skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It means exactly the same thing as on a normal variable, and it boggles the mind that people somehow not understand that.

If you just want normal variables, write a normal variable, J F. Bastien's change doesn't have any consequences for your normal variables.

> Given 'volatile int i', 'i++' means the exact same thing as 'i = i + 1'

No. That's the post-increment operator so i++ has the same value as i did before the increment, whereas i = i + 1 has the value of i after the increment.

And you might say "Oh, but I never use those values". Good. J.F. Bastien's change forbids that for volatiles too, we're on the same page.

What you apparently want is to do two volatile operations, one read and one write, sandwiching an arbitrary integer operation. You can do that explicitly of course, Bastien's change doesn't alter that - but when you write it out, doubt appears on the horizon. If these are two operations, can't I race with somebody else such that they modify this thing before I write my modified version back and then I overwrite their changes?

And that doubt should be there. But what we know from asking people is that the compound operators falsely reassure them. That's why they were deprecated and why it's sad that there's enthusiasm to bring them back.
Exactly - it's not about whether it's possible to represent code as data (gcc is written in C, after all), it's about how easy it is. That's why Rust macros still don't come close to Lisp ones.
Yeah, but this guy is not an artist. He has an unrelated job and does this as a hobby.
Ok, but why would you want to prevent consenting adults from making promises to each other?

The credit nature of money has become extremely natural to me to the point that I cannot imagine how any other system could possibly make sense.

I've been playing a game where you can create BUY and SELL contracts with a deadline for payment and delivery. If I set the deadline to 20 days and I sell something for 100k the buyer has a 100k liability and the item he bought as an asset and I have a 100k asset and the item I sold as a liability. Now that I am certain I will receive 100k some time in the future I can buy something for 100k the exact same way. The GDP rose by 200k even though neither of us had any money. Ultimately money only acted as a mechanism that lets us settle the contracts.

When you think about it, promising things to each other is completely natural but just like barter it only works between two people and the 100k have to be paid in a single batch (a limitation of the game). As soon as you introduce a third party things get complicated. A owes B but C does not trust A so he does not let B "pay". There has to be a sort of centralized entity that keeps track of the creditworthiness of everyone. That's a bank.

A promises to sell X widgets for Y. The bank takes that promise and grants liquid credit (money) in accordance to A's creditworthiness. A receives the liquid credit and can give it to B. B can use the liquid credit to pay C who trusts the bank but not A. The reason they ultimately accept the bank's money is quite simple. The bank owes the creditors products and the debtors owe the bank products. When debtors receive money by selling products they simply pay their debt off which also gets rid of the liquid credit.

The reason why banks print endless amounts of fiat is therefore quite simple. People are so good at business, they keep making an exponentially growing amount of promises to each other. They are so good at keeping their promises that inflation has been incredibly low despite record low interest rates.

Now Bitcoin. I don't know what to tell you. It's extremely speculative because nobody knows how much it is supposed to be worth. Nobody knows how much it is supposed to be worth because people haven't even done something as simple as promise to work to create the Bitcoin. If nobody promises to accept your Bitcoin then what is the point? It's an asset without a liability on the other side. Money isn't supposed to have any inherent value. It's not supposed to have a net worth in itself. The dollar as a unit of account isn't worth anything, the debt and credit that are measured in dollars are. Add up all debt and credit and you end up with 0.
Bullshit, Microsoft shoves that shit down people's throats.

As an example of this, I never once opted into any kind of data sharing, set telemetry to the lowest allowed setting, and don't remember ever signing into a system-wide Microsoft account, yet when I eventually discovered deeply hidden privacy options I found that my MS account had a log of every single application I had ever used on my W10 laptop.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962
Don't see how your claim follows. If another company would have stepped in to provide a similar or better service instead of Google, then it would have been that company worth 0.5% of world GDP.
Quoth the Tao of Programming:

8.3
There was once a programmer who wrote software for personal computers. "Look at how well off I am here," he said to a mainframe programmer who came to visit. "I have my own operating system and file storage device. I do not have to share my resources with anyone. The software is self-consistent and easy-to-use. Why do you not quit your present job and join me here?"

The mainframe programmer then began to describe his system to his friend, saying, "The mainframe sits like an ancient Sage meditating in the midst of the Data Center. Its disk drives lie end-to- end like a great ocean of machinery. The software is as multifaceted as a diamond, and as convoluted as a primeval jungle. The programs, each unique, move through the system like a swift-flowing river. That is why I am happy where I am."

The personal computer programmer, upon hearing this, fell silent. But the two programmers remained friends until the end of their days.
I worked with Rails and prefer this. Rails is more complex it's just easier to use but harder to understand with all that dynamic magic.
It's not even the just FBI; if the majority of your competitors claim to prevent child-porn from being stored on their servers and you don't, the reputational damage is real. Apple doesn't want to be the "Child Porn friendly cloud service."
He gets mad at everything that is not agreed upon by the masses, don't feel so bad. He is also trying to race to the bottom rather than starting there. Don't like something but dang does? Do not don't like what Donny dang does.
There are two pretty ginormous exemptions in the regulation that allow transactions in virtual currency without a BitLicense: https://govt.westlaw.com/nycrr/Document/I85908c6b253711e598d...
Can anyone point me in the direction of companies that are pointedly not using Agile/Scrum?

I understand that embedded and large systems are most likely to eschew agile as it's frequently not a good fit for the work, but I work in Python/Django mostly at the moment.

Scrum especially seems to fail in spectacular ways vs. other production methodologies in that when Scrum fails, it can be a net negative to the company. I feel as if I were to restrict my job search to companies that have anti-"Agile" methodologies, I would be more likely to work in a true agile environment.

I understand the pressures that create Scrum, as nature hates a vacuum, but I can't understand why there isn't any slack at all to experiment and fail in most smaller organizations. Perhaps we're disinclined to "hire smart people and get out of their way" nowadays, because we can only make data-driven decisions.

I'm sure that the best products are made by a small dedicated team of competent individuals communicating openly with one another, and I'm equally sure that success is rarer among those orgs. But, as someone with a degree in psychology, it's plain to see how operationalizing healthy communication patterns can have a counterintuitive result.
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Yeah, we were lucky in that we had a couple good options locally for produce other than Whole Foods too. The Safeway has gotten really bad, and the mail services I tried were all over the place.
Apple M1 Max Compared to RTX 3080 Mobile at GFXBench 5
In reading this article, I found myself first completely agreeing with Berners-Lee, and then, completely agreeing with Norvig.
I would love to see Berners-Lee vision come to life; however, I am not sure how to overcome the human vice elements Norvig is talking about.
Hutom.io Uses PyTorch and Ray to Scale Surgical Video Analysis and Review
transpile [1]

> combine (vehicle parts) with another person's

> "a car with both legs transpiled to fill the remaining area"

Hrmmm.

[1] https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/transpile/eyJ3IjogInR...
Yep. I have done it well but I have also experienced exactly as your comment describes. In those scenarios, some poor tech lead is appointed whose responsibilities include estimation, knowing the whole backlog, managing tech debt, managing risks and hiring for the team (instead of an empowered team doing all this)
> Most centralization incrementally kills local industry

And it makes the world more fragile and less diverse and interesting. Capitalism is founded on the idea of many producers competing for many customers.

Amazon model steps as middleman so producers have only one buyer, and consumers have only one seller. That gives them a lot of power to control prices, and what is produced or consumed.
Seems a good name for a Mastodon client.
No permission prompt, just as there is no permission prompt for WebGL (which already enables crypto mining on your GPU).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.13071&ved=2ahUKEwipqPGblenzAhWDbs...
I just wrote an answer to this post and saw your comment afterwards. I am over 30 and the pattern I explained in my comment all points towards getting older and mature.

Does it mean that young people are still exploring the internet and computer today the way I use to back when I was young?
> In your example, building a bridge is politics, letting everyone through is politics. You can't make or unmake something to be political. It either is or isn't _by definition_.

That's not a definition, it's a philosophical position. A very toxic one that leads to dysfunctional societies and stuff not working and not getting built as people argue over politics.
No, it really doesn't. The army defends the nation and currency is an emergent property of the nation, but the army isn't out there with guns making sure people accept dollars. If you switched to Bitcoin and killed the US dollar, the army would still be needed to protect the country, to protect America's business interests abroad, its political interests abroad and its people. That would be true even if the currency was old shoelaces. The US army long predates the fiat dollar by about 200 years and there is absolutely, indisputably, no path to reducing cost or energy expenditure on the army when switching to a different currency.

Countries that use other countries currencies (in the way El Salvador uses the US Dollar) still have armies and some countries that use their own fiat dollars (Japan, Iceland) have no armies.

These two are uncorrelated.

Unless there's some straight line between, say, switching to Bitcoin and Xi Jinping realizing Taiwan was always its own country and grabbing some Baijiu with Tsai Ing-wen. I'm very excited to find out how Bitcoin solves the Hong Kong situation too! And I suppose it'll take care of business in the Sudan? Finally that trip to Yemen is back on the table. C'mon now...
Agile in practice is like conveyor belt mass production but with each produced piece having unique requirements from each worker. Managers love it, the conveyor belt is constantly moving so a worker can't look at any piece for too long, so throughput is steady and the team always looks very productive!

Edit: And then some will say "If you are stressed, why don't you just reduce the speed of the conveyor belt? Agile is meant to be customized!", or "If an item wasn't done properly you can just move it back to the start of the belt so you can look at it again!". My answer is "I just don't want that damn conveyor belt in the first place!".
That's a good one that people should know even for potatoes they buy. If green, discard.

But you are right, some people don't.

I think it is relevant because I'm in Canada and even though we now have a total of statistically irrelevant 2 anecdotal data points only it is something. Lots of fruit on potatoes in the same year on different continents more than 5000 km apart on a plant that usually has very few if any fruit at all. My very first years of planting potatoes I did not even have flowers.
>Most centralization incrementally kills local industry, including the local culture industry. TV, railroads, chain stores, Wal-mart, you name it -- they are all killing something local.

This is probably true, but also probably inevitable. As the world shrinks we lose local flavor but gain a more commonly held homogeneous culture. I'm not sure that this is new, just faster than it was before.
Safari content blockers dont block in-app ads, though, do they?

Similar issue on Android, you need a DNS based or VPN based solution to block ads in apps. Thats probably too technical for 99% of the market.
From the article -- What concerns me is how obscurely the results have disappeared from three search engines, which also happen to command a fair share of the market after Google.

What the author really means is "they have disappeared from the only other English language index in the US." Yandex, an English language index hosted in Russia returns the wikivoyage queries as expected.

If I were to hazard a guess (and I am guessing here) the answer is here (also in the article): The first result links directly to Wikitravel. Wikitravel is the original project and a schism in the project resulted in the creation of Wikivoyage, ...

Based on this piece of information I would guess that Wikitravel sent Bing a DMCA take down notice telling them that Wikivoyage infringed on their copyrighted material. And as a result Wikivoyage was de-indexed from general results.
Some jobs have very skewed gender ratios: so Early childhood teachers don’t marry other Early childhood teachers, and relatively few Police officers marry other Police officers.

I would expect people with working class jobs as far more likely to marry other working class people, and respectively for professional jobs. Hard to see from this - needs some sort of cluster analysis.
Maybe. I'm very anti-cloud from the first moments I ever heard of it and saw the first puffy shapes in slide decks. I don't trust it. It's not in my control and I don't know who does control it. That scares the bejeebus out of me.

I'm not the unsuspecting dupe that devs are targeting to get a new user tricked into something. I'm very much aware of the shenanigans devs try and pay attention to that shit from the go.

Having said that, I do read the crap and choose no where necessary. People just haphazardly pressing okay to get to new shiny almost deserve whatever they've agreed to. I say almost because these dialogs can be worded like "Vote No for Yes" kind of BS.

If you're one of the asshat devs FUCK YOU for making this a thing we even have to discuss in the first place. Edit: Royal You Devs
For 2019, before the pandemic, parent company Lagardere made about $200 million on $7 billion in revenue. Amazon made $11B on $280B in revenue. So 40-50 times bigger.

In the last 4 quarters Lagardere lost $376M on $4B in revenue. While Amazon exploded to $29B on $443B in revenue. So more like 100 times bigger.
I don't think anything got "shot in the end"; the protocols of old were often just reverse-engineered too. Few bothered publishing anything about it, which is why Jabber/XMPP was created.

Since then encryption made things a lot harder; specifically, E2E encryption. You can't "just" login to a server and send messages, you need to encrypt and decrypt things on the device with the right keys, and how do you handle things like message history WhatsApp and Signal solve this for the desktop/web versions by designating your phone as the only device that can connect to their service, and everything else communicates via that phone. Telegram solves it by having regular chats not be E2E encrypted, and having a special "secret chat" feature for it.
Apps that support Apple Silicon (arm)
I'm not sure if you can do it on behalf of a website, but Bing Webmaster Support has been pretty responsive in my experience with my own domains, like an actual person emailed me back after a couple days. And since Bing seems to feed a lot of DDG's index, if it gets back in Bing it will probably also go back to normal in DDG.
Funny it does seem to already exist...

https://www.juvaplus.com/2020/05/27/micro-toxin-a-technique-...

https://beautyandbodylounge.com/microtoxin-for-lower-face-an...
I agree with you, but if the FBI wanted to serve a warrant to search my device, they can compel me to do so. Failure to unlock that device could put you into jail until you comply with the warrant.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18833730 :

>> Why would people make an investment with insufficient ROI (Return on Investment)?

> Insufficient information.

> College Scorecard [1] is a database with a web interface for finding and comparing schools according to a number of objective criteria. CollegeScorecard launched in 2015. It lists "Average Annual Cost", "Graduation Rate", and "Salary After Attending" on the search results pages. When you review a detail page for an institution, there are many additional statistics; things like: "Typical Total Debt After Graduation" and "Typical Monthly Loan Payment".

> The raw data behind CollegeScorecard can be downloaded from [2]. The "data_dictionary" tab of the "Data Dictionary" spreadsheet describes the data schema.

> [1] https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

> [2] https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/

> Khan Academy > "College, careers, and more" [3] may be a helpful supplement for funding a full-time college admissions counselor in a secondary education institution

> [3] https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more

https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/college-adm... :

- [ ] Video & exercise / Jupyter notebook under Exploring college options for Return on Investment (according to e.g. CollegeScorecard data)
I'm not sure I understand. I clicked through, chose "text" and got here: https://learnsecurity.amazon.com/training/story_content/exte... Did I accidentally skip through something or is that document the whole program?
Very few will agree with me but fuck LinkedIn, I refuse to be looked up with a google search.
Except that data from the UK shows that’s precisely what’s not happening. Those who were immunologically naive when receiving the vaccine continue to not have N protein antibodies after subsequent infection. That is they did not gain new immunity that would have been gained in the reverse order of events.
Hertz agrees to buy 100k Teslas
This trend also applies to music. 2008 put a hamper on the DIY scene. It's harder to find the time and resources to make music, let alone tour, since many artists, and would-be artists, have to work multiple jobs just to pay rent.
Amazing that this post has so many graphs without even a single mention of slaves or slavery.
Also - startup name generator :)
The FAANG companies mostly don't, likely many companies similar to those also doesn't. If you can get into this sort of companies it isn't terribly hard to avoid, I'll never work at an Agile shop again.
People often describe waterfall in that way -- but I've been in the industry for decades, and if that's what waterfall is, then I have never seen anyone do waterfall even before Agile was a thing.

I think that "waterfall" is often a straw man.
I have a pair of 13aH Anker batteries I use, rather than dealing with the lighter plug. The electrical isolation is a feature.
Predatory pricing
Data and its structure outlives the developer, and often the application.

Tightly coupling a lot of the application-specific compute in with how the day is stored and accessed says you up for even more difficulties when you need to debug, scale, migrate storage/compute or evolve your application faster or more radically than your data organisation.
Retrieve a random Wikipedia page
Credit: @jfengel
That's fair, I was off base. Withdrawn, but I'll leave it up so folks understand what you're replying to. Thanks for the correction!
Oh yeah, sure, that sounds likely, given that as far as I can tell literally everything is computation. Stuff larger than brains, stuff smaller than brains, stuff the stuff is made of, computation all the way down. But cognition, no, that's more like some kind of self-organization or something.

I can't tell whether the author is way too high or not high enough to be computing these articles.
If only there was something that broadcast the availability of services including the port they're on...
Well, this spicy stuff is also an interplanetary spaceship propellant, and prolonged exposure to the gaseous form will certainly mutate you.
Who is mickjagger?
So that's still probably a vast majority of people with the predicate of people who went a university at all?
"biothrusting"

ok, closing tab now, can't get better than that
Can Radio Really Educate?
a statement of values is meaningless. What organizational procedures do you have in place to prevent some faction from hijacking the organization and morphing it into an ideological echo chamber. The values on that page are as mutable as the html they are written in.

For example, in the past 10 to 20 years or so we've seen both the ADL and ACLU morph into institutions that would be unrecognizable to ADL or ACLU staffers from 10 to 20 years ago. No one ever imagined that they would abandoned their classically liberal values and replace those values with the illiberal "liberal" values they practice today.
> Is there a scientific reason, as opposed to political, why this would not exempt one from a mandated vaccine?

First of all, taking the vaccine is not political. What is political is the contrarian stance against vaccinating against COVID-19. This sad state of affairs was the direct result of an election campaign which was deeply invested in denying that COVID-19 was a public health concern, or even that it existed at all, and thus recognizing the vaccine's importance and effectiveness was deemed a sign of a political defeat and admission of responsibility for countless unnecessary deaths.

Secondly, natural immunity against COVID-19 is not a sure thing, with the risk of reinfection being as high as 17%, and subsequent infections are known to be more severe than the first[1]. In contrast, immunity through vaccination is believed to be not only more effective but also last longer[2].

Consequently, there is absolutely no reason at all, other than political beliefs, to refuse to get the vaccine.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-01202-8

[2] https://www.immunology.org/coronavirus/connect-coronavirus-p...
That would be more tolerable if the US had better healthcare outcomes compared to those other nations. We don't -- they're doing it cheaper and better than we can. Probably the most important factor in getting good outcomes is catching diseases early. It doesn't matter how good your state-of-the-art new stage IV cancer treatment is, it's always going to be better to catch it early. Catching diseases early in their progression requires regular visits to the doctor, which in America cost an arm and a leg if you're not insured, leading to postponement of treatment and the poor outcomes we experience.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2020/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare...
The internet became too risky and aggravating to explore randomly a long time ago.
Others have posted various solutions but I haven't seen Redwood mentioned yet. Would that be something you're looking for?