skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada would also have to be okay with completely closed borders for the rest of its existence. Either that or come up with some way to unilaterally enforce COVID countermeasures in every country on Earth simultaneously until it is completely eradicated. I'm sure it was a nice thought when infection rates were low enough, but after thinking long-term about the problem it becomes clear that government mandates can only do much for so long.
Literally every IDE that I used has checkbox to disable ligatures.
Idea, VS, VSCode. Kitty terminal also has setting to turn them on/off.
They regularly post JS stuff, it’s pretty much just FE Stuff Weekdaily.
Sadly, I doubt you even recognize your small contribution to, and complicity with, the normalization of an Orwellian, dystopian society.

Look at how casually you make these connections: speech -> noise -> sleeplessness -> damage ... therefore implying, purposefully or not, that speech = violence.

No. Speech is NOT violence. I suggest you get a pair of earplugs.
Marketing, mostly SEO. Sooner you plant some seeds, sooner the results will come. And I like the compound effect of it.
What about a potential asteroid collision? If you actually check it out, there’s an asteroid flying near to earth every 2-3 years, one’s which at a minimum would wipe out a city and change the climate for hundreds of years. Are you adding that to your tail risk calculations?

We’re pretty lucky we haven’t had a major asteroid impact in over 10,000 years, some people argue that’s when it happened last and completely changed the climate.

I actually think you could legitimately argue this is larger risk than climate change, it’s just that the media don’t write about it.

What about getting resources from asteroids? Ever think about what sort of economy of abundance that could create on earth? Like some asteroids have more metals than what’s on earth. How is that for creating a better world on earth?

I think even today spacex could probably change the path of an asteroid if needed. Which is a massive amount of protection for earth. 10-20 years they can mine asteroids. So It’s not just about creating a mars colony for tech bros. It’s a million other possibilities.

You are being extremely short sighted and your judgement is clouded by not liking musks personality. His personality is the last thing you should be thinking about.
Sounds like there are more stories there!
If you think .NET will continue without Microsoft, you are delusional. It won't "die" as in the codebase disappearing, and there would even be the occasional patch, but the project and platform as such would essentially be dead in the water.

You are also beholden to the direction Microsoft wants to take the project/platform. There is nothing the other open source contributors, such as there are, can do about it. Fork? Maybe, but there's not THAT much activity around it anyway.

Again, all of this is a risk or "situation" one may be happy to take. Just be aware of it. At the end, .NET is more code, harder to learn, harder to recruit for, easier to over-complicate, and the ecosystem of libraries is thinner than with Django, Python and Javascript.
It says strong types but it's in Typescript?
Long distance trucking is also mentally strenuous. I don't know how many of these people do it over extended distances, but I don't think it's very humane to give teenagers a job where they'll have to shit in plastic bags and take speed to stay awake for days to meet their deadlines.
>the wisdom and flexibility to know when to make exceptions, are perhaps the most fundamental key to success.

reminds "the severity of Russian laws is alleviated by the lack of their enforcement."
Some counterpoints:

- Ethanol effectively helps spread carbon emissions across a larger area. It significantly cleans the air around large cities, I guess at the expense of more emissions in rural areas? But then again I'd guess most of those rural areas are not super concerned about carbon emissions and are very supportive of corn subsidies.

- Of the three goals of adding ethanol to gasoline, it seems like 2 of 3 of them are completely successful:
"The policy was intended to reduce emissions, support farmers, and cut U.S. dependence on energy imports."
Heh, yeah. Those images, plus the GitHub repo headers, plus the table of contents takes up a lot of space. 10 screens is a bit unreasonable to get to an intro, right? Thanks for persisting tho :)
Some would have you believe there are no extremists involved.

But…

“13 arrests, guns seized — and a possible ‘conspiracy’ to commit murder: RCMP swoop in on Coutts, Alta. border protest” : https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/02/14/rcmp-seize-ha...

This conversation on “Okanagan Freedom Convoy” Zello channel : https://www.reddit.com/r/kelowna/comments/ssoyfm/troublingsc...

A guy (YVR_Sex) checked out the email addresses in the donations leak. “just checked the data set for "85@" through "90@". You know, since it's common for people to end their email addresses with their birth year, or other numbers they are um, fans of. 200 hits across the board, except for one. "88@" had 350 hits. Were almost twice as many people born in 1988?” : https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/ssj6t3/comm...

They “swore in” their own “peace officers”, aka an illegal militia (see Criminal Code section 130) : https://mobile.twitter.com/glen_mcgregor/status/149187293078...

They attack school children (this sort of thing has happened repeatedly) : https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/359896/Protesters-sh... https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-elementary-school-student... https://pressprogress.ca/ottawa-parents-harassed-by-pick-up-...

“The Ottawa trucker protest is rooted in extremism, a national security expert says” : https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079842220/ottawa-trucker-con...

Surely by now your all aware that these protests were organized by white supremacists. And that one of them, Pat King, has stated “The only way this (the Freedom Convoy protest) is going to get solved is with bullets.” : https://mrsbrittanybested.com/2022/02/03/whats-wrong-with-pa...

But in case you’re not aware, “Who is who? A guide to the major players in the trucker convoy protest” : https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/who-is-who-a-guide-to-the-majo...

And of course there’s the absolutely batshit crazy MOU, in which they state their desire to overthrow the government : https://nationalpost.com/opinion/what-the-truckers-want-and-...

One could go on and on with examples of extremism in this “trucker” convoy, but I tire of it.
Layman, but: there are perfectly deterministic interpretations. The "default" view (Copenhagen) has randomness, because it's trying to recover a classical measurement, but there's views that discard that entirely, such as many-worlds, which is completely deterministic, including measurement, at the expense of discarding any notion of definiteness. Ie. in MW you can't say that "outcome X happened, and outcome Y did not", only "we the observer have become entangled with outcome X." This does difficult things to probability, though there's approaches to recover a notion of likelihood even in this model, such as the decision theoretic approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#Dec... where they :layman handwave: show that the Born probabilities are the only consistent assignment that exists at all, or something. I also vaguely remember reading an approach that showed that looking back at the ultimate history of the universe, all but a vanishing fraction of branches had experienced histories consistent with the Born rule, but I don't have a link or name for that.

Anyways, in a MW universe there's no probability, because every outcome occurs, but there's still "indexical uncertainty", which is to say you don't necessarily know which branch of the universe you are presently inhabiting.

Addendum: All (surviving) QM interpretations are empirically equivalent, anyways, so this is purely a philosophical question.
Atlassian had a large reseller channel that sold its product into enterprise.

So it was third party selling instead of first party selling.

https://youtu.be/7SKUw3w2FEg
‘Noise radar’ in Paris will catch raucous cars and motorbikes
Put down the tinfoil, the WebKit team has been on a tear recently and very actively hiring to keep that momentum and very actively seeking feedback. Regardless of Apple’s priorities, Safari is very much on an improvement track
That’s European-style taxes for you. Sadly.

You get a lot of benefits from European-style government, like socialized medicine. But then you also have to pay those taxes.
Nobody is owed attention - most small protests that stay legal are ignored because nobody gives a damn about the causes. Which is fine, we don't as a society have any obligation to pay attention to every fringe thing if it doesn't rise to the level where the legal system is activated and lawsuits or prosecutions are on the table.

Doing illegal stuff to get attention only makes me less supportive of any cause, personally, whether it's lefty or righty bullshit - I don't like this, I didn't like the Jan 6 riots, and I don't like a lot of what I saw from BLM, Occupy Wall Street, and many others over the years. Even if I agreed with a few of the underlying demands or issues (I'm against vax mandates, I do think Derek Chauvin should be in prison, there was a ton of bank fraud in the 00s and high level people should have been jailed, etc).
I'm sure you can be elastic with the mids depending on how much AWS there is to configure or some-such.

2 juniors in a startup is a bit, probably not the right thing. You'll run out of junior work surely?

The "two good ones plus exactly one junior to make them feel important, and to keep the show on the road for 2 weeks in case they both quit simultaneously" formula is pretty solid.
For me legibility is more important: unlike prose, for code it's much more important, what's written in those lines, and monospace fonts sacrifice legibility for columns. And no, monospace fonts can't make cursor land where it needs to, because the destination can be anywhere on the line.
What if I gave you a video of the Ottawa police chief begging for people to report more crimes because they are unable to find more people to arrest?
I take the blame for originally mentioning car accidents, but this is not really something you can compare to COVID especially when you are talking about government mandates. A serious car accident is deadly for anyone, including teenagers or young working-aged adults. A COVID infection is not even close to as deadly for those age groups.
This post https://acko.net/blog/frickin-shaders-with-frickin-laser-bea... was suggesting a higher level shader language and API that figured out the correct thing to do based on the type of data you passed to it. (in contrast to what we have now where in every API, passing buffers, attributes, textures, and uniforms all have different APIs and require different code

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532110
Maybe so, I wouldn’t dismiss your claim of that experience.

I have encountered them in teams that I’ve inherited, and although I don’t find that it’s the majority of applicants at interview it’s a significant proportion and you get no indication of it from other parts of the interview. I’m talking about people who struggle to work out that they need a loop.

Being able to talk about playing the piano is not the same as being able to play the piano.
Analyzing Bearable data export with Python
I am pretty sure that carbon emissions are only a global concern (global warming), not a local concern, while the reverse is true for other pollutants like particulate and nitrogen oxides.
how do you echolocate a shape? It seems you are suggesting some mapping of a 2D visual scene to audio. If that is useful in practice, it is one of many possible interfaces that blind people could use. It wouldn't supplant screen readers.
> Chemistry is what we turn to when we are looking for a new superconductor, a vaccine

I am not sure that is very true at all.
Lots of short term vs long term issues here. Some applications like air travel really rely on hydrocarbons, with no practical substitutes available. Refining technology to produce fuel by capturing atmospheric carbon is helpful even if current technology is less efficient than fossil fuels. Surely practical biofuel is more achievable than practical fusion in short/medium term.
Changing Room Illusion [video]
We can break codes by cryptography, a network pre trained on all human languages should be able to derive insights unsupervised.
Single mode fiber optic cable has amazingly high bandwidth. It's hard to compete with that with a radio link. (Though I suppose lasers between satellites could in theory be on par with what you can get from a fiber optic link. On the other hand, with fiber you can run bundles of dozens of strands or more, since the fiber is so cheap relative to the cost of everything else that goes into installing an undersea cable.)

Relying on a single satellite vendor for telecommunications seems kind of sketchy, but then so is relying on a single cable. I suppose the good news here is that places that currently rely on a single source for their connectivity can use satellite as emergency backup, or use the availability of satellite connectivity as leverage when negotiating with telecoms.
I'm getting an error about the SwingSet2 app being damaged when opening on macOS.

Looking at it with Signet, I get:

SwingSet2 Installer-1.0.5_255W/SwingSet2 Installer-1.0.5_255W.app error -67023 invalid resource directory (directory or signature have been modified)

The JavaFX Ensemble 8 Installer-1.0.8_255X app opens, but the experience is very un-Mac-like: the app is really a custom installer, and it places an app in `~/Applications/jDeploy Apps` instead of the expected /Applications. The resulting application then doesn't have the expected

The Unarchiver didn't like the JavaFX Ensemble 8 Installer-1.0.8_255X.tar.gz file, complaining about not being able to extract the Resources directory.
Is there a reason these are not getting backported to OpenJDK? I know that jetbrains do contribute a bit, but I feel like their model of having way out of date jdks shipped (offering worse performance then available) is not a good one. (They just recently switched to 11, and was still using the old concurrentms GC, over which G1 runs circles, let alone ZGC)
> my AirPods.
You had me until that L0L. Anything with a mic (especially the AirPods) would need to be "unpaired" (or better yet, never paired) to avoid activation by covert code. Apple once sold EarPods that had no microphone (for use on iPods) that do the trick. (However, I would wager that it's possible to remotely activate and pair a set of AirPods laying by your Mac using the Apple protocols designed to make it easier for legit users to set them up.)

The Chinese app called "genie" used with devices like cheap Merkury cameras, sold at places like Walmart for impossibly low prices and that livestream thru "Tuya" (which likely provides the inputs to China-based deep learning models) also does this on all Apple Silicon platforms. Yes, the "Terms" for that app would seem to allow for it, just like other Chinese apps: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953515627/facial-recognition-... Such streams help China develop models that interpret emotions and behaviorally profile all types of people, not just Uyghurs: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57101248 They can also be used like https://www.aei.org/articles/chinas-olympics-app-is-pure-spy...

Pretty sure China has hacked all of the telecom companies to know which IPs (Tuya streams) would go with which Experian® profiles (https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/chinese-hackers-charged-in-...) too, though such a hack probably involves somethingStupid™ like keyboard firmware injected into customer service terminals at multi-provider offshore customer/provisioning centers. (Those account number to DHCP lease servers/loggers are probably the least protected part of the consumer networks...BigTech has erybody thinking it's about surveillance capitalism, when it's really about surveillance period.) Apple's iCloud Private Relay service doesn't help much here either, as "Tuya" can associate the Apple-device running the app with the IOT devices that are streaming through the "Tuya" platform, providing a pretty good estimation of the identity of the user of the app on the Apple-device (which, of course, can be passed along in realtime to other apps in the "Tuya" family, even as Private Relay is rotating the IP addresses, so long as the "genie" like app is running in the background enough to phone home with an IP update packet).

(Originally posted to someone's duplicate of this thread.)
A lot of countries already have mandatory vaccinations for children since decades, a practice that helped immensely to stop and often eradicate other dangerous diseases, and nobody thought of protesting against them.
The difference here is that protests against Covid vaccinations were created and amplified on social media by entities with vested political interests, and painting those measures as authoritarian is also among the techniques used to obtain the above.
What's next, removing car license plates because they violate our privacy?
Which is Linux based, yet Mikrotik seems somewhat reluctant to honor the spirit of the GPL...

https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=100803

https://github.com/robimarko/routeros-GPL
They are a well known company in the fitness space.

This is like backblaze blogging about drives or square about credit card processing.
Re: "Edge cases" - Reminds me of where today's legal systems appear to be directed.
An opposing viewpoint on the issues of Julia from a user of Julia:
"What's bad about Julia?"
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/badjulia/
If a headline asks a question, the answer is no.
Love Is Biological Bribery
Aka The Jetzons - Hard Times
https://youtu.be/H2OWC5Hosv8

The Michael Jackson collaboration was real, apparently, and The Jetzons were the old band of an MJ co-songwriter.
Yeah. The sedition portions of the laws he passed have been toned down somewhat, but in exchange, we have clauses with many terror-related offences, even down to possessing banned literature, which eschew due process and force the defendant to prove their own innocence and that they had no intention to commit a crime, rather than the courts and police prove that the items are linked to intent to commit terrorism.
> Second coming of JNLP it looks like

Indeed! I never really understood how Sun screwed that part up so bad. It served a highly valuable need, but it seemed like they almost intentionally killed it by making the apps so awkward to deploy and manage from a security perspective it was non viable to use.
One could use an argument much like this to argue for compelling other self-incriminating testimony.
Fun fact: at one point in Rust's history, it too had conditions. They ended up being removed well before 1.0.
I have a moderate Lenovo and have done that for years. It is a P Something. Nothing special.

I have an Apple M1 machine this year too.

Battery life / capacity is much better on the Apple.

However, installing two batteries on the Lenovo is cheap to do and overall performance is comparable.

The M1 is 2 to 3x the raw compute of the Lenovo.

Anyway, I shut the lid and drop the machine in my bag all the time.

How?

Just have it hibernate. With today's fast SSD drives, one hardly notices it. I sure don't.

Lenovo is running Win 10. M1 still on Big Sur.
> In the last few years I've been working on more projects with non-programmers and more projects involving media and it has made me dislike git more and more with every passing day.

I think you give yourself an answer. Git is used by myriads of wannabe data scientist which only have a faint of CS understanding, create artifacts others have to clean after them.

Replace wannabe data scientist with whatever describes your situation.
Honestly, the two best things you can hire once you have some minimal traction are the best lawyer you can afford and the best accountant / business manager you can afford. The third bit of advice is just something you should tattoo inside your eyelids: cash is king.

Now, on with the first two.

"Hiring the best you can afford" doesn't mean hiring the best brand (Skadden. PwC etc). Find the person with the best technical expertise relevant to what you're pursuing. They're often stars from those shops who've gone out on their own -- just like you did.

Why? Don't you want to spend your money on a star engineer or great marketing?

No. Because you're in this game to win. And winning these days (whether going for an exit or, you know, an actual profitable business) needs you to have at least the following:

(1) Not make (or, more likely, not know how to avoid) stupid mistakes or ill-advised moves legally.
(2) Not screw up the administration of your business

Even if you do everything else right, errors in either 1 or 2 can prove fatal. Like, literally, you will lose everything.

Good lawyers are like good soldiers these days. You don't go to war without soldiers. And you don't do modern business without the best legal help you can get. Even in the most advantageous, optimistic, friendly scenario, run it by an attorney who knows their stuff. First. During. Last. Or wander onto the battlefield with people who outgun you. You've been warned.

Next: good business administrators are worth their weight in gold. It is a distinct skill and some people really are called to love and be good at book-keeping, accounting, cash flows etc. Do not screw yourself on taxes, audits, book-keeping, invoices slipping through cracks, agreements not being fulfilled or anything in the "admin of business" that keeps you from staying laser focused on you do well -- which is not business admin.

Finally -- remember, business is business. Repeat it to yourself early and often. Business is business. The VC who seemed really friendly and just "gets you"? Business is business. That particular contract term that just doesn't sit right with you -- but the person on the other side keeps telling you not to worry about it? Business is business. Your cofounder is your best friend but now they're not pulling their quota? Business is business. This isn't being machiavellian. It's that everyone will be applying it to you.

Ultimately, good lawyers and good business administrators will ensure that you remember "business is business". Don't leave things to chance. Don't trust. Don't be emotional . Business is business and if you're not controlling your agenda, someone will be controlling it for you.

There's enough sh*t in business you can't control. At least stay in control of what you can.
Invest in SEO early. And I mean invest all the way, including all the different structured metadata into all of your pages to get your website to appear the best on search results [1]. The long tail and residual effects of it get pretty insane.

[1] - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
Not quite the same, but when I was a kid there was an abandoned homestead in Western Oregon (I'm thinking south of Salem, just west of I-5) that had a few living trees. My dad's theory was they were planted there and were isolated enough that the blight never reached them.
Couch to 5K (C25K) is another run/walk training program, which is very popular here in the UK. Even the NHS (https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/couch-to-5k-week-by-we...) promotes it.

I started with a C25K plan in November 2020 and ran my first half marathon in October 2021. I'm looking at marathons now, it's changed my level of fitness far more than I could imagine.
Or just countries that don't subsidize fuel or cheaply produce it on their own.

Taxes are just one factor in the price.
It might not need advertising, but there are soooooo many sales reps working to push it, so....