skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Exactly the same was true in 1982 in Canada. The UK Parliament commissioned a board in 1867 of elected representatives from the regions of what now compromise eastern and central Canada. They drafted a constitution. Quebec was involved and signed off on the Constitution Act 1867. That constitution was passed into law by the UK Parliament.

Per the established constitutional law operating in Canada in the 1980s, following the convention of the previous centuries, the government petitioned the UK government to amend the constitution yet again, this time moving the process of amendment to the Canadian legislatures and fully severing the connection.

Constitutional rule in Canada begins when the British first appear and have jurisdiction, as far back as the 1600s in the eastern parts of the country. It was never interrupted. The Crown has always reigned. 18th century treaties and proclamations in UK law are an inherited part of our unwritten constitutional body. It was simply a different historical course from the USA, but not fundamentally less democratic. IMO.

(Although I risk sounding like a mad Canadian nationalist at this point, I would note that under the modern constitutional system, Quebec could just exit the confederation. That is not a right of American states.)
Sorry about that. It isn't really anything to do with the vaccines. It is simply something that may help others, since some unfortunate few (very small %) are even getting "long covid" from just the vaccine alone.

Niacin appears to be very well studied, but not in the context of post-viral illnesses. But there are a mountain of papers which may help to explain why it works. Here are a few:

Underlying lack of niacin and establish indicated use:
https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/22/2/1279/5964187
https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jide/journal-of-infecti...

Lipids in covid: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869689/
Sars CoV 2 entry to cells: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-020-00324-0
Replication etc: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
Nicotinic acid’s effects on lipids: https://www.eurekaselect.com/126340/article
How does one conclude the Japanese were "on the verge of surrender" when it took not one, but two atomic bombs before they capitulated? And it took six days after the second bomb before they officially surrendered. That doesn't sound like "on the verge of surrender" to me.
Your nature may be (re)turning into a desert, unfortunately.
Somewhere useful depends on the app. In an editor, it's the line of text I'm editing.
In a file manager, it's the currently focused file.

The hardware cursor is where it will start reading when I press
read current line, word, etc.
While the forest around them burns, what would the townspeople breathe?
To steelman this argument, I'd say it's hard to hide "excess deaths" across all causes lumped together. Although during covid we probably even managed to do that by reducing miles driven and presumably # of road deaths.
I would bet your 5 year old is pretty rare among the masses. lol
"Everything is a file" seems comparable to "everything is a message".
For a really remote option, look into the GDT. Probably best if you already have experience on a trail like the CDT.
I'm a huge fan of remind, and have a `rem -q` display in every new terminal window I open.

remind can appear incredibly daunting given how long the documentation is, but it can slowly grow with you. If you're new to it I'd recommend starting with simple static reminders or importing external calendars to get a feel for it, and then work your way up as your needs/comfort increase.

Beyond the supporting tools mentioned in that page, there is also wyrd¹. It is an excellent curses interface for remind, that is incredibly useful as an interactive remind viewer and editor.

¹ https://packages.debian.org/stable/wyrd - Debian page with source links in sidebar, because upstream appears dead.
Mac System 7 is probably no good - the modern web is largely unintelligable to the contemporary browsers. I had a Mac Plus for a while hooked up to a Gatorbox that had internet access, and the version of Netscape(?) on there couldn't even load the Google home page.

The Amiga guys are pretty fanatical, might be worth investigating that. Old Sun workstations are too feeble to run a modern web browser. Never had an SGI (always wanted one) but again has a devoted fan base.

I think if you need modern but want retro, configure a Linux with the Motif Window Manager and enjoy that CDE, post Unix wars goodness while still being able to run a bit of modern stuff.
> I think there should be a re-evaluation of whether or not to let people build or rebuild in especially fire-prone areas.

This is already happening, not by government, but rather by the insurance markets. My friend has lived in a fire-prone area of Southern California for years. His home owners insurances rates have more than tripled in the last few years. He just recently moved (yep, Idaho).
Insurers aren't perfect. For example, the Northridge earthquake was so expensive it caused insurance companies to exit the California earthquake insurance market. Now the state provides earthquake insurance with high deductibles.

I wouldn't be surprised to see wildfires go a similar route in California if the situation isn't resolved.
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You are conflating architecture with abstraction. Architecture is design, the map to a solution. Abstraction, however, is the distance that the architecture sits from the system's reason for existence.

I've found more usefulness in being pithy than in being prolix.
But which of your editors was better at the end of the night?!
Ahh, the Uighurs, American's most favored type of Muslim.
If you have a domain that you know won't be going away, you can renew it for up to 10 years in advance. Cloudflare currently has the lowest price for .com.
Plenty of fires up there too.

Probably still much open wilderness.
A big part of the issue is that we romanticize on the idea of making money while doing something we love. But like all fantasies, reality is always more disappointing due to the nature of human tendencies.
what’s wrong with what he said? that he used atypical (but still perfectly correct) spellings of “learnt” and “thru”?
> ...you can change your implementation and retain binary compatibility...

Maybe? I can still think of ways to have ABI problems in the implementation of class C.

It's true that there are fewer ABI problems to worry about, though.
Hasn’t somebody who is born free and then later purchased and sold as a slave been kidnapped at some point, even if not by the person who is selling them at the international border?

I’m not well versed in the history of slave trade, but I would be curious to know what the relative economic benefit from slave trade was for African nations vs. the benefit of slave labor to purchasing nations.
I see it uses SelfieSegmentation and then OpenCV's BoxFilter. Do these automatically use CUDA/OpenCL when available, or does that need special setup?

Would it be possible to avoid the conversion to RGB? (This forum thread says it's CPU-only: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/videoconverts-performa...)
>Rescue behaviour represents an extreme form of prosocial behaviour that has so far only been demonstrated in a few species. It refers to a situation when one individual acts to help another individual that finds itself in a dangerous or stressful situation and it is considered by some authors as a complex form of empathy.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/lone-goat-may-be-to-blame-for-new...

A goat who escaped a New Jersey livestock auction house more than a year ago may be the one to blame for helping more than 75 others escape, the facility’s manager said Thursday.

More than 75 goats and sheep escaped the Hackettstown Livestock Auction on Wednesday night. Hackettstown police officers responded to the scene and were able to herd up to 60 animals into their pen. About 15 animals were believed to be on the run still.

One goat who was able to escape the same auction house last year is believed to be behind the escape, according to the New York Post. The goat occasionally pops up around town.

After the escape, the goat showed up at the facility and headbutted the gate holding the animals that had been caught in an apparent effort to help them escape again, facility manager Bouwe Postma told the New York Post.

“It was him [last night],” Postma told the newspaper. “I think he’s the culprit. He must have banged that fence and let him out last night. I’m almost positive. He must have put a lot of force into that.”

The great escape came about a week after more than 100 goats escaped in a Boise, Idaho neighborhood.
You could use FLAC as an intermediate lossless codec which should reduce storage costs by about 1/2 to 2/3 compared to WAV.
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There is a quote that I think about a lot - I think it goes...

"Aren't we lucky that we get to do something we used to love for a living?" - I think it was Colin Quinn talking about standup but I can't find it anywhere.

I find myself drifting back and forth between loving every second of working in technology and hating every second immensely, but overall, the positives outweigh the negatives, I still love everyday I get to learn something new.
League of Legends suffers from a problem no one's figured out how to fix yet, or that would require so much effort, anyone capable of figuring it out would rather work for a FAANG, which is: How do you separate people who want to excel from people who just want to have "fun"?

You can't mix people with a hardcore attitude with people with a casual attitude. It'll result in disaster every single time, without fail, in any endeavor, ever. It never works, no matter what, and no one is going to be able to make it work. You have to separate them.

What's worse, the ban system for League of Legends favors shitty people over the people who actually want to do well. Someone can intentionally troll, die 29 times in a game, have 0 kills, 0 assists, and nothing happens. When the other four players try to win, but get frustrated at this single shitbag, and then say something, they get banned... instead of the obviously troller catching an instant permanent ban to teach them a lesson.
> Why should the government control how I manage my time?

The government didn't. They just put online-game service providers to the same category as alcohol or drugs.
Wildfires have many transformative and beneficial effects for an ecosystem when they happen naturally and haven’t been made unnaturally large by 100 years of eager suppression.
The downside though, if you do what you hate you’re likely going to be bad at it or hit a ceiling soon. Im not saying you should ignore the financial aspect (unless you’ve already figured that out or was handed out to you) but you should try to lean into whatever you’re best at.

We see people start in a direction and then later veer their career into a different direction and are happier and more successful. It’s probably got something to do with liking it more...
> why do they need a great recommendation engine?

That is a great question. For me personally, that's not a great recommendation engine, I feel like that could be replaced by a better history view. But maybe that's just me, if you like that system, then I guess it's working for you.

However, in asking that question, you've now circled right around to making the article's point again:

> My complaint is that none of the above had anything to do with hoarding my personal information.

> Amazon shows a box that suggests I might want to re-buy certain kinds of consumable products that I've bought in the past. This is useful too, and requires no profiling other than remembering the transactions we've had with each other in the past, which they kinda have to do anyway. And again, everybody wins.

So, your question is good. Why do they need a super-detailed recommendation engine if what they have works? If it genuinely does work for you, then I guess they don't! And the obvious follow-up question is, why do they need to track anything beyond what movies you've watched in order to make that system work? Why does Netflix need to obsessively track when you pause, which scenes you skip, how long you mouse over a movie recommendation -- if ultimately, the best recommendation engine they have, and the one you're happiest with has nothing to do with that information?

From the article again:

> You tracked me everywhere I go, logging it forever, begging for someone to steal your database, desperately fearing that some new EU privacy regulation might destroy your business... for this?
Well of course, that’s why it was put in quotes. The problem is exactly that. Over and over again you’ll come across architectures that are massively over done but claim to be “elegant and properly engineered”.
The California problems may well be more due to forest mismanagement and PG&E issues than global warming. But 0.14C/decade is not “minimal” in any useful sense — it’s severely problematic.
> Life is meant to be… lived.

this opinion seems to be a relatively recent development as human civilization industrialized and material wealth reached more and more plentiful. However, it is an entitlement that not everyone equally has.

Life is not meant to be anything, but survival. The fact that there's the idea that you can enjoy life, is a huge sign of privilege. Of course, one should chase it, but don't believe for a minute that anyone is entitled to it.
We also need more large firefighting aircraft. There is a perpetual shortage because the state and federal governments typically only hire them on annual contacts. So the operating companies can't afford to invest in more aircraft. If governments put out 10 year contracts that would give them enough stability to expand the fleet.

https://slate.com/business/2021/08/california-wildfires-airp...
You’re missing something here. Fires can start on private and state land and then spread to national forests. Also, more and more Californians are moving away from the coast into rural suburbs due to cost of living. Additionally, due to COVID lockdowns, more people are camping than ever. Fires aren’t started by climate change, they’re started by humans.
Do you feel differently? Why be oblique if you have a constructive point to make?
you could try join teams that needs both frontend and backend(by that I mean distributed systems, not just write some api) or ML work.
then volunteer more for the backend or ML work to gather more experiences.
maybe a team with more senior backend engineers is better.
Up to 1000mg once per day now, but had to work up slowly over a couple of months, as I wasn't able to tolerate even 10mg at first. You need the "flushing" type of nicotinic acid (it causes your skin to go hot and red for about half an hour, but tolerance of this gradually increases), avoid the "slow release" or "non-flushing" forms of Nicotinic acid. For melatonin I started on 3mg and worked up to 9mg.
The interviewers want to prove how much more they know, as compared to the candidate. Or worse, they have one optimal solution in mind and anything else is a square peg / round hole.

Ageism is also a factor with some age cohorts preferring to hire within their age groups who play with their cohort's favorite tech-stacks.

A badly behaved interviewer - arrogant, rushed for time and treating the interview as a nuisance, egoistic - all of these make it harder for candidates to get a job.

Data point of one: I have faced the worst lot of interviewers in startups and Unicorns, and have had the best-behaved and reasonable folks in FAANG companies.
wouldn't choose his recordings for the beethoven/bach/mozart, but he definitely had his moments

critics argue about his mahler 9th; i think it's amazing

they don't argue about his bruckner 8th and 9th; among his last gigs

and then there's stuff like strauss where he was unparalleled
I still don’t understand what it’s for. You think things then write about things makes no sense as an explanation to me. The fact that word/excel kinda works but not really also doesn’t help.

Maybe make a video where you write something in the boxes and explain why they go where they go.
Huh, I could've sworn it was by all meaningful metrics, one of the most productive states in the USA.

Are you attempting to say it could be doing even better than it already is and make the bottom half of productive states look even worse than they already are? I guess I could perhaps agree with that.
At this point, I'm pretty convinced that "async" in 10 years is going to be like "object oriented" is now. A gigantic dead end that we're barrelling down for the wrong reasons--in this instance because everything web must be Javascript and work around all its warts.

Every time someone talks about async, they always forget that you need an Executor, and those executors always have problems because they don't have the boundedness of Javascript.

Using Javascript means your executors can only fire on a very constrained set of events that are completely prescribed. The moment you use something like Rust, that assumption is out the window and now your executor can't just do a couple of sockets and some DOM things. It has to accommodate sockets, timeouts, message queues that might wakeup by getting a message from another threads, character file descriptor devices, a terminal screen refresh, a video card vertical blanking event, etc.

In short, your Executor has to accommodate an infinite variety of events when using async outside of the bounds of Javascript. Effectively everybody has to write their own personal Executor the moment they do something other than an IP socket.

That's not an "improvement" in programming. That's a step backwards.
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https://youtu.be/GL1Tnn5u6ng
I wrote a tool in Go that looks up SOA, NS and A records across all TLDs
The vast majority of depressed people do not exhibit exactly the same symptoms.
Except inflation is nowhere near 7% nor has it been in more than 20 years.[1][2]
Further, ICANN has allowed Verisign to increase wholesale domain pricing 7% year over year for four years followed by a two-year break. And then they can continue this cycle all over again for the length of the contract. In 2029 todays $8.40 .com domain will be $13.49.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/inflation-ra...
Systems timers do not allow jobs to overlap which is a nice feature vs wrapping a cron on flock
Definitely can be!

We're also starting to realize that competition to own the hardware might not be the best for anyone. There's definitely room for many different kinds of zero-interaction displays.

Instead, I'm thinking about what it would look like for 3rd-party devices to run Tidbyt OS and be able to run our apps and connect to our services. We've done a lot of work to make it a great experience for users and it's silly for everyone to have to reinvent everything from scratch.
i would personally recommend trying something like idra-21, I've found there aren't many chemicals more useful than it for lubricating the joints so to speak, and considering it has a very small dose and a fairly long half life, it's fairly easy to a regimen around it that has legs and keeps going, and I find it doesn't necessarily come with any horrendously negative side effects. none that I have consistently experienced either

I also personally recommend memantine, but that's because it helps me clear out the brain fog and anxiety that normally keeps me from doing basically anything successfully, and it has the same benefit of small dose, MASSIVE half life (60+ hours), and a proven track record of facilitating improved cognitive functioning
> If I play correspondence chess over email, would the email host be running an online game service? If someone modifies the Battle of Wesnoth network code to run over IRC messages, would the IRC host be running an online game service? (What about decentralized network game protocols?)

It's simple, Every MMORPG or online-game requires a license. The government can fine your company for violations. If you run games through email or IRC, pray your underground game network doesn't attract attentions.

btw there are tons of "grey" area online game services in China.
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It's worth pointing out that the source here - Dr. Roy Spencer - has some incredibly controversial views in this area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Spencer_%28scientist%29
Why so many workers have lost interest in their jobs
Does the government subsidize fire insurance? I'm always taken aback when I see people rebuilding from a hurricane with subsidized wind and flood insurance. I understand why its nice for those that need it but has perverse incentives.
Since you brought it up, it seems fair game to ask: do you work on climate solutions?

I always find it odd & off-putting when people demean or pass judgement on others' professions -- eg social apps & rocket ships -- especially if they ironically work in similarly "mundane" fields themselves. It just doesn't seem very constructive.

(Also: not sure I'd agree with the equivalence of the two examples, but that's another topic.)
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Wildfires burn up all the dead brush and make way for new growth, along with fertilizing the soil.
There are technicalities that make it a problem, because the copy coming directly from the game store might have restrictive license terms attached, even though the source and more is fully available elsewhere.
For most languages I would agree with you. But I worked on a project that migrated away from PHP, and it was definitely worth it. Before the migration, a pretty big portion of bugs were because of weird unexpected things PHP did, afterwards, not so much. All languages have quirks, but PHP is on a different level than most popular languages.

And perhaps more importantly, a lot of developers hated working in PHP, and switching languages increased developer satisfaction.

Yes, it is possible to make secure, quality software in PHP, but it is more difficult than in many other languages. If making your app secure and higher quality requires substantial refactoring, or the marginal cost of maintaining security and quality in a PHP app is sufficiently high, switching to a different language could very well be worth it.
It doesn't have to be unique to the group to be special to the group.
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Fires are early and big this year because of the very dry winter.

It's going to get a lot worse.

Peak fire season should still be in October, and be much bigger than now. Assuming the winter rain starts in November.
This is why the building code in high risk areas should require Class A fire resistant roofs. This won't protect homes from huge firestorms but they're effective against falling embers.

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/roofing/21018219/fire-resistant...
I would say it’s a numbers game. Islamic extremism has way more members.
I'm well-versed on the benefits of shorter lenses.

Look through a "normal" lens (~42mm equiv) and you'll realize that it's actually nowhere near our field of vision (FOV), peripheral included. What a normal lens does is take a very narrow slice of our FOV and represent it neatly and proportionally, i.e. given two similarly framed portraits, a 40mm would make your nose look "normal" whereas a 28mm would make it look larger [1]. The shorter focal length dramatizes while also being closer to what we actually see; this wide perspective is why the two most venerable "street" cameras, the Ricoh GR and Leica Q, have fixed 28mm lenses.

[1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/1/17059566/pla...
I believe that in 2021, most of the wildfires in the west have been started by lightning rather than human error. If so, your final sentence is not really true, and might even be false.