skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Look at shell scripting. Imagine trying to apply a type system to shell scripts. It wouldn't map cleanly at all because (almost) everything is a string, and the operations define how those strings are interpreted - not the data itself.

Everything is a string because every program deserializes and then serializes data from and into a string. But you still have expectation encoded into the tools. If not, they wouldn't be able to work together. Static typing is about making these expectations explicit.
We're already at the bottom of the slope and covered in mud. This isn't the place to draw the line. Since 2012 virtually all major legislation has passed through reconciliation and it has pretty common dating back to the 90s.
Most newer languages will give you multiple orders of magnitude better performance than python.

Python’s main advantage was that it was easier than some of its competitors (C++/Java). But that is no longer the case with modern languages (Nim/Crystal/Julia/JavaScript) being both faster and comparably as easy (or easier).

It is now coasting off its momentum, mostly do to the vast amount of (usually poorly designed) open source libraries. That and Jupyter.
Microsoft shares edge higher on $60B buyback program
You're right. The latter job is much more exclusive because it depends on a philanthropic rich guy who decides to donate to his employees rather than to charities.
I think a definition of "Decentralized web" should mean is in order.

The Internet/Arpa net was created to be decentralized from the beginning.

If a node, or more nodes went down, the rest of the network may be able to keep working.

If you, and me and all of our friends and all of their friends all ran out own web servers from our homes
it would be decentralized to the extent that if a server disconnected all the others would keep working.

The information on that server may be gone for all time.

The prevalence of enormously centralized monopolies on the internet is not a result of its technical architecture, but rather narrow business interests and a terminal lack of regulation.

Now we are all using AOL v3. (Facebook, Twitter, Google etc).

It can get semantically confusing.
Facebook is massively distributed in some ways.
Datacenters in several locations, CDNs all over the place.
It would take a hell of a lot (I think) to blow Facebook off the web. Or maybe some servers centrally will shut everything off it they are blown up.

IPFS is weird when taking about decentralized.
Storage is not on one big server located somewhere.
It is distributed among many.
In theory if one goes down, the data is still available.
but only if the server/nodes that make up the IFPS network
are reliable and dependable.

If a lot of nodes are run from laptops that that are shutdown at the end of the day that would become a
significant problem.

Since more and more and more data would need to be stored
in IPFS the need for dependable storage servers will increase rapidly.

I would like a simpler approach more in line with the original architecture, lots and lots of independent small servers. The people who run them can mirror each other in some fashion to persist data. Like FTP used to be (and maybe still is), like NNTP used to be (and maybe still is)
Yeah or the rungs can still be there. You'll see unworthy people pass you to levels they don't deserve, but the point is that you'll see it. When I don't make principal engineer, but someone else much less skilled and experienced does, I'll know what the score is, versus them keeping this as a guarded secret.

Transparent pay doesn't guarantee the type of "equal, fair, objective" pay concept you mention. There seems to be a bit of a false dichotomy in these threads.
> I'm sure there's a price where I'd decide the handiness is outweighed by the price but it's a pretty high price

Have you considered car share programs?
I was tremendously disappointed in the prequels. With time, I think I've seen that the underlying story was actually quite good. A talented youth is insidiously corrupted under the nose of an older brother figure whose trust blinds him. It all leads up to a climactic battle where the mentor disfigures his student and leaves him for dead. The galactic politics are actually really intriguing if you bother to get a sense for what's happening.

Unfortunately, it's all derailed by very clumsy writing, poor acting direction, and shoddy editing, to say nothing of overwrought expectations.

At least that's my take. I still don't love the prequels, but I can see and appreciate the underlying story that was attempted to be told. "The bones are good" as they say.

I don't think the sequels will age so well.
I remember trying to use CU-SeeMe at some point in maybe 1995 but not ever doing so successfully.

And sharing video was a PITA until YouTube, essentially.
> what is really the problem?

Just to add context: A common dolphin weights around 150 Kg, a bottlenose dolphin around 400 Kg. Most of those dolphins are pilot whales, that are technically dolphins but bigger. More close to orcas than to dolphins. A male pilot whale can weight between 800 and 3500 Kg. We are talking about millions of Kg of biomass extracted from the sea.

They have also complex societies; so is not just "we killed one animal". If you kill the grandmas the entire herd suffer [1]

And pilot whales eat mainly deep water squids, soaked in ammonia and unedible for us, so...

less pilot whales => more unedible squids alive that compete with => edible fishes so we have => worse fisheries and less money in hands of the fishermen

This animals have an economic value also when alive. You can hunt each one one time... or could fill a boat with tourists willing to pay to see it, and repeat the process from the next fourty years, that is what they do in Canary Islands:

https://www.freebirdone.com/details/short-finned-pilot-whale...

So, maybe Faroese are not so smart as they think.

[1] Most animals don't have grandmas and grandpas. Normally post reproductive animals are useless for the species and are killed fast in nature. This is not the case in an exclusive club that includes us, elephants and many dolphins including pilot whales. They have a important role in the education and care of the baby whales while they parents hunt in deep waters. They keep the maps of the ocean and lead the group also so they live long past their reproductive age.
I can't answer your question exactly, but I can add that regular air tires have advanced tremendously in the last 30 years. It's also a moving target for these airless ones to compete against.
The “other point of view” is white supremacy (aka the only people in the world concerned with “critical race theory”). The mods not only allow white supremacy on this site, they censor those who complain about it!

I literally got downvoted and throttled for saying slavery was real and talking about the very real genocide of Native children in Canada. What’s next, Holocaust denial?
It's all fun and games until some clever developer uses this error code in a production system and the client developer or SRE folks have no idea what it means. Have also seen error code 420 used this way.
I think the problem with this report is the headline figure is due to an apples and oranges comparison. The big number of deaths is mostly due to a point in time where LOTS of people were dying from Covid19 in the UK.

We end up comparing the population at one point in time where there were lots of deaths and a low vaccination rate to another point in time where there were few deaths and a much higher vaccination rate. No doubt part of the reason why there are fewer deaths now is due to the vaccine. However, I suspect part of the reason is also not vaccine related. You can see this if you look at the raw data. There was a very high rate of deaths for the unvaccinated in the first few months of the year. But now there is a very low rate of deaths for the unvaccinated. However, this comparison is fraught with danger because there is a selection effect with a lot of vulnerable people opting into the vaccine leaving the unvaccinated population much less susceptible to the virus.

Also, it is important to note that data has been apparently truncated at a point where it paints a more positive picture for vaccines.

Personally, I think the vaccine has had very large impact for some vulnerable groups. For some other groups I suspect it has had a negligible impact. But I also think there has been a strong push to juice the figures to make the vaccines look better than they are.
the original LIVE LAUGH LOVE sign
Sure, it's a "financial penalty", technically. Plea deals are common in many jurisdictions, and the settlement imposes additional penalties. They're being punished.
As neither webrtc nor ipfs have anything to do with the Blockchain I'm guessing your talking about their Ethereum focus and I have to agree. but you have to admit that eth probably sounds like a great idea for non programmers.

Implementing smart contacts that do non trivial stuff is just basically impossible, but it's a very interesting concept to run code if it were.

Non-programmers just don't really realize how error riddled the average software is, so they get caught on the promise itself.
Yes, Micronaut and Quarkus do that. Micronaut was created by a company (https://objectcomputing.com/)
Not cheap enough to use daily. Imagine tapping your credit card on your phone to pay someone…
Ya, if that is your point. Australian taxes ramp up faster, so low earners will pay more tax in Australia than in California. E.g. Australia making $50K USD/year will pay 17% in taxes (according to https://www.ato.gov.au/Calculators-and-tools/Host/?anchor=ST..., don't forget to convert to AUD first), while a Californian will only pay 15%.
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>A vending machine on another uni's campus replying to your pings

Really? Wow. I can't even ping internal AWS services (like the EC2 Metadata Service, NTP, or DNS). Nothing responds to ICMP Echo anymore, and it makes me sad. Lately it feels like `ping' has become useless

Why are we doing this to ourselves?
I am obviously not a sailor : EEZ, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
The comment I’m replying to.
It will definitely not be better studied because it the focus and the funding is on how well vaccination works. Vaccines have a revenue model; natural immunity doesn't.
Better they get this out of the way now before the Democrat tax plan comes into effect and they start taxing buybacks by 2%
Of course. The conspiracy guys has been the ones who have been correct through this pandemic, predicting every escalation, and the coming response.

If you are someone intelligent who wants to know about covid for real, you should read the conspiracy subreddit on reddit and also turn off the TV news. That's the actual truth, but people can't take it.
Simple as long as there is more than one power company for you to choose from and they are not colluding to fix their prices, the power company is free to ask for whatever they want. This is not a problem that can occur in a competitive market, though.

Would not buying an Apple device put you in a similar position as having no access to electricity? Can you not buy a different and phone that allows you to freely install any software you want too without having to pay 30% to any third party?
Presumably, the latter is less of a risk; they probably don't want NSO to know their business and there's going to be at least metadata leaking that points to what they're doing. Plus, presumably, there's always a chance NSO could play them off to a higher bidder?
I don't think it is impossible to shift the labour-intensive, non-capital-intensive part of the economy (which is quite a lot) to worker coops. They should be more attractive to both employees and customers than sad outfits with private equity vampire squids wrapped around them.
It would break in my use case, for sure. We routinely initiate TLS connections to crappy devices which have TLS implementations broken in ways that cause them to fail if you select the wrong cipher suite, even when the server otherwise claims to support it. Our ability to force this on a per-service basis is crucial to our success. We do not have the ability to fix the broken devices nor the luxury of not connecting to them.
I wrote a blog post exploring the tradeoffs different geo grid systems make, including H3. The post describes a proof of concept exploring a different part of design-tradeoff space.

https://evanfields.github.io/No-Perfect-Geo-Grid/
Over 300 Flash bugs were discovered (and fixed) in 2015 alone:

https://www.gsmarena.com/over_300_flash_bugs_were_discovered...
Actually, if the options are mutually exclusive and bets on the losing option get voided, there's no reason to forbid you from betting on both options with the same money, is there? Only one bet will stand.

For that matter, anyone could safely lend you X, where X is what you already bet on A, for the purpose of betting on B. One way or another you'll get X back in voided bet money, so you're a perfectly safe borrower.
I'm struggling to figure out push provisioning right now. The thing I don't understand is: why do I need a native mobile app? Why isn't there an HTTP API to add a payment card to Apple Wallet or Google Play?
The second place photo [1] is absolutely amazing. It looks like galaxies in the universe, and the clear separation between the two populations bridged by axons show the incredible level of control humanity has gained over our world. We're not there yet, but this photo shows us how extremely well we're doing.

[2] https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2021-photomicrogra...
That's mostly about Scrum, and Scrum is not the entirety of Agile. Scrum in practice is often also decidedly not Agile if you go back to the manifesto, though that's not an issue with Scrum proper but an issue with Scrum as implemented. Scrum as implemented is often too ceremony focused (so values the processes over individuals and interactions) and inflexible in the face of certain kinds of change (valuing following a plan over responding to change). Again, not strictly a problem with Scrum, but just how nearly every good process (or at least decent process) gets corrupted when it becomes institutionalized.

You can see the same issues facing Lean and Theory of Constraints (both predating the Agile Manifesto, but sharing many of its characteristics or objectives).
There is nothing wrong with Agile. There is not even anything wrong with learning how to do Scrum well and adapting it to your team. At the same time, there is something wrong with failing to learn Scrum well but telling your team to do it badly, then locking on to bad practices.

The thing is, these are all just tools. Use them well and they help you. Use them badly and they hurt you. Same as a table saw.
Are C-Level Execs really down to that kind of operational detail level (watching a single Ad, etc)?
An email chain from 2010 has an impact on what phone you want to buy?
What, did that make you mad? Why're you mad?
I disagree. All transaction based taxes are regressive and most of them can be easily dodged by avoiding taxable events. There is absolutely zero reason to tax any form of work whatsoever.

From a theoretical standpoint the best taxes would be on monopolies that extract economic rent and taxes on externalities. The prime candidates are the land value tax and carbon tax.
this add a slider selector for the time range to consider
and give higher values of alpha channel to more recent posts.

const div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML = `<div style="position:fixed;top:20px;right:20px;width:40px;background:#ff05;">
<input type="range" orient="vertical" id="interval" min="0" max="95" value="30" style="width:100%">
<label for="interval" style="display:block"></label>
</div>`;
const input = div.firstElementChild.firstElementChild;
const label = input.nextElementSibling;
document.body.appendChild(div);
const formatTime = (mins) => {
if (mins > 60) {
return `${Math.floor(mins / 60)}h ${mins % 60}m`;
}
return `${mins}m`;
};
const extrapolate = (val) => {
val = val * 2;
for (let t = 30; t <= 150; t += 30) {
val += Math.max(0, val - t);
}
return val;
};
input.oninput = () => colorStuff(extrapolate(input.value));
const colorStuff = (interval_minutes) => {
label.innerText = `${formatTime(interval_minutes)}`;
const comments = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("athing comtr"));
dates = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('age'));
dates.sort((c1, c2) => Date.parse((c2).title) - Date.parse((c1).title));
const now = new Date();
const timestamp = now.getTime() + now.getTimezoneOffset() * 60E3;
comments.forEach((c) => {
const commentDateString = c.getElementsByClassName("age")[0].title;
const diff=(timestamp-Date.parse(c.getElementsByClassName('age')[0].title))/60E3;
const diff2=(Date.parse(dates[0].title)-Date.parse(c.getElementsByClassName('age')[0].title))/60E3;
if (diff < interval_minutes) {
const alpha = (1 - diff2 / interval_minutes)**6;
c.style.backgroundColor = `rgba(100, 255, 100, ${alpha})`;
} else {
c.style.backgroundColor = "rgba(255, 255, 255,0)";
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Note that tape usage typically depends on the input, so I would distinguish programs and computations (program + input).
Well said. I'm sure the dolphins thought so as well.
I wonder if this can help with writing XHTML web pages?
Joe Biden’s Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate
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Probably Rick, he did a bunch of presentations.

We ran a pretty vanilla FreeBSD. IIRC, we disabled locales, and had 5-10 patches depending on exactly when and what bottlenecks we were running into.

We didn't go out of our way to turn off daemons, we just didn't start anything we didn't need. Out of the box, you get sshd, crond, getty, ntpd, syslogd, our system activity report, and that's really all you need to administer the box. Then on our Erlang machines, we'd run one big Erlang process. Unless something went seriously wrong, only Erlang ever had real work to do.

I don't know that there was a performance benefit, you can run a lot of daemons that are waiting on sockets and don't use meaningful amounts of ram before noticing a performance hit. Hardening has something to do with it, can't get into our smtpd if we're not running it. But mostly it kept things simple and reduced work. No extra daemons means no configuration of them and no update headaches. Even with that limited set, I had to go around and reconfigure sshd sometimes and ntp rather more than I'd have liked, and we used caveman automation, so stuff that needs super user is extra painful.

On hardening, we didn't exclude things from FreeBSD's base, even though that would probably be a good idea. Some things are there for reasonable reasons, but had no relevance to us, and less installed stuff would be better, but tradeoffs. We did run stud (now known as hitch, which we needed when Erlang TLS was too slow) in a totally locked down jail though; statically configured binary, only executable in the jail, etc.
God he sound insufferable.
Because there are articles showing the vaccines are not effective and even dangerous as well. We can't hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time.
It is standard everywhere unless a site explicitly overrides it.

For example, do a Google search and click one of the links. Now do the same search again. The link you followed last time is now purple instead of blue. On Hacker News the links go a lighter grey.
(minor contributor) I’ve been following the project for a while and pleasantly surprised by the ability to manually convert Python programs to Seq without needing to make too many changes. Note, most of my experimentation has been with smallish programs I’ve written. I like that I can still think “Pythonically” and compose mostly correct Seq code using familiar idioms, e.g. list/set/dict comprehensions. The standard library is very readable and a source for “from import” type functionality. Some of the other features I’ve come to appreciate: pipeline operator |>, JIT compile or create an executable (seqc run, seqc build), match statements, and strong typing.
White-sided are not common dolphins
Interesting how much of a double standard there is in the media when it comes to promoting booster shots before the effects of doing so are adequately studied, but then pre-maturely shutting down other potential treatments (ivermectin, fluvoxamine, hcq), when there isn’t really a consensus for either thing.

Shooting from the hip seems to be fine as long as it has the effect of administering more vaccine doses, but everything else is to be ridiculed and held to much stricter standards of scientific proof.
Its not a term that we have coined - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport
The mistake you're making is assuming what someone gets paid is their value to the company. That's never been the case. What you get paid is the going rate for your area that meets local supply and demand. So it makes a lot of sense to pay someone less who lives in another area, because there is lower demand for their skills there.

I think this will even out over time as more workers are remote only. Once someone in Tulsa can do the same job as someone in San Francisco, and also easily find another similar job, I think the pay in Tulsa will go up and the pay in SF will go down.

Companies are already fighting this by saying, "you'll get paid $X if you live anywhere in the US, but you'll get an extra 20% if you come into the office in San Francisco every day". So now you have to choose how much that 20% is worth to you.
Is that what you tell people for all problems/actions?
> Their technical problems are their problems, not mine.

You’ve never interacted with the government or a large corporation, have you?
Your theory is that the third thing you tried and only the third thing you tried fixed the problem. To test that theory you have to recreate it, which you do by modifying the baseline.

You're gonna find out real fast if #2 was also required to fix the problem. Or you can find out in four months when the servers need a fix for an advisory.
Orange Publishes In-Kernel eBPF-Powered Cache – Can Speed Up Memcached by ~18x
What is the domain? We may be interested.
Automation and/or higher pay tends to make that not a problem.
That study seems to be showing that vax + natural is better than natural alone but does not seem to compare vax alone to natural alone.
At least it makes it easy to spot the white supremacists. Sadly this site and our industry are full of them.
...which is why young male suicide goes absolutely unaddressed.

It impacts predominately young white men.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2017...
> to obtain remote, unauthorized access to any of the tens of millions of smartphones and mobile devices utilizing a U.S. Company Two-provided operating system

U.S. Company Two provides a mobile operation system. Hmmm, now who could that be?