skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding Rust complicates things, but Rust makes writing correct code easier, which is no small feat in the kernel world. The added complexity may be big, but it's a one-time cost compared to the stream of Rust code that one can hope for.

Rust is known to be hard to learn (YMMV), but C is even harder. If things go according to plan, someday for some use-cases you'll be able to contribute kernel code in pure safe Rust without having to learn C. In the meantime, adding Rust doesn't seem to be such a big ask when you consider what the kernel already has beside C: Assembler, the "C preprocessor (yes, it's actually a different language independent from C, and some kernel macros are really complicated), the BPF an io_uring APIs (essentially their own DSL), and a myriad of other inner-platform curiosities you might need to deal with depending on the kind of kernel work you do.

Concerning Zig, the cons may be smaller then Rust, but so are the pros. IMHO it's not worth it in the current context (I like Zig but it seems "too little, too late" to me). But there's no telling until somebody puts in the work for a "$OTHER_LANGUAGE in the kernel" RFC like is currently happening for Rust.
I had to do this too (I didn’t do it obviously), despite the fact that my Gmail account itself is 17 years old
Maybe. But I think all the politicians Tesla could have bought are already owned by their German competitors.
So is most of Eastern Europe you nazi prick.
Arguably a safer alternative to smoking could be part of a solution too.
Sex sells. The Olympics is fundamentally about eyeballs.

Is it okay to have strip clubs? Is it okay to hire scantily-clad women for ads? In movies? Where are the lines?

I'm not sure where we want the lines, but:

* I don't like the lines drawn based on one-off issues going viral. I'd like a consistent set of lines.

* I feel like it's unreasonable to expect organizations to not follow the Smith's free hand of capitalism. "Good" organizations are out-competed by "bad" ones.

Is this a place where we might have a serious discussion about a new regulatory regime, or otherwise changing market forces and incentive structures?

I feel like that might be a slower, but more comprehensive, more equitable, and more sustainable way of landing on fair ground.

- More comprehensive: Reworking structures effects everyone, and not just Olympics. I'm at least as concerned about thousands of "Hooters girls" as about elite actresses and athletes.

- More equitable: Good businesses don't get punished. Bad ones don't get rewarded.

- More sustainable: Market forces should push for the behavior we want. Otherwise, it's like fighting the ocean.
Author here. Not really, since we rely on cloud-optimized GeoTiffs for performance, in particular their overviews. This makes it so we can serve tiles from huge datasets (10s of GB) in less than 100ms. I don’t think that would be possible with NetCDF.
> The HMRC will take a fair cut of my gross income

How do you know it's fair?
It is definitly a good advice to check out more than one source in that regard ;) :

https://youtu.be/d3_DjiLLDfo
I've heard of mathematicians being frustrated by physicists who use fancy stuff without full understanding of the underlying principles, and sometimes they just manipulate the notation without fully justifying what that manipulation means (e.g. you may have an integral operator on some space, and you might just swap an infinite sum and that integral operator, but that requires a justification that you might omit).
Hey, you're right crypto and options are different asset classes. Although even then there is an overlap: you can buy BTC or buy calls on BTC futures, which is a similar speculation on BTC price rising.

What I actually compared was the 2 activities: trading options vs trading cryptos, since from my understanding both activities share the same goal: growing a personal wealth.
Many people take Wikipedia as source of truth and use its content as authoritive work on every matter.
We can easy that we take everything with a grain of salt, but that doesn't mean general public takes same care.
I don't think this should just be dismissed off hand. We shoudln't put our complete trust on any company especially if that means stifiling people's speech because it differs from the "official truth"
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it looks like it is a PHP specific problem. Python does not have it.

I don't know how carefully you read what I said, if you misunderstood that this is a native library limitation (C level) of the actual database clients, and that most of the popular PHP libraries can bind arrays.
Taking space/utility away from a current use that's broadly viewed as beneficial (or at least necessary) and experienced by many as a net-positive will require some level of consensus-building [and why-explaining]. I (and the article) suggested a path that I think is more likely to succeed at that necessary (if annoying) step.

But if you think a more direct, anti-car strategy will work better, I'm not anti- your anti-car strategy. I'm pro "tell me what you want instead that would be better" because I think that's more likely to succeed.
I mean clearly youtube has poor control if a group of some sorts does an attack on a specific user to lower views.

With that said I just watched Timothy Nguyen's video about Eric Weinstein this weekend and it just confirmed everything I suspected about Eric. I didn't realize he even put in his paper he is not a physicist but an "entertainer".

I think Eric gained traction and brought Brett in on this. They are doing a new form of science fiction IMO. It doesn't really work though if they break character.

The occam's razor between two brothers who have had revolutionary ideas in physics, economics and biology all shelved by an establishment vs two brothers who are podcasters creating content is pretty straight forward.

I am not sure restricting the age like a rated R movie is the worst thing with what they are doing.
If the athletes don't show up, there are plenty of others who will. Expecting athlete pushback to solve this is a doomed strategy.
My mom does this a lot. Daily, in fact. Has been doing so for decades. She's not self aware enough to do any better. I've tried. She doesn't care. She's not a particularly reasonable, rational person.
> It's of course entirely their prerogative to not offer any guarantees at all.

If Assange wanted to have a guarantee of not being extradited he should have submitted an application for this to the Swedish justice department and have it reviewed. That's what the law require. The prosecutor or politicians cannot offer any guarantees and trying to bypass the procedure would be breaking the law.

So no, it's not their prerogative. Stop spreading misinformation, it's tiresome.
Wikis often get cited in political debates with USA friends, i also think most of the political related subjects are consistently left leaning much like academic thought leaders.

But for non-political subjects, wiki is still great IMO.
its a great news for Germany . If TSMC located their chip plant in there.
It's for mature audiences only.

You're supposed to be over 41 to understand it.
Well, a page being locked for editing is usually a sign that one side has decided the narrative and no further input distracting from it will be tolerated. And a clear indication to take the article with a mountain of salt.
It sounds like a positive incentive to cleanup the processes involved. Where there is a will,there is a way, etc. I don’t think that offshoring dirty industry is anything but NIMBYism and ultimately we need to cleanup electronics fabrication
Germany has free schools, universities, low cost good child care, a relatively good health infrastructure, and more. Some regions do not even need debt any more to finance all this. The high taxes do not just evaporate, but sure could be used more efficiently.

If I'd have the choice between US and Germany, I'd probably prefer the old Europe model.
To improve your analogy, UK is like a teenager who was persuaded to leave home by a drug dealer, who promised them that they will be the coolest and most special kid on the block while being used to sell drugs and their body.
I couldn't even figure out what it was trying to be. Is it an art collection? A nerdy hobby project, but a type of thing people collect and use? Are they stories, or nonfiction?

Maybe being hard to read is part of the point, but if so, I think it's made much too well!
That makes it even more concerning, because TACC is a subset of Autopilot (it's Autopilot without autosteer), and it's the easier subset (many modern cars have their own versions of TACC and they work very well, speaking from personal experience).
Except in cases where the transportation is highly specialized and optimized (e.g. a pipeline) you are going to have a hell of a time finding an example of human activity where the minimum environmental impact is not on the order of mass * distance.
The US propped up a war criminal in Japan ensuring fifty years of one party rule.
I think the point was that Terracotta might be better off using GDAL directly instead of via rasterio.

Maybe, but I think mapbox is doing a great job with rasterio, and so far we didn’t run into any unsolvable problems (although we got close sometimes). I think for the ease of installation alone rasterio is a blessing.
I can't figure out how to message someone with their @username.

I press "New Message" and get these options: "New Group", "New Contact", "New Channel".

If I press "New Contact" it asks for permission to access my contacts. If I refuse, it goes back to the three options mentioned above.

I've tried to find it for years, and I just have the other person message me first.
For the Olympics, this impression is incorrect. It's at least as much a show as an athletics competition.

Billions of dollars are on the line in the Olympics, and that's what it's about, from countries competing with billion-dollar incentives, to news networks, to bribes.

Any capitalist enterprise is driven to make money.
The Risk Averse Middle Class
It isn't. Climate is a statistics game. You cannot prove or disprove that a specific dice throw ended up 6 because the dice was unfair, but you can still make robust (and thus falsifiable) predictions over hundreds of throws.
Autonomous Vehicles – Are We There Yet?
Reducing the inputs so drastically and then using a neural network is a weird choice. Time series forecasting usually uses a lot more data before is starts using fancy methods like neural networks. I suspect their granularity is small enough and reactive enough that this forecast isn't doing much work. The grid can probably muddle through sizeable imbalances and other protections kick in if the frequency changes too much.
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> Has the myth that Japan is a uniquely technically advanced society been debunked in culture yet?

One hypothesis I saw put forward by a Japanese-American vlogger was that Japan basically "does not do software".

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqMSWuSeDPA

Software is treated as a second-class career in most major corporations. There's less cultural prestige with being a software engineer.

I'm not sure that Japan is uniquely advanced, but it certainly is skilled in certain niches. Does any doubt the quality control of most things manufactured in Japan?

Culturally it seems to be content with the old way of doing things in other ways (e.g., using cash (wrapped in envelopes)).
In this video, and articles on his website he seems mostly concerned that views about Trump on wikipedia are biased, and there's not enough information that's critical of Biden. Essentially that there's a left wing bias to wikipedia that represents the "establishment" view:

https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-...

He says this seemingly as a "liberty loving conservative". I don't find the arguments about these particular topics very compelling. And these article are naturally politically charged...

I'd be more interested in a discussion of bias in less politically charged articles, because I'm sure this also exists to some degree.
We will create a signup system that allows users to create a new account to the system. Our first step is to create a HTML registration form. The form is pretty simple to create. It only asks for a name, email, password, and confirm password. Email addresses will be unique for every user. Multiple accounts for the same email address are not allowed.
Obviously that was a hyperbolic statement.
> 6. Knowledge work has unique concerns, unrelated to those of a factory or construction site.

> 7. … You cannot improve a system by tinkering with the parts.

This last statement seems to apply more to factories or construction sites, not software engineering. Obviously systems can be improved by tinkering with parts that are shared and actively used by multiple systems.
It’s probably true that the net salary is lower than some other comparable countries, although Denmark for example has also a quite low net salary.

I feel the important bit is what you get for the net salary deduction. In Germany you have:
- Free Education including University
- A decent mostly free health system, health care insurance
- unemployment insurance so your life does not completely unravel if you are made redundant and others are dependent on your salary
- elderly care insurance
- child care (could be better)
- police that is not completely reduced to the absolute minimum
- infrastructure that mostly works

All of this is not perfect by any means, but you do have the feeling to get something back for your deductions. YMMV
In some other even well developed countries it often feels like public services run on a shoestring and are just enough not to collapse.

And some public services are in my opinion easier achieved if the state runs them, like infrastructure, transport, health and welfare services or police/security. You can go with private services and the lowest bidder but my feeling is that’s a downward spiral of what you get out of it in the end.

So if you feel you get adequate services or services that otherwise are difficult to achieve I think it’s ok to have a higher salary deduction.
Obviously this is a quite subjective subject, not one sock fits all.
> It's lack of exercise”, they yell. But making people exercise doesn't seem to produce significant weight loss, and obesity is still spreading despite lots of money and effort being put into exercise.

Could this be explained by the weight gain in muscle?
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"Negotiation is not collaboration".

That's about the only soundbyte I liked from this list; but, on the plus side, I did like that soundbyte quite a lot!
I don't know where you live, but where I live, most software engineers are easily in the top 10% of income. Sure, you can chase $200k FAANG jobs in SV and go through all the misery that is associated with that, and then spend 50% on housing and living costs, or you can make a comfortable $130k here with free healthcare, education and so on, drive a Tesla and own a big house.
That's not at all what "basic physics" says.

For example, in a gas at a given temperature, some molecules are more energetic and some molecules are less energetic. The distribution of energy across molecules is called the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and has been known, well, since Maxwell. The Maxwell-Boltzmann formula clearly shows that, if you increase the average energy per molecule, the probability of "cold" molecules goes down, not up as you are suggesting.

I am of course not suggesting that a can of gas is a good model for climate, but I want to point out that basic laws of nature push to the opposite direction than the one you are suggesting. Your wider point may well be true, but if so, it depends on more complicated mechanisms than just basic physics.
> This is mostly true for every language that uses the Roman alphabet and isn't English.

That is not actually the case. In Catalan, for example, "e" and "o" may be pronounced either open or close (/ɛ/ vs /e/, /ɔ/ vs /o/), and the difference may only be marked with an accent mark (è, é, ò, ó) if that syllable was to be accentuated according to the rules, or if it happens to distinguish two differently pronounced words that would otherwise be spelt the same. Also, the most prevalent dialect of Catalan will pronounce non-stressed "a" and "e" as schwa (/ə/) and non-stressed "o" the same as "u". I believe something similar to this happens in Portuguese.

And don't even get me started on French...
> Maybe I've been talking to too many lawyers lately.

Only to be expected, with that nick.
Then why not report them?
How is GPU support going?
I knew it was going to be Sanger based on just the title.

"Trust but verify" is a good strategy for Wikipedia; the idea that Wikipedia as a whole is "partisan" is kind of ridiculous, but there's no denying that it's not uncommon to be out-edited by someone with more zeal and spare time on their hands, and these people are not necessarily always there with the best of intentions. This has always been the case, since day 1, and these slants exist in all directions.

If you read the accompanying article[1] Sanger wrote then it's plenty clear that he's coming at this from a very partisan stand; that's not necessarily a bad thing, although personally, I think Sanger's anger that Wikipedia doesn't give equal merit to Tucker Carlson's unhinged conspiracy theory that the Jan 6th riots were organised by the FBI to be ... well, unhinged. He's also angry it only presents the "Established" view on climate change.

We can discus the merits of what he's saying at length, but at the core it points to a fundamental problem: people have profoundly different views on reality that are impossible to unify. This has always been the case to some degree; any article will have to curate the information, or you'll end up with the weirdest quackery in any medical article. But things have moved so far apart that you'll soon become Adolf Stalin: for the left you'll be Adolf Hitler and for the right you'll be Joseph Stalin. I'm not even joking, I've seen this happen on a number of occasions. It's unworkable.

Interestingly, Sanger's entire Citizendium project was based around this fact: "give due weight to the experts", but now he's criticizing that Wikipedia is only reporting "the facts from The Establishment". Hmmkay.

Personally I mostly see Larry Sanger as Wikipedia's Eric S. Raymond: once did some okay-ish work, now an unhinged conspiracy theorist not worth paying too much attention to, but still riding on the glory of this thing he did 20 years ago.

[1]: https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-...
We've passed stage one and two

"nothing is going to happen" (there's no climate change)

"something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it" (the climate change happens anyway, it's not manmade)

Most people are now at stage three

"maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do" (even if we stopped our emissions china would be mean)

Some are progressing to stage four

"maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now" (it's too late now, we're screwed)
Farmers always worked from home
> For consultancy, the hourly rate the customer is paying to the employer versus what actually lands on the bank account at the end of the month.

No, that is just accounting of salaries. That doesn't calculate the value/worth of the work and hence can't be used to determine salaries. That's circular logic.

> For product development, the price of licenses and support deals per month, correlated to the hourly cost of everyone on the office, and then what actually lands on the bank account at the end of the month.

That is not really what I was asking for or my parent talking about. We were talking about specific salaries. Engineer X wants Y salary. justified or not? You are suggesting revenue/hours.

With that logic, everyone gets the same salary and you would also value the identical work differently depending on the revenue (which might or might not be justified)
I've been hearing about the climate crisis since I was a kid in the 80s. I was also taught that an adult is someone who takes responsibility for their actions. So I've had my whole life to set my life up in a carbon conscious way. What have all the other uhh, 'adults' been doing this whole time?
I never thought that something so basic as an alphabet could have such profound effects. Nice story
The average salary for a software developer in Denmark is probably around $80k, and at my company the "ceiling" is about $130k. On $80k you live very comfortably.
The article is talking about radio channels and those are indeed free and available world wide, hence they’ve been “blocked” as they would be broadcasting olympics for free outside of the Uk.

I’ve realised that I wrote “free television and radio network” in my parent, I can’t edit anymore.
That's also how it rhymes in northern Illinois (Chicago/Rockford/Quad Cities). I've never pronounced "cot" and "caught" alike. Using different pronunciations is a pretty good indicator that someone came from the Chicago area.
> Plants have a multitude of chemical and hormonal signaling pathways, which are generally transmitted through the sap

That's why I find popular claims of the form "plants can't do X because they have no nervous system" somewhat misleading. Plant cells still have all the other means of inter-cell signalling available - so communication and information processing is happening a lot slower in plants than in animals, but it absolutely does take place.
> Well, I'm glad that the site moderation has no patience for QAnon BS and I hope they keep it this way

Do you find it cute to say this complete non sequitur? Is this your way of being civil, thoughtful, and curious?
How long before Teslas start identifying Jupiter and weather balloons as UFOs?
> How likely is that?

Well, having been in Paris: There are many times and places when all the shared bikes are borrowed.
From my understanding, most modern vacuum brakes involve two pressure loops with two cylinders on each brake. When connected and operating, one cylinder is responsible for brake force and the other acts as counter to it - in case of disconnect, the countering cylinder evacuates fast and results in braking.

However, if the system is not "primed" (for example after longer stay disconnected which gets both cylinders empty) the brakes are inoperational except for manual mechanical brake one is supposed to apply for any longer stay.
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200 OK here https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57928647
The social networks are offline. Universities are great at open collaboration, it's just not a kind of online collaboration where anybody can walk in and partake. People spend a lot of time on a different type of communication: going to conferences, attending seminars, and meeting one-on-one. Why should it be online?

Also keep in mind that a lot of mathematicians are also older, less tech-savvy. This might change in the next decade or two!
In case people were wondering about the x-axis:
LPA = laks (in Indian rupees [IDR]) per annum

1 laks IDR = 1.3k USD = 1.1k EUR = 0.98k GBP

The right most tick on the axis, 70 LPA, is about 94k USD/year.

It seems that the developer wages in India are higher than much of SE Asia.
No kidding, try asking for "agua" (Spanish) next time.
Is it fast?
Are you overgeneralizing her as someone who is always irrational?
I was perplexed as well. It seems to be Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" written at the very top of the library punch cards.