skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard that around 130k people are delivered from poverty each day lately. That's due to markets and such, not the good intentions of people like Pol Pot.

There is some argument to be made along these lines, but it involves changing human beings themselves, e.g. through something like meditation. These kinds of articles never have and never will mention such things that might actually effect the changes they seem to want to make in the world but are unable or unwilling to make in themselves.
In this case, it would be transmitted only when a SIM is turned on in a new device for the first time. Probably still a lot of traffic, but a drop in the bucket compared with the remaining signalling traffic a large mobile network sees every day.

These systems can probably also be scaled almost without limitation for the same reason.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29114970
Being glued to CNN and believing something new official truth every week would be a good definition.
It's not a matter of not telling the truth but not being able to predict the future. Just like you cant predict when a pandemic will emerge, no one knew it would happen to mutate to the delta variant before vaccines could do what we hoped. The vaccine probably couldn't have been developed any quicker, but maybe people taking better precautions somewhere with masks, handwashing and distancing might have given us enough time to wipe it out without a mutation. Now it looks likely to stick around long term, but at least we've got some more preventatives (vaccines are worse but not useless for delta) and treatments than earlier on.
Starting with the CLI only makes sense for students who are already using CLIs, the connection to familiar ground will help them. For other students it's just another burden.

Not that Eclipse is the ideal solution. These days I would probably start off teaching beginners in a web IDE like Repl.it to lower the friction even more. Of course there is a ton of things about development environments that need to be taught before they are fully-fledged programmers, but there is no need to frontload that and overwhelm them at the beginning.
I completely understand that. I'm not a java programmer; my experience is limited to fixing one tiny bug, in one java program, and I struggled a bit with Eclipse before realising building from the commandline was also possible and pretty simple.

But I do most of my work in Visual Studio, which I prefer over vim+make+gdb because a powerful IDE does give you a significant advantage over a 'mere' text editor. I also find that working in vim imposes a much higher mental load than doing the same in MSVC (and don't get me started on vi without the 'm'...).
> Sorry, but nearly any skilled job could end up in the "bad job" sector, if your benchmark is "cushy IT job". Even Doctors. They may get paid handsomely, but considering the many years they have to spend grinding away studying and taking exams, and the overtime they have to do (in the public sector) plus the on calls and dealing with many sick people, that aint no cushy job.

That is their point. McDonald’s is a bad job because of the bad quality of life at work and low pay. Bad quality of life at work offset by pay, such as with doctors, is not a bad job.
For some things yes. I just can't understand the resistance of people who write code for a living to be asked to write code.
I think it is fairly easy to understand why it is desirable to have as much of the population vaccinated as possible.

First, like anything biological, the risk of COVID is not a binary quantity. There is a very strong correlation between the severity of the disease and certain factors such as age. Still, even relatively young people can and do get very sick occasionally. This is why public health agencies make risk/benefit analyses for the vaccinations in different age groups. In many countries they have concluded that the benefits of mRNA vaccines vastly exceed the risk due to observed side effects in all adult age groups. This means that getting as many people vaccinated as possible reduces the disease load in the population, which is a central public health goal.

Second, SARS-CoV2 is a very infectious novel virus with no widespread population immunity. This means that if left unchecked, it can spread extremely rapidly. Even if the "high risk" groups are mostly vaccinated, a very large number of "low risk" people can get seriously ill at the same time. This can easily overwhelm the healthcare system even in wealthy countries. Fully vaccinating the "low risk" population significantly reduces this burden.
This video from defcon gives a good overview of what Java Card applets is, the limitations and what it can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D94QOo2gY
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There probably needs to be some thought about how immunization will affect evolution of the virus and how to get best long term outcomes which may be a significantly different strategy than fighting short term outcomes.

However many people have turned one approach into a morality issue and so any deviation from this (or opposition to this) will be difficult.
I like intellij ultimate, it's not expensive, it's a netflix subscription essentially, but better, endless fun :). They have built in educational materials, and you can easily jump through libraries to see how a function works, all the way down. It's fantastic. The MIT courses suck, even if they weren't evil.
Anyone looking to support MIT should look up Aaron Schwartz and then go elsewhere.
> When I saw the title my first thought was literally “yeah stop making students use eclipse, they should be using IntelliJ!”

Exactly the same
Just an authentication token.
You can't disable STK applications: They are an integral part of the SIM card. If anything, you could hide the user-facing icon, but that wouldn't do anything about any background processing the applications might be doing.

However, they can only interact with the baseband in any case: While that still allows extensive tracking and potential mischief (like making expensive calls on your behalf), this is nothing your phone provider can't already do, i.e. knowing where you are and bill you arbitrary amounts for services you might not have initiated (when on postpaid).
I have been programming for 3 decades, the 2 last as a dayjob. It seems to me that there is a deep cultural chasm around the new century. Before 1990 you had next to no Internet and computers were shipped with book-sized printed manuals that were trying to explain how the thing worked, not just how to operate it. After 2000 they begun to come with a single sheet showing how to plug them and www address for perverts who want to download manuals.

However it's not entirely a matter of when you started to touch the keyboard. Around me I see "people who understand" and "people who use" of various ages. Guess who helps who more often.
seeing there's many knowledgeable people here

any recommendations on finding job in Tokyo?
> large tamper-evident tape

Which depends on how hard the employee presses down the tape. Often, the tape is hardly attached and would be trivial to "remove"/open, and after grabbing what you want, putting it back
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29084492
Hanlan's razor

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

With the corollary

> but don't rule out malice.
> A single Solaris server (which I imagine to be a little dated) can manage the whole stuff?

I don’t know what they run, but Oracle still sells some quite beefy hardware. SPARC M8-8 servers can have 8 CPUs of 32 cores each, for a total of 256 cores. The CPUs are clocked at 5 GHz and use a 20nm process. Maximum 8TB of RAM. The CPU and the process are somewhat dated but still can do a lot.

Fujitsu has even beefier SPARC servers - the M12-2S has 12 CPUs, 384 cores, max 48TB RAM, albeit only at 4.25GHz. Fujitsu SPARC servers run Solaris too and Oracle resells them.

So I’m sure SPARC can handle this use case, just not very cost-effectively-whatever it can do, an x64-based solution is likely to be able to do the same cheaper. And it is a technological dead-end - Oracle plans no further CPUs or major OS versions, but they’ll keep selling their current lines as long as people are willing to buy them. Fujitsu is moving away from SPARC too. Rumour has it Oracle and Fujitsu were negotiating for Fujitsu to buy the SPARC hardware business, but they couldn’t agree on terms, and now Fujitsu has decided to move away from Solaris/SPARC and towards Linux/ARM instead. Fujitsu still have a new SPARC CPU release this year on their public roadmap, not sure if it is happening, but if it does it is probably their last.
One piece of advice I read in some charisma book and repeat constantly at work is to always make the point of any email you send the very first sentence.

It is so tempting to waste a bunch of time "softening" the blow of whatever you're trying to say, but you're never doing the audience any favours, you're just trying to control how they're going to react. You need only think about the last time you got an important email (job interview follow up, redundancy announcement, pay review etc). You immediately scan through the document for the one line that says what you need to know, usually starting with "unfortunately, we..." Or "we're pleased to...". The rest of the document is just fluff getting in the way of what really matters. Anyway, I'm waffling, but it never ceases to amaze me the variant ways management screw up that one simple rule.
What do you mean by "real" threads? The Thread documentation says nothing about being real or unreal.
https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html#%28pa...
I’ve also seen the video/gif of quickly changed pictures, where after viewing you’re asked to estimate the percentage of spiders and snakes in it. People tend to 50%+, overestimating by an order of magnitude. We are evolutionarily aware of these little fuckers and that trait didn’t come for free.

ps. Can’t find it anywhere, sorry.
Let's imagine the government did give the entire of Bradford back to the Indigenous, how do you get rid of all concrete, buildings and pollution while not getting bankrupt because of cleaning costs? How do you actually make concrete back to trees and grass?
> dont really see what's your point here...

How can that be? The whole discussion is not that long and you picked up this specific argument I was supporting with sources. Yes other sources were after 2019 and I can give you even more from before. This supports my argument but you don't even know what that was??

> no, our electric mix was

Says "no" continues to agree with what I said...man...

> however there is not much more places to have new hydros

Why did you chose hydro? I mean...what? I didn't even mention it and the most obvious things are solar AND wind. Hydro is our battery in the Nordics and alps.

> and has already cost us more than 50billions€ (governement subvention) which is nearly two time our current non running EPR cost

That is half of what EPR needs to invest to keep your ageing fleet from falling apart...

> nuclear cost is mostly capitalistic (start investment for 60years in the case of an EPR) while wind turbine cost must be evaluated over their full lifetime including market fluctuations

Yeah but only because you just accepted to ignore all the costs generations will have to come up with just to cover nuclear waste processing and storage. You just hide it while you complain about transparent costs on renewables. This is hilarious.

> what's your point here again ?

It's not my point. It's your point. You said that safety costs too much and we should look to China...a country known for terrible safety.

> actually this is your statement, your making a straw man here.

It's not my point. It's your point. You said that safety costs too much and we should look to China...a country known for terrible safety.

> what let you think that an old study with probably outdated constrains and knowledges would be more serious than actual studies from recognized sources

The fact that while nuclear only gets more expensive, renewables not only got cheaper but also better and there are now other studies which look much better than what you suggest.

Why don't you link your study? You've obviously found it now.

> actually i'm french and in france

That makes it even worse. You must know about the energy shortages caused by either broken or not running nuclear reactors. It's known all over Europe and you still chose to lie about it? Why?
I know small business owners in the hotel business that use this tactic to prevent workers from finding other jobs. It is a very common tactic that I would say most small business owners hear or figure out very quickly.

Another is using immigrants or poor people trying to establish themselves as managers in name, but in reality they are there to fill in for the lower paid shift workers who are constantly quitting or unreliable because they are paying the lowest wages.

The “managers” put up with this to earn a steady salary paycheck, but per hour worked, it frequently comes out to less than minimum wage.

Obama admin increasing minimum salaries to $48k from $33k had the small business owners I know frothing at the mouth.
I went off on bad parenting because I think it goes hand in hand with bad teaching. But honestly after reading it I just think it's funny. I'm obviously dealing with other people's kids :D too much man, too much. Some people's children, ya feel me?
I'm a huge fan of SerenityOS and Andreas, but I've not had a chance to try it yet.

I used Windows 2000 starting three betas before gold, downloading each build over dialup from AOL warez scene releases and didn't stop until a while after they stopped patching Pro, don't recall having any issues. What an amazingly solid OS.

My choice today is Xfce with the Chicago95 script, I can barely tell the difference.

I'd say Mint has the best default tuning for Xfce, with Manjaro I have to add the fewest additional packages on top of the base install, and Fedora is somewhere in between.

Thanks for the memories :)
How to Optimise PostgreSQL Database with Millions of Data
>> You still can, but it takes much more effort and deliberate protocols to follow.

>is absolutely true, words for words :-)

Do you follow a specific protocol or method for learning these days? And compared to when you were learning something when you were younger, do you find it more challenging (even with the protocol)?
While I don't agree with the cynic aspect of your comment, I do think that now, after so much money and effort was spent on vaccines and we more or less know their efficacy in practice, I do wonder if we shouldn't more on a cure now. There are some interesting developments but the discussions everywhere are focused on the vaccines. If vaccination means we should get a shot every 3 months, I do wonder if we are really heading in the right direction.
The article does apparently only talk about attack rate efficacy/effectiveness. What is much more important in a population with high vaccination rates is the reduction of hospitalization and mortality which is much more long lasting with the vaccines.

Edit: here are the graphs for mortality from the study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620#F3
It doesn't resemble JS. It's a JVM/Java subset. You can even write apps using the Java Servlet API with JC 3.x
I wonder what 'lost' means to an eagle. Is it possible that it knows exactly how to get home and it's just on an extended vacation in a foreign land? Oh, to be an eagle.
It's called Product-Market Fit.
You actually confirmed my assumptions about self-perpetuating corruption. Tell me who is going to actually improve that if most people with necessary skills and mindset leave? Sending back money alone won't do it. These people may personally have worse life if they stayed, not denying that. But what about global view? First world will eventually have to deal with resulting political turmoil.
Pretty much the entire US mainstream establishment said that, from what I can tell. There was a huge push to tell people that the pandemic could be over by now if not for the evil Trump-supporting antivaxers, along with pressure on any media outlet that reported the growing evidence the vaccines weren't as effective as expected to shut up about it because it was "dangerous" and "misleading". The UK was different; it seems to be somewhat more widely reported and less controversial here that vaccines aren't going to end the pandemic and the media has been more honest about it, though even here I've noticed the Guardian pushing the narrative our government has "failed" to vaccinate enough and we could have herd immunity if the party they prefer was in power.
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"Cars are killing millions of people. It's time to stop driving towards death." type of things to say.
And imagine if they could live for 80+ years instead of only 3 - 5. Their unusually high intelligence may be related to things like continuous RNA editing. If all of their adaptation mechanisms could evolve to occur over a much longer timespan, who knows what they might become capable of.

Human intelligence develops over a long period; imagine if it all had to be squeezed into 3 - 5 years.
Sure, but I wouldn’t make a 1000 year bet, nor accept that not making one in this particular case is itself a bet as the infrastructure we make today isn’t likely to still be around in even a third of that time.

All the stuff that I am currently in favour of for global energy supply and environment are mainly focused on the 50-100 year horizon for capability. I only care about longer timescales than that for damage on the grounds that kicking cans down the road seems both unfair and, given both how governments and civilisations fall, likely to make rebuilding unnecessarily difficult.

(I believe, but do not know, that this will change if we get radical life extension)
World food prices reach new peak since July 2011 (https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/)

134 points | infodocket | 2 days ago | 139 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113533
To rule over the production of new medicines ? ('cos if I understand properly, folding proteins is an important part of the process...)
He does have a point though.
Recurrent income is a lot better than 1 sale in any business.

Scientists can have all the good will in the world if they are not allowed to publish by those sponsoring the research or not even given the funds to do the research in the first place.
The beginnings of programming (from “The Dream Machine”)
As a Brit I don't understand the fascination with Five Guys. Greasy, gross, mushy nastiness that is way overpriced.

They're pricing themselves against the likes of Honest Burger or Byron here and not even close in quality.
Why not to use `perf` to figure out why Eclipse is slow, fix the problem, and then send a patch?
A rapidly evolving virus rapidly evolved, to the surprise of no one who paid attention in biology class.

I wonder if covid conspiracy folks also think influenza is a "happy accident" by the pharmaceutical industry.
One shouldn't assume people know anything (even the most basic thing) about databases just because they say they do.
picassos paintings are like a 3 yr olds drawings. that’s why they’re so special. the wonder of a child with the experience of a man. breathtaking artist.
> But there were cases where I actually didn't understand the fact as I hadn't absorbed it completely. I just knew how things were but not the idea and reason why they were such.

That's to grok[0] something right?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
In my experience the people who are helping are the ones who use tools that lets them work more efficiently. They have more time to learn new things, while the ones who use less efficient tools use much of their mental effort on the tools themselves.
The mechanism described does not give any information to the network that it doesn't already have: The IMEISV is part of the regular network sign-on procedure.

This is probably just an optimization so that they don't have to keep track of changing IMEISV/IMSI-pairs in their database, for whatever they do with that.

In fact, it might be even more GDPR-respecting than the database alternative: If the purpose is to trigger some updates that should happen with every phone switch, it removes the need to track this data server-side.

Realistically, it will be stored anyway, as mandated by many countries' data retention laws.
>rare books fro XIX century

The one thing I can truly say I "collect" is rare, first/early edition pre-standardization works from a specific Irish dialect. For me, though, it's not so much the collecting as having access to these books for the rich, natural (.i. non-standard) language that's contained in them. Eventually I might extend it to modern authors from the same dialect, but getting access to these older works is top priority.
Very awkward I'd say. A counter offer is just adding insult to injury, e.g. why was is not offered with salary adjustments earlier.

In my experience only two scenarios offer a substantial raise in pay: Switching jobs or Getting a new role/title.

Somehow just doing your job well is not enough.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131594.

Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust (reddit.com)

158 points by tuananh 18 hours ago | 128 comments
The emphasis was on professional.

The article suggests using a simpler IDE.

You don't learn to drive in a formula 1 car
Right!? I was like, you must be going to a "school" online where they just hire people who can use bigger words than them :D ooo00hh he can write in Java! He said type inheritance, I need to shake my head like I understand. Look at the color of his backpack, this guy's hired already, green backpack people are amazing.
Java isn't even the deep end, it's just verbose, they should use it as a compare and contrast with Javascript, just to mess with people. Wait, so is this the script version of Java? Why doesn't it look like Java? Then show them python, and if nobody runs out screaming, you keep teaching.
Can't you go to a computer store for a similar experience?
Interesting idea. Perhaps ownership of a soul NFT could be used to bypass captchas or otherwise prove that actions were undertaken with authority of a human. If a soul was abused by authorizing too many requests then it could be sent to "hell", where it's blacklisted globally.
I have always found crawling harder personally. At least with indexing you can switch to batch processing, or split the index into real-time and stale portions to give that fresh feel. Just my personal opinion though. I have never had the chance to index billions of pages. Several hundred million is about as far as I have gone.
Exploding drone assassination attempt on Iraqi PM fails
A general purpose game engine is more like a web browser than other software projects. And perhaps one of the few projects outside of an OS with more complexity. An engine is intended to be a place to run arbitrary software, across multiple platforms and also an environment to build it on. There is still a whole bunch of reusable components built on top as there is with the web.
The UK is a giant seesaw. The ice age ice pushed the Scottish end down and now released it is slowly rising up while the London end sinks.The Roman boat docks in London are now several feet below the water level!
This article and the magazine seems to be well designed and put together. Nice!
FYI, you can do this in VIM/Emacs and other CLI editors

You can also use CLI tools at the same time as using an IDE
Yacy as much as I love the idea isn’t brilliant. Mententined elsewhere but I’d like to see an activitypub implementation allowing federated search.
I don't understand why you're downvoted. Buying time has always been one of the main strategies when dealing with the pandemic. We are much better at handling C19 now. As it seems to have become endemic, we now need efficient strategies to live with it.