skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that doesn't, I'm not sure what would. Maybe it would help if I taboo the word "subjective". Are you familiar with Maxwell's demon? Let's set up a variation of that experiment.

I have a partitioned box full of air at room temperature and pressure in both partitions. There's a frictionless door that can be open and closed by an ultrafast servomechanism. The servo is connected to a computer which will read a very long bitstring from a magnetic hard-drive platter at a high frequency and open the door when the bit is '1' and close it when the bit is '0'.

Admittedly, this mechanism would be hard to construct in practice, but I hope it's clear enough as a thought experiment.

Now if you're familiar with Maxwell's demon, you'll agree that there are particular, albeit rare, joint configurations of gas microstate and hard drive bitstring, such that after the servo has finished its last motion, the gas will have been separated into hot and cold on either side of the partition. This temperature difference can be used to extract work.

For each possible bitstring on the drive, there are certain corresponding microstates of gas that will maximize the free energy extracted by this process.

And for each possible microstate of the gas, there are certain corresponding bitstrings that will maximize the free energy extracted by this process.

(For the vast majority of other combinations of hard drive bitstring and gas microstate, the operation will have no effect).

The claim "entropy is subjective" is basically just an acknowledgement that the energy extractable from the gas is dependent on both the state of the gas itself and also the data written to the hard drive. It means that two experimenters, tasked with writing the initial data on the hard drive to extract as much work as possible from the gas, will have different levels of success depending on whether they know the particular microstate of the gas (and can thus select the corresponding optimal bitstring) or if they don't know the microstate of the gas beyond "a box at room temperature and pressure", and have to guess a bitstring based on only that. And when the operation is successful, we can describe the data on the hard drive as "information about the gas microstate that was used to extract work".

This experiment, of course, is so impractical that it sounds ridiculous. But we can make a more controlled version of it on the small scale, with excited trapped atoms, and actually make it work.
The companies I worked for are headquartered in Quebec (with the exception of my current job), so I can only confidently comment for the "internal to Quebec" situations. I recently joined a company that was acquired by a bigger US company, and now all company wide communications are bilingual since then. ERP was already bilingual since the 90s as my direct employer is basically Canadian-wide.

I know the basis of these regulations is to give Quebec employees not fluent enough in English the power to ask/require a fully French environment. I BELIEVE this can escalate up to the OQLF being able to fine companies not being able to provide a French environment to their employees, but don't quote me on that.

As far as english language software is concerned, most Quebec employees have a varying degree of "letting go" on this matter when confronted to English messages, as long as their internal documentation/knowledge let them know what messages are considered normal in their work process, even if they don't understand fully what that means. The OQLF, however, believe this is a major problem to be dealt with yesterday: IT HAS to make available said software in their French version, if the software publisher actually publish a French version. If not, I believe you are encouraged (forced? not fully sure) to ask the software developer about availability.

Even if the software developper released a broken (or even partial!) French version using Google Translator, it becomes THE version to deploy, no buts.
If you need to use Vectors and Quaternions then Go isn't really for you either.

The lack of any ability to do any operator overloading or writing arithmetic types along with the lack of parameteric polymorphism means you wind up doing stuff like Q.VectorMult(v) instead of just Q * v.

Somewhere there's one of those "Go Koans" about how languages should allow programmers to easily express their intent, which I think the latter covers much better since nobody writes mathematical texts/articles using method notation.

Meanwhile Go has that whack and almost useless complex type built into the language because Rob Pike pulled it out of the ANSI C book and figured that was all the Engineers at Google would ever need to use, or something. But users can't write types like that because they can't be trusted with that much power I guess.
Vulnerabilities in Curl 7.82.0
While I think you're right about the product focus, FWIW, the Parrot drones/phone app have easy to use modes like this.
> Just because bits are travelling across the wire and the digital artifacts happen to stored in Kalamazoo does not mean services or goods have crossed state lines.

Yes, it does.

> The fact that this conversation is this complex

I like that you not only inject false complexity into the conversation, but also pretend that that act is some kind of external fact that proves something about the underlying issue.
On the conservative side:

https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1519688581261967366
What Was Artificial Intelligence
I for example don't agree with how mastodon.social is handling things
Yeah, I know they didn't literally go bust, some company always winds up buying the remaining value in the company, as its trademarks and IP have value.

But in any practical sense, they ceased to exist. (I meant Lotus of 1-2-3 fame, not car fame.)
This would make an amazing tablet specifically for topographic mapping. I would love something that can be used for days or weeks on end without charging and also could do a GPS ping as needed (manually)
You can spend literally as much time as you like on memory management. Google has chosen 20%. They have also, by banning exceptions, chosen to spend a very substantial part of their time on checking for error status, and on two-phase initialization and cleanup.

I most typically choose 0% post start-up, with 0% fragmentation. For a different problem domain, I might choose differently.
I really liked the Pratchett books, but that one was not really his best.
as others have mentioned, the raspberry pi 4 is pretty slow at decoding video, but the 4gb or 8gb does work well as a single or dual screen development computer. however, I have have been using a jetson tx1, and later tx2 dev kit as my computer since 2016, as those were better than what was available at the time. i also use a jetson nano 4gb, with patched mpv to play one or more 1080p60 videos with acceleration, local or streaming with no issues. i assume the jetson 2gb would work similarly, just use a window manager like i3 on the raspi4 and jetson boards. also I believe the upcoming orin nx boards with 6 core with 8gb and 8 core with 16gb lpddr5 will very nice.
often they are agents that manage social media for different businesses. they should be counted as separate
I personally favour not having a dress code. It’s just that I don’t dismiss dress codes as having no purpose. They have a purpose, it’s just not one I agree with.

In a related area, PayPal once no-hired an otherwise qualified engineer because when asked what they do for fun, the candidate replied “shoot hoops,” and PayPal’s cultural belief was that “No PayPal engineer shoots hoops.”

I would never work for a company with cultural filters like this, but I can understand their reasoning even if I deeply believe such workplaces are toxic monocultures with a side of racism.
I think it's a matter of different goals. What you describe is pains of a very senior developer who has worked on a lot of very subtle bugs and never questioned their desire to deliver the best software possible.

Parent comment, however, talks about a situation where you have to hire dozens (if not hundreds) of $10/hour developers to ship software that is just good enough. I mean folks who may be great people and deserving overall respect, but who can't actually solve FizzBuzz. For such a situation, this:

> You may be pushing the problem onto ops people, other devs, or your customers

is quite alright and much more preferable than paying the market rate for developers who are actually capable of learning Rust.
I wonder how much zram would help (compresses part of your ram). It would reduce caching be then your cpu would need to decpompress a lot.
It’s a weird experience, a bit uncanny valley like. I was using while watching video, and it’s somewhat eerie to turn my head and still have the audio from the earphones “pinned” to the screen.
There's a serious cost to allowing you to manage it yourself - many of those who are "managing it themselves" do not understand that they're in charge of their own unemployment or retirement, and even of those who are, some proportion will go bust through essentially no fault of their own.

Now, the state has a bunch of citizens who are unable to meet the basic necessities of life in situations of unemployment or retirement. Is it really appropriate to let these people become homeless? Die in the streets?
The states also signed laws, akin to treaties at the time, agreeing to allow other states to enforce certain domains of law within their jurisdiction. This is part of how the federation of the United States of America came into being.
Different areas have vastly different "cultures" around house buying. Some regions they've always gone for "more than asking" for decades, it's just how the game is played.

And other places consistently go for "less than asking" - but the end result is the same, really.
That is a nice thought, however twitter locked down the codebase to avoid disgruntled employees from vandalizing the site / planting backdoors: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/twitter-lock-source-code-e...

This does raise a question - what are all those twitter engineers are doing?
I agree with the other reply. Unless you have evidence to support this, it's just a conspiracy theory.
No, in this case the shop is in California, where the California resident is performing his work, which is then transmitted to the office in Illinois.

CA gets to regulate the company with respect to its CA operations, i.e., that employee in CA. The CA regulations don't apply to any of the company's non-CA employees.

This has always been the rule with respect to employees working in other jurisdictions.
Why is this such a mystery to people like you?

The biggest news item of the past week has been Elon buying Twitter.

Prominent conservative accounts had followers go up by ~1%

Prominent liberal accounts had followers go down by ~1%

People who don't like the idea of Musk owning Twitter left (though probably temporarily) and people who previously left due to Twitter's policies returned because they read the news and like the idea of Musk owning it.
An average L7 at Amazon will see that "limit disruption to Y and Z" is simply a constraint to the engineering problem and make it work. That's sort of what makes someone at that level - the ability to detect the cost for moving different constraints and being able to demonstrate the technorganizational advantage from doing it.

Combine that with the ability to get grassroots implementer support and you have a pretty able leader.

Everything is just constraint solving in the end, and the hard part is maintaining pace.
When everything went virtual during the pandemic, I learned that roughly half of my team have some sort of musical instrument on display in their home office. Guitars are most common, but I saw a couple of ukeleles and a banjo. The best though was discovering that one coworker has a couple of very obscure modular synthesizers along with a Wurlitzer and some other nice gear.
The Baby-Boomer generation in the US is increasingly deciding to "age in place" rather than downsize and/or move to assisted living facilities. This is certainly a factor in the ownership figure you are quoting. There has been lots of coverage in this trend the last few years as well. See:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/realestate/baby-boomers-r...

and

https://archive.ph/0LXQu
I think it's extremely important to undertake a cost benefit analysis of the end state to decide if we want to transform society in that direction. So I disagree strongly with any comment of the form "don't get too caught up in the end state".

I agree there are some other things you can tax. I presume those are also taxed at precisely the economic rents they create? My point is that government needs some sort of tax with a knob that they have the ability to tweak upwards or downwards based on shifting revenue needs. It seems to me the only things in a Georgist system are taxed at precise values and fail to give government that knob. Do all Georgist societies have some sort of services cap because their tax revenues are capped?
elsevier wants whatever financial benefits they can squeeze out. when someone copy pastes someone elses work and starts charging a fee for use that is beyond plaigarism.
when someone submits a work and collectively elsevier edits that work, and originator ~agrees~ to the revisions, this is called collaboration and implies partnership in a derived work, thus elsevier goes from something they dont own, to forcing collaborative ownership of something that is not thiers. this is how you leverage works that are meant to be freely shared, into being something to commoditize for private gain, in exchange for allowing you to publish on thier platform. this is not how a career path through science works.

it seems my path of molecular biology genetics and virology are not most career paths, and have not needed elsevier for dissemination of manuscript and prepublication. I remember it being quite a concern when elsevier started gobbling up everything, and we had to go back to email or paper in hand until the mailing list was sorted out. nowadays out of security concerns i have to SSL directly with oversight.
What I'd like to tell my son when he gets older is that he has to choose something to be putting regular effort into getting better. It can be music or baseball or chess or Overwatch, but he has to spend at least some time every week actively investing in a skill that takes several years to master.

We'll see how that turns out. As a toddler he pretty naturally pushes himself to master skills at his own pace; hopefully that attitude will continue.
I'm not asking you to edit your post per se, I was giving feedback that your post is (1) flame-y and (2) not very compelling because it leans more on loaded language than it does on reasoned argument (and there are plenty of reasoned arguments to be made against Go, including, for example, the Windows file abstraction argument in your more recent post).
thanks! I haven't been following that space for a long time, seems like it has stagnated.
Ukrainians are scrubbing OpenStreetMap to keep Intel from Russia’s army
From the article: Ukrainian OSM members said they would “take action to amend (delete, modify, revert to the previous state, etc.) any found cases of mapping related to military or critical social infrastructure facilities as well as contact the [Data Working Group] and other [OSM Foundation] working groups to ban the users who systematically make similar changes (more than one).”
At first glance I wouldn't think of FarmVille as being a place where people go to be creative. But it totally makes sense. There are a number of constraints, but the player has to design and layout everything.
What's insulting is that you don't need to go far to get your type of feedback. Yet development efforts are spent on developing gamification mechanism that are utterly pointless, April Fool's or, wait, live streaming? They still manage two concurrent designs and have been for years - it's the longest frontend migration I've ever seen. They just started giving tools to the moderation community that has been keeping their platform alive and moderated.
Why would they clip? Surely they should snap onto your shirt.
Implicit Commissions
> "The moon isn’t an obvious reservoir of water. “It’s really weird when you stop to think about it,” said Mark Robinson, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University. Its lack of atmosphere and extreme temperatures should cause any water to almost instantly evaporate."

Wouldn't the water vapor get pulled back to the moon via gravity?
Who uses Lotus 1-2-3 today? Nobody.
Wouldn't that be avoided by hiring independent contractors?
I'm curious what you see as so different in an actor vs a queue with workers. An actor's mailbox effectively acts as a queue.

Is it the supporting structure surrounding an actor focused library/language? Lots of person-hours have gone into making them to work well. Some home grown queue + pool of threads working off that queue... not so much.
> With reference counting there are no pauses

How are you reclaiming cycles with no pauses?
Dependencies must not be seen as "a blackbox someone else have built and distribute" but as part of your project, only developed by someone else. If you are the leader of your project it's your duty to review code from all developers participating to the project you are leading.

That way means you give a bit of trust to anyone, in the end we all work for a purpose, rouge agents are rare in any community, but not more than a bit, so updating is a must, not doing it means having someone who work for nothing, but with checks.

If that's overburden it's because actual IT development model, separate stuff for anything instead of an operating-system-environment-framework with a unique language (like ALL from the past) and a single application formed by tons of individual functions/methods/modules (again like ALL from the past) and such issue can't be solved keeping up the actual paradigm.
i don’t see any mass adoption of drones. the only time drone photos/videos will be common is when your phone can fly. bringing a drone around is a hassle. they are generally big (esp compared to a phone), extremely fragile, expensive, have short battery life. they are everything that made digital cameras hard and more. they would have to be so much better than what we have, but phone images and videos are already so good i don’t see it happening
Seems like he has more of a bone to pick with the windows filesystem than he does GO. Sadly he gets close to the answer but doesn't quite cross the finish line to realizing his issues are a result of limitations of windowsisms.
Disney's (and 1844 other entities) special district status is enshrined in Florida state and/or county law. At that point, those "privileges" become legal rights:

> RCID operates in accordance with its Charter and Chapter 189, Florida Statutes, The Uniform Special Districts Accountability Act. Additional information contained in legislation. Click here to view the District Charter: https://www.rcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/RCID-Charter...

Further, the first amendment to the US Constitution grants people (and corporations due to rulings like Citizens United, et al.) the right to publicly voice their opinions (good or bad) about the government's actions without fear of government retaliation, except in very narrow cases where that speech is deemed illegal. This is the real crux of the issue: if this legislation was retaliatory--and there are ample indications that it was in the public record--then the legislation violates Disney's first amendment rights.

Whether the corporate rights exist in law for Disney (and other theme parks) is a matter of public record. Whether those rights should be granted at all is a topic worthy of debate, but it actually orthogonal to this particular issue, though they are clearly related.

And the harm to Disney and Orange and Osceola counties is that they must transition all of the infrastructure and services that are operated by the RCID to the counties before the dissolution of the RCID on July 1, 2023. On or after July 1, 2023, Disney can petition the government to re-establish the special district. If approved, then Disney and the counties will have to transition the infrastructure and services back to the newly re-established RCID. The time, effort and cost of those two transitions will be born by Disney and the Orange and Osceola county taxpayers and will like run in the 10s to 100s of millions of dollars, with no business, legislative, or regulatory benefit for the expenditure.
With the fediverse, I think people need to drop the notion that they expect people they already know to be on the platform. Specifically Mastodon: If you log on expecting to find the people you follow on twitter, you are in for a bad time. But, if you log on looking to find and follow a bunch of unique new people, there is no shortage of accounts/instances to follow, and the # of users relative to centralized services doesn't matter.
In my opinion someone from outside of CA complaining about CA laws for out-of-state employers has very little to do with the state’s entrepreneurial spirit or the ease of starting a business as a Californian. And more so when the reason for the complaint could have been avoided with cursory research and minimal effort.
I don't think so. I've read that he doesn't have a due diligence provision in the merger agreement.

And, I don't see any such provision in the agreement, which I _think_ is here: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/0...

He could back out paying the $1 billion breakup fee, and I suppose he might have some cause of action if there were serious problems with the reps and warranties. But IANAL.
> I'm still waiting for an explanation on why liberal accounts have lost thousands followers but conservative accounts have gained thousands.

Because one side has had lots of people pushing a “quit twitter” movement (to the extent that voices on that side, or marketing to them, who depend on Twitter have been posting desperate pleas for people not to leave) in reaction to the Musk takeover, and one has been rushing in because they perceive a more favorable environment?
Perhaps the missing component in understanding this is the time frame for draining Huron/Michigan into "River Erie".

So Niagara is slowly eroding and will eventually reach a tipping point where further erosion will increase the rate of outflow from Erie. The increased outflow will increase the rate of erosion which will increase the rate of outflow, and so on. Correct?

When this is happening, the rate of outflow from Michigan/Huron via Detroit and St Claire will increase, but erosion is not necessary for this to occur?

Say we built a dam on the Detroit River that keeps Michigan/Huron at its current water level. And then Erie turns into a river. Once that transition is complete, we destroy the dam. How much time is necessary for Michigan/Huron to drain? Is the timescale days, weeks, months, years, etc?
I've never actually sat down and worked it out, but it seems to me that this is more of a political buoy than legitimately optimized.

Once you factor in all the processing of certain biomass, specifically I recall a European nation, the UK perhaps, was burning wood product. Wood is significantly less energy dense than coal for instance... If your workers are driving to and from work, if you're cutting it down with two stroke chainsaws, loading it into trucks, packing it into trains... I think these factors were all removed from calculations to conclude it's "carbon neutral".

And for some reason, probably wrongly, I'd like to imagine leaving the trees up is more beneficial (even if the fuel is a byproduct of industry), but I can imagine during a tree's lifecycle there's a "peak sequestration" age/size they're maybe targeting.