skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it looks like Ghidra ate their lunch. I kinda feel bad for them because it's a solid product with a pro-user business model (i.e not saas).
> I definitely got the impression this was Heinlein speaking in his own voice / his own opinions.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! Read another book, and he'll be speaking his own voice/opinions, to, but they'll be very different.

On books, Heinlein's must read, in my opinion, is "The Moon is the harsh mistress", "Stranger in a strange land" and "Starship troopers", all three being very different. But the one book I would recommend reading first is his lesser known novel, "The door into summer". It is not groundbreaking, but very warm and charming.
Let's upgrade this to an IETF standard. Who writes the 2 different implementations of the protocol?

Come to think of it, sending the ID string to TCP port 7 on compliant devices will return the ID string back, demonstrating successful exchange of ID strings. So there already are multiple different implementations.
What's the problem with that? Pfizer and their friends have everything riding on the idea that it never ends, none of the cheap treatments work and the only solution is to slow the spread (so that it stays around for longer) while vaccinating everyone frequently... and they are only motivated by profits.
Just like one can submit software expenses on IRS declaration, same deal.
I think homework would be fine, it really depends on the person. You can find people with ADHD who would crush these questions and others who wouldn't.

Personally... I had another profession before and was never asked anything during interviews. They just assumed I was capable because I had a degree, work experience and references. So I'm not quite sure where that even is coming from, it's unheard of in other professions.
1. All axioms are assumptions.

2. You mean Logic? The foundation which axioms and theorems themselves rely on? Logic is like a recursive axiom. We assume logic is true (aka an axiom) then, logic allows us to create axioms themselves and build theorems off the axiom.

The thing with logic is that it's almost a thought driven endeavor. We don't need to observe the world to go deeper. But we can't. The buck ends here. To answer the question "why?" we have to go deeper, but there's nothing left.
>The US GDP grew 5.7% last year.

To be fair that's only because it bounced back from the covid impacts in the previous year.It had been hovering around the 2.5% mark for the previous decade.

On the other hand no economist believes the figures that come out of China, they are far too consistent.
There's also no such thing as a clean house, but there are certainly livable houses and painfully hard to live in houses...
Cochlear implants are amazing, but at the same time still quite primitive. I'm sure if the same budget, talent and manpower was devoted to them as for example to the development of AirPods, we could restore close to natural hearing when implanted early enough.
Here it is to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLxB9fV2y4 (from
petermcneeley comment below)

The most important bit is 200.000 - 300.000 tonnes of spent uranium exists in the world today, that means we have to build between 15 and 25 equivalents of the Swedish storage (that isn't even started yet) or 30 - 50 Onkalo (that actually exists)...

You also need to realize the symmetry that Sweden and Finland are building here... we are briding the failing English/American civilization and the now leading (by energy remaining) Russian civilization (Finland has a Russian power plant in Loviisa) by having powerplants AND storage AND a underwater cable between these at each side of the sea.

This is THE project of human civilization, WAAAAAY more important than tesla or spacex (both much more likely to fail and meaningless in comparison).

I'll repeat that France has abandoned the 4th generation tech after 10 years building (76-86), 10 years running (86-96); over 20 years ago! They ARE leaders in that field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix

What I don't understand is their choice to not leave the spent fuel easily recoverable AND why so close to the water when we predict levels will rise way above the entrances to these constructions?!?!
I could not possibly disagree more.

Being unable to use any other operating system on your PC was definitely seen as harming the user, and after lots of battles secureboot is optional on x86 windows PCs (but not arm)- in the same vain we managed to successfully argue that people other than Microsoft should have secureboot keys too, and thus redhat also have secureboot keys.

Not having a compiler though? That’s what put back computer science and education 10 years in the Microsoft era, the barrier to programming was a lot higher than it was prior to the late 90s and only recovered in the late 00s where we saw a resurgence of young people learning programming with the availability of WAMP and later django and rails.

You can thank Microsoft that less and less people each year understood native programming.

Microsoft hid their compiler suites behind complex systems, if they had been included or easy to access this would not be the case. But it was a choice on the side of Microsoft that only determined people really need a compiler anyway.

Apple is doing the same thing. But Apple at least ships with some interpreters of some languages like python or ruby. Windows didn’t even have those. Only vbscript (which is not a general purpose language)
I agree. The article (well the little I read of its unreadably thin font) doesn't even really argue that there's no such thing as clean code, just that it's not very well defined.

Well sure, but that's like saying "there's no such thing as beauty" or "there's no such thing as a well-written book". Clearly bullshit. They might be somewhat subjective and have no mathematical definition but they clearly exist.
Even if Apple charged 0%, they shouldn't be allowed to have a say in what software can be run on what is now effectively "America's computer".

Imagine in the limit that 100% of computing was Apple iPhone. If you couldn't do anything without Apple's blessing. Totally absurd and nonsensical, right? It's a dark ages fiefdom. Now scale that back to a gentle 60% of Americans, because that's the grip Apple has over our country and our small businesses.

Apple shouldn't be able to keep my "Steve Jobs is a Dingo" game off of their devices. That's just not their job in a well regulated economy. They also shouldn't be able to tell me when I can or cannot emergency hot fix my "Serious Business Software" when there's a bug that needs to be fixed yesterday. They have no place between me and my critical business function.

Apple has gone too far, and it's time to roll back to a sane, regulated, and fair position. It isn't going to hit their bottom line at all.
You can see the future, impressive
Anecdotally, I have heard of recruiters being measured on the number of calls they have as proof they are working hard.

Plenty of them are employees, so whether it makes business sense could be irrelevant.
XCode wasn't free really, considering the hardware price.

Mac price ~= PC + VS Professional
Fair enough - I haven't done that. I'd be surprised if having loads of anonymous, untested functions would make such a thing more manageable, though.
is this sarcasm?

a con artist will very consistently try to invest in their own scams, does not mean they think of them as genuine
> Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports.

This is untrue. There are many cases where Firefox has decided not to implement something Chrome has. Here is a list of specifications that Firefox does not yet implement but has considered:

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

Many of the ones listed as “harmful” are implemented by Chrome.

> Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for the phrase "is Safari the new IE" and see what web devs have to say about it.

I’v been developing for the web for over 20 years and that’s total nonsense. There’s nothing that makes a developer stand out as inexperienced quicker than saying that Safari is the new IE. It just shows they have no conception at all about how Internet Explorer held the entire frontend development world at a standstill for five years. Safari on its worst day is nothing like Internet Explorer.
> what is the hill we should die on?

Substack's incentives are even worse than YouTube or Facebook.

If you think YT and FB were good for western democracy, then I guess you can die on that hill.

Otherwise, die on the hill of "fuck those profiteers and the very specific capitalists very much among us right now in this exact setting that enable them, who should probably know better by now"
Has the IOC made any official statement regarding this? I note that this isn't the first issue to have been discovered in apps bearing the Olympic trademark.
The original quote was:

> The yellow pages were absolutely run by state-owned telecom operators, less than 25 years ago, all over Europe.

You then said

> Only because of the communist past

How is that not saying that it is only due to a communist past that there were state run telcos that were producing yellow pages?

Tbf I didn’t mention each and every name of the yellow pages equivalent (because time) but I think the assumption that the state owned telcos ran their respective yellow pages is fairly safe. Happy to be proven wrong though!
I personally don't really bother. If I'm getting paid way below market rate, I look for another job - there's just no point staying at a company that doesn't naturally try to share their wealth with you. When market rate is far below present value, I freelance.

I've had only a few pay raises within 10 years, most of which were offered only when I quit. Usually you don't even need a competing offer, it's fine if you're quitting to freelance.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably his novel with the most explicit anti-colonial and anti-fascist themes
> I think the reason we sleep so long has a bit to do with our lack of predation. It might be more of an evolutionary accident than a necessity.

I don't think that's backed up by evidence. Elephants, which have very few predators and are really only preyed on when sick, old, or young, sleep only a few hours a day. It's strange because they're highly intelligent and have big, complex brains. Even cats, who sleep a lot everyday, have more predators in the wild, even the big cats. Cats don't sleep long because of lack of predation. They sleep long because they expend huge amounts of energy while awake (i.e., hunting). They require large amounts of energy stored for rabid bursts of expenditure. Sloths sleep a ton, mainly because they're low energy animals.

https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chasleep.html

There are plenty of animals on that list that contradict the conjecture that sleep duration is correlated with predation.

> Aquatic creatures have shorter sleep cycles because the dangerous environment requires being alert at all times. Apex predators resort to strategies like sharks, who switch half their brain asleep while the other is awake, or whales, who sleep for only up to 30 minutes to maintain breath.

That again isn't correct. Dolphins have more predators than sperm whales, yet dolphins sleep much longer per day than sperm whales. Most larger whales don't sleep longer than 30 minutes because they need to be awake and more active to keep their body temperature up. It isn't due to needing to breath as most whales consciously breath just fine while sleeping with the side of the brain that stays awake. Sperm whales don't do this because they can hold their breath for long amounts of time (and sleep vertically, which is quite eery looking). Whales, which includes dolphins, mainly adopted the unihemispherical sleeping primarily because they are conscious breathers.

> I think you're on to something about energy.

I don't think that's much of a revelation. Sleep is all about energy and restoration.
I apologise for the long ramble. I wrote it because I deeply relate with the situations described here, and I simply wanted to share my thoughts on this, because I thought a lot about this, and I am still struggling everyday. TL;DR: be patient with yourself, try to improve marginally everyday, be kind with yourself, and give yourself constructive criticism only.

I believe that this issue is present in a lot of people - only that not many admit it is an issue. I struggle with this as well, though I do not always realise it.
Unfortunately, humans are creatures of comfort - we seek to do the least amount of "work" for the greatest amount of "rewards", which is the exact thing sites like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc. offer. Hence the addiction.

> "I know these things are designed to steal my attention but I’m supposed to be stronger than that."
I think this is the wrong way to look at it. I do not doubt that you are strong, but thinking this way will eventually place you on a road to lowered self esteem, and much self loathing. You don't want this, it will exacerbate the bad behaviours. Try instead to be patient with yourself, try to look at yourself as a continuously improving person. This way you will see that "bad times" in your life are limited - hitting rock-bottom means the only way left to go is up.

> "Like many of us, I made promises to myself for the new year. (...) I keep lying to myself that I’ll do these things later when the moment is right."
I relate to this issue, I really do. I do not really make plans for the new year, I find that having such broad and general objectives is a way to disappoint yourself, leading to lower self-esteem, and a bunch of other problems. What I did last year was that I did not set any broad objectives. I just tried to make changes. For example, I made a habit of reading or going for a walk after leaving work. I did this from time to time, though not all the time, but now looking back I can always say that last year I read more books than the year before.
The general idea is that you are not competing with others, or with your own objectives and standards. In life you are competing with yourself from the past. Any improvement is good, no matter how marginal.

> "I know I can do better than this."
You can. Have patience and try to improve marginally everyday. And when you cannot, don't be harsh on yourself. Just have patience, and be kind to yourself. This doesn't mean you should find excuses for bad behaviours, it means that you should not criticise yourself for not being the best version of you at this moment. If it helps, try to think of yourself as your own underperforming employee - you don't want to constantly insult and berate him all the time for not being good, you want him to improve day by day - thus, you will give him only helpful advice and criticism on what he could be doing better.
The universe seems to be built in layers. Science, Math, and logic in that order with logic at the very bottom. So logic is always PART of the answer as it's just a layer on the bottom of everything. The thing is, I would imagine the answer to the question "why?" is on some hidden layer below logic.

But the buck stops there. Even the very thought of predicting that there's a hidden layer has to involve logic. To get at the hidden layer we have to remove the upper layer of logic and therefore the process of thought itself. How is this even possible?

We can't go further. It's beyond us.

But I get what your saying. You think the answer exists on the side or the upper layers. Science and beyond.
She's better cover of her bits and pieces than any bodybuilder ever.
This is very hypocritical
> LTO4

Is useless for a long-term, both from $/GB and from sanity standpoint. LTO-5 is more than 10 years old already, there is no point in trying to use LTO-4.

> How durable are LTO drives?

Just look at the comments here. 99% of time it just works. In 1% you throw the shit out of the window (well, you want to).

Also:

> Both drives and media should be kept free from airborne dust or other contaminants from packing and storage materials, paper dust, cardboard particles, printer toner dust etc.[49]

And "5 Environmental" in [0]

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21419_04/en/LTO5_Vol4_E4/LTO5_Vo...
How do those numbers compare with land value in those countries? My impression is that a lot of things are built bigger in the US because there's plenty of space so land is cheap.
I'm not. Otherwise why would physicists support the concept of free will so strongly without any evidence for it. It is borderline religious. The video I posted above says as much.
>It was more than that, pretty much everything between late 2014 and late 2018

I don't know, the 2015 MacBook Pro was well regarded.
I never said I was against using it. Just calling it “green” (no ‘er’) is simply false, misleading and against what they have been calling it for years.

I am all for nuclear and greener energy.

I am totally against doublespeak.
Users are free to complain, and IT is free to ignore them unless management says otherwise.
Programming casino sites has value because people choose to spend the money that they earn gambling.

Society decides which tasks have value and which don’t by whether consumers spend money on the work product produced by those tasks.

Now, society’s way of working this out isn’t perfect, but how else should we determine which jobs are adding value and which are not?
> Truck drivers get their gas costs reimbursed.

Only if they’re working for a boss. If you’re a starting independent truck driver, you pay for your own gas.

I would think iOS developers are in the same boat.
That quote is a textbook example of how to ruin a comment with some unnecessary and inaccurate flamebait.
It does if you're debugging performance issues.
> Urls lost their 1:1 mapping to physical files a long time ago.

Says who?

Nearly every web server in existence supports static assets which map 1-to-1 to the file system.
No it doesn't. You aren't forced to scan backwards.
My bad!!!!!

I wanted to say Gauss-Seidel but got totally confused. What a mess I have done.

Sorry.
I like that honestly. You always know with whom you are talking. They in turn tried to put signs on people once they were in power, so I appreciate their attempt to come clean here.

Still, to declare the OK sign a racist symbol was very stupid. Don't give them anything. Imaging people would have used it even more when they tried to create their symbolism. It would be useless to them.

The best way to deal with them is ignoring them. If you constantly look at them you will become reactionary as well.
People sometimes ask :-) apologies if it caused offense.
The argument is that we make this trade off in order to minimize the maximum terribleness, not just because it's convenient.

Fwiw, we name this trade-off all the time. If you think your kid is getting the best possible experience for their development at school then you are pretty naive. School is largely about improving worst case educational outcomes, not fostering maximum growth.
So they stick IE? There are no browser supported over 2 years now in same version. Good luck.
You're being generous with two years. In my experience, if it's older than 20 minutes, burn the program, salt the disk, it's horribly obsolete, you'll be hacked and your identity stolen. Oh, and by the time you've updated, it's obsolete so update again.

I hate it.
ts/js: I see no problem?

* if anyone not get it, ts/js can declare a key-value lambda like:

let myFunc = {f1: () => , f2: () => } and so on. It can be called by string key like myFunc["f1"](), and all it's props can be get by Object.keys(myFunc) so it can be randomized easily.
Just because "clean" connects to a lot of concepts doesn't mean "clean" code is meaningless, any more than clean dishes. A plate smeared with tar is not clean, no matter if the tar is sterile, and a plate which has been sprayed with salmonella isn't clean, even if you can't see the contaminant. These are different dimensions of "clean", but still very much meaningful.

I personally like "clean" as a term for code quality. We've all seen how focusing on easily measurable metrics (like code coverage) can help, but in the hands of the saboteur or the clueless it just becomes a meaningless number. "Clean", instead, focuses on the ultimately human judgement of how to make code which is fit for purpose.
That sounds like clean code ;)
Nostalgic Computing Center
When `index.html` is a file, does `ls index.html` show the same result for you as `ls index.html/`?
> I get into arguments trying to explain how those studies were set up wrong.

I'd like to know more. Why do you think they were set up wrong? (Not trying to get into an argument, I honestly don't know)
Even hearing aids should be much cheaper and better.

I read in 2008 that a Stanford Professor Stefan Heller aimed to convert stem cells to hair cells in inner ear by 2020 and restore natural hearing. It sounded quite futuristic and unbelievable at the time, I presume the approach did not work. I wish as much innovation happens on the biology side of things as the technology.
I was at a boat show once and there was a salesman selling fountain pens that would not leak. At my all-boys school we had to write everything with fountain pens and boys being boys we would regularly spray each other with ink using a very hard flick of the pen. Standing in front of the salesman's table I picked up a demo pen to see, and gave it my hardest flick. Ink sprayed out all over the table, and all down the front of the man's white shirt.

I ran.
> This is false.

What's false about it? It's either chrome or chrome-based, isn't it? Or can you actually get the play store if you have a default browser of firefox?

> Chrome's 75% marketshare outside of mobile

Is covered by the rest of the sentence.
As you go through life, priorities change. When I've asked my self that same question few years ago when I was working at different place than I'm working now. I've told my self that when the topic of raise comes to the table that I would suggest cutting down the number of working hours so that I could work 6h per day or that I would get Monday / Friday off. I never got to that point since I switched job. I do know some people that they have done it: got one day off and kept the current pay. How? They were the only ones with some skills and they very very appreciated within the team. IMHO, it costs much less to keep a good worker than to loose him. Shorter work week is a problem if you have a service that you provide 24/7 but then the solution is to hire new people if the budget allows it.
Are you sure this is worldwide data? This dataset shows Sweden and Norway having higher densities than the UK, but they aren't anywhere on your list:

https://eeg.tuwien.ac.at/commonenergy/gla-per-capita-shoppin...
Keep in mind that these are probably close to the top 10% of salaries, and it's usually sorted from the highest, so you're seeing about the top 0.1%.

Payscale/Indeed/most job sites seems to measure the bottom half of salaries. Glassdoor seems to have it closest, but it seems to be fairly low as well.
ah, nice, that explanation has always been making a lot of sense to me. I don't wear my glasses indoor and I stare at a screen for most of my day. My myopia level is actually perfect for this use case, my screen is at my "at rest" focal point, my eyes are "at rest" for most of the day, and the screen isn't blurry.

Now I couldn't find support for it anywhere so I was thinking this might be a case of a very reasonable explanation that turns out to be wrong. Is there some literature on this?
I completely agree with that, you just have to be willing to accept the risks that follows from wrangling control from Apple and not blame Apple when it backfires.

Honestly had it been Microsoft (or even Google) behind the lawsuit I would have been more positive. The gaming industry however is going to misuse the everlasting shit out of a victory.
You're thinking of React and Flutter and so on. They aren't immediate mode. They're more like retained mode with a non-traditional way of keeping the UI state up to date. Very different to egui.