skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the above quote says that author never worked with anything more complicated or more big then simple crud web app.
Heh, I remember those. I had my first internship around that time and one of the made-up jobs my boss at the time had me do was look into those switches. Another intern told me he just wanted someone to look into it since he wanted to try using them on his own home. :)
I'd think there's a difference between use and abuse
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Oh, apparently this week's problem is a little bigger than we thought. I hope that this can be quickly sorted out again.
There's another use case. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Announcements of blockchain's death have been premature."
The definition is arbitary. And it varies. ;-)

Both are symbols. The difference is kind of subjective, and has to do with how you treat the symbol. Do you just carry it through your derivation, or are you interested in what happens when you feed it specific values?

But I believe your objection is valid. And to be honest I got all the way through a college math major by just treating everything as symbol manipulation.

Caring about numerical values was for my other major, physics.
Can you provide some peer reviewed sources for your claims? Your whole comment reads like that thoroughly debunked "scientists blow the lid off of sunscreen" [1] article that was going around a few years back.

[1] https://millerfamilydermatology.com/sunscreen-myth/
Alabama resident here. You can make a decent chunk more than 100 as a software engineer without too much trouble if you are anywhere near a senior level.
> it's a useless debate

Not really. It's just too complicated of a "debate" (it's actually a non-debate) or discussion to dive into the differentiating factors that will assume different priorities for different people. Tradeoffs are everywhere and in everything and so is nuance.

Personally, I am growing tired of chasing Windows releases every few years so I will re-prioritize almost entirely around Linux's strengths.
Dynamic scoping is only a problem because nearly everything is lexically scoped these days so it comes as a surprise. In an environment designed to give users the power to customize everything regardless of if the original plugin designer thought they should be able to or not, dynamic scoping is incredibly powerful.
You can look at the BLS stats. Less than 0.2% of the workforce is making minimum wage.
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OK, but apartment buildings can be in areas that are zoned commercial too...

(Unless they're zoned exclusively commercial - but I don't know how common that is.)
I'm a content agency owner that works almost exclusively with SaaS companies, and yes, it works. There is plenty of demand (we went from $0 to $80k/mo in revenue in the first year).

What worked for us was:

1. Going super-niche - we only serve series A and B startups that want to use content to reach software developers. You'd think that going niche would make it harder to find customers, but the opposite is true.

2. Started with my network and referrals. Do good work and people will refer you to others.

3. Build a process that can scale beyond just you.

Good luck!
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This style should be called Ransom Note.
What's the relation?

Nazis are terrible but after WW2 they posed significantly less of a threat than Soviet communists.

Soviet and Chinese communists might not have been as evil as Nazis, but they sure were close
No one is saying blockchain can’t do the same thing worse than other tools
I’ll disagree with everyone else here. There’s not really a good reason to understand them, no. It’s good to have a broad understanding of what tricks are out there and to get a general sense of what techniques might work where, but no reason to know them in depth or learn all the tricks.

Computer Algebra is actually not great at solving integrals (and the problem is unsolvable in general). But it’s not extremely common that one needs to symbolically integrate gnarly expressions and you can look up the tricks when it comes up.

Much in the same way that I believe introductory linear algebra is bogged down by endless matrix computation without a computer, I think forcing students to compute a million different gross integrals quickly has diminishing returns.
Yes, the utility of an aggregator is not to show you correctness, but to help you survey the landscape of narratives and trajectories.

The utility of looking at multiple similar voices is to get a sense of the scale of a story, and inter-rater reliability; otherwise you have a portfolio of unweighted novelties.
In the context of this thread, and in particular the top level comment you initially replied to, who do you imagine is suggesting we teach people that?
Kinda like when Steve Jobs downplayed concerns about the 30% cut from the app store by saying it's not important because everybody is using web apps anyway?
https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/14048008733775831...
Being fired at anytime definitely adds some just general existing anxiety, or laid off. What's worse, in tech at least, is how hard it is to get a new job. Not trying to beat a dead horse, but just losing your job and being forced to go through interviewing again. I think i have some slight ptsd from the last job search, what a horrible experience in every way.
Lists don't make great HN submissions because there's little to discuss other than the lowest common denominator of the items of the list items, and that's too generic. It's also too much indirection since HN is already a list of articles. It's better to post the most interesting specific item from the list.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Someone already had posted an article from this site (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27515120), so I put that in the second-chance pool instead (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
Thanks :-) then I don't need to feel too depressed about not-that-top-great media I've produced myself once or more
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2117/
Just because my comments aren't singlehandedly fixing journalism doesn't mean they are rants or "shut down the flow of knowledge and understanding". You wanted to paint a rosier picture of journalism than exists in reality. I decided not to let you do so unquestioned. I believe this is substantive, and if you really want to appeal to the people ("many who agree with me") then I guess I'll point out that my comments are more highly upvoted than yours.

But sure, let's get more substantive: if you can find a single news article from a mainstream news website that has the things you've claimed they have then I will concede the point. A reminder of your claim:

> Journalism presents... all (corroborated) sides of the story

A single example. I will wait.
Yeah because it is so much faster to read the whole method and all methods it calls then ... hower over it to quick read javadoc in popup.
Well, "somehow", Android phones are sold in these countries, and while Android devices are not truly "open" by any respects, they almost always are able to let you "sideload" absolutely any sandboxed app you want... including these apps that are banned in all of these countries that Apple insists they are forced to block. The reality is that Apple is only forced to block them because they have decided to be a centralized arbiter of all content for these devices, something that Google and Samsung did not do, and so have created a powerful, centralized bottleneck that can be leveraged as a tool for regimes to control their population. The only reason this is thereby happening is because of Apple's greed: they would rather be able to collect 30% of every transaction that occurs on their systems than to add a trivial feature--sideloading--that would fight against and undermine this oppression.

I highly recommend watching a talk I was giving a few years back--the best version being when I did it at Mozilla Privacy Lab (link below)--which focuses on the ramifications of the core of this problem across the industry (but of course, with one of the narrative focuses being on Apple, as I have a lot of background knowledge there).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsazo-Gs7ms
"Europe-wide" meaning EU, Europe is much bigger than EU
Democracy can certainly exist without political parties, but in any open democracy political parties will naturally form in any sufficiently large system simply because it's the optimal strategy for politics. Pooling resources and a shared platform provides advantages at both securing votes and legislative working after election.
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The status of English is... complicated.

So all the languages of EU members are officially recognized. This has become increasingly unwieldy as you need translators in the EU Parliament for every combination and there probably aren't that many people who can translate Portugese to Estonian, for example.

There have been proposals over time to instead translate into a particular language. This has been resisted heavily by the French in particular because everyone knows that intermediate language would be English.

English really is the lingua franca at this point.

Additionally the presidency of the EU rotates every 6 months (IIRC), which has created its own problems. For example, when potential new members were negotiating the then-French EU president wanted to negotiate in French but (IIRC) new members tend to default to English.

If you look at number of proficient speakers, English is by far the most spoken language followed distantly by German, French and Italian (in that order). And this is still true even after the UK has left the EU.

English, French and German are the procedural languages of the European Commission.

English has clearly won here but there is a lot of resistance to this linguistic hegemony (as many see it). The French have a ministry to find new words for things to stop English loan words seeping in. Many people in many EU member states don't want to lose their culture and language. And I can understand that.

But, going back to the original point: people need to communicate. English is the natural means for that. As a result many people spend a lot of time and effort trying to preserve the status quo. This is another facet of conformity, in this case conforming to historical traditions and languages.

People who obsess about preserving language and culture aren't the people who start massively disruptive businesses.
Hawaii is over 5,000 miles away from Taiwan...
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This is the crux of the issue to me, they've now made a privacy opt-out that requires you to broadcast an SSID, in order for their systems to ignore your BSSID.

If they don't have an alternative to this opt-out then there's probably a GDPR case right there.
The Swiss are good at a lot of things. I suspect it may have something to do with not wasting time, money, and lives on mindless warfare.
the price on the reMarkable is a tough sell. I think I'd pay $150 for something like this (and still feel like I was kinda blowing money)
This was my experience as well. In SF and got symptoms mid Feb, doctor visit two weeks later concluded pneumonia and gave me antibiotics, no covid tests available, took 2+ months to recover. Later got Abbott Architect antibody test and it was negative, but I'm skeptical of the result.
Ah, yeah. My US ISP had apparently bought a block of IPv4s from a Canadian ISP. aI kept getting redirected to Canadian checkout paths, French language pages, etc, for quite some time.
> then what even is the point?

World peace.

Stressed, isolated, distracted people tend to work for the weekend and live in day-tight compartments.

When something upsets them, they post about it on social media and feel better.

When something really upsets them, they make a petition on change.org and feel better.

When something really, really upsets them, they reach out to a friend, but that friend is too stressed or busy or distracted to care.

When something really, really, really upsets them, they do something violent which plays on the news at 11 to distract some while the rest are too busy or stressed to care.

Get every other country on-board, connect them with a global supply chain, and voilà!
One of the things I love about mine - I never realized that I get 'anxiety' about wasting paper or space on paper. Being able to write and keep a few lines per page has been great.
I've had the best ideas and the sharpest intellect once I had _plenty_ of money to be comfortable such that I could just sit on my ass thinking about whatever I wanted without worrying whether I needed to make ends meet.

You are so wrong it's not even funny.
Sometimes you come back to a block of code you wrote a long time ago and go "what?" enough times that you go ridiculously overboard documenting it just to create the illusion of understanding it quickly the next time.

I still don't understand https://gist.github.com/chowells79/996f2749b088d287937e3eff1... on the first read, even with the ridiculous overdocumenting. On the plus side, it's clear enough what it does, even though the details of "how" are hard to follow.

Still, if there ever was a case for documenting the "how" over the "why", that code is it. It's pretty easy to understand why that code exists. It's actually quite hard to follow the details of how it does it. Those comments are excessive, but they do cut the time it takes to rediscover the "how" whenever I get curious.
This is a spot on point, with respect to the OP.

I was curious, and after a quick search it seems Gallup has a poll from 2019 that's more generic (across the whole population), and it points in the same direction:

Summary: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/americans-are-some...

Original report press release: https://news.gallup.com/poll/249098/americans-stress-worry-a...

I haven't taken the time to dig in to specific countries or demographic groups, I would be interested to compare, as you did, youth groups in US vs. FR for example.
> So I've not been able to find any easy way to create an Ubuntu 8.04 container on modern Ubuntu

Interesting. I posted a comment here a few months ago where I went through this process so that I could run Amarok 1.4. I used 8.10. Here's is a rough howto...

Step 1: Find an Ubuntu 8.10 ISO and mount it:

curl http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04.0/ubuntu-8.04.4...

sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso /mnt/hardy

Step 2: Unqsquash the filesystem:

sudo apt-get install -y squashfs-tools

sudo unsquashfs -f -d /tmp/unsquashfs /mnt/hardy/casper/filesystem.squashfs

Step 3: Import the tarball into a Docker image:

sudo tar -C /tmp/unsquashfs -c . | docker import - ubuntu/hardy

Step 4: Run interactively and install Amarok:

docker run -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash ubuntu/hardy

Step 5: Edit the apt repos, replacing the original address with "old-releases.ubuntu.com"

sudo sed -i 's/archive.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' sources.list

sudo sed -i 's/security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' sources.list

Step 6: Upgrade the system (well, as much as you can upgrade Ubuntu Hardy!)

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y -q

Step 7: (You're on your own here...) Set up your user and install the WordPerfect 8! Looks like the old wp8 stuff is here: http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/apps/ but there's definitely gonna be some incantations you have to do to get it working, `ldd this` and `apt-get install that`.

Step 8: Capture the changes to the docker image by saving it to a new image

docker commit <container_name> wordperfect:8

Step 9: If all that worked, and it's a big if, then you can run it with your current X11 stuff mounted into the container:

docker run -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash --rm --name wordperfect --net=host --privileged -e DISPLAY=:0 -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v ${HOME}/.Xauthority:${HOME}/.Xauthority wordperfect:8
adding a different perspective here: we're still comparing 2 technologies that, to me, are not yet mature enough for the mainstream. i have both but still use my pen and notebook. why? firstly, its not quite a joy. they are slow (janky, glitchy refreshes, latency, etc, depending on your specific device..) for example changing a page is still jarring. in some lighting the screens dont look good (grey, low contrast). and sometimes i reach for the boox, and woops, dead battery. what i thought i would benefit from the most was having a "single notepad to rule them all" (i have multiple notebooks for various purposes and thought it would be cool to just have one device, with the multiple notebooks inside, and searchable!) well, in some ways its more convenient, but in others its clearly lacking polish. its a pain to move a page from one book to another for instance, or to open up the section i want, so i end up with notes mixed up sometimes anyway. i cant be as precise as with a real pen, so a single page in my real book is about 2 on the tablet. etc. anyway, there werent many dissenting voices here so i thought id share a dose of reality for anyone with an itch. im very excited to see what comes in the next generation of both, maybe then ill finally be able to recommend them
Just replying to the OP that nobody has a found a use case. In our case, we are fundamentally changing the way text is marked up within a document to correlate it to individual changes in that text over time. This is different from Git or Wikipedia which make document-level snapshots.
All of the things you mentioned are either already solved or have always been built in the Windows 10 pro.

I think the biggest mistake Microsoft made with windows 10 is offering different, cheaper versions. The cheaper versions have less features and more ads.

But if you are a developer, you should be using Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise. It doesn't make any sense to be using Home as the savings are very minimal.
X10 was the first real home automation standard. The protocol was subject to interference and poor propagation, and did not use any EDAC or acknowledgement so it was pretty unreliable. It was still pretty useful for some things, and X10 devices are still being sold.
i always found it funny how much time was spent drilling techniques for different integral types or doing transforms for derivatives, yet the most important idea: the continuous nature of the reals and why this is the rug that pulls it all together, and the delta-epsilon definition of the limit, only saw about a grand total of 3 minutes of hand waving and an optional problem on one homework.

ug calculus was about having algebraic/trig manipulations memorized along with a table of transforms and a handful of tricks; where the actually beautiful ideas that if we use an infinitely "elastic" representation of numbers, we can solve hard approximation problems both correctly and easily- get totally glossed over.

physics has the same problem. basic physics without calculus is just a bunch of rote memorization. the idea that such a thing is taught and that is somehow "easier" is nuts. they should be taught together, as they were developed, as many of the expressions given to undergrads in physics are simply definitions of integrals and derivatives applied a few times.

no student in calculus should ever be wondering what the constant is for in a computed integral and no student in physics should wonder where the constants come from in equations of motion. (there should be no equations of motion, just definitions in integral/derivative form and definitions of integrals and derivatives)
I clicked the link and was immediately prompted to grant location sharing permissions on my android phone.
Most countries have universal healthcare (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Healthcare...)
The home computer has been replaced with the iPhone.

What boggles my mind is that the industry accepts Apple's restrictions on what kind of computing can happen, how their software can be distributed, and how their gross/margins are taxed.

These devices have done a perverse thing to our field.

Consumers love them, but fuck are they awful for freedom, business, and small time success.

We used to build platforms in the open that we all benefited from (ie. the Web). Even Microsoft Windows was and is more open than these goddamn monopoly devices.

The DOJ needs to rip Apple's control of the iPhone away. It's not their device anymore. It's the industry.

Computing belongs to the people. It'd make for a healthier playing field, and Apple would still be making bank.
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And many training for this kind of performance will fail, achieving nothing (or injuries).
When one searches for the Ulster Institute for Social Research, the institute of the primary author, on Wikipedia, this is the result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn

So yes, this seems like little more than racist pseudoscience being conducted at a sham institution and published in a sham journal.
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You could. But `main()` would still then be a function, no?
> Being uncomfortable talking about something is not prima facia evidence you are being silenced, it is only evidence that you are being silent. You aren't entitled, and have no right, to be comfortable when you share controversial ideas.

I don’t know about the German perspective, but in the U.S. folks spent a lot of time not only making legal space for controversial ideas, but making cultural space for them. You may not have a “right” to be comfortable sharing controversial ideas, but a society where people feel free to do so is arguably better than one where people don’t.
I'm talking about the Bay of Pigs invasion.

You can criticize the efficiency of authoritarian governments. That doesn't have much to do with their structure. Sure, the MSS may have some issues with command, though there is no evidence for them so far, but they are still subordinate to their hierarchy.

Besides, we're in 2021 now, data issues are a lot easier to audit in these situations.
My golden rule is inline with javadoc being largly useless.

Don't ever add SBO comments.

SBO = Stating the Bleeding Obvious.
Don't swim against the buzz-word tide!!!! (I think it's known as sales/marketing?)
There's a bunch of excellent blog posts from the Factorio developers about tracking down tiny bits of non-determinism (since it uses deterministic multiplayer, as there is way too much dynamic world state to update constantly over the network).
FOSS is almost certainly better all else being equal. But what IBM's customers probably care far more about is the availability of support.
ITT: people who believe it's undeniably true that this has happened everywhere else, who also believe that it is impossible that it's happened here in the US.
Or even more, data: URIs.
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Rich tech jobs can be very stressful. It was hard for me to realized that I should not be stressed at my job.
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has examples of several cities that do this, not just charity groups
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because of market forces. It was a semi-public financed project. After the initial deployment, the semi-public port didn't dare to go full in.
And private energy companies refused to participate.