skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Skepticism is healthy, full on pessimism "everything is just a power grab" is extremely unhealthy

I agree but lets extend this same treatment not just to Westerners but to Eastern people too, otherwise it is just hypocrisy. I say this because the top comment on a previous post about Djokovic claims that his PCR test is genuine not because he was really positive with Covid, but because his family is influential with the Serbian government. This sort of prejudice and discrimination is plain disgusting
No, because the prohibition is on acquisition of the software. Though if you brought the software to do so with you you'd be in breach.

But it's worth noting that virtually every country in the world has a prohibition on acquiring software to bypass DRM. In the UK for example it's a criminal offense with potential jail time attached to import it (i.e. download it from a foreign server) or sell it.
Energy is a grid. As long as you have wind and FV, hydro is accumulating water for less windy/sunny moments. We tend to look at batteries as something that has to be physically linked (the wind mill must reverse a hydro or must store in a lithium battery), but it can be though as avoiding to release the water in the first place.

Viewing the different technologies on the grid as isolated competitors in which one must "win" over the others as if they were Walmart vs Costco is a mistake. E.g. nuclear providing 20-30% of the load is a must, but providing more than 60% is a drag. The trick is to get, slowly evolving, a good mix in the grid that is reasonably cheap and green (wind and solar) and reasonably stable (nuclear, hydro and gas). Too cheap and you get blackouts. Too stable and you get high prices and CO2.
But is that closer to math notation as claimed in this thread?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_of_a_function

"For example, the binary function f(x, y) = x + y has two arguments, x and y, in an ordered pair (x, y)."

So, function application to an ordered pair, i.e., a tuple, does not use double parentheses. Also, of course, currying in Python is atrocious.
https://youtu.be/mf0reiFb3ks

The Matrix had no kata that was anywhere near as good as this duel from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Like, Keanu Reeves studied Kung Fu. These actresses are king Fu, and the difference is huge.

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Matrix 2 had a weapons kata demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXGE0vuuaDo

Its not quite as good.
A ferret could become the first cloned mammal to help save an endangered species
I like this advice. Especially that we want to block problems as late as possible, whilst warning as early as possible (e.g. warning in an IDE, blocking with a commit hook).

I also agree with the linting approach, and do the same myself:

- Automatically enable as many high-confidence checks as we can (if we want low-confidence 'suggestions', they can be run manually)

- Make them block (eventually, e.g. via a commit hook or a failing test)

- Allow '# disable-foo' annotations (with accompanying comment) when needed (with code review judging whether it's an appropriate solution or not, just like anything else)
He's had covid twice, once in June 2020 and now in December 2021, a good example of immunity by infection not being worth much.
> Average College grads make more money over their lifetime, period.

And yet incomes have held stagnant through the entire rise of college attainment. That contradicts the notion that there is more money to be made.

Within a given population, those who are born more capable will earn more than those who are less capable. Those who are born more capable are able to go further in school and be more productive in the workplace for the same reasons. Someone born with a crippling disability that forced them to drop out of high school also struggles to find gainful employment for the same reasons.

However, over time, those in similar standing seem to end up making the same amount of money no matter what. If the existence of college and everything associated with it were to magically vanish, those born more capable would still earn more money over their lifetime than those born less capable.
> Electrified highways solve the issue for Trucks.

In principle sure[0], but the devil is in the details with anything like this. You could also solve the intermittency of PV with a planet scale HVDC grid, much cheaper than batteries, but doing so would need a long time just to mine the metal ores out of the ground (someone asked me to do the math, and I did, it’s hiding somewhere in my comment history).

[0] of course Tom Scott did a video about this, in some ways he is the vlogger equivalent of xkcd: https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg
Not as part of std but there are crates that do:

https://crates.io/crates/strfmt

https://crates.io/crates/runtime-fmt
You can switch to WindiCSS or Tailwind and use the optimized output. That is usually a lot shorter.

Tailwind actually has its own jit compiler for development since the old, full css was extremely long. Windi always creates small css as far as I remember.
I also wonder how many users they have.
You see, if the vaccine worked as originally advertised, people who are vaccinated should not contract covid. Therefor it does not work as originally advertised.

Now before everyone freaks out - we've changed the claim around what a vaccine does. It's no longer intended to prevent spreading covid or prevent contracting covid, it's just intended to reduce symptoms of covid. So if that's your definition of vaccine efficacy then I would agree her claims were false.
Depends on the head and ears. Personally I have no stress with the ear-loops, while the all-around things are impractical. (Though they are rare here) Why? Interferes with my ponytail, OFC!
> The roulette wheel is being spun with every injection.

Yes - as with any medication. But my point is, it's some times seen as being a roulette wheel with the vaccine but no one mentions the elephant in the room which is that the side effects are at worst much more common, and at best about equal, with infection. Basically if you don't get vaccinated, you are spinning a worse roulette wheel.

> The basis for these is even thinner, because especially since Omicron, the benefit/risk ratio is even worse. The risk has not changed, while the benefits just visibly decreased.

There are three levels of risk here. Individual risk, group risk (protecting people in a more vulnerable group, for example), and societal risk (preventing spread, or limiting the damage to publically funded healthcare by limiting your own risk). Now with omicron, the individual risk for a healthy 30 year old is obviously way down. The societal risk from the disease is very high due to infectivity (staff shortages etc), and the group risk is also rather high as the disease is still pretty bad for the oldest age group, especially without boosters.

But even so: vaccines aren't only about individual risk. And vaccine mandates aren't only acceptable when it's a net positive to the individual! On the contrary, when it's a net positive, they may not even be needed - people have incentive enough to get vaccinated anyway!

Mandating vaccines despite unclear individual benefit (and to be clear its STILL very much a solid benefit even for healthy recovered young people, but for the sake of argument) is no easy ethical problem. The answer to that has been different in different countries, or even within countries (e.g. some countries have had varying degrees of mandates for adult vaccine but not even approved it for healthy young chilren because the individual risk is too low).
Are you talking about Sony or Apple?
Consider that your risk of adverse reaction was higher than advertised: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...

(Depending on age/sex)
In my opinion that's a library problem, not a language problem. Creating code snippets at runtime by haphazardly concatenating strings is always going to be error-prone. Some SQL libraries use a builder pattern like, say:

let result = Query::select().field("id").from("sometable").exec()?;

I think that's superior to adding the concept of "sanitized" vs "unsanitized" string to the language, given that keeping track of this attribute robustly is going to be a pain IMO.
A little hack: if you know the C-style format string you want to use, use that. The build will fail, of course, but Rust will tell you what to use instead.
Steam's Linux investment is as much to reduce Microsoft's power over it as for its actual users.
A similar dynamic between Spain and France: Spain sells wind to France, France sells nuclear to Spain.
Somehow we went from obvious at first glance to .. trace a variable and you find the problem eventually?

Now the question is, how do you tell from the trace that the total is wrong? If you can write a function to check it in the debugger, you probably can -- with roughly the same effort -- write an assert() or (asserts) in the program where that variable is modified, and that'll ensure you'll be immediately notified the next time it goes wrong even before anyone notices let alone has time to dig out a debugger. I'd say the value of creating asserts is up there with unit tests.

You can object that actually the problem is in the complicated business logic and is already gone by when the assert fires and the wrong value is finally assigned/updated to the variable, but that same problem would come up in a debugger too. At one point your debugger notices that whoops it's gone wrong, but you don't know how exactly how you got there? Like I said in another thread here, things like rr can really change debugging (allowing you to rewind time, sort of) when they become available to your platform & language, but until then, I just don't find very compelling arguments why inspecting bad state in business logic would be so much faster in a debugger than with printfs. I find debuggers useful mainly for some niche things (ok, which NULL or freed pointer did I dereference and segfault on?).

Now if you have to make an argument about performance, go ahead, but that's kind of orthogonal and it goes both ways. Some programs run too damn slow under a debugger, sometimes you have to make a separate build with debugging info and different build options (again possibly with a massive performance impact) and figure out how to use all that in conjunction with the target system that only has a few dozen megabytes of spare RAM.. if running a debugger requires none of that but builds are slow for you, go for it.
Paul Nelson aka czm of quake 3 pro scene!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcbpIntnG8c
I like this idea and I've been doing it most of my career (I keep a work journal).

But... It is only half the equation.

If your manager isn't doing same, they suck at their job and you should leave.

Your manager should keep a file on every single one of their reports that details that report's accomplishments, fails, training, wants, likes, dislikes, etc. They get this info from talking to everyone - constantly.

When review time comes, there should be no surprises. If you walk into the room for you review (or call or whatever), and you don't have a strong idea what your rating is, your manager sucks and you should leave [0]. There should never be surprises during reviews. You should never have to remind them of your accomplishments - though you should be prepared to.

A manager's job is to manage. If they're not doing the above, they suck and they're not doing their job and you should leave.

[0] Or you suck and can't pick up on what their trying to tell you, but that's another rant.
Microsoft revises DirectX driver for Linux kernel
The quote resonated with me so well that I decided to read the article. It is telling that individual failures do not make _risk_ undesirable if it strengthens the community as a whole. OP is not communicating information but emotion which is _much_ harder task with language defined by the common denominator and for me as a reader, he is quite skilled at it.
This is what I thought as well. But looking at the latest ruling by the Copyright Office, I don't see one. Maybe I'm missing it?

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-10-28/pdf/2021-2...
This is an excellent article! However, I find the definition of phonemes very unsatisfying:

> Phonemes are not exactly the same thing as sounds, and they’re not exactly the same thing as letters. They are kind of like connecting categories that map letters to sounds … Phonemes are a way of saying, If you see a letter “r” is this situation, use Sound A for it. If you see “r” in this other situation, use a different Sound B for it. But Sound A and B are not fixed — they will vary depending on the specific dialect.

The problem is that this relies on letters, which is a problem because (a) many languages are unwritten, and (b) many other languages have weird irregular orthographies (e.g. English, French, Irish and Tibetan). Instead, in linguistics, the standard definition is that two sounds are different phonemes if they can be the only thing differentiating two words. For instance, in English, /p/ and /b/ are different phonemes, because we have pairs of words like pat and bat, which differ only in that one has /p/ and the other has /b/. By contrast, Mandarin has no such word pairs… but it does have the distinction between /p/ and /pʰ/ (where the latter has an extra puff of air, or ‘aspiration’), in words like /pa²/ ‘fall’ and /pʰa²/ ‘crawl’. But [p] and [pʰ] are not distinguished in English — we have a single phoneme /p/ which can be pronounced in either way, with no difference whatsoever.

(Of course, this definition can sometimes get difficult to apply. For instance, English has no minimal pairs between /h/ and /ŋ/ [the sound ending words like ‘sing’], because the one only occurs at the beginning of a syllable, and the other occurs only at the end. But by and large it works satisfactorily.)
>and there is the movies and tv windows app that can tone map to SDR if you download the Dolby experience app

There is? I searched around and couldn't find it. As for tonemapping on open source players, there's madvr, but it's imperfect compared to the official SDR release.
For sure not trivial with php
> I think the number of developers who would not have insecurely built a SQL string from user input but for the language adding format strings is approximately zero.

I'm not saying that format strings necessarily make injection vulnerabilities more common, but rather that, when added nowadays, they should be designed in a way that makes such vulnerabilities less common. If you're adding a feature that makes a potentially dangerous operation more convenient, you should also make it safer so that the convenience will help pull developers toward the safe option.
The music is fantastic!
We just disagree
I had a similar experience, and I had a passport to prove my UK citizenship. It's a giant knot where everything relies on something else and you need to keep at it until one thing let's you in. It felt impossible and I feel like I had the best case scenario; I can't imagine how people without a support network can do it.
Nuclear plants take decades to build and require a good power grid to distribute power to remote regions. Even longer if you want one of the safer types like Thorium, since you also need to wait for someone to work out how to build and run them at scale. This is kind of important if you are interested in making money now, rather than that getting money from investors in exchange for the promise of profits in 20 years time. Oh, and a lot of people also think climate change should be tackled now rather than in a decade or two.

Solar and wind you can start building straight away and can build small local plants that don't rely on long distance links of sufficient quality and reliability.

Hydrogen is trickier since you still need solar or wind and a production facility to make it and logistics to distribute it. Hydrogen seems a side show at the moment, since lots of people seem interested in generating Green hydrogen it but I don't see anyone actually wanting to make use of it. Maybe it is a good way of getting governments to kick in money.
That's my take for the UK. This is not legal advice. It seems the tech is fine as circumvention for accessibility is allowed (eg under three Marrakesh Treaty); most users probably aren't doing it for accessibility.
IMO, GNS would benefit from a blockchain to store the root zone. Currently, It is managed by a non-profit. You can add your own TLD but good luck enabling everyone to resolve it without GNUnet e.V's say-so.
The problem is making a blockchain that's private enough.
What do you mean by TPOP?
I would say in large part it's because theft is acceptable in a lot of places. When people rob high end retail in CA, or when places decriminalize retail theft under $999. Sometimes people steal out of necessity, most times they steal out of convenience.

Having a strong culture that treats theft as a shameful act and caring for others is what breeds the culture you describe.
On that point I'd agree. Death from adverse reactions to the vaccine are well below natural rates of death from covid itself, which in my mind should be the key metric.
If I'm not complete misunderstanding the article the launcher-only downloads only apply to Humble Trove, which isn't explicitly purchased. It's still really bad, and doesn't make any sense as a business decision, but from what I can tell this would not affect your access to purchased games.
It varies quite a bit, I see a lot of banding in various scenes on my TV with 20GB WEB-DLs compared to an actual 4K BR rip.
You are, the DMCA tasked the Library of Congress with approving exceptions to the anti-circumvention provision. Here's the list of when it's acceptable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
The letter R in Portuguese can range from a strong sound to voiceless. It all depends on where the r appears in the word, the context in the phrase, and the dialect used.
Jack Dorsey: Block is officially building an 'open Bitcoin mining system'
Could she be the performer with the longest (musical) career in human history so far, 93 years if she started at 4?
“Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years”
I don't think that I have ever seen a single ad for Grammarly on Youtube. Well, Google proably knows that I don't live in an English speaking country.

I do see Grammarly ads if I search things like "practice or practise" because I write English every work day.

Well, I use Firefox account containers and auto cookie delete everywhere. So Youtube knows little about me writing English.

Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others.

Despite that, even in the search bubbles containing Grammarly I doubt closing an account with 3 videos will do any significant PR damage to anyone.

So what where the videos about? Grammarly storing everything the user writes??? Selling it to others???
This only means there's a great body of people quite happy to exercise ultraviolence towards their fellow citizens and give them horrorshow tolchoks to their gullivers, which is my point exactly.
It is because it cannot be monetised that we have mass advertisements. Some websites would be viable economically without advertising if they could seaminglessly charge a modest amount to customers.
Isn’t the risk of myocarditis an order of magnitude or two higher when contracting the virus?

Isn’t it then a matter of 12.6 in a million with the vaccine or 126 in a million when getting the virus?
That's why there's Whatsapp etc.

It'd effectively be made use of by building trusted circle (group) communication community

IMHO group there not only limited to same kind/kinship of people, it can be group of an interest (even for quite short time)
Yes. So the loophole is that if a company can plausibly claim that they didn't know any personal data was taken (for instance: by not having logs, which in practice leads quite often to 'hmmm, what if we no longer had logs') that they can pretend it didn't happen. Which of course is super dumb because if in due course it turns out that personal data was taken and that evidence was removed then you are really in trouble.

Which is why I'm arguing for reporting any breach, not with a threshold of type or quantity of data stolen. If you had a breach and you believe that no data was taken you should still be required to report it and if it turns out that you have made evidence of a breach disappear that should automatically trigger the worst penalties under the law.
No, it really isn't. It is the very minimum of what a good manager should be doing.

A good manager once drilled all this into me.
Pay isn’t about “worth” or “value,” it’s about the labor market.

Very few of us are paid based on a value calculation. We’re pod based on what the market values our labor and then we either fit or don’t fit into a business model that has some value.

So you’re right, but the reason we don’t get 40% raises after a year is because we can’t quit and get a 40% raise to go elsewhere. We know this and our employers know this.

Now if the market for programmers were 40% higher then we would just get that to start.

Basically employers are overpaying us that first year while we learn stuff because we come up to speed after a while and then finally “earn” our salary.
Can anyone cite law and/or caselaw on that?
I can interpolate. It has dropped with about 2 million students in 6 years, that is 3 millions per year. There are currently (according to the article) 14.4 million undergraduates to it will reach 0 in about 43.2 years.

Zero undergraduates in 2065. You heard it here first! /j
Very interesting article, however from Portuguese point of view, it left out plenty of dialects, not only it is somehow diverse across the mainland and islands, the african versions are also not one per country rather it also varies per region and the local criolo influences.

However the author does acknowledge that his knowledge is focused on Brasil, so there is that.
I get that Meta/FB is the company/service everyone loves to hate these days, but come on, hate it for the right reason: the product sucks and makes you a worse human being. It's like a drug.

Suing them for a small fraction of their profits based on fashionable but flimsy legal theories is boring, and the outcome is always the same.

Designating social media as a Controlled Substance would be insane, but it'd at least be apropos.
"Average College grads make more money over their lifetime, period."

Your "period" makes me think about more questions, not less.

1) Will that still hold in 2070? Kids who are now 18 are likely to be working at least until then. How do the developments over time look like? Won't the increasing shortage of tradespeople drive up their compensation?

2) How does a finer division by majors look like? I would be surprised if every major out there made more money than, say, an electrician.

3) Lifetime is a very long timespan. College grads are deeply in their debt in their 20s and 30s, so they can afford starting a family less. They will be better off when they are 50, but in the meantime they possibly sacrificed a an unborn kid or two to their tuition debt. This is a nasty tradeoff.
I don't think reading would ruin and I'm glad others are having fun with solvers. I just really enjoy putting in a random five letter word I've read or seen in the last few days and going from there. So far, I've not lost a single game and that's good enough for me!
I sure hope not. BDrips, especially if done properly by a good scenegroup have an unparalleled bitrate.

Unless streaming sites up their game, we'll see a drop in movie image quality everywhere except cinemas.