skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proportional representation goes a long way of increasing fairness. Societies are not split cleanly by geographic lines. You can have a lot more diverse ruling class by coalescing single person electorates into at least 30 electorates per district.

But what would also be needed is to increase the total numbers of representatives by a whole factor at least. USA is one of the least represented democracies in the world (only India is worse). Even China has more representatives per capita.

This also extends to local elections where cities as big as Seattle or San Francisco only have 9 and 11 members in their respective city counsels. There is no way to represent such big and diverse cities with this few seats. In comparison Oslo has 59 seats in their city council.
Does this mean people aren’t paying new car prices for used cars anymore? Goodbye glorious no cost trade in era.
Well we already had Microsoft Unix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
That sounds really useful, but I've tried every combination I can think of, and tried to read documentation, but I can't get my Mac to do that.

I press command+tab, keep holding command, and then press up or down arrow, and the list of application icons just fades from view.

Any chance you could point me in the right direction?
Post-secondary education is more about signalling than learning. It's more about where you got in (to an exclusive and selective institution,) and that you finished, than whether they taught you anything useful. A question which might help you see this clearly: would you rather have an MIT diploma, or the knowledge you could acquire at MIT (assuming you can have only one)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
I totally get the appeal of having the jack, but when push comes to shove, I'll accept the tradeoff and get a USB-C headphone adapter.

One less hole for water to enter is also a good thing (speaking as someone who has managed to drop phones into puddles, toilets, pools, and pots of soup).
This mostly mirrors my experience. As a bit of advice, don't bother with your community college's CS program. Start with the math. Calculus is the great filter for STEM degrees. Either you can pass it or you can't, and there's really no use in taking CS courses until you do. Even the most permissive BA CS programs still require it.
I haven’t ever heard of this. Seems really interesting. Thanks.

Another thought I’ve had for a long time: why not just lift the limit on Congress? My understanding is that Congress set a law to cap it (as opposed to the constitution specifying it) Which made sense 100 or even 50 years ago when members of Congress needed to be physically present to vote in DC.

But today in a world of the internet, video conferencing, etc. it seems like that limitation is arbitrary. Much smaller districts would exists. Making gerrymandering harder. Making a the house look a lot different than the senate. It would make the House more like … a mayor who writes and votes on laws in DC instead of locally.
It's going to take a while to impact the current ecosystem but NodeJS is implementing testing natively and that will inevitably erode the popularity of jest/mocha/etc -

https://nodejs.org/api/test.html
Wouldn’t it be funny if the crusade to change McDonald’s french fries actually kills more people in the end?
Flutter is great, hope the update doesn't break too much!
No you wouldn’t. It is taking data you haven’t explicitly approved for release. Potential sensitive info.

That is the definition of spying.

You know most of what an actual spy collects isn’t super secret stuff right? Aggregated unclassified information can still reveal secrets.
UTSW genetic study confirms sarin nerve gas as cause of Gulf War illness
Is it tmux -CC style of iterm2 or you meant native tmux features?
For a list of what is currently available in Flutter 3, as well as a roadmap of upcoming features, see the M3 umbrella issue:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/91605

Feel free to upvote any issue that you would like to see prioritized, as it helps us with planning.
Your app looks good! I'm curious, what did you use for the charts?
Hmm, I think we're coming up against the weirdness of racial categories here. I'd say Ukrainians - to much the same extent as Hispanics - aren't quite considered white in American terms (which has virtually zero to do with one's skin color). Or not Caucasian, at least. (Yes, despite the fact that they come literally from the Caucasus, while Americans don't.) But it's impossible to come to an exact agreement on these things.

That interesting diversion notwithstanding, I think his being deaf is probably what accounts for his inclusion, which is consistent with the spirit of what that person was saying.
Signing in is still relatively easy. What takes a bit more skill is to get rid of the account once you no longer want it.
I’m baffled that you see a simple easy to understand rule and think we should spice it up with a logarithmic curve.

The goal is simply to say that big social media companies must comply and small niche ones are ok. It is arbitrary. It’s also probably fine. Note it’s not 1M people in Minnesota. It’s 1M users anywhere.
"There must be a new army of programmers who can question the intentions in the code. When our social and political adversaries are armed with algorithms, we, too, must take up the study of algorithms."

Good luck with that 'new army' thing.

You can hear the calls growing daily, in the EU, from Elon Musk, and from the political classes: "make the algorithms public."

Reality check, coming right up.
It's fair to extrapolate because their strategic decisions will be based on extrapolations.

NVIDIA had to overclock and hustle the current generation of cards and it's looking even worse for the next generation. Software was a moat when AMD was heavily resource constrained, but now they can afford the headcount to give chase. Between the chip shortage and crypto, there was plenty of noise on top of fundamentals, but one doesn't make strategic plans based on noise.

This is all speculative, of course. I'm sure if asked they would say it was a total coincidence. Just like AMD and Intel switching places on their stance towards overclocking. Complete coincidence that it matches the optimal strategy for their market position -- "milk it" vs "give chase." Somehow it always seems to match, though, and speculation is fun :)
Not sure what kind of substantiation you're looking for, but I've been working with Ionic and Capacitor for over 6 months now, as part of an ongoing client project. Previously, I worked with Cordova way back in 2015/2016. So I'm familiar with the technology. My comment addressed the fact that I'm not criticizing the tech, I'm criticizing the overall concept - rendering an application inside of a web view as if it's a native app.
Blocking the Neutrophil trash-can part of the immune system doesnt seem a good idea.

Stay off your sugar and do a bit of intermittent fasting. Herbert Shelton might have been onto something you know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil#Structure
"In 1973, Sanchez et al. found that the capacity of neutrophils to engulf bacteria is reduced when simple sugars like glucose, fructose as well as sucrose, honey and orange juice were ingested, while the ingestion of starches had no effect. Fasting, on the other hand, strengthened the neutrophils' phagocytic capacity to engulf bacteria. It was concluded that the function, and not the number, of phagocytes in engulfing bacteria was altered by the ingestion of sugars."
I still think it’s an interesting data point though, which only showing average salaries doesn’t reveal. But yeah, it would be nice to see min/max/median in geography, and just get the more raw data.
Be my guest. I am an older (41) but have been in tech since 1998, my first job was a local tech shop writing apps in ColdFusion…I built software for a long time before going into cybersecurity. My hobbies and interests have changed, but having that switch you can flip and just transport yourself completely to something else is amazing. It helps you have perspective and not let work stuff become your whole universe.

Even the author of this article fell into that trap IMO. Of course the whole article was about them recognizing it. They felt their work was super important and let it slowly eat their life. You get so invested in promotions and grinding things out, making projects look good for promotions. It is all toxic as heck. Like, when you see that happening just, stop. Who knows what will happen, but at least you won’t lose yourself. You may not get promoted as fast, but on a difficult project being eaten by politics that is likely anyway, our own heroics can’t overcome inertia like that.

Work isn’t worth it. Do right by the project, but just stop caring about it so much. Sorry, older tech survivor rant over. But, yeah, take care of yourselves, the golden FAANG chains aren’t worth your health :)
To further extend my own comment: I don't know if you believe in "technical debt" but there's definitely the existence of "product debt".

If your product isn't matching customer requirements, or if you're trying to pull one of "I am the master and people will love what I do", you increase the risk of market contact dissonance, fancy term for: you're not responding to customers' needs or wants.

WordPress is a behemoth that has been losing touch with its customers, carried over in the meantime by the train of recommendations and network effects; but that bubble is about to explode, imho.
Python 2 packages gone, so just need to wait for RHEL/CentOS 8 to die in 2029 and Python 2 should finally be gone?
From the essay:

Some nations have fine-grained representation of land but course-grained representation of ideas

Some nations have fine-grained representation of ideas but course-grained representation of land

You cannot have both, unless you're willing to have a legislature that has something like 5,000 people in it, which is not practical. (For instance, the USA has 50 states, so if we wanted 100 representatives from each state, the legislature would have 5,000 people in it — clearly not realistic.)
Yep, guessing mostly bots doing indexing / aggregation. Every publish triggers somewhere around 30-40 downloads.
And WSL/2 is a way better experience for me when using Terminal.

And tmux works.
With the steam engine.
And good for them, but that doesn't affect the fact that they are doing you (/me, us) a favour, an act of supererogation.

In any case, my point isn't really about whether they are being kind or not. That's a fortiori. It's that they certainly aren't under any obligation to provide it, nor to maintain it on account of having provided it.

(Although to respond to your precise point: I'm severely doubtful of your claim that Facebook gets 'huge marketing PR' from an open source library. No one is signing up to Facebook because of the [apparently-existent] 'huge marketing' of the fact that they wrote React.)
>when you argue that all of liberal America is working together to enable pedophiles.

I do not argue for this, the existence of a systematic and widespread ideology does not necessarily imply that the ideology is all-powerful or has full support.

But you can't handwave away the rather obvious evidence that this "minority" has some curious methods to impose its will on a whole lot of people, can you ? How is this small, oppressed minority capable of terrifying the heads of political parties and judges of high courts away from answering questions that any 18 years old can reliably answer ? By the power of looking adorable and saying 'Please' ?

>Do you think that all gay people are pedophiles too?

I fail to see why this is relevant to the discussion now, but no. I don't think there is a link between sexual affinity to same sex individuals and sexual affinity to children.
Commander in Ukraine Wants Quiet Electric Bikes for His Sniper Teams
Name something that has benefited the poor or middle class that has passed within the last 50 years. Because what I see is… dick. Nada. What I see is never ending transfer of wealth upwards, without exception. Maternal leave? Get fucked. Universal health care? Lol no. Hell, legalized marijuana at the federal level? Fiiiiilibuster.

Nah. I’m “encouraging” nothing. Just pointing out historical — and contemporary — reality.
Most US districts are not competitive. E.g., there's an almost zero chance that AOC, MTG, Cawthorne, etc. loses in the general election. You have a higher probability of losing a primary than a general.

If a moderate of their party runs, it'd be easy for their own members to vote for the moderate as #1 ahead then #2 the more extreme person, and not for the awful evil other party person. The opposition can also vote for the moderate of the dominant party, #1, their candidate #2, and not for the aweful extremist.
You are right, Democrats are catching on, and the house republican bias will be much smaller this year than it has been in the past. That being said, Gerrymandering still cause major issues in many state elections. Wisconsin for example had well more than 50% of votes go to democrats, yet republicans still hold a super majority in their legislature, making the dem governor powerless. North carolina has similar issues. I'm curious which state you think has gerrymandered for the dems so successfully that even when 55% of the votes go to dems republicans are still able to pass any law they want.
One of the factor is biological sex. Men convert a few %, and women convert around 30% of ALA.
Good thing case law in the US doesn't revolve around attitude right? I'm aghast at even having read this thread. What victim-blaming nonsense. Attitudes like this are exactly why the US incarcerates more per-capita than any other G20 country.
Hrrrm, you're not wrong. I don't think the law is intended to target wikipedia or imdb as such. Some of the others might actually be intentional though.
Dude I'm close trust me.
I have been working with it recently, yes. Again, I'm not criticizing their tech, moreso the underlying idea - rendering a webview as if it's a native app.
> they could have probably build a very Ruby on Rails like framework on a language more suited to the size and scale of these platforms.

I have a hunch they would rather have tens of thousands of other folks using a framework that has massive community support and folks other than them directly maintaining it.

Also being able to Google almost any problem in Rails and find multiple really good answers is worth needing 5 or 10 times more compute costs on just your application servers because dev time is expensive at any scale.

If you're paying 2,000 developers 150k+ a year that's 300 million dollars without accounting for anything that scales off base salary (bonuses, 401k matching, etc.). If you can save each developer 5 hours a week because of the Rails community existing that's 10,000 dev hours a week saved. An average person might work let's say 1,900 hours a year. That's roughly ~5.2 years of dev time saved from using Rails in opportunity costs and direct costs per week. Direct costs alone is ~$790k per week. I don't know what Shopify or a bigger place is paying on just application server costs but I'm guessing it's well worth hosting Rails instead of building their own framework in a more computationally efficient framework.

I think these numbers are really generous too. I'm guessing using Rails is saving a lot more than 5 hours a week of dev time per developer.
The battle for American conservatism
I've used Rexx a lot on IBM mainframes. 370 series VM/CMS. It took over from EXEC/2 as the "system interpreter" and a lot of system utilities were written in it. The email app was written in Rexx. You could write add-ons/macros to XEDIT in Rexx. The integration with everything was just awesome.

Even wrote a couple of games that ran on graphics terminals (3279???) ... my version of pacman and space invaders...

There was even this whole image processing library built over it...

Very powerful language though also very well matched to the environment and didn't carry as cleanly to others though it was nice to have it in OS/2. Clearly ahead of its time back in the day when IBM actually did cool stuff ;). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cowlishaw
> the PC platform has yet to see a proper APU

Wat. AMD literally invented the term 'APU' and has been shipping them since 2011. Fully unified CPU+GPU memory since 2014's Kavari. That's full cache coherent CPU & GPU along with the GPU using the same shared virtual pageable memory as the CPU.

The M1 didn't add anything new to the mix.
Demystifying code is a bit like asking biologists to demystify DNA. Is it going to happen any time soon? Doubt it.
> initial page load for the bank loads over HTTP and thus the IP returned can show a fake login page, even to the point of the browser auto-filling login credentials.

That problem would correctly be solved in a different way. "http://example.com/" is different from "https://example.com/" and so would have different cookies, auto-fill, etc. An indicator can be used in the location bar or status bar if needing to indicate the protocol and security clearly. The browser also should not auto-fill anything without the user's permission, regardless of protocol and TLS.
In 2009, a Taiwanese high-school student (Tseng I-ching) discovered bacteria that decomposes polystyrene [0]. I think she deserves credit for starting this field of research.

[0] https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=15307
APUs are AMD-speak for CPU and GPU on the same die (Intel has similar but doesn't call them that). Integrated graphics cards (a misnomer since there is no card -- IGP or iGPU is probably more accurate) may or may not be on the same die (instead could be on the motherboard, particularly in the chipset). That design is pretty rare/antiquated at this point though. Being on the same die means higher bandwidth, lower latency, etc.
>Simply switching from a monolith to microservices makes them more thoughtful about the consequences of design.

Well, in my experience it makes _some_ people more thoughtful about those things.
ctrl+f binary, tx this is the answer I was looking for. The binary is still in linux-firmware similar to intel drivers
Proportional representation has many of the good qualities listed here but is probably more politically feasible.
So, Wordpress, with its very flexible schemas and tens of thousands of plugins, and total freedom to do whatever with custom php is "too limiting" but a static site generator is not? Maybe have another look?
Yes, "only" a 33% increase from 2012 to 2020.
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Lol I have not seen this. Good point though. Will comply.
A good comparison is probably video cards as I understand it.
Sometimes people must be protected from themselves and from the delusions of misinformation.
See a recent example of people having their lifes ruined because they have been fooled by the promise of a crypto stablecoin here https://www.reddit.com/r/TerraLuna/
I mean yes flutter or newShinyFrameworkX does not cause as much harm and it is much more subtle. But the platform does matter. We are building user experiences, things that people will experience, a LOT.
Any non-web solution is much inferior in terms of feature completeness/expressivity, and conteary to popular belief, is inferior in performance and energy efficiency.
So yes I might have commented too much in this thread but that is a political act in essence, trying to advocate for the serious trustable solution that receive the most human resources.
You've confused a joke with a serious post here.
Additionally, CentOS has become "CentOS Stream" and no longer is 1:1 with RHEL and considered stable. It's an in-between Fedora (bleeding edge) and RHEL (boring and stable), which means things might change or break, etc... which is sort of the opposite of what your typical CentOS user wanted. Really a missed mark from IBM/RH.

This led to several CentOS replacement distros, including Rocky Linux (made by many original CentOS people), AlmaLinux and others. Both Rocky and Alma are supporting 8.x for 10 years, prompting many CentOS users to switch over.
I predict more inflation to come.... Mostly because there are so many stimulus dollars from governments still sloshing about in the world. It will be very interesting to see what happens to the semiconductor industry when the new fabs built with government money come online in ~2025.
I think if you want to make good money, then your realistic options are finance, crypto or AI.

I would pick AI, because it's a growth industry with on-going innovation. You would also be able to work in many different kinds of applications. It seems like it would be fulfilling work.

You didn't mention why you're uncomfortable with trading. Finance used to be a great choice, but it's not a growth industry now, innovation stopped after the Financial Crisis in 2008, and the industry has been saturated with PhDs for over a decade. Meaning math PhDs not in demand very much anymore in finance and most of the work is not very interesting anyway.

Personally, I wouldn't pick crypto ("blockchain") as a lifetime career.

Note that any of these career would require significant effort and learning on your part. You didn't mention what your PhD in mathematics is in. You would be competing with PhDs who have done their thesis in something highly relevant to AI or finance and/or have done a great deal of research on the topic before applying for jobs in their target field.

If you don't care about how much money you'll make, and enjoyed your PhD work, then I suppose postdoc would make sense. If you don't care about money and didn't like the academic environment, then you could go into teaching relatively easily with your qualifications. Perhaps teaching / lecturing at a private school or college, if not a university. I would suggest that you do care about money though, because it is an important factor in determining your quality of life.
That isn’t any different from what I said though? If someone points out you violated their copyright then you need to (1) fix the issue, and (2) pay appropriate damages. But for open source software the damages are nil, so fixing the violation is the only thing you need to do. And you can do that by either releasing the code as GPL, or removing the dependency. Either would be an acceptable remedy, in the eyes of the law.
Yes, there is an trend upward since the mid 2000s. I was just expecting a 10x.
"I used it so I wouldn't need to rewrite the 300 proprietary internal libraries and dependencies our company also paid to write and maintain in that language" is probably a valid answer for many BigCo employees.
I am not trying to start a pissing contest-- just to point out how personal everyone's perspective is-- I remember it being quite fashionable in the early 90s in my area.
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I could be barking up the wrong tree, but there is a podcast I listen to called Trainerroad (for all you cyclists) and they did a special over a year ago on recovery. They spoke very in-depth and brought experts in studying recovery (in the context of sport).

One of the interesting topics was that during recovery from exercise or an acute injury, your body's natural response to repair is through inflammation (not surprisingly). But that reducing or trying to block inflammation inhibits your body's ability to repair and build itself, leading to much slower recovery.

All in all, it seems there is a balance between reducing inflammation to prevent it from either killing you or causing pain vs reducing it to the point that it prevents your body's natural build and repair processes.