skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its more like the entirety of humanity is frozen in time. 13.7 billion years ago the universe began, life was 3.8 billion years ago, the first telescope was 405 years ago. The only way to see how stars and planets develop is by taking thousands of celestial bodies and figure out the rules of the universe.
What is your issue with mutable strings? I've been a heavy Ruby user for 16 years and have never really thought about strings being mutable... what negative effect does it have?
Devolving? That's already what it is.

It worked well for Japan and S. Korea to 'rebuild' after the wars, and it seems it took China just a little longer to get with the program.

But each of Japan, S. Korea and China have had to forge their own path after the low-hanging fruit of 'reconstruction' are gotten.

I would argue China is entering this phase.

GDP growth is now officially 5% but probably a little bit lower, the same as US only 20 years ago.

Clamping down hard on companies and wiping out their market caps.

Severely controlling kids access to video games etc..

The 1990-2020 version of China's ascension is going to be a different phase than what we see going forward and the pandemic I think will effectively be the demarcation point.
"As you are aware, Zeta is a letter of the Greek Alphabet. The Greek alphabet is currently protected legally by the Affinity Client Services. Due to this ownership and the takedowns we have received, we must police our platform for content using 'Zeta.'"

This is quite honestly the most ridiculous statement I've read this month.
Yeah, that’s basically the same in Australia. The ones who claim to be small-Government free market types or pretend to be libertarians seem to be the most authoritarian of all…

For example, the ruling party has strong links into coal, oil and gas companies (big political donations going one way, much bigger grants and subsidies going the other). They cut subsidies for renewables because they “always let the market decide”, and now when older coal power stations are increasingly uneconomic they’re literally bringing in a forced subsidy to keep them going (sold as a “capacity payment” to “ensure reliability of the grid” - even though the clunkers are increasingly unreliable). It’s going to cost somewhere between $150 and $400 a year per-household on our power bills if they get it through.

Other things are like trying to come up with some kind of way to fine or sanction banks who refuse to lend to fossil fuel companies, or stop activist investors trying to force companies to go green. This is all by the side of politics who claim the utmost commitment to free markets and small Government! Same party pushing all these authoritarian surveillance laws too…
Have you considered just buying a copy? With your own money and supporting the author(s)?
Well, I mean, they are talking about customizing a Pixel 4a, which is made by Google. So I while I think it's reasonable to question the meaning of "No Google", it's clear that Google cannot and will not be taken out of the picture entirely, since they make the hardware.
This makes me wonder, how many sparks of life and ancient civilizations have been wiped from the universe by the birth and death of stars. How many supernovae have violently ripped them from existence. How many rogue stars have cooked them to molten slag. What a small and fragile thing humanity is in the face of these forces.
That's one opinion. The common one is that the opposite of "infinite" is "none" and the opposite of "scarce" is "abundant".

This is also the dictionary's opinion, I don't know whether dictionaries are "coherent" to you though.
It is important to contextualize what almost all means in this context of a vast and possibly infinite universe. It leaves an incomprehensible number of stars yet to form. It also leaves open a backdoor for a star forming Renaissance if blackhole activity dies down in another 10 billion years.
You either misread my comment or you’re attacking a straw man argument. I said “they’re not a psychology consultancy”, NOT “I hope they don’t consult psychologists”.
Slack, Teams, Messenger and probably some others still doesn't support Firefox due to non-standard protocol use. Still waiting for Google to transition to “Unified Plan”.
"Nothing matters"

This is true in the biggest sense of the word. But it's also false. We all have things that matter to us and the various communities that we belong to. In some ways, to me anyway, it's very liberating: life as a blank canvas to imbue it with the meaning we want on.

That won't resonate with everyone or even most people, but it's motivating for me.
What fuzzer are they using? I assume AFL (since Google) but I couldn't find exactly :/
Plenty people use a headset all the time anyways. Certainly a niche offer, but I can see it.
I don't know about America, but when comparing payment infrastructure in Europe vs. Asia, I'm always amazed at how bad the EU is.

Hoping that this will work but I highly doubt it - most European banks were created a very long time ago and like all legacy systems it's really hard to change their habit.

Even if I'm using this "immediate payment system", I'm pretty sure my local bank will still delay my payment by a few days "because they are used to do it that way".
> I called wearing it stupid, not weak.

On a forum.

And it is indeed not joining a popular group, it is the exact opposite. Because most of the people not wearing the shirt ( AFAIK, I am the only one in town ), are actually in the anti-Trump camp to the point some would like to harass me.

Regarding Barcelona : I know nothing about football or the club, but I think you can call yourself a proper fan for whatever reason you like, follow all their matches online ( think WFH but for sports ) and want to wear the shirt.

I find it odd you paint whole groups of people you don't know as stupid, weak and silly.
Whatever you may think about this, in the law, the distinction does not exist. The idea that there are special rules for "publishers" is a Twitter meme.
The majority support vaccine and mask mandates.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/22/americ...

"An overwhelming 72%-28% of those surveyed by USA TODAY and Ipsos called mask mandates "a matter of health and safety," not an infringement on personal liberty. By 61%-39%, they endorsed requiring vaccinations except for those with a medical or religious exemption."
It's about the journey, not the destination.
Yeah but the issue is at hand is specifically 12 cars. You can put 12 humans in cars and watch them brake before hitting emergency vehicles. If they’re claiming AI is better than humans then it’s important to understand why these 12 are so bad.
Does it have to better than an attentive driver or the average driver? I figure if the Tesla has less crashes per mile than the average driver than that's a success?

Even if the accidents a Tesla does get into are ones that a normal attentive driver wouldn't get into, if it avoids just as many accidents that a normal attentive driver would get into isn't that enough?
Mach-E was the bestseller last month, second place this month after the Model Y. The 80% last month were for plugin vehichles including plugin hybrid (64% battery electric, BEV), the 70% now are BEV (about 88% plugin).

The numbers change a lot from month to month. Depends on delivery rate (e.g. Tesla does bulk delivery every three months), and there is typically a spike in deliveries when a model starts shipping, since there are months of backorders to work through. New models starting shipping was Mach-E last month and Model Y this month.
So it's more useful to look at longer timeframes.
"I've only just heard of this, but it looks like it's an attempt by lots of big European banks to beat Mastercard & Visa at their own game!"

Not really. Europe has Vpay and Maestro/EC. Online payments can be done in some countries by "Sofort"
https://www.klarna.com/pay-now/

They may just want to standardize it for all of Europe. In general, US banking often looks like stone age compared with Europe. Alo ne a money wire is annoying. IBAN payments are free. I think they charge a small fee for instant money wires.
This boomer here is speechless from all the bullshit techno-babble about coffee these days.
> like 90% of the tests are catching things that would be caught automatically if we had used a proper language with strong types/compiler

It sounds like the tests are testing the wrong thing

> seems optimized for shoving crappy REST endpoints out the door as quickly as possible

Ruby is a general purpose language. Perhaps it is Rails that you have gripes with?

I'd also like to hear what you are doing that leads you to the conclusion that 'ruby is slow'. For most domains I would say ruby is fast enough to solve the problem in a way that customers are perfectly happy with.
The end of the Chinese gilded age.
I like Ruby. Rails, not so much.
I've personally noticed two big schools of though take root in Millennial and Gen-Z folks.

The first is that the idea of inaction is unacceptable. "We have to do something, we can't just do nothing". This manifests itself in ever increasing intervention in problems that seem really minuscule. Removing a statue of Robert E Lee.... well I can understand that. Removing a boulder because it was once given a name with a racist slur nearly a hundred years ago.... come on.

The second is the idea that if you aren't actively helping, you are actively hurting progress. This takes various forms such as "silence is violence" and "it's not enough to just be not racist, you must be actively anti-racist".

The confluence of these two schools of thought is what I think is leading so such rabid polarization and vitriol. I, of course, have no way to actually prove any of this, but I think it is a model with good face-validity.
Admittedly, back then, there has been way less abuse of that kind of tech.
Cool bro, I like lights too.
I wonder what they'll do on weekends. Because Dutch banks for sure still have 'weekends'. I suspect it will be 24/5.
Allegedly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lomasney

Eliot Spitzer (!) infamously added the addendum "And never put anything in email"
Nothing I've found works as well as OBS[1]. Everything else I've tried runs into performance problems for certain workloads (games, typically).

[1] https://obsproject.com/
(Simplification, I'm happy and "well-adjusted" whatever that means): I've accepted the fact that my body has an urge to survive and it's not worth (and why would I want to) trying to weigh that against the grand nothingness that my life will amount to. I don't think there's a point to it all but if my body's gonna make me live then I'm gonna live it up. But it is kinda weird.
You do realize they make lightning/USB-C adapters to 3.5mm as well as splitters to allow for a chargers in parallel.

> Adapt or stay in an older (possibly more insecure) device ecosystem.

Gaslit by bigtech.
I imagined this as a modern buddhist story:

The student approaches their master lamenting the meaninglessness of everything.

The master, "Super Mario bros is pretty fun".

Enlightenment ensues.
Does the algorithm that automatically notifies a poster when their link is a dupe ignore all articles on paulgraham.com?
Does it have to be "all?" "All" seems unlikely. "Some" seems very likely.
What about Switzerland? Comparable population more or less, outside of the anglosphere. Three universities in the QS top 100.

Really difficult to argue 'best bar none' I think.
I'd say the correct analogy is movie rentals.

* In the past, I rented a VHS tape of which there were 3 copies. Now I rent a movie from iTunes, there are infinite copies and I rent the right to watch it (as often as I'd like) within a 48 hour period.

* In the past, I lended a physical book of which there were 3 copies. In my proposal I rent a book from Libby, there are infinite copies and I rent the right to read it (as often as I'd like) within a xyz day period (or I pay per day I lend it, some books take longer to finish than others).
InfluxData doesn't make money from Telegraf at all. It fills a need (data collection) that InfluxDB users have, so it helps them which helps us, but it also helps our competitors whose users also use Telegraf to collect data.

The reason merges have been a problem is that historically there was only a couple of people involved in the project doing all of the code reviews, and new plugins are usually large chunks of new code that interact with products or protocols those reviewers aren't familiar with, so there is a steep learning curve just to properly review code contributions.

Last year we formed a new maintainers team that is a mix of InfluxData staff and community contributors who are working together to review and land code changes. This has significantly increased the rate they're getting through PRs but there's still a very large backlog to get through, plus new stuff coming in all the time.

Anybody who wants to see new code and plugins land in Telegraf faster can ask to join the maintainers team. You'll need to be familiar with the codebase and willing to work on any plugins of functionality that come in (a lot of plugins come from people building things for their own job/product).
> Our legislators seem uninterest in legislating and in general seem to believe that their main job is re-election, and not the work they were elected to do.

Going to attempt a fix

Our legislators seem uninterest in legislating and in general seem to believe that their main job is re-education, and not the work they were elected to do.
Even the worst country in "The west" has more social security than China.

What we certainly do not need is a dictator that is disappearing CEOs.
Assuming no quirks in physics that the universe just left out for yet another pathological counter example to our understanding of everything — it could just be the star stuff hanging out and social distancing after a star blazing first act.
hm. vexing.

I feel like this is mostly accurate, to my knowledge, but reading this:

> I do not claim that this way of looking at Git represents absolute “facts” in any hard and fast or literal sense. But I contend that if you conceive of Git in the way that I’m going to suggest, if you substitute these conceptions of Git for any misconceptions you might have now, you’ll be a much happier and more fluid Git user.

…vexes me.

“Think of git like bowl of peanuts and marshmallows” and other pointless, wrong, metaphors about how git works are a dime a dozen.

Yet, here is someone who is clearly quite familiar with git, and they go to pains to point out they are simplifying and may not be correct in their explanations.

Its good to be humble, but ffs, git is too frigging complicated if the best you can get is a “probably wrong simplified mental model of how it works so you can be a bit more productive with it”.

I dont care;

- a simple meaningless metaphor that lets you be more productive? OK.

- a accurate description of how things actually work? OK.

…but pick one.

What I do not want is a possibly wrong complicated explanation of how git maybe works.
It is just a tool to help you do your real work and famously gets in the way. You use SVN and it covers 99% of use cases much more simply than Git manages.
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That is a great quote, but it's misattributed.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Misattributed
That's awesome :) Thanks for the info. I love the images. And the metaphor of it being a powerful tool for creative expression rather than an actual creative expression itself.

Do you think this will change and get better? Would it help if the AI was capable of interactively refining the inputs (I guess by asking questions instead of making assumptions)?
https://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH for the uninitiated.
Depends on your setup. Many headphones (both wired and wireless) have built-in mics now & I also have a bluetooth dac with a built-in mic. Mics as integrated extras in external peripherals for phones have become very common these days.
PS. Downvoting my comment is a sign of fear and cowardice.

Edit: I forgot to laugh. hahahaha...HAHAHAHA...hahahaha
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> There are systems that can detect stationary objects, Tesla does not want to use those more reliable systems

What systems are you referring to? Lidar and radar systems can't reliably detect stationary objects as hazards, because most of the world is stationary and consequently gets filtered out.
Locast, the streaming-TV nonprofit sued by media giants, suspends service
They did try turning off the "beg for donations" overlays, but to no avail.

That sucks, I was a happy customer.

And I'll probably just find a more shady way to get my local news channel now.
In a literal sense, sure, git _the tool_ doesn't do much, though I think this is slowly improving as it evolves. For example, there is an experimental `git switch` command[1] under development to provide a simpler interface for changing branches. For me, the biggest leap in developing my own mental model was reading Scott Chacon's book Pro Git, and that is now available online for free on the official Git website[2].

[1]: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-switch

[2]: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
This is a pretty bizarre approach; surely it would make more sense just to _tax_ them? This is for practical purposes a targeted tax anyway.
I’d love to use Gigaclear since they recently became available in my area. I booked installation twice - no one came either time, and when I contacted Gigaclear I heard nothing.
> Europe has Vpay and Maestro/EC

...owned by Visa and Mastercard?
What chaos must result from Pi Day?
Or dumping them into supermassive black holes.
They'll survive a googol years or so, and feeding matter in will produce plenty of energy.
I mean the lawyers who will argue the fine is unfair.
I prefer the aesthetics of Sun Open Look or NeXTSTEP which doesn't get carried away with as many levels of visual depth. WindowMaker is a pretty good NeXT desktop experience.
> living on 18K in Seattle ... are probably not generalizable

Probably not, but spending less than you make, and sometimes far less, is one of the best ways to "make more money". If one is able to cut expenses by a few hundred dollars a month (I know that's completely impossible for plenty of people), that adds up. In fact, $300 invested monthly for 30 years at 10% interest is... 651,396.33.

I think one of the takeaways from this article is to see where you can cut your spending, and do that. But before doing that, have an inspiring goal that makes it easy (or at least much easier) to do. Simply "spending less" isn't motivating for most people. However, retiring when I turn 50 might be.
> One tip if you are a resident of California, a lot of libraries allow you to get a Library card such as LA, San Francisco libraries etc.

I've just tried and this is what I got (I live in San Jose): "You must be a resident of Los Angeles to register for a library card."
Hey guys, I'm the author of this article and I have been rueing the day I ever said this. I have since received complaints and/or restraining orders from a number of Python developers. I truly apologize, that one is on me, I made a classic mistake of writing about what I hear about instead of what's actually out there, for which I repent. We live and we learn! This is my first article so I gotta start somewhere. I've edited the article to avoid further contact with rage-filled Python devs:

"Note: Many systems using other “preferred languages” also implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine, CPython). Python has a reputation for heavy machine learning lifting and parallel tasks. However, when it comes down to actually looking at the benchmarks, the constraints, and the underlying implementations, its quite hard to pull out any statistically significant metric or distinction between how Python and Ruby handle these tasks — what Python has in advantage over Ruby is its popularity, vast library, and very active data-science community, moreso than any benchmark. Ruby is a little faster in some things, Python is a little faster in others.

Edited: I previously had a line in here saying that we “don’t hear about” Python’s GIL, to which I received a number of messages from Python developers who assure me that it is all they talk about. Sorry Python!"
Not all market transactions are done to make money on the trade itself, many are done to protect a larger business interest. This is very uncommon on stock markets, but is very common on commodity markets. You don't generally hear much discussion of commodity markets because they are not the big way (at least not today) for people doing trading to make it rich quick.

Most consumer level goods have become insulated from price fluctuations in commodity markets, but there is still some variation at the consumer level in the price of fresh fish and meats, and sometimes fresh fruits and vegetables.

At the scale restaurants buy, and especially large chains or higher scale restaurants, price fluctuations can make a big impact on profitability. Getting tipped off early to a situation that might impact prices can allow a company to lock in a futures contract at the current prices for delivery later on when prices have risen before the people selling know that prices are about to go up.

The result is that the people gathering the data and producing information may not be in a position to get value directly, they are not already trading in those commodity, but people already doing that trading may get value from better or faster information on the market.
It's all a very appealing sort of "alternate reality." I don't mean that in a bad way. If "virtual" will become a bigger and bigger share of our economy and personal rewards system than I guess it makes sense to think about investing this way. Of course as physical beings we still need to pay for food, housing, healthcare, travel, computers, etc. Investing in crypto and crypto-related projects that may act as viable platforms for some of these things does seem like a good idea.
Another point is, legal human operator liability or not, the agency has been alerted of 12 such incidents which could never, ever occur unless a human driver is asleep, fully drunk/under the influence of drugs, some sort of fight happened in the car or was distracted from heavy sunlight to the eyes or had to dodge a hazard or animal on the road.

Their way of thought is simply that if the software can't deal with what is trivial for humans, maybe a recall or better look is in order.
I know, this is not trivial for software, it just looks to not technical people like something that should never happen, and if it does , they loose all the trust in it.
Obviously, there are many bright engineers working at Tesla, not sure how this was deployed and how this slipped QA repeatedly.

This, the authority asks Tesla, before the authority has to answer to the voters , congress and media shows.
Obligatory link to Isaac Asimov's wonderful short story "The Last Question" which explores this topic:

https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
Should we read the frequently asked questions list which addresses this?
Better to stick with CMake due to broad range of IDEs supporting CMake, including, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code editor, Jetbrain's CLion, QtCreator, KDevelop IDE and also Eclipse IDE via plugin. Other building systems may even be better than CMake, but they may lack widespread IDE support. By using CMake a project can make it easier to other people contribute as all they need to do in order to navigate across a C or C++ project is opening a directory containing a CMakeLists.txt file.

Another advantage of CMake over Meson is that CMake is Turing-complete, supports user-defined functions and macros, and has capabilities to download other packages and sub-projects by itself. It is also worth mentioning the CMake ability to deal cross-platform annoyances such as, exporting DLL symbols, making symbols private, installing to a directory, compiling resources on Windows and so on.