skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foundation's problem is not with "math visuals", but that it's amazingly bad. Cliffhangers so dumb that made me vow never to pay for that show. Plotlines so weak I was wishing they'd just show more of the bland visuals in quiet. Pacing so fucked Asimov is going to rise up and bitchslap them.

(Of course in the books there is some mention of how the math looked. Just a fuckton of equations on a wall :D)
Arabic crossword puzzles work just fine
I think engineering is an attitude.

Disclosure: I'm not an engineer, but a scientist working among engineers.

Historically, we got away with letting engineering be defined by the curricula and credentialing of the traditional engineering disciplines such as civil, electrical, and so forth. And by the cultures of companies that did engineering well. It was hard enough, and took long enough, that a shared culture tended to rub off on people without needing to define it.

One tradition was that an "engineer" was qualified to approve a design, with some authority and responsibility for the outcome.

Partly as a way to increase the number of engineers in the mid 20th century, engineering adopted an "engineering handbook" approach, where engineers learned how to choose and apply standard formulas for solving specific kinds of problems, such as sizing pipes, wiring, and so forth. More recently, this is being gradually replaced by the use of high level software tools such as electrical and mechanical modeling. Engineers are reluctant to let testing alone be a criterion for approval of a design.

Software is too new to have such a history, and admits of a much wider variety of entry routes. It may be too early to know what software engineering consists of.
You're gonna break the internet! Infinite loops are bad.
That's missing context. It's true if the nonce is predictable.
Michael Ryan Clarkson's from Cornell (CS 3110 Data Structures and Functional Programming) [0] is publicly available, really great, short videos format.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLre5AT9JnKShBOPeuiD9b...
I though Quik Trip...
Any NATO member can veto the accession of a new member.
That’s fair for America, as it’s both the local hegemon and a long way away from any near peer power that’s not English speaking. Our weight means that everyone in the neighborhood bends to us, for better or for worse. If someone from Mexico wants to come to America or do business with Americans, chances are they’ll learn English rather than expecting the converse to happen.

America is also huge in the way that few countries are. This means that you can trivially go your entire life enjoying vacations without leaving the country. Nobody in the EU has that luxury.

The UK though is not the local hegemon. They’re peers and close trading partners with several non English speaking countries, many of which are extremely close physically too. The UK is not politically and economically powerful enough to expect all the other European countries to learn English in order to do business with them.
Discord is too associated with gamer culture which is fairly rancid.
yeah that makes sense actually.
As I see it, GCP has successfully become a peer competitor to AWS and Azure (which I was, to be honest, uncertain they could pull off), while, conversely, Workspace is a truly painful experience compared to almost every alternative -- and I'm including Sharepoint in that. It's horribly disjointed, and they've changed chat and conferencing solutions so many times that it's virtually impossible to figure out how to make their own hardware work with their own services. O365 has its issues, but it hangs together as a single product far more successfully than the farrago Google is pushing.
Following Severance (which will be out in February) Apple TV+ will also release an eight episode series called "WeCrashed" based upon the WeWork saga in March [1].

And if you haven't seen it, there is also Mythic Quest (seasons 1 and 2) that is an Apple TV+ comedy series based in the offices of a game studio.

Also don't forget The Morning Show which is an Apple TV+ drama based in the offices of a fictional breakfast TV show.

So no matter what type of dysfunctional workplace you may enjoy, Apple will have you covered.

[1] https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2022/01/academy-award-winne...
Categories are made up and don’t exist at the end of the day. Even the difference between marketer and engineer can be fuzzy.
Point is, mafia can't think long term, let alone care about population. All it can think of is self profit and grabbing anything it can get hold of. It can't produce, it can only steal from others. It leaves desert after there is nothing more to steal.

So this isn't about political science. It's about psychology of a common criminal. That's Putin's level of thinking. Even if some there could think differently, he basically wiped out any kind of alternative ways of doing things in practice.
I have the exact opposite experience. I can't think of anything I got more sick of than every freaking method in every rails project having `params = {}` where you have no idea what keys are required or expected or ignored. Easily 90% of these should have been named structures instead of these arbitrary data grab bags.
That same logic holds for the fastmail vanity email aliases, too, in that it's just an API integration; does your v7+cloud have that integration, too?
I had this revelation a few years ago and built https://legiblenews.com/. There’s no “breaking news”, no images. It’s just boring black text on a white background that’s updated once per day and links to encyclopedia articles for context. More of the “why” at https://legiblenews.com/about.

It’s just insane to me that I had to build this in the first place.
Thanks for the extra links.
Corkscrew Development: Trading Code Quality and Speed
Mikhail Gorbachev's purported view[1] on the matter, according to Russia Beyond[2]. Emphasis mine:

> Interviewer: One of the key issues that has arisen in connection with the events in Ukraine is NATO expansion into the East. Do you get the feeling that your Western partners lied to you when they were developing their future plans in Eastern Europe? Why didn’t you insist that the promises made to you – particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East – be legally encoded? I will quote Baker: “NATO will not move one inch further east.”

> M.G.: The topic of “NATO expansion” was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn’t bring it up, either. Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces from the alliance would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement, mentioned in your question, was made in that context. Kohl and [German Vice Chancellor Hans-Dietrich] Genscher talked about it.

> Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled. The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been observed all these years. So don’t portray Gorbachev and the then-Soviet authorities as naïve people who were wrapped around the West’s finger. If there was naïveté, it was later, when the issue arose. Russia at first did not object.

> The decision for the U.S. and its allies to expand NATO into the east was decisively made in 1993. I called this a big mistake from the very beginning. It was definitely a violation of the spirit of the statements and assurances made to us in 1990. With regards to Germany, they were legally enshrined and are being observed.

[1]: https://www.rbth.com/international/2014/10/16/mikhail_gorbac...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_Beyond
Adam Scott is looking very much like Tig Notaro.
This is all cool, but I suspect people got the joke. English is a distressingly flexible language.
https://archive.is/jN515
It’s true, but an eating disorder doesn’t mean eating scantly, or even throwing up after every time you eat if that’s a choice you make. Eating disorders are compulsions, and those that suffer from them aren’t able to choose not to do them. This is similar to how alcoholism doesn’t mean drinking a lot. Alcoholism is a complete dependence on alcohol, making it nearly impossible to stop.
Basically, on any ordinary HTTPS site, every browser can allow you to proceed despite a certificate error. Such as knowing the certificate is expired or revoked or not from a known CA or something.

HSTS by specification prohibits browsers from offering that option. So I can know a server is serving valid, authentic traffic via HTTPS, be aware of why the certificate has an issue, and HSTS requires that my browser prohibit me from connecting to the server.
I thought I wad reading myself. I just left legal sector and wp12 is indeed a vestigial tail from 90s setups. That wouldn't be much of a problem but since every app and process designed since tried to migrate to newer word processor format, they also have a bunch of .odt documents, and higher-up have ms office licenses so .doc and .docx are also in the mix. I've seen people explaining to me that their 'job' was to realign borked bullet lists between format conversion because every employee only has one kind of word processor.
What group can I donate to that's better focused on climate action?
I don't know how much cost and parts (especially what in shortage) reduced by reducing PCIe lanes to x4, but it's acceptable if it's reasonable. Adding unnecessary cooling component definitely adds cost and parts, it's totally not reasonable.
That's a really good piece of pseudo philosophy: a soup of really good insights generously peppered with ignorance. It's worth reading for those good bits.

> many smart people have mistaken their own unearned gift for some kind of moral virtue

The root of this "genetical lottery" belief is the dogma that people are created at birth, like a big lego constructor. In the back of their mind, however, people secretly think otherwise; it shows when they say "if I was born in a rich family, I would..."
How is no one trusting the US defined as punishment?

Punishment is what Germany, Japan received. Stripped of their military power and made to pay hefty fines. Has the US ever paid any country reparations for their invasions of soveriegn states?
How about one where the office is located on a Superfund / toxic waste site [1]?

[1] https://truthout.org/articles/apple-employee-blows-whistle-o...
Grounded: First Flight Delay Due to Inclement Weather on Another World
Question: How do we reconcile "soy is poison" with the fact that some cultures include massive amounts of soy in their diet with little known detriment?

For instance, the Japanese seem to eat tons of the stuff in various forms all the time but they seem to lead healthy lives.

I don't have any skin in the game, just curious.
The point of gifted classes isn't to teach you better math. It's to separate the kids who are too nerdy to survive in the same class as normal ones or who behave too "gifted kid" all the time to keep a class on track.

If you want to be a tiger parent, do what the tiger parents do and send them to afterschool programs. (well that's what I think they do anyway.)
> Waiting a week for each episode was required by technological necessity in the days of broadcast TV, but on a streaming platform it just feels like the provider is giving me the finger.

Some viewers (and I suspect most creators) prefer a serialized release over season dumps, and there are definite pros to it from a social/conversational perspective.

Even Netflix is doing this to help create more interest for titles. For example, the 9 episodes of Arcane were released in three, 3-episode "acts".

On the bright side, you can still binge at season's end if you prefer that experience. You can even wait until the show has ended, since the time between season releases must seem especially cruel to you.
In my work, "differentials" makes some sense because I do a lot of thinking in terms of specific groupings, which I guess in that SO link would fit next to classes. I am talking about differences but in more of a logic-derived, mechanistic way compared to more usual ways of thinking about people. This helps to apply thinking that is a bit more hands-off, which is useful for the same reason that DATA was useful in ST:TNG, I guess you can say. (Not that it's super unique to think that way; certainly lots of people are capable of logically thinking themselves into gigantic problems, like Michael Larson and _Press Your Luck_)

I wish I could really do it all justice here but HN comments probably just aren't the place, anyway.
> The US Government has the right to print USD. The notion that they could someday be unable to pay USD-denominated debts is therefore obviously wrong.

That turns into a hyperinflation, though - where you print the money to pay the interest on the debt, but that creates more inflation, so interest rates go up, so you have to print more money, which creates more inflation...

The end of that process is often a total loss of confidence in the government. That in turn often leads to a change of the form of government - usually not for the better.
- A todo list

- journaling

- practicing smalltalk with strangers

- spending time in nature, preferably alone

- quietly sitting in a room with eyes closed for 15-20 mins everyday and introspecting and reflecting on Life, Universe and everything (not sure if that can be called proper meditation)

- a balanced diet and exercise

- Traveling whenever possible

- keeping in touch with family/friends and also not ignoring the people who you think are 'not-so-important'. You never know when they will be.

-exposing yourself to challenges. (work/physical/psychological/intellectual)
Why is that so? Mafia can hire good analysts and theorists, and try to formulate policies that lead to their long term survival.
Ditto, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is my favorite book.
Sounds cool but not used in any practical manner and I couldn't find anything about write and or read speeds.
I still have an old Exchange Friends & Family thing that a buddy working for MS set me up with ~14 years ago; I just pay for the domain and set up some DNS records at that time. I haven't really used it for anything, but checked now and it still works, though appears to be half-broken once you venture beyond email & calendar (presuming the SKU is long gone so they did a half-ass migration to something at some point).
He's one of my favorites as well.

The best description of his over arching theme that I've heard was: he explored the slippery nature of reality.

Sure, he explored technology, the future, dystopias, and a number of other things. But the one concept he seemed to continue to return to was the idea that you can never truly know what's actually going on.
there's a large class of people who have checked out of society and live in encampments while stealing to get by. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that this is because of capital misallocation; after all, in SF they allocate ridiculous sums to housing transients (far more than I spend on my own housing on a per capita basis) and the problem persists. In LA the budget is $1B annually.

If you haven't noticed, the median transient is a drug addict (mostly meth/opiates) and the typical drug addict chooses not to participate in society, inasmuch as you can accept that they have any agency at all. Some may think they are being compassionate with this victim-coddling but this only makes sense if you take the view that the victim-criminals enjoy their situation, since the coddling isn't elevating any of them out of poverty.
> Or you may choose to store thousands of documents or photographs to be retrieved at a later date using our proprietary reading technology…

That will work great once the company fails and its IP is sold off to some faceless entity. Truly long-term storage would include a specification for building a device to read the data.
This is very troublesome... It is possible to create a general, personal Google account using any email address (iirc) so I wonder if it is possible to just migrate to your own email solution (since you own the domain) and keep the google account, or at least migrate it to a regular account.
Interesting, because in the root of my Dropbox is ".ws.agile.1Password.settings" which is a plain text file containing the "Dropbox App" path of "Apps/1Password/1Password.opvault" and my understanding of that "Apps" folder in Dropbox is that integrations can write whatever they like to it, but not write outside of it

I have a similar Apps folder for "O'Reilly" from back when I connected their app to Dropbox, and one for Joplin. It's too bad I don't have 1P 7 on my machine anymore, because I no longer have Dropbox on my machine so it would be a good test to see if it still syncs without the Dropbox client present
May be a right time to evaluate an alternative for your free '@gmail' accounts as well.
That's an oversimplification. I wouldn't dismiss Mearsheimer so easily. He has applied his theory with great predictive power, particularly in regard to China, for example. You might be interested to read his debate with Zbigniew Brzezinski in 2009 on this matter [1].

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/22/clash-of-the-titans/
I'm a huge fan of specifications (despite the downvotes to my comment above).

They can be slightly tricky to maintain and to get right. But not nearly as ticky as maintaining software for which there's at best only a partial sense of a coherent shared mental model available to the stakeholders (not to mention the developers) as to what this piece of software is supposed to do. Other than a slew of JIRA tickets written by a cast of thousands, and assigned to a zillion different developers over the years.
How many other sites do you know that would go from 0 users to hundreds of millions within a few days? Even big studio games like Blizzard or Square Enix often struggle with release day, and those probably get a fraction of the users that something like this would, being blasted on all news platforms at once across the country.
There is evidence that if you smoke and catch COVID, it will be more severe.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/27/smokers-much...
A society seeped in commodified self-critique renders impotent any critique of real substance.

That's what's so intriguing about the current political economy. It has effectively packaged up critiques of itself and folded them into the spectacle. Through this lens Severance may be a harbinger of future work critique films. Given the state of labor relations it's easy to imagine an appetite for films that give viewers the cathartic release of work tension they hunger for. In the context of the first statement, it's also easy to see the dangers in this pattern of behavior.
And is one of the few remaining [government] things that fails (for me, at least) to auto-verify for those of us who have an apostrophe (or suffix) in our name. I keep meaning to get signed up but, like the TSA quick-pass programs, it's always low on my list and I never get around to going in to "verify my identity". The auto-verify fails with any/all cards I've tried tried to use all the auto methods they provide (and address is owned & occupied single-family home/very 'standard').

Anyone that works on this -- please try to recognize those of us with "unusual" characters or a suffix as our given name! =D
We could be, and sometimes we are, but often we are not.
If civilization collapses, 7 billion people will die, at least.

The economy contracting 90% is a possibility, and if your income goes to zero, you don't want to lose what you have left because of a loan you didn't think you'd actually have to pay off.
Most of the .1%? Everyone that pays capital gains tax rates. Everyone that runs a business and gets to write off a ton of deductions? I could go on, but the loopholes are innumerable.
Oh I agree completely. Not only should there a regulated standard for texts placed upon any company with 5% marketshare, there should be a similar standard places upon social media over 5% marketshare.
My point is that all polities start out as crude mafias. It's nothing special about Russia itself. And even an actual mafia can be expected to seek "proper" legitimacy for the very purpose of being enabled to think in the longer term.
Curiously enough, there are some legitimate medical uses for nicotine, just as there are some legitimate medical uses for opiates and amphetamines.

> Colleen McBride, director of the cancer prevention, detection and control program at Duke University Medical Center... says there is a growing body of evidence that nicotine actually relieves some symptoms of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, and appears to help those with severe depression focus.

https://today.duke.edu/2001/08/mm_medicaluses.html

The question is, to what extent are current medical uses of such substances actually necessary, i.e. to what extent has it all been about getting those sales numbers up?
> A Totenpass can be human readable, without the aid of computers, or machine readable, with the employ of a smartphone.

I am guessing data that is supposed to be read from an app will be encoded in some manner - like QR codes (for example).
I am honestly surprised how there isn't a push for bigger energy independence. For how long will the dependency on russian gas is sustainable (politically speaking)
Not documenting is one of those things like open-plan offices, that management thinks will save money but that makes things worse in practice. In the old days programmers hated documenting. Now, the programmers (sometimes) want to document but management decides on slamming out more features instead.
Unfortunately we have bred a good chunk of them away over the last century. Median 5 to 40% deline in mineral content as of this 2009 meta analysis, likely even worse now.

https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/44/1...
You're thinking of Kaleida Labs, the corporation that was co-owned by Apple and IBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleida_Labs.
> Although being a paid product didn't stop Apple from killing it.

?

Email to whoever@mac.com is still working as far as I know, and I send emails to a couple of people who still use mac.com addresses all the time (whoever@icloud.com also works).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201771
well yes, that would be the outcome if arrests don't lead to charges --- they accomplish nothing
They killed Tom Petty and Prince and still seem to be getting away with it.
If we ever lose a war to a superpower you can bet that will happen to us. What other entity are you imagining would enforce such a punishment now?
1+ for Joplin - been running it a couple of years now syncing to self hosted Nextcloud.
I don't think this is the risk. The one thing that is very much with in our control is the trade off between inflation and market "health" (price levels).

At the end of the day, we can make any prices on the SP or QQQ nominally sustainable, the lever being the value of the dollar, and when faced with an existential threat to markets and to the dollar, we are going to pull that lever every time.

All in all, I think the dollar will decline slowly as the rest of the world becomes less interested in holding our debt, not in an own goal melt down.
I'm curious how the mechanics of this work. Can someone just put in orders for every single address in the US, even those that they don't live at? Also, I assume a bunch of people will get these and resell them, which I assume is very illegal, is there something to stop that?
Just ask for another download.