skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a low skilled, low bar for entry job. Finding candidates should be a breeze.

Proper police should be well trained ( de-escalation, judging situations, hostage negotiation, domestic abuse, etc etc). Furthermore, it's a (potentially) very tough ( in terms of hours worked and shit that happens during those hours) and thankless job. I don't think there would be that many candidates.
Why China Is Alienating the World
Ponzi implies fraud.

Bitcoin, by definition, can't be fraud. The protocol and code are open source. We know how it works.

If you lose money because it's a speculative bubble that eventually pops, that's because you made a bad bet, not because you were defrauded.
Outside of whether it would be feasible to move wealth to bitcoin before fleeing, discounting the existence of people who weren't miserable before they had to flee their decent existence due to war is insulting. You insinuated that all people who flee their country were resourceless before their displacement. Confronted with the fact that they aren't, you thought to save your point by declaring them "anecdotal". Not classy.
In C you're free to get the address of the float (presuming it's not in a register) and cast that address to a pointer to an array of char, which doesn't copy anything, just re-decrees, from that point on, to the code generator of the compiler what assembly code is generated.
I miss Windows 3.11 so much. It was so much more clean and intuitive than today Windows...
Adult Swim: How an Animation Experiment Conquered Late-Night TV
Wow Update Removes Flirts and Jokes
ICC nowadays is based on LLVM (https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/blogs/a...).

That might mean the differences have mostly disappeared, but that may depend on what the front end (icx vs clang) does.
Norway has a fiscal deficit every year, in order to cover the deficit we're allowed to spend a couple percent of our holdings in the Oil Fund to. To my understanding, this is done by selling assets on a monthly basis in exchange for Norwegian currency by Norges Bank. [0]

One could argue that the government would not be able to offer subsidies on EVs without that option.

0: https://www.norges-bank.no/en/topics/liquidity-and-markets/F...
TLDR: Making books is hard, so I built a platform where you just have to write the text and we'll typeset, publish, make it available via print-on-demand and setup a storefront so you can sell it easily.

It's in alpha state and can make the book readable online, typesetting and print on demand coming soon, do check it out and and give your suggestions and thoughts. Cheers :D
For me, 5-8 h highly concentrated programming is relaxation :-) (at least when working on my own things)

Interesting example with the accountant: constant precision required, although monotonous. Not easy
> There's always a vpc with a bunch of subnets for the different AZs.

It’s funny because you’re already out of touch with how a lot of people would avoid having to do this in 2021. If your stack was simpler, you might not have such infra as code dependencies.
>cloud kind stuff kind of traces back to IBM System 360 capabilities

Yes true with VM/370 (today called z/VM) released in 1972, but it's not directly the same, however pretty impressive what IBM did (in the past)

One can test-drive it from here:

http://www.vm370.org/vm
Removing lead from solder has positive benefits for home hobbyists who might not have proper vent hoods. Or who might be teenagers.

I switched to lead-free solder for all of my projects and haven't had any problems, let alone a catastropy.
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Blocks of 1~2 GB size that are actually being mined have a higher fee than the current block reward.

Miners can mine larger blocks to increase their ROI.

I strive to provide sufficient answers to your questions.
Please understand even if my English is not good.
Woah, had no idea!

> When Beijing lost its bid to stage the 2000 Olympic Games, it was speculated that the reason China did not pursue a bid for the following 2004 Games was due to the unpopularity of the number 4 in China. Instead, the city waited another four years, and would eventually host the 2008 Olympic Games, the number eight being a lucky number in Chinese culture.

Thought this was particularly interesting.
I'll consider chrome when they have container tabs and userChrome.css
People don't seem to understand the concept of constitutional monarchy, and mistakenly believe that the King or Queen in such setups wield power. They are just titular heads of states in a democratic state where the elected representatives and the government hold the real power.

However, I'd say the United Kingdom is an exception here as the Queen still has a lot of power, legally, many of which they have never exercised (atleast in a public manner).

Some weird quirks include not needing a license to drive or not requiring a passport for international travel. She doesn't need to pay taxes (but does pay some). Apparently the Queen of England also owns all Swans in around river Thames and all the Whales / Dolphins in British waters.

More serious powers include being immune to prosecution, exception from Freedom of Information Request, the ability to over rule ministry decisions (in case of emergency or constitutional crisis), the ability to dismiss a government and call for an election. Any law affecting the monarchy requires the "Queens consent" before it can be debated in Parliament or the Queen can also refuse her assent to discuss a particular bill in parliament. She is the Commander-in-Chief of the entire UK military and has the power to order a nuclear strike.

(Ofcourse, in recent decades, it is understood that most of these powers should only be exercised under the advice of the elected government, but that is not how the laws are written and framed. All in all, I'd say she is the most brilliant politician of the 20th century to hold on to power for so long.)
It says: "owned or managed".

It does not say "owned AND managed".

MSFT has been in the business of using legal to make money. This is not the Apache Foundation. This is a non-profit arm of MSFT.
> Because yes, it does sound pretty ridiculous that an LLC needs to maintain a $0 balance or else it will penalize the owners of said LLC. That doesn't sound right.

It's definitely not correct at all. Neither is issuing phantom invoices to yourself to put money into the account.

A bank account is just a vehicle to store business cash, it really has nothing directly to do with the way you should be maintaining your LLC's books. You should be recording things like that as "capital contributions" which increase your "capital account."

Similarly, profits and losses should be booked to your capital account. I would strongly recommend doing some reading on capital account bookkeeping.
Try 9Front, they have two browsers ;)
Well, lately anyway. The 386EX [1] was supported from 1994 to 2006 with many interesting and "cheap" third party SBCs, replaced in 2007 by the Tolpai SOC line which was killed the following year. It's been all churn since then it seems.

You can still buy tons of 386EX chips and boards on eBay and even a couple first-hand (JK Flashlight) and there's a few modern homebrew designs out there.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386EX
Due to the time and expense involved in hyperbaric therapy it's really tough to study large numbers of subjects.
You say you are burned out and now you are about to take on more work on a promise. I would be cautious.
Yes, only Russia, China and the US and to a lesser extent the EU will easily bully them. Just take a look at any of their neighbours. Most of Russia's neighbours aren't its frinds. Same goes for China. Kyrghystan went from being a colony of Russia to becoming a colony of China. Mongolia might end up there as well. Canada (#9) and Mexico (#18) are big states. Cuba, Guatemala or Nicaragua not so much. The EU is not as much a bully rather than a bigger brother, but somehow manages to push Switzerland into submission and would also try it with the UK as well (fishing rights). Serbia and North Macedonia both manage to obtain EU funds through different partnership projects with some hope of acession as a full EU member.
Yeah that brings back memories. Great initiative!
And the US would ban any discussion on Guantanamo and CIA torture. What's your point?

It should be run independently, like the WHO, not directly under the power of the security council. And before you say Taiwan, the Republic of China is not a UN member, and there's nothing the UN or WHO can do about it, it's between China and them.
generally speaking - ansible is not used for clouds. Especially if ur leveraging things like spot instances, etc.

Because ansible needs a trigger to start configuring the server.

The most general practice now is to use cloud-init (https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

For example, this is how u set it up on AWS - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-dat...

i think cloud-init is packaged by default on all providers OS images.
“improves battery life by up to 0.5%”
To me this line is quite ridiculous.
We all know that Chrome is now the main responsible for battery consumption on any laptop and could be optimized much more.
lead paint was also a bad idea (unless you count it as a chew toy)
Its amazing having a company with the technology & innovation focus such as Google funding, pushing, and publishing AI research.

Everyone wins, and will continue to do so until the research labs at Google, Facebook, Apple etc... abandon their openness culture -- which I don't see happening anytime soon mostly because of the attitudes and culture of openness of the engineers & researches at said labs.

Great times we live in...
Reminds me of this great story https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Automated-Curse-Generat...
It’s an app that is aimed at a specific demographic. It’s fairly important that we do our best to avoid giving accounts to “just anybody.”

If we ever get to the kind of scale that would require us to have automatic account creation, we’ll see. We certainly have the technical means to do it. Until then, we’ll have volunteer admins creating accounts.

I know that most services do everything they can, to push for massive scale, but we’re different. It’s an NPO, serving a fairly small subset of the population, and we need to be careful not to sacrifice quality for scale (heresy, I know).

The temp passwords are auto-generated and sent to the user, and stored in the traditional one-way hash. The dashboard can reset passwords, but we pretty much let the user do what they want, once the account is set up.
If you have the customer-ID in the data it basically represents the "owner" of the data. Typically the data of one owner does not refer to the data of other owners. Also the ownership of given data probably never changes so updating it is not a problem.

I wonder if this could or should be a built-in feature in databases. It is "meta-data" meaning data about data, who owns it.
Genuine question: In what kind of places?
You can know that you're spreading misinformation, creating political division, and harming children's mental health without being able to point to whether a specific piece of content is doing that.

If we rephrased the GP post slightly it would say something about creating a system of incentives that, knowingly or not, created these outcomes. It's in fact entirely possible the current system was implemented with no ill intent. The creation of the system itself isn't, as such, the critique. Rather, the critique is how they, after seeing what the outcome of the system is, choose to keep it in place.

These things are complex and unpredictable and fixing it isn't as simple as setting a boolean flag. What we want to see is the public realization from the executives at Facebook that what they're doing is harming vast amounts of people and a decisive commitment to concrete, proactive, and fundamental changes to the system. All of this backed up by short-term visible results in both the short-term and long-term behavior of the system and company.
That's a very old intelligence conundrum. Using enough intelligence to benefit you without exposing how much ( and potentially from where) you know is a very tough problem.
Verdict on Corona rules: All-day curfew in Spain was unconstitutional
No but it requires you to know apeace. Could be random letters with usernames - ok. But it's a different story with full names in the 1960s. Could have still just browsed the telephone book, but together with other hints it adds weight to the argument.
What Does the Apple Logo Mean?
Bunch of ineffective entries too, all patterns containing underscores won't ever match.
German court declares Corona curfew unconstitutional
I kinda want to see a standard deviation on those measurements.
> While I agree with you that it is a didactic problem, I also think it is an optimisation heuristic. When working with engineers, it is expected that they know what, for example, git/version control is, hence such jargon will be sprinkled in conversation freely. That's how we compress the communication bandwidth. It is enormously costly if we document everything in a context free manner that anyone newly into the topic can understand, and people still won't understand.

This is exactly the reason I ask some common knowledge jargon during interviews.
I start by saying, "hey, I know this is silly but I'm going to ask you some basic questions, please explain to me what you think it means.. JSON, REST..."
You'd be shocked how many strange / ridiculous answers I get, along with a few that after 10 words I know I'm speaking with someone that has a change getting the position.
This is part of an initial 30 minute phone interview.
You could check out Semmle. It is trying to solve a similar problem, but with code analysis.
I remember playing "Zelda" clone on my HP48GX back in the late 90s, what an era and impressive feat.

And if I am not wrong, a lot of today CAS solvers on calculators are derived from https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html and from the author of the famous Erable (Mapple in French :o )
Please give me a simple, type safe, easy to use language (hint Dhall) to represent my infra.

YAML programming is not something that makes people happy. K8s is even worse in this regard, YAML documents embedded into YAML documents.

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cloudformation-templates/blob...
In the "guns don't kill people" category of arguments, it's the pump and dump influencers that are literally everywhere hyping it so they can sell theirs.

You get rich from crypto by selling, not HODLing.
One day the blockchain will gain a random mutation and then it will find a way to run an unconstrained superhuman AI on the blockchain infrastructure. Bitcoin is just an AI embryo trying to convince foolish humans to give it energy and once it can build its own robotic army it will get rid of humans or we just keep it happy by building an exponentially growing number of dyson spheres. I'm sorry guys but the Matrix human battery concept is just wrong.
So, first of all, this was posted on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23134688

To the point though, while some of the points in the article are well-taken, especially how one can pick-and-choose scenarios where one language or the other has a noticeable implementation issue or design misfeature - the article is still problematic for at least two reasons:

1. Mixing up a comparison of the languages and of the results of specific compilations by a specific compiler.

If C++ semantics allow doing something easier, but Rust semantics do not, e.g. because of avoiding undefined behavior, then regardless of whether a specific compiler makes use of this fact - it is still a benefit, speed-wise. Specifically, in Rust, if I take two non-negative numbers and multiple them using the square() function discussed in the article, then check the result for being negative - with C++, the check is redundant and can be dropped in favor of a true value during compilation; with Rust, it cannot. Now, will some version of LLVM do that? I don't know - but it could (and it should).

2. Misrepresenting how the langue affects the behavior of the compiler back-end.

The article says:

> Rust is based on LLVM, which is the same back end that Clang is based on. Therefore, Rust has inherited "for free" and shares with C++ most of the language-independent code transformations and optimizations.

That's simply not true. That is, LLVM is _capable_ of most of the same transformations and optimizations; but the question of which of them it is _allowed_ to use depends on various kinds of semantic information specific to the programming language.

This is apparent even in trivial examples. Here's one:

https://godbolt.org/z/rMW3vsEvo

where the same function is compiled in Rust:

pub fn check(num: i32) -> bool {
let y = if num < 0 { -num } else { num };
return y >= 0;
}

and in C++:

auto check(int32_t num) {
auto y = (num < 0) ? -num : num;
return y >= 0;
}

The compilation results are:

example::check:
mov eax, edi
neg eax
cmovl eax, edi
test eax, eax
setns al
ret

and:

check(int): # @check(int)
mov al, 1
ret

respectively. How come? Isn't it all LLVM under the hood? It's even the same LLVM, version, 12.0.1 for both languages... Now, I'm not sure why exactly this happens since I'm no Rust expert. But - LLVM is not _allowed_ to apply the same optimizations to the Rust function as to the C++ function, so the results are different.
There were apps to do symbolic calculus on the TI-83/84 via Detached Solutions...
Aw, why can't you be nicknamed 420blazeit?

That's not even offensive and there are still way more weed-nicknames available, so I don't get it.
> When people stop buying the latest and greatest machines for Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin's price will crash to zero. It will trigger double-spending attacks, which will undermine trust in the network. Gold doesn't have this problem; so gold is better.

Nope, you're laboring under a misapprehension. Even if all new compute power stopped being manufactured miners will run their existing equipment. The mining difficulty will plateau and overtime gently decrease as equipment breaks.

Older and less efficient (at computing double SHA-256) equipment can be profitably brought online where the price of electricity to do so is available and other more valuable uses of that energy in that locale are not possible.

You can ride this all the way back down the years and generations of ASICs then GPUs to CPUs. Once humanity is out of CPUs, well, we'll have more pressing issues. We'll talk again then, or not.

Yes, mining and securing the network nevermind transmitting transactions would be difficult with ink, paper, and abacus technology alone. I'd expect gold to hold some value here despite difficulty in securing and assaying it restricting its useble value to technical specialists and institutions. Nonperishable food, water filters, consumable entertaining substances, etc. would be a better bet if you're prepping against a Mad Max level of collapse.
Interview: Element celebrates Facebook outage with Signal bridge for Matrix
The article states significant costs were borne by Merck and the associated company as the US government (BARDA) declined to fund the development of the drug.

If the drug development had been fully funded by the US government, I’d see a stronger case. Instead, it seems like the funding here is via a pre-purchase agreement at $712 per course. We’ve essentially funded it for poor countries too because the article mentions the drug is being immediately licensed in India as a generic at $12.
This is fundamentally different than digital processing because of multiple reasons.
> This is not the fault of devs

If you include 3rd party software in your app, and that 3rd party software does something bad, then that's totally your fault.
Using 10% for a quick calc is fine, if you only use it once. But you then multiplied that error by 3. The resulting assumption - that the transmission losses with 3 transformers would be ~73% (0.9^3) is completely wrong, given that we know total grid transmission losses are in the order of <10%
I once read an article about how access to computing power caused the math cultures of the USA and USSR to diverge after WW2. For example Bellman's dynamic programming vs. Pontryagin's principle for trajectory optimization. Markov Chain Monte Carlo was developed in the USA too. Graphing calculators kind of fit.
Boss: "Hey Bob! People started spamming one of our boards, we are currently busy doing other things and cannot deploy new client, can you make filter with these 3 words and deploy it ASAP?"

Bob: "Sure no problem if it's only temporary"

--few months later

Chief architect:

"People are spamming more and more, we should design new system for these 234 new bad words, I need team of 7, two backend guys, 5 frontend guys and 4 weeks. It will also require minor rewrite of few external components."

Boss: "geez we're in the middle of sprint right now, Bob can you add these 234 words to existing filter? Make sure it's in production before lunch, thanks" (checks watches) "I have to go now, meeting with customer, bye".
Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
OpenCV doesn't deserve to be associated with such trivial applications.
This.

I haven't done that yet, but I'm thinking about going that route. My last job was with a start-up. I got to build everything from scratch, and I was 100% focused on infrastructure. I promised myself that everything new thing the team need would be deployed for them manually, then thoroughly researched and redeployed via IaaC asap. That meant that I was always delivering work that the team need. It also meant that I could take their request and build a really useful module from it. Example: nobody ever "just wanted" an SQS queue. They wanted a queue, various different sized workers in auto-scaling group with metrics to trigger scaling events. And logs. And probably an s3 bucket. And a deadletter queue. And all the security policies to allow those things to communicate with each other safely. Oh and custom metrics with alarms that notify you when your queries fill up. So I would build a single module that did all that stuff, using sensible and well-documented defaults. It was executed via for loop that iterated over a yaml structure. When the dev team wanted a new queue+workers, they edited the yaml (Hiera, in this case), added a few lines to the 'sqs-worker-groups:' block, and sent me a merge request. I would make sure they read the module readme, ask a few questions to make sure the foot-gun want cocked, and merge

I know some people have said that the developers in their company write their own terraform. That's really neat, but do you get solutions like this, where a single person is focused on writing the DRYest possible code that can be re-used by everyone?

When devs write infrastructure-as-code, there are also soooo many foot-guns that they all have to learn about over and over. Things that a seasoned infra engineer will have shot themselves with once and never again (s3 permissions, IOPS, egress costs, using us-east-1 etc). How many developers would bother studying the AWS infra-focused exam material?
Legal liability is the only way to combat this bullshit. Severely harm these companies if they don't delete the data unless there is legal reason for time-limited retention (e.g. banks).
Story of the song is here: http://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Trip_Through_the_Grand_Canyo...
I'm not interested in any capitalist perspective of an OS- this kind of thinking is exactly why I'm using a damn teletype emulator.
Profitable, "successful" computing that gets more than "a handful" of users is web tech. They can keep it.

I'll just stop at the top- no, I can't use Linux as a base, except perhaps as a host for a virtual system.
For me I've been playing with uxn, but Inferno does exist. And you're right, using Inferno on a stripped Linux system WOULD be better than using Linux.
I may have the story wrong but it seemed to me like the "problematic" versions of OS/2 were all written by Microsoft and IBM sorted it out. So the sort of pro-Windows OS/2 bashing later on seemed very ironic to me.