skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simply a different environment. I've seen it play out for good and for bad.

Good kids caught by police doing dumb things being let go to cover for them, backstabbing and blackmail might hurt the person doing it more than the target, you feel safer because even your superiors cover for you, and so on.

But the incompetent, the lazy, the corrupt also abuse an environment where accountability is flexible. While a normal person with a conscience will appreciate the cover when they slip up, it's very hard to get rid of the people you need to get rid of. Everyone knows they're lazy but they keep their job to avoid scandal and cruelty.

For example, if a coworker is obviously and visibly missing, their teammates will still scratch their heads if asked about them. "I might have seen them. They're around." Saying they didn't come today when asked, out in the open, is as rude as it gets.
Alternatively, I would argue that much harm has been done to agriculture by the 'information' sector in general. Commoditizing and industrializing food production (a reduction to data and numbers) has caused most of the issues collectively known as the 'modern American diet'
Lake Mead is so low because the Colorado River Water Compact allocates more water than has historically been in the river, based on tree ring data. There have been a number of years of historically average flow in a row, and keeping the reservoirs full requires roughly a decade of above average flow.

* Edit * For clarity the compact divides up 17 million acre/ft per year and the real average historic flow is closer to 13 million acre/ft per year. The compact also double dips in it's accounting for some return flows.
He's lucky he didn't get shot, I take it everybody is by now aware that there is a war going on there. The difference between 'Russian spy' and 'Dutch journalist' is in this case small enough that he should have been grateful at the restraint shown, especially given that he had ignored multiple summons to remove the content.
If I understand what it's doing correctly, this reminds me of the trigger function of an oscilloscope, which "enables repetitive waveforms to be displayed on the screen in steady fashion."

https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/test-methods/osci...
That would be pretty interesting if the opposite was true. Perpetual motion cows.
Thank you for sharing; these comments make me pause.

At work, RHEL on Thinkpad is one of the standard offerings, and has continued to be across many generations. EVERYTHING works. I've had a work-provided RHEL Thinkpad (T450) which was smooth and seamless, as have my colleagues (most of them chose X1 variations, some T480, some with the newer T14).

I have a large number of Thinkpads at home and I want to install Linux on some of them, but comments like these make me wonder how much extra work and special juice our IT department had to commit in order to make it happen - and what my own experience would be in real world.
This paper is from 2003, 19 years ago. I can recall reading it back then. That is, it made the rounds, it didn't sink without a trace. People read it.

Why didn't it have any impact?
That wasn't First Edition, it was the parallel Basic, Expert, Companion, Masters, Immortals (aka BECMI) D&D line that had 36 levels and came out between about 1980 and wrapped up in the mid-90s. AD&D First Edition did have a few paragraphs on divine ascension, noting that it was "remotely possible" and removed the character from play. BECMI, in contrast, had multiple defined pathways to divinity/immortality, along with rules for playing immortal characters.

Of the BECMI paths for immortality, the one you mentioned is the polymath. There are others. The epic hero quests after legendary artifacts of good and evil, accomplishes great deeds and leaves behind a successor. The paragon creates a unique artifact of power, recruits and train powerful minions, reshapes the landscape, and vanquishes any potential equals. The dynast founds a mighty empire and ensures it withstands the tests of time.
Why are you opposed to consumer choice?

Why do you feel it's fair that once you purchase something form Apple, you must go through Apple to make all future purchases?
No for that we use Python, but there is a growing ML community with Clojure as well, so I'd say definitely possible.
> but then makes random comments…It's like he doesn't realize that millions of people read his tweets.

Yes, people on the autism spectrum often lack social awareness and are unable to process the same social cue’s as neurotypical individuals.
between a a few hundred K and a few millions IMO
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This is the second comment I've come across today where I read it and immediately think "what an odd comment", and both times it was from your account. I'm curious, now that I am here and experiencing this, what about your day today has tickled the spidey sense. First was the comment about what we look like wearing thongs, another was about 'medicalizing diversity'.

If you don't mind getting analytical, what about today, in your life, is different about today than other days? Just curious. My day has been the same as others, good sleep, waking up easily, tasks in line for the day, no coffee, so I am willing to assume something about your life patterns today is bringing you under my nose.
A better man page reader (man tool) allowing to:

- show a table of content with a key press
- jump to next section with a key press (like what woman does in emacs)
- on a given flag, generate examples using that flag gathered from like GitHub
I wonder if this necessitates taking multivitamins regularly?
Another way to simulate the behavior of this tool, if I'm understanding you correctly, is with software flow control, usually mapped as ctrl-s for XOFF and ctrl-q for XON. That lets you pause output while you look at it, and then resume once you're done.
I wouldn't call that a re-invention UNIX as much as a serendipitous streamlining of it. At the rate features are being added to Linux, I wonder how long before it collapses under its own weight, and these passion projects like plan9, serenity os, redox, etc. take center-stage to pick up the pieces.
The reciprocal also works, these are antitrust laws set by the EU and if Apple wants to continue doing business in that market, they have to follow them.
> If you have a colleague or someone around who is self taught or from a bootcamp, be a bit more kind and explain or refer them to reading material on concepts in a subtle way, it doesn't take much to make them feel included.

About a decade ago I graduated from a technical institute's two year Computer Engineering Technology diploma program, so not a bootcamp, but absolutely not a full CS degree, and I've found this is a really important bit. My technical skills aren't really lacking, but my understanding and terminology still is. For my part I've become comfortable with saying "I'm unfamiliar with that concept, could you tell me more?"
> Yeah, by that definition a badly done copy of a famous statue would be "art" because it falls short of a copy, but a brand new statue perfectly executed in the style of a famous statue would not be art, because it doesn't shatter anything.

L.H.O.O.Q. is famous and influential in ways that a modern Mona Lisa style portrait would not be.

Hey, I don't make the rules.
I don't know what to tell you. I did get it exactly like I described, in Germany, and it was an online appointment.
Kind of agree. I don't think ag was malicious in that regard. No different than any business trying to maximize profits by any* means necessary (tm). Just so happens it affects human health.
> Some farmers will switch from livestock to corn.

This switch can take too long and would need to take place in an industry often already razor tin margins thanks to big chains (which can contribute to inflexibility) and then plants take time to grow and depend on the seasons, etc. Also fertilisers go into both the livestock and the corn feed.

>Basically - there is no shortage because markets will do their job and mean there is always availability of all goods.

A shortage doesn't need to mean people are starving. If prices of staple foods go up enough it too causes societal unrest.
(See Arab spring where bread prices went up, governments tried to protect their peg to the dollar, etc)

>The only time there will be a shortage is when governments do things like cap prices or restrict exports/imports.

Well here we see that happening when fuels and other components for fertilisers and some things like vegetable oils are affected by war.
Honestly this is a neat idea.
> Only 1 percent of all corn grown in this country is eaten by humans.

> The rest is No. 2 yellow field corn, which is indigestible to humans and used in animal feed, food supplements and ethanol.

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/five-ethanol-myths-busted-2/
This article specifically decries systems.

The advice not to over-analyse is itself an analasys and a piece of wisdom, which you and anyone you tell it to is better off for knowing. You have improved your and any readers life by becoming less ignorant. Your analasys is actually merely about optimization, specifically over-optimization or mis-directed optimization. And that is just one of the many thhings that are valuable to know, and which you can only know by thinking about it.

Maybe you're a thoughtless person and you only get it after years of unthinking miserable victimhood. Maybe you're a thoughtful person and this understanding occures to you on your own before you waste your life. Maybe you have the good fortune to have a parent that doesn't think ignorance is bliss and they imparted the wisdom to you. But one way or another, to have the understanding, you had to think about it, it had to be a tbought that existed in your head.

But you know who really does advocate for ignorance? Predators.
> Those that lived in the area throughout that time (like my own ancestors) left almost no history for obvious reasons,

Humans have lived in the basin where I live for at least 4000 years, and many parts of it are filled with thousands of bits of their pottery as evidence of their presence. I suspect that the Tewa/Pueblo people in general would be a little troubled by the idea that they "left almost no history" behind. I'm not sure what you think the "obvious reasons" would be for this, were it to be true?

> but it's pretty sure that they lived without most of the trappings of what present-day humans think of as civilization, like fire, clothing, or agriculture.

Your assumption is incorrect. The US southwest, like other parts of north America, has been home to human civilizations for thousands of years. The meant civilizations with technologies, art, trade, travel and certainly "fire, clothing and agriculture". Chaco Canyon in NW New Mexico was at one time a basically urban center that functioned as the area hub of a trading route that stretched from south of what is now Mexico City up into Utah, and was likely home to thousands of people living in permanent dwellings.

What is true is that the populations were generally small compared to modern American cities in the region, and would have tended to concentrate in areas with year-round surface water flow. Because of the lack of access to groundwater (as we have today, perhaps at a our long term peril), when the decades-long droughts hit (e.g. in the late 1400s) many of these populations had no choice but to move.
This is good to know.

I wonder if Xcode Instruments could be used to profile energy usage instead?

(Well, actually, for the stuff I do I almost certainly want to leave it to the OS to decide when to use which core.)
> Why?

This isn't good for most web use cases but there are some major new use cases that it enables.

Pyodide is in Python documentation all over the place, for instance on https://numpy.org/

Python has many libraries that JS is missing. Particularly the scientific computing ecosystem has a lot of very well supported Python packages but fewer JavaScript packages. They also can benefit a lot from connection to a UI.

Two key use cases for this stuff are Python education and scientific computing. Students have a hard time installing Python locally. Generally scientists want to share their results broadly, but they probably did their analysis in Python.

Here's another example of a good use case:
https://www.socialfinance.org.uk/blogs/analysing-sensitive-d...
I can focus for hours straight in a quiet room but:

a) I can't choose what to focus on. So if I need to do something but it's not the latest thing I'm obsessed about, tough luck

b) Deadlines help but if it's not something I'm obsessed about and there's no deadlines, not going to happen

My experience maps the author, I did well in university because becoming super interested in a subject and reading everything about it for a couple of weeks to the detriment of everything else worked well. Well it worked well in France where we had 2 exams a year and all exams were open book, it didn't work that well in the US where tests were more regular and memorising random uninteresting fact was expected (I lost point in a computer graphics class for not being able to give the name of companies that were members of the Opengl architectural board or when the first version was released... Who cares??)

After graduating, I'd say the fact that I get very interested in things and completely focus on them actually helped me in my career. On the other hand, my inability to do paperwork, send invoices on time (been a consultant most of my life), do my taxes etc lost me around 150k so far. So, it's a double edged sword for sure.
yes iOS "reduce loud sounds" settings should extend from headphones to all speakers!
Ok then the EU wants something like Gorillas (German unicorn start up) instead? Food delivery for low prices, where young students are exploited. Instead of providing high paying job's like apple does...
And that’s why all tech companies are in the US, employ people there and generate wealth there.
At one very short time, in only a few places was a horse needed. Most of the world used oxen or buffalo (not bison) for farm tasks not horses. In the American west a horse was needed to pull a plow because a horse moves just enough faster that a steel plow work. If you didn't need that speed a horse was not useful.

Horses were also useful for knights, but not most people in Europe. Herders in Mongolia and other planes areas made good use of horses as well. None of this translated to more than a small part of the world though. We have a romantic view of the cowboy, and just before the mass migration from farms to the city happened horses started taking over so we think of them as the backbone of the farm, but they generally were not.
I’m not familiar with the model numbers. What’s the gold equivalent to the Xeon Silver 4116?

Anyway I’m sure they compared the TCO of buying more low-end chips vs fewer high-end chips.
An ANSI/UTF-8 Reference Counted strings library for C.

In Free Pascal, the AnsiString type is a reference counted string, which can contain up to 2 billion characters, and you never have to allocate/deallocate them. These strings can contain any binary data, including nul, with the length of the string being counted as well. If you modify the string, it first checks the reference count, if it's 1, nothing needs to be done, if more than 1, it copies it first.

There is an equivalent WideString type as well as traditional pChar, etc.

C could really use a modern string type.
To be clear these are all use cases of Pyodide. PyScript only was released two days ago so it's harder to point to real world uses.
Although it's more manual, you could set up a mic to record into Audacity, cut the sections with no sound, and the length of the clip should give you your answer.

Or if the piano supports midi, maybe record using some kind of DAW (e.g. FL Studio), that way you won't be fooled by someone making noise into the mic to keep the timer going.
Software vendors lie. Even open source ones. In some cases they get REALLY close to the truth, but aren't forthcoming with that last 1% case where their statement becomes a lie.

If you want to see a ton of lies, go and start reading through all the Jepsen posts tearing down those dubious claims.

http://jepsen.io/analyses
>> What's interesting is that long-form narratives seem to less popular in newer systems (and particularly outside the traditional D&D camp), which tend to aim instead for a reasonably short, self-contained arc in maybe half a dozen or so sessions. Particularly with the PbtA/FitD genre that's come out of Apocalypse World and its derivatives, there's a lot of emphasis on telling the one story that the system makes sense for, and then moving on to another story.

That's right, but I wonder whether this is more of an effort to find and occupy a niche in a market where D&D still sucks all the air out of the room. D&D and some other big-name games like Pathfinder, or Vampire I think. I'm not even sure anymore.
When did we start this trend of disappearing people for daring to suggest "the truth" disagrees with truth?

Professionally, this mechanism must have some type of impetus or utility in the end, or it wouldn't be so popular.

My first hypothesis, is to assume it is bruised ego, but in a corp so large as Google, who could have the unilateral ability to both take offense but then dismiss someone from such a critical initiative for what their research postulates?

Is someone who you've disagreed with in the past beyond reproach once they've made a claim that you are singling them out? Do two articulating surfaces of an org have the ability to ignore input from eachother, disarticulating the departments, when there is often a mismatch of opinion? If the answer is yes, then we no longer have checks and balances. If the answer is no, then it sounds like someone was accused of singling out the other, and their rebuttal and research toward the contrary was conveniently disregarded.
Nice stereotype man. Again, I am Swedish and I consider myself a leftist. Can you argument and not resort to ad hominem?

How is it a fallacy when it is real?

Here is an example from the building sector here:
The Vaxholm Conflict
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/06/swed-j27.html
TL:DR Building company wanted to employ Latvian workers at a lower rate of pay than Swedish workers.

I, personally, was also affected when Polish workers where just plain cheaper in IT so they fired all of us.

Now, I of course blame the companies, the capitalist systems, but I also blame the people. It is only human.

How is it a fallacy when it is real?
Pretty much agree. In BIRD, we use autoconf, but not automake, instead we just use GNU make directly.
> ...mainly by purchasing the wrong things in the supermarket.

I doubt that blaming the consumer is helpful. Stuff like fat shaming usually backfires. And leads to us-vs-them polarization.

Plus, are consumers really to blame when choices are constrained by others?

Plus, it absolves the actual villains. No different than the industry funded rhetoric around plastic recycling and carbon footprint. As though Big Ag is only responding to consumer demand, and is other wise powerless to effect change.

We need to find more effective strategies for constructive policymaking. Blame and shame isn't working.

Our current food pyramid is the result of industrial policy choices. Perhaps we can make other choices. Perhaps by demanding a seat at the table.
>What I have never understood is why don't FANG companies hires local American Programmers/Engineers for trial periods.

While many companies, formally or otherwise, have some sort of probationary period, the general understanding is--unless you've really misrepresented your skills and the company probably screwed up the hiring process--you're not going to be let go after a few weeks. (Absent major organizational/financial changes.)

Even for a local job, I would be very unlikely to quit an existing job--or even put interviewing on hold--to take a job with an explicit trial period.

(Now, sure, if I had just graduated from a boot camp or other degree program and didn't have immediate alternatives, maybe.)
Sony should have the choice of compiling a game that accesses all features of the hardware and software that other game publishers and Nintendo does, Somy should be able tk publish it under their own brand and simply make the business choice not to, and the consumer should have the choice of using it

The issue would be Nintendo shutting off access to a subset of hardware features except for themselves for no reason other than Sony not being able to publish a functioning game or other software
Why was the site breaking under such a little stress? For requests per second, that is really not that much.
Nah not really. Having a top-end iPhone or Samsung be a hardened device by default would mean world leaders would be protected on their personal devices. Also, most anyone who talks to a world leader would get that same protection.

On the other hand "run of the mill" phones that you can hand to a teenager (or use as a backup phone) don't need ultra-security and the cost that comes with it.

Really low end devices would probably be secure by simple virtue of not having enough features to enable hacking.
Having used both QT and Electron, my subjective experience is that Electron is just more ergonomic to use. And it's not because I'm new to C++ either. I have more years logged writing C++ than I do in the JS ecosystem. It's also not because I actually like Electron very much (I have several big problems with it), but if I needed to build a new cross-platform UI app these days Electron would be my default.
I can assure you that it was a question born of curiousity as to whether or not you had any basis in fact or legal precedent for your claim.

It's overwhelmingly apparent you don't. I'm satisfied by your response to that regard.

Good chatting with you.
It sounds like you want to combine git blame with performance data.
Same goes for zucchini and eggplant. People often bring their excess zucchini’s into the office as a trophy, and potentially prize to some lucky staff member, but they’re tasteless.
Do I understand correctly that the author of the paper is naming this "effect" after himself?

The study only includes data from a few months in mid-2000 in Kansas. Seems premature on that basis.
There's a duopoly (Apple/Google) in the smartphone market, that's not a healthy market.
It's not unprecedented. It's been a steady state that they have pretended was not a steady state. They are not "in a drought". They say drought in a way that implies that it is a temporary state that may return to a different, normal state. But it will not. They have reached a new normal of a lower water level.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-t... was a great editorial on this from last year.

Meanwhile, they continue to push nonsense to help. The amount of water used by residences doing "outdoor watering" is miniscule. Agriculture is over 80% of the water use in california. If they were going to completely run out of water in a week, and all outdoor watering by residences would stop, it would buy you less than a day.

It is politically untenable to fix this, as it requires not trying to grow water-hungry crops in what is literally a desert. They are trying to slow-walk things - farmers won't even be required to all have water meters to measure their water usage for years yet. It won't help enough. There is likely no way to fix this without completely destroying the livelihoods of a lot of farmers, and nobody wants to deal with that for real. It will happen either way, mind you, the only question is whether it destroys the ability of everyone else to live there at all.

Unfortunately, nature is not going to wait for politics.
i3 runs fine on macOS
Yup yup yup! Good shouts all around. Already reaching out to people directly!
Oh Hibernate sucks. LINQ is built into the language not a bolted on library.

How can MS be behind in version control? TFS has had git support for ages and MS owns GitHub.
> they are in plane sight

I see what you did there.