skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since a change in the course of history has, as a rule, multiple causes, it is very unlikely a priori that a work of literature ever was the one sufficient condition for a change in the course of history.

But as a contributing factor – why not, that is likely and IMHO attested. One example: A performance of the grand opera “La muette de Portici” is credibly said to “have sparked riots leading to the Belgian Revolution” as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_muette_de_Portici puts it.
Ehhh, the policy divide between the DOD, SOCOM, and the State Department is not bridged by "no true Scotsman". If you're going to criticize something, knowing who and what you're criticizing is a good first step.

The State Department using drones to bomb weddings and the policy that allows it is not congruent to the policy that allows a Marine in the ground to declare "troops in contact" and perform a 9-line. They're informed by very different things.

The key differentiator in my mind is one policy that works and one policy that clearly doesn't because I keep reading about it in the news. If you want a policy changed so bad, why is pointing out who the policy rests with - and an example of a similar policy that works - so problematic to you?
The description still reminds me very much of JPA and JPQL. The implementation as proxy is nice and needed in this polyglot world.
I don't know whether this is actually money laundering, but here's how it would work if it was:

1) Get some money illegitimately (scam people, do credit fraud, sell drugs, whatever). End up with some cryptocurrency.

2) You or a partner sets up an NFT for some ludicrous amount of money. An anonymous buyer (the wallet with your dirty money, or some cryptocurrency tumbler) purchases the NFT at asking price.

3) Now you have clean money. Once you pay taxes on it, you can buy regular goods and assets without much scrutiny. If law enforcement asks where your 8 figures came from, you can point to the sale of this NFT, and say that the buyer was anonymous and that this is standard practice for NFTs/cryptocurrency trades.

If you're not careful, law enforcement might be able to prove that you (or your friend) owned the illegitimate money from 1), but with proper precautions it's much much harder to track.
I haven't written Ruby nor used Heroku in many years. I think it's more relevant to say I'm very deeply immersed in Open Source. I contributed to OpenRuko[1], Deis, Flynn and even wrote my own PaaS, Peas[2] that got on the front page of HN. I've seen first hand the journey that PaaS has taken. Maybe we're getting hung up on the strict definition of PaaS here. Let's just say the thing that lets us easily scale a startup idea, like Uber, Airbnb etc. Sure the dyno/docker is the core component, but we inevitably have to deal with state, Redis, Postgres etc as well. In that sense Kubernetes is very much the Open Source version of Heroku.

I think it's fairer to say that Google _repurposed_ Borg, in order not to be left out of the changing landscape. Borg may be the technical predecessor to Kubernetes, but my point is that Borg is very much not the spiritual ancestor of the new containerised paradigm.

1. https://github.com/openruko

2. https://github.com/tombh/peas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Amusement_Machine_and_Ma...
Please consider adding another means of payment besides PayPal. I’d buy this in an instant if I could use Stripe/Apple Pay/Anything but Paypal.
>but I don't know what, if any, are RISC-V's plans for that.

Profiles. See RVA22.
>Cars suck and should be abandoned worldwide outside of car racing for fun.

Spoken like a born and raised urbanite.
It will actually understand music theory.
There’s no issue with that. If a person manually takes their information and mails it to the CIA, that’s also fine.

The issue is if a person visits a resource from a company in the EU, they should be able to expect that that information won’t be passed along to any third party that’s not absolutely necessary. Especially not to foreign governments.

You wouldn’t expect a visit to latimes.com to leak your information to the Chinese Party either.
My account was 'permanently suspended' a couple of years ago. I appealed a couple of times (following the instructions in the notification) saying that I had never done what I was accused of (brigadding?) and explaining my strategy for voting. I never got a response but a a few months later my account was no longer suspended.
It doesn't interact like a baseball, it just has the energy of one.

If it does hit an atom, it produces a shower of other particles, most of which will have similarly huge energies and will probably go right through the rest of the detector and start their own showers in other matter. So you'll get a detector with a few atomic dislocations, and the rest of the energy would be distributed amongst a huge number of other interactions.

It's actually similar to x-ray "hardening", where soft x-rays are filtered out by a metal shield, leaving only harder radiation. This is carefully calibrated to allow the radiation to penetrate to a certain depth, leaving shallower tissue unharmed.

In a way, it could be better to be hit by an OMG particle than a less energetic particle, as the amount of energy that gets dumped into you is smaller: the vast, vast majority of it would be shotgunned deep into the ground under you, and only a very few molecules in you are actually affected.
I think that the process of discovery is engaging, and far more relatable than a man page. Maybe the prose went a little further than it needed to, or as you suggest not far enough. I’m just saying that the mechanism of storytelling exploits some attributes of our evolutionary biology that make learning a concept more relatable and memorable.
It's worth noting that Washington simply didn't want to be president any more. Leaving politics was also relief of his personal burden, rather than solely a noble sacrifice for republican values. He was exhausted after years of public service, his health was growing worse, and he was deeply frustrated by the mismanagement of his farm. In short: he was burnt out and wanted well-earned rest.

That isn't to say he was blind to the dangerous precedent that would be set by remaining president until death. After all, he was president of the Society of the Cincinnati. (Named after Lucius Cincinnatus, a Roman who was given emergency dictatorial powers (two times?), which he relinquished when they were no longer necessary.) But he didn't want to remain president anyway, so the decision was not a fraught one.

Source: half-remembered details from Ron Chernow's "Washington: A Life"
I consult for a company that is an ethical version of Singer.

This article has all the usual hadwavings about what is wrong with ivy admissions and the ability of the affluent to come out looking good.

I'll agree that at some abstract level it's not fair that the affluent can pay for proofing and coaching but I'll note that this critique like all of them offers no alternative.

Pick any metric and the rich will be able to optimize for it.

The only fair alternative would be a lottery.

Is anyone suggesting that world wide, applicants to American universities should be assigned to institutions by lottery?

If Harvard is forced to admit lottery "winners" should students be forced to attend whatever college they get assigned even if it is a community college 3k miles away?
If, like me, you forget where to split the command and arguments, shlex.split in the standard library can split the raw string for you.
Microsoft Keeps Its Finance Head Count Flat with AI, Bots and Other Tech
It sounds like you want to have a thing built, and don’t want to spend time/effort on code. Have you considered hiring someone to build it for you?
This. Of course the sound of electric piano is different, mainly because there is no big box that resonates, but I really enjoy being able to play on my headphones in the middle of the night.

When I was a kid our family had a very good cast iron frame piano that sounded wonderful, but at some point it cracked and had to be replaced with a not so good sounding piano. That one is still working but the requirement to tune it frequently and inability to play whatever and whenever you want reduced my interest. Some years ago I bought a digital Casio Privia. The keyboard feels very good, but on it's own it doesn't sound too good. However when plugged into computer as a MIDI device and running something like Pianoteq, it becomes one of the best instruments out there (at least in headphones). I especially enjoyed it during the long nights of pandemic lock-downs. :)
Just don't opt in to Google Analytics. I don't.
> As for what is wrong with local imports, it makes impossible to track down module dependencies unless one goes grepping for imports all over the place.

Nobody is making anyone use them. It's a personal preference.

As for "impossible", `import` is a keyword, so it's trivial to find them all using, yes, grep. D was designed to be more greppable than C/C++. For example, it's really hard to find all the cast expressions in C, but since `cast` is a keyword, it's trivial in D.

(Cast expressions are all potential bugs, so being able to find them all in a code review is a good thing.)
The once-extinct aurochs may soon roam Europe again
It's not really about playing games. The project seems to target people who want to learn microcontroller programming with a fun interface. Sure you can load community games on but that seems a lot less fun than making your own since the display and microcontroller are so limited you aren't getting much on there.
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QuantumGate C++ networking library now supports P2P Bluetooth connections
Dont unlock it.
Extraterritorial jurisdiction + global nature of the internet causes these problems. We've already seen lots of the reverse: it's illegal to provide gambling to Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg

It's also legally difficult to provide bank accounts to Americans: https://www.thelocal.fr/20210924/why-americans-are-finding-i...

Then there was the whole incompatible court orders in re Azure: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/5/17203630/us-v-microsoft-sc...

Really the only workable outcomes are a global agreement on internet-touching governance (which the US will never accept on principle) or Balkanization. Or I suppose an eternal chasing into new as yet unbanned services.
Doesn’t sound travel slower underwater?
Check Scotty from Marketing pretend to be a wholesome family man ahead of the Australian election in May 22.
Sun Tzu too ?
>seems quite competitive to me.

Not very competitive when the only company that can license ARM cores to third parties is ARM itself.
Surprised this hasn't been commented already but:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492663192404779013.html

God I hate twitter threads, especially 32 tweets long!
Honestly, it isn't even the poop. I do my own sink faucets and whatnot, and hate every minute of it. I wouldn't survive framing, but making fancy furniture has some appeal. But then... finishing is also gross and wet. And sticky.

On the other hand: about once every 3 years, I shut my computer down and get the dust out. I even hate that. The only nasty wet messes I don't mind dealing with come from my child or the refrigerator. All else, I'm happy to pay somebody else.
The Hanging Gardens was as well, although we have much less of an idea what that looked like
One of the most famous works of literature in American history that had a huge impact was Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

>It is reported that upon being introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, Abraham Lincoln fondly commented she was "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."

https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/harriet-beecher-stowe-litt...
Last year when I was working as a contractor for a US company, I mentioned to my team leader that I’m sick of tech and I really want to close my laptop for the last time ever, go outside and start making wood flutes or something.

Instead of telling me that it will be better, he says that sometimes he contemplates buying a bar and just serving people and listening to their stories.

On that day I realized that not tech, but the idiotic company processes and the people I had to put up with were what got me into that state. I was hired as a Python backend developer, but I was also working as a Postgis expert (and I was no expert, I had no idea what I was doing), Go+gRPC integrator, Kube and Docker Swarm ops guy, frontend debugging person and I was in charge of the dev experience internal tools. It was simply too much to keep up with.

That same month I resigned and started working on selling my own product. 3 long months later, I launched the paid version of Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) and I again discovered why I like being in tech.

There’s a kind of freedom that you can rarely find in other domains. You can be creative, start ideas on a whim, go into rabbit holes of satisfying curiosity, learn to use languages and tools that allow you to do in 3 lines of code what you needed 300 lines for yesterday. It feels like earning super powers sometimes.

And after all that, you can also make enough money to live comfortably in a nice apartment, small house, or just sleep in the woods if that’s your thing.

Since that day, I never considered being an employee, and just continued on doing my thing and creating stuff. This lead to the creation of https://lowtechguys.com/ and writing about my tech journeys on https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/

I’m still contemplating about building a house in the forest and start making Kaval flutes some day, but I think my tech skills will be a helpful aid for that goal, not something I want to leave by behind.
Bjarne wrote the rejection of mine, Andrei's, and Herb's proposal to include static if:

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/n3613.pdf
> You're cherry picking reviews.

I literally took the first two papers I found via googling.

> the wet market theory has a reasonably credible history.

You're free to cite some of this history.
I really liked it. Especially the implied message that the reader could also figure this out by a similar process of investigation.
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No one mentions Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari? I liked it very much. I know it can be biased but really makes you understand how humans operate.
from the website:

> Things have been made much easier by putting the most complicated electronics on a PCB.

maybe it looks like this nowadays?

http://www.simandl.cz/stranky/elektro/ronja/ronja.htm
> I normal don't like outing employees publicly for the conduct of companies.

Why not? Companies don’t act autonomously. If a company does something, it’s because somewhere along the line a human representing that company either did it directly or set it into motion.

I’d agree with you if you were against outing individual employees for honest mistakes (unless they’re particularly negligent; there’s a lot of gray area here). But I’m not really into exculpating people for their misdeeds just because they did them on behalf of a company.
So an international connector (by virtual of early Japanese video game hardware dominance) standard between board and arcade cabinet? Whereas things that came before were custom?
Everything depends on the Discord community you’re connecting with.

We use it extensively for hosting chat related to role-playing games that I’m involved in, along with the voice channels for when we’re having an actual game. Character sheets are hosted on RPGSessions.com, with bot links to our Discord channels.

For that use case, I think it works pretty well.
To the contrary. That is how hams wire up their circuits when using throughhole components. Look here: https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/getting-ugly-dead-bugs-and-g...
iOS Safari? Seems to load fine in Safari 15 on macOS.
I’d be interested in how they were able to heat the dorm with compost, I’ve laid fresh compost before and when that stuff is stewing it stinks.
> Discord groups always end up with 735 channels about super specific topics.

rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan .

The rasfwrj newsgroup was my first major internet hangout. There were newsgroups for anything and everything.
Dude that is karma points accumulated throughout your life. Proud that you won! I may have used and enjoyed for FREE some of your software while jailbreaking or bricking mobile devices in my university dorm room (Beijing, 2014). Stay blessed!
I generally do "outside-in" development, but only after I understand what I want the software to do as visible (observable) by a user (or other system). I'll sketch the UI, find the UX flow for the "things to be done", etc. This defines the "outside".

Once I have that, I get detailed enough on the UI, either by writing some code, or understanding what information it needs to get from and send to the underlying parts. As soon as possible, I write an automated test that defines the behavior I want (which fails), then "move inward" to the next boundary, such as the Use Case/Service layer (I use Hexagonal Architecture), write a (failing) test at that layer, and then start implementing some behavior.

I'll refactor, which often leads to the creation of a new class with a bit of behavior (this is the "inside"). I'll TDD that new behavior until it's all Green. Then I'll go back out to the Use Case boundary and write more tests/code, TDDing at that level, with continuous refactoring to extract new classes.

Once I'm done at that boundary, I'll return to the Outside/UI test and if it passes, I'm done (and maybe I have some UI cleanup to do). If it fails, that tells me I need another spiral down the boundaries (toward the inside) and then back out.

At each boundary, I may pause and do some CRC Card (class-responsibility-collaborator) design work, if I feel I don't have a good sense of what I'll need ("do I need a Group class here, or will the existing Roles for a User be enough?").
Yeah this makes me terrified of Ethereum.

This kind of scam just wouldn't work on BTC. You're passing tokens around. At fanciest you're time-locking wallets or using M of N signatures. You're not like, installing arbitrary code in your bank account.

I find ETH very technically interesting but it feels like it's full of sentient foot-guns.
> The trouble is, you've created another C variant, one with checking. There are many of those, and none have caught on.

Because none of these approaches have been adopted by the standards committee – of which most of the members think C as it is today is just fine and are not interested in these sorts of large-scale safety improvements.

If we as an industry could get some new blood on the committee this is an entirely solvable problem. It doesn't require a disruption either: the standard can specify that behavior is implementation defined when safety guarantees are violated so your embedded DSP target can continue whatever it is doing today but the rest of us stuck with 100s of millions of lines of C code can start making some improvements.
Depends on the country I guess. In Poland there is really no other reason than slight differences between speed limtliters callibration (+-2kph). No uphills on Polish highways, no other variables, just that one. 2 minutes of trucks overtaking each other on 2-lane is still very common view even though there are more and more places when overtaking is explicitly prohibited for trucks only to prevent these situations from happening in critical areas.

Also the speed difference is much higher on Polish highways because cars can legally go as fast as 140kph while upper limit for trucks is 90kph. This is a huge difference, lots of brakes to burn before you slow down to match that speed.
The impression I got from the project is that it isn't about just loading premade games on but its about giving you a fun and accessible development platform for microcontrollers. I don't think this will be obsolete in 10 years because microcontrollers will have mostly the same requirements.
Lol. If non-western countries had the power and technology, they would have done much worse. Try getting anyone in my educated and left-leaning Bangladeshi family to even pretend to care about what we did to suppress the country’s hill people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong_Hill_Tracts_conflic.... Crickets. It doesn’t even register within their thought process. Just like how European countries are the only ones where anyone gives a shit about the Uyghurs—“fellow Muslims” with business ties to China (e.g. Pakistan) certainly don’t.
I once went to teach a training course to a team at some BigCo, and there was one guy who'd switched to software development from being a baker. He'd worked up to owning two shops, but the leases expired and he couldn't afford what the landlord wanted to renew them. His brother was a dev so he thought he'd give it a go.

He loved it - no more being in the shop at 4am getting the day's bread ready and still being there at 8pm doing admin. He'd kept some of his gear, though, and was the go-to man for wedding cakes and fancy patisserie for the company.
> lacks most every possible security measure

So do calculators and typewriters. (Some people use computers to, gasp, perform computations, and low or no overhead is nice.)
Have you considered taking some time off and going WWOOFing? It can be a fun experience.

Personally, I believe that knowing how to navigate this (increasingly) digital world is an essential skill. I'm enjoying trying to build foundational knowledge about computing & networking for these reasons - and I also just feel like there is _so much_ to learn, and that is both exciting and overwhelming at times. I have some negative views towards the way technology has trended in the last decade or two (bordering on tin-foil hat territory :P) but I think that is all the more reason to understand it.

I don't have any interest in pursuing SWE, esp. for financial reasons. But I am enjoying learning about programming. I'd be happy if I could hack on things at home & contribute to some OSS projects. I'm hoping to land a junior position at a NOC in a year or so, but who knows? I've given up on the idea of any career giving my life meaning or purpose, so I'd be happy with an education + skillset that makes me employable, especially with remote opportunities. Not having to destroy my body is a bonus!
SHREK IS NOT IN THE DICTIONARY
Presumably the commenter is imagining that everyone would accept crypto as payment, including the energy company.

This is not my opinion.

My opinion is that no matter how many people and companies become excited about accepting and using crypto as a method of payment, all of them need to pay some form of tax at some point, and I'm not sure I see a reason why typical governments and / or central banks would be as enthusiastic about relinquishing their sovereignty on their own currency. I imagine that this tax will most likely need to be paid in the currency which is controlled by the government or its central bank, and this is where the off-ramp problem can no longer be avoided.

I really cannot shake off the idea that cryptocurrency has just created high-tech casino chips that are not attached to any particular casino, and I'm not completely sure what problem this really solves in practice. At the end of the day, I stay away from crypto because I fully admit that I do not understand crypto: not from a technical perspective (which IMO is not that important), but from a macro-social perspective (which IMO is the most important).
A lot of retired people I know have essentially taken on second careers as professional medical patients.