasks with a web app got quite annoyed at the clumsiness of it all.

The web was not created for "business apps" but for hypertext document retrieval, the other uses got bolted on and it still very much shows. It's sad, because proper terminal emulation well used to be a ubiquitous feature of the Internet, before browsers took over almost entirely.
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