skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Africa’s geography isn’t likely to produce a super power so as to make the continent the “center of humanity’s future” at least in terms of the center of power. The lack of fertile farmland, lack of navigable rivers, lack of deep water ports, lack of self sustainable regional security, and general difficulty getting goods to markets is going to leave Africa seriously capital poor. That is, unless there is some technological development that turns off the geographic disadvantages.

If trends continue then it will exceed Asia as the most populous continent, but, due to the lack of capital it will also suffer a severe brain drain as regions with excess capital scoop up the best and the brightest to augment their falling or stagnant populations.
Going from a low GPA math degree to a 100k salary as a SWE in 3 months might be a bit ambitious. I have 1st class honours and 9 years experience. I'm not up to that yet. Admittedly I'm in a small city in New Zealand where they pay is not great.

That said you should be able to get into software engineering relatively easily.

I'd suggest reading Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Book by Scott H. Young.

It outlines a pattern for this kind of self education.

Try to work as much as you can with people in the industry. Internships are a great way to get contacts. Anything you can do to meet people in the industry will help.
It’s a fair interpretation. A representative’s job is to represent his constituents, not to pass bills on party lines written by oligarchs. The allocation of R/D senators doesn’t factor into this. “What is best for the people of West Virginia?” is the only question he should be considering.
Another pointless "replacement", that achieves what anyone with a basic knowledge of Unix and shell scripting can put together with couple of aliases and/or shell scripts. No thanks. Most of development today is basically about creating remakes/replacement of some totally perfect tool and trying to feed off of it's popularity. Developer creativity at an all time low.
As a developer your stack goes all the way down. An issue with a TCP 3 way handshake to your application load balancer is still an issue. An error in the filesystem that results in customer impact is still your responsibility. We can work with specialists but ultimately it is a team that owns their software running in production.

Many of the things you listed are well known, monitored, and tuned by software engineers operating their software. Especially connection pools and memory settings.
i did not know this! so what was more influential, adm3a or vt100?
In 2015 Razorpay pitched themselves as “Stripe for India.” Look at them now!
But isn't the spacetime of SR flat?
> Unfortunately unvaccinated people took off their masks and then Delta happened.

That's a CNNesque statement right there.
Any idea if your fingerprints are the same as before?
Without ActiveX support of course as that depended on Windows DLLs.

Not that that was a bad thing though. As mentioned it is a really bad idea to auto download code off some random website and execute it. Naive we all were back then...
> Forget Google etc. The truth is you will probably need to work 10 years at smaller places first to gain experience.

Well technically all you need is to grind on LeetCode for 6 months to prepare for an interview to get the position. The Google interview esp for a Jr/entry level position is firmly selecting for time spent preparing rather than any other factor (assuming you have a CS/Math/Engineering degree to pass the recruiter filter)
Oh I once had a driver from another service (GrubHub or UberEats, can't remember which) balance a pizza on top of a 1" wide metal railing.† But at least it was still warm.

It's the worst of all worlds. We entered a Faustian bargain to allow these corporations to usher in techno-libertarian dystopia, but instead of the Hiro Protagonist we were promised, we get an angry Walter White.

† Horizontally, not vertically, though really, who's counting?
0. Taking up yoga in 1995

1. Personal trainer and sport-specific coach (recurring)

2. Professional bike fit and really good cycling shoes (infrequent)

(a) Periodic lactate threshold and/or FTP testing (few times per year)

(b) TrainingPeaks/Trainerroad/Zwift/Strava subscriptions (recurring)

3. Wahoo KICKR smart trainer (non-recurring)

(a) Rollers for a very challenging workout (non-recurring)

4. Concept2 rowing machine (non-recurring)

5. Assorted kettle bells and dumbbells (non-recurring)

6. Fitted really good running shoes (infrequent for me)

7. Garmin running and cycling computers (infrequently upgraded)

8. Fitbit Charge 4 activity tracker
Nerd Fonts – Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher
We are talking about the relative evolutionary fitness of different variants, so until we have the ability to decide whether to avoid someone based on what variant they have (and may not be showing symptoms of), I don't see how behavioral response enters the picture.
It's a bit of conservative culture, and a bit the result of success. There is a lot of Java code out there, and a lot of it is quite old. Finding and replacing every single instance of log4j out there would be a lot of work, and before this incident of relatively low benefit to everyone involved.
https://archive.md/513WP
I’ve always thought “Chinaman” sounded like a superhero. If I lived in China and people called me “America Man” I’d be tempted to wear a cape.
That was WinFS in Longhorn, that became Vista. The filesystem as database thing wasn't in the 9x days AFAIK.

Still think it would have been a great idea. Of course it was being planned for Linux too as ReiserFS but then he went off killing his wife and that was the end of that.

Not sure why MS ever dropped the idea of WinFS. It has merit IMO.
Since June 2020, flu deaths have been in the single digits or teens most months, while covid deaths have been in the thousands or tens of thousands each month [0]. So covid is around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
Of course China doesn't want a sudden collapse of the global financial system, but China is actively dedollarizing. RCEP and Russia trade is aiming to be 0% USD and may already be there. Russia and India also just announced that their bilateral trade will be 0% USD.
Hindsight bias. Keep in mind that Log4j is older than most log aggregators by a solid decade. This is a solid reason to not use log4j going forward, but an ahistoric charge against it in the era when it was first written and adopted.

Most of us have log4j in our system because it's used by some various dependency of one type or another, and up until now it has generally just worked.
i imagine most market holdings follow power laws. or is the stock market different in this way because of more widespread pensions/retirement accounts?

either way, a $2T crypto market (i don't know where GP got $3T from: CoinMarketCap.com lists 2.2T) is substantially smaller than a $50T stock market. Governments can and have just straight up injected that demand equivalent in value to that $2T figure into markets in the past, so if we have a crash localized to crypto, it's not as though govts have no recourse.
In response to your request I have put a more detailed comment in this thread.
No I mean having empathy and being considerate, not physically caring. And if I did mean physical caring, again how does those with adverse events not then qualify for being an 'inconvenience' to those who have to care for them. Though I believe you are only referring to government/business actions that impact you rather than the inconvenience of personal care?

> Government policy to protect unvaccinated people.

Government policy !== health. Protecting them by punishing them so you can be 'free?' Odd. Do you not see at all how the vaccine is not in this case forming a health solution (otherwise considering the vaccine still spreads covid there'd be continued lockdowns for all anyway to protect everyone...) but controls for their own sake?

> Myself, obviously

So why do you care what decision others make about it? Direct your frustration at those making policy calls, not those used as justification.

> "But it's ok to limit the liberties of the drunk because 'risk?' Everyone can drive or no one can drive."

You're free to choose not to drink or to drink. To correct the analogy, how about we restrict those that like a drink from being able to drive at all because risk?

> This argument would make sense if curtailing the spread was the ultimate goal, but it's not

Funny, it was earlier this year. Amazing how the narrative changes over time and people just follow it along, with the usual 'oh but they're learning about it all the time and making the best decisions they can.' Which obviously highlights they're making bad decisions, but not now?

https://twitter.com/Sentinel2NO/status/1471886835152560130?s...

> Everything is a tradeoff. If you're vaccinated, you're less of a risk than if you aren't

a) you're not near 0 risk though and b) Not if you're under 40 years old with no comorbidities. Especially for those under 20, the vaccine risk (by nature of risk of being impacted == 1.0 by getting jabbed vs risk of actually contracting covid, let along having a serious reaction or spreading it) is not clearly behind the covid risk. Now we head into the logic gymnastics where we are vaccinating the young to protect others, who have been vaccinated and protected, leaving only the unvaccinated for the young to protect, except we don't care about them because 'they made their choice.' So why again are we vaccinating the young, considering vaccination doesn't prevent spread and the young are the lowest risk group by a large distance? Also remembering that earlier in the year the young already didn't readily catch or spread covid, so why now?
A related question I always had: how much does computational tools really help in the biochemistry as a whole given the tons of variables that we just can't even measure perfectly ? As a computer scientist I can see how rigid data structure algorithms are useful in dna sequencing but I'm not aware of how useful is a simulation of some metabolic pathway for example.
Why do you insist it's a global conspiracy? I certainly don't think so.
Probably going to cause some confusion with AWS Elastic Beanstalk,
>Reagan

This matters because Donald Regan was a guy who worked for Ronald Reagan.

>Deinstitutionalization was a bipartisan, national phenomenon driven in large parts by abuse scandals in institutions.

Not just scandals in the sense of individual acts, but changes in thinking about patient rights. For example, eugenic sterilization started as policy more than rogue abuse, and was still going on as late as the 1970s. I think the laws about institutionalizing people against their will were changed.

No doubt saving money was a factor, but lots of factors coincided, largely because people wanted to reform the system as society had changed.
I don't watch sensationalist cable news. What do you mean exactly by CNNesque?
just throw more cpu at the problem, this is not my idea btw so don't quote me

I learnt it from my colleagues, they are the engineers
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/scientists-mystified...
But a phone with a thickness that makes the camera flush should only give you more grip surface, I can only think of the scenario of trying to pick up a penny or dime from a counter where I need to use my finger nails the air gap would be slightly helpful.

> I never use the phone on the table anyway so it's no issue.

Just like when Apple never seemed to test how left handed people use phones, no issue to you isn't really the point.
Idk about the main network, but they do have a separate "Google-2g" network you can connect to that has degraded performance for testing purposes. Maybe they force people to use it when testing apps?
It is an abstraction that can save any users from having to think about shell scripts. This is incredibly valuable. We should not waste human time on writing and thinking about shell scripts, there are much bigger problems to solve.
That’s fair. I’m speaking as someone who has been in industry for 17 years now. Of course I can say things like that.
> Hopefully this speeds up the adoption of solar panels

Except the solar energy potential in Northern Europe is too low to be cost effective. Going big on solar isn’t going to lower prices.
I think "the west" is just as desperate for ways they can put this issue behind them and try to carry on with making money with China, which is what these responses are designed for.

China's clumsy manufactured responses obviously would have been good enough for the west in the past when "the deciders" were always in charge.

The problem is now with social media the issue has got away from the ruling class somewhat so it's taking some time to reign in these various celebrities and athletes and other influencers who have gone off-script and are perpetuating the problem for them (contrast this with the recent polished and professional responses from the NBA and their comfy relationship with genocide and slavery, with the complicity of the corporate media to sweep that little problem under the carpet -- no doubt the WTA are green with envy that their response has not been so good, it may not be a coincidence that Yao Ming has shown up here).

I mean the ruling class does not care about people over money. Not here, and not in China. Compare it to the many far more problematic things that happen everywhere, from Afghanistan to Assange to Xinjiang to Qatar. Certainly not one woman's sexual assault. Tara Reade got essentially the same treatment.

I have no doubt western corporations and governments and news/propaganda companies will continue to work together with the CCP with the usual back scratching and favors changing hands until the messaging is right and we can put this whole thing behind us.
I had an all-the-way through my palm cut that also went the full length top-to-bottom. There were various "dead/numb", "tingly", etc, parts for 16 years, that all sort of went away in the last year of that 16 and felt normal from then on.
It's not mutations that are the threat, it's mutated COVID-19.
Thank you! A pretty good exchange! Only a few real non-sequiturs, so I'll chalk that up as a win. This works offline, so nothing is going to the server. Everything is done in JavaScript and HTML within the browser, locally. And yet, I think it can actually yield useful insights and might help stimulate self-reflection, but that is just my experience. I am curious if others find it useful, especially knowing that all of the data is your own.
This is precisely the point. It works! Against parasites! That won't save your from COVID itself, but some people have looked at the statistical benefits across all populations and extrapolated from there to claim that it is a wunder-drug that eliminates any requirement for vaccination.
> Though honey bees are not, contrary to popular mythology, declining in numbers around the world, Varroa mites do thus cause serious trouble for apiarists, particularly in the West.

Is this true? First time I'm reading this (as opposed to the opposite, that honeybee populations are collapsing).
If the job is not otherwise very attractive, mentioning Rust may bring more applicants than would otherwise have bothered.
My view, on top of what my sibling comment said, is that even if joint damage was a risk ( and it shouldn't be because I'm doing strength training with weights under a certified coach to prevent stress from going to where it shouldn't be), I'd rather take that risk than be sedentary, fat, and at home all the time like I was before I started running. I found a community on top of an activity I like. I found that I have goals beyond just my career goals. I got into coooking and baking because nutrition is important for an athletic lifestyle.
Not exactly the tip, but I sliced a good 1/8" or so off my thumb print once with a table saw. I was very impressed that my thumbprint mostly grew back, except for some scar pattern in the middle.
If you insist: how about the Uyghur population decreasing instead of increasing? That would be a good indicator that a genocide is actually taking place.

Anyways, please don't dismiss my comment. What is Beijing's supposed motive here?
I had the same thought, he cherishes making you laugh and having a good and interactive experience. He has different jokes for every country.

When I received my Klein bottle, along came some papers from ACME with numbers and instructions. The delightful inside baseball cane when he had a field for "number of ingredients in Licor 43"!
You haven't known hell until you've been sent a video of someone scrolling through a log file.
Minor nit ..

Imposter syndrome is when you THINK/FEEL you don't know enough for a particular job role or situation.

What you describe seems to be small instances of ACTUALLY NOT KNOWING a small fact / nugget and needing to look it up (not really devastating but might reinforce one's imposter syndrome).

Feels slightly different?
Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? I just quickly checked the Wikipedia links and it says 29% of German forests are government owned. 19% corporate owned and 50% private owned. Assuming nowhere near every single person that owns private property with a forest on it is busy chopping it down, it is safe to assume these figures would be at least close to accurate.
But why are these even two separate libraries? Is it normal for different platforms to have different implementations of the standard library? I'd assumed that most of the library would have been written in Swift itself, which should theoretically make it be as platform-independent as Swift is.
During the pandemic, the CDC has been also been counting deaths with the flu [0]. So we do have an apples to apples comparison. And covid has been around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
Commented separately, but I had a sliced off thumb print come back. Good 1/8" off the face of my thumb.
I had not considered that selective breeding for less propolis producing bees may be a reason why traditionally managed colonies produce less propolis. It is an interesting thought experiment to ponder.

However, one thing that the article didn’t mention is that most managed hives, with removable frames, are made with wood that has been planed/sanded smooth on both sides. This makes everything uniform and easy to paint the outside of the boxes, but also limits where bees can/need to place propolis.

I have seen (can’t find sources at the moment) some beekeepers recommending roughing up the inside walls of the boxes - either with low grit sandpaper or a wire brush - so as to create a more ‘natural’ hive and thus induce the bees to coat the inside of the hive with propolis like they would do in a tree hollow.
Thanks for an amazing explanation that I feel can both reach someone who is not a parent through how it modifes the local maximum, but also verbalizes the feelings and "justification" for being a parent so well.
It really sounds like you don't know what would fulfill you, especially outside the context of a job. For me, that was a sign that I hadn't experienced or done enough different things to know what was missing from my life.

After my first startup job flamed out after going through several different roles and having similar feelings about feeling unfulfilled, I left, spent some of my savings _not_ working, and tried out tasks (some for myself, some for others; some paid, some not) in other fields that I thought I'd enjoy. When I hit on one, I pursued it as a career, at least briefly.

The end result wasn't me landing on my dream job, though over time I did apply and even get an offer for a couple, neither of which fully worked out either. What I learned was that a job in the definition of having a time when you come in and a time when you leave, a boss, a salary, benefits, none of that was fulfilling as a structure for my life.

Unfortunately, from where I'm born and live, and circumstances and consequences of my life, it's more difficult and expensive for me to live in a place where it's feasible ot escape that structure and survive. I make up for it by, unfortunately, working more — but by doing things I enjoy, for others, outside of that structure. I do those things on weekends or by taking PTO or even unpaid leaves to do it while retaining work that I don't love, but at least makes sure I can continue doing what I do if I get sick or need to support someone else.

I don't want to get into what that special fulfilling work is to me, because one thing I've learned about career advice is that each person's dream of labor is at some level nobody else's dream. And I want to emphasize that this is what worked FOR ME; some people ARE fulfilled by the structure, but not their tasks in it; some people aren't fulfilled by labor at all, and won't feel genuine fulfillment until they are no longer required to work. Even in my case, some people are fulfilled by freelance work where the structure is designed by you, others by entrepreneurship where your structure has to constantly adapt, others even by gig work some people consider to be too menial to justify any structure.

So for a "path more equilibrated and focused on happiness I should follow", to me at least, it's something that each person has to discover, and that it takes resources and privileges not everyone can afford. If you can, it also requires time and a willingness to be without a compass, a manager, or even any specific direction while you experience new things, meet new people, and learn about new opportunities and forms of creativity until you come across something that ignites that fulfillment in you.
Thanks! I would be really interested in knowing how Asahi Linux is not only benefiting the Linux ecosystem, but the broader FOSS ecosystem!
You aren't debating about language now. Someone that says no and cries, can't leave, is pressured by one of the most powerful guys in China... and eventually consents...That's sexual abuse right there. You're welcome to use a different name if you like, but it's abuse.
Work at a FAANG - received a specified number of unvested shares with my offer, and a fixed vesting schedule.
Yeah my problem has been fast search that just is wrong. Like even exact keyword searches.

I’m sure it’s something about my configurations but every time I mess around to figure it out it doesn’t work.

Generally my use of email is “look at stuff from right now” or “look at stuff from 6+ months ago”

(Here “wrong” means “does not find the email I am looking for”. Usually a failure mode of just not showing much of anything)
>I'm tired of learning.

Me too friend... It's also quite exhausting to see things change so much when the overall results and methods are mostly just ways of doing the same things that were done before (Since Ajax) and they're also becoming more complex than the methods used before to implement with no major added value and just an alternate set of unresolved issues to work around.

For new gigs, frequently get vague job descriptions which at the end of the day mean that I'm pretty much boing everything by myself and reporting to 3-4 useless managers that know buzz words, but don't know tech at all.

I've pretty much had enough, if we weren't stuck in a pandemic currently I'd be on a beach somewhere exotic, but at least I moved out of the expensive & stressful city work hustle.
The web site they were browsing in Mosaic is still online and pretty much the same as it was:

https://www.einet.net/dir944744/Television.htm
> Statistically speaking, if it happened on our planet, it can (and likely has or will) happen elsewhere. Given that there are approximately 700 quintillion planets

But numbers can go as low as they please, statistically speaking. It’s not like “1 in a billion” is the lowest possible probability. What if there are 700 quintillion planets and the probability of life evolving on a planet is 1 in 700 sextillion and we just got really lucky?