skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you are pitting races against each other if you prefer one in hiring. You would also need to define a goal to justify discrimination, where I don't believe a feasible reason can exist. So technically, you are the racist if you support such policies.
I spent months trying to find the specific font that:

1. I enjoyed looking at

2. Made discerning ambiguous characters when reading code easy. For example: l, 1, 0, O, Z, 2

I ended up creating my own custom build of Iosevka, now I can humble brag and have hipster cred that I have a font that is unique in the world (lol).
I've driven almost all of US2 in Maine at some point or another. A 2-lane road is sufficient for pretty much every industrial venture. If a 2-lane road isn't sufficient then the facility's driveway won't be sufficient either. There isn't that much traffic. There will be dozens of people working there and trucks coming and going.

You don't need an upscale suburb to run this kind of facility. Employees won't be put off because the commute isn't 15min or because they can't go to a boutique sandwich shop during lunch break.
There is an enormous amount of L7 tooling and practice that already exists for securing, optimizing, monitoring, and modifying HTTP traffic.
It's just that the cross-vendor interop efforts were often skin-deep. They all tried to lock you in one way or another, by implementing this or that spec draft a bit differently and making specs overly-verbose and burdensome to implement for anyone without a big budget. Microsoft had just won the browser wars that way, after all. But hey, if you stuck to one vendor, it all worked like magic.
People with high skill and experience levels often are not well-suited to designing introductory courses for beginners in their field, and this seems to be an example:

> "My hope is that programming courses in higher-education settings (and high school settings!) will move away from imperative and even object-oriented programming towards a more functional approach."

It reminds me of past debates over how to teach mathematics - maybe start with set logic and group theory instead of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division? Clearly set logic and group theory underlies those subjects so the students should start there...

It's a bit over the top. Should welders have to be applied physicists? Some knowledge of arc plasma might be helpful, but at the introductory level, certainly not. If you want to devise a new method for welding titanium or something, well maybe you need that level of knowledge.

I also tend to turn off when people talk about how much they love or hate this or that language. Languages are just tools, and selecting the right tool for the job is what experience teaches you - although a new tool might be better for a certain task, so experience alone is not enough. Also, I started programming learning C++, it worked out well enough, even if the first six months were a struggle. From there you can easily look at assembly or look at languages without direct memory access via pointers, and you've at least got a grasp of why memory management is important. I feel lucky for having started this way, vs. starting with a higher-level abstraction language like Python, JS, etc. I can't even imagine starting with a pure functional language like Haskell, that would have been pretty hopeless for a beginner without any experience with recursion.

As far as object-oriented vs. functional, hybrid approaches seem useful, for example classes with methods that avoid side effects, etc.
good idea but also sounds like it could be gamed. eventually people will be printing themselves carbon dollars for carbon they could have emitted, but didn't
I'll preface that I really did enjoy Dune, because what I'm going to say about the book will come off as negative.

The first third of the book reads like an encyclopedia article with a slow moving plot tacked onto the side, and since most of the information and the intrigue is laid out so plainly, the reader is left in a state of passive consumption. The last two thirds are entirely okay. The narrative is interesting in the abstract, but it won't keep you on the edge of your seat when you're reading it. This is where most people break off.

Dune is difficult not because the text is complex or challenging, but because it's a slog. Like reading a history textbook conveyed through character's internal monologues, and passable pros. It's an exceptional piece of world-building, and a SciFi landmark. But it doesn't challenge you to guess what's next, and tension in the book is diffused by the book's tone.

When someone goes to read Dune, I'm rarely surprised to find that they've either given up, or realized in retrospect that they would have been better served spending an evening perusing the series' wiki.
If every new person being born started using cryptocurrency and refused to use USD, since there is no new money, it collapses.
Senate Democrats unveil a plan for a new tax on billionaires
And sadly both sides are misleading.
I'm also a fan of using Wikipedia for a quick look at international news. Feels much less sensationalized than news papers do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
One of my favorite tricks with REST is sending a complete, bug-reproduction to a vendor as a simple one-line curl command. No arguing back and forth, just tell me when this curl command works properly.
I was prepared to be annoyed at the announcement of another carbon credit swap or some other virtue signaling scam. I like Stripe's approach here, I hope other companies take note. Feels like the difference between charities that promote awareness vs. those that are actually supporting research.
It's used by rpmbuild and dpkg-buildpackage (and The stuff underneath).
That's pretty well standardized.
Indeed. Carbon removal is the only hope for making the climate better in next several generations. Reducing carbon footprints simply is not enough.
I do not believe my desire, having been born in a $5million house, and wanting to also live in an equivalent house is at all extreme. It is no differnt to being born in the bronx and wanting to live in the bronx or the projects and feeling entitled to also be given project housing.

> If we can talk against concert ticket/ps5/3070ti scalping and overcharging

I was able to buy a ps4 on release for $399.99. How is it fair that they want $499 for a ps5. Is this really equivalent?
It’s universal portability, but at the cost of only using the lowest-common-denominator features of any random markdown implementation. There are so so many more things that can be done with websites and long-form writing than big standard markdown, and even Pandoc (which I consider to be the most versatile fully-featured markdown implementation) has extensive support for user-written filters, which provide more on top of what Pandoc markdown provides.

What is the priority - being able to switch blog implementations at the drop of a hat, or having an actually good website?
> “The call to restrict open pit mining — that’s the open sore in the face of the Earth argument,” said Dr. Martin Yates, laboratory manager and instructor at the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine. “Once you’ve opened a hole like that, it’s not really going to grow back.”

Maine is full of holes in the ground where granite was extracted. I can totally understand why some of the population wants to strictly regulate mining.

I went camping in Maine a few years ago, and the campground had visible artifacts from mining. The people running the campground told us that "everyone" goes swimming in deep flooded granite pits.

The campground itself had a flooded granite pit near the bathroom. It had a paddle boat that I used, but swimming was prohibited because of "insurance" and supposed abandoned mining equipment in the bottom of the pit. There was also an abandoned pump visible at the top of the pit.

When we walked around, there was surface granite clearly stripped away as well.
Judging from all the comments below I guess I am the only one confused.

Because I interpreted it 1 or 2% of world GDP.
Are we travelling in the same continent?

Travel is a huge PITA in Europe. Tons of different ever changing regulations, not to mention expensive tests from tons of unreliable newly-sprung companies with little reputation. I had to book tests in advance and sometimes on returns.
It's a massive pain and tourism was heavily impacted.

I wish the government would pay for this stupid bureaucracy instead it's small businesses which are going to die.

The US implemented it correctly: you're vaccinated -> you can travel without hassle.
Yeah at least the david lynch opening sets the stage, but I think you could do better than just direct exposition from a floating head. For instance maybe have a voice over while showing a navigator use the spice to travel safely in space.

Or maybe show some important event in interstellar politics and explain how it was made possible by spice.

I think there are different ways you could do it.
Any advice on how to search against this index? I can't seem to figure out the right search queries, everything I try gives no results.

For example, I'm trying to find articles with "neuroscience" or "brain-computer interface" among the keywords.
> It's hard to believe these passports are about reducing hospital admissions or the public health

Go ahead.
> you have to get through a lot of world/universe building before anything really happens

I'm re-reading the novel right now and there really isn't that much world-building. It's a slow burn (in a very short novel), but akin to the set up to the drama in, say, Hamlet; characters making their moves and preparing their traps, and it bears fruit in the second half.

The world building is way less complex than Lord of the Ring or A Game of Thrones. I know people also complain about those, but they are also wildly successful novels so they must be doing something right. Way less obscure than Dune, in any case.
Entire series.
Opening the link the iframe is pointing to helped for me: https://typogram.retool.com/embedded/public/1eb9acb6-fc70-44...
I was mostly kidding, I also speak English as a second language. It's just the mild gripe that using foreign words as made up words that aren't made up words is a workaround hack for this issue https://xkcd.com/483

Like the characters in a fictional sci-fi story 20k years in the future obviously aren't speaking the language you're reading the story in. It just feels like bad translation.
I am not sure how the key management works, maybe they are just issuing private keys to each pharmacy, and if any pharmacy just went rogue, it should be extremely easy to know which one the certificate is coming from.

Also, it is easy to get a valid vaccination code anyways, for example, I took a friend of mine, who was vaccinated out of EU, to a pharmacy and nicely asked if he can have a certificate for travel. They just glanced at the his vaccination dates and gave us qr codes, no questions asked. The yellow booklet is easy to forge as well.
It's amazing to me the impact they seem to be having with...a few million? With all the VC money getting thrown around these days you'd think some of it would get tossed towards unproven climate change solutions.
I find it offensive and unjustified that author specifically associates "React developers" with "Coders are so used to depending on 3rd party libraries that they can’t really work without them to the point where some of these libraries even define their career". The problem exists for anybody who uses any library ever, even a C programmer who uses a header only library can get hacked even in a worse way if he blindly updates his library to a new version. Because such a library can have conditionally compiled code that calls system APIs depending on the current OS. Browser is at least sandboxed to some extent. A better and more fair statement would be, that in frontend web development and NPM in particular there are usually too much dependencies and they are blindly updated too often.
This is how I felt about his Blade Runner 2049 -- aesthetically stunning, but weak hollow story, like an intensively expensive well done fan-fic.

As a big fan of the Dune series I'm a bit unsure if I really even want to see the movie.

Arrival was excellent, but my experience with Blade Runner 2049 makes me unsure about Villeneuve's work.
It still is. Money ebbs and flows with time. It may be a long time, but...

Anyway, we won. The attributes in the title look like the ones that describe a currency to me!
This is not strictly correct.

When you game on your 3080 GTX at max graphics in VR, you wouldn't call that wasted computation because it provided utility to a human in the form of entertainment.

Proof of work provides utility in the form of trustless proof, allowing a decentralized network to actually work. The computational work carries meaning which is valued by network participants.
You got that backwards. Gold leads to extreme short-termist mindsets. Just read up on the Great Depression. During a recession people hold onto money to isolate themselves from losses in the real economy. People would rather speculate on currency than do real work that may be unprofitable today but highly profitable in 5 years. If you have a company that is losing money, then simply holding onto interest bearing money nets a superior return. The strange part is, what do you spend the money on, now that the company is gone? Even stranger, that company might not be needed today but it certainly will be needed in 5 years when the economy has recovered.

If your money goes up in value you would burn down the rain forest today to earn as much money as quickly as possible. You would sell your company and fire everyone to get your hands on money that goes up in value or at least doesn't lose value in a recession. Unfortunately, reality doesn't work that way. You cannot wash this year's dishes in January. You cannot grow all the food you will ever eat in your 20s and then preserve it until you are 90 years old. So your money is going up in value and you stop working. Who's making the damn food? Who's washing the dishes? Either the young or nobody.

If your money goes down in value you want to burn down the rain forest as late as possible because burning it down today will leave you with money that decreases in value. Burning it down tomorrow lets you avoid your money going down in value. Inflation raises the expected value of future cash flows. It encourages you to exchange decaying money for durable goods that decay at a slower rate. This is important because the real world decays through aging (living organisms and materials like steel). If money decays at a slower rate than the world then people will pretend that the world doesn't decay and perhaps accelerate its decay. If money decays at a faster rate than the world then people will try to minimize decay in the real world.

So if anything, extremely low inflation is bad.
I think there is a lot of truth to this. Traditional Media have experienced dramatic decline at the hands of Social Media as well as Search like Google News.

They are no longer in the drivers' seat and don't like it one bit.

That said, one funnel is being replaced by another. It's not distributed.

And, there is no way that governments have not noticed this and did not see the day coming when they couldn't just call the editor for favors. Governments, no doubt, are using social media for their own ends. Both foreign and domestic are leveraging social media to influence the population.

They both believe, they cannot leave destiny to ourselves, but must insert themselves in it for our own good. That's tragic.
On the job market people are competitors. Change the system if you will but that is the reality today. Positive discrimination ensures that there now is also a racial component. White people against black people.
Yes, I understand, these exist in the US too.

https://www.li.me/en-us/modes/electric-moped

https://gorevel.com/mopeds/moped

https://www.scoobi.co/
AnyTrack: Conversion Tracking and Attribution, Simplified
> RPC (whether as ONC-RPC, CORBA, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC) etc is brittle. It usually requires both the client and server to upgrade their understanding of the interface simultaneously and makes it hard to version or separate the system elements. This lesson has to be learned over and over as programmers realize that "remote" procedure calls are not local and can't use the same semantics.

Using "REST" for communication can be brittle too, since you have to update the contracts in both "client" and "server".
Idle speculation is not an argument. Maybe don't be so aggressive next time?
the "Satanic Panic" of 2021
Except I don't think it's difficult, I actually agree with your second to last paragraph. Dune's prose is simple to the point of being uninteresting; the inner monologues are an overused trick; there are very few mysteries that aren't explained almost as soon as introduced, so there's little tension. And you know from the get-go that Paul's hero journey will succeed. The Digital Antiquarian makes an interesting point that Herbert's actual message -- that messianic heroes are bad for mankind -- gets lost by the fact Paul succeeds in Dune with little negative repercussions; it's only in the following books (much less read than Dune!) that the terrible consequences unfold.

(Like you, I really like Dune. I'm agreeing with your points.)
Lithium hard rock mining produces about 15 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of Lithium, but Lithium geothermal mining generates energy instead: https://cornishlithium.com/projects/lithium-in-geothermal-wa...
so it's the UK version c2s?
Love this. Would be cool if there was an option to somewhat normalize the sizes. I find myself more often choosing the one I can see more clearly since it is larger, but not sure I'd make the same choice is the smaller font was bumped up to 17 or somesuch.
It seems like you’re defining “scaling” as growth of a workload to the point that it cannot be handled by a single-server DB.

But with any service without a constant workload (I’d wager almost all services besides prototypes that get no users) you’re going to have to literally scale that one machine, by replacing it with a bigger machine. When you have 50 users you’re not going to be paying for some yy.24xlarge. You’ll start with something much more affordable. When the service grows to 50,000 users, you certainly won’t be at “Facebook scale”, but that t3.small isn’t going to cut it. Should your service ever decline, it’d be nice to scale that machine down to save on costs.

At a previous job, we spent many human hours continually ratcheting up the size of our Postgres machine a few times a year. Not only did this take non-trivial engineering hours and mind-space, it also caused maintenance downtime due to the limitations of traditional DBMSs.

Self-managed CockroachDB eliminates the downtime needed to scale. To handle a more intense workload, add machines. If you want to vertically scale each machine, that can be done without downtime too.

CockroachDB Serverless takes this a step further by scaling up and down to suit the demands of a highly dynamic workload, while minimizing costs.

Maybe what looks like an mega-scale obsession to you is actually a bunch of people trying to avoid the common headaches of managing a moderately sized, dynamic service.
Is there any particular reason for the leakage? I can't seem to find any on the website
> not towards the enormous mountain of power required to power non crypto servers as part of normal professional software business

The incentives are very different, I don't think you can compare them like that.

Miners and companies like Google both make more money the less power they use. However, in the case of Google power consumption is a side effect of their business.

To put it another way: if you overnight doubled Google's datacenter capacity you would not double their revenues. But if you doubled a bitcoin miner's capacity there would be an immediate change in the amount of revenue being made.

This means that for miners there's a very clear incentive to use whatever resources you can at your disposal, because the more power and hardware you have the more profit you can make.
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but why not just:

writeStdout :: ByteStream a -> IO ()

Maybe you could even leave out the `a` type since arguably a `ByteStream` should only contain bytes anyway. When writing to stdout you don't really need a return value usually, so that could just be (). The IO monad can encapsulate any amount of side effects in the same function, so you could fit your additional side effects in besides writing to stdout.
I'm confused what "don't put LEDs in parallel" has to do with PWM.

Did you maybe reply to the wrong comment?
I was thinking of getting an M1 just for this.

Do you know how much faster it is? i.e. make a small change in code to compiled binary.

As most articles for rust compilation focus on a full build which I don't need to do very often.
I think this is part of that distinction. Likely a gravel pit would _not_ be considered "mineral mining" and so would be permitted at a size greater than 3 acres.
Nothing makes that better, you're right. I prefer to just remember who uses what and act accordingly, but you choose convenience instead — and both are reasonable choices.
> If those 50 people start playing by different rules, the sum of the value of the two resulting currencies will probably be less than that of BTC as it stands now.

This is less a criticism towards you @CompuHacker and more about how ill-informed reporters are (especially it's most vocal critics) about Bitcoin's history.

We already went through this during the USAF/Segwit war that went on for far too long if you were there and delayed so many other key features that we are only now catching up to. With the added caveat that Roger Veer (a VERY ignorant whale with influencer status) and Jihan (CEO at the time of Bitmain with a monopoly on ASIC miners and large hashing power on the network) decided to hi-jack Bitcoin for their own ends. There were other whales/high net worth entities, including Coinbase, but lets keep it simple for arguments sake.

In short, it didn't work and no one uses/used their fork (Bcash) because the end result was that Bitcoin's mainchain and it's features was valued far more than what whales and hashing power/devices. Furthermore, upon the fork people arbitraged the coin and dumped it in exchange for Bitcoin and Bcash has never recovered since. Showing that playing by the rules has it's incentives and is rewarded: rewarding consensus is one of Bitcoin's core features, and I wish more people would realize this is the ecosystem is far more conducive toward progress than abject discord.

What's even more amusing is that a core developer of Bitcoin Core decided to help patch some of Bcash's source code, showing that what you fear has actually already played out and proved why Bitcoin has already proven itself and has a the battle scars to prove it.

It's remarkable what has happened in this space in the last 12 years, and in my ideal World I think their would be more time spent on that and what it has taught us via empirical experimentation rather than just the price.

Sidenote: It's why the plot of the 51% attack on the series Silicon Valley only made sense to people who really have no idea how the network attack would actually play out on decentralized networks.
Its ironic because 1, the BG have their own phrophesy (Kwisatz Haderach) they actually believe and 2, on Dune the "fake phrophesy" comes true.