skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact this is how it works for real banks too. If you sign up for a bank account outside the US it's routine that they ask you if you are American, because they do not want to comply with onerous US regulations. It's a big problem for Americans who live abroad, who cannot access banking services in the country they are resident in.
AfterShokz Aeropex ("Bone conduction" bluetooth headphones)

Lets me listen to audiobooks and pod casts while still being aware of my surroundings and not having to jam things into my ear canals....
Storms could be an issue - storm won't usually sink a houseboat or destroy a RV trailer.

But it might very well smash a residential airship into the ground even if securely moored just due to the sheer size of its gas envelope being effectively a giant sail.
Facebook is not the alternative. With Facebook you are making a conscious decision to share your photo with the world. Yes, the photo is encrypted but Apple is still matching the encryption to any photograph which they can identify later.

I don't have a better solution of how to protect innocent children, but you have to ask, what else is this technology able to do outside of it's intended use.
There's a joke in java where you have the Maven and the Gradle logos. And then two arrows, one point from one to another in a circle. With the title "java upgrade path"
Humans are never objective. Ever. Not only that, this inherent and fundamental subjectivity means they could never know what objectivity looks like in order to judge whether something is indeed objective. Because their criteria are subjective.

It's not an ideal, it's a legend.
I love this quote (from Interlisp-D: Overview and Status):

"Interlisp is a very large software system and large software systems are not easy to construct. Interlisp-D has on the order of 17,000 lines of Lisp code, 6,000 lines of Bcpl, and 4,000 lines of microcode."

So large. :)

http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/LISP/interlisp-...
> the phone call he is making with someone else's phone is not depriving him of his freedom/privacy, but its owner's.

Maybe he's not being hypocritical, but that position -- I will pragmatically use others' phones for my convenience, but I will not retain one myself -- just seems shitty. Not sure why, maybe because it's even less of a universally applicable tenet than "phones are bad, mmkay," it's just "I'll use the systems as convenient for me, no matter how others may suffer under them."
I'm always hopeful that airships will make a comeback. I would love to be able to travel from the United States to Europe on an airship, just like they did at the in the early 20th century. I can see a lot of advantage from a comfort perspective, even if it does take more time than a plane.

If you are interested in the history of airship travel, and its rise and fall, I highly recommend The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed by John McPhee. It's a short book about an unlikely union of ex Navy airshipmen and evangelical Christians chasing the impossible dream of brining airship travel back in an era where the world had moved on from airship travel.
> Are the NFs you’re referring to is same as in DB design?

Yes

> If so, how does that translate to general code/system design.

SQL is capable of evaluating any logical outcome you would need to know about. It can be extended with application-defined functions to add convenience and a domain-specific dialect that aids in implementation speed.

Best way to learn is to start experimenting with practical problem domains. Pick a problem you care about and start modeling it over and over. 6NF followed to the extreme is actually pretty hard to get wrong. Just find the things that you need to uniquely refer to by some identity, then relate all the knowledge to them by way of single-fact tables (which can be further related and extended to add dimensions like change-over-time).

Understanding how abstract dimensions fit together is 99% of the battle. You just have to hurt yourself on some sharp edges a few times to really grasp it in my experience.
Not sure. I love the fact that I can travel with the weather. Too hot? Go where it isn't. Too dry, go to beach. Forest fire surrounding your van in Northern California? Freak out for a couple minutes, and then drive to another forest. ;)

The temptations of the lifestyle are many; but, be careful. That much freedom can ruin. You might not be able to return to “normal life", where people supplicate themselves to unbelievable amoralities. Ex. "Two weeks vacation".

Two weeks? Sir, can I have some more, Sir?

I'm a chef. I wasn't always. I can find work anywhere as a chef. I guess that helps.
But I never asked FOSS to make me anything.

All I said is if the FOSS community wants consumer adoption, the path forward is making things consumers like, NOT blaming us for "ignoring" RMS, because no one ever did that.

Basically everything your post implies (that I think I am entitled to something, that I think everything should be easy, etc...) is not true.

As I keep pointing out again and again, all I'm saying is that people don't use FOSS, but it's not because they don't value privacy, not because they don't value freedom, and for the love of biscuits not because of anything to do with RMS or ignoring him.

The options are use an iPhone (not freedom), use an Android phone (not freedom), or use something like LineageOS. Using something like LineageOS is major commitment that most people don't have room in their lives for, because they have different priorities, which might also be very good.

EDIT: Here's a metaphor, it'd be like if you asked your friend who owns a car with an ICE why he keeps ignoring Al Gore's warnings about the climate. It's like, Al Gore can be right, your friend can believe in Climate change, and he can still decide he needs an ICE car because he's barely making ends meet and is trying to support a family. You can claim that your friend has made bad choices, but there is no argument that he "ignored" Al Gore.
> It's still an individual luxury that can have an oversized impact compared to everything else I do.

as an individual, isnt that plane going to fly wether im on it or not...?

ive ridden on many long intercontinental flights where a huge amount (almost half) of seats were unfilled..
Yeah me too ... had to double-take.
Big Basin state park didn’t burn to the ground. Unlike the sequoia groves in the castle fire, most of the coastal redwoods in big basin survived the CZU fire.
C# too, a very handy types

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Why software engineering is hard
You're right. Free Software isn't there yet. So I just took some of my money and donated to a few projects.. Drop in the ocean, but a drop nonetheless.
> Ships cut through the water at like maybe 30 mph in good conditions.

Container ships rarely if ever go that fast. Usually it’s in the 15-18 knots range (aka <20mph) from what I’ve seen.
What, you still have the scar?!
Hey I'm also working in this space (most exotics and vol), but not really for a consumer product in the same vein, but I'd love to help you beta test! My email is in my profile
That graph depicts cumulative (historical) emissions, which is interesting, but not pertinent to the question of how to fix up things for the future.

It is not "only" the West that is a problem here. The biggest current polluter is China. If you look at per capita data, you have among the biggest polluters the US, definitely, but also Russia, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada. That's not "the West". Per capita, China emits more than the EU.

Sure, "the West" needs to clean up its act (the US in particular), but this is without doubt a global problem.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...
Nothing. I think it is naive in the first place to think your data was ever safe on a closed platform. If the federal government or anyone else with influence over Apple is a serious part of your threat model, you probably shouldn’t be using a phone at all.

Did you ever read Three-Body Problem? I lead my digital life as if I am being watched and tracked all the time.
what could go wrong, right?
Simpler than AD&D, not implying that they're simple. What you described is a big kriegsspiel- the equivalent of Gygax and Kuntz running multiple parties through the Greyhawk dungeon at the same time. They would have used similar methods to limit information being shared between parties.

Or for a more measurable metric, the von Reisswitz rules are 76 pages, which iirc was about the size of the player's handbook:

https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product/kriegsspiel-1824/

Edit- Oops, just reread what I originally wrote and I said 'much' simpler, which would be stretching things.
I bought an iphone because I want a phone that'll last five years and get security updates for at least as long. I also bought an iphone because I have a lot of confidence it won't have design flaws that break its gps (like the motorola I had) or have its ecosystem EOL'd (like the Windows phone I had, which was an incredible piece of hardware, and I loved it!)

I wish the android hardware ecosystem had half the longevity you get with the cheapest iphone.
Ha

I do like how ECS and Redux have that common thread of rediscovering global state
I think the key to innovation is to first know what’s out there. Then you’re able to combine, twist and augment known ideas.

Special theory of relativity did not come out of nowhere. Neither did the geometry, nor algebra. It was all about humans’ curious mind and joy of exploring what’s “possible” out there.
I purchased a generic water flosser from Amazon. Works great. I put an ounce or two of mouthwash in the reservoir when I fill it and I occasionally clean it by washing the reservoir. Very simple to maintain and an extremely effective oral hygiene tool. I have many teeth that are very close together and floss just breaks constantly (I can use those floss tools but don't like throwing them out each time).
The popular, 40+ year-old license scheme for business software is not based on version numbers (which can be manipulated by the vendor), it is based on time. So long as you pay maintenance you get rights to use whatever released version you choose, and you have perpetual rights to the last version released while you paid maintenance.

So exactly the same as Sketch.
Libby is pretty much same as Overdrive just in a nicer package. In fact it's developed by the same company that created Overdrive so you can easily switch from OD to Libby. And I'm sure you won't regret as Libby has such a great polished UI compared to OD.
It's a very real slippery slope, however.

What if the Chinese government could search every device for images of yellow umbrellas, as part of the HK revolution?
Pretty cool that they’ve built some prototypes
I think snowflake has a hybrid mode, where you bundle dependencies and not your application code. But, I’ve been blocked by React not working well with ESM
IIRC something about the pain used on the aerodynamic outer shell (the gas cells inside were separate gas tight balloons made from processed cattle stomach tissue (!)). This paint apparently turned out to be highly flammable and/or explosive and could be activated by dischrges of static electricity.
In a healthy civilization, as technology improves, things get easier over time, not harder.

The only reason it would have worked in France 40 years ago but not today is institutional malaise and bureaucratic capture.
Need to look at the bpftrace dependencies

For example, is clang already installed
Article's stated motivation:

> I'm looking to gain more confidence in my criticism and understanding of OOP. In the past, I have published multiple posts criticizing Object Oriented Programming ... I always feel this anxiety that... maybe there is such a thing as “good OOP”, maybe all the OOP code I wrote, and the OOP code I keep seeing here and there is just “incorrect OOP”.

To that I'm saying read DP and critique that and if you still feel that way, your on to something. Cherry picking 3 crap OOP books to critique then concluding OOP is crap feels like a bit of a strawman argument.
Western Europe uses its rivers and hundreds of thousands of km of canals to ship between a quarter and a half of its freight this way. It's the most economical and environmentally friendly form of transport. Youre right that this sort of infrastructure does not come cheap, which is why hydrogen dirigibles are very interesting.
Alright I'll bite, what brand does both? And more importantly, what in the world is Dragon Blood in this context?
The paper does not say that professors are only moderately correct about what mistakes their students typically make, just that their personal experience does not align with the results of the cohort used in the study.

A professor may be perfectly correct at a local level but globally only moderately correct. The contextual knowledge of the professor is not acknowledged in this study (curriculum, course level, teaching style, problem set, student background, lecture notes, textbook choice, compiler, IDE) nor are the professors own students who may only come to the professor or TA with a certain subset of problems etc.
There's some concern that Wikileaks is allied with Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Allegations_of_Russi...

If that was the case trying to promote anti-lukashenka narrative through wikileaks wouldn't work very well.
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> Serious question: why did Apple bother making that announcement at all? I can't imagine they're naive enough to think it would be good press for them?

Because they are proud of it.

I think for some people, this was a feel good project. I know I'd feel better about working for a company that profits from forced labor[1] and lobbies to water down legislation against forced labor[2] if I was working to help children there.

Also, who wouldn't want to stop CSAM distribution? They probably thought dissent would be shamed and outnumbered.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/10/22428899/apple-suppliers-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...
Yeah, Norvig has a rather famous rebuttal of Chomsky up on his blog from years ago, and everything that's happened since then has supported Norvig's position.
Russia’s New Jet Fighter Aims to Rival U.S. in Air–and on Geopolitical Map
How large is strace standalone binary

45MB is still huge; its not even statically-linked

The largest programs I use, even when statically-linked against musl are all under 6MB
It's not just idle speculation- history speaks for itself.
Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
Doing a little dimensional analysis:

MP3 is about 1MB/minute

Assume 5 minutes per person per day on average

AWS Glacier costs 0.4 cents per GB per month

So I get a yearly cost of:

(365 days) *
(5 minutes / day / person) *
(1MB / minute) *
(0.001 GB / MB) *
($0.004 / GB / month) *
(12 months / year)

==

$0.088/person/year

Which is pretty much $20M/year for the US adult population.
Sorry, never read that, but I've seen 2 different screen adaptations of Andromeda Strain, and neither of them would be considered "good". The most recent version was made for TV, so not as large of a budget as a true feature and more disappointing that it wasn't better than it was for being the redo.

However, since this is carneverous plant stuff, if they start getting too big for their britches, we can use dandruff shampoo according to sily scifi plot lines instead of fire. That way it won't get out of control. The lastly, since we're not sure the effect of fire, it might be best to just take off and nuke it from orbit.
Also note that this is not a special syntax, it's a library function called `repeat()` which leverages Kotlin's support for out-ouf-parens closures.
You seem to simultaneously be underestimating the sophistication of Native American tribes, while overestimating the amount of sophistication in planning and environmental knowledge required to carry out regular burns to ensure the land supplies food.
What is your opinion of the j. primitive in j?
Although not adding much value to the comment, I concur that her channel is great to watch. She is so enthusiastic she would make even the grumpiest professor smile.
You know there are other career paths besides start up, right? Is it wasted potential for someone to be a doctor for 25 years and then decide they want to pursue some idea for a new medical device? Hell, I think certain spaces could use more entrepreneurs that have spent time on the ground first - edtech is a prime example.

I don't know if OP is qualified for YC but I'd hardly call the career he describes a waste.
This reminds me of EcoDemurrage https://www.ecodemurrage.com/watch
All of the code was written in BlueJ in 2013-2014, I have no idea if the versions of BlueJ in use at the time had the parenthesis matching feature.
> We have a choice between that, or an even less pleasant future. "Everything is awesome forever and we don't have to pay for it" is simply not one of the options.

When I see these flat assertions stated as foregone conclusions IRL by friends, I am prompted to ask, “What mitigations did you already implement against this conclusion?”

Revealed preferences demonstrate that overwhelmingly their assertions are far stronger than their mitigations. This is worrisome, as it shows even “true believers” are not taking commensurate action. The dislocation when it arrives, if as large a magnitude as claimed by IPCC, will be large even for that cohort.
> Carbon tax is a scam.

why?
Snowden, Phony hence Traitor?
There's no reason in principle a machine can't learn this kind of thing (humans are still machines, after all), but I think this certainly points to why humans learn language so much faster than machine models. We can synthesize language understanding with a much richer, sensory-based model of the world and recognize that words correspond to clusters of sensations like specific sights, sounds, tastes, feelings, and smells.

A logical next step in AI research is figuring out some kind of way to get these various systems that do one thing and one well to interoperate the way all the parts of a brain do, so Alpha Go, some object recognizer trained on Go boards, and a language model trained on sentences about the game of Go can recognize they're all modeling the same thing and augment each other with crosstalk and competitive hypothesizing in roughly the way animal reasoning seems to work.
ES Modules aren't package management though? In that ES Modules say nothing about how to get the modules in the first place, nor anything about versions. Not in any standardized way anyhow.
I once serviced a Rolex Datejust with diamond dial and gold bracelet for almost the same price. (Depending on exchange rate)
PCR tests for travel: Could prices fall for post-arrival testing?
Fair point - I hadn't considered that!
This is great. Don't know if it supports 4g. If it's only on 2g/3g, it's lifespan isn't going to be that long. Down here in Australia 3g networks will be decommissioned by 2024. We don't have 2g networks anymore. I wish they released one of their QWERTY slider phones. Those were great little devices.
It's meant to be therapeutic, not preventative. There are valid reasons for not being vaccinated (rare though) and it seems the vaccinated still have a small chance of getting Covid (albeit rare and mild) so it can be used to manage symptoms.

Maybe if I ever get Covid again it'll be mild and this will just help it along like cold and flu medicine...
Books of 2021 So Far
IIRC you can also make it by effectively running small scale energy negative fusion reactor. How eficent and scalable that would be I have no idea.
The monthly filing makes so much sense, great idea. Implementing this immediately. I like to keep the last thing I got (e.g. most recent insurance policy docs, last 12 power bills, etc) but very rarely for more than a year. Reminds me of the tickler file from GTD.
I'm first language English and "Even I don't know how to answer that" doesn't sound correct to me for emphasis. It sounds like you're implying you're some kind of expert who should know, and showing surprise that "even I" don't know how to answer that.

If I wanted to emphasize, I would write "I don't even know how to answer that".
Math.max(...list)
Very much this.. I don't use it now as much as I used to, but this workflow simplified my life for taxes, record keeping and organization. In my case everything flows to Evernote for simplicity and search-ability, when I'm at my accountant for tax season if I missed something I can AirPrint it on their printer in minutes.
Swapping a Running Engine into Another Car Takes Incredible Skill
They are explicit about this.

"iCloud content may include email, stored photos, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, Safari Browsing History, Maps Search History, Messages
and iOS device backups. iOS device backups may include photos and videos in the Camera Roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, Business Chat, SMS, and MMS messages and voicemail. All iCloud content data stored by Apple is encrypted at the location of the server. When third-party vendors are used to store data, Apple never gives them the encryption keys.

Apple retains the encryption keys in its U.S. data centers. iCloud content, as it exists in the customer’s account, may be provided in response to a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause, or customer consent."

So unless you doubt apples own guide - they maintain the keys and will provide this info in response to govt requests.

They handled requests for 31,000 accounts in the last 6 months based on their reporting and provided data in 85% of those situations.
There's growing awareness and discussion of microbiomes; but those are just an ephemeral slice of the macro-microbiome we drag around with us and share with our friends, neighbors, pets, and pests.
I'm looking at this as if I am a historian from the future. From first principles, humanity has the pre-requisites in my mind to solve the problem. This doesn't mean it will be easy or obvious in predicting exactly how it is done. It's just much more likely to me that we solve it over the next several decades than not. We may take a hit along the way. Fusion energy seems relatively imminent, the economics for solar are in a positive feedback loop, and X Prizes for carbon capture are well underway. If we just get practically limitless clean energy (possible given the existence proof of stars) and figure out a way to relocate the carbon in the air at scale ("just" moving a lot of atoms) we have a lot of slack to resolve things. Again: this is just first principles analysis, not a claim it will be easy or that we won't see major consequences along the way.

The things that keep me up at night are not climate change, but runaway feedback loops that yield existential civilizational risk on the order of weeks not decades. For example, a COVID-like R0 virus that is highly fatal but spreads asymptomatically for months before killing hosts. Engineering and deploying such a virus seems plausible for a psychopathic individual over the next several decades. Basically anything where a lone actor can unleash a chain reaction to take out civilization are things we should be very concerned about, since they are total random variables. Getting various hedges in place like physical boundaries between cohesive populations (eg, a Martian colony) seem important to clear before one of these tripwires are hit.
Yes it may be dire stress on some overworked doctors, but not on the country or the world.
How about web traffic?