skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found Through the Language Glass a fascinating read. One main topic in the book is names for colors.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8444621-through-the-lang...

A thing that stuck with me is how European explorers thought some natives were colorblind because they didn't have words for blue. The scientists at the time concluded that it's obviously because the natives hadn't evolved color-vision. Or weren't given color-vision by God. This theory got cast into doubt when it turned out that the natives could easily distinguish strings with different shades of blue.

The book goes on to show that languages tend to add words for colors in a certain sequence. I think it was first red, then green, then yellow ad other colors and last blue.

So this study looks more like it found the last languages who wouldn't have added blue were in sunny places. Not that the speaker have impaired color vision.
Ironic, as measurability came up in another comment thread I'm in.

I'd say from a technical perspective SREs are, but there's a potential (depends on product) gap between their technical goals and user goals.

e.g. What does "p95 latency is spiking" actually mean to the end user?
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Some other books I can recommend to read alongside McConnell's are Waltzing With Bears by DeMarco and Lister (of Peopleware fame) and How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard.
You are a naive person.
It is the assumption that the two cars always make the same number od miles indepedently od the cost that is unusual and unintuitive.
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>Yep, ask yourself how much identifiable return "preventing abuse" has, and then you have your answer for exactly how much these companies actually care about it.

Quite a bit, then?
You aren't asking your contacts to delete WhatsApp as well in solidarity or to fully "switch", you are asking them to simply use Signal to communicate with you. If you mention you are uncomfortable using WhatsApp, and they aren't willing to use Signal to message you, they likely aren't worth talking to.

I deleted Facebook/Messenger awhile ago, and asked that people use Signal to communicate with me. All of the people I cared to speak to use Signal to message me, and many of them have used it for other purposes as well. That hasn't precluded them from using whatever they were using before. This only applies to the personal sphere of my life, conducting business with WhatsApp may be a different issue entirely.
There are a number of capture projects doing what you suggest on full scale power plants and other industrial facilities. And yes you are right, its cheaper to catch it at a point source than in the atmosphere.

The projects work by circulating chemicals through the smokestack that latch onto the CO2 in the flue gas. The chemical is then heated up to remove the CO2 which is then pumped underground where it is sequestered, hopefully forever. The chemical is recycled back to the smokestack for the process to begin again.

When working well such systems capture around 80% of the CO2 at a energy penalty of around 20%. The problem is that the system rarely work well, so in the real world those numbers aren't achieved. This is why there are relatively few such systems deployed in the world despite $Bs in subsidies spent.

Lately, oil companies have been feeling the pressure to show results on this, so there are a lot of projects that have gone into development.
Morally I wont be using any of the data. The data however is out whether you roadblock access to it or not.

The chances of you stopping someone who's nefarious enough to use the data but so non-technical that they can't find a magnet link is so low it wasn't worth me typing this sentence about it
> The issue at hand here is not this resolution in itself.

Is this a joke? If there is no issue with the resolution itself, then we for sure should accept it.
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Spoiler alert: vast majority of FAANG systems run on Linux, making billions for them.
This covers it very well: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/idiomatic-python-eafp-...

In particular, this is not idiomatic python:

if "key" in dict_:
value += dict_["key"]

But this is:

try:
value += dict_["key"]
except KeyError:
pass

I too hate using the exception handling in this way, and if you aren't careful, you end up papering over other unexpected exceptions in your code, so you have to be (A) very specific in the exception you catch, and (B) keep it in as small a portion of code as possible.

I just think it makes for clumsy code - which of the two look better:

try:
value = dict_["key"]
except KeyError:
pass
else:
do_something(value)

OR

if "key" in dict_:
do_something(dict["key"])

But it might just be me.
I agree with you and don't have a cynical reading of the Prince at all! Machiavelli simply talks about what works and what doesn't. As he explains, as a leader, helding upon your promises for the sake of it is a liability. Why be angry at successfull politicians when they apply what works?
Anyone interested in this topic should feel free to check out the work of Paul Kay at Berkeley, who did the groundwork for this line of research, starting back in the 60's and 70's.

https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/
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the argument is correct, but alas: "eventually" can take a long time. But types and NoSQL can be friends too.
I agree that blocking human sounds would be the best thing ever, but noise cancellation is still good for allowing you to keep audio turned down lower. When competing with other background noise it's very easy to push the volume higher than is good for your ears.

Also, if by hearing the oncoming traffic you mean that you've tried ANC headphones while driving: please don't wear any sort of headphones when operating a vehicle. Music is already distracting, cutting off the world on top of that is even worse. And also likely to be illegal. Even if not specifically called out in law, there's a good chance it will be considered distracted driving.
First off, the author doesn’t owe it to anyone to continue to develop Magisk, whether now working at Google or elsewhere, and he’s been generous with the community. This is the Key quote from the thread: (I think)

> You'll be surprised with how many people in Google are pro-modding. It's just that differentiating between abuse and modding is an extremely difficult problem. As a platform, unfortunately, and understandably, preventing abuse has significantly higher priority than modding

“abuse” gives companies the license to lock down their systems to prevent general purpose computing. I wish the modding community hadn’t been so lured by the “open source” label put on Android and had instead started on their own Linux based operating system.
This is a readily solvable problem i.e. the only phone number I use/give online is a VOIP# that just redirects to voicemail immediately (and blocks the call if it's on my SPAMMER list of persistent annoyances).

For friends/family they have my cell# and it only lets calls through if they're in my contacts.
One of the stated benefits of this is

> Calls to Python functions would be faster as frame objects would be considerably smaller. Currently each frame carries 240 bytes of overhead for exception handling.

I guess that’s where this will pay even in a language/ecosystem where exceptions aren’t exceptional.
What’s really going to cook your noodle is thinking about Red Hat. They were maintaining long running forks when google was still in diapers.
Caution, though, Watts' set and setting is so excessively decadent dark so he probably broke a knob in case of Blindpraxia, where he introduced no less than vampires(!) and failed to explain them properly effectively making them very flexible dei ex machinis to fix otherwise broken plot.

Blindsight worth reading indeed, depiction of scary aliens is excellent there, Echopraxia is completely disappointing disaster movie in the print form. I'm going to point you at The Island novelette and whole Sunflowers series if you can endure its decadent dark set&setting.
People seem to dislike this suggestion, but while I believe it is unrealistic to check for age on the internet, this idea has some merit.

Platforms that harbor minors and adults together will have to have different rules than platforms just for adults. But you also cannot make everything fit for kids. Government would actually try to do just that since ensuring safety here is their mandate. So a solution must be found. Normally minors should be supervised, but that is not trivial and you don't want constant surveillance.
Are rare deadlocks better than frequent ones? That sounds like a good way to not know you have problems.
> but not nearly as LLVM would in the same situation.

LLVM has the support of most compiler research groups across the globe, so in contrast with GCC, there is a steady flow of "LLVM PhD"s coming out of academia in need of a job, and "LLVM PhD"s becoming professors and continuing doing research with LLVM, and then a large set of CS students doing all kind of works with those professors on LLVM, which creates a steady flow of "BSc"/"MSc" LLVM professionals.

On top of that, many technology companies have built their whole platforms on top of LLVM.

GCC doesn't really have that. If Red-Hat and other private companies withdraw support, there are really few people familiar enough with GCC to keep it afloat, few people interested in learning and contributing because that won't land them industry jobs, etc.
This happens when I donate to any candidate. Not saying it's right, but it does seem to be the norm.
I have similar problems in my own field where an academic could EASILY explain the core of a problem in a few bullet points, but instead will try to cram 20 lines of dense mathematical formulation in size 8 font on a slide. It is just bad communication. That should be left in the white paper, sure, but not at a conference where 3/4 the room just starts reading email. I try to explain this to academics all the time when they're trying to communicate with industry, but few seem to get it.

Keep in mind, I'm not saying that's the same as what we're talking about in this post, but I thought you'd be interested in the personal anecdote. Clear communication is an art that takes years to master. Unfortunately, a lot of academic papers are not meant for a general audience or even an audience of non academic experts.
Thank you, this is the answer I was looking for
How can you claim that getting PR is merit based when the criteria is opaque?
I've gone that route before. My main thought is that it seems like the Pi itself should have more robust/longer lasting storage just be default at this point.
Windows 11 is now available, memory leaks and performance sacrifices included
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Facebook Has Good Manrs. Mistakes Still Happen
My wife and I disagreed over whether our duvet was blue or green. I was adamant that it's green, and she that it is blue. (we both agreed it was a blue-green, but if we had to pick which colour was more prominent)

So I took a photo and looked up the RGB values of the pixels to see if it was more green or blue. Turned out it was basically equal values for both. I found that very interesting.
Here's a link to the data: bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDpONUJMWjZYRUNORUhIQVJISk9WUUFTNFc3VFdSWENTSSZkbj10d2l0Y2gtbGVha3MtcGFydC1vbmUmdHI9dWRwJTNBJTJGJTJGb3Blbi5zdGVhbHRoLnNpJTNBODAlMkZhbm5vdW5jZQ==
> Running on a VM is much more like running on a plain physical node.

Sure, and containers are just plain processes on a VM. The exact code that controls processes in a VM, also controls processes inside a container.

As long as the underlying data volume is reliable, it really doesn't matter whether you're running it outside of a container or not. Volumes for K8s have a come a long way since its early days.
I thought that the word "orange" was way newer than "blue".
Well IMF is entirely voluntary. They can recommend courses of action but the country can decide to pursue that course or not.

For WTO, no army is going to invade because you didn’t remove tariffs.
That one is not that weird and I don’t like having to use xargs to create multiple calls.
There is a lot going on with this guy. He says a lot of the "right" things and it's pretty clear he has a point with our system being really messed up. The problem with founding a new party is that it has to have a base that is based on something organic and I don't think this guy realizes that.

At best, he can only hope for a party base derived from his personality, which is lacking. Other than that, I don't see any demographic group that he can consider his core group of supporters.

At the very least, it will make people think about the current system and how to change it.
Not only that, but a lot of closed messaging platforms were originally built on XMPP.
“We are short $DNA. Ginkgo Bioworks is a colossal scam”
Because that's not the field of work I chose for myself. I do see construction workers on a daily basis though. I also know the owner of a construction company, he's part of my extended family. The wealth disparity between the workers and my family member is obscene. There's no way I'll ever believe they couldn't be paid better wages.
Because the rest of the world is behind the curve, the US is merely leading the charge as its established political landscape perfectly plays into the filter bubble polarization FB feeds on.

Something that's quite observable in places like Germany: Election campaigns in Germany used to be quite boring, there used to be no such thing as "political attack ads", parties kept their campaigning to topics they stand for, instead of trying to attack other parties or candidates on their particular positions.

At least that's how it used to be for the longest time, but during the last decade the whole tone around German elections became noticeably more hostile, something that directly correlates with the rise in popularity of the AfD.

Said AfD has hired American Harris Media for their campaign strategy, the same company that won Trump his presidency [0]. They not only introduced the wonders of micro-targeting, which already contributed to the Obama presidencies, but also added their American flavor of running political campaigns with these extremely hostile overtones.

The latest highlight of that escalation, during the recent election, has been far-right parties literally calling to "hang the Greens" [1]

Or to give another, often overlooked, example; The US wasn't the only country that saw their capitol stormed in recent times, an attempt was also made in Germany, but there police actually stood their ground [2]

And while most of the big established parties condemned what happened there, the rising far-right ones did nothing like that, they were right there riling people up.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-29/the-germa...

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/german-court-orders-removal-of-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53964147
A trillion-dollar coin could be minted within hours of an emergency decision
Models need input and there isn't much knowable input in modern organisations. A unit of organisation is a person with complex internal state. Two units of type M could've competed for another unit of type F and one of them has won, while the other is secretly sabotaging work of the first - an example of chaotic to an outsider behavior because of hidden state. When all sorts of interactions are allowed, particles of organisation interact in all sorts of bizarre ways. It's hard to model a gas where particles have memory, long distance interactions with ten types of forces, mutate into other particles, teleport back and forth according to God knows what reasons and so on. We either resort to making only very general predictions or we cool down the particles, restrict their freedom to bare minimum and make them predictable. Rogue regimes do exactly this: the only interaction they allow is a strictly top-down "who fears whom", so everything is local and predictable.
What's to hate about drywall? It's easy to work with. It's fairly resilient to abuse. It's easy to paint. It's simple to patch. Having dealt with plaster, wood and concrete walls, I can't think of anything I'd rather.
"Institute for carbon-based life research."

;)
Their evil plan is to make their platform so good nobody will want to use anything else. Dastardly!
Maybe I'm just old or out of it? I've never used WhatsApp and don't see why I would need any chat apps other than just normal texting on my iPhone.
Don’t intend to make snap judgment (despite my unfortunate tone) — the question is a genuine one. Does it really have to be so inaccessible from start to finish? Maybe yes is the answer, that’s the nature of the thing. Physics is not like that, for instance.
The best options are:
- never sign up in the first place
- give entirely fake data, as much as possible
- change data to rubbish data afterward
- just never log in again, I am pretty sure dormant accounts are the worst, nothing to collect, nothing to track, no ads can be placed there in a meaningful way.

A dormant account with rubbish data is the best way to hinder their profits.
Because it doesn’t collect personal data to sell to advertisers.
Glad we cleared that up!
The subtitle is also important: Non-binding resolution also asks for AI-based predictive policing ban.

AI, by its complexity and opacity should not be used to profile people. Just because it could be so easily manipulated.
What's more robust and longer-lasting than SD and USB sockets? Flash storage is inherently unreliable and prone to failure, so keeping it on pluggable media is the sensible thing to do.
Given the relative prevalence of red-green colour blindness this is probably a general good idea.
That was my thought. They already give away free games over Prime, if they leverage that they have already given a large number of people stake in their new market place. Plus they own Twitch, I don't believe there is a publisher who isn't interested in the idea of people being able to impulse buy whatever there favorite streamer is playing without even leaving the stream. The strategy is pretty easy actually, give streamers a cut of each sale and encourage them to put up notifications when it happens like they do subs and cheers.
No donations included I believe
This all seems to be problems for them surveillance capitalist, and not the user.
I really enjoy this magazine.
I wouldn't make it an if statement unless it's going to be a part of the standard flow. I think the catchphrase is "leap before you look". Though your right that a single query is better.

Honestly, I normally just use get and let the exception fly. If it's a celery task I'll see the stack trace in flower, or right in the output if it's dev with debug on. Then I would go out of my way to make sure there was never a circumstance where a user requests something that doesn't exist.
Interesting random fact: The Uber whistleblower who wrote about the sexual harassment at the company is married to the CEO of Rigetti. Tech is a small world.
There is a pretty famous SCOTUS case on this, Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition. Given the ruling I don't think it's illegal, although you'd definitely have legal challenges.
A phrase almost certainly has a lot more entropy than the layman's reused password from other leaks.
Experiments as randomized algorithms – Ben Recht
If anyone is interested in working on this topic there is an opening in the team

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/107740695336231622-s...
There is no room for a third party to start gaining ground in the US. We already have a third and fourth party - the Libertarian and Green parties - that have been trying to gain traction for years. Neither has been able to. The Greens came the closest with Nader in 2000.

The reason for that is structural. The Democratic and Republican parties have structurally built themselves into the election system in a way that shuts out any attempt to gain traction by third and fourth parties.

Just think about the fact that the Federal Election Commission, the organization that oversees our elections, is legally required to be half Democrat and half Republican. That tells you everything you need to know.

If we're going to change it to make room for additional parties, we have to take over one of the existing parties with an explicit election reform agenda that removes them from the structural landscape and then restructures it (with things like ranked choice voting or a senate that works on proportional party representation) to allow for third parties to gain traction.
Excellent post! Python Bytecode is a little more naive / high level than this though, so stuff like exceptions and their nested handlers are actually implemented in the VM itself. The VM has essentially a second stack for exception and context manager blocks. The compiled bytecode essentially looks like this:

SETUP_TRY 10 # address where exceptions will be handled
some stuff that might explode
POP_BLOCK
JUMP 20 # jump over exception handlers
LOAD exception type # address 10
COMPARE # check if exception type matches
... handler for the type
stuff after the try-except # address 20

The corresponding source would look like

try:
some stuff that might explode
except exception type:
... handler for the type
stuff after the try-except

Python's bytecode compiler is generally a 1:1 translation of the AST; it never optimizes, e.g:

[value for value in list]

Translates to something like

LIST_NEW
FOR_EACH
STORE
LOAD
LIST_APPEND
JUMP BACK

Note how "value" generated a store-load pair.

The VM checks whether PyErr (pointer to exception) is set after basically everything. Similarly, extension modules check PyErr after every call into the interpreter, e.g.

PyObject *attr = PyObject_GetAttr(someattr, somepystr);
if(PyErr_Occurred()) { // or !attr
// handle exception
}

This gets old pretty fast.
In this case, there's multiple issues going on here. First 'gorm' in the case of 'fear gorm' didn't mean blue. It meant 'dusky', 'swarthy'. Also, 'fear dubh' refers to a black-haired person; 'An Fear Dubh' refers to the devil. 'Fear bán' would likely refer to hair color. Irish traditionally classified people on their hair color (thus 'Roisín dubh' was 'Roisín of the dark hair', not that she was dark complected).

Another big issue is Irish colors don't match up to English ones, at all. So many seem to think 'gorm' matches up to English 'blue', when it doesn't. It's different. Same with 'glas' and 'green', which is why you can have 'capall glas' or a 'green horse', but really it's a different color split that English. Same with 'spéir glas' to describe a 'grey sky'. It's a huge problem among learners who learn the language incorrectly (most in Ireland, sadly).
That is not part of https or html , they also removed RSS ,
i know some big ego dude wants to add to his CV that he killed http buit I think he should maybe create something more useful(like make sure we can css styule the elements scrollbars so designers won't force me to install a JS library because the scrollbars look like shit and can't customize them to look fine on all browsers or to be more objective see what is the most popular workaround that is used and implement that native (maybe is the calendar, or a better color picker, or native support for modals - run the numbers and not implement stuff thazt only look good on your CV)
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The article somehow has an air of profoundness, but at the same time is very vague.

> You see it all the time in so many industries. Veterans fall behind the younger generation because if veterans admitted that they had to adapt to what the younger generation is doing they’d feel like the hard work they put over their career was for nothing.

Obviously he is talking about Javascript, but does it really apply to so many industries ?
And if you liked this one, there's also the Book of Sand. Similar theme of infinite, generally useless, and unattainable knowledge.