skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realized that too much RAM leads to issues like this proliferating: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/4442

Oh, the app happens to use 5 instead of 1 background processes and nobody notices (using 50+ MB of RAM each, it's not nothing) and the bug just languishes.. :)

It adds up, and needs to be fixed.
And the benefit of Epic’s store to the consumers is exactly 0% because most publishers pocket the difference.
My favorite conversations are with those who disagree with me. Even better, if we’re smoking cigars around a campfire.

My least favorite conversations are those that are regularly foisted upon me with no consideration of whether I even want to talk.

Hint: at work, I want to write software, not listen to you talk (for the 50th time) about why you’re voting for Rick Santorum.
On Bullshit in Modern Art
> I can imagine what sort of mind produces such thoughts: an unoccupied one.

A distracted mind, perhaps. I think it's interesting how far from the economy politics has shifted. I have the impression that before the 21st century people used to fight a lot more for worker's rights, unionization, better working and living conditions... You know, things that actually impacted the bottom line of capitalists. Curiously, all this mainstream "wokeness" seems to have begun after Occupy Wall Street.

Politics seems to have been de-economized and the economy seems to have been de-politicized.
wow.. I really needed to read this. Thank you.
This is one of the many reasons I like Universal Basic Income. Having UBI would let researchers take risks and have something to fall back on if needed and could reduce some of the pressure
Anxiety is a normal emotion. If it's pervasive it can certainly be a problem, but I'll also point out that anxiety inducing situations can have nothing to do with politics, of course.

People who approach others like this are putting themselves out there. They are just as at risk, if not more, as you would be by expressing your own responses in a non threatening way. If you don't know how to do that, I suggest you learn. It'll give you a voice at work.
My team has had success training experienced devs in Elixir that were coming from other backgrounds. I would caveat this with the fact that we just have a Phoenix app with hardly any code that leverages OTP.
I can write a lot on this and my personal experience, but I’ll just leave this one for now.

I, while living alone in a house in partial construction (missing a wall) in the Southern California mountains would get a ride from a friend or a neighbor to high school (20 minute drive into town). If I had some (about a dozen a bag, one bag a month), a single russet potato tossed in the toaster oven would be breakfast (no seasoning, grab and go). I was on free lunch at school, but I’d pocket an extra hamburger to sell at a reduced price in the lunch yard. That extra dollar would get me a can of soup that I heated on a wood burning stove for dinner.

For me, having to steal food to be able to buy different food that can store better is a being poor. I’ve got a thousand other stories growing up. But now I’m on track for an early and comfortable retirement; no complaints.
Canned and dry vegetables are inexpensive. Beans, brown rice, wholemeal oats, bitter cocoa, whole wheat, (sweet) potatoes, cabbage, and many more healthy whole foods are more than affordable. The cost of spices is negligible. Most of those foods can be pre-cooked and warmed with microwave or stir fried in a handful of minutes. And you can buy bulk monthly at some place like Costco.

But of course, the economic stimulus for corporations is for you to become addicted to salt, sugar, and fat. From ads to aisle positioning, junk foods are first. Big Food is the modern day Big Tobacco.

I've worked with poor people in different countries, and even with the homeless. A lot of them eat mostly junk food, smoke, drink sodas, chew gum, watch junk TV, some gamble, many don't brush often, most don't exercise, and many get trapped in unpaid loans. And it's worse for their kids. Churches of all denominations used to steer them out of that path. This is a massive society whole now, and note I'm not a religious person.

But between on one hand enabling liberals telling them it's not their fault and it's out of their control, and on the other hand media bombarding them with advertisements of such products, it's becoming impossible to contain. Add that to the YOLO culture of social media.

This is not going to end well if we don't make drastic measures right now.
>look at your data directly and back it up

>backup and restore the entire device including apps

Ironically these areas are where iOS shines. Despite being a heavily walled garden, it grants you full backups and full user filesystem access (including things like keychain) via extracting those backups.

A comparable and unrooted Android tablet cannot be fully backed up, and you cannot inspect app/user settings areas of its filesystem.
This is not a secret but a common misunderstanding about alignment.

VCs (and their clients) are aligned against innovation, contrary to what we might read naïvely.

They are investing in "innovative" companies to protect their money against the innovation and also to control them.
You can have fun and socialise at work without devolving it into constant arguing. At my current job everyone's fairly mature and I think that even though there are lots of radical opinions it stays very congenial because people back off when it's unwelcome. I don't think there's anything to do with the bosses being gods, or people pretending to be robots. There are plenty of places where you can have heated discussions, it doesn't have to be at work.

Additionally: my employer pays me to fulfill their requirements. That's what I'm there for. If I don't enjoy some aspect of the work (or if it's a shitshow of unrelated and unresolvable arguments that I can't opt out of) I'll leave, I'm free to do that.
"Stenophylla had not been seen in the wild in Sierra Leone since 1954 and anywhere since the 1980s in Ivory Coast, Davis said. A few examples were held in coffee research collections."

I think that means that there are a few labs with plants or seeds, but the discovery here is of a wild variety of the plant. Could be wrong.
Oh man, I'm not sure I agree that anything in that Ram dash looks either nice or balanced. That thing is a mess.

I agree with the sentiment though. I think Mazda and Volvo have had sensible approaches.

On the Ram example though, how would I change what I'm listening to? Would I press:

- select source
- favourites
- for you
- audio
- categories
- media
- related
- search
- apps
- tune
- > arrow at top
- < > CH arrows at bottom

All those buttons are present at the same time
Thanks. I am a teacher at a technical high school for computer science. We use this course for "tasters" (about 13 year old students choosing a high school). The students are interested and quickly get along with the environment and the programming language. We use the Web IDE https://easylang.online/ide/, in which this course is also integrated.
Slimeworld: Epstein jailers off the hook after striking deal
I've been listening to "This Week in Virology" (aka TWIV)
(https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/) for more than a year, about 100+ podcasts so far.

This is a podcast about viruses. All of the people are fully qualified active or retired virologists. They have interviewed dozens of leading virus researchers and other viral-connected individuals (including Fauci).

In their professional opinion there is no possible way this virus was created in a lab.
> That's a pretty inflammatory and totally unsubstantiated assertion, which reveals the baselessness of your entire argument...

Non-sequitur.

> ...and the biases that motivate it

I do think it's obvious that many ideals of cryptocurrency can not be reconciled with Ethereum. There clearly is a lot ill-placed trust into key personalities such as Vitalik Buterin.

If you're "inflamed" by this assertion, which I believe is well-supported by the history of Ethereum, that should make you question your own biases.
Mechanical contraption is exactly how I would describe Ian Davis's projects. You should check out his mechanical hand if you haven't already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9i8qqYHvqA
This is a common misconception when it comes to the VDOM pattern. See this article for disabusing: https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
How can I manage the cognitive overhead of being poor and also manage the cognitive overhead of managing my health insurance? Seriously, if someone has multiple credit card debt issues, car payment stuff, how to pay heat and electricity stuff, then needing to do possibly multiple jobs to stay afloat, how is someone supposed to figure out what doctor covers their insurance and then fight the insurance company over whatever inevitable bullshit the insurance company will come up with to try and weasel out of paying?
Thanks, I couldn't make heads nor tails of the title.
I think that R libraries have edge over Python and Julia in quality and quantity.

If you like to write lots of code, Python might be better. But if you use it in clinical research, R has probably better packages for whatever you need.
I for one feel that "don't disrepair" is a great fit for that sentence and will be adding it to my lexicon
This very much.
It really comes down to "majority rule". If you don't follow the majority you will be bullied and quit.
Woke is the enemy of diversity.
Frontend development has had great momentum in recent years. Due to improved JavaScript execution speed a lot of business logic was implemented on frontend side. This lead to a lot of powerful JavaScript frameworks like vue.js, Angular, and React.

But maintenance is still a big pain as the web browsers are your "operating systems" and they are quite heterogeneous and they have changed very fast in the last years.
The other smart professors. Which is exactly how it worked in the now distant past.
Yeah, unfortunately Linux Desktop doesn't really consider this a valid use case. It is still very much designed with the idea that everything will be open source and compiled and packaged by a third party middleman, or by the user themselves assuming they can get the appropriate development environment set up. It's one of the many reasons I think it is terrible as a Desktop.

In my opinion, the best way to ensure your game will run on the majority of Linux distributions, now and in the future, is to distribute a Windows binary and rely on WINE (or use winelib). Just make sure to actually test it.
Initial Stress-Derived Noun
Living near Boston I can tell you we often leave stuff outside, like a Weber grill, strollers, kid bikes and scooters, etc. If it's something expensive like my $1500 bike we do lock it even in the basement. It's been years and nothing was stolen. I know bikes are stolen in the neighborhood, but that mostly cases where people left their bikes unlocked in their yard for a while.

What I'm trying to say is that there are major US cities that are relatively safe. Fortunately not every city in the US has been following the CA politics.
Has the American-Grown Truffle Finally Broken Through?
The group responsible for executing the bureaucracy is indeed powerful
These days, politics is an expression of fear. The essence of politics, that is, governance guided by virtue and truth, is lost.

Would you agree that to publicly descent from the majority would more often result in ridicule, not discussion?
What can we to protect our companies' names from being exploited this way? Social media monitoring?
Same. Grew up generic middle class with frugal parents.

Too rich to get free money for college, too poor for my parents to have saved me anything. I was paycheck to paycheck for 3 years undergrad, and 3 years of wife's grad school.

Paycheck to paycheck doesn't even accurately define it. I didn't buy any luxuries like fast food or alcohol. Homemade everything.
This is what the US does with countries when they won't play ball. Perhaps Iran should've been more grateful when they were freed from the tyranny of Democracy. The US had a lovely dictator picked out just for them.
Smart isn't the biggest criteria for success as a professor. The PhD degree is a good filter because it trains and tests research aptitude, work ethic, ability to collaborate, ability to focus on a single problem for a long period of time, and others.

One problem is PhD degrees are too costly to those who don't get academic or industrial success from them. But as long as talented people are willing to try to become a professor I don't see the system changing.
So what you are saying is, peer review.
EDIT: I just checked Wiktionary and seems that it's quite a legit usage :

Disrepair (noun) - The state of being in poor condition, in need of repair.

Disrepair (verb, intransitive, rare) To get into a state of disrepair.
PostgreSQL 14: Substantion Change to Fulltext Query Parsing
U jel?
> At least here in Europe the word Backend Developer is basically synonymous with PHP Developer.

Pretty much, I've seen PHP powering traditional companies with revenue in the hundreds of millions (approach billions).
That's essentially what I have created Static Marks [0] for. I maintain my bookmarks in YAML files and let my tool create a dynamic web app. I'm then mostly using a custom browser search engine to jump into my bookmarks, e.g. "sm hacker" will open my bookmarks app and set "hacker" as the active filter.

[0] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
I think that is an important point but tangential IMO. The question here is geopolitics of the dollar. Notice, when the us had deep music-gonna-stop level problems in its economy it prints a shit-ton of dollars. Which other country in the world can do this? Nobody. And it will stay this way until someone has a navy as powerful as the US.
It would make more sense to 'rent' the office to people who want to come in. People who don't use the office pay less rent. Seems unlikely though :)
iOS isn't immune: https://interestingengineering.com/apple-reportedly-kept-mal...
>Living "outside of politics" means having no self-preservation instinct

It's also a privilege enjoyed by those who are allowed to think of their normal lives and needs as "nonpolitical".

There are people living in the US for whom "I would like not to get murdered for no reason" is a political opinion.
`ZS Associate` --> Cleared all tech round. During Behavioral round answered all question honestly. Got rejected.

`PWC` --> Same thing.

Then I learned about `STAR` Interview questions and prepared answers according.

`Amazon` --> Interviewer asked "Gaps and Islands" problem. I had practiced it earlier knew the solution. But somehow blakned out.

`Delloit` --> I was looking for change from current gig due to integrity issues. Manager wanted me to do false billing for a employee that didn't existed. Told the Truth to interviewer, he said rejected bme right away.

`Cognizant` --> I was young and cocky. Got into argument with interviewer while defending my solution. Got angry and asked him to bring a system and test it instead of spitting out bullshit. LoL.
Are you saying that homeless and vagrants are too busy and it's much less time consuming to simply steal? Is that really a moral argument? You're that concerned about the productive time of homeless people?
Interestingly enough seeing powerful role models inspired schwarzenegger, bolt martial artists, poets, architects even Tom cruise inspired Air Force pilots
Isn't there a Nash equilibrium where everybody takes the action that is best for the group not just themselves, and this achieves a better outcome individually? This seems like the rational outcome most voters are pursuing.
The Anxiety of Influencers – Educating the TikTok Generation
If you're going to do that you may as well just compile a Windows binary and rely on Wine. Shared overhead and you can use any language you want.
That doesn't reduce the stigma.

I am annoyed waiting behind food stamp people at the grocery store making decisions between juice boxes and crackers at the checkout. Meanwhile I am too frugal to buy either of those.

My wife is treated like crap by Medicaid patients significantly more often than other patients.

There's a stigma that will exist regardless of the welfare state.
I miss the simplicity of things like ;-)
I don't think UBI works well here because in most fields the level of success that the precarious group experiences in industry is substantially higher than a guaranteed minimum. A lot of people have identity aspects tied to their university affiliation and don't want to stop working with the university in part for that reason.
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One’s who come from programming background prefer Python. The one’s who come from scientific or statistics background prefer R.

IME, for production Python rules and for data exploration, graphics, stats and adhoc analysis R rules.
> Something unusual about Bellard is the breadth of his knowledge.

One thing I’ve noticed is that he chooses to apply himself to many different subfields of development, but always using the same technologies e.g. all his work seems to be in either C or JavaScript.

I’ve only worked in a couple of subfields but have seriously used at least 7 different languages, plus countless libraries. Compared to Bellard I’ve probably spent (wasted?) a large amount of time trying to choose, and then learn, the “best” tool for each job.
* it prints a shit-ton of dollars. Which other country in the world can do this?*

Currently, there isn't a country that isn't doing this.

But I agree, when the music is gonna stop globally the US can print the longest.
In IT I get "cold" offers all the time. If you have a decent LinkedIn page, you'll get approaches from recruiters all the time.
Does DB::Postgres work with ActiveRecord out of the box? The github page doesn’t mention anything about rails/AR. It also doesn’t seem like a super active project…
Chinese government is clamping down on their domestic miners.
Given how Iran and China are quiet close maybe those miners can get some good energy deals.
Also means the Russia, Iran and China(coalition, partnership?) crypto hashing power is also more decentralized.
>Raw ingredients are pricy.

This is completely false. You should stop propagating things you don't know about.

Check out Efficiency Is Everything, you can eat for $1.50/day on raw ingredients.
Correct, it's not a laurel to rest on.

The act of producing a doctoral dissertation usually leaves something of a mark on one's outlook, skills, etc. I claim it is a _distinguishable_ achievement for life.
I really like AppImage and its one file = one application philosophy, but the unfortunate reality is that the distro landscape is so messed up that AppImage doesn't reliably work everywhere unless you take similar pains in building your application (old glibc, etc). Above the kernel, the Linux ecosystem just isn't designed to support the concept of binary application distribution, unless you want to maintain a separate package for every distribution you want to target and keep it up to date.
I learned in my 20s to save bucks on food (doing end of markets, leftover food here and there..)

Nowdays, even with a comfortable income, I still use a bike, and get very often free food at the end of markets, I try to pay whenever possible, or give back
UCUZ Nakli̇ye Kamyonet
of course i was simplifying... but it seems obvious to me that enforcing automatic reproducibility in peer reviewed publications can only be a good thing in the long run
Rich people do have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor
> Unlike Excel and many other graphical user interface (GUI)-based programs, R’s reliance on text-based structure makes it straightforward to review at any time the commands used in a data processing pipeline to ensure that the correct steps were taken.
> Furthermore, the ability to view the underlying commands facilitates transparency and reproducibility of analyses.

The article seems to be targeted at people with zero programming knowledge. The arguments here are valid, but don't rely on R.
The title could just have been ".... Should Embrace a Programming Language".
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Overproducing PhDs seems to be a necessary aspect of how research is conducted in the current university. Most serious lines of work are pursued by a PhD student or Postdoc and advised by a Professor. They need a critical mass of PhD students which is definitely a much larger number than 1 per professorship. This is especially true in fields where industry jobs aren't readily available.
Good for the UK for finally adopting LUCAS, but they are quite behind other countries like Germany and the US in this.

As an ex-medic, doing CPR can for extended periods can be tiring, and given the limited amount of man power in deployments, the more that can be automated the better.
Iran is not a democracy, candidates at the presidential election in the coming weeks must be approved by a counsel.
The latter doesn't allow liberal candidates, and iranians have lost interest in the coming election because it will keep the Theocracy currently ruling in power.

Also, the supreme leader is at the top of Iran's power structure and is not elected by the iranian population.
> To feel socially pressured to go along or else be ostracized from your work is fairly awful.

That's society in general, not just work.

https://48laws-of-power.blogspot.com/2011/05/law-38-think-as...
To be fair, when I was a student, functional cars could be had for as little as €250, and I think often even less. Not sure why, I guess they were so old nobody wanted them anymore?

I had friends get two of the same car, so they could cannibalize the second for parts for the first.
> People with strong opinions can still talk about them and get along.

While it is mathematically true that people can do this, the vast majority prove they choose not to nearly every single day. And once called out on it, it becomes another "tone policing" issue.
>dictatorship and a majority

Brought (unwillingly) into power by the US once more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

>I’m not exactly sure the Iranian government are particularly nice people.

One could say that about the CIA and the US-Government too.
> Interesting. It seems like they're basically saying that mined blocks should be accepted based on the location of the one submitting it. This whole article seems to be a sales pitch. Lets see how decentralized and unregulated Bitcoin really is.

This implies forking the blockchain. So some clients will use "curated" blockchain. I don't think that this fork will be popular.
Yeah, that's one of the good reasons for having a return statement. I don't know if it outweighs the reasons not to have a return statement (yet).

Another issue is that there are actually 2 functions of the return statement: (1) it sends a result and (2) it terminates the method/function/whatever. In call/return, those are the same, but more generally they are not, and Objective-S wants to make it easy to not default to call/return semantics.

And that's difficult, because we are so incredibly used to call/return semantics that it's often hard to see that another way is even possible, let alone practical. So in the design, I need to very deliberately push against what seems comfortable and familiar.

Which can lead to insights or nonsense.

We'll see how it turns out.
My impression is that people outside of maths and statistics are more likely to choose Python than R, because they're able to get started with it more easily.

Conventional programmers seem to be somewhat reluctant to learn R's syntax and adjust their programming model.

Non-programmer types think in maths even less so they like the python "straightforwardness".