skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please report any suspected collaborators with the Chinese secret police to the DEI campus safety board.

All suspects will need to report to the DEI offices for re-education.

Joking, but they literally do the exact same shit to Republicans.
> Implicit imports on the global namespaces? What do you mean?

Not OP, but they are referring to `import std/strformat` (from homepage). That just imported things into the global namespace. Maybe that isn't required and its just for short examples, I don't know.

Go and Python can both import into the global namespace too (`from thing import *` and `import . somepackage`), but they are pretty frowned upon in most projects.
They wouldn't but there are other possible mechanisms.

As a hypothetical example, if the body doesn't consider Omicron to be particularly threatening then it wouldn't devote much resources to fighting it. The vaccine would override that response by forcing a massive counter-response (antibody titers after vaccination are much higher than after infection), and those antibodies would then help suppress the symptoms. If you assume symptoms to what appears to be a common cold is all that matters, then this is "effective". If you assume flooding the immune system with dangerous proteins to make it manufacture tons of antibodies isn't free, then you'd have to weigh up the costs and benefits of doing things this way. However COVID is a magical disease in which costs and benefits don't apply - for whatever the public health community wants to do there are only ever benefits, never costs. Hence: effectiveness.
I hold nonprofit colleges and universities to a higher standard than corporations.

(Which isn't to say I believe in letting corporations off the hook.)
In enterprises/organizations consciously playing the long game, yes, definitely - because they know they need this to survive and gain new perspectives, and budget accordingly.

That, they will not only tolerate, but search for people that will not be what-you-could-consider-as-productive-in-a-narrow-view-way for some time.
> but why not add something new like memory management to learn about?

You can learn that with Nim too. It supports manual memory management like C. The new ARC/ORC GC also works more like modern C++ than a traditional GC.

> its wasm support would integrate with your JS knowledge

Nim can also compile to JS. Or you could compile it first to C and then compile that to wasm, although that's not supported out of the box.
Honestly the most distraction free writing device for me is portable, has Vim and is purposely not able to handle very much (i.e. limited RAM). That way I am forced to address one thing at a time.

Speaking of which, I am currently working towards building a modern PDA device so that I can mostly do away with my phone. The idea is that it too will be purposely limited in capability and will only be capable of specialised tasks.
Purdue was one of the first universities to commit to the Chicago Principles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591899
But that does not mean we have the same situation here. We are living 50 years later and the pipeline for IT looks different than the pipeline for music.

Also:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/05/11/did-blind-...
I remember seeing the early BOFH when I was working for Telecom GOLD (Dialcom) in the mid 80's.

I think the BOFH files may have come from the NZ Dialcom licensee originally.
Don't Haskell and Go also do this?
Something that needs to be at least pointed out is that there is a significant difference between money and currency. Currency is a kind of instrument, mostly to enable current, flow of money in an efficient, productive, and low cost manner to facilitate smooth economy of activities. The problem that we are now facing though is that the governments of the world have committed to defrauding the people, whether to cover up other frauds or to plunder wealth/value.

What we are facing right now with the "money printing" in all its different forms or manifestations, is nothing less and nothing more than just plain fraud. It's really no different than if you were told the painting you are buying is a renaissance masterwork, when it's just a sophisticated fake. It's a bit more nuanced than that because the ruling clan used to understand that they can't get too greedy, but that seems to have changed now since they have just gotten away with ever more brazen frauds over the decades and have not been held accountable in at least a very long time, if at all really ever fully. It used to be "… one for you, two for me, one for you, three for me", we seem to be up to "one for you, 5 billion for me … wow, look how successful and smart I am".

It's the biggest problem I have with people who make excuses for "taxing the rich", because frankly, they didn't earn it at all when the government is essentially defrauding the lower classes and pumping trillions into the upper classes. Unfortunately the well has been polluted and the only way to fix it would be to rescind all the fraudulently earned "money", e.g., seize all wealth over $5 million, but that won't happen for several reasons, so we will get the tune we paid the piper for by drinking from the poisoned well. Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows. History tells us though, likely it will end very poorly for some group of people. Abuse begets abuse, and the ruling clan has been abusing hard again for a very long time.
You're completely right re Drata as a company (we use a different compliance vendor, but very similar setup re the agent).

You're a bit off on whether this would fail a SOC2 audit, thankfully. As the OP said, they don't have access to production systems, which basically means you can treat that employee however you want from a SOC2 (and ISO, and most other control framework perspectives). The company OP is working for can state "We do not require these controls on contractors without production access" and that is totally fine for SOC2. Pushing back on the agent requirement is totally reasonable!
I still have two lying around. One of them was a 15” dell brick.

I had informed the client that I will be disposing of them when I’m back if they don’t handle it and that any and all third party liability well fall on the direct supervisor if he can’t organize the transfer.

Needlessly to say even me connecting them directly to the courier was not enough.

My guess is that the OP depends on the money otherwise he wouldn’t be asking for help. So either but a cheap laptop and then control it with barrier[1] from your main driver and don’t ask(because whatever you ask they will probably say no). Or let them ship theirs to you, but I’m willing to bet that it be worse than whatever second machine you get.

In the meantime I would suggest you look for a new client because judging from experience there is a lot more pain to come. I didn’t do it in time and ended up paying dearly for my lack of initiative on that front.

[1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
My company is going through our SOC2 audit. We do not have such software and everyone is remote. I call BS as to the justification. This smells like a desire for corporate monitoring.
Ask HN: Best macOS version for 2015 MBP?
Taking into account trade offs between security, stability, and performance (later OSs being sluggish on old hardware etc), what's the sweetspot macOS version for a 2015 MBP?
For those geo blocked. The president of Purdue sent out and email in response to learning that Chinese students had been harassing a Chinese student who spoke out about the heroism of the students who died in Tiananmen Square, insisting all students respect free speech.

“Those seeking to deny those rights to others, let alone to collude with foreign governments in repressing them, will need to pursue their education elsewhere.”
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Do some more reading on what Purdue actually did. The point of legalization is to have high quality drugs and high quality information about those drugs. Purdue created drugs, sure, and then they launched what can only be described as information warfare on our country.
but thats the commit that accidentally will include something else that blows up everything. It's not only about checking the desired change, but it's also about checking that it was the only thing committed
As sibling poster mentioned, financial transaction taxes are being openly discussed in the EU. I haven't heard anyone call them socialist at least. Politicians in the US seem to use communism/socialism as a strawman to attack anything that would harm their puppeteers' wallets.
If you want to type pun floats, store hexadecimal literals. Those will be accurate.
> Genuinely curious - why should I care about Nim?

You definitely shouldn't. If you need a reason to care, then Nim is simply not for you. You won't benefit from Nim, and Nim won't benefit from you. It's best to agree to disagree and walk away from each other (assuming Nim can walk).

EDIT: I got downvoted a bit here, probably because the above seemed rude and/or dismissive? If so, sorry, that wasn't my intention. What I meant to say is that with languages like Nim it doesn't make sense to be interested in them if you're not already interested in programming languages. It'll be another 10-20 years before Nim becomes something the general populace of programmers should (or, if we're lucky, would have to) care about. So if you don't have a particular reason to be interested in Nim, chances are you won't get such a reason from anything that can be said about Nim at this time.

Basically, asking the quoted question already means that there's nothing you'd care about in Nim.
But a defrag FAT jumps much much less, because the cluster slots allocated to the same file will be close to each other, often in the same sector. I would be surprised if DOS doesn't optimize for this case.
Yes, it works the same.

Since mpv 0.34 it even looks for yt-dlp first, and fallback to youtube-dl otherwise. Before that you had to set an option, or just symlink youtube-dl to yt-dlp.
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To paraphrase the Lady Jessica, perhaps:

All great problems of ML can never be solved; they can only be outgrown.

EDIT: mentat learning>>machine learning??!!
is there a TL;DR, that's deep for this early in morning for me :D
>Added to this, much of the rape now grown worldwide is GMO – genetically modified – although not currently here in the UK, which raises many other issues.

I've always wondered what are those "issues" of genetically modified crops? If anything I would love for us to create a plant that is very low in the arctic acid they say it's bad.

The only valid argument I've heard against GMOs is that they could decrease species diversity in some crops (like corn, which in Mexico we have hundreds of varieties, and the introduction of GMO corn could out compete those local varieties)
I don't find this uncommon. I also work as a freelancer, but for local companies (eu). Sometimes the company (banks for example) will ask me to work on one of their laptops, which has vpn and other software that they want. I can of course deny, but then I won't get the contract. As long as I don't feel that they are invading my privacy, like you hear some companies do by taking screenshots, checking for idleness, etc, then I don't mind. In your case I would just rent/buy a new laptop specifically for this job, install their tool and don't worry about it. At the end you can sell your laptop. Or maybe you can work out of a VM running on your laptop, and install it there.
> The language that is missing is a simple language that can work well with C or C++, compiles fast, is easy to read, has a good lib, etc.

https://vlang.io ?
Perhaps a fair point, but I don't think it's remotely comparable to the topic at hand. We're talking about Chinese-born students in America being ratted out to the Chinese government for exercising their free expression rights like model American citizens, even though they are foreigners.

If I had the relevant Presidential powers, I'd offer citizenship to every one of the threatened students, and the rats would be sent packing home to China the second they were identified.

The 50 cent lackeys of Pooh-Bear[1] are not welcome here in America. Go home, scumbags!!

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...
Yes and:

Corporate profits soared while wages flat-lined. Coincidence?

Would a little bit of profit sharing be so terrible?
I think yt-dlp uses multiple simultanous connections, just like you could do with youtube-dl and, for example, aria2[1]

youtube-dl --external-downloader=aria2c --external-downloader-args '--min-split-size=1M --max-connection-per-server=16 --max-concurrent-downloads=16 --split=16' xlvbT8dv5Gc

[1] https://aria2.github.io/
As an American living in London, I find GDPR blocks extremely annoying…but I blame GDPR. It is a well intentioned law but horribly scoped. If I were the technical staff at a regional university in the US, I wouldn’t invest in compliance with a law that in theory can issue severe penalties. I would simply block that traffic, as they and many others have done.
my point was, why should we invest in trying to produce elite programmers?
Awesome! Synth design is definitely something I would look into if I had more time for hobbies. I feel like hardware synths are really getting a revival these days.
There are IMHO two issues that you have to take into consideration:

#1 Most people will ONLY talk about their (possibly very few) successes and brilliant ideas and be very silent about the (possibly many) times they mde mistaks or spoke foolishly, etc. (so you have no real way to know the rate of good/bad ideas or products they generate).

#2 you are comparing yourself (single person) not only against a multitude of people, but to a "selected multitude" that believe (rightly or wrongly) to have had an idea worth being talked about.

Then, when/if you find some single person (like the Aleksey Kladov you mentioned) that you believe has an exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge in a given field, it is very possible that that person is simply exceptional.

I think we all have (even those like me that have not the capability to understand their work) some reverence towards scientists like (say) Einstein or Feynmam but ask yourself how many classes of 30 something people get a degree in physics at each university in the world each year (and very likely are all very good and smart professionals) you never heard of.
ExpressJs new version 4.17.2 released after more than 2 years
As someone who isn't well versed in networking could you describe your setup in overview? Like, what software/hardware, etc.? Thank you
It kind of irks me that the discussions about Plan 9 almost everytime forget about what followed it.
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You can only be truly great at a single thing. All the little things that you enjoy spending time doing are taking away from time spent improving at any of the other things.

I love listening to great complicated music, but I don't know how to play an instrument, and I've come to find peace in that I will never achieve any kind of musical instrument mastery. Its within my realm of possibility if I so choose, but I refuse to give up the things that would have to make way for it. It's my choice, and I'm conscious of that, so I can live with it.

I've recently come to realise that I have had to cut more things than expected out of my life. And it's fine, because the things that are left are the top priorities - I get to spend more time at X, which I love, at the cost of Y, which I only like, or love slightly less. Distillation of self.

Can't do everything, that's why there are other people.
> The UK government has been urged to update its list of symptoms for covid-19, after early data showed that cold-like symptoms were the most commonly reported by people with the new omicron variant.

That would be tyranny and be exactly what I feared. That would mean anyone with allergies, a bad nights sleep, a headache caused by many other things etc is classed a persona non grata and denied travel and entry in to their place of work, pubs etc.
You think execs get hired based on connections alone? That is pretty absurd. It’s difficult to see value when you have little insight into their day to day. Upper management probably has the same skill distribution of any other job. Meaning your likelihood of working for an incompetent C level is probably roughly the same as working for an incompetent leader at any other level.
fiscal policy changed forever in 1971 when nixon took us off the gold standard
> Amazon has oodles of expensive and difficult-to-replicate physical infrastructure, hordes of low-level staff, exclusive supply contracts aplenty, enough cash reserves to price-dump anybody into oblivion, and probably many other things I don’t even know I don’t know about.

The playbook to disrupt this was made clear when AirBNB disrupted, or at least bit a good chunk out of, the hotel industry, which could have been described in very similar terms. And they didn't have to replicate any of their physical infrastructure to do it.

Shopify, BigCommerce, and similar players are already doing it to Amazon. I predict this trend will continue.
>this monitoring stuff makes sense for hourly paid jobs where the employee has to deliver a certain amount of completed items per hour.

Ah, yes, so we have the 2 hours per day salaried remote-work six-figures compensation tech class and the 10 hour per day full surveillance janitorial wage class. We are so content so serve you, milord.
Good. Now: when are governments going to lift restrictions?
Your opinion contradicts the official description of Nim on the language's home page:

> Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.

Also, the "Features" page contains "Inspired by Python" twice, and "concepts from Ada and Modula" once.
Go yes. Rust? I wouldn’t say that Rust is easier although I may be biased with my long C/C++ background. The ownership model is a pretty complex thing to learn. I guess maybe if you Box a lot?

It does have an easier on-ramp story for getting started/adding dependencies and that may be important for getting started.
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Get a few kids to put things in perspective is the most common solution.
I'm not following. I feel like you are trying to tell me the Sun isn't warm, and is in fact, cold. Opioids are most definitely addicting by any definition of the word.
> personal

Uh, hell no. You should have business accounts.

Personal and business never mix.
I (30) also just sent this to my dad. It made him very happy as we reminisced about all the old machines we've gone through over the decades.

Thank you for spending such quality time with your son
Some context: "Asahi Linux is a project and community with the goal of porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, starting with the 2020 M1 Mac Mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro."

https://asahilinux.org/about/
Or they could just track their eu readers and not comply because they aren't in the EU?
Normally an "operator" would look after the lower level functions changing tapes.
fatigue are commonest symptoms of life
lol, this will actually happen.
Purdue is not a coastal liberal arts university. You’re unlikely to find support for restrictions on freedom of speech there.
Nice speech, but if I was a betting man I would bet this is just posturing in response to the article.
I don't quite understand how EEA GDPR regulations can extend to entities with no European footprint at all, such as this student newspaper. Can't they just issue cookies and give the EU the finger?
Stop thinking about others and start thinking about what you can do to be better then you were yesterday, then let your focus consume you, such that the accomplishment of others no longer occupies space in your brain because you are too focused on yourself.
Dec 7, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/12/07/europes-bi... & https://archive.md/2vFnI

> The omicron outbreak at an Oslo Christmas party seen as "the biggest in the world outside of South Africa", is so far only causing mild disease, with Norway's state epidemiologist expressing hope it might mark the beginning of the end for the pandemic ... They have symptoms like fever, cough, headache, muscle pain, fatigue, but for now, none of them has become severely ill, and none of them have been treated in hospital ... one of his agency's three scenarios for omicron was that it would be both very mild and very transmissible. "That is the hope. That is the best scenario we can have," he said. "That it's getting minder, most people will get it, and they will get a natural immunity."

Dec 16, https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/omicron-dominant...

> wastewater samples show that the new omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the Florida county that is home to the nation's largest theme park resorts ... It's a different story when it comes to people seeking treatment for COVID-19, officials said. “Those who are hospitalized are being primarily infected by the Delta variant,” Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said Wednesday.
The fact that they don't want to spend the time and money to conform to the EU's bureaucratic "privacy theatre" is not evidence that they're actually violating anyone's privacy rights.
Regarding quality, what version of Bluetooth did the chip on your windows machine supported and what features? This can be the answer, it usually switches profile when using mic to compensate for latency that gives you shitty audio quad liturgy but it's much better with newer Bluetooth versions in my opinion.
Obligatory: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
Response from the student: https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/ri95tp/in_response_...
Was it Oscar Wilde:

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
>>>I've also heard this bullshit before from older generations, including my parents.

Mark those words my friend...There is truth in them and one day not too long from now that same BS will be coming out of your mouth, I guarantee it!

On a side note, put some of your savings into physical precious metals it may very well be the only thing that will allow You to prosper in the next decade.
It gets worse. Amazon mixes products from different third party vendors in its marketplace for the same product listing. So even if you find a listing for a brand item with clean reviews which actually pertain to the item in question, you could still very well end up with a cheap low quality knock off when you order it.
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I like this approach to explain some of antivax as well. Essentially big pharma has just finished up a massive campaign that was the opioid pandemic. Essentially there’s going to be a large correlation between people with jobs that get them injured and targeted for opioid use, and those people being right. Opioid addiction that comes from that targeting isn’t just a single victim thing, someone addicted to something as hard as opioids is going to affect entire families and likely extended families. It’s going to essentially feel like a massive economic and spiritual attack to the family, by pharmaceutical companies (after all the news that came out of that social pandemic). So it makes sense that the seeds for not trusting the medical system are there and in insanely rich fertilizer to grow by even groups previously seen as insane like antivax groups (seriously both sides of the isle used to mock those groups). The worst part is that the people taking a drink of that koolaid, are able to literally take their life experience and draw a completely sane line from A to B that Big Pharma shouldn’t be trusted.
Definitely.

My point is that if/when you get to need a SOC2 certification, you put the resources towards this, and you definitely have the financial/org means to procure hardware to suppliers if required.