skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't true. Or, rather, there are also a myriad of ways that C++ enforces correctness that Rust doesn't.

Legacy codebases are smelly not because of a lack of tools for enforcing correctness. They're smelly because a) programming is hard, and b) a boatload of things are more important than correctness, in the real world.

> I would much, much rather deal with a legacy Rust codebase than a legacy C++

Obviously, because right now legacy Rust codebases are only 5 years old, while legacy C++ codebases are 30+ years old.

But in 20 years it will make no difference. The Rust of 2031 that will need to accommodate 30 years of legacy backwards compatibility will be no prettier than C++ today.
> No one said women are incompetent,

The commenter above literally says "maybe [men] were the only competent people avaliable".

For clarification, are we reading this differently?
I will never get to go to Hong Kong
Indeed. But instead, the article comes with the headline Renaissance Life was Worse than the Middle Ages, eg citing life expectancy in Italy in the 1200s compared to the 1500s in support. That can easily lead to new misconceptions.
Are you imploring that 'malapropism' is too sesquipedalian and that one should generally eschew obfuscationism?
Initialized Investor Garry Tan Turned a $300k Bet on Coinbase into $680M
Nvidia's A100 Gets Baby Brothers: The A10 and A30
Same in Portugal: we called it "dar um toque". Literally: to ring only once. I grew up with this.
These Ants Shrink Their Brains for a Chance to Become Queen
I can recommend USB speaker phones/headsets like the Jabra Speak series. Anker recently released their own series as well and there's also beyerdynamic phonum. The big benefit is that noise cancellation is builtin and USB sound is sufficiently standardized that there shouldn't be any issues.

Though I went to the trouble recently to configure builtin pulseaudio noise cancellation and got quite good results as well.
Yupp, it is working, thank you :)
Likely just a driver issue.

I actually had the opposite situation with Ubuntu 20.04 on my desktop, got a lot less noise from my mic port under Ubuntu for some reason.
Linus' boring posts where he just goes about business as a maintainer are not marketable for rubbernecking.

The persona of Linus you get from following LKML has always been different than the persona you'd get from internet gossip.
TBH I struggle to have sympathy for people who signed a shadow rent contract in the full knowledge that they could not afford to pay the shadow rent.
it's actually been completely removed from brave nightly as the link says
The real test will be when mass vaccinations are done and we go back to “normal”.
Exactly. UTF-8 doesn't and cant fix this problem, you need a full Unicode library if you want to correctly handle human text. If you don't, why bother with UTF-8 instead of something simpler, like ASCII?
I apologize for not being American and the press in my country costing money. I'll try to do better next time.

I note that your link astablishes that long covid is the thing, which the parent comment denies.
AWS will (at a reasonable spend) sign a legally binding contract preventing them from pulling service from you unexpectedly.
thanks for those 2 providers. will also check them out. do you know (beside voxbone) some further international DID providers?
‘It’s a Roller-Coaster Ride’: Global Chip Shortage Is Making Industries Sweat
+1 for ProjectM. Excellent, even works great on FreeBSD!
There are some studies on PubMed around this. I remember hearing about one that the DoD did involving soldiers who used cannabis and mental illnesses. I wasn't able to find that, but here's a similar one.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2892048/
I would expect such a site to work well without third-party scripts, without JavaScript, and perhaps even without a GUI. I would expect it to provide full functionality on Firefox with aggressive uBlock settings and on text-based browsers. I would be surprised to see a cookie banner.

Mostly, I would expect the site to work quickly and deliver valuable information with minimal nonsense, while integrating well with power user tools based on web standards.

I wish all websites were like this!
Thank you so much for sharing all this wonderful information !!!! It is so appreciated!! You have good humor in your post. So much helpful and easy to read.
https://www.sevenmentor.com/java-course-in-nashik
Shot in the dark, but many of my Linux coworkers have a problem where their video chat software sets their mic volume/gain to 100%, which causes horrible sounding clipping. Check your mic gain settings and perhaps disable the automatic volume equalization in whatever video call software you're using.
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I meant in the terms of experience

e.g let's say you have 10 senior level men because they were in the company since the beginning and then you have let's say 40-60% women-men ratio in new people - juniors and mid levels

If I were company, then I'd send the best people avalibale to things like that, also some people just may not want to do things like that
What about investors not wanting to invest a single cent into building new estate because it is not economically viable anymore? Is that gaming the system?
Have you asked yourself why 90% of nurses are women in Norway with best gender equality programs? Why they are not forcing every other male to become nurse?

Female and male are different in some aspects of their biology, no matter what you say, they are different anyway. This difference tends to affect people choice. And 90% woman in Norway choose to be nurse.

We should strive to have an equal opportunity for everyone (race/gender doesn't matter, just equal opportunity), not push people to become what they don't want
It'd be nice if the US would ditch it's statutes from the late 19th century that make it illegal for foreign-flagged vessels from taking passengers from one US port to another.

This is why, for example, almost all Alaskan cruises sail from Vancouver.
Alain Aspect, from Einstein to Wheeler: Wave-Particle Duality of a Single Photon
People pay for Calendly, so obviously there’s a market of people who would pay for it?
I use Firefox. So does my family. Everything I make for personal use works in Firefox and I don't bother testing with anything else.

However, almost every web site or web app I make in my professional capacity gets tested with, and is expected to work with, ~95% of browsers. That means testing against Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, UC Browser, Samsung Internet, and Internet Explorer.
Edit: I forgot to add Safari, which I also test with.

Anything less is not my brand of professionalism, because I am convinced my clients expect me to leave my personal thoughts and convictions at the door. If you want to only create sites that work in Firefox and maybe not elsewhere, then you can do that - but doing it ethically means telling the client upfront that you won't accept work that requires the site work for the widest audience reasonably possible.

That said, there are two caveats. The first is ethics. I do not leave my ethics at the door and if I am being asked to do something unethical I will refund the money and walk. If it is illegal it will be reported, as otherwise I am an accessory. Clients agree to this upfront. The second is client requests. If the client wants it to work in Firefox and they tell me not to bother with the other websites, despite my advice against it, then that's what I do.
Not covered: Single application server with network-attached highly available storage
The Weak Case for Grit
A developer is an architect of solving problems.

The language is the material / tool used to solve the problem in question.

As we learn we know when to use X tool or language to solve Y problem.
"Yoga" is also the Bengali word for addition in Math.

Somebody explained "Yoga" to me once as the addition of self (jibatma) to the universe (paramatma). So this process requires many components. And according to some these components are independent of one another.

One famous yogi talked about 4 yogas-
1. Knowledge yoga
2. Work yoga
3. Devotion yoga
4. Raja yoga (the king yoga- famed and stories such as stopping breathing, leaving body without dying are rampant)

These yogas requires energy and healthy body and mind. So enters Hatha Yoga. I regularly practice Pranayama taught to me by my father.

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism assumes that you can be one with the universe without believing in any god. That is much discussed in Bhagabad Gita.

Buddha was an athiest. There has always been a strong sect of athiests in India- for thousands years.
> I can't even imagine how you could get to such a state!

1-click-installers for Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, etc. Most shared hosting providers give the database user full access to the entire database as default.
World’s Third Richest Insurer AXA Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments in Switzerland
I got used to these so quickly – my favourite ones are cal.new (Google calendar event), docs.new (Google doc) or gist.new, I use these almost every day
USDC and other cryptocurrencies that track real currencies. It for the first time allows anyone to be their own bank with programmable money. You can have it on your phone for direct to merchant payments. You can use software to setup auto payment systems for any bills or rent, you could connect it to a service that gives a loans on demand against collateral.

I think a lot of really cool innovation is going to come out of easily transmissible programmable money.
> I’ve run to the type of suburb they decry.

Sounds like you've read a bit of Strong Towns. Why do you see that as inconsistent with their message?

I had them pegged as an anti-debt pro-accrual-accounting lobby. It seems reasonable to me that the places they decry are great places to live - if the argument is against neighbourhoods where more money was spent on them than was justified then those neighbourhoods would be in high demand.
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The docs are quite specific where you can and cannot move connection pointers over threads.

You should probably keep each connection owned by a single thread.

This is a general “do not share memory” issue, you could fork any non-thread safe C code and see undefined behaviour.

Any other issues?
No. There's all sorts of hoary crap in the core parts of Windows - Pascal, C++, C, C# and various dialects thereof, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Prolog. This just off the top of my head.

It's not really an endorsement because the bar to getting into a Google or Microsoft or Facebook codebase is as low as it gets in this industry.
but

"maybe [men] were the only competent people avaliable"

is not equal to

"women are incompetent"
How the Largest Animals That Could Ever Fly Supported Giraffe-Like Necks
What are some decently good mics that don't break the bank but do the work?
We were talking about Terraform CDK here, not AWS CDK. It is cool that AWS CDK supports Go though!
So it is very likely that you do not live of being a web developer or have a very small niche market, given the market share of FF and the market share of chrome.

No normal buisness can ignore how the vast majority of its users experience their site. Every user with issues is likely a lost user.

But ... from a technical point of view, it is indeed very likely that what runs on FF will also run on chrome, but not necessarily the other way around.
I guess only the caller has to pay, it's always been like that in my country.
DevX Conf, with Jason Warner (GitHub CTO) and Erich Gamma (creator of VS Code)
It would be interesting to hear how bad the audio actually was...
Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I still would not say 30K books is "available to common people" (most of whom could not read), but i was definitely not aware Venice had such a policy so early in history.
I'm struggling with audio quality over zoom on Linux. Anyone could recommend a good microphone that sounds reasonably fine. Preferable something below 100$.
A cheap and usable condenser mic costs 30 bucks (e.g. Fifine), a lavalier mic costs between 2 bucks on aliexpress and 50 for e.g. from Rode. (I found that the ultra cheap aliexpress are the exact same like the no-brand 10 bucks on amazon, like so many things)

I got both but mostly use the condenser mic and it is an absolute game changer. If you want to explain something it is so noticeable in the eyes of your conference participants how good they can hear you. And it makes a huge difference if you finally feel like what you are saying is not painful for others to endure.

Check out this very lovely video series on how to pimp up your conferencing setup. Especially this episode about mics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKOx4hZKmOs

Edit: And this is the mic I can recommend using on Linux:

https://www.amazon.com/Microphone-FIFINE-Computers-Podcastin...
Heard good things about the Behringer C-1U.
> I don't understand what this means

GiveWell founder Holden Karnofsky spent $30m of philanthropic cash buying a board seat on the charitable subsidiary of OpenAI Inc, an extremely well funded organization drawing on research to produce high value closed source software, much of it now exclusively licensed to Microsoft (and theoretically stopping AGI armageddon). No evidence of any AI risks mitigated has ever been produced (but I don't doubt the commercial arm can sell lots of product).

I'm fine with people donating money to OpenAI if they think it's a big deal and like supporting software projects (certainly nobody can argue that the organization hasn't produced some quality research) but if you're going to dedicate large parts of your life to putting "do not recommend" next to charities than don't do RCTs to prove that nutrition works to encourage people to donate to other causes instead, then it's not reasonable to apply completely different standards to diverting philanthropic cash to an entity your former roommate worked for. It also undermines a lot of Holden's own previous arguments on GiveWell (including a good piece questioning AI risk arguments!)

> Frankly, what I'm seeing with EA is that ... like, Effective Altruism started out talking about maximizing the amount of good for the world, and the "weird AI people" were the only ones who showed up

Isn't that mostly because "EA" is something which started in the "rationalist" community? Plenty of other people think about how they donate or or quantitatively assess charity performance without calling themselves Effective Altruists or hanging out on those forums.

I'm also aware that many people considering themselves Effective Altruists are either uninterested in prioritising AI risk, or aren't demanding RCTs for everything else, and my arguments about inconsistency don't apply to them.

> to say that EA shouldn't have focused on the weird AI thing because it might put off people who never gave a damn to begin with is almost insulting.

This misses the point. I'm not saying "association with weird AI people puts people off donating". I'm saying that

[i] writing extended "do not recommend; not rigorous enough and well funded enough already" reviews of charities puts people off donating

[ii] promoting considerably less rigorous and better funded AI risk causes is inconsistent with this

=> worse funding allocation based on their own criteria for what constitutes an effective charity, and/or undermines the credibility of those criteria

Either the EAs in question are wrong about where they're sending the funds or they're wrong about the importance of publicly-available evidence-based efficacy metrics (relative to "this seems really important to me", which is a perfectly fine reason to give all your money to something more speculative like AI risk research or a charity to promote African entrepreneurs which GiveWell is unimpressed by the evidence for).
A big fat YES from me. I have been looking into TUIs lately, and the state of terminal handling is ridiculously bogged down by years of cruft that, honestly, I don't give a shit about anymore. To put it succinctly: I want Alt-Home and Ctrl-Click to work on a TUI. Period.

If I had superpowers, I would layer the system as a very low-level library that recognizes keyboard / mouse / tablet / microphone input hardware events and encodes them somehow (so Alt is a separate key, pressing multiple keys is handled, clicking + moving the mouse is handled, etc); then a protocol that can give you this event stream, either from a local or remote source; then a layer that maps this into higher-level events (so Alt and Home pressed together is interpreted as Alt-Home). The idea would be to have the ability to detect, even over a serial connection, any of these input events, without resorting to escape codes.

I don't even know if this all makes sense; I just hate the loops you have to go through today to even try to make sense of key combinations.

/rant
No, databases that support multiple connections "properly" make sure that the connections are isolated, a connection only sees committed data and can run any valid transaction at any time. It's actually a large part of database complexity, dealing with concurrent access performantly and correctly.

The same thing would happen with PostgreSQL if you used a single connection in multiple threads.
I suspect you haven't tried Pulumi. It is declarative. Sometimes I just want to generate the declarations rather than type them out by hand.
Epic Games raises $1B funding
What the heck is the event loop anyway?
Requires docker.
No. Not completely opposite.

Bengali and Punjabi groups of armed revolutionaries (wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anushilan_Samiti) did heavily rely on yoga for exercise. The author is right. You are way off.
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That's very generous. However, with the plethora of browser fingerprinting techniques, cookies today have become almost irrelevant:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

https://scrapebot.com/browser-fingerprinting-techniques/
Not thinking about the sex of the judges does imply ignoring any possible unconscious bias.

I am not a fan of discrimination, "positive" or otherwise, but I think acknowledging that unconscious biases exist, and that a panel selection process has tried to account for that, is the minimum I'd expect for something like this.
Seeing as ICANN already has tube. , it's unlikely that that would be allowed.
If you are leaving out Safari you are not testing on 95% of the browsers. At least market share wise, which is the only metric that makes sense.
Here's a summary with links to studies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance-induced_psychosis
The best way to get ppl to stop using chrome is to fork it, and add new experimental functionality that doesnt exist in chrome. I don't know if it's feasible but missing features in new platforms (e.g. VR) will motivate people to switch and then it will become a self-reinforcing loop. Integrating metamask in the browser could be a game changerfor payments and identity management.
It's also really easy to have high quality audio! The author recommends a "podcasting" microphone, but a $35 standalone headset mic[1] is almost as good and much easier to use. If you want to hear a comparison, I got kind of obsessed with this problem at one point and took some comparison recordings here[2].

(You need a standalone mic since most headsets, even really nice ones, have really bad mics because most headset buyers don't care about or even know how good their mic sounds. The one I linked is wired because wireless is evil[3] and in particular, Bluetooth will silently degrade your audio quality. If you want a pair of wired headphones, I like these[4] which are "open back" and therefore sound more natural + cool your ears better, although the open back also means they "leak" sound and are only suitable for working without people next to you. But you shouldn't be having calls with people next to you anyway!)

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/V-MODA-BoomPro-Microphone-Gaming-Comm...

[2]: https://www.benkuhn.net/vc/#get-a-better-microphone

[3]: https://www.benkuhn.net/wireless/

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/Philips-SHP9500S-Precision-Over-ear-H...
Any suggestions/thoughts on learning yoga practices beyond physical exercises/fitness?

I've been going in and out of the subject for the last 10 years or so. Modern yoga practices in my country essentially boil down to either stripped down physical training, or something intentionally very esoteric and built around 'energies' etc.

What I ideally would want to is to discern the actual practices from cultural background. I don't mind learning cultural background as well, but I have a hard time taking certain things for granted.

Maybe there is some modern movements/sources that explain scriptures to a modern man, with focus on practice? What I usually find is way too scientific in the sense of Orientology/Philosophy but not the actual practice
Virtually all microphones are USB, and USB Audio is very, very standard. This is likely to be a mixer settings issue.

I've been using a Blue Yeti with Debian for several years now and have no problems at all with that. (It is annoying how often video conferencing problems are solved by reloading a web page or restarting the browser, though.)
I recently moved to Postmark. It’s been an extremely positive experience. They’re a small, dedicated team with amazing support.
It doesn't surprise me the least. The media industry is extremely careful about that. And when sometimes, successful streamers/youtubers/... talk about their setup, it is clear that audio is given a lot of attention.

But I'm sure the simplest thing you can do before getting better equipment, soundproofing, acoustics and hiring a sound engineer is simply to get louder. Just up the volume, and if you are feeling fancy, use a compressor. It is well known that louder sounds higher quality, and for ABX tests, great care is taken so that the levels are equal since the bias appears even when the difference is minor. Extreme compression is also the secret behind the booming voice of radio presenter, and that effect also started what is known as the loudness war.
>>You are simply rehashing the idea that free market is holy and magic. Instead, housing is inelastic.

Housing is not inelastic at all. Economists have studied the effects of laws reducing land-use rights, and have found they impose massive social costs, in the form of less housing construction, that leads to less affordable housing.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388
Covid 19 Lineages
> moral of story is not to listen to overly critical nerds

I would say pay attention to overly critical nerds, and see of the opposite could be used to your own benefit.
Directories are just another type of file. So, if you do this, and your filenames are n characters long, you'll end up needing to do n file accesses just to find the file you're looking for. Unless the underlying file system does something to make that particular access pattern fast, well... it's going to be stupidly slow after a certain point.
Depending on where you live, buying a car with this modification may require disclosure. There are plenty of videos on youtube about people buying cars which end up being two parts welded together. I don't think it is safe at all.
I think a lot of people get wrapped around the axle of having the "right" $500 microphone whereas there are a ton of decent USB mics under $100 that will make a big difference.

Also consider a good external webcam and doing something about lighting if you can. I realize that not everyone has a great physical environment to work with. But I'm struck by how many people who seemingly haven't made any real effort after a year+.
The old tracking is stopping whether sites want to or not, since users are now wise to uBlock Origin and browsers have finally started pushing for privacy.
Testing it yesterday with 2 phones/accounts, I do see my account coming online when I switch the focus to the WA web tab. When I switch tabs, after a while it says "last seen...".
I just scp that son of a b down and run all the queries on the SQLite file locally.