skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint,

Startups take risk on the traditionally unqualified. I was no where near ready for my first salary job, but they effectively lowered the requirements and pay. Within 3 years I was making 100k no degree.

Startups offer much more of an opportunity to try new things, vs working with code written during the Reagan era .
I don't think "A penny saved is a penny earned" is advocating virtue, just strategy. The phrase predated Ben Franklin; the first written source seems to be George Herbert's 1640 Outlandish Proverbs, which has it in the form "A penny spared is twice got" - a bit clearer in that it's about effectiveness and not the moral value of either saving or earning. It's also got phrases like "Ever since we wear clothes, we know not one another," which is very clearly an observation and not a statement about the virtue of nudity!

Herbert does include some quotes that advocate virtue, though, including "Great alms-giving lessens no man's living," "Poor and liberal, rich and covetous," "Wealth is like rheume [a cold]: it falls on the weakest parts," "He is not poor that hath little, but he that desireth much," and "Honor and profit lie not in one sack."

Franklin quotes the phrase in a column "Hints for those that would be rich" (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-00...), which isn't about earning money and isn't even primarily about savings; it's about not buying unnecessary things on credit and paying interest on it forever. Sound advice, but again, more strategic than moralistic.

I also think that it's natural and human to want to leave a legacy to your kids. It is unnatural and inhumane to leave them such a legacy that they don't have to work at all; there's a reason "trust fund kids" are a stereotype. The article talks about inheritances on the orders of billions, richer than even monarchic dynasties of centuries past, which aren't particularly considered exemplars of virtuous resource allocation these days. (Even Queen Elizabeth II has a personal net worth of only half a billion dollars.) That's well beyond a "legacy."

Anyway, thank you for providing a perfect example of the actual battle here. So long as people believe the propaganda that giving your children billions of dollars is simply the larger-scale version of the virtue of working an honest job and living frugally, they'll hold on to their power.
For some markets P2P is not acceptable. For example in "gaming" markets people will DoS any IP they see so hiding your IP behind a relay service like Discord is essential.
I'm not sure if using a log scale is the best choice, because it will give too much space to the neighborhood of 0K, and I guess people is more interested in the 0°C 100°C range (or -50°C -200°C range?). Perhaps a scale like x^(1/2) or other exponent would be better.
I think this comment is targeted at the wrong level of abstraction.

E.g. Obviously there is not one way to make cheese, but cheeses themselves are unique. Most of this argument is about how much variation is acceptable before it's really something different and should be labeled differently so consumers are well informed.

EU and USA seem to be at extremes on this, the former arguing that if I make cheese doing the same thing except for being 1 field west of a region, I shouldn't be able to label it X, while many American companies think they should be able to use different cows with different feed and different processes and quality control and still call it X.

I suspect there's a better middle ground, but not sure anyone will reach it.
So tell me how car or TV manufacturers gathered that data 40 years ago?
It's neither normal nor was it always happening. It's an effect of the internet and was normally impossible before.
> Imagine if no country could call whisky, well, whisky, and each country had to invent their own name for it.

Well that's actually what happens, more or less: we do have Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, and bourbon, and you cannot make some whisky in, say, France, and sell it as "Scotch".

For what it's worth, EU laws also struck Italy, which cannot sell "Tocai" wine no more (now it's called Friulano) because the name sounded too similar to the Hungarian "Tokaji" wine. Note that the similarity was in name only, the two wines are totally different otherwise. You gain some, you lose some.
I use camo which works really well but I am mac/ios so don’t know if they support other platforms.
thank you for this detailed response -- I was on a team in the USA for a science company, under "transition" from plural, diverse vendors and stacks, to all Microsoft. It was in preparation for the sale of the entire company. Somehow management and the finance people together, in a locked room, decided that changing to one-hundred percent Microsoft stack was the move.

The engineers that carefully built large, performant, working science software on a dozen platforms, where almost always against the change. One of the founders and a Senior Scientist, would talk and talk, and in fact had moved to Microsoft stack personally also.

It was entirely obvious that the contrast between plural vendors, with plural engineering, was weighted against a single mono-culture of software and OS, and that decision makers went for the latter.
This should have been the plan from the beginning.

Singapore has registered 62,000 cases, and only 36 deaths.

Its very clear from these statistics that COVID is not a threat in Singapore.

The health of the population (very low obesity, generally healthy Asian diets, no poverty) and latitude (easy Vitamin D generation year-round, high humidity) are probably the major factors.

The real lesson out of COVID should have been that we need to improve the air and food supply of Western countries. But, I guess big pharma can't make money out of that, and totalitarian political systems can't expand.
The reason some people insist on this is because they themselves value the provenance (place in this case) where the product was made, and they insist on discounting the opinion of those who care only about the end result.

When Parmesan is only made in Italy, those who care don't have to look at the label, but those who only care about the parmesan part have a hard time tracking under which label the non-Italian version is sold.

It's a question of whose effort is getting discounted.
Its not there as far as I can see.
What would be interesting is if stove burners would be required to have their watt-equivaleng heat output as markers, instead of 1-2-3-4-5. That way would know that 3 on the middle burner is equal to 5 on the small burner, and recipe books can now mention you need ~800 watts of heat output, which is neatly usuable for induction and coil cooking as well.
No evidence of that in these links.
Now I’m imagining a “standard room” in France held at the reference temperature (and which the meter long rod and the kilogram weight would be stored, of course).
I believe the non-beta Android Edge still uses EdgeHTML which doesn't support optional chaining and I abandoned support for as it's now 0.08% of my users. Try out the beta?
This man is a genius. He continuously disrupts his business empire every 10 years.

From clothing & petrochemicals, which his father built,

to refining in 90s (he built the world's largest refinery and made India net petroleum product exporter...a petroleum deficit nation),
to phones in 2000s (ushered in phone era in India by bundling handset and plans),
to data (jio) in 2010s (made India the largest Internet data user in matter of a few years).

Now he is doing renewal energy.
Called people out for saying the word "like" every 5th word
It seems if we would only put brains on the matter, there is no physical laws to be broken to fix this issue.

A great example is the Shift Project think tank in France putting together a systemic plan [1] that:

1) brings an entire country to actually respect its carbon budget (relative to its population) necessary to stay within 2C of global warning
2) do this while keeping a job for everybody, in a systemic way (consistent across all industries)
3) does not assume any new miracle technology
4) does not assume to go the autocratic way
5) and more importantly, assumes all of this must be possible under economic contraction, because energy/economy decoupling is for the foreseeable future, a chimera [2]

[1] https://theshiftproject.org/article/fiches-plan-transformati... (in french)
[2] https://mk0eeborgicuypctuf7e.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload...
Isn't that true of any Git repository? The internal object store keeps every version of every file that has ever existed (unless you rewrite history).

In practice, Git's content-addressable storage and delta compression make it work fairly well for all but the largest repositories.
It is near impossible. There are probably in excess of 30 or more group policy settings that would be needed to try to disable it. Even something as simple as signing into the Microsoft Store seems to enable additional telemetry like sending app launches to your Microsoft account history.
Can you name any "popular" messaging client that doesn't have an iOS client?
In terms of cleaning up and decarbonizing shipping, nuclear power is a more natural fit in my opinion. Very high power density for long periods of time. Proven practicality and appropriate safety for decades by the Navy.

To deal with ports not wanting them to come in, you can use ocean-faring nuclear powered tugs that hand-off long-haul cargo barges to electric or fossil tugs for the final 10 km.

This was tried in the 1960s (see N.S. Savannah [1], Otto Hahn, etc.). Russia actually operates a nuclear powered cargo ship today (Sevmorput), though it does cause problems e.g. when the propeller breaks on the way to Antarctica and no shipyard will let you in [2].

The key is to mass produce them in such a way that economies of mass production can be used to alleviate the challenges of nuclear costs. Interestingly, this also parallels with options to help decarbonize the world with shipyard-constructed offshore nuclear power stations [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

[2] https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/nuclear-safety/2020/11/mec...

[3] https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-01-26-offshore-power-sys... (disclaimer: my site)
The proposed autofree example uses the heap with (unnecessary) preprocesor directives... but the problem is that it is not portable as written, vs simply using the heap like a normal person.
The bulky UK plugs also have a longer ground, as do compliant plugs in Germany and Italy (at least)
Jump cuts can make a video quicker to watch but for things like recipes you often want to see exactly what’s being done, so you can find out what went wrong if it didn’t work.
They're still pulling this kind of stuff? Back in 2014 a journalist recorded an agonizing conversation with a Comcast agent who refused, over and over again, to disconnect his service without arguing. One of the most infuriating things I've ever heard: https://www.cnet.com/news/could-this-comcast-rep-be-the-wors.... Listening to it on a bad day is not advisable
No it isn’t - Apple makes older iPhones in several places outside China.

The problem is that there is nowhere (yet) that allows them to do it with the latest models at adequate scale and speed because the supply chain and management expertise simply doesn’t exist yet.
> It isn't too new of a niche

Definitely an old retail segment. Walmart's origins derive from Sam Walton operating a Ben Franklin five-and-dime variety store (a wholesaler dating to the 19th century), which was that era's equivalent of a Dollar General store (including having spread itself to 2500 locations all over the place). With him later opening Walton's five-and-dime store.

Interesting representative story on the recent conclusion to that chain:

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/20/ben-franklin
That's a false dichotomy. It's possible to inject money into local businesses without implementing trademarks. It's possible to create something in an artisanal way, or even as a hobby.

Not everything culturally important needs to turn into an industry, as the existence of local music bands proves. Those don't only play in museums.
Trying to mix cars and bicycles was a bad idea, throwing delivery robots in the mix just worsens an already bad situation.

Parked cars, road work signs and other obstructions plague bike lines and cyclists ride two or three wide clogging the car lanes and once grandma sits behind them obscuring the view, the angry drivers behind drive wrecklessly around and maim or hurt someone. How about we have car cities and bike cities and don't try to mix. The robots can fly and we can make them have a bond so when they hurt someone or something the money is already there and they get grounded until FAA clears them.
That’s mostly Minecraft, not Roblox. Lego is still super popular… and yes kids still do go outside and build forts.

Also if you’ve never played Minecraft, it is amazing, especially as a social experience, and it is very much not just for kids.
It's not even close, it does not play most recents games.
On the other hand Halliburton and a few others conquoured Iraq and Afghanistan in a few weeks each just a decade ago...
All DSL subscribers everywhere get those.
Your behaviour is personal to you and it is possible to identify a person based on that data.
Pfizer halts distribution of anti-smoking drug after finding carcinogen
Well, the question I originally posed (and which has not been addressed yet) is about one specific aspect in what formal compiler verification can do for you in a language with extensive UB.
User telemetry replaces what were once focus groups and market research. Without telemetry, Microsoft would be unable to determine what products were used, what features were used, and unable to determine prioritization for backwards compatibility and bugfixes, because it chose to rely on telemetry for basic business operations.
This is bluntly simple, but really strikes the right note for me.
There’s both a legitimate challenge (the land masses are huge in countries like Canada and the US) and functional monopolies that are leveraged by the companies who own the infrastructure that stretches out over those land masses.

Canada is an easier example because it’s essentially serviced by 3 companies who then lease out to the smaller “competitors”: for rural areas some people have the choice of either DSL over oxidized above-ground lines or tower-to-dish internet where the tower is daisy-chained from another tower or from it’s own oxidized lines. There is no cell coverage at all, and poor phone service. If someone in an area like that wants internet the company says that ~”the cost of the service must cover all the infrastructure and maintenance” and then they base that cost on only a few percent of people actually using it. In that way it’s hard to argue against “well, it costs us $1500/mo to provide service to 10 users, so we’re losing money when we charge a ‘reasonable’ $120”. But what’s really happening is that people in those areas are bandwidth starved, signing up for anyone who can provide decent service, and signing up in bulk while the company oversubscribes. It’s easy for them to still show losses publicly, but on the back end they are collecting government subsidies and using free capital to extend the network as far as they can.
Use a separate computer with a minimal Linux system (maybe even without GUI) and only open-source software to manage your crypto. Your key should be password-protected. Make multiple backups of the key and remember your password. You can also write your password down on paper and hide it somewhere.
EPR was supposed to be the way forward for the EU and instead has been a costly disaster. There's no way dozens of those are getting built.
Frankly this, as a developer. I call them "showstoppers" and if there is a god of programming, they are the ultimate sin. Things like

- breaking a user's multiboot

- deleting user data

Even if these are not bugs and merely the result of bad UX (lack of warnings and security for the user).

Deletion of all user data upon upgrade was a common 'problem' with earlier versions of Windows (I remember having such problems into the XP era, and I hear it happened to people on W10). Breaking other installs by MS is a common theme too in dual boot setups (whereas Linux bootloaders are more likely to pick up the Win install and offer access to it).

I remember vividly the last time it happened to me. I had been dual-booting Linux for some time (on a personal laptop dedicated to work). It was my first Linux OS, I was a newbie (precisely learning bash, programming for servers, etc). After some update, Win10 broke my dual boot. I was livid. It took me the better part of a weekend to fix it and avoid loosing all my work of several months (a lot of it was in the form of system files all over the place, I had no idea how to retrieve all that without ad hoc commands etc, and I had no idea what e.g. chroot was at the time. I learned, the hard way, haha — btw thx to the Arch Wiki for that weekend. It was a life saver).

The very next thing when I got access back to my Linux OS was to backup all my data, format everything and reinstall Linux fresh.

And that was it.

I've never used Windows ever since as my primary driver, only for testing purposes in VMs. That was 2016 iirc.

There are such things as showstoppers that make you instantly drop a product, never to look back. Microsoft's Windows desktop team never learned that, I don't know how they still pretend to be for "professionals". You don't do that to people who make a living with their computer (i.e. the vast majority of businesses nowadays).
Damerau-Levenshtein Edit Distance Explained
Automation isn’t good enough yet. Making iPhones by hand was critical for Apple to build a superior product to Nokia who heavily used automation.

It may be the answer in future though.
>audience wants is a totally zero telemetry

does that audience lacks of experience with developing software?
> the exact same ingredients and recipe in Australia?

One problem is this might not be possible. Can Australia use raw milk? Do they have any of the right cows? Do they have the right feed for the cows? How far does "same ingredient" go?

I'd likely support such an approach, e.g. you could make "parmiagano reggiano" somewhere other than parma, so long as you used exactly the same inputs and processes and quality control measures, but depending what country you are in that might not even be legal. Even in that case you should probably have clear "product of X" labeling so people could decide.

Of course the flip side is as soon as you did that, GI's groups would probably try and tie process to their region specifically in some rediculous way.
...which can sometimes be the goal. Life is too short to spend with people you don't respect.
> Using these one letter variables forces the reader of the code to either be already familiar with the concept, which that letter refers to, or keep the whole calculation in their head, until the final result, to hope, that they then can make sense of it. It is implicitly requiring outside knowledge. It is shutting out many potential readers of the code.

When you're writing code for physics, then yes - absolutely: It is intended for other physicists, and the prerequisite is precisely that you have outside knowledge. When they use a symbol like ℏ in a journal article, it is expected that the reader knows it is Planck's constant[1]. Why should they have a different expectation when writing code? To a physicist, -ℏ^2/(2 * m) is a lot more recognizable than -planck^2/(2 * mass).

To be clear: The chances that a person who doesn't recognize these symbols will need to read and understand your code are virtually nil.

Within a context, single character symbols are very useful. To take a different example, what if I insisted that people should write:

2 add 3 add 7

instead of:

2 + 3 + 7

Would anyone reasonably argue that the former is more readable? We all accept that it's OK that a reader is familiar with the '+' sign. While ℏ is not readable to most, it is likely readable to anyone who is expected to read the code.

The thing that really is annoying when writing physics code is the need to explicitly write * for multiplication, and not being able to write fractions the way you would on paper.

[1] divided by 2π
I had a really hard time wrapping my mind around this just reading the website alone. If you are in the same boat, watch the first 10 minutes of this video at 1.5x speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI

and it will make so, so much more sense.

...and if you are like me you'll probably need to read this twitter thread to get the answer to your #1 question: https://twitter.com/unisonweb/status/1173942974381744134

Basically the core idea (or one of the core ideas) is instead of a function (like fib(n) which returns nth Fibonacci number) being identified by its name (fib) as is the case with most traditional languages, it's instead identified by a hash of its implementation.
Poland is absolutely swallowing up all the young talent of Belarus and Ukraine.

Unfortunately, Polish Real Estate prices in large cities are more expensive than in mid-tier American cities.... despite the still lower salaries, and much higher taxes.

Additionally, much of the bureaucracy and tax system has still not reformed, since the constant influx of young hot bodies keeps everything afloat no matter what.

Its crazy that the USA doesn't offer a simple green card to all these people. Its free very-high-quality human capital.
I’ve never understood the logic of firing someone over a mistake like that. They’re now the person least likely to make a similar mistake and they will maintain the institutional knowledge to help ensure it doesn’t happen again.
This and the Ross/Kurose one are definitely the canonical textbooks, but Beej's Guide is a lighthearted and more easily digestible alternative if you don't want to learn everything in detail.
Why? You have yet to explain why that researcher isn't credible, and every attack i've seen on him is emotional nonsense and/or clearly Chinese state-backed.
plywood at my local home depot is still very much at its highest price ever when I checked last week ($135 for a 1-1/8" 4x8 sheet of t&g subfloor)

> There's "we bought a sawmill!" ads here in the rural lands now for fresh sawn green pine and oak; which isn't "lumber" yet in any useful sense. I've seen porches being built that won't last the summer.

The allegedly "kiln dried lumber" home depot has been selling has been criminally wet throughout the last year too. Not only have people been paying through the nose for the stuff, it's been nowhere near ready to use. I had to let boards I bought for building gambrel rafters sit for a month on my covered deck before attempting to cut them to the pattern. And even after that, a bunch of them shrunk another 1/4" from the pattern in the subsequent month of waiting for me to install. Infuriating to pay so much for stuff that isn't even top quality and ready to go. I also had to throw a few away from splitting and twisting during the drying process...
There's not much about firewalls etc. there IIRC, more about low level concepts like DNS, TCP and so on. Anyway it's a great book. You can also read online at https://hpbn.co
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