skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, technology causes disruption to those in power. Thus, those in power dictate that technology must be tightly controlled with the rulers having access to superior technology than the ruled.
Docker on the Mac is 10x slower for some of my workloads than Docker on my linux cloud machine. (e.g., npm install is literally a few seconds vs 5 minutes)
> I have been thinking of "nextcloud" but I do not see the benefit.

Nextcloud does a lot and supports "apps" for things like Google Docs-style editors in the browser. You can even do encrypted messaging, voice, and video chat with it. More here: https://apps.nextcloud.com/

If all you need is network storage, it's definitely overkill.
Why the quality of the firm is decreasing
What I pointed out is not some iron-clad argument that it's impossible for there to be galactic empires or that people with reasonable assumptions can't be surprised that the universe isn't teaming with life.

My point was that it's also not unreasonable to not be surprised. After all, we know for sure that, even if the universe is eventually full of life, there must still exist at least one species with our experience - looking out and seeing no one else. That one species guaranteed to have this experience is of course the first one that starts colonizing.

To be clear again, I'm not claiming that we are for sure the first ones - there are many other reasonable explanations, but I believe this one is too.
We have some of these in NL.
> It's not comparable to a productive entreprise that needs to build things for people or perish.

Well we had to build an Army to win against fascism in the Second World War or we all would have perished.

And 'perished' means literally dead or subject to fascism, not just going out of business.
Yes the problem with ebikes isn't other people being aware of the bike's sound, it's the rider being aware of the risk to themselves and others. Maybe this is ingrained in the motorcycle culture, but it seems like most buyers of ebikes I know have never ridden a motorcycle before and were not riding bicycles regularly either. They just go "oh this makes my commute like that time I biked when I was on vacation" and approach safety with a lackadaisical attitude. That makes them relatively irresponsible riders in my opinion. This problem hopefully fixes itself over time as they learn from accidents and an ebike safety culture emerges, but for now it's pretty sad.
Hi Peter, thank you for doing this! I am currently on an F-1 visa, waiting to switch to H-1B in January. I have a previous J-1 visa so I'm currently in the process of waiving the two-year-rule. When the waiver is approved, can I file a change of status, or do I have to leave the country to apply for the visa?
It employs scrapyard employees!
Doesn't any Batavus E-Bike does this? That's were I got my (limited) experience from.
It's probably just an issue with trying to translate the original source.
But the law uses the term "contact", so AP is correct.
It's not enough to intercept `set search_path`, in fact any arbitrary function could change it, but Postgres doesn't report it back, unlike some other gucs.
Annoying because it used to be pretty good.
There's a song by one of my favorite artists, Peter Mulvey, which touches on this point. It's more of a spoken word poem, titled "Vlad the Astrophysicist". In the song, Peter asks Vlad if there are aliens, and if there are, why haven't they contacted us? Vlad answers basically that there almost certainly are aliens, but civilizations don't last for long enough compared to the size of the universe.

> "You see?" He said, "They never meet each other. Time is too long, space is too large.
I mean sure, maybe at one time, right next to each other at the same time, fss, fss -
Two civilizations sprang up and they had war, better yet they had peace,
They had arts exchanges, they had an intergalactic library... but they are all dead now, too.
In all likelihood, we are alone, and by the time the next civilization arises,
We'll have been gone for a long, long time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kbcGfX35M
Correct - no affiliation, just a happy customer.

Cloudflare seems to be disciplined about releasing solid lower-level platform building blocks first (e.g. durable objects), and leaving the "developer go-to framework for their advanced Worker stuff" to be built on top later.

Seems like a smart approach to me, but I agree the space is moving fast and even though they release stuff at a pretty rapid pace, it never seems fast enough for early adopters
The Earth may be rare but self perpetuating intelligent systems may not be.

The chaotic fluid dynamics of some gas giant, star, or accretion disk could spontaneously form an intelligence given enough time the same way we evolved from a chaotic system here on Earth.

There must be something like the Drake equation but for how many large chaotic systems need to exist for something to evolve that can perform non-trivial computation.

Like an estimate for how many Solaris planets may exist in the universe.
Yes. Maybe a stopping-distance requirement. Many "e-bikes" are under-braked and under-tired for their speed and mass.

Big-tire "e-bikes" with disk brakes are really light motorcycles. Forget the pedals and admit it.
The main reason Portugal does not have a competitive per capita GDP in the euro area is the fact that the older generations have, on average, very low instruction and education levels and thus are not able to be as productive as their northern European same generation citizens.

There has been a big change in the last 20 years because of a big bet on higher education, science and technology. The new generations can compete with and match the productivity levels of any European citizen of the same age cohort.

I hope this helps you better understand Portuguese economics because its impact on Portugal’s general wealth will become evident to anyone in the following decades.
In essence, they have invented the cellphone that actually causes cancer ;-)
Agreed, they are very dangerous. But there very few of them (because people realize they are dangerous).
Nice! But the little island seems to be next to slopes on both sides, well protected from the elements... maybe that helps?!
How is it possible to get a H1B in January?

Because H1B is only granted in October about 6 months after you apply for it before the April deadline.
i think the parent is well aware of the unpopularity of lisp. yet that does nothing to disprove that lisp is one of the most 'familiar things in programming'. almost all programmers who have attended some academic course on programming languages know about lisp
Recent and related:

You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191244 - Nov 2021 (167 comments)
Here too, but today you would need a license for those. Ditto with my bike, you can't ride it without a drivers license.
It is an investment in time and knowledge. But you know that your investment will not be wiped out because it doesn’t fit any more in Apple’s or Microsoft’s business plan. My workflow has become very stable since my switch to linux and opensource. Sure the software has quirks but you can always find workarounds. When I used Windows, I remember that I needed more clicks to do the same thing with every new version as Microsoft buried functionality in successive layers of UI. All in all I would say that I’m much more productive when working on a case, at the expense of spending some of my free time learning sysadmin, emacs, latex, etc. But it’s fun and I love it. You definitely need to have a level of interest in tech to go all linux in your firm.
> Basically all of these things are teething problems. The early adopters have problems, the problems get solved, then they're solved for everybody

It's not just teething problems.

Using OpenOffice and Linux means that you're opting out of the substantial ecosystem of legal-specific Word add-ins - document templates for court filings, semantic analysis for contracts, metadata scrubbing, etc. Most of these tools are only available for Windows although some of them support Macs. A small practice can get away with using Linux but a large firm would be foolish to do so.
Doesn't seem like it will prevent you from doing Language Oriented Programming, or advanced embedded Domain Specific Languages. Perhaps it's less ergonomic, I am not an R user.

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/dsl.html
Oblig. link to Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004JHY8C6
My father actually inquired on this to my local state agency. Technically an ebike is considered a motorized vehicle by the state and is not allowed on trails that prohibit motorized vehicles. I say technically, because I'm pretty damned sure no game warden is going to give you a ticket for riding an ebike. If it looks like a bike, and rides like a bike, and you're not riding above bike speeds, I think you're safe.
Microsoft has all the pieces they need to succeed as a big player in the metaverse space - Azure, Xbox, an OS (Windows), some of the best gaming IP in the world like Doom, Skyrim, and Halo, and finally Teams 3D+ Microsoft Mesh.

All they need to do is respond to the Quest 2 with their own standalone headset, and bring some of their best selling franchises into VR.
Right up to the point when you cause and accident, it turns out that you are not insured and you are now in debt for the rest of your life. This is not a small matter.
The TL;DR here is that the US economy has a lot of areas that are dominated by very few companies. Those companies are using the pandemic and the current inflation narrative as an excuse to raise prices, because they can get away with it due to lack of competition. In other words, many US markets are not even close to being free markets, in which one couldn't get away with this sort of thing.

Oh, and BTW, although this is an opinion piece, Robert Reich is a former US Secretary of Labor and teaches economics and public policy at UC Berkeley. He's also a pretty cool dude, from what I hear.
The article doesn't state what distance they were able to transmit over.
> one reason was that some of the political leaders on White pushed through torpparilaki (a land reform)

This is a often overlooked but very important part of making the post civil war much more peaceful. A large portion of the reds were tenant farmers (torppari) and giving them their own land basically made them "whites" (basically all the landed farmers were on the whites side) and thus fixing one of the biggest issues a very large portion of the reds actually had with the situation before the civil war.
Slightly related new release by ParallaxNick about the topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nrm1JsKhzeA

I generally recommend his high qualify cosmology content and his older Fermi paradox releases.
Well, claiming to offer an alternative to the GAFAM while depending on their products / data / infrastructure is a bit misleading.

So indeed they're doing okay privacy wise, but a lot of users feel cheated when they realize their "independent search engine" (DuckDuckGo) is just a Bing portal hosted on Azure.
Why Don't We Have a Gay and Lesbian Nation State?
I'm curious - what ebike do you have that can easily cruise at 48-53 kph for extended periods?

In most countries that would be far above the legal limits imposed on ebikes. As a result, the ebikes available for purchase are all limited to 25-32 kph max and typically have power limits of 250-300 W. Since ebikes are a lot heavier, exceeding 32 kph for more than a few seconds is generally very difficult.

I don't think GP is being disingenuous with any of his assertions. In the US there might be ebikes with much higher top speeds, but jacquesm doesn't live in the US and neither do most of the other people on this planet. Most ebikes sold do exactly what he's describing.
Python and Ruby are quite different when writing code, but have almost the exact same technical abilities and limitations in the grand scheme of things. I've always felt there's little reason to learn both.
I feel dumber after listening to this and not because they were smart… because they aren’t.
Prescient. I found myself wanting to pass a block of code to a Python class today, like what I used to do when I wrote Ruby. I very nearly hacked it up using cursors and an iterator but I saw sense before birthing a monster.
There exists a possibility of a white hole developing near Earth from which aliens can emerge
There are frameworks that already exist that don't require compiling, like hyperapp (but others, too). Even React can be written without compiling - you don't _have_ to use JSX or advanced babel.

So I read through the example, and I do get it, but I'm not a fan, but I also think you put a lot of thought into this in general.

If you want adoption, I think you need to focus on at least two things:

- Testing (part 1). Your library doesn't have tests, and was only pushed about 9 hours ago from the time of this comment. Developers don't have any way to trust that the library works the way they think it should.

- Testing (part 2). There is no obvious way to test code written with your library/framework. Developers won't be able to verify if their code is doing what they expect. I suspect you could have build return faked methods, but then how do you tell the build function that it should be in test mode?
> I'm not sure 20-25 percent is even worth having SMT given that is' like going from 4 cores to 5.

Can you think of another 25% bonus that costs nothing in terms of chip area? SMT doesn't add any new registers (the register files and retirement buffers are the same). SMT doesn't add cache, or pipelines, or anything.

SMT just requires the chip's resources to be partitioned up in some cases, so its a complication to add to a chip but doesn't seem to take up much area at all.

Normally to get a 25% bonus, you'd have to double the L2 cache or something similar (and as the 3x L3 cache tests from Microsoft proves for Milan-X, even 300% L3 cache isn't anywhere close to 300% faster, despite taking up significantly more die area... albeit cheap die area in the form of 3d-stacked chiplets but still, a lot more silicon is being thrown at the problem there... compared to nearly-zero-silicon in the case of SMT)
Perhaps true for past generations.

Even MIT recently rewrote SICP in Javascript for its undergrads, IIRC.
This is probably the tech that drives the Pip-Boy
What did paperwork did you have to do to form a company to export services?

Is it possible to just export services as a sole proprietor without forming a company?
It does not. As long as you own the physical hardware you are okay to install on virtualized hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis
I'm not sure where the "confusion" about your options is coming from because Delphi (Object Pascal) still exists. You can get the Free Community Edition from here- https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/free-dow...

If a person knows Delphi/Pascal, there is no need for them to use Visual Basic 6, unless that was their feeling about such. There are several Object Pascal options to choose from, where if a person was previously exposed to Pascal/Turbo Pascal/Delphi, they would be able to get back up to speed very quickly.

As you mentioned Gambas, maybe you are thinking completely free and open-source, which Object Pascal has such too. The most obvious choice would be Free Pascal with the Lazarus IDE. For those that don't know or are confused, Delphi is a dialect of the Object Pascal programming language (check Wikipedia or Embarcadero website to verify). So the closest dialect of Object Pascal to what is used in Delphi (the IDE), would be Free Pascal/Lazarus. You can even import and convert Delphi projects (including Turbo Pascal) to Free Pascal/Lazarus. You can get Free Pascal/Lazarus from below:

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=downloads

https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe
(this is a special cross-platform installer)

There are also other dialects of Object Pascal that are free and open-source, such as PascalABC, which is a variation for .NET. You can check it out here- https://github.com/pascalabcnet/pascalabcnet
A record number of Americans quit their jobs in September
I mean... is he retiring or just "changing jobs?" If he's retiring, I'd say what he can do includes:

Go fishing

Take up photography

Take up a musical instrument

Learn a foreign language

Travel

Go camping

Volunteer for a cause that's near and dear to his heart

Read

Attend live music performances

Go fishing

Go to museums

Restore an old car (or tractor, or bicycle, or radio, or $WHATEVER)

Build a Tesla coil

Go fishing

etc...
I thought the Harvard Professor's take was pretty out of touch

> “It’s my pretty firm belief,” says Gilliard, “that the police should not be called unless someone’s life is in danger.”

Sure it'd be extreme to call the police for someone egging your car, but what if they stole his car.
The statement directly follows their observation that news videos on YouTube are "downvoted". It is the foundation for their "popular opinion" claim.

No, a tiny representation of excess idle time YouTube arrow clickers demonstrates nothing. We have seen many times throughout this very discussion that loads of people have gained the confused, self-destructive notion that it is a proxy for the public at large.

Mask mandates and vaccine mandates are supported by a majority to heavy majority of Americans (obviously varying by area, but over the country). What do you think the representation is on YouTube videos discussing the same? Now as homework, contemplate why that is.
I recall waiting for Shoemaker-Levy 9 [0] back in 1992; it was not expected to go off with such a bang, when it did it put the spotlight on Jupiter's protective effect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9
That's a very neat bike and that motor is twice as strong as the one on the Bosch models. What kind of range do you get out of it at 45 kph?
Not exactly comparable and not ARM, but https://puri.sm/products/librem-14.

Another one is ARM, but very under-powered: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/.
The Story of India, a 6 part series. Episode 1, Beginnings.
Eh, this is just extending the argument into absurdity I feel.
This is not hype. It’s a fraud.
Yes, it's true, to define a velocity scale you need to plug in a spatial scale and a temporal scale. A human lifetime defines the temporal scale, but I technically didn't mention a spatial scale. However, we were talking about Fermi paradox and galactic colonization -- so a reasonable spatial scale would be that of the galaxy, and then we have defined a velocity scale and can make comparisons:

c << (galactic diameter / human lifetime)

c >> (galactic diameter / billion year evolutionary lead)
What's NO?
They still have support for Linux so that is still fine.
is it a conspiracy theory?
> But people bend over backwards to explain why “z = { |x| x + 1 }” is bad and shouldn't be allowed.

Really? I’ve never seen anyone bend over backward to explain it as bad, mostly just that that's the way it is, there are tradeoffs either way, and its not worth changing.

> The whole block vs proc thing is an artificial distinction

Presumably, you mean lambda vs. proc. (Both of which are defined using blocks, and procs are what using & syntax in a function signature causes a passed block to be reified into.)

But, yes, all distinctions are creations of humans, especially all distinctions within human creations like, say, programming languages. So “artificial distinction” is a meaningless descriptor when we are talking about things in a programming language.
Yes, my petition was approved starting October. But I'm finishing up my F-1 this semester, and will be starting the job in Jan.
The key thing about floating point is that it maintains relative accuracy: in your case, if you have say f(x) and g(x) are both O(1e200), and are correct to some small relative tolerance, say 1e-10 (that is, the absolute error is 1e190). Then the relative for f(x)/g(x) stays nicely bounded to about 2e-10.

However if you do f(x) - g(x), the absolute error is on the order of 2e190: if f(x) - g(x) is small, then now the relative error can be huge (this is known as catastrophic cancellation).
Frustrated with the limitations of what was available, I did just that.

Turns out they are cheap to build and operate, and and an endless font of interesting engineering challenges.
Yeah, it's not like marijuana is difficult to find naturally, and just eating it has obvious effects so it should have been easy to happen upon. (From my quick research, heating it before consuming shouldn't be necessary to get _any_ effect, but it does increase the effects.)
The bigger danger here in NL are the elderly, who suddenly go zooming around at twice the speeds they had before they got their e-bikes. Accidents every day like that, nasty ones too.
You've never been on a plane that had to enter a holding pattern?
With the battery. Normal bicycles can be as light as 8 kg when using carbon frame. Should be able to fit your battery in a 25kg bike if trying very hard.
Not sure if you've heard of the Sur Ron or the Cake bikes but they're RAPID. I have a modified Sur Ron and it's way closer in performance terms to my Husky 701 than an e-mtb or similar (peak power to weight ratio of about 0.3hp/kg).

People put pedal kits on them to try and hide the fact it's basically a super light motorbike but in my experience it's not really suitable for riding on bike paths or trails.

Devices like in the OP are much more of a grey area as it's basically impossible to tell their power output / weight on an individual basis...
Population goes to zero in 100 years.
I always considered them letting Excel use undocumented APIs but making the documented APIs a PITA to use for Lotus 1-2-3 one of their dirtiest tricks.
I can't imagine anyone taking kindly to a change as big as eradicating time zones. Get rid of DST, yes, but only if the U.S. goes up an hour (the extra sunlight at 6pm during DST is nice).
at the risk of turning this into a game of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunately,_Unfortunately, any such digital intelligence is going to be concerned about events in the real that could result in them being unplugged / blown-up etc. and would thus be compelled to sterilize it just in case.
Why don't we have a left-handed nation state?
I agree with you 90% of the way, and it would be 100% if not for the fact that there are plenty of jobs which only exist with constant contact from your boss. There may be folks willing to do those jobs for lower compensation, but they don't have the opportunity.

Also, I take issue generally with the idea that in order to only work reasonable hours without being bothered by your boss you need to get paid less for the work you already do.
"That sounds dumb"

At first I thought the same thing, but I'm not sure about that. It seems the main point is that the prosecution is required to prove that the manipulation by digital zoom doesn't alter the image in any other way. That seems reasonable. If Apple has a patent, then the methods should be explained enough to show exactly what is being manipulated. If it's not patented/documented, then I think it's reasonable to question what is going on within the black box.
It is difficult to meaningfully collaborate with a team that is working in US time zones if you are in Europe/Asia. You can make it work, sure, but saying that there is no benefit to being in the same place is disingenuous.
I would gladly buy the Ford DӔTӉ.
Hey Peter! I am currently in the process of searching for jobs in USA that sponsor visa. Do you have any tips or sites where I can find jobs? Is it hard for an UE citizen? Thank you.
unsure of this poster's situation, generally if your h1 is filed by not-for-profit orgs or academia,the h1s are not subject to the cap/lottery system and can be applied for anytime a legitimate job offer exists.
Are you using a good IDE? With Rubymine (which indexes all of your gems) this is a much less big a deal.