skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What i was trying to get at I think was the supreme irony of the apex of the cold war...that a nation so bent on the destruction of class through marxist leninism forged in turn the perfect sword to obliterate it, and that its capitalist enemy at the time seemed to have no choice but to pursue an utterly nihilist brinksmanship it knew it was forbidden to pursue in any spirit other than rote patriotism.

the history of the bay of pigs comes to mind. Fidel Castro, in my opinion, may have been the only communist to have the outright conviction to use nuclear arms, save Leonid Brezhnevs legendary temper and the Brezhnev doctrines closed fisted threat to glass the soviet states who fell out of line.
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I'm pretty sure I had Andy for the real time systems course in my third year. A good lecturer if I remember correctly.
Just a small correction: there is no such thing as Western science.

There is just science.

[Unless people truly believe the Chinese space programme uses its own, different physics, or that the concrete in the new Ethiopian dam on the Nile river has its own chemistry.]
It's a digital arms race. You can't prevent it from happening by condeming those who are participating. These unfolding events are merely organic consequences to overarching dysfunction within society.
From the link you provide:

> In the midst of a pandemic, the advice from medical professionals to “stay home, save lives” may be preventing patients from seeking medical care when symptoms of stroke arise due to fear of contracting COVID-19. Anecdotal reports across the United States are highlighting missed care during the current COVID-19 pandemic...

i.e., yes, "people are afraid to get covid and expect to get it when going to a hospital" is an accurate description. The lack of patients having heart attacks and strokes is a lack of people willing to go to a hospital, not a lack of heart attacks and strokes.
That does not make cultural appropriation ethical.
It's weird all this negative press of open plan yet it remains the primary way we all work?

Personally, I prefer open plan, I get bored in a static unchanging office. Open plan provides a form of external stimulis to keep the mind busy whilst I'm busy doing something mundane (much like fidget toys). The noise gets a bit much on occasion when I need to concentrate, but a pair of headphones sorts that out.
Hundreds of millions? 180 billion.
That was one reason that I tried to maintain a fairly "9-5" routine. I had a team of experienced engineers, with families, and didn't want them to feel they needed to stay too long.

The US doesn't have as "explicit" a culture of "Don't leave before the manager," but it is still implied, in many corporations (especially startups).
Watched it, very impressive for AI but not at all worried about losing my job :)
How many fewer bugs would they have if they used a language with a real type system, like Haskell?
Hi dang, thanks for the hard work.

I want to point out this is not a dupe of the "Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers" thread. This thread is talking about private employers with 100 or more employees; not necessarily federal employees.
It's a good browser! I've used it since the days of mozilla. It's only gotten better. Honestly I really prefer it to chrome. FF mobile is best in class as a mobile browser for the sole reason that it allows extensions like ublock. FF developer edition is, imho better than chrome.

I tried chrome on linux some years back, and experienced an issue where the browser would crash the os on the extensions search page. Years went by without this being fixed. Firefox would never do that.
There is no need for an AI to come up with such a sentiment, there are plenty of people who see humans as a plague on the earth which it is better off without. The chance of some of these people triggering a nuclear exchange far exceeds the change of some future W.O.P.R. [1] getting the world into a conflict.

[1] https://www.dataplusscience.com/WOPR/wargames.html
> but when paired with a properly trained image recognition AI, determining that a human (or human-shaped object) was in the room seems very feasible.

I am not looking forward to some poor soul being convicted by a jury based on this “AI” showing his real photo
On the other hand the replacement of existing hierarchies with meritocracy seems to be one of the appealing things of post-apocalyptic scenarios for average people.
When a tool has to be used for ideological reasons and not because it is the best tool available we are in trouble.
That looks like a great project and I was considering doing something like that for home (it's small and cheap).

What about the performance, though? For a typical home, that'd probably be, say, up to 4 clients on Wifi with the Pi plugged into the Ethernet port of the broadband modem/Wifi AP.
Which point are you replying to? Are you objecting that the OP's opinion about those two points being strange is somehow wrong or misinformed?
Why try to survive? That's something people have to ask themselves individually really.

I took a wilderness survival course in college. We were usually out in a park practicing skills, but one day we just stayed in the classroom and our teacher talked about what drives people to survive extreme situations, even when they have little experience or training to do so. He brought up cases of parents going the extra mile to save the child they were lost with. He mentioned Hugh Glass and his drive for revenge after being left for dead from a bear mauling. Viktor Frankl observed a concentration camp prisoner who was always optimistic until the day he saw his family brought into the camp, and then he died soon after. For some people it could be a biological urge to keep living. Or maybe their religious beliefs drive them.
Creepy or not creepy? That's the wrong question!

It is inhumane from a deep down evolutionary biologics perspective to a rational thought. Just like open offices.
Hey, I use Manjaro Cinnamon!

I'm still gonna stick with Firefox, but Vivaldi is a pretty good browser from what I've tried of it. The only thing I dislike is their leadership: they cited 'Vivaldi's brand' as the reason why they can't go open source, which seems like such a cop-out in my eyes that I switched back to Firefox. That said, browsers are hard to get right, so at the very least, Kudos to the Vivaldi team for being less-terrible than Chrome.
In 2006 I had a new Prius that turned on a loud, annoying back up beeper. It would wake my theninfant son up. I finally found a "cheat code" that let me enter a service menu and disable it.
Have you looked at the data on the SD card? Can it be manipulated in any way as to show that it is being used even if not?
It seems like Ada is an early attempt at what Haskell gives you. Why bother with it now?
Some day soon we'll get to Fridge As A Service.

Dear end user. This is your first and final warning. You have surpassed your monthly amount of fridge openings.
Given that I don’t see news about WWII bombs exploding in European cities recently, I suspect industrial pollution which emits VOCs, and severely contaminates the soil and groundwater, is a greater health risk.
I think it's safe to consider routers IoT devices, but I would suggest that basically any independent embedded device is an IoT device. Literally any "smart home" device can get silently taken over and become part of a DDOS network.
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I don't see how the gov't respond to an economical crisis has anything to do with modern authoritarianism. Regulation without oversight and checks and balances does lead to tiranny, more often than it doesn't
"it should be possible to implement an Open Source version of the functionality".

Elasticsearch is still open source...just not in a license that Amazon can take advantage of.
> Not to say why wouldn't the U.S. also build hypersonic missiles?

China isn't even building missile-defense cruisers (equivalent to the AEGIS system on US-ships). Our tomahawks (cheaper, subsonic cruise missiles) would obliterate them at much cheaper prices.

Why fly at 3000mph (hypersonic) when 500mph is already too fast for their defenses?

There's no reason to build hypersonic missiles until China (or Russia) demonstrates missile-defense capabilities. Even then: the methodology of "launch 20 missiles simultaneously to overwhelm their defense system" seems a lot cheaper than using developing or using hypersonic missiles.

Cheap subsonic cruise missiles are all you need unless your opponent can shoot them down. China needs Hypersonic because of AEGIS (ie: we've reliably demonstrated that we can shoot down missiles flying at 500mph). China hasn't done that, and doesn't seem to have any plans to obtain this technology yet.
Not good. It was supposed to be THE language for military work in the US (Ex: F-22 Raptor was mostly Ada), but they had trouble hiring people and got rid of the "use Ada" requirement, or so I've been told. Newer planes like the F-35 JSF have used much smaller amounts of Ada (mostly C & C++ iirc...there is a breakdown somewhere to compare languages used in both planes). It is also used in some critical infrastructure projects like trains and stuff.

In short, C & C++ took over. SpaceX surprisingly used a LOT of LabVIEW in their mission control.
It would still be snow, though, which would have let them discover the issue of the bald tires, and I'd guess the issues that required them to drive the thing backwards. If there weren't enough of it in a convenient spot, people were already making artificial snow by then. Or they could have just bulldozed a lot of it into a test course.

So they could at least have learned something. But if you're right and Antarctica was the closest place to test it, then they should have planned for that. Expecting something novel to work the first time it's tried isn't a plan. It isn't a strategy. It's just a fantasy.
At Amazon I set up an evaluation approach based on whether the system completed the desired task (in that context it was "did the search result using the speech recognition return the same set of items to buy as the transcript.)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
Why assume ill intent by me..? I'm just stating my opinion, which differs from others here in similar vein then "forcing" separate offices on everyone.

Where I work now we have a team room, we also have offices/boxes people can use if they want to be undisturbed for a few hours. But mostly I just stay home a day or two a week for that kind of work.
Something tells me the government isn't going to be fooled when Facebook suddenly breaks up into 50 separate instances.
Until you factor in there that merit in immoral behaviors such as pillaging, looting and bullying will also be a big factor.
Can it write an AI that writes code?
I get branch of questions you are raising, but I don't see anyone educated raising opposition to the vaccine. There could be lots of reasons for this to be true, not seeing them, they are staying quiet, etc.

What we are witnessing in a distrust of non-demogogic power that has been instilled into the Republican base over the last 40 years. The multigrade attack on intellectualism, science, logic. That is like your opinion man. The same qualities of Fascism, the hero worship, the sacrifice of the individual, emotionally charged thinking, all of that is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the tools of the enlightenment.

If folks had better understanding of how vaccines work from a mathematical/statistical level their internal framing of "should I get it or not" would be altered. It isn't whether this is a benefit to me directly, but is it good for the heard. For society as a whole.

Thinking of the heard is socialist. Self-centered, me vs the world is another Republican strategy. All of them actually weaken the individual vs the state and the corporation.

Choice, responsibility, individualism are great concepts, but they have been perverted into a form of control that divides and distracts.
Do you have a citation of a society that is stronger because it made its citizens suffer a decreased quality of life?
I will only add:

About god damn fucking time.
> the case for applying that same rationale to sitting in a floor plan you don’t like is much less convincing

I have ADHD, and with it a son of sensitivities to noise, to smells and other things. A person who wears too strong a perfume can effect me in a major way.

My former fiancee is Autistic and she is affected by light- light that's too bright, things that move in her field of vision, etc. She's doing her Ph.D in computational biology.

My reason for pointing this out is to help shift your thinking from "they don't like" to, imagine someone put a thumbtack on your chair and when you said "Wow this chair is really uncomfortable" they said "We determined that your productivity would need to be 30% higher for us to not have these thumbtacks here and since that's not possible, the tack stays."

It's probably true-ish that the productivity won't be affected that much...

I've met programmers who can power through any distractions, but they're by far not the norm in my experience. Many programmers are neuro-non-typical, either by being ADHD, or Autistic, or something else, and sensory issues and distractions work against them.

The one open plan office I worked at, where I could see other employees at eye level, it was having like tinnitus- the stress was a constant monkey on my back, from 8am until I left at 6pm.

You might be thinking "Well that's just him, or people who are weird like him." but it turns out that other people often benefit from the same accommodations as disabled people, only less so. You can look up the term "curb cuts".

I'm not saying you made the wrong decision, but I do think for people who don't have these experiences, it can be hard to differentiate "don't like" with "is like an unceasing low level pain".
Come work in healthcare - if you are at one of the larger insurance orgs (UHG, Anthem, Humana) or hospital networks (HCA, Dignity, etc) you are locked into a world of this model making your life the most difficult imaginable. Need vendor support? Hope you like watching them work over webex as they wont have any access to any of your servers. Need a VPN to tunnel data across? Yeah good luck with that it'll take at least 6 months mostly for legal to approve. On top of rotating passwords on a yearly basis for service accounts , regular entitlement reviews, risk reviews, policy reviews, and rotating passwords for users every 90 days still along with multifactor authentication. I feel like I'm working at ft knox every day.
> At what point do we draw what lines?

Somewhere. One one side, we don't allow you to shoot anyone you see to protect yourself against COVID. On the other we don't allow people with COVID to intentionally infect people (even sneezing on them in an obviously purposeful way implying you have COVID is getting punished.) So we draw it somewhere.

> Just that we slow down, think about it, and understand the tradeoff.

No. I have no desire to slow down. It's killing people now. It's delaying cancer treatments now. It's causing people to die of burst appendixes because they cannot get treatment now. If we need to revisit, fine. But it has to be after taking action.
I agree, I think it's a great pedagogical language for teaching a lot of concepts. Our algorithms and data structures course was taught in it. It was great for learning real-time systems as its built in concurrancy primitives are so good.
To be honest, just implementing bash as an educational project has been on my list for a while.

Doing a cross platform subset is an even nice combo of learn something and keep my build scripts bash-y.

Like I said I really don't want to make these scripts more verbose than bash and any other language would mean doing that.
Yes. So was free software. The idea that a worldwide community can build their own trustworthy software is amazing but it was subverted by hardware manufacturers and their backdoors and restrictions. We'll never be free until it's as easy to manufacture our own hardware at home as it is to write our own software.
These systems don't solve the problems you're solving?

Not yet, but give it a couple years.

You will join the taxi drivers, and so will I.
Yawho? Aren’t they thoroughly dead yet?
Won't work. They will just say celebrities get saline or a different vaccine. I've actually seen this happen already when big politicians got jabbed first.
They haven’t even cleaned up Navy bases around SF very well.
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Are you a chicken or a developer? Some years ago I thought there was no difference, but now I'm a bear in it's own cave (home office).
This is just a redirect on facebook, the actual URL seems to be https://techtaiwan.com/20210910/andes-luxembourg/ (facebook tracking removed)
No need for the weird stereotyped English. Disappointed to see here.
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If you already know algorithms and data structures, use leetcode. Solve most Google tagged questions. You can also use pramp for mock interviews.
Post apocalyptic meritocracy doesn't poll very well last i checked
You're comparing denying education to children to denying non-essential services, such as restaurants, to adults. One is an essential right, the other is not.

If anything the restrictions people are putting in place to enforce the vaccine mandate have been less extreme. As workplace mandates get rolled out, this will become more even, as the right to work is comparable to the right to an education.

As I tried to communicate before, curtailing basic rights in order to enforce vaccinations for everyone is not new. The only difference is that these usually happen based on age, instead of happening to everyone, all at once.
You literally just read an article on a site owned by Yahoo - I think a lot of people don't realize how big the media side is. New CEO is a media guy before Tinder, so this makes sense.
But people are notoriously terrible at estimating their own productivity and how they spend their time. Almost everyone I know who has tried time tracking and life logging is shocked at how different reality is from their expectations (mostly that they do less and work less than they think).
> comp.lang.ada, reddit.com/r/ada, irc, gitter, telegram, etc.

Yeah, but I don't want to join a community just to make a single complaint about a 40 year old language.

> That was by design, because when it was designed, ide's like we have now didn't exist so being able to change a variable to an array from a function or vice versa was made easier.

What a bizarre decision for a language built around such a strict and elaborate type system. I'd consider it being difficult to swap functions and variables to be a feature.
Well not here (Czech Republic).
People barely wear masks apart from public transport.
You're going to be in a new one. Generally, I expect it won't be very pleasant / the 'law' a bit less predictable.
IoT device manufacturers should be sued for negligence.
It's not quite a dupe. That was federal workers. This is all employers with over 100 workers.
THANK. YOU.
My main discourse happens on Hacker News, because I enjoy the conversation here. I don't have a Facebook or Instagram and have plenty of ways to talk to people I care about. It's weird to me that you feel it is your right to have a Facebook account.
So you want to mock an API
> Drag is already very low on modern jetliners.

It's so low that they have to add a bit of drag in the right place to prevent stalling (the small fins on top of wings).

> No fuel in the wing? Then fuel weight is not distributed and the wing must be stronger.. thus heavier.

It's also less secure in cases of emergencies, as far as I know.

I forgot why but I think there where also some really good reasons (beside closeness to fuel) why turbines are now mostly below the wings.

Aslo wouldn't building 3 wings more expensive even if they are smaller?

And then I have very little experience with aero dynamics, but my intuition tells me that there are some tricky parts around the (forget name: movable parts at the back of wings) and additional failure cases as you now (likely??) have to have 3 sets off them on each side.
Undocumented immigrants take resources up. (If fact they may be uninsured and unvaccinated, too.) You should favor refusing medical care to them (and education to their children) based on this argument from resources. Do you?
Context matters, the context of hearing the English phrase is not the streets of Japan.

Its context here is business settings in America. So I was wrong I saying random person on the street, I should have said random American office worker.

Anyway, it’s rather satisfying that those against what they call “cancel” culture react to opinions they deem unpopular by downvoting, it shows they don’t care about the principal of what they call “cancel” culture in general but only care that what they are used to is being “cancelled”.

I’ll whole grant you that said in Japanese in Japan the phrase could be okay, I have no idea about that.

Has anyone tried googling the term to see what comes up? Many posts explaining or talking about why the term is problematic. People downvoting are trying to ignore facts they dislike, but that doesn’t make facts go away.

This even comes up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549563
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And those who have already recovered are contributing to herd immunity at least on par with those vaccinated. Agree or disagree?
Politics, obviously.

The checks on power for the president are politics (reelection), legality / constitutionality via court system, and removal from office via impeachment trial.
Well at least 4chan and hackernews are getting closer together (still miles apart but never thought i'd see the day). I'm not sure what to make if it all.
5-rev) People don't know about and/or care about tracking/telemetry, and do not understand that the data collected earns the manufacture additional income. They only see price and highly manipulated revies, then make their purchase.
Sounds like a conversation starter on where Microsoft is going with Github live code editing and whether or not we are going to play along.

Looking at all the other "massively crazy stupid" ideas that are the norm today (eg managed databases on someone else's servers), live coding (in the cloud) with a form of CI as hinted in this articles does sound far fetched at all.

I'm pretty sure MS is already working on that and will be releasing something along those lines in the next year or two.

If they do that, I can't think of any software related aspect that MS will not be in complete control of. From writing the code to getting it to end users, their ecosystem controls every aspect.
Maybe it's a question of personal taste, but Pascal (in any of its newer forms) isn't a langauge I like working with. Up-front variable declaration, verbose flow control, next to no support for functional programming... LCL is nice, I especially like how small the result is, but in the last ~30 years, programming language design has progressed a lot and Pascal just seems archaic, and not in a good way. Modern PL design isn't just about "syntax sugar" as the FreePascal community would have you believe.
Both Manjaro and its parent Arch Linux aren't distros oriented to pure FOSS.
The community repository contains a mix of open and closed source applications.
And there's AUR to build your own custom packages, which most of them are just a PKGBUILD file.

The PKGBUILD downloads the source, patches it (if required) and compiles it to create the desired package.
If the package is closed source it just downloads the binaries and repackages the result as a Pacman package.

So they can offer both open and closed source editor suites and you're free to install whatever you want.
I've tried several office suites and FreeOffice is quite faster than LibreOffice actually. I've also tried one suite which was an electron app (OnlyOffice) and LibreOffice felt faster than a plane compared to it.