skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a lower frequency, this similar to why I'm not interested in tourism as "self-discovery", "new experience", or some shit, like the rest of the world is just stage and props for my existential theatre. I'm not gonna change as a human unless I actually move there to live permanently. Even worse, the middle-class trend to make the number of distinct places you've visited some form of social currency ("how many stamps are in your passport?").

I remember this sales guy who always made it a point to tell every woman he talked to that he did Peace Corps in Africa and how it changed him working with Africans. Like, you could've just volunteered somewhere on the south side of the city if you really wanted to help some African folk.
"God bless Amer...er, the Earth"
> seemingly the bible (or similar religious textbook)

You seem to be going out of your way to demonstrate your atheistic bonafides by expressing an affected ignorance of some of the most important texts in human history. Understand that these can be read as metaphors and many people find pleasure in the words and sentiments even if they don’t accept their literal truth.
That's assuming we want to tackle this "optimization problem"... people under capitalism may be more interested in escaping from the over-optimization of everything.
If you have a command with lots of arguments, parent’s approach makes a lot of sense. 20 arguments that you can copy out of the shell into your program. And when you want to make changes and test via the shell, your copy and paste is also easy.

I’ve seen bugs where some forgot to add quotes and commas to split some arguments and the program did the wrong thing. Parent’s approach avoids that. However, things like spaces in quoted strings are not correctly handled.
Don't let it get to you. If you're critical of something, someone will always downvote.

On the other hand this behavior means that the default value will only get computed once, so I guess Guido thought it's useful if that value comes e.g. from an expensive function.

On the other other hand you could achieve that latter behavior with a lazy function even if the arguments were reevaluated every time you call the function.

What do others like Common Lisp and Ruby do here?
I am a Canadian citizen.

I am so concerned about privacy that I don't have any account in any Facebook related company and switched of all gathering of personal information on Google.

But I approve this because it is anonymized and aggregated and complies with all the privacy regulations we already have.

This title is just libertarian fear-mongering, like almost everything the National Post publishes.
Vinyl starts as a poor material for recording music and only gets worse with age and use. Take a picture if it on old film and develop it with old techniques, and you end up with the worst possible recording medium. I'm impressed they got anything from it.
yes, you are not alone man... me too, still had family but no friends, but it's okay :)
See, that might be cultural background or whatnot, I don't know, but some people find those cartoons to be a nice touch, and they admire the clarity of exposition of The TeXbook.

I'm the proud owner of the entire 6 vol Computers and Typesetting series (of which the former title is vol A), and have worked through sizable portions of those. I also read mot of the 680 pages of Knuth's Digital Typography monograph. I also owned one LaTeX book at some point. I admire the depth of Knuth's knowledge (typographic and otherwise), the sheer diligence, his quest for quality, all of that. Those lion doodles though, the author's urge to land another witty remark, come up with another finely crafted reference, and how he's prone to hint at stuff instead of writing a proper documentation are not aspects of his work that I enjoy.
I went through a breakup this year, which was (objectively looking) not too bad, because we managed to end on good terms, but left me personally very very sad and full of regrets.
I'm also going through therapy right now, and these two things combined made me realise that I'm completely unprepared for being alone and that I very much resent it and think of being alone as a failure.

And while in general I think that it's great and fulfilling to have good relationships with people, in my specific case I think I was similar to you - I have completely linked my personal happiness to being with someone and I paid too much attention to approval from other people. So I think I can partially relate.

Right now I'm trying to find what I actually want from life and learn how to be alone and at peace. And I agree that hiking or simply wandering around the city alone is a great meditative experience that brings me some joy at least.

I just wanted to say that I believe that with time it gets better, and trying to dig up from the lowest points of our lives is a big and rewarding challenge to have.
I wish you peace and love; sending virtual hugs.
You are not alone.
I kinda do it. You get used to the feeling of living in a bubble (but if you are earning a software engineer salary, you are already probably living in a bubble)
This is an item that looks easy, but lots of people get wrong. Which is why a ton of languages now build it into their standard libraries…
This makes a 92% success rate... I'm not sure I would cross a road if I had that much chance to be hit by a car :-)
The people listed in the study are all female and have also been involved in the application-oriented https://prototypefund.de .

The language used and the fact that the same persons are involved in two government funded funds strongly suggests that this is a diversity initiative in disguise.

The more I see of open source foundations and funds, the more I think that in many cases the prime beneficiaries are the organizers (though I don't have proof in this case and will not claim it).
Well we don’t know what the support is truly like inside China. But I think it’s safe to assume that there are a lot of people inside china who unfortunately do not have the luxury of being able to move their family overseas.
To give a metaphor, I think it is perfectly reasonable to criticise my project lead when she criticises me for not meeting my targets but turns up hungover and spends the whole day on Facebook.

I am criticising her because I want her to be effective at her job. Not because I disagree with her about our team's laziness.
But it should be regulated by a committee of people with no excellent open source histories?
It's not unique to Germany. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
No news about Ractors! The new concurrency facilities that Ruby 3.0 introduced. Anyone has an insight if there was any further development on that front?
If there is a nontrivial file size or quality difference between those two settings, sure. If not, it's probably not worth it :)
Our kids are more adept at using Alexa:

they use it to play songs, our 6 year old uses it to spell words when she is writing cards, they use it to hear animal sounds, tell stories, talk between rooms when friends are over,etc.

Adults just use it for weather and timers…
On the contrary it’s a fabulous comment.
Watch repair, maybe transitioning into actual watch making.

Locksmithing.

Non-CNC Machining.
haha, reminded me of one of the best scenes(IMHO) of BBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38x6kWB-xD4&ab_channel=JoshG
There's not really just one experience of ADHD, so you're right in disagreeing with the parent, but wrong to claim it's not like that and instead matches your own list.
it feels like its getting worse

and its all my fault!!!
Being generally conservative (and especially in business) would be the main reason. Cannot go wrong with the government after all, right?

Second reason may be strong lobbying from legacy IT concerns. They usually get government contracts and are usually viable for support from such funds.
Thank you. I just want to add that there's nothing wrong about being alone. You can be happy, and you can have an interesting life, without having to be always in company of other people.
You know the end is near when ideas of proper morality flow from a government to its citizens, rather than the reverse.
> I do not understand the Noise protocol but couldn't an ISP or a government pretend to be man in the middle, between let us say a Signal user and its servers?

Signal messenger uses the Signal Protocol.

Like most every other end to end encrypted messaging scheme, Signal uses cryptographic signatures (or the equivalent in the case of Signal) to insure that you are talking to who you think you are talking to. You end up with a sort of identity number (a really long one). As long as you can insure that you have the right identity number for your correspondent you can be sure that you are connected to that correspondent directly with no interlopers. In person you can use something like a QR code to do this. Otherwise you can try comparing numbers over the phone.

There is a whole discussion of Signal "safety numbers" and how they relate to a MITM attack here:

* https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/28/202106-hey-signal-gr...

From that I get that in most cases it would be possible to MITM a Signal connection because most users are unable to figure out how to verify their safety numbers.
I doubt anyone values the documents that much. They are just another financial instrument now.
Yes, it has been in the works for a long time.

“Development began in 1996 for a launch that was initially planned for 2007”

“Construction was completed in late 2016, after which an extensive testing phase began”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

While it’s great that it’s finally up, we should re-evaluate why it takes such a long time to develop these projects.

The pace of innovation appears to have slowed greatly in recent decades.
The Chinese government disagrees with you as well.
> It was a civil war in its essence with two opposing groups of Vietnamese fighting for control of a fractured post-colonial state

It wasn't a civil war, not to begin with at least. The US installed a dictatorship in the South (the dictator they propped up was so bad they ended up greenlighting his removal and "accidental" assassination), with the promise of free elections. When predictions showed Ho Chi Minh would have won the elections in the South by a landslide, they simply cancelled the election.

That's not Vietnamese vs Vietnamese, it's Vietnamese vs colonial power.

In any colonial administration, people cozy with the colonial power will defend it and resent a change, of course.
If only the government had not intervened, via ARPA, to push packed switched networking and had allowed AT&T to keep doing what they did just imagine what the Internet would be today!
The mess we're in, in terms of software security and reliability, when it comes to the infrastructure that runs our world is a textbook case-study on how a free market with profit incentives is neither an efficient nor effective driver of an economic system.
The drive for unsustainably externalised costs in both resource and labour exploitation, colloquially known as "pay peanuts, get monkeys", creates brittle systems with short term returns.

The whole idea of infinite returns in the limit due to steady return from a one time investment is just a different spin on a perpetuum mobile. Entropy incurs a regular cost, be it supply chains, tools, workers, or software.
For further reference, here's the only part in the entire New Testament referencing the old testament's Psalms 19 (which NASA's Bill Nelson referenced here), more specifically Psalms 19:4. And that part is Roman's 10 (more specifically 10:16 to 10:21), given here in the Modern Literal Translation, which (mostly, not always) avoids fucking up the Ancient Greek:

http://www.modernliteralversion.org/bibles/MLV/Romans10.htm
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>Does it make it better to make our workers compete with people without rights, healthcare, holidays, sustainable pay?

Why are you dragging USA into this again?
I don't agree with much Trump did as president but damn if I didn't respect Jim Bridenstine so much more than this guy.
Stay strong. I don't know your circumstances, but it's never too late to forgive or to ask for forgiveness. It's never too late to accept or redeem yourself.

Merry Christmas, bro/sis.
It's a program with no blocking I/O, so if the eyes stop moving, you know you're looking at a certain kind of connectivity issue. If some more complicated app stops responding, the problem space of where to start troubleshooting is much larger.

If you miiiiight have a flaky network, leaving xeyes open in the corner can be a real headache-saver.
The reason "shelter in place" is recommended is that it's the smoke that kills. People naturally fear flames but you're more likely to pass out from toxic smoke and never wake up, without ever seeing actual flame. Several stairwells don't help unless they're completely isolated from each other, which is totally unfeasible.
That's the same problem as with all of the FBI terrorist entrapment. What if people have an honest desire to kill, but lack the intelligence, means, and/or motivation?

Do you give them ideas, pretend to give them the means, and encourage (or even nag/pressure) them? I mean, we do, but is that a good thing? Especially seeing as while we're doing it we're giving them ideas, we may accidentally give them the means (or at least an idea of how to find the means themselves), and in a time crunch to show results the pressure that we put on them to carry out the act may actually become threatening?

More applicable to this specific case, which is obviously why the guy is sensitive about it, is that people sending unsolicited requests to murder people to a site called rentahitman.com are very stupid. They're the least likely to be able to carry it out, although I acknowledge that's probably somewhat offset because they may also be too stupid to understand the probability or consequences of failing to get away with it.

The writer sees the same thing, which is why they gloss over the fact that he has put in effort to dress the site as a website where you order hitmen online, with splashes of satire to signal to people of normal intelligence and ability to detect sarcasm that it is a joke. It is never mentioned explicitly that he's dressing the site that way now until it's implicated by the discussion of the "jokes and clues to show it wasn't the real deal" halfway through the article.

Before I got to that, I thought he was a guy who had an innocent site marketing himself as a network contractor who would get sucked into the nefarious plans of stupid strangers because of his domain name. Afterwards, I decided that he's a guy who got sucked into one nefarious plan of one stupid stranger, got her busted, and loved being the center of attention and having his ego stroked by law enforcement. To get that feeling back, again and again, he turned his site into an phishing expedition for people stupid enough to think click-to-murder could be real. This is the same as Nigerian prince scams that intentionally use bad grammar and spelling to limit the replies to suckers. It's a confidence scam filtering the crowd down to the marks.

The moral hazard I see is that if you sold the site convincingly, in a way that could trick people of closer to normal intelligence, that might result in danger for you. Somebody normal tricked into prison by this might send a real hit man after you (or maybe a lawyer.) So instead, he focuses on people like the moron he started with, who don't scare him at all. If they don't scare him, are they really scary?
Curiously enough, the accusation of "whataboutism" itself is more often than not an attempt to redirect the discussion away from facts inconvenient to the accuser.
Whatever comes after X11 will also go away, probably before X11 has actually gone away.
This is mostly because they don't know how to register foreign passports. If you show them how to do it and present your passport, it is not an issue.

https://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/china-stuff/china-travel/for...

So many foreigners/laowai spread the same misinformation. You can stay, if you have sufficient Chinese/Mandarin, you can explain the above and it works. If you have a good friend explain, it also works. Most say the same thing as you "kicked out" "not allowed" or "rascism".

Not true at all, - at some hotels where I stayed I was really the first foreigner to ever pass through. (I wasn't staying in typical Shanghai places for example, more north and more west.)

Not an issue at all, explained, showed, registered, done.
It's not even the same category anymore.

For the price of the smallest dedicated CPU Linode, I get a 64GB AMD Epyc 16 core server from Hetzner.

So Linode is roughly 16x more expensive.

That said, I rent a lot from Hetzner so I get special pricing. But also aside from the price, all of my servers are in their own cage with biometric access check plus I have private dedicated 1GBit LAN between my nodes. And their uptime was better than our Amazon AWS and Heroku instances...
The NASA administrator is a political appointee, so they will be as religious as the president wants (or allows) them to be. Positions like these are sometimes given as reward for loyal party members who supported the president’s election campaign rather than the most qualified candidate.

However, Bill Nelson is an astronaut so he probably is the most qualified (politician) for the job. I’m sure he works hard to get NASA the funding it needs regardless of his personal beliefs (and it would be illegal to make atheism a job requirement). Aside from awkward speech giving I think most people are optimistic about how he’ll do as administrator.
Funding basic infrastructure as open source is a great idea. And the only way to keep a market economy going. Otherwise the infrastructure is used increasingly to lock out small competitors.

However, I see a distinct lack of “geeks” in this initiative. Instead a lot of pol-sci majors that want to “manage” / claim developments they themselves would not have the skills to build.
I'm active on some support groups, so I do see plenty of different experiences. Maybe you would see it as different amounts of each thing or interplay with things like depression and ASD, but that does amount to significant differences in day to day life. Also, different things are noticed or believed less or more based on how much life is pushing against those things.
I don't know where did you get all this. There is not much "strategy" you imagined.

A censor find something matching a keyword, and he gets CNY 0.5. That's the whole story to it.
People can be "alone" but not feel "lonely".
But you can definitely still feel "lonely" both while being alone and around others

I think this post addresses the feeling of loneliness rather than any specific alone/not alone situation. And feelings are really hard to get rid of, so it's not actually that easy to just "not feel" something.

Feelings like this should be analysed, understood and maybe slowly accepted as part of life, and then people usually can find some kind of peace and happiness.
It's developed at Shopify, where every developer in the company was handed a new M1 this month.

I presume it will support ARM based chips pretty quickly.
You aren’t nobody! Randos on Hacker News love you!
I'm also a fan of using Kanban for most corporate line-of-business development.

In almost every Scrum team I've worked with, they get close to the end of the iteration and start doing bad things - just to fit their interpretation of Scrum.

At the end of the iteration, they have a unfinished tasks and one of two things happens.

The ScrumMaster/Product Owner/Manager starts berating them for "not being committed to completing tasks within the scrum" (regardless of the fact the task will take as long as it takes, and same SM/PO/Manager has been ignoring the problems mentioned in the daily stand-up).

Or, they mark that task as "complete", but make a new story for the remaining testing/bug fix/additional requirements work. They eventually have to deal with the fact their burndown chart is almost flat, since they're creating a half point of work for every point they close.

They also have people who complete their tasks early, but don't want to bring in another story,
because that's "a violation of Scrum". Or they're worried about not being able to complete it by the end of the iteration and going through the previously-mentioned problem.

And no amount of bringing this up in retrospectives will change anything. In the scientific method, if your hypothesis fails in reality, you reject the hypothesis and search for another. In IT project management, when your process fails in reality, most people apparently prefer to reject reality.

Just admit you're doing Kanban and stop causing the problems created by arbitrary deadlines created by your iterations.
Only if there is no other common language, otherwise they will all speak English when they realize they know it anyway. (Or perhaps Japanese in your example )
No they don't. But they are able to classify the encrypted traffic (e.g. if it's used as VPN)
You missed the part where the USA killed off most of the native population of its western side and drove them off their lands, yes. Different times, but maybe that's just the thing to do to get to superpower status and China's just catching up.
Precisely. I'd like the scientific community to begin treating their declarations with the respectful humility science needs. Too often have i been reading headlines such as "The Universe is growing faster than it should" or "How science tells us the Pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated". .

. .or other such pop science cult rubbish. We do NOT know everything, we merely have "best fit" theories that are taught with the disclaimer that these work under specific conditions that we've observed and we have no way of gaming out all the trillions and trillions of possible outcomes in the real world. Trusting the common man with that level of transparency and then making humble "recommendations" seems a far better approach.

Should we need to ram through a scientific conclusion, lets do so without making obviously uncertain statements such as "The pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated" since that presumes a LOT.
Ah interesting. I have heard that London has a strong and somewhat unique pub culture. I'm not sure how much this applies elsewhere.

Re. the rest though, maybe it's a "you get what you put in" thing to an extent, I think somewhat that's just how outgoing someone is (which I don't think is the same as how much they value/need connection). But I think a lot of this is very cultural too.
There are also those who have lost many loved ones...

For those, Christmas is a mix of happiness and sadness. Happiness if there is someone left with who to share our life with, sadness for missing those who left...

You're not alone either!
I'm missing type annotations but I think it's aa cool cheat sheet.

These thing are useful for me who uses python every couple of months. Not often enough to remember it, so I need some reference to refresh my memory.
That syntax is interpreted by the shell. It means nothing to mkdir() (an OS-level API) or fopen() (a C library call).
Their "remote hands" service will buy you hardware repairs within the hour. Plus most servers have hardware raid and hotplug HDDs. So I've launched some customers without any backups because they deemed up to 1 hour of occasional downtime fully acceptable.
Decentralized web advancements will continue to punch holes.
The US propped up a dictatorship in the South and canceled free elections because they knew Ho Chi Minh would win. This is a matter of recorded fact, not a conspiracy theory.

They had also been supporting the French with materiel and even limited numbers of advisors during the First Indochina War.

There was a war of national liberation against a colonial power, and the US sided with the colonial power.
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