skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, by Gerald Weinberg. An orthogonal piece of advice that I got from a different book of Gerald Weinbergs' is to learn 3 or 4 Very Different languages simultaneously, to grasp the enormous difference between them all. In 2021 I'd recommend C (lowest level other than assembler: 1st caveat, I haven't looked at Rust) and then at least one Lisp-family language that has Lots of Insane Silly Parentheses, which Paul Graham argues is the most powerful language (by far). I'd also choose Smalltalk and Python. Caveat 2: Every programmer will have an opinion on this list, but the main point is to get exposed to the diversity of languages. Also, I'd recommend listening to a lot of talks by Alan Kay. There is lots of fun and interesting stuff to learn from lots of different people, but Alan Kay has focussed on how do we develop stuff that is radically simple, radically powerful, and completely accessible to children as a tool for learning and exploration. His notion of 'object-oriented' (a term he invented) is completely different from how the term is used today.
Brackets definitely brings back sweet memories. I started learning HTML/CSS a decade back on Sublime Text and found Brackets soon after and used it for a while!
I have this happen every once in a while, and I love it. That state between sleeping and full wakefulness is one of my favorite things to experience because of things like this, hearing music, and also being much more creative. I've learned to stay in the state for a decent while - seemingly lengthening it from seconds to a number of minutes - by keeping my mind relaxed/loose. (The state of transitioning from wakefulness to sleep is also nice, but it seems less readily "useful" in this way.)

As someone that wouldn't regularly consider themselves a musician, hearing music out of nowhere is super cool but weird.
"China SHOULD NOT have the option to tell American companies that they need to not have free speech in the rest of the world because China doesn't have free speech."

So again, that 'feels right' - but this is not a 'moral' issue, it's a 'power' issue.

That it's 'unreasonable' that China should be able to censor outside of it's borders is kind of besides the point.

What matters is the materiality of their power.

In China, they can basically dictate terms and that's it.

China could feasibly threaten to block Apple in China unless some 'foreign censorship' is done on their behalf, the reason US companies should not concede, is because they don't have to.

For a couple of small things, they might get away with it but on the whole, it's something Apple can push back on ... because they can, not because they have some kind of moral high ground.

The social/moral posturing will be used as part of negotiation, but it's just superficial dressing on the underlying power.

US, Can, Aus, Europe need to get on the same page with respect to China.
They are also available on Coursera.
People often frame the cheque to put it on the wall.
Computer Science Distilled: Learn the Art of Solving Computational Problems

Highly recommended for freshers, especially who had no academic background on computer science and willing to start their career as dev.
With the help of Instagram, Valentino is empowering young designers
What if my taxes are paying for their healthcare? (I don't support completely banning smoking, but just playing devil's advocate here)
Then does the SRE team contribute to Apache open source projects and Kubernetes, before this announcement?
I refuse to believe that WindowsNT, NextStep/macos, Linux/UNIX/BSD
is all we can hope for in an operating system.

WindowsNT is by far the most modern.

Linux is a not terribly good copy of an operating system made to run on a PDP11.
WindowsNT owes quite a bit of internal architecture from Vax.

Just like there is constant experimentation and development of new programming languages there should be constant experimentation and development of new operating systems.

Limits, metaphors, hardware, has changed to an extreme degree, there is
no reason to stick with that made sense decades ago. :)

Where is the Tesla Operating System, (well in something a bit new and fresh with some good ideas and a lot of problems)
It's also the standard for scientific papers.
Posting to social media assumes that the maintainers actually read whichever network you happen to be posting to. I guess linking to the project might make it more discoverable.

I did star the project on github, but that doesn't provide a way to target a particular feature for praise.
Visual Differential Geometry by Tristan Needham
It's also how to get an R rating for a Hollywood movie including porn: make it absurdly hardcore and then edit it back. Opener negotiation tactic.
Binder.pangeo.io shut down due to crypto mining
> Maybe NZ has socialized healthcare? In which case you need to relinquish "personal liberties" to access medical resources.

That argument does not hold water.

Socialised healthcare, as we have in the UK (I'm not sure about NZ), doesn't mean you don't pay for it. We all pay for it in income tax and national insurance through every single pay packet. We also pay for it through other taxes such as VAT and fuel duty.

This means that if, for example, you partake in a risky activity such as driving, and get into an accident, regardless of whether it was your fault or not, if you're still alive but in need of medical attention, the NHS will treat you. If you go out running, trip, fall and break your ankle, the NHS will treat you - even though you could have avoided that injury by staying at home. If you're cycling and you fall off your bike on a patch of ice, the NHS will treat you, even though cycling when it's icy isn't a particularly good idea.

I need to sister some joists in my loft to reinforce them prior to boarding out for storage. If, through my own stupidity, I manage to fire a nail through my hand with my own nailgun (it happens), the NHS will treat me even though such an injury would 100% be my own fault.

Nobody needs to relinquish "personal liberties" just because healthcare is socialised. When we're treated by the NHS, we're getting what we've paid for and therefore (rightly) feel entitled to expect. I am hugely grateful for the NHS, but it is not free, and it shouldn't be making moral judgements about who to treat and who not to treat.

Do I like smoking? No, not at all - it's a disgusting habit that makes you and everything you own stink, and terrible for your health, not to mention a woefully pitiful way to get any kind of buzz or high. The buzz from tobacco is parsimoniously anticlimactic, and it's unbelievably expensive for the minimal payoff in that department. I mean, seriously, at least have some ambition in your vices.

At the same time, do I want to see it banned? Also no, and for all the reasons otherwise discussed in this thread: I don't want to foster an environment in which organised crime can further thrive, and I don't want to criminalise (ultimately) millions of smokers.

This legislation is both a massive government overreach, and a terrible idea.
I'm pretty sure the reason I got the infamous 'shadow ban' on Youtube for my Google account (i.e. I can see my comments but nobody else can, and my upvotes/downvotes behave similarly) was that I made a lot of snarky comments about how many ads different kinds of content had per minute of viewing time. I'd also note in the comments when Youtube gave the 'log in to see this age-sensitive content' warning (which didn't show up when logged in).

They don't want anyone questioning their ad revenue model I guess, nor their algorithmic ranking system...
This 100%. There's plenty of activities that put you at risk but people seemingly only care about like 5 things. Including smoking.

Mutual Healthcare does put more pressure to actually deal with macro damage creators. Like chemical companies dumping their shit in streams.
Maybe it's a result of wealth inequality and monopolization? If capital gets concentrated into less companies and less individuals, then it makes sense that investing and productivity will also be concentrated into less things. It will be focused on areas that those companies focus on and into areas that those individuals care about.

Take a look at the Nasdaq Composite. Of the 2700 companies in it, six tech companies make up 41% of its entire market cap [0].

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/22343/nasdaq-100-top-tech-com...
That's a feature of many Tesla games. Now imagine your steering wheel stops steering the car due to a bug when your passenger fires up a game.
i gave this a shot. you have some kind of weird bug, if you click share and try to share teamvideo you get this infinity hall of mirrors - https://imgur.com/a/ymujedG
Amazon fined $1.28B by Italy’s antitrust regulators
> How many actual veterans of the post-911 wars do you know? If the answer is "zero" maybe sit down.

I have several in my extended family, thank you very much. Nevertheless, I object to excluding people from this discussion, whether they live in a country which did not send solders to those wars, or whether they are US citizens who are not directly connected to the military but nevertheless participate in our democracy.
> Model fallible instantiation with factory methods. e.g. Node::make(Args..) -> Result<Node>. It won't always be as efficient or ergonomic but it works. And hey it's c++, you've been conditioned to accept a ton of ceremony to get things done. Famously the bulk of google's code is written without exceptions. And from what I know of it (not much), factory methods are how they model instantiation fallibility.

The problem is not the ability to do it but the ability to enforce it. "Just be careful" has not worked, and will keep not working. Google's coding standard has not stopped C++ from causing them problems.

> As a related but separate thought, sometimes adding invalid states to an object is useful. For example, take a look at std::thread::detach. Sometimes you see rvalue qualifiers on such methods (indicating the object has been consumed).

You know what's actually useful and good?

For the object to actually be consumed and not be accessible at all anymore.

> If you consider memory allocation to be infallible

Which you can't in the kernel.

> If you consider allocation to be fallible you're going to have a bad time with "standard" c++ too.

Yes? That would be the point.
https://lithub.com/when-the-beatles-met-their-idol-elvis-pre...

(interesting find prompted by other, also interesting, answer)
Your argument about costs ignores the key fact that rural areas are far less productive than urban areas, and so cannot afford even the same per-capita rates as urban areas.

As for the land value economics of multi-family development in rural areas: it just isn't that important IMO.

However your described scenario seems like a great way for the rural area to become economically relevant by gradually building up a functional amount of density.
There's nothing to reconsider, MobileCoin/Signal is still a terrible idea and was responsible for them withholding their open source code, for a year, with absolutely no explanation at the time or in retrospective. It's nothing but a money grab with zero expectation that this is something users want, or will use.
Thank you so much Uemura-san for these great consoles!

I often think about how great it was to play these games, the amount of effort and care that went into them, and the sense of fairness and pure joy that you bought a game and could truly experience it! There was a magic and sincerity in these consoles that is buried under layers of ads, in-game purchases, tracking, updates etc. in more recent devices and games.

The NES and SNES still feel like the greatest consoles that ever existed. Thank you again!
We saw what happened in the 2008 crash. Selling debt for debt, facilitated only by lending money at non zero interest, caused a huge chain to come to existence. Once the first domino tipped, everything came crashing down.
Yes, what I've sometimes done is search F-Droid first, then find that same app on the iOS app store.
My personal experience feels otherwise. Both are anecdotal.
and yet, here we are. google is trying to play down a monumental f-up of their own doing in allowing an app to hijack (and ignore) 911.
New Tech Cuts into Rock Without Grinding It
More people would have lost their jobs and houses, and whatever recovery was experienced would likely have taken longer and not been as "complete" (not that it was complete anyway, and it took far too long because of spending wimps in Congress). More businesses would have failed, and not restarted.
Well its their platform
I mean, the whole two engines thing is true though right? If someone else can get the cost of H2 fuel cells down to a marketable level I'm sure Tesla would be very happy to fit them as optional range extenders to its next line up.

In the UK at least, most PHEVs sold are cynically avoiding a bunch of taxes and benefit in kind. Many of them are never plugged into a charger.
==Well Wikipedia and the NYT are hardly unbiassed sources, but for an independent left wing view I suggest you read what Glen Greenwald wrote==

I don't believe Glen Greenwald to be either unbiased or representative of the "independent left wing view". He seems to exist to encourage the exact type of strawman you just created.
It was overpriced, the small screen sucked, and it had no games, polar opposite of the wii, it was just the DS in console form which was forced into using this for every game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube_–_Game_Boy_Advance_li... like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Crystal_Chronicl...
This was posted a few months back but comments had closed. Just got my copy today and am super excited to read. His claim to have rediscovered a sort of lost approach to Newton's calculus is super intriguing.
Pensions meaning defined benefits is an Americanism. A 401k is what others might call a pension.
>>> This is quite obvious collusion between YouTube and the major corporate news orgs. Also they are blocking stories that make people in power uneasy.

sure sure, no conspiracy at all.
I wouldn't limit it on America, so. I'm not praising it, all things considered this behavior causes much more damage that it does, maybe, good. but even when it comes to conmen, there are bad ones, mediocre ones, good ones and really good ones. Musk absolutely is part of the latter group...
There’s a ton of people who dip or use chewing tobacco… no second hand smoke there.
Horrible title, good article.
Give her a cycle or two of getting used to something, then having the rug pulled out from under you with a cancelled product or service, an inferior UI overhaul, etc. and she'll be back.

I went through that over and over again for the better part of the decade before finally jumping to an iPhone and swearing off joining any new Google services. Being a Google user is being in a perpetual state of beta testing where you pay them with your data. I'm convinced they're never gonna learn their lesson.
The notion that (theoretically independent in either case) prosecutors who are part of the judicial branch rather than the executive branch are less likely to be influenced by political considerations is worth examining. I have real doubts it is valid.
Because you're still missing the point on how bad that is compared to what these companies have done.

This is like being burned by a candle vs being burned by a nuclear fucking explosion.

Again, the amount of effort our system puts to punish and criminalize these people is not at all comparable to the protections they offer to the companies that do have that nuclear explosion level damage on everyone.

You're missing the entire point, and this thread is basically a great example of why we keep fucking up like this.
My daily driver desktop for a couple years was a low end Lenovo tower server. Still smokes the 10th gen i7 laptop.

I bought it new and it’s been a great machine ever since, even if nowadays it’s relegated to less interesting work like hosting a bunch of VMs.
Remember, it's not bad driving that kills people.
It's those kids and their darn video games!

man the 80s were a dark time
I can totally relate to your take. I've also considered a change out of IT into the educational sector. Problem is that if you'd want that, you'd have to put in quite a lot of years of formal education (I would call it certification). I think you need to set aside almost 2 years to become even a kindergarten educator. So forget the low pay once you become one, consider having a family on hold for 2 years.
People born after a certain year is a class of people. Born on one side can smoke, born on the other side can never smoke.

But it's good for them! Sure. They also speak about smoking being a problem for the Maori. Maybe they should start by banning them from smoking.

They aren't banning a drug preference. They are banning it from a specific group of people.

This is fundamentally broken. There has to be a better way of accomplishing it than setting terrible precedent of yanking privileges for life from a group which can't even vote yet.
> Its called the pilot.

Can you please spare the patronizing tone?

> And yet, commercial aviation is by far safer than driving.

So what? It could be safer than what it already is.

> but I'd be willing to bet that just as many if not more were situations beyond the pilots control.

Then you should review a good number of accidents.

> You're also not comparing it to the number of times that pilots got out of sticky situations by following checklists and/or not having warnings suppressed

That's an incorrect comparison. I never said that the checklists should not be followed or anything like that.
Are you claiming he faked his own death to escape his harassers? It is true it's hard to find concrete evidence of his death - the sole source of information is a twitter thread from "Hector"[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137
Also, yet another article that makes me rethink my choice to take Homological Algebra with no real algebraic topology coursework. Merkurjev was teaching so at least I have all his notes. It kind of forced me to give up any concrete basis and just handle abstract tools.
The sensible countermeasure would be making sure such group doesn't have the power to unilaterally ruin your life if you expose its corruption, or be immune from the consequences of such corruption.

The legal system is clearly not up to that task, and not only in USA.
> The amount of support for drug prohibition in this thread really surprises me. Why shouldn’t an adult have the freedom to smoke and put themselves at high risk of lung cancer?

I'm not for drug prohibition either but there should be very specific legislation around use of tobacco for minors.

No informed adult in their right mind would start smoking tobacco. It's incredibly deadly and addictive, and not even enjoyable before you're an addict. The problem is that people start smoking when they are kids or teenagers and are unable to stop when they become conscious of the problem.

In my country, selling tobacco to minors would lead to an insignificant fine. This is insane. I can't make any sense of it.
It's a hexadecimal dollar, actually, $2.56.
Location: India

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Technologies: Bash, POSIX sh, Go, Python, C, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Nix / NixOS, Sed, Awk

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Email: mail@kayg.org

Graduated in August 2021 with a Bachelor degree in IT, I am a Linux System Administrator and Devops from India, looking for full-time remote work.

I have been hosting a bunch of FOSS services on my domain since 2019, most of them are open to public use, free of charge. My whole infrastructure is containerized with Docker and managed with NixOS. My infrastructure is open-source: https://gitlab.com/kayg-infra

I have experience with Docker, Podman and Kubernetes, with an increasing knowledge of Nix / NixOS which I think is one of the cleanest imaginations of infrastructure as code.

In 2020, I worked under Debian as part of the GSoC internship to create systemd unit translator which reads services, sockets and timers and converts them into scripts for OpenRC. Previously, I have worked with IDS Logic to setup and manage infrastructure and deploy services such as GitLab and Moodle.
I feel the author sort of invalidates his own argument with this sentence (also he forgot to mention commercial space travel):

> "What about all the cool new stuff?" you might ask. What about the recent breakthroughs in mRNA technology? What about CRISPR, and AI, and solar energy, and battery technology, and electric vehicles, and (sure) crypto, and (yes!) smartphones?

His defense of his thesis after this sentence doesn't make that much sense to me. Sure some things have "stagnated". Skyscrapers aren't really getting any taller, but why do we need even taller skyscrapers? Haven't we maybe simply reached the physical limits of gravity?

As for institutions, if we already have CMU and Stanford and MIT, why do we need more top-tier private universities? It seems to me we're seeing pubic universities become more prestigious and influential, which IMO is largely a positive development (UW, Cal, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, etc).
I hate to say it but after working for 7 years I have the same conclusion. In the end people live to save themselves.
I'm not surprised. I haven't had much faith in the system protecting identities since the time I had to move for witness protection only to find my new address revealed to all parties in the summons to the hearing.
Sure, I agree with that, but you said:

> So not only where they selling at 35k for a while, in real terms they still are.

And I’m just saying no, because if they want to say they are still selling a $35k car, it needs to be priced $35k today. Sure, they started with a $35k car, but it is no longer the case. I haven’t suddenly increased my car budget from $35k to $40k in the last 4 years, regardless of inflation, because inflation != income growth. I still want a $35k car, and the fact they said for so long they would have one, and then upped the price, is annoying because I would spend $35k on a car but not $40k, regardless today or 2017.
> What's the alternative? Have a crappy, paid-for, add filled, bloated app promote itself as "Cauliflower Cooker Lite - the #1 free cauliflower app. 100% ad-free".

That's what we have on Amazon now. Looks like every single product contain all the metadata in product title. SEO spam from top to the bottom of the search results page.

I hate it, but given how crappy filtering on both Amazon and Play store is, I still prefer to see more information about a product in the search result list than less, even if that means bloated titles.

On the other hand, if both Amazon and Play store had usable filtering, all these bloated names would not be needed.
I’m glad people are finally catching on to this. The CIA has their tentacles in pretty much all aspects of society, and it has been that way for years. They have even admitted this openly:

https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1034866941587087360

> CIA officers work as scientists, support staff, engineers, economists, linguists, mathematicians, secretaries, accountants, inventors, cartographers, architects, psychologists, police officers, editors, graphic designers, auto mechanics, historians, museum curators, & more!

Curiously absent from that list is journalists…
Interesting. So what age would you consider old age and on what grounds?

I am confident a random sample of any nation on Earth would consider 78 old.
This is exactly what has happened in the case of The Guardian in the UK. See the previous discussion [0] on 'How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian'. This is such a shame because they were perhaps the only paper in the UK with enough courage and understanding to cover the Snowden leaks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20937555