skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downsides sound a bit odd. The process as usually described seems like a single person usually writes the doc, often the person in charge of delivering the project? Why would there be much argument about the wording then? And if there is a duo or team, it sounds like the same rules as pull request / code reviews apply? Make sure it's objectively correct, then concise, and last stylish?
> This, BTW, is what happens with medical marijuana. There are people who really need it, there are people who think they need it, and then there are people who who tell everyone but their doctor that it's recreational.

Well, yes, and this is how it came to be allowed; the harm from the "preventing recreational use" system was so huge (see yesterday's war on drugs post etc) that it made sense to stop trying to make this distinction. The medical system provides a "fig leaf" which allows the remaining pure-puritans to accept it while at the same time the people who need it for medical use can get it, and nobody has to get their life ruined with jail.

(By "Pure-puritans" I mean those people who are against it because it's recreational, not because of alleged harms or externalities like smoke)

I also think there's a huge grey area of people with chronic pain or unhappiness problems that don't quite reach a diagnosis bucket - or they've not yet learned to speak the words that would get them there, or don't meed the social class critera - whose "drug seeking" behavior might most easily be addressed by just letting them have the drugs. As long as they're not opiates.
brouter (http://brouter.de/brouter-web/) is a web interface for customisable bike routing.

Generally the trade-off for customisable routing is speed. If weightings are fully adjustable, you can't easily calculate routing shortcuts, so you have to explore the full graph each time (within the constraints of the broad area you're routing through).

I run https://cycle.travel/ which isn't customisable but is pretty fast, because the routing algorithm it uses (Contraction Hierarchies, via the OSRM routing engine) precalculates shortcuts. It likes low-traffic roads and traffic-free trails - you might find it to your tastes.
I'm on a fixed income. I can't afford the better treated chicken option (usually). I still want to eat chicken, so I'll grab something from the low cost options. I (again, usually) cannot vote with my wallet. I know vegetarian diets can be delicious, but I don't want to ONLY eat vegetarian.

Also, Vote with your wallet works if the consumer has 100% information (usually assumed, but isn't the case in the real world) and enough money to do so (typically this is assumed as well, and again is untrue in practice, e.g. fixed income, low income, etc).
I'm also using (Doom) Emacs + ORG-Mode. However exporting my notes to the outside world is not that smooth as with Tiddlywiki. I know there is ox-hugo (which BTW I use to write my blog posts) but for a Zettelkasten/knowledge DB I think it's not enough.
I think you're reading something else from this than was intended.

It's not like he wants a role that would align with his experience, it's more like he's concerned that as a failed founder, his CV would land in the bin.

The tire shop remark points to this interpretation.
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Oh sorry I was a bit unclear I was referring to the OLPC program.
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> This is often quoted that tesla has a lower accident rate than other vehicles.

In general Teslas have higher accident rates than comparable cars, partly because EVs have higher accidents rates in general, but even among EVs Teslas have the highest. This goes back to data from an insurance company in Norway if I remember correctly. It's very hard to get reliable data though, as Tesla has no incentive to share this kind of data. Obviously you can't draw any conclusion from this to Autopilot-related accidents.
For me these comments are useful for two reasons:

1) If you know the author of the code (includes yourself) and you know their comments are a good indication of the code, you just read them and move along. No need to understand what they do.

2) If you don't know the author or you know their comments are often out of date (which you can check with git blame but let's ignore that) the comments tells you what the original intention was, and with an already mental model its easier to read code and understand what it's doing, even if it contains mistakes (in the worst case the code will have nothing to do, so it will be like if you had no comment).
We operate in the same way in the company I work for, and while it's certainly an improvement over useless presentations, the silent reading being part of the meeting drives me insane. The fact that people can't manage their calendars to allocate whatever time they need to prepare before a meeting now means that the rest of us have to sit around for 15 minutes twiddling our thumbs. Even if I purposefully ignore the material until the meeting itself, I typically finish reading in about half the time it takes the slowest reader. I almost wish meetings would have two different start times - one for people that want to do meeting prep during the meeting and one for people that do it at some other time, so that I can just join 15 minutes in when everyone is actually ready to start the meeting.

I complain, but again, overall I think it's an improvement over what came before and I wouldn't want to go back.
I think the main thing we lack for walking is field boundaries. Certainly here in the Cotswolds the actual path network is not far off parity with Ordnance Survey, plus OSM has more metadata (surface quality, stiles/gates, etc.) and is routable. In less popular areas of the country we still have a way to go with the paths themselves.
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This is a simplified view of the differences, to the point of maybe being oversimplified. (But you probably know that already.)

Something "free markets" provide over planned economies is free(er) flow of information.

Markets/economies are often incredibly complex. Allowing individual actors to signal information through pricing and competition, and allowing risk takers to exploit differences in these opinions of people to profit and simultaneously even out the differences in the direction that best corresponds to reality builds a system where it's much more likely the right things are done by the right people for the right reasons. It's just too complex to plan for. And besides, without the free markets there to give you feedback, you won't know what it is you're planning for.

A (socially fair) free market is also a proper scoring rule for forecasts. It rewards people who are good at seeing into the future, and punishes those who are bad at it, in proportion to the costs of their errors. (This goes back to de Finetti's operational definition of probability.)

Note that this is rather abstractly, in some sort of perfect microcosm. In practise, all free markets are distorted by privileged rent-seeking and other inefficiencies. I fully understand anyone who would be offended when I say that a free market punishes people who are bad at seeing into the future (hell, just reading that offends me!) because in reality, it also punishes all sorts of people, and often people who are great forecasters are precluded from exploiting their abilities in the free market, and so on and so forth. Please read my message not as social commentary or political bias, but the mathematical/cybernetic principles underlying this stuff, if executed well.

And obviously, this doesn't even begin to explain the Sears/Walmart story, so I suspect there are other factors underlying that, too.
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> Rather than turning anti-China and uber-nationalistic what would dismantle the CCP is to actually work towards winning the hearts of the 1 billion+ population, majority of whom actually have benefited from the CCP's reign.

How is the West supposed to make that happen, against a population that is being actively brainwashed? Almost all ways of entering information into China are censored.
I used to think very much like WalterBright as I never took offense (was raised to just listen to what people try to say, not how they say it) (and if someone goes physical (some people, when they cannot hurt you with words, start shoving you etc) I punch them in the face).

But that way, usually, the bully just moves to someone else and, even though I am untouched, the person did not change. So now that I am older, I think both sides need to work on this issue: the abuser needs therapy and the victim needs to grow a backbone and thicker skin. It is very sad, but people who start crying from verbal abuse will always be victims: in school and in companies. Bullies sniff them out intuitively. If only to have a better life, I would recommend getting less sensitive through whatever means possible. But out the bully too: they need help or get fired imho.
If you really understand what's in it for the audience, it's possible to be well received. It's often obvious what you want out of it. Your positioning needs to be focused on what's in it for them.
No problem! It's come on in leaps and bounds this year thanks to a great new contributor.
The topic compares expectations of one's future life to one's present life.

That's more like "do janitors believe that with hard work they will be better off in five years’ time", not "do janitors believe that with hard work they will be living like lawyers."

Nor was it "do janitors believe its unfair that even if they and lawyers work equally hard, they don't get the same life."
You can’t ride a crow.
Do you mean that Western leaders started to turn their backs on freedom, too? You are absolutely right, I fear. So much of the talk about China in the West doesn't even mention human rights, just trade imbalance or cyber security. In an age of nuclear detente, I suppose it was inevitable that democracy's most potent opponents would be homegrown. I never considered that this also means abandoning imperiled democracy abroad, but it surely does.
> Also IMHO code generation should be a last-resort anti-pattern; after all that’s what you (the programmer with a brain) are for.

What I am for, as a programmer, is writing code to automate tasks that are determined by some input tasks to allow humans with brains to focus on things that need to thought.

To the extent some part of coding is such a determined task, automating it with code generation makes sense. Though there tends to be a lot of overlap between what is addressable by code generation and what is addressable by reusable libraries, and in most cases if both solve the same problem, I’d prefer a library to a generation template.
Good read!

Eesel looks great :)
“IoT technology will always improve but it will never be 100% secure”
"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."

- John Kenneth Galbraith
I wouldn’t be so certain. Obviously, something isn’t working well or isn’t as good as it could be, but that doesn’t mean they are on the way out. Maybe they are, but plenty of businesses say, this isn’t working like we want it to-we can do better. As a worker, I am happy that this is a product that seems to empower workers over companies. I wish them all the luck and will look at their offering to see if it could benefit my own team.
I think there’s enough Teslas on the road now that I’m willing to accept that each could be an independent and reasonable incident, unless routine investigation shows otherwise.
would the contour lines plugin help?
SQL dialects vastly differ especially past SQL-92. And those differences tend to be very annoying (e.g. RETURNING). There is a reason that people do not generally work across different RDBMSes and instead pick and stick to a single RDBMS because it is really a PITA; I do dislike ORMs for usual reasons, but a bare SQL is not the alternative either.
I'm confused. Did you even read the article? They are not talking about Atmos/spatial audio in general, they are talking about older mixes being "remixed" on mass without any input from the original artists and engineers.
Let's hope we never get to test this hypothetical, because it might even be easier to confiscate BTC - certainly to merely destroy BTC, and thus raise the value of your own. When a physical force comes knocking, it's going to be tricky to resist sharing a key - and unlike physical stores of value, digital trails of ownership might make it quite a lot trickier to deny ownership; it really depends on how much information that occupying force has.

Also, it's trivial to freeze BTC accounts too; that just means controlling the network - which in the even of a physical occupation is going to be obvious anyhow.

Then there's the fact that occupiers may be able to engage in a 50% attack (assuming occupation is large scale and impacts many miners) - and may well force usage of their fork of the chain, even in absence of a global 50% control, making the whole thing rather tricky to predict.

Let's hope it never comes to that, but I'm certainly not convinced BTC would be immune from a physically occupying force's influence. I bet it depends hugely on the details of that occupation.
I really resonated with this when I first heard it. Like Carrey, I've also found happiness in meditation and some aspects of Eastern philosophy
I’ve tested a bunch of the spatial audio tracks on Apple Music with multiple high end headphones - you can make it work with any headphone if you set Atmos to “always on” in Apple Music. They sounded alright but I think you’ll need a real Dolby Atmos system with many speakers to really experience it properly. On headphones it just gets rendered via a binaural generic HRTF (with 3dof head tracking on the AirPod pro/Max).

It’s alright but not a game changer for me at least. Not that different to a regular binaural recording on headphones.

Nice to have Dolby Atmos baked into Logic Pro when it arrives, for creating Atmos mixes easily.
Since you use four (!) keyword listening tools, I'd be happy to show you another. In addition to the ones you use, syften.com supports Slack communities, dev.to, stack exchange, upwork and a few other places. I'm happy to onboard you personally, I'd really appreciate your feedback and would love to see how you set it up.
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Prague Security Studies Institute:

https://6e7a0e8d-d938-46ff-832d-a1d2166bc3a6.filesusr.com/ug...
I think the author is actually mixing two concepts:

(a) being in demand. Programming is not of exceptionally high value, but it's in demand and it's going to be in demand for the foreseeable future. Value isn't inherent in the good or service being offered and it doesn't make sense to talk of value as such, it's a function of supply and demand.

(b) some careers have more top-heavy rewards than others. A mediocre musician or a mediocre sportsman can expect $0, a mediocre programmer can expect a comfortable wage. Maybe the tails are so fat that the expectation evens out, but the distributions have radically different shapes. It's not "liquidity", it's that you're in a business where if you're not four standard deviations better than the average you're as useless as any random person.
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I think Lenovo has released Mixed Reality headsets in a lower price range that seems decent.

I think the problem with the PC ecosystem that it is difficult to find an open framework that covers all the different systems.

All in all I am quite impressed with the Microsoft effort. It doesn't seem to lock customers in. There seems to be a possibility to use them with Linux as well.

Also the Microsoft AR system seems quite well executed as well even though it is definitely to costly for mainstream adoption. This is probably by design though and will go down for sure due to economy of scale.

So there would be web technologies that covers most of the platforms, albeit at a performance cost. At the end of the day maybe this is all about which SDK that covers the most platform and is the best for the developers.
> The problems started when a few people displayed xenophobia towards PRC which unraveled into violence. At this point it became incredibly easy for CCP to smear the protests back home as all they needed to show in their local media was the few instances of violence against PRC nationals,

A nuclear power with 9000 tanks don't need reasons, let alone one which did many worse things with even less remorse.
> Politically? Physically? Culturally? Morally? Currently Hong Kong is ruled by China. Many in Hong Kong might prefer something different. If the government in Beijing allowed them to, they might choose complete independence.

This ignorance and arrogance actually makes strong action by the central (Chinese) government even more popular and supported by the Chinese public.

Western opinion has somehow been made to believe that HK was somehow not China. This is ridiculous.

HK is physically, historically, culturally, ethnically, morally a part of China that was seized by a foreign country in the 19th century (hence political separation). In fact, it was not the only piece of China to suffer that fate. That has always been an humiliation and an emotional issue in China (and I include Taiwan in that because this predates the split between PRC and ROC) and it was a very big event when it was "retroceded" back to China by the UK.

China and the Chinese people will not tolerate any interference whatever we might think of their political system (and even whatever they might think of their own political system).

It is pure propaganda in order to destabilise China to claim otherwise and it has certainly worked with a significant portion of the Western public opinion.

The hypocrisy is sometimes laid bare, like during the G7 when it was reported that President Macron said that Northern Ireland was not really part of the UK. This caused an uproar in the UK. Well, HK is arguably more Chinese than Northern Ireland is British.
It's sort of like there are two flavors of ice cream but the second flavor has much smaller portions.

It's just ice cream in the end.
Right but the person you are replying to is talking about company internals. If companies are planned then what happens if a department becomes sclerotic (great word btw) or dysfunctional? Surely by free market rhetoric the most efficient way to deal with that is by having a company internal free market that cuts away the sclerotic parts through competition?

If that doesn’t work well then what does that say about the wider free market approach? If it’s better to deal with internal department dysfunction in a different way why isn’t that process applicable to a wider planned economy?
What's the point of this comment? That crying is wimpy and that it's fine to abuse multiple young adults to the point of tears because it's their fault for "taking offense"?

We are not talking about whether tears are a sensible and productive response. We are talking about whether it is reasonable to tolerate someone who consistently provokes them. Perhaps both sides need to take some responsibility, but redirecting the conversation like that seems to me to be making excuses for bad behavior.
Some of these may be of use: https://nostarch.com/manga-guide-13-book-set

Also, why’s guide to ruby, though it’s probably out-of-date:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s_(poignant)_Guide_to_...
These things happens. It's not your fault but a consequence of things that can improve. You'll recover.

Misconfiguration is also cyber securiy threat #1 these days.
Unlike the original, this doesn't retain a reference to the scrollbar object.
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But with legal contracts there is a baseline common sense of things that will not happen.
Extensive astrological time references, intimate knowledge of the Saraswati river that had gone dry 1000s of years earlier are plainly ignored.

Indian sources and Puranas themselves point to a much older timeline.

> nationalistic pseudoscience

That applies more to the kind of theories and other race sciences spewed by the colonists that ultimately lead to the holocaust in Germany.

Please update yourself with the latest findings and learn to be suspicious of the material from the colonial times.
That seems backwards: people at the end of their life aren't saving, they're spending the money they saved via pensions earlier in their life.
There is something about this "business logic" that I don't understand:

>Because the TITAN price falls to 0 which we have unthought of, the contract will revert the redemption transaction.
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title reminds me

"Microsoft stack ranking"

“If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, two people were going to get a great review, seven were going to get mediocre reviews, and one was going to get a terrible review.” “It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.”
You are the recruiter in this instance. You should be being paid per hire you facilitate (~20k+)
I will take the risk of being told off and explain why I don't see the point, or maybe don't want to see the point.

I heavily disagree that "what isn't broken shouldn't be touched", BUT: I feel like, if we're going to rewrite something in Rust, why not take something that has serious issues? Now, I get the cross-platform part, windows users want to use unix-y tools without using a unix, that's fair and good.

But beyond that, the fourth sentence in the readme,

> platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust

which I generally agree with, makes me suspicious; I see an issue with this, because of all possible C programs, I believe the GNU Coreutils are written in pretty good style and, due to a lot of them being super simple, have very little room for the common "C bad, Rust good" kind of issues.

The GNU Coreutils are heavily tested, and have proven themselves to be quite a solid codebase, so I don't see why rewriting it is necessary. Especially when it turns out that they are not close to done after even 8 years and seem very complicated compared to the C equivalents.

All this is not even mentioning the countless "crash when doing X" issues on the uutils github.

I'm probably just a grumpy C/C++ programmer, and I think I'm missing the big "this needs to happen" argument here, so take this with a grain of salt.
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> And why does it matter how expensive a certain pair of headphones is?

“Grown-ups love figures. When you describe a new friend to them, they never ask you about the important things. They never say ‘What's his voice like? What are his favourite games? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead they demand ‘How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much does his father earn?’ Only then do they feel they know him. If you say to the grown-ups: ‘I've seen a lovely house made of pink brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof’, they are unable to picture such a house. You must say: ‘I saw a house that come a hundred thousand francs.’ Then they cry out: ‘How pretty!’”