skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even having type hints on basic functions like def foo(bar: str) in a throwaway-script helps because it gives me reliable autocompletion on bar. I might be getting old or toggle between so many different languages nowadays that even basic stuff i don't want to remember, like whether it is bar.lower(), bar.lowerCase(), bar.toLower(), bar.toLocaleLowerCase().

Defining a data structure up front doesn't require a lot of boilerplate as Java incorrectly have taught all of us. Writing a statically typed typing.NamedTuple or @dataclass is literally a one-liner.
Depending on the distribution, /bin/sh might be a symlink to bash
The issue it seems is that MS dropped the requirement that drivers must also be signed by the developer’s own EV certificate - it seems developers can get binaries signed without that, which means only MS knows which company is the one that signed a specific program/driver in this configuration. https://twitter.com/gossithedog/status/1405976566694395906?s...
I would expect blazing fast in-memory logging with thread-id and time stamps, so timings aren't affected (much).
Lambda Calculus Examples (2009) [pdf]
TikTok vs YouTube Shorts isn't even comparable. TikTok has a huge amount of creativity and momentum behind it. It's like the early days of Reddit with tons of different communities. The main thing that's different about it vs Instagram or other platforms it that most people are fairly authentic.
You never answer my question - why would Israel give full citizenship to people in Gaza and let’s add on top parts (Area C) of the West Bank entirely controlled by the Palestinian Authority?

And the funny part is, the reason Israel control parts of the West Bank is because they were attacked in 3 wars (1948, 1967, 1972) and won.
Medivia? Judging from screenshots that looks a lot like Tibia (https://www.tibia.com)
I had a perfectly functioning Phillips Hue lighting system, then one day Phillips decided it was no longer supported and I had to buy an upgraded system to get the same features that I already had.
I didn't do this personally but one enterprise I worked at ran their production DNS off an old sun ray desktop sitting on a random desk in the computer room. Eventually somebody who didn't think it was being used for anything just yanked the plug.
As a new junior, remote, part-time hire, I got frustrated that my test suite wasn't passing on my laptop. So I checked out the codebase on a production server and ran my tests there.

The test suite initialized by truncating all tables and loading fixtures instead.

Using production database credentials.

Oops.
I like military style [1] / low context [2].

I'm usually omitting the recipient's name, even though I understand that for some people it may sound rude.

Exception: replies to email threads with multiple recipients, CC'ed people.

Same with the footer, unless I'm expecting this person to call me, so I'll be adding my phone number there.

For long emails, I'm adding TL;DR in the first lines of the email body.

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[1] https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-write-email-with-military-pre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...
I suspect that transportation is not the issue, because any way you slice it, building materials come with large footprints. The footprint can be in the factory or on site, but you need big trucks moving stuff around in all cases, and every day the site has a crew on it is a day that generates vehicular traffic. Since the total time for the build goes down in modular, it can be surmised that less public space-over-time is used, even if more bandwidth is used at certain points.

As grandparent says, modular's biggest selling point is in quality control, which improves project risk profile. Factory assembly lends itself to systematic controls; one of the most common headlines in construction failures is "contractor used wrong parts or materials". That can quickly spiral into massive cost overruns when we're talking about something they assembled on site and realized they screwed up only after it's buried in the ground. If the whole subassembly arrives on site pre-checked, there's less that can go wrong. And "subassembly" is the way to think about it, not "box". It's certainly possible to devise a clever modular structure that ships packed but encapsulates more of the desired features with less sawing, nailing and bolting. Boxy shape language is not unique to modular, it appears all throughout industrial goods.
Very great points that I didn't think about, and I agree with all of them, especially the idea for a full width bike lane.
If we say you can claim land your people held in the 10th century the globe is in trouble.
> Well, it must be good at _something_, or it wouldn't be as popular as it is.

Yes, though lots of pretty awful things are popular. Eg PHP.
When I want short videos I go to TikTok, when I went long-form videos I go to YouTube. I don’t understand why YouTube needs to compete with TikTok in the short video space.
In most cases, a single process app sending data to a file and a small HTTP server serving it will perform much better with less downtime.

As I understand it, this is where Redpanda enters the picture. Maybe others here disagree?

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/01/22/redpanda-kaf...

https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda

https://vectorized.io/
I'm sure a century or two the same was said for reading and writing.
What inspired me to learn programming was your last point: building things. That's why I think that people should be introduced to a loosely typed, high-level, forgivable language. Compiler errors and verbose code does not appeal at first glance, you need to draw people in..

I will never forget the moment 11 year old me saw a message box appear with text that I specified. I made that happen, I built it. I felt so powerful and cool. That 1 line of code in an obscure language got me hooked and over time I moved on to other languages.
Religious flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't post like this, regardless of whose religion you have a problem with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can't tell you how many weblogic "won't starts" I fixed over the years caused by people staging ear's and war's in /tmp on Solaris.
Maybe someone with more local knowledge can correct me, but I am under the impression that most homes in Sweden, Finland, and Norway are made out of wood.

They, like Canada, have a convenient source of wood in the boreal forests.
So the LKML has been rotting from the head down for...30 years? If the result of that is Linux, maybe the rot isn't as bad as you fear.

The cultural differences that cause distro forks are debates over free-vs-libre, what belongs in the kernel vs userspace, and standardization issues, not (afaik) "we won't submit this to the upstream kernel because we don't approve of the way they talk to each other there". And I think it's very important for the core kernel devs to hold the line on those issues.
> Each time I recommend them to watch YT videos from non main-stream media, no one reply back with what they found out...

Youtube videos from randos aren't very good sources, period, especially on topics like this. I mean, that guy seems like laowhy86's mirror universe twin.

> And apparently everyone is happy to bash the credit of mainstream media, except for China/XInjiang, it's like suddenly a bunch of guys never set foot in Xinjiang, start to trusting another bunch of guys also never set foot in Xinjiang, and claim that they are good friends all along...

Even the people who bash the MSM rely on it for pretty much all of their information about the outside world.

Also, you put far too much weight on "setting foot" somewhere. For instance, would taking a regime-lead guided tour of North Korea (like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8JObNNQ4) really help anyone understand North Korea at all? It's probably the only way to "set foot" there as a foreigner. The answer is no. You'd get much better understanding reviewing documents (both officially distributed and otherwise), interviewing defectors, and maybe even looking at satellite photos. The highly produced tour would be superfluous (and in this case, potentially dangerous).
I was also surprised that you are worried about sports - that is one of the last things I would worry about.

I worry that our reward systems are being hijacked. We are more and more trained to seek short dopamine bursts.

The problem is that this is short term satisfaction that creates chronic boredom in the long run. Just notice how you feel after two hours of watching "funny" videos or whatever is your poison. Don't you feel like it's not funny anymore but you keep watching anyway just to escape the creeping sense of emptiness?

Lately, I keep thinking about what Erich Fromm said about people becoming robots, although he meant it in a different context: "But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become 'Golems', they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life."
If it has a cloud dependency, you can be confident that the system it controls will probably outlive the service's free lifetime.

If you're willing to do some technical work, there is fantastic open source tooling in this space. Then you'll have a setup that isn't affected by the business desires or financial problems of others. As a bonus, you get better latency over lan.

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Tasmota-IR/#sending-irhvac-co...
Do you need a license to be a software engineer? Sounds like its a protected title like in some other countries
How about breaking all e-mail across the entire world back in 1996?

This one got a write up at The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2018/04/16/who_me/

The story as i told it to them is slightly different. They made some changes that I think do make it a better story, but not quite as close to the truth of the situation as I remember it.

I think that’s my biggest mistake so far.
Windows 10 is going to be supported for years. You're fine.
One Shot Keto
One Shot Keto The fundamental day by day energy consumption

The body needs a particular caloric admission to have the option to work. Weight gain or misfortune is unequivocally identified with the proportion of energy admission and consumption.
https://goketogenics.com/
Have you tried? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha...

It is enough for me to manage many relationships.
I sort of wonder if the crazy conclusions are on the parents side or the kids side..
Google has come a long way since their "Don't be evil" days. Google is evil now. They have no morals anymore. They don't care about people. Only money, which is all too common.
I second the ScanSnap. I have mine scan directly into DEVONthink, and have been in the “scan and shred” camp for a long time now. If paper comes into my hands I think I may possible want keep, I scan it in. Then, everything that I don’t specifically need to keep original copies of gets shredded.

It's the only way to fly.
I wouldn’t do that.

First, it seems impractical because you need a high user growth to be able to get enough samples in a reasonable time to run your experiment to statistical significance. If you are seeing high growth, how many of those accounts are real people rather than bots or duplicate accounts? Maybe that isn’t too big of a deal for an email campaign, but for apps and websites, it matters, because it of the next reason.

Secondly, there’s no reason to believe that new users behave like old users, in fact there are probably many reasons to believe that they do not. Because your A/B population isn’t representative of the actual population of users, there’s no reason to believe whatever effect you measured on the neophyte users is going to carry over to the experienced users. Maybe, but it’s not guaranteed.

Random sampling of users is better, because the A/B population is drawn from the general population, and so the only confounding property is the novelty effect. Doing what you suggest eliminates the novelty effect, but now you can’t generalize your learnings at all.
Maybe it's due to my lack of experience raising children but a lot of this seems very bizarre. A sixteen year old remembering events from when they were three? Staying up till three AM talking to their parent? Being scared of other people seeing them as stupid before the age of three? The article doesn't come out and say whether this child was diagnosed by a professional but it seems obvious to me that they should've been. I hope they received treatment and beneficial accommodations.
Sorry that this is a little late, and unfortunately most of these resources are paywalled. However, K-weight basically normalises the volume by frequency so that for a given LKFS (for example) 1,000 Hz tone, 100 Hz tone and 10,000 Hz tone sounds similarly loud perceptually (while if we set them to similar dB instead, 1,000 Hz is perceptually louder than 100 and 10,000 Hz tones). Of course, being perceptual, it's more accurate to say that it's what an average person would perceive so it can be off for some people (but like with colour this is a rabbithole of topic).
There is no mathematical necessity for physical things that are equal to be equal in general. We have only the one universe. Things we seem to find equal need to be mathematically permitted to be equal, within the tolerance we can measure, but it need not be mathematically required.

Unifying gravitation and quantum mechanics amounts to asserting an equality we can never check because the numbers are tens of orders of magnitude too small to measure. People chasing unification have left off doing physics, because they have abandoned experiment. There is nothing wrong with engaging in maths for maths' sake; just don't call it physics.

There are whole worlds of physics still barely touched, because the maths have been too hard. There are plenty of open questions in solid state phenomena, in plasma fluid dynamics, in relativistic dynamics, and even in ordinary fluid dynamics.
Programming an "AI", perhaps.

That ticks the boxes of deceptively simple interface and programs a few lines long.

It also won't require as much formal training and will be more intuitive and trial error based.

GPT-3 and DALL-E have given us a glimpse of what that will look like.
> most people are fairly authentic

That tends to fade quickly as a platform gains popularity.

Already we’ve seen how TikTok and record companies manipulate which songs go viral [1]. Popular creators have banded together to join “hype houses” with major financial backing. Yes, you can still see spontaneous moments captured on video, and random content from small-time creators, but a lot of the most popular material is marketed.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/how-to-go...
If you want to learn more there's a website [1] for the WRAMP architecture which goes into a fair bit of detail. The manual specifically is what students are (or at least were when I was at Waikato) given as a resource to understand it.

The toolchain and simulator are also available on GitHub [2], though it looks like the author has their own fork from an older version. A few years ago the the project was ported from a custom board to an off-the-shelf FPGA dev board and the simulator was renamed from "rexsim"/"RexSimulator" to "wsim", hence the difference in name.

[1] https://wramp.wand.nz/

[2] https://github.com/wandwramp
That a 16-year old remembers such detail about age 3 seems… unusual. I don’t mean a memory here or there; this child remembers very specific experiences and the feelings he had about them when he was almost pre-verbal.

Seems almost incredible.
The Andromeda Strain
Operator overloading in the style of C++ is pretty silly, and your concerns apply.

Have a look at how eg Haskell deals with operators:

- You can define your own, so you don't need to re-use bit-shifting for IO. And in fact, you wouldn't be able to do so.

- There's also specific kind of overloading, so that '+' can work with different types. But eg you couldn't turn bit-shifting '<<' into an IO operator.

The rules for shadowing of operators are the same as the rules for shadowing any other function or variable name.

In fact, operators are just a weird syntax to write binary functions in Haskell. Otherwise they behave exactly the same.

Whether to use operators or functions with 'normal' names is then only a stylistic question, and a library can offer both styles to its users. (And you can retrofit the style of an existing library without having to have access to the library.)
> will

implies omniscient, inevitable certainty in an indefinite timeframe beyond the scope of reasonable

>leak

implies absolutely certainty of failure... from what failure mode and in what timeframe?

> and pollute the river

Pathos appeal. "You're a meanie to the fishies and dolphins who use a filthy drainage ditch masquerading as a river to spawn their entire species."

You're clearly not an engineer, don't understand how these are manufactured, nor how these are life-cycled... with bloody GPS on them 24x7.

Go away until you have something meaningful to add that doesn't sound like you actually create a 60k-page environmental impact report before putting on your shoes made from fossil fuels, animals, and/or (gasp!) "chemicals."

> I am curious about your rationale of throwing scooters in the river.

No, you're not, you're a do-nothing troll.
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Ahh, the wording screwed me up.

If I'm understanding your comment correctly this time, it would look something like:

getattr(thing, b'attribute_name')
chown and chmod on root by accident is such a common fuckup. i've done it on my personal linux desktop before.
Like everything in archaeology, that depends on your definitions. Restricting the scope to the lower 48 for sanity and taking Michael Smith's attributes of urbanism (a good default starting point), a good chunk of the US had pre-columbian urbanism. The southwest and southeast are inarguable. The Midwest had similar urban agglomerations on a smaller scale. The PNW and California (aside from the bits already described by 'the southwest') displayed most attributes aside from "true agriculture", which is a silly eurocentric concept anyway. That leaves the Northeast where I'm simply not familiar enough with the archaeology to comment.

Florida, possibly a bit of the plains, and the upper northeast could be said to lack cities, sure. That's a far cry from how I understand your statement. What am I missing here?
How good would it feel to pop calc.exe on an ATM?
Why not? Who cares?

Like he said, this is far from the worst conflict going on right now and it receives a disproportionate amount of interest.

I don't care about the conflict in china or in Yemen or in syria. Because I'm a coherent person, I also don't care about what's happening in israel.
Photographer Goes Inside Chernobyl to Document the Post-Meltdown Nuclear Plant
I remember things from when I was that age (not a lot, but a more than most people for sure. And I'm in my 50's) I think it varies from person to person. My brother remembers nothing from that age.
> Second, Hollywood doesn't care about that problem.

Hmm, I wasn't trying to nay-say anything here. I mostly agree with your original comment.

See also how in the Gan Theft Auto they are sort-of getting the light reflection for free without having to explicitly teach the network about that parts of physics.
I'd assume that e-mail etiquette varies considerably across cultures. For example, I have a Japanese co-worker (who has been living in the U.S. for many years) whose e-mails are generally more formal than those of my other colleagues.

If in doubt, it's probably safer to err on the side of formality and politeness.

One thing that struck me about your e-mail to "Dr. Cooper" is that it fails to mention any appreciation of their work or of the time they might spend talking to you. I'd probably write something like:

"I read your paper on foo bar with great interest, and found it relevant to my research on xyz. I have some ideas on how it might be extended to baz. If you're interested and free this week, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could discuss it..."

Maybe also provide a very brief outline on how it could be extended to show that you have some understanding of the topic and aren't just a random person wasting their time.
The slides mention that the video on Youtube shorts is a screen recording of TikTok.

It's likely that the TikTok video was simply downloaded using the download button, no trickery required. In contrast to Instagram and Google's walled gardens, TikToks videos are easily shareable and so often end up being uploaded onto these platforms[0] - with the branded watermark leading viewers back to the original source.

Part of the reason for their success I think.

[0] https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram-will-now-lim...
Yea I have Apple everything except for this one Shield Pro because the audio quality (esp Atmos) is clearly better than AppleTV. Even my wife who really doesn’t care about audio notices.
36 percent of the US is covered by forest (1).
38 percent of the EU is covered by forest. That's EU with Britain. Without Britain, the percentage is higher (2).

I realize I use different sources, and that maybe all forests are not equally good for lumber production. But Europe has as much forests as the US. Yes, a lot of it is concentrated in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, so traditionally, that would have been less accessible to most central and western European countries. Also, traditionally, there was far more farm land. But nowadays, Europeans could access lumber as easily as Americans.

1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_of_the_United_States#:....
2:https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statis...
My adventures in ntp resulted in finding out that different ntp servers handle leap seconds differently. Googles will gradually stretch the second out over time, which violates the NTP standard of just adding or subtracting the second. So if your setup depends on very accurate time, make sure you know what NTP servers you're using.
In the US: If one of these contraptions appeared on your property and didn't leave, is it your property now, as much as any mistaken delivery?

I'm thinking about lots of "whoopsie-doodles" for interested parties who might want to hack on these for other purposes.
How do you mean? Could you link to where you could find that? Because I searched for 'metadata' in the Noise Protocol repository and came up with nothing (https://github.com/noiseprotocol/noise_wiki/search?q=metadat...)
N.b. I am very much an amateur and am fascinated by private communication methods
If you don’t mean to reveal it, what were you working at on the N64 ?
You can have multi parties with having single issue parties. Single issue parties are short sighted and can't respond to areas outside of a issue because the party isn't unified. You need some idology.