skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is crackpot nonsense:

> But many systems exist and persist far from equilibrium. Perhaps the most glaring example is life itself. We’re kept out of equilibrium by our metabolism, which converts matter into energy.

Our metabolisms convert matter into energy? Lmao I think not, our metabolisms are chemical processes, not nuclear. Making and breaking chemical bonds is NOT converting matter into energy. The author is nuts, I thought Quanta was better than this but I guess they're on my shitlist now.
If vaccinated people aren't in danger they don't need protection from unvaccinated. If they are they also need protection from vaccinated. On other hand willingly unvaccinated are willing to accept the risks, so it should be up to them.

If we want to truly protect those who can't take vaccines testing and lockdowns for those who have not been tested is only way.
This sounds like a line from the turbo encabulator.
You can leverage the assets in your TFSA for higher margin on another account though!
RESP can transfer raw binaries, the only overhead is a message length. In the TFA they are talking about using MessagePack for the payloads, so it is a binary protocol.
Risk tolerance is all well and good and I agree with you there, but you want the risk adjusted rate of return to be favorable, which it isn't for buying and holding geared ETFs[1]. Highlight quote: "It is mathematically impossible to create a fund that makes a continuous offering of its shares and consistently delivers for all its shareholders a stated multiple of a benchmark over time."

[1] https://www.proshares.com/faqs/geared_investing_faqs.html
I used to live in Seattle and a personal scooter is where it's at. Plus, it's impossible to look like more of a dweeb than the tech people riding electric unicycles.

It's great for 8 months of the year at least.
I’ve been in the same boat for a long time, and still haven’t seen an application that’s compelling. But I think I’m starting to warm to the ecosystem, despite all the obvious silliness, so let me run my thinking by you to see if it’s crazy:

Blockchains don’t really let you do anything useful that you couldn’t do before. But they make some things much easier and more accessible, by a big enough margin that they unlock some kinds of broad experimentation that weren’t really feasible before.

Take what I assume will eventually be a category-defining use case, “Facebook, but owned and governed by its users.” With some imaginative lawyering, you could build that in a durable way today. But it would take capital and know-how most kids in dorm rooms don’t have access to. It’s like how the launch of AWS didn’t let you do anything that was _impossible_ to build with on-premise hardware, but it unlocked a lot of innovation anyway.

Right now Ethereum is a very shitty version of Lambda plus DynamoDB, but with some interesting primitives around payment, ownership, and governance baked in. I actually have very little faith in the Ethereum roadmap given some dabbling I did in it a few years ago, but there are competing protocols with much much better performance and developer ergonomics, so they’ll either catch up or get replaced like a bad operating system.
I agree the petrodollar is much better for the environment.
This sounds like something Cave Johnson would do. "Science isn't about 'Why?', it's about 'Why not?'"
I've done it and i love it.

The caveat is that Python is only _fine_ at functional programming, and that only because it's very, very malleable. The deeper you go into functional programming with Python, the more you wish you were programming in Clojure, or F#, or whatever.

But I'd still rather use a functional style in Python than an OO or procedural style.
They are generally ok. They depend a bit on where you live, but not like in the US where the school funding comes from local taxes. If the school serves a lot of 'problematic' areas, there will be more issues/problems, but not because of lack of funding, just the kids that go there, but in general they are ok. A school in a high income area will get better results than one that serves people in the projects, but isn't due to the school/funding itself, but more about the type of students that are there. But overall, they are still good and I would have no issue with having my kid attending one (unfortunately, since the divorce, this has been a pain point between me and my ex, so easier to just keep him where he is)

Also, we have some national rankings of schools (both private and public) but don't get too hang up on that. My kid used to go to a very 'fancy', top ranked and expensive school before. Top of the ranks. Cost per month was over 700 euros. He was bullied there. Robbed of toys and things. His teacher couldn't get him to participate at all (he was identified as 'gifted' with an IQ of more than 130) or do anything in class. Talking with other parents, their kids had similar things happening (other kids stealing things). School tried to hide it until I threaten them with having the police involved (not exaggerating, I had 3 meetings with teacher and director person, and nothing was really done except vague promisses, on 4th time, I had meeting with my lawyer, I went to the meeting and said due to this and that, and the fact that what happening was crime A and B, and if it ever happened again, I would press charges both against the kid and the school (there is law where School is legally responsible if they are aware of this happening and do nothing). 10 minutes after leaving that meeting I had the school director/principal calling me to schedule an emergency meeting. After that meeting, it took me 2 weeks to move my son to another school.

He is now in a 'shittier' school, even has more 'problematic' kids, and there isn't a single issue, he loves it. He may not have fancy digital dry boards, and music lessons with some famous musician, but he is much happier kid. Just did his 'exams' and except for Portuguese (he hates it) scored almost max points in everything. Just because a school charges a lot and has all the 'fancy' things, doesn't mean it is the best for the kids
You can use https://volt.fm to check out the profiles of people who listen to your favorite artists and genres and see what other music they listen to.

You can even save their top songs as an auto-updating playlist. It's a great way to discover new music.
Chinese embassy lobbies U.S. business to oppose China bills
Thanks for the paywall free link!!

So yeah I agree. Making it all a guided monitored experience kinda takes the whole point of it away. It's not real human interaction if it's monitored and moderated.

I think a reactive approach in case of severe transgressions is just fine. Just like in real life. We don't have a policeman supervising every single human interaction nor would we want that. Why would we online??

There should be some safe areas for kids of course but also more open areas without all this.
You can’t even go into a namespace and change functions there
Ruby is way more capable and expressive than Python. There is so much more you can do with Ruby metaprogramming and don't get me started on Python's feeble lambdas which bear the mark of a BDL imposing his distaste for functional programming. Python is the VHS of programming - widely adopted but technically inferior. Ruby appeals to devs who value elegance of design. Take Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net), for example - I can't imagine sam Aaron producing anything like this in Python. The DSL is everything in this app as with Rails.
Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) about YouTube's dislike count removal
I was in service during the the start of Wikileaks. We got talks about how going on that site and viewing classified information that is against the UCMJ. It did not matter that the information was now public.
Pedantic irrelevance?
There are plenty of lisps that offer these benefits that aren’t image based, clojure for example or emacs lisp
Poor Man's NoSQL
Was looking for some feedback on a design for allowing user's to bring their own "data"(storage):

Let's assume I have a:

1. Static front end that displays a list of items, and also provides a detailed view of specific items.

2. OAuth Access Token Scoped for Read/Write Access to Google Cloud Storage

3. A distributed CLI Agent(s):

3a. With Service Account Read/Write Credentials of said User's Google Cloud Storage

3b. Which generates detailed items a User would like to see in the Front End

Without getting into a crazy amount of details, I was wondering if it would be silly to try and use the distributed CLI Agent to roughly prepare the data and upload to Objects in the Google Cloud Storage account to match views in the front end, then have the front-end do some fine-tuning to ensure the items presented are properly sorted and de-duped?

If this is not that silly, because there could be multiple CLI agents running (and an agent should not run longer than a person watching would be able to tolerate), I'm wondering what could be some appropriate data structures to use, or processes to implement, if I did want to "index" or organize the data in GCP more formally, and not have the front end do it?

The data is not big data, and in total the whole list of items should not exceed the length of items a human would be able to reasonably process within a day of work. There may be duplicate items, the first time an item is recorded may be of note, and generally recent items are way more important than past items.
> it's still married to Linux kernel features and runs on other platforms under virtualization, no?

Actually no. At least on Windows Docker can do native Windows containers too

https://poweruser.blog/lightweight-windows-containers-using-...
https://uglot.ai

An AI analyzes what you want to say and writes it the way a native speaker would. I then show the diff between before and after. I'm happy with how well it works so far and I'm working on monetizing it.
Yet another very tendentious "* making us sick" from detox fraudsters.

A small detail that mister missed is that billions of people outside of rich world subsist on dalda, and soybean oil, and are on average way healthier than average American.
Amazon workers in New York withdraw petition to unionize
That’s awesome, I didn’t know it was so easy to make money, you must be the first to find out about this secret algorithm and the fastest person to execute it
I get what you're saying but a doctor's patient list contains PII and patient health data. The fact of a patient seeing a certain doctor, especially a specialist, reveals some private health information of a patient.
I agree with this: I found it very hard, at least until I got a good sense of the overall structure and conventions etc, to be able to understand just one part and ignore the rest.

On the other hand, ironically, Knuth recommended getting familiar with the program by picking up one particular part and "navigating" the program to study just that part. (See https://youtu.be/D1jhVMx5lLo?t=4103 at 1:08:25, transcribed a bit at https://shreevatsa.net/tex/program/videos/s04/) He seems to find using the index (at the back of the book, and on each two-page spread in the book) to be a really convenient way of "navigate" the program (and indeed randomly jumping through code, as you said), and he thinks that one of the convenient things about the "web" format is that you can explore it the way you want. This is really strange (to us) as the affordances we're used to from IDEs / code browsers etc are really not there, but it makes a bit of sense when you consider that books are Knuth's life, and he must find things like flipping pages with a bookmark in the index page at the back of the book etc really second-nature.

(BTW if you know someone who has the super-obscure interest in making WEB programs actually navigable with hyperlinks etc, do consider https://github.com/shreevatsa/webWEB/discussions or if you know some better way of finding such people let me know :P)
I have extensive lung damage from being born premature, I've had pneumonia 13 times, and last April I spontaneously collapsed a lung requiring surgery that cost 80k. My doctor says if I catch covid I'm done, no matter how many vaccines I get. My brother also died from covid last year. I'm tired of walking around feeling like everyone is pointing a gun at my head because they think covid is a joke. Seriously, fuck all you antivaxxers. I wish I could legally endanger your lives just as you've decided to endanger mine over your stupid beliefs.
They do have it. Quotes (esp multi-paragraph ones) are usually indented another level in. So are nested lists (imagine if lists on different levels of nesting only used different bullet characters). So are mathematical formulae. Or table of contents. Or bibliographic references. Tables in general are a special case of horizontal spacing that matters. Figures and images in text.

It's not as common because writing is not all hierarchical all the time (or at least, lots of space would be wasted if entire chapters/sections were indented one level extra), whereas programming is heavily hierarchical with shorter "blocks".

Horizontal indentation is the most common way to express that hierarchy, including in programming languages that use block termination indicators — indentation is used to help humans parse the code, termination indicators are there to help computers parse it.

You are making it sound as if you are not making use of indentation when programming: I thought the only complaint was about it being significant.
Haptics are such a fascinating and under-productized (except maybe by Apple) segment.
I worked at AOL in 1995, and I had a Mac. The Mac client was well known by then.
Seems like a pretty big IF there. What is the carbon net of that process?
Yeah, this is the intuition I've come to, particularly after reading Quantum Computing Since Democritus. If you'll let me be slightly hand wavy, you can get to Quantum Mechanics by generalizing probabilities in two steps: allow them to be negative, then allow them to be complex. Negative probabilities are quite unintuitive but seeing them as an accounting placeholder similar to how negative numbers are vs counting numbers helps it all click imo.

The other big thing is that if you want algebraic closure you need complex numbers or something isomorphic to them.
This is 2021. Basically everything you listed was older than your own five year threshold (Amazon was in the grocery delivery business since 2007!), or acquisitions rather than in-house product innovations.

And how is vscode a major new market?

Anyway, applying your criteria fairly to also Google, why wouldn't e.g. Fitbit, Nest, Pixel phones, Kubernetes, TPUs, YouTube Premium, Flight search, and Meet count?
People who are afraid of or at risk of covid should be the ones staying home. Not healthy people.
Instead of being snippy, you could click two links and find yourself looking at the entire source code of a web browser written fully in Common Lisp by the team putting out the article. How's that for a snippet!
So there are two separate "pre-compile" steps with Vulkan: #1. Compiling shader source code to SPIR-V bytecode; #2. compiling SPIR-V bytecode to native GPU shader instructions. #2 is always done at runtime (though the vendor driver may silently use a cached previous run result), and yes, it is possible to do it async. But like you speculated, you have to figure out something for the user to do while this async compilation happens. In an open world 3D game this adds considerable complexity. If your hero is approaching the Ice Cave of Wonders you need to smoothly preload your fancy ice shaders before the cave mouth is in sight and this preload shouldn't make the current framerate drop. In simpler times past with simpler shaders (like OpenGL 2.1 / ES 2.0 GLSL) you could compile shaders from source in perhaps a single 1/60th second frame.

It's funny how 1980s Nintendo cartridges loaded instantly but now that we have hardware at least 10 million times faster we have long load times for games.
Good. Bodily autonomy is a fundamental civil liberty, alongside medical privacy. In any just and free society, it doesn’t make sense to force people to undergo a medical procedure to do everyday things. If others are so fearful, they need to quarantine themselves instead of imposing forced medical procedures on others. After all, even with the vaccine they won’t be perfectly safe.
Comedians and satirists are so good at underlining the ridiculous hypocrisy of nitwits. This kind of move is probably my favourite way to deal with people. It’s nonviolent and uses their own mass against them.
Has any comedian actually been successfully cancelled, or is this just Cleese finding himself a new thing to whine about?
Only one I can think of is Kathy Griffin. She's been real silent since that happened.
The truth about shoplifting in San Francisco
Thanks, that's a new one.
As a retired software developer with 50 years experience I can say that he's unlikely to get hired.
The software business is very age-biased. And, since you mentioned that he was the "director of a center",
that implies that he "retired into management" rather than actually continuing to develop software. Plus, as a manager there is no time to keep up with the leading edge. In software, especially now, as the Red Queen said:
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

However, retirement is amazing. I spend most of my days on my own projects, which usually involves taking several courses on youtube. For instance, I'm working on a problem that requires a camera so I'm watching
"The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5WSV6CXsxs&list=PLjMXczUzEY...). Nobody would pay me to learn how to compute the robots grasping pose of a 3D printed object from its GCODE description.

Retirement is great fun and the perfect opportunity to spend 18 hours a day, 7 days a week (modulo random naps :-) ) hacking on whatever software that strikes your fancy. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Why do you see it as whining and not as performance art from a performance artist?
Louis C.K. is one I can think of, off the top of my head.
“Windows ain’t done ‘til Lotus don’t run.”

Famous line.
Kramer?
Somewhat off topic, but also somewhat on topic, I perused the Talk page for the Wikipedia article on Eddie Izzard's pronouns.

It was exactly as insane as I would have expected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Eddie_Izzard#Gender

Apparently the Wikipedia crowd cannot comprehend the nuances in 'Sometimes I use one gendered pronoun, sometimes the other.'

(Personally, I felt like it would have been the most respectful and true to his comedy if the article had switched gender for every other pronoun)
I think you have to do a Bill Cosby before you actually get cancelled. Or an OJ.
"Eventually return to the mean, given a long enough time frame" means that you should invest in index funds, which I do. It's not a ticker prediction algorithm that one can game or rinse/repeat for massive short term profits.
Michael Richards was cancelled before "cancel culture" was even a thing.
Google a bit more on this fellow, and what he makes money on.

First result:

> ADAPT Health Coach Training Program ... A 12-month certification program curated to make you a functional- and ancestral-focused health and wellness change agent
Bill Cosby and Rosanne Barr?
As you wish.

> That only solves 10% of the problem, binary portability. You still need to code for a dozen different graphics, I/O, storage etc system APIs.

Read https://justine.lol/ape.html for a deep dive into how we managed to do it. It mostly just boils down to the numbers file mentioned in the last paragraph. That gets you far enough to do sockets and stdio. That in itself is a big step forward. Is it good enough to make apps like Excelidraw binary portable? Not yet. But it gets us much closer than we were before. Getting the rest of the way there is an ongoing topic of engineering and experimentation. Many people are helping. Further support is welcome from those who share a genuine interest in contributing to our efforts to solve the binary portability problem.
Resistance to tyranny is always good.
strchr(str, 0) == NULL
memchr(str, 0, len) == NULL
Louis masturbated in front of other people without their consent.
How do modern frameworks display content? Must be interacting with HTML and manipulating the DOM in some way.
This is all seems very Black Mirror, and I can accept the explanation given in the article that this was just a speculative design exercise. However, from a “social engineering” perspective, we don’t need to dig deep to find real life examples. For example, a number of prominent Silicon Valley companies enact politically biased content policies that amount to large scale social engineering. For those who support free speech, it’s clear that those with power ware very willing to abandon classically liberal values and instead just abuse that power. The solution isn’t to apply symptomatic fixes but to solve the bigger problem at hand, which is aggregation of power. These companies need to be split up and/or regulated like the utilities they are.
Aziz Ansari? I mean, he's sort of back but I think it's safe to say his career was stopped in its tracks and lost its momentum.
I’m surprised anyone from
Britain is willing to have any honor whatsoever for their disgusting nation. Hundreds of years of colonialism, disgusting and immoral rape and murder of indigenous people from numerous islands, plus India? The entire UK should be ashamed for their entirety brutal, racist, and disgusting past. The fact any of their leaders can show their face in public is absurd.
Your scheme only makes sense if you're eager to lose your shirt, so I don't know why you'd mix retirement accounts with it.
> Plenty of people bike safely in NYC, SF, and Seattle.

Oh i know and power to them. Personally, i'm very clumsy and not very balanced, so i don't feel like i'd be comfortable riding in the city. I've rode a bike around silicon valley a bit, and it was fine.. most of the time.

I used to bike a lot in youth, (mostly on bike paths for fun), and for sure i know that a mostly-bike/ped environment feels much safer.

> The more people who ride them the safer and more normalized they get.

This is why i've been keeping an Ebike in the back of my mind (and hoping for alternatives to emerge). I'm hopeful for a future where cars are second-class citizens on urban streets.

Maybe i'll try biking around my neighborhood this spring, and see if I can get used to it.

(BTW thanks for the tips :) )
What's the duress hand/eye signal for lawmakers?
Unless the app servers are particularly large, or the app-side ORM connection pool doesn't work well (e.g. because the number of concurrent requests changes sufficiently over time that thread/process count constantly changes), I'd guess not. But without knowing a bit more it's hard to say.
I wonder how regulated they are.
> are heavy into the Chinese market

And they are in the Chinese market only till Xi/CCP decide is in their interest, as in acquire IP. The day it’s done, Tesla would be thrown out of China.
It seems odd to complain about cancel culture and then make a stunt out of self-censorship. You achieve the same result as the vocal minority who would want to ban you, but now you can claim it was your own doing, so… success?

It’s hard to imagine being in that situation, but I think the better move would be to show up anyway and call their bluff.
>there are other laptops (not Apple) that can last long enough between charging too.

The reviews don't agree that the "not Apple" laptops have anywhere near the same performance and battery life.

>the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are incredible — the fastest laptops we’ve ever tested in some tasks, with some of the longest battery life we’ve ever seen.

https://www.theverge.com/22751921/apple-macbook-pro-14-16-in...