skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think trying to "reverse" something like this is not only untenable but actually destructive. The history of every language and culture is one of brutality and conquest as well as mutual exchange. That doesn't mean that we should be trying to revert to some imagined "pure" time before the traumatic event.

I'm a product of brutal attempts at nation building by the American war machine. I wouldn't be speaking English otherwise. But that doesn't mean that this language isn't mine. If I were forced to speak and write differently because of some political initiative, it wouldn't be a return to authenticity. It would be forcing me to reject a part of me that's already been irreversibly changed.
It's been a pretty rough year for DC residents to be fair. Between BLM protests, the gangs that drove to the city literally to fight with them, then a literal insurrection, I think it's possible that for this group, it's up there in terms of difficult years in the last 100. Oh, and then there was the pandemic on top of that.
For what it's worth, the use of Portuguese in Goa is hardly because the language has any real relevance still. It's like with Pondicherry. The official publication of the Union Territory's government is "La Gazette de L'État de Poudouchéry" and the rest of the title page is also in French. (But the actual publications are all in Tamil or English.)

The retained use of French there is symbolic and historical. And the locals have chosen to keep up the tradition. I'm not Indian so it's not my place to say whether such legacies of a colonial history should be discarded. But it strikes me as more quaint than anything else. Such sentimental historical quirks are surely different from when a policy of forced linguistic change is actively in place, as happened under empire (either in India or in Mongolia).

As for English, well, colonization certainly moved things along there, to put it mildly. I certainly understand why some Indians are upset at its heavy use in government and business. Business conducted in a global market set up in large part by the same former colonial power. Learn their tongue if you want any chance of getting ahead. Not a wonderful feeling.

Still, I suspect that even if Britain had never colonized India, assuming they still became a major power and the USA later rose to prominence, it'd probably still be the most widely studied foreign language in India, with encroaching use even in government and business, as it is nearly everywhere.
I don't thunk that would work with physical objects very well. Especially when recalls are done via serial number. Apparent identical physical objects are always fundamentally different from each other unlike data.
> about 70% of the world almond production happens there

80% actually[0], and that only uses 8% of agricultural water in California. Given that dairy consumes 15% and only produces 1.4% of world yield (plus it can easily be done elsewhere), perhaps we should focus on that first.

[0] - https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
This is an interesting set of resources, I shall certainly be reviewing them. Thanks!
The same thing that in-person managers are supposed to do.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb lecture on Oumuamua, Space Archeology and taking aliens seriously. His point was that a single communique with intelligent extraterrestrial life could shed more light on the origins of the cosmos and our purpose within it than millenia of human inquiry ;)

https://news.uchicago.edu/big-brains-podcast-taking-aliens-s...
Insurer AXA halts ransomware crime reimbursement in France
Pudding Pack Index
Smithy: A language for defining services and SDKs
This has been suggested, including by the proposed mill and forwardcom architectures. It's also the programming model used by stack-based languages such as forth.

Another nice side effect aside from security is that it simplifies the return predictor.
Is this a veiled threat or a Maquiavelic warning?

I really can't tell, but the meat of the difference is that the warning would be about what other people will do, not himself. (So it makes sense to publish a warning on the media, but it makes much less rational sense to publish a threat. But there's no reason to be sure he is acting rationally.)

Anyway, it's a very narcissistic comment. CEOs will do what the competition for labor allows them to do, the ones that do anything more will fail. There's a huge and complex society deciding those factors, he (or the ones he is warning about) does not get to choose.
As good as rusoto is, an official SDK is a huge step forward. Many were wondering how AWS could be "commited to Rust" but not provide an official SDK, this looks great!

> We are exploring ways to support multiple Rust async runtimes.

Looking to be runtime agnostic from the start is a good sign, although it can be challenging in async rust's current state. It looks like they aren't tied into much async IO, so it should be relatively easy for this library.
I think one of the consequences of work from home culture will be less of an emphasis on how many hours you work, and more focus on what you produce, and how that can be monetized.

What this means is that a good manager will farm work out all over the place finding the right mix of quality / quantity / price.

People will not be paid salaries, they will be paid per unit of work.

Rather than interviewing people to join your family, businesses will be running a continual review of work producs and more carefully measure that mix of quality / quantity / price. Each cycle letting go the least desirable contractors and giving new contractors a try.

On-boarding new contractors will be streamlined, and how fast the contractor gets started will be the first quality control checkpoint.
Me too, although it's a pain to do on mobile and especially so on iOS.
There are several conditions that must happen before data loss begins due to cell corruption when the drive is stored (unpowered), with abnormal temperatures being one of them. The primary condition is the drive must have reached its end of life.
Or are open one week, closed the next when someone in contact with a child contracts COVID. Rinse and repeat.
They've found patients in Italy who had anti-bodies in Sept 2019, so pre-pandemic, which somewhat. undermines the idea of the lab leak

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33176598/
See also "The Conservative Case For Carbon Dividends" [1] whose authors include James Baker (Secretary of State under GHW Bush, Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan), Martin Feldstein (chairman of Council of Economic Advisors under Reagan), N. Gregory Mankiw (chairman of GW Bush's Council of Economic Advisors), and Henry Paulson (GW Bush's Secretary of the Treasury), George Shultz (Reagan's Secretary of State, and Secretary of Treasury under Nixon).

[1] https://www.clcouncil.org/media/2017/03/The-Conservative-Cas...
See this: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
We got a bunch of those are the neighborhood. They are marked as "closed due to COVID", but books and mags are still exchanged as theyvare not locked. They are a great thing to have around.
I live in Mount Pleasant, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. and there are more than a dozen of these in walking distance. The selection is extremely good, and it helps me avoid hoarding books I'm not going to return to in the near future.
> was it ever NOT this way ?

I dont think so.

The mechanism was always this way. There are a lot of subtle notions that did change.
what success means, is it about the destination or the journey, what price are you willing to pay for it, and for what?

For Michaelangelo, did success mean selling his painting to the church? Was it just about making it big or was it about something more ?
> They aren't exactly using ML or AI to help you get better ads.

They most certainly are, and this is not a secret.
>"The F35 is an engineering disaster and a hangar queen."

It might very well be but it does not mean that it does not have some technologies / components that are highly advanced. The participants would like to keep those strictly to themselves.
Well, that would certainly be what it took to finally make me buy a farm and leave tech forever, so maybe I should be on board!
Weary or wary?
My workplace has a C++ character limit of 80. A lot of people complain but I can have three code windows side-by-side plus a source tree so I think it's great.
But are you solving the right problem? This sounds like someone has produced a very good and efficient version of AltaVista. Back in the 1990s, if you wanted to do classic keyword searches of the web, and find all pages that had terms A and B but not C, it would give them to you, in a big unsorted pile. The web was still small enough that this was sometimes useful, but until Google came along with tricks to rank pages that are obvious in retrospect, it just wasn't useful for common search terms.
There are a bunch of these in my neighborhood. They're a great excuse to go out for a walk. During Covid times one of them was converted to provide "free supplies" of hand sanitizer and disposable masks.

The map is neat but I also enjoy stumbling across them while exploring the area.
>Isn't that putting politic before technical excellence, something the Linux crowd is proud of?

It's not unprecedented. The adoption of systemd was forced on distros through political pressure, and not for technical reasons.

If you want a truly non-political OS community these days, I think you're basically stuck with OpenBSD. No CoC, no systemd, no political BS at all -just pure tech.

(there's other problems with OpenBSD -performance, mostly;
that's why I use windows and Ubuntu instead. But the way they run things is admirable IMO. Blatant BS isn't tolerated.)
Still waiting on GCP to announce theirs
>> To quote the TFA

Is that how "TFA" is used now?
My favorite roadmap: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html
We have a Little Free Library (https://www.instagram.com/paintedladieslibrary/) that we painted/decorated to look like our house using a laser cutter and a lot of wood glue to mimic the decorative woodwork. Recently I installed a door sensor connected to a Raspberry Pi to collect analytics on how often people open it and how long they browse for. In the past week, it has been opened around 200 times with an average browse time of just over a minute.
I personally like https://www.heavens-above.com/

Give it a location and it will tell you all the bright objects that should be visible
This is not at all how it’s done. I encourage you to watch footage of how cows are killed in factory farms.

It often takes several attempts to kill the cow, even with a bullet to the head. Their throats are often slit while they are alive. There is pleeenty of footage of exactly this in Dominion. I suggest you watch it.
That also has its disadvantages. Being stuck in an office with little work, but little else in the way of entertainment slowly burns you out. Having next to no work for two months wasn't as pleasant as I thought it would be.

Fields where you don't make other people wealthy aren't so rosy either. They bring their own drama to the table.
The future is apparently going to be impossible for new grads and people who would thrive with mentorship.
This seems like an opportunity for vertical integration. Goodwill can start an unofficial recycling sorting operation, and learn to make a profit center out of this cost center.

This field is also ripe for innovation.
minifies like typescript compilers, etc can remove dead code.

I recall some minifiers that definitely did - whether they're still in use I don't know (I haven't been working in engine dev for a few years).

For JSC's parsing the most expensive things are strict mode, and certain "errors" which basically trigger a rollback in the parser and then a reparse with more validation.
Thanks! I suggest removing the showPastTimes parameter from the link: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink
Name an AWS tier that there's no cheaper alternative for. I'm only aware of Glacier, I haven't seen anything cheaper than it.

AWS is convenient and reliable, but it's not cheap.
having a classified piece of technology would be impossible to maintain chain of custody on. I'm thinking specifically of all the foreign military sales for the F16, F15, etc

Being in physical possession of a turbine blade doesn’t give you the secrets of how to manufacture it, which are extremely tightly controlled.
Then tax SpaceX for the light-pollution externality until they fix it (which they say they're going to do). I don't think depriving rural communities and poor countries of access to the internet is really the best solution to such a non-problem.
The Stellar Network relies on nodes declaring quorum slices, which can be understood as trust relationships, but it implements a single global blockchain. So I don't think it's very similar.

Edit: one similarity is that token issuers in Stellar can remain authoritative on their token.
Thanks for the link! I must have been logged in via my institution and didn’t realize the article wasn’t public.
I used to make it a policy to only read books I found in little free libraries, regardless of reviews...

I kinda got burned out on it, after I noticed the same books nobody wanted to touch, that someone cleaned out of their garage. Bad romance novels, etc. I feel like it needs some TLC and even a bit of evangelism to work well. I wish someone would come through and clean out / recycle books that have been in the same library for a long time...

I almost want to ONLY put interesting books in myself... and recycle everything else.
Absolutely! Things will be really interesting when they can use Starships to launch batches. I've seen estimates that they could launch 600 starlink satellites at a time. They could theatrically also launch fewer, but put them all the way into their final orbit, skipping the few weeks of light pollution.
You trusted Google not to track you in Incognito mode?
> Basically, the constellation's effect on the night sky is proportional to the number of launches in the last month, not the total number in orbit.

For the major brightness issues sure, but they are not invisible or undetectable while in operation. Surely the effects are proportional to both the recent launches and the whole size.

I think it's a bit early to dismiss the whole sky effect of multiple Starlink-style constellations in operation.

Also isn't Starlink intending to do launches for the rest of time? There is always a value for the last month of launches- they'll never stop launching right?

Just thinking out loud.
> ive never seen, nor heard of, anything actually marked as CUI.

That’s because CUI is a recent label. Per DoDI 5200.48, effective March 6, 2020, CUI is is replacing legacy labels such as For Official Use Only (FOUO), Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), and Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES). [0]

[0] https://www.dodcui.mil/
Security probe of Qualcomm MSM data services
Seriously? Why would you be so skeptical of that?

Would you really bring your phone with you, when going out for a beer or coffee, even if it could easily result in you being forced to stay quarantined for 2 weeks?

Is your smartphone really that important to you?

Even though I have personally stayed socially distanced and worn a mask everywhere it was required, it makes perfect sense to me, after seeing how a lot of people have reacted to the pandemic, that a good portion of the population, would let their phone stay at home, so they would not risk a police enforced quarantine.
That only works as long as the demand is greater than supply. If that shifts then the employee will either require the means to reskill or they can accept the new future. Software development in America is in a unique place for that future.
The Washingtonian's employees presumably know their CEO better than any of us do, and their interpretation of the op-ed resulted in them organizing a work stoppage the next day.

So maybe your reading is a bit too charitable, as it seems like all the employees heard the threat loud and clear.
This is why when you buy a new fridge you get them to take the old one away.
Or as jay_kyburz suggests above, there will be even more contractors and less employees. The interview process is usually easier for contractors because it's not like you're vetting a new family member.
It's not like tracing GC is without memory overhead...

Slower is a question of priorities. I'd definitely trade off slower overall performance (I don't really need my IDE to be that performant... it's not like it's using 100% CPU, or even 10%!) but a huge improvement in latency (i.e. no catastrophic slowdowns / freezes).
Thank you for this great tool.
Why is there no innovation in healthcare?

Because better technology won't get the entrepreneur a satisfying reward.
Patchelf is almost always broken, and when they merge fixes they don't release a new version right away. Between 2014-2019 running patchelf+strip would corrupt binaries, after the fix running patchelf twice on the same binary would corrupt it. And now patchelf doesn't work on all binaries, there's a bugfix merged https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/pull/230 merged Nov 19, 2020, but no release since then.

Also patchelf exposed a bug in ldconfig noted 11 years ago and only fixed in glibc 2.31: https://nix-dev.science.uu.narkive.com/q6Ww5fyO/ldconfig-pro...

And currently patchelf still has a bug: https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/pull/275

Apparently elf files are hard.
Yes, exactly. Some FORTRAN code did exactly that.

And the stack could go in a page not addressable by general purpose instructions, save call and return instructions (and perhaps some kernel debug).

Some limited-RAM embedded devices have dedicated stack RAM. But my point was about Intel x86
Such nonsense hype they didn't even bother to offer any case for how they surmounted the 40 different technical revolutions needed to achieve actual error correction.
Grafana Dashboard for Spring Boot via Micrometer and Prometheus
Organize with similar minded employees so that everyone is on the same page when push comes to shove.
Four Years After Arkansas Executed Ledell Lee, DNA Points to Someone Else
Bulk clothes that don't sell get turned into rags.
Yes good point . It's widely accepted nowadays that the Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain, yet that was the common belief at the time.

I think it also bears pointing out that, in the US at least, we largely failed to detect that the virus was spreading inside the country for some time - even after knowing said virus existed and with plenty of warning, so you have to wonder in retrospect how effective some of these so-called surveillance systems even are. It's easy to not find anything amiss when you aren't looking.
Lots of innovation but things like clinical trials are very expensive. How could we get safe medical progress with less expenses?
Being in a field (or startup) where tech is not the limit is super frustrating.
The parent comment was no where near delicate enough to have any chance - I believe that Apple has simply become too polarising a subject on HN to be able to have a productive debate about their flaws, perceived or real, technical or ethical. As a result many of us have learned the hard way to not bother engaging any more... I might be in for one more lesson.
Sure but you won't be able to take the video, because the QR code will shut down your cell phone camera.

Government workers need to be accountable and transparent. No hiding from the cameras in public service.

Passing a law that protects the government from accountability under the guise of citizen rights is pretty underhanded, and quite typical of socialism.
Meaning exists in how language is interpreted by the intended audience, in this case, that audience identified this as a threat. No other interpretations are pertinent.
Is a scientific programmer similar to a research software engineer (RSE)?
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VS Code for iPad (and Other Phones and Tablets)
Fighter pilots seem quite positive about it.
Biotech is one, we are still nowhere near close to understanding the secrets of the human body, there remains lots of incurable conditions, etc.

I think the speed at which they were able to develop mrna vaccines just shows how far along we've come, but also how much more we have to go. Things like protein folding at deepmind definitely requires all these things you mention.
Let me guess: You're a professional programmer.

I am, too. I (and, I assume, other professional programmers) want sharply-defined primitives/keywords/operators. Vagueness really gets in our way. And the problem is that English words don't have the kind of precise definitions that we need.

But COBOL wasn't built for us. The design goal of COBOL was to make professional programmers obsolete - to make it so anyone could program. (Epic fail on that design goal - COBOL was once the most common language used by professional programmers.) For the intended users, the "using ordinary words" was a feature, not a bug. But the actual users and the intended users are different people, and the English-like syntax doesn't work for the actual users.
The short answer is that they don't. Android flat out doesn't support vertical scripts so there's a library that reimplements a lot of UI components. iOS basically doesn't, but it's somewhat easier to work around. Chrome and Firefox can render the characters with appropriate fonts, but that can be uncommon and applications using them screw up. Electron apps generally render vertical scripts LTR for example.
> No, it is the opposite of racism. Racism is when some people are treated differently just because of their race. When you do well because you're smarter and work harder, regardless of race, then that's the opposite of racism.

No.. when you say that the children of people in the top 1% who are overwhelmingly of one race should be given disproportionate opportunities because of some genetic factor, that is racism. It is literally saying "people of this race should be given more stuff"

> You are putting words in my mouth.

I am not. I repeated what you said. You said that the children of the 1% are somehow genetically superior. I pointed out that the 1% is overwhelmingly white. And I wrote down your beliefs. That white people are genetically superior.

That is the simple logical consequence of your beliefs. And it a chain of reasoning we have already followed right into slavery and concentration camps as a species. One that we should not follow again.

> Your argument is with Charles Darwin, not me!

Look back on that chain of inferences and think to yourself where you went wrong, how did your thoughts, that you consider innocent, lead to an extremely racist conclusion.

There are only two outcomes possible. Either you look at your chain of reasoning and its simple plain outcome "white people are genetically superior" which you seem to believe in, and you feel ok with that. In which case this is just plain racism. Or you look at it and realize that no there is something deeply wrong here. And you will find that the idea that your parents are wealthy somehow meaning that their children are genetically superior is bankrupt.

Your choice. Racism or changing your thought process.
Can I just say this makes me really happy to see this getting around. The list I shared here is my own compilation. It's nice to see others have found it useful.
I like this map, I just wish it didn't start with auto-rotate on. Auto-rotate just makes it hard to see as the satellites travel around the world.