skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But at some threshold of subsidization this equation tips and actively offloads the entire burden onto those without children.

True, but on a long enough timeframe one could also view it as a repayment from the people who (with or without children) were once children-being-subsidized themselves.
It's not news when dog bites man. And based on Wikipedia, it seems that men bite dogs more often than cyclist kill other people in accidents.
For a long time it was also the largest program that had been formally verified. Not sure if that is still the case.
The Poetry of Progress
finally some genuine found the manual of happiness.
It depends on the site and the use case, but I'd have thought that if you do, say, 10 minutes of interactions with a complex application, every few days, a chunked and cached SPA payload, with fairly light fetch requests for json after the initial load, would probably result in less transfer overall than a standard website. And again, leaving marketing / advertising / analytics scripts out of the picture, the JS in both cases will be a tiny part of the transfer when compared to images.
It was exceptionally bad a year or two ago when I developed this method. My card got compromised at least once a year - I'm guessing via skimming at gas pumps, etc.
I agree. This is a very Jordan Peterson-esque line of reasoning. (I'm sure this has a lot more history than that, but it strikes me as a current flavour)

This thing is true now, so it has always been true, and it must be true in the future.
I think your difficulties may stem from thinking of Time Machine as a backup application, when the UI is designed around treating it as a core system component. The configuration is all handled through System Preferences, and the UI you entered was solely for viewing and restoring files from your backup archive. You probably also missed a prompt to use the drive for Time Machine backups when you first plugged it in.

Also, Time Machine is intended for full system backups, and using it for just a handful of folders not as easy as using it for everything.
Octane Swing (90s Song by SGI about the Silicon Graphics Octane Workstation)
It cost you time and agency. The sacrifice is small, but there as a cost all the same.
Gods, please no more name changes!!?
> Mentioned and used as the Lisp baseline in the link I gave. ;)

Just saw that, nice. I like Norvig because he really cuts to the chase.
This happens all over-- http://www.rabbithashhistsoc.org/the-mayor/first-mayor-goofy...

As long as they aren't lobbying for putting cats in cages or colluding with wolves-- who wouldn't want to have a dog mayor?
Off topic but shouldn’t FAANG really be referred to as MAAAN now?

Google -> Alphabet

Facebook -> Meta

Meta, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Netflix. MAAAN.
Today its some Russian debris. Next time it could just as well be debris from two Starlink satellites colliding.

We need a way to clean this stuff up which from my understanding is practically impossible. It's like collecting a few thousand pingpong balls in the ocean.
You get dedicated time on a core while your task is running. For instance t3.medium is 2 vCPUs (because hyperthreading) but as you can see in [0] it's only one physical core.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/physicalcores/
I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with me, but I don't think this is a good precedent. Apple has always been opinionated, and that's a lot of what made Apple different. Admittedly, sometimes their opinionated takes weren't great, but a lot of times they really were great, even when some people didn't realize it. That's what allowed Apple to grow and soar to the heights it did. I worry that the new MBP line is a sign of Apple beginning to loose that quality that made them different from so many other companies... I worry that it's the start of a fall into mediocrity.
As a matter of fact, the article repeatedly mentions the benefits of nuclear power.
Twitter Makes Big Changes for Devs as IT Eyes Decentralized Future
>the maximal OOP style of .NET's structure is just not for me

You can use C# .NET in a simple, non OOP way.

You can use F# in a functionaly style.

Nobody forces OOP upon you.
>Just turn your critical mind off and let Wolfram's genius and wonderful mind expand your own, it's really quite a trip.

The issue being that Wolfram is presenting himself as some sort of serious scientist, not as the lyricist of a 70s prog band
Hmmm, I hadn't visited Fast.com in some time. Just visited, and it quite clearly states "Your Internet Speed" and the title of the page visible in the tab is "Internet Speed Test". I can't imagine why people would be consfused. /s

I clicked around to see if they defined it in more detail about specifically testing Netflix CDN vs general internet activity, but I found not such information. However, this has always been understood on my part to be the case. Maybe because of where I was working when it first came on scene? I clearly didn't get that information from their website.
Thanks so much for your feedback. Oh yeah I hate it when you can't do stuff by keyboard. I'll have a look at fixing.

Re sources. Right now it is select Twitter accounts, all of Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers.

Some we are interested in is github and dev.to - just need to wrap our heads around the details.

What ideas do you have for sources?
Many programmers can save >50% of their net income. I realize that this is not possible in every part of the world or in every situation, but if anyone is stable financially, it's probably us.
This whole release was very smooth with nice features and nice performance improvements. But the amount of (mostly wrong) negative articles and comments is amazing. It was not like that with .NET 5 and before. HN community grew more hostile to .NET in the last year. Do not know why. Maybe the anti Microsoft sentiment grew the last months again.

While being negative press, this article is for the most part right.
This is certainly the case for learning jazz improvisation. The primary obstacle, even for otherwise good musicians, is knowing you're going to suck at it for a long time before you get good. Even if you have an unorthodox idea of what you want it to sound like.
official announcement: https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2021/b...
The best feature of Briar is still, the tutorial on how to build it from source. Complete with screenshots

https://briarproject.org/building-the-source-code/
The message here is not "we need nuclear", but rather "we need clean reliable energy sources to complement wind/solar." If we can at least agree on what problem we're trying to solve, then we can rationally weigh the tradeoffs of nuclear against other expensive energy sources (like geothermal and carbon storage) that satisfy the requirement.

Building new transmission lines is quite difficult, especially in the USA.
That's a fairly non-standard definition of functional programming, for two reasons.

First, it's not the definition most people use for "functional programming". From Wikipedia:

> In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions. It is a declarative programming paradigm in which function definitions are trees of expressions that map values to other values, rather than a sequence of imperative statements which update the running state of the program.

> In functional programming, functions are treated as first-class citizens, meaning that they can be bound to names (including local identifiers), passed as arguments, and returned from other functions, just as any other data type can. This allows programs to be written in a declarative and composable style, where small functions are combined in a modular manner.

Second, aren't all languages based on lambda calculus, if you squint hard enough?
How is that more to ‘get’ than doing the same thing in C++?
I agree with you that there was nothing wrong with Apple posting a page after a Safari release, comparing it with the Chrome version at the time, and then not updating the page until their next significant Safari release.

However, it is true that Safari gets feature updates much less frequently than Chrome or Firefox. Historically, there's the integer update in the fall (13 to 14 to 15) followed by the .1 update in the spring. Those are when features are added. The Safari updates that happen in-between are only bugfixes; some bugfixes may have performance implications but they don't include improvements to language support (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

Safari 15.1 is already out but I think they only used that version number because it includes a significant UI change (to tabs), it's not an indication that they're moving to a faster release cadence for features.
Yes, but there is a difference between an attack being run by a low level hardware hacker vs. the software being run by average users. This is why I said it would be hard, you would need to encode a lot of low level hardware knowledge into your application.

This might only be useful in very specialized circumstances, like with kernel support on only a handful of carefully chosen hardware platforms. However, someone like Apple could do this on their systems, as they control both the kernel and the hardware. Sensitive memory locations could be cordoned off in special zones with buffering to prevent Rowhammer type attacks.
One option would be to go along the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico and across Florida, then up along the coast.
I have a standard AMD CPU+GPU, and Manjaro has spontaneously rebooted (the hardest of crashes) at least 10 times in the last 2 years. I use Windows 10 on this machine about 10 times more often and in the same time-frame it has crashed _maybe_ once.

My first Linux install was Mandriva in 2001, followed quickly by Slackware, then Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!OS and now I pretty much exclusively use Arch and Manjaro. I'm pretty sure that in all those 20 years, every time I use up almost all my RAM, the system becomes entirely unusable, to the point where I can't even interact enough to kill programs, and not even the OOM saves the system from total lockup, so I need to power off and on. I've _never_ had this experience on Windows. It gets slow, but it can recover.

The only time where Windows (kernel) was less reliable for me than Linux, as a desktop user, was when I had Windows Millenium Edition -- when my journey all began.

I'd still say I prefer Linux, but it's largely because it's better for my work on systems software. It's definitely not nicer to use as a desktop if you hate crappy products and like good ones.
Happiness and satisfaction are relative to prior experience. I started out my adult life below the poverty line on disability, and small things like fresh fruit and veg or owning my home or car feel like lavish luxuries to me. Someone who was raised with a silver spoon would consider my spartan lifestyle miserly.
> Given how everybody has a different answer (use the Canadian/Spanish/Swiss keyboard, use the Compose key, go for Colemak/Dvorak...)

I'd advise the author to go one step further and adopt the ANSI layout instead of ISO. So you can just get the US version with most of the keys already etched with the correct symbol, no matter where you are in the world.

> One question though: the French seem to enjoy using different standards, for some reason.

Not French, but here's an observation: the French world has great engineering schools like the Polytechniques (Paris, Montreal, Lausanne) or Mines. And the French government historically had military procurement and R&D done inside the country as well. They are, for instance, the only country outside of the United States to have built and operate a nuclear aircraft carrier.
Not on a hidpi display it doesn’t.
Big yikes.
Looks great!

But is there any offline version (like ePub) available?
i suggested the solution right there - forfeiture of the assets that the taxman can't get the tax for.
Italy's recent reclassification of COVID deaths and the result of that (97% reduction in "Deaths CAUSED BY Covid" to ~4K deaths, by separating out "Deaths from other causes also having Covid") is probably why this occurred - reality didn't fit the narrative and certainly the cognitive dissonance of being wrong doesn't help openness.
I had years of Java experience when I joined MS and started writing C#. I found the tooling to be generally ickier, and was surprised by a few gaps in the ecosystem. For example, there is nothing (official) comparable to javadoc for C#. Documentation is compiled into XML that is consumed by IDE's, but there is no generic, human-navigable documentation artifact. C# has a dizzying number of keywords that obscure perfectly-fine object-oriented expressions. In general, I found the language to have messier abstractions and a far less-discoverable stdlib compared to Java. Visual Studio is non-negotiable for many C# projects, and I found it to be as bloated as any MS desktop app, not incredibly stable, and I swear I installed a multi-gigabyte update every time I opened it. NuGet is serviceable, but I was surprised at how inelegant dependency management was, even inside the company. Finally, it's an aesthetic thing for me -- Java feels unixy, and C# is Microsoft through-and-through.

edit: one more qualm, the Mockito equivalent for C#, NSubstitute, cannot mock a concrete class, only an interface. This meant that every C# project I encountered was littered with pointless interfaces that had a single implementation, that only existed because of NSubstitute usage in the testing. This seemed to devolve into C# devs writing an interface for damn-near everything out of habit. I'm talking about writing an interface with getters and setters for a POC#O. I still get nauseous thinking about it.

edit: turns out I have a lot to complain about on this Monday! I pray for anyone living under the tyranny of Stylecop rules, which will fail your build if you put a public static field below a private static one, but for some god-forsaken reason cannot actually fix the problem for you.
No, I'm with you here.

The meds are there to help you change the circumstances that drove you into that state. One still has to the work.

That's to say, the meds may make step (b) easier. The rest is the same.

That way out, at the moment, might feel illogical because your logic is ill. Or at least to me it does; for the same reasons it felt "messy", inefficient, and slippery to you.

What use is logic when the axioms are flawed? But I digress.

I'm not aware of any other way. That a-b-c of yours is what the meds and therapy may help with, but otherwise that's the path, messy and slippery as it is.
also hindsight is always 20/20, but if you don't seek to be happier now and this looming economic depression that might happen doesn't happen for another 10-15 years, then you've just spent that much time being unhappy. but on the other hand, if you quit your job now and it happens a month from now then you'd be kicking yourself hard.

so the only solution is to just make a damn decision, and have a plan for either scenario. trying to time unforeseen black swan events, or economic factors seem to be a losing game. if it wasn't, we'd all be billionaires.
> I take it that you are not aware of Dr. John Snow[1] who in the 1850s demonstrated that Cholera was a water born illness that came from drinking contaminated water.

I'm aware of Cholera yes, but I'm not sure what it has to do with my point.

If anything, the widespread proliferation of Cholera proves that people in the 1800s mostly drank water rather than beer, does it not?

Furthermore, without any theory of microorganisms, people in the 1800s were simply too ignorant (even the doctors) to understand why people were getting sick. Classical "Miasma" theory only works on airborne diseases (the "air is infected". "Don't breath the air", mask up, etc. etc. Its hilariously wrong but "good enough" to prevent airborne diseases).

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EDIT: Or to be more clear: with a modern understanding of microorganisms, we're able to say today that "Alcohol kills bacteria / viruses" and can make the strange, but possibly true, argument that beer could be healthier than water in some circumstances.

But go as far back as the 1800s (let alone the 1500s, 1000s, or 500s), and people didn't even know what a bacteria or virus is. Suddenly, its near impossible to make an argument to drink beer rather than water (well, aside from entertainment purposes).
Indeed -- safety in exploration is not a relevant concern in all (or even in most) scenarios. However, in domains such as robotics where certain configurations may have unforeseen and severe consequences, you may want to slow down exploration and proceed more cautiously. As you suggest, you can optimize more efficiently if you can explore the domain without any safety concerns.

You're correct that the approach taken in the linked paper could be adapted to increase the safety of other sequential design settings (when needed), assuming you have access to a model that can quantify uncertainty.
A person that can hear.
No, there is massive loss from transmission as a function of distance
Grapher, it is a nice program to plot functions (2D and 3D):

https://twitter.com/danieldekok/status/1420093244894031874
High-voltage direct current connections have a loss in the order of 3.5%/1000km (that's approximately 10% loss per 3000km). China is operating several power lines at even higher voltages because that makes it more efficient. The loss for direct current depends on the square of the current, so you really want to reduce the current (which transmitting the same power at a higher voltage does).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...
Parent was talking about modern hardware in general, and it’s not like CPUs don’t get their own fair share of similar vulnerabilities. Also, a JIT compiler can probably realize that the same memory region gets rowhammered and may throttle execution of such thread.
There is rightly focus on whether this drug works, but the more interesting question is "assuming it does work, what then?".

Now you opened up the balance of cost and effectiveness. Therein lies the nest of vipers.
Yes! As a French Canadian, that's my preferred layout.

Its advantage is that it uses dead keys to add diacritic.

For instance (Alt Gr+i then [normal vowel key]) will give îôêâ... You just have to know the diacritic position and press the normal letter to apply it.
My card number and expiration get skimmed at, I assume, gas pumps and such. I call my issuer, tell them the card has been compromised, we review charges and throw out the fraudulent one(s) and they cancel that card number. The underlaying account remains in place, they overnight be a new card (with a new number and exp) rendering the old one useless.

It used to be a huge pain, because after that I would have to update all my stored payments and autopays.
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- Clean (carbon-free)

Nuclear and a mix of available sources (wind, water, ground etc)

- Not dependent on weather

Nuclear, ground and dam's (aka water batteries)

- Economically viable

Nuclear and a mix of available sources (wind, water, ground etc)

BTW: Nothing is carbon free AtM
Sorry for your loss, but this is textbook appeal to emotion.
Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?
Medical industry is about milking the government for everything possible. Actually helping people is secondary.
The thing about exceptions is that they are runtime. Pushing the issue to the type system forces the user to handle the case.
> Some circles have taken as an axiomatic truth that any disparity in wages between males and females is an intrinsic scandal.

All babies are created by two humans.* Why should the career of one of them be penalized for it? Why not instead create as a society the tools so that both can share the upbringing and care of the baby while the mother is recovering?

* (although the parents are not always the same persons who have biologically made it; yet it is a good idea that the solution for such a case is the default behaviour).
Yes it can. It's a good idea but the main downside is it ignores self-defense risk.
It is industry wide, but I don’t think this gets Apple off the hook. They sell a premium product so it’s not unreasonable to expect something a little better.
Yes, Amazon and Google both have nlp driven chatbot apis. They are generally hard to use and your typical person will not be able to configure it.

https://aws.amazon.com/lex/

https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow

^ But why would anyone go through all that for a vanity chatbox on a landing page? Stuff like that is for, you know, a real chatbot.
Also, if a man passes you on a climb with a fixed gear bike, you should assume that they could do it faster on a geared bike.
Wouldn't such a law be considered illegal by the EU?
Ugh Aaron told me to upvote
Crc16 in WebAssembly using rust – speed up of 1000 compared to JavaScript
I think this illustrates the cloud is unacceptable for anything more than storage and retrieval.

All computed results from data science must include steps and code to verify locally.

It calls into question privacy on federated networks and crypto networks; any node can be manipulated locally to change payload outputs on delivery, reveal secrets, disrupt workloads.

This makes sense to a lot of folks in computer engineering and physics, versus abstract software. No physical theory I know of offers any guarantee our arbitrary computing machines will ever be securable. We put fart pipes on Hondas.

Science proves it’s titillating smoke and mirrors once again. Still waiting for nuclear rocket cars.

I think this proves further as well why general computing chips need to be replaced with workload specific designs, where the anticipated inputs are well known and no vague logic paths to intentionally allow software monkey patching ever ship.
There are many studies on this; parents are less happy than non‑parents on average.
Congrats on the launch! Data Quality is an important area that our customers always ask about on Select Star (https://selectstar.com). Looking forward to integrate with you guys one day.
Why does the desktop experience seem to diverge so much from the mobile experience? My Windows 11 laptop, iPhone, and iPad are all equally reliable: they rarely give me any trouble.

Meanwhile every piece of software Apple ever shipped for Windows was hot garbage. It sounds like whatever made their Windows stuff bad is afflicting OS X now.
How much lead is in the water you drink?
Sure, but if it's possible to cause bit flips in basically all currently available components, then what's the point? Return all of your RAM and have a non-functional computer?
Trying to picture a major website where something like react-dom, via webpack, is the expense as opposed to all the marketing / advertising / analytics fetches, bindings and page updates.
Yes I did! I actually used to have bépo as my primary keyboard layout.

My main problem with it is that it only optimizes French, and it (implicitly) deoptimizes everything else. For example “W” is awkwardly placed at the very edge of the keyboard, which makes typing English pretty annoying. Keyboard shortcuts are pretty inconvenient as well.

Imho bépo is great if you write pages of raw text every day in French — for example journalists and writers. But apart from this it's not pragmatic for other usages — and I want my keyboard layout to be good enough everywhere, not just at typing French.