skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might be in fine shape, I remember back when we had to learn cursive in school because if you couldn't read or write cursive then you might as well have been illiterate. Does cursive have any relation to literacy now-a-days? Absolutely not. Whats to say that being able to read or write instagram comments doesn't fully encapsulate what literacy entails in the 21st century?

I love to read fiction, but for me its just a hobby. Is the ability to read an old book actually all that important? I never actually read any of my textbooks in high school or college and I even stopped buying them because I realized how pointless and expensive they were. I'm well into my career and haven't ever touched a book related to my field. Communicating with my boss through email or chat is far more important than any formal reading comprehension.

I'd say if anything, modern day literacy is more about understanding fragmented conversations, reading between the lines and conceptualizing meaning, understanding context and being able to converse with colleagues including familiarity with memes, recognizing clickbait and being able to sort through misinformation. All of which is are skills the older generations exceptionally lack. Perhaps they are the ones who are actually currently illiterate.
The example was a nurse who moved to California.

Pay, as the article states, seems to be a better explanation than a political boogeyman.
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Aren't all workers very quickly becoming transient cogs in the machine?

I don't know a single friend at this point on a fully staffed team in any field anywhere. Whether it be FAANG, startups, or the government, data analytics in retail or lawyers at law firms, there is massive churn everywhere.
That's nice, but the unfortunate thing is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc

It's a Kurzgesagt video about why individual action is far from enough, and why we need systemic action. Do your part, but also pressure politicians, because that's where the main pain point is.
>I was saying that to dismiss any consideration of life and death situations because any deaths would be on the people not paying is fucked up.

Do you not think that it is possible to twist almost anything into a life or death situation?
I have the opposite experience.

I went to the hospital thinking I was in the middle of a medical event ... only for it to be heartburn. Oddly enough it didn't feel like heartburn, but more of a general pain in my chest.
> Facebook fined 8 hours of revenue for breaching order in Giphy takeover investigation

This juxtaposes a local fine on a subsidiary to a conglomerate's global revenue. That's fine. It's revealing, in some ways. But it's more clickbait than the actual fine.
Someone's pet todo-list is a business I guess...
Like any rule, this has exceptions.

You should never test for equality numbers which are known only approximately, which is the case for most FP numbers.

There are nonetheless cases when certain FP values are known exactly and it is OK to test them for equality.

In general the rule does not depend on number representation, it applies equally to floating-point numbers, fixed-point numbers, rational numbers and even large integers in some cases.

What counts is whether a number is known exactly or only approximately.
Do you have information that supports this theory or is it just a guess?
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Almost certainly - it's worthing bearing in mind the CMA fined them 155x the previous record for this kind of penalty.

The investigation also appears to be ongoing; I would expect the final decision to also be substantial.
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I found forest area and mass for some other places, and the forest area for England. 10.8 fits, that means trees are between 50 and 100 years old on average when they're cut (not all of the wood is usable for timber, so it's not just 50, and the UK is bigger than England).
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Yes, on 3 May 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055793

"Is APL Dead? Not anymore"
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How can it be considered green? Doesn't burning wood produce emissions too?
Is it correct to interpret this as the IEEE not recognizing any milestones since 1994? They have a list of items being considered, but such a large gap makes me think the milestones program is one of IEEEs low priority, nearly forgotten activities.
The number of people who leave because of vaccine mandates are a few percentage points. It's been borne out again and again as mandates are put in effect that the vast majority end up complying and only a few percentage points end up leaving from them. This is a much bigger phenomenon related to how hospital administration cuts nursing to the bone and the lack of organized labor pushing for safer standards of work and better working conditions.
A few months ago I searched for the tax filing deadline (I am in the UK). It gave the deadline for the US, which was later in the same month. This is pretty risky.
While there is a good underlying point I don't enjoy the analogy and I am glad other people have pointed out its flaws.
Well I found in internet archive an older version of the same document in PS format that was captured at May 16, 1997 :
https://web.archive.org/web/19970516152226/http://www.ai.sri...

This PS still contains same dates. On footer dates January 26, 1995 while the first page says April 22, 1994.

I also found the old SRI TerraVision homepage captured at May 16, 1997:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970516142933/http://www.ai.sri...

As well as the old datacenter page referring to SRI Terravision captured at June 5, 1997:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970605180747/http://www-itg.lb...

And here is the newer homepage of the later program version SRI TerraVision II captured at December 02, 2000 still containing some short promo videos of the software:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001202100300/http://www.tvgeo....

I need to check this site more deep but on first impression the SRI TerraVision I in 1997 and SRI TerraVision II in 2000 as shown in the linked videos are kind of inferior in sense of performance and capability compared to Art+Com TerraVision in 1994. Especially the videos from 1997(running on SGI) looked really bad and more like an early prototype. Just the 2000(on PC) videos SGI TV looked a bit better. All the TerraVisions programs may share the same name for whatever reason(?), but I would assume they do not use the same Algorithms. If Keyhole/Google "borrowed" ideas for Google Earth I would guess they did not copy them from SRI TerraVision, but from Art+Com TerraVision. But how knows?

If Brian from SGI was the connection to Keyhole/Google he could be also the connection to the MAGIC project from SRI since they use the same SGI Onyx at the beginning as Art+Com.
As always it depends. If you have an MVC app (Spring MVC, Struts, Stripes, etc) with minimal js and your teammates know jsp then it's fine. The syntax is clunky but IDE support is great. You can write custom tags easily to encapsulate functionality and generally the run time performance is blazing.
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The pointer is read by the allocator, which then performs its own set of writes and management. I think you guys might be confusing stack memory and dynamic memory here.

Interestingly enough, if you were to incorrectly use stack memory in this scenario, the magic checks should trigger, pointing out improper memory usage.
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I don't think there's anything nefarious going on. MKBHD is a "cool tech bro", and he knows that, and that is what he excels in. He isn't particularly great at talking about more niche, meta topics, until they hit the mainstream. His recent Right to Repair video shows this, and it took him YEARS to make that video - but it's also one of the best.

FWIW, he does talk about CSAM and is definitely aware of its pitfalls on his podcast, so it's not like he's blindly banging the drums.
> The only reason this "biomass" is so popular is an artificial reason. It's just a means for electricity companies to continue using coal and basically not doing anything, while selling their power as 'green'. All they need to do is throw a few wood chips in the mix..

I'm not sure that's the core of the problem, as biomass plants are specialized plants.

I believe the problem reflected in the Guardian article is, again, unintended consequences from policies driven by subsidies.

The EU puts up policies whose goals it tries to meet by throwing money in the form of subsidies to the private sector. However, the private sector (fostered by irresponsible governments from member-states) tries to meet their goals of getting money in the form of exploiting subsidies. Therefore, once the EU puts in place policies that gives away a pile of euros to those that meet the letter of the law (i.e., build a biomass power plant) what we get is a bunch of unsustainable projects that barely meet the letter of the law (i.e., biomass power plants that can't even secure their own supply of biomass).

Taken from the Guardian's article:

> Siim Kuresoo of the non-profit Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF) doesn’t just blame the Estonian government. He says there is a direct connection between the subsidised growth in the biomass industry encouraged by EU renewable energy policies and the acceleration of unsustainable Baltic tree-felling.
It's not a binary.

Fully staffed or not people who see themselves as long term employees with skin in the game or as providing a service to their community will be resistant to implementing policies that screw the customer and will help customers ask for the things they need to ask for to not get screwed. Employees who see themselves as transient more readily implement whatever management asks without thinking.
Weird to me that more people are not working on Redox OS in this context.
I don't run a hospital, but know folks who have worked in one. My guess is that paying someone 2x (or many someones) for a short period of time is easier on the long term budget than raising the wages of permanent employees.

Feels similar to how every company seems to want senior developer talent, but few will pay for training new senior talent.
The data for "why someone died" is not a firm foundation to be theorizing much on, either.

the factor of what temperature one is accustomed to and the behavioral lag in dealing with temperature changes suggests an explaination the heat deaths in cold places for me. You're used to wearing your coat, its spring, you go out fixing fence lines still wearing it, and start getting heat exhaustion / stroke before you realize you should have took it off.

Heat kills people easier and quicker than cold. Heat leads them to kill themselves quicker than cold. Perhaps its easier to diagnose the marks of a death by heat as well.
s/bash/sh/g

where sh is NetBSD's ash, with command history
The mandate is Federal - any facility that takes Medicaid or Medicare is subject to it. That's pretty much everything except a few small private practices. Traveling nurses will almost always be required to be vaccinated.
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What I like best about zsh is how easy it makes normal tasks.

* dont know the full name of the folder you want to cd into? Type the 1st few characters, and press tab, zsh will let you select which one you want

* Oh, and search is case insensitive. No more spending hours banging at the tab, wondering why autocomplete isnt working, just because you typed "projects" instead of "Projects"

* history search is great-- type the 1st few lines of a command and press up, it will take you to the last time the command was used

* Oh my zsh gives you a lot of cool utilities-- instead of

git commit -a -m "message"

I can do

gcam "message"

Moving to zsh was the best decision I made.
I strive to use bash as minimally as possible anyway, I don't quite see the point of switching to zsh when I want to avoid doing things in the shell (rather than scripting or using cron jobs or similar).
Why would people want to use an alternate shell? How much do you need to be constantly sat in the shell typing out the same commands rather than either scripting them away or doing something within a text editor?
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Yeah, maybe it would be nice if govt run some infra jobs and research from taxing th
ese gains?
Just a question. Don't know answer. Maybe it's better if VCs reinvest these gains (but probably it too short-term)
Yeah, but that's really where this article should be focusing.

Hospitals are basically at the "We tried nothing and we are out of ideas!"

The solution to a lot of nurse burnout is really pretty simple, increase their wages, hire more than the minimum of travel nurses so they aren't all working overtime.
Certain people didn’t appreciate your sense of humor! :-)
Briging Korn shell into the party.
I would love to work part-time
in a few years, but the US benefits and labor structure disincentivizes this.

The biggest trap of all is health insurance, where good benefits are impossible for the average person to afford; yet nationalized healthcare is out of reach until 65.

Instead of this all-or-nothing approach; I wish Medicare phased-in gradually, with supplemental insurance covering the gaps.
For non-technical searches, mostly stuff relating to news, politics, or Covid, Google is next to useless at this point due to their attempts to combat misinformation. Even their autocomplete functionality guides potential search queries in an entirely unorganic manner. For instance, something may be trending according to google, while simultaneously being blacklisted as an autocomplete option- if it has Any elements of wrongthink about it.
OpenSuse with KDE has power management that's as good as windows.
I doubt that many JS developers know or care much about performance. If performance is that important you have Java/Go/C++ ...why use Node?
That's a very good point. I have stuck with it because I am comfortable with it, but I have been wanting to spend some quality time with these alternative shells for a while. Have you tried Elvish? I am particularly curious about that one, because it seems like the primary Fish "competitor", but seems comparatively a lot less popular.
I think that OSS software for govt use would make a big difference to capture these recent gains for society
> hire security

In the UK, being paid by a pro sex-worker for services in support of that work is a crime called "Living off immoral earnings", and it's treated quite a bit more seriously than prostitution. How do you tell whether the big guy in the car across the street is really just protection, or whether he's a pimp, taxing a harem of girls with threats of violence?
A chat system is one of the first network programming exercises. You must be trying to satisfy requirements that are beyond basics. Assuming persistent chat rooms are required, do you really need anything beyond some tables in a relational database that model chat rooms/chats?
Yeah, but the problem for Facebook is they're trying to distance themselves from their brand, whereas Google didn't really mind.

I suspect they want to remove things in articles like "Instagram, a Facebook company" because the Facebook brand is tarnishing the others.

They'd rather have "Instagram, which is owned by TillWeHaveFaces LTD (which also owns Facebook)" or similar.
This is important work, at least partially addressed in other benchmark harnesses (like github.com/google/benchmark has DoNotOptimize and ClobberMemory https://github.com/google/benchmark/blob/7fad964a94da9364af1...). By and large this whole area is criminally under-examined, IMO.

What I'd really like is for someone to put together a suite of statistical tests that reject poor performance measurements. At a bare minimum your performance samples should look like they come from IID random variables when you take them. If not, you haven't reached steady state, or there are correlations between repeated runs, etc.
No that is fatalistic. In the same way as Google and Facebook are leading the charge on Spyware-aaS, Amazon is leading the charge on crappy workplace conditions for warehouse and delivery workers.
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On my case, it is more like being dragged into VSCode than actually switching to it by choice, specially when Microsoft makes some stuff available as VSCode plugins only (e.g. Powershell and ARM templates editing).
When you do not want such values to be propagated, it is always possible to choose to have overflow exceptions instead of infinities and undefined operation exceptions instead of NaNs. Also underflow exceptions instead of denormals.

The programmer should choose which is most appropriate for an application. Choosing to both ignore the exceptions and not generate a special value that can be examined later, that is seldom acceptable.
I think you'll find Cohen anticipates this aspect.
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That's interesting!

My mother grew up in Perak (40s and 50s) and I just asked her about this and she said she doesn't particularly remember seeing Jawi (she was from a different community). Of course all those pre-independence documents like my parents' wedding license are in English!

I don't remember it much from various 60s/70s visits as a kid and it's the kind of thing I used to looked out for. Times have changed!
What do you think is going to happen in 20 years?

Approaching ten years of life, most of these cars have lost <10% battery life (and loss is fairly linear in lithium) so in 20 more years we'll have cars with 70% of their original battery life. They'll still be perfectly usable for many people. So long as fossil-fueled vehicles are in use, let's get more EVs on the road instead of upgrading the ones we have.
AFAIK, mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers aren't new.
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Linux, or Ubuntu?
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Yahoo had a system along time ago where you could slide results more toward shopping or more toward informational. Like most features like that, it didn't last very long.
Seems like billionares will rule till India gets rich at least. This will take some time.
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I find it a bit depressing that the "you need to change jobs to get raises" dynamic is being seen in hospitals now as well.
What is telling about this example is that what seemed to have made the biggest impression was the least rehearsed, thought out, planned answer he could give, but rather the one that was the most sincere and most "down to earth."

I think there is so much about the YC format which really hints at that strategy likely being your best route of success -- the time constraint, the lack of pitch deck, etc. I mean, these are people who quite literally go through thousands of these. I can't really see any other way to possibly stand out than to try to be radically genuine and sincere, even when that seems (as the author seemed to have thought!) that it is the "less fancy" or "not the thing you are supposed to say." Quite literally anything else will be something they will have heard, at a minimum, dozens of other times.
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This sounds so correct. I feel stupid for not having connected the dots before.
> the tank man image was blocked for the whole world

The top story at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635
The name just leaked, it will simply be "Meta".
> NUL bytes aren’t that uncommon, think of e.g. find -print0, xargs -0, etc. That all works grand, right up to the point you try to assign it to a variable.

Well, duh. Environment variables are NUL-terminated.

I don't understand arguments like this. "Learn something new so that you can avoid learning something old". None of the arguments on this page show me that zsh has a shallower learning curve than bash - only that zsh makes "more sense", once you've learned it, to you.
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> probably also switch to fish anyway.

I feel attacked. In all seriousness: so long as you have a POSIX shell available (and set as default), you don't have to use a POSIX shell. I rarely do anything with fish syntax because I mostly use it for the REPL experience.
> Legal, non-anonymous and socially respectable escort services

You can still hire no-sex escorts to accompany you to an event - such as a work event, or anything where you don't want people to think you're a saddo who can't get a girlfriend. I can imagine a closet queen employing such a service.
No, ignorance is ingrained. You are very likely ignorant about a lot of non-tech (or work) related stuff. It's impossible to be reasonably informed about every aspect of things in your life.

Ignorance about tech is real, normal mainstream users suffer from it and victim-blaming is a non-solution. People, normal general people, aren't yet understanding privacy implications and the ways you can control those on the products they use. Mass adoption of these technologies will, by default, imply that a large parcel of the customer base is ignorant about its potentially harmful (or morally disputed) sides.

Your point of view is completely unempathetic, being ignorant about tech is the default state in our world, expecting that the solution to dark patterns designed to confuse normal people is to blame the ignorant victims is ultimately pointless.
Not net emissions. 1 ton of carbon was removed from the atmosphere in the tree growth, and that same ton is emitted on burning. Digging up coal that 1 ton of carbon has been sequestered under ground for millions of years, but is now in the atmosphere.
Also spending years and millions of dollars on Firefox OS, a totally futile gesture.
You are probably right. I definitely lose my sense of direction and place when following Waze.
Well somebody has to do it, otherwise we're stuck
I like bash completion much more than zsh. I tend to write all my scripts to be POSIX compliant anyhow, so zsh vs bash isn't really a thing for me. However, I can see how easy it would be as a Mac user to bash bash, because often people just feel the need for validation.
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That is logic that works at a local and individual level but breaks down at a global and economic level.

Think of it like fish stocks. A small pond can be managed by an individual to make sure that stock levels are renewable. You are careful to not over-harvest. But an individual fishing boat at sea does not have the same control, because other boats are fishing the same waters. The fish are only renewable if there is collective effort to ensure that.
Nothing dies.

Like, if it has actual uses and implementations on modern machines and isn't abandonware, someone is going to be using it somewhere.

But I would say it was niche.
The Ritalin.
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> It will never be fully open.

They could just become a BSD, like Apple did. Nothing they're doing with linux wouldn't work with some future Microsoft BSD that kept backwards Windows compatibility as a Wine-type shell. They do that, they can close up whatever they want, just like Apple.