skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thanks.

You're welcome. I don't look at usernames on HN so it didn't occur to me until now that it's your project. It really does seem like a well-considered extension of Oberon, I'm going to check it out in more depth later.

> The argument was, that Wirth's original language designs were less successful than the extended versions designed by others, e.g. Boarland.

In a sense, the extensions of his work are the success, eh?

> The original designs are undoubtedly sufficiently expressive to build things of decent size, but apparently too little attractive for wide adoption.

In the quote from the interview with Wirth he says "I think the industry thinks it’s a big asset to have a complex thing that increases their reputation of being sophisticated." So rather than a curing a lack of expressivity, complexity instead provides a marketing edge, in his opinion.

> Not surprisingly, variants of all Wirth languages have quickly emerged

Again, to me that seems like a kind of success. The alternatives are that Wirth birthed perfect languages, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus, or that they were all barren and died on the vine.
You could also less charitably read that "growth" as using 250 servers to do the same job you previously did with two. I guess that's growth for sever manufacturers, but I'd expect with more powerful hardware we'd need fewer servers, rather than more.
Chimps have culture: https://www.nature.com/articles/050815-12

As for "dominion over the earth," we're in the process right now of finding out exactly how fragile our hold over the planet is. I would not be asserting "dominion over the earth" as some kind of virtue at this point.
Effective tax rates and stock-based compensation
You seem to imply that a PhD program is the only way to have researchers get tutored/trained. I.e., that PhD programs have a monopoly on developing the skillset; I'm saying they have a monopoly on the credential but not the skillset. Maybe I've had good employers but there's always been an emphasis on training junior employees in research, regardless if they had a PhD or not. Maybe that's the seat of our difference in opinion.

I think the idea that a PhD program is the only adequate training for research is flawed. Most of the researchers (PhD and otherwise) have a fairly methodical approach to the endeavor. If there's a method/process, it can be taught. The non-PhDs that I know doing research did not have some innate talent for research, but were taught by other more senior researchers.

IMO, most research is borne from the combination of a solid grasp of a problem that needs to be solved, taking the time to build deep understanding of the topic, and then following a methodical approach to testing a hypothesis. None of that takes exceptional talent or half a decade in a PhD program to learn. (I say this as somebody who's been through a PhD program that I enjoyed. It's not from any bitterness). The biggest hurdle for many seems to be funding and resources, rather than some exceptional talent. And to that end, I'd concede that a PhD credential can open up doors for resources, but I hold that as distinct from the skills required from research.

If you're talking about the exceptional, once-in-a-generation breakthroughs, sure, I can see why a PhD program with an exceptional advisor may be necessary. The the vast, vast majority of research is small and incremental.
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First, MMMFs target $1/share, they do not promise it nor are they legally beholden to honor it. It's a goal, not a promise.

It also works because the US dollar has been remarkably stable and most of their holdings are USD. No crypto is so stable, with a bunch of them being about the most volatile assets you can lose money with.
Right, I’m familiar with an alternate expression for what I just described. Were you disputing that it’s rare, or…?
Feels like it needs to be stated it also introduces additional attack vectors. It’s not without consequence.
What's the alternative then?

From the looks of it, this individual offended in 2011 and did his time (120 days in prison). Hasn't offended since (nearly 11 years). It seems to me like he made a mistake, did his time and did something useful with his life since. If he can't "re-enter" society, then who can?

For the record, I never said society needs to forgive this guy. You don't even need to like him. But if you work in the same company or committee, you need to do your job and let him do his (or quit).

Everyone is so quick to cancel people these days. Everyone needs to grow up.
"RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya (Russian: Россия Сегодня)) is a Russian state-controlled international television network funded by the Russian government." (Wikipedia)

Something to be aware of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat
Interesting play. Guess they're like why not court some linux devs....and/or people at "Pop!_OS" were pressuring them for a collab? Not my realm of activity really but never heard of Pop! until now
If somebody could descent from a time travel machine and show us new revolutionary technologies like "ceramic", "pottery", or "glass"...
Lyft to Pause Hiring
> could you tell that you're not in the 80s?

Well yes, because we have solar panels and heat pumps and battery powered power tools and vacuum cleaners and dishwashers and microwave ovens and smart lights and ...

You wouldn't expect walls and carpets to change.
Not sure about the non-security expert bit but I've done stuff[0] similar to this for iOS using Frida[1] which supports macOS too. For apps that use unpinned certificates and the builtin networking libraries(NSURLSession et.al.) you can directly use mimtproxy[2] or Charles[3]

0: https://hugotunius.se/2020/08/07/stealing-tls-sessions-keys-...

1: https://frida.re/

2: https://mitmproxy.org/

3: https://www.charlesproxy.com/
People in other cities also have dogs. Many even have dogs and children.

I would also like to complain about the linked article. It links to another article on the same site, which has a chart showing the percentage under 18 for the 100 most populous cities in the US. But the chart only shows 25 cities. Is this a cherry-picked selection of cities? Is it the 25 cities among the largest 100 with the least children? Did the API request time out in my web browser?
Don't know about Hetzner but cloud traffic these days are not routed over the public Internet in that way.
There are a lot of caves, most of them with nothing noteworthy inside. Exploring a known deathtrap is more likely than some random hole in a rural mountain.
I actually thought Glade was deprecated? I'm surprised to see it mentioned... Or maybe I'm wrong or maybe the author didn't know!
N. Korea fires ballistic missile eastward: S. Korean military
> to fix a deep water cable, the ship has to use a grapnel, which grabs and cuts the cable, dragging the two loose ends to the surface. If needed, one end can then be hooked to a buoy and the other end brought on board. Cable has to be added to make the repair, since there is not enough slack to bring the cable up and cut a piece out. After the cable is retrieved and on board, in a repair room that looks like a laboratory, engineers repair the cable. Data cables can take up to 16 hours to repair, after which they are lowered back down to the sea bed in an omega or hairpin pattern to accommodate the extra length. There is new technology in development that would make in situ repair possible for power cables, preventing the need to pull the cables up to the surface.
> If their employees felt exploited they'd have problems retaining them.

That is not usually true. Lots and lots of people feel exploited by their employers, yet stay in their jobs. Generally, they have financial obligations, need money and benefits, and jobs aren't so easy to replace.
Yes, but a person can write a paper just as well in Wordperfect 5 as the latest Google Doc or Office365 Word. How many millions of dev-hours have been expended on stuff that fundamentally doesn't do anything new?

Edit: saying they don't do anything new isn't right. They do, especially with regards to collaboration. What I really mean is that they don't make the essential task -- the actual writing -- much easier. That's still human/mental work. Once you have come up with the words, putting the words into a document is the easy part.
I'm searching right now. There are jobs to be had, but you'll have to fire like a scatter gun instead of a rifle. I started my interview process with 10 companies and I'm down to three that I'm closing final rounds with.
It will... think of how many startups use AWS, Google Cloud, Tableau, Slack, or Microsoft products. Our industry is incestuous.
It’s nice to see the EU bringing forward the world, basically.
See this is just low quality FUD,

They have 39B in US Treasury Bills, how much do you think these will drop if they sell? The truth is next to nothing. and a 39B moat for sell offs seems very reasonable
Ethereum's co-founder thinks the blockchain can fix social media
> Cells are grouped into a grid, called a block, and blocks are grouped into planes. The smallest unit through which a block can be read or written is a page. Pages cannot be erased individually, only whole blocks can be erased. The size of a NAND-flash page size can vary, and most drive have pages of size 2 KB, 4 KB, 8 KB or 16 KB. Most SSDs have blocks of 128 or 256 pages, which means that the size of a block can vary between 256 KB and 4 MB. For example, the Samsung SSD 840 EVO has blocks of size 2048 KB, and each block contains 256 pages of 8 KB each.

Very confusing and might be incorrect. What are planes. And are pages made out of blocks or vice-versa? If blocks are grouped in pages, with erasing it sounds very different.. Only whole blocks, which sounds like blocks are bigger than pages.
Actually the serial killer example is perfect! He is sick… he doesn’t deserve to suffer because it’s not his fault if he is broken! Ofc he must be kept away from society but that’s it… no extra harshness should be imposed!
You can contact your local ag university. Building soil up is hard, if you are building a mm of soil every few years you are doing great - good luck measuring that.

Other posters have mentioned no-till: it takes about 7 years from the time you decide to go no-till until the time when your land yields as much as equivalent land that has been tilled all along (assuming all else is the same), but after those 7 years no-till yields better than tilling the land. Thus the question is are you willing to make that investment.
Sure, I understand the general principle of locking up your investment for longer and [perhaps] getting better conditions, but the notice periods on those accounts aren't government-mandated, though?
>DAI has multiple assets,

And so did Terra. They held AVAX, BTC, LUNA and a little bit of USDC.

>150% at a minimum

And for Terra this was 100% at a minimum. It makes 0 difference.

>independent from one another

Cryptocurrency are extremely correlated.

>it managed to recover

UST itself had recovered from a previous depeg event
> It has superb output quality but the programming is awful

TeXmacs (http://www.texmacs.org/) has better output quality and nicer programming (it is Scheme :-) ) and it is easier to use.
This is most likely very team-/location-dependent.
and which stock doesn't? why focus only on Tesla?

we're in the beginning economic crisis and tech companies are the first to take a hit

other tech companies are already doing massive layoffs, Klarna just yesterday and Lyft today

the real bad news is that the bear market can hold on for years with no signs of relief
Isn’t that pretty great? Get paid for 6 months of relatively light ramp up time and then a few months worth of severance for some time off once fired?
I can't imagine any passenger being able to use the manual door release of the rear doors in an emergency. Popping those tiny little panels off isn't exactly easy. With patience and a flat head screw driver it's fine, but when the car is on fire and you can't open the door to put yourself in the best position to do it, I'd say it'd be damn near impossible.
> I'm curious: did you consider hacking the Oculus binary to accept an SSL cert you made yourself, and MITM-ing it to see the traffic?

Is that what he refers to when he says "I didn’t want to add extra root certificates and proxies to inspect all TLS traffic going on the machine", or are we talking about different things?
> if you go into an average house right now and you take out all the screens, could you tell that you're not in the 80s?

> The difference between a car right now and a car 30 years ago is that you can now play angry birds on a tablet.

Energy efficiency and fuel economy have made massive gains. Materials are stronger and lighter. Batteries last ages compared to 30 years ago.
Top 'Lost World movies'. [https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066679516/]

The 1925 silent included stop-motion animation and originally began with an appearance by Sir Arthur himself!

Edit: found it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPZFVju8Nw]
It’s still absent in east-asian script.
> turns Docker images into running VMs

I honestly don't understand what's going on here. I thought we turned to Docker/containers because VMs were too heavy? Now we've got VMs that run Docker? (Not trying to be dense - what is the advantage?)
The Cooperative AI Foundation
True... But guessing YouTubeDrive 'decoder' needs whole video to get you back anything close to what you put in.

Otherwise each frame would have to have a ridiculous amount of encoded overhead.

Ahh, NM cant even see that working.

edit: Maybe a file table at built from from specified first N frames, that delivers frameset/file map ...

Still nothing like skipping spots in a video. That relies on key frames and time signatures.

Cool stuff nonetheless...
This ruling when combined with the recent ruling in Patel v. Garland - stating that defendants have no legal recourse in the event of governmental clerical errors, paints a terrifying picture of what remains of the rule of law in the United States
Privacy against inquiry into medical abortion was declared a constitutional right by roe v Wade. Now overturned.
I have had very similar work out in my favor early on. New engineer, some hacky idea that saves the day doing something that was "impossible" and got a bigger raise and promotion than I have gotten in any way other than saying I was leaving a job since. It was nice recognition. I have had some repeat of this recently, but not quite the same bump. It comes to be that fixing some urgent problem is way more $$ rewarding than running a team and making sure your team doesn't run into that stuff and just delivers on time. It is odd, but in a way it makes sense. You get more recognition for putting out a fire than preventing one. Everyone is watching while something is burning and recognition from someone above your direct manager is the way to get a better than nominal raise.
Just make sure that it's an internal recruiter seeking to fill an actual position, not someone on contract that's just fishing for applicants.
| high cost of housing in Bothell

I've been away from the PNW for a long time, apparently.

Reading further, one person spoke of a 70 mile commute from Olympia; another of 50 miles from Puyallup, and how they'd have to quit because they can't afford the commute.

For those not from the area, they're commuting from one less-densely populated area, ACROSS a densely populated area, to another less-densely-populated area.

Of course, we all have reasons to live where we live (family connections, other employed members of the household close to work, etc). But in this particular example, the commute has basically nothing to do with housing costs. If it was about costs, they could live more cheaply much closer to Bothell. It's all about commute choices.
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I'm not an OEM but I'll hazard a guess: long term hardware support assures that field replacements will match the exact specifications your are expecting. Large scale implementations have historically relied on a reference device to make sure you don't have a thousand different profiles running around.

Combine this with a JIT supply chain, and nobody making phones is going to want to stockpile a bunch of old Qualcomm chips they aren't sure they'll ever need.
Would you provide some evidence of these claims?
> However the best way to improve this in the current system is to spend money on the phones that promise and deliver long support lifecycles.

I think a part of the problem here is the fact that I haven't seen a phone advertise this as a selling point, not once in my life. Where's the RHEL equivalent among smartphones?

Then again, I've only used mainstream Android devices and Symbian back in the day (which was an amazing time for mobile devices, in my opinion).
The first few episodes of the revival are good.

"I speak no English" is my favorite sketch, but "Kidnapped" will always have a special place in my heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qge0E9WYeks
Mac mini-style computer with Snapdragon processor from Microsoft
> taking dumb little tests and such

I once had a company ask me to do a math test after I had already done their phone screen, coding interview, and day-long on-site interview. Like, they wanted to test my knowledge of trigonometry. That was 2018 but also the moment I decided I was done with that BS.
How much kilobytes would be possible to store per minute video?
Transaction costs are not the same price per transaction. The major costs for most transactions are the risks (credit, irr, fx etc) associated with it not the fixed costs of infrastructure.

Those costs go up with the value of the transaction.
What is the difference vs posting, let's say, to HN?
Excellent question! In choosing a first programming language, I think the most important things are (1) acquire generic knowledge, (2) have help along the way.

(1) The most important thing to keep in mind while learning a first programming language is that it should teach you the abstract notions of programming, without entrenching your mind into a particular programming paradigm. (When I say paradigm, I mean procedural, functional, object-oriented, message passing---I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.)

I have seen countless _very good_ software engineers struggle when switching but from one paradigm to another, but not between languages of similar paradigms.

In that respect, a multi-paradigm language is the ideal first programming language.
Elixir's origins are functional, but it's evolved to be a multi-paradigm language [1].

(2) To have help along the way, you either need a strong/active community, OR a very helpful compiler. Elixir's compiler isn't particularly helpful, and the community is nascent, so in that regard Elixir isn't the best first programming language.

At the end of the day, I think someone's pre-existing mental model of computers should be the tie-breaker (for example, if it's someone with a strong mathematical background, I think they'd enjoy Elixir more than someone who'd get a kick out of making a cute website-based game.)

[1] I'm guessing the Elixir community would consider purely-functional Elixir as the most-aesthetically pleasing Elixir, keeping true to its Erlangian origins.
>The whole point of tank treads is to maximize the ground surface area that the vehicle weighs on.

The treads don't spread weight much more than the wheels - look at tank treads in practice - they are somewhat loose between wheels. Most treads are somewhat loose, meaning the tension in them is not enough to be supporting tank weight. The exist to provide traction when they catch uneven surfaces, where wheels perhaps no longer make contact.

Their point is to allow the tank to catch on non-flat ground when things jut between the wheels. Treads allow grip on non-uniform surfaces.

But most of the time the weight of the tank is completely on (only a few of) the wheels.
> I wanna know if during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies.

Yes, and they might lay people off. Hiring slows generally (and unemployment rises) during recessions.

For example, I was at Amazon in 2008-9 and their attitude was: "We think we'll be alright, but we're not taking any chances, so departments should expect to make due with their current staff for a while." Once the freeze was lifted we started hiring like crazy.
I'm genuinely curious about this, and would like to see some data. When I started coding professionally the LAMP stack was the go-to, and your program would generally just do all the "work" in the context of a web request and then render an HTML page in response.

Now, the systems are much more complex for sure (queues and asynchronous processing, event buses, microservices, multiple databases for different purposes) but I'm not sure that (functionality provided to business) / (number of developers) has increased all that much.

Of course I could be dealing with a bias because as a novice programmer I worked on simpler programs and now I work on more complex / powerful programs.
Love that one. Another good drunk skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNsdW4HyMk
https://blog.machinefinder.com/3255/john-deere-walking-harve... for example.
> First, MMMFs target $1/share, they do not promise it nor are they legally beholden to honor it. It's a goal, not a promise.

How is that relevant to the claim in question? (Which, if you’ll recall, was whether tether can maintain the peg and redemptions while holding the same assets as MMMFs, which generally do that just fine.)

> It also works because the US dollar has been remarkably stable and most of their holdings are USD.

Okay, now you lost me, and I’m not convinced you have the recent discussion in mind. The original comment was claiming that Tether can’t maintain the peg, because it holds non-dollar assets. I pointed out a trillion dollar industry by that maintains a peg, using those same assets, and you’re saying the non-dollar assets only succeed there because the dollar is stable? Which is somehow an argument about how these assets are good enough for MMMFs to work but not Tether?

Please take a minute to review the thread and see if you’re still supporting the claim I disputed.
It still seems far less bad than other types of campaigning.
> Very honestly, part of the reason I don't bother with any new "LaTeX reimagined" projects is because either (a) they are written by LaTeX nonbelievers who don't understand the complexity of beautiful typesetting, or (b) I don't want to learn another markup+ language or mental model. The latter is increasingly annoying to me.

Then you have to try TeXmacs http://www.texmacs.org/. It is completely independent from LaTeX and TeX and has
- beautiful typesetting (better than LaTeX)
- it is fully WYSYWYG, so you don't have to learn a new markup language
- yet it affords better document control than LaTeX
there are oligarchs in every country, just like the united states. Could drain the swamp and give people back their money.
Some others have mentioned it, but it could honestly be a worse scenario if it ends up making it's way into our food because of it (more so than it already does).
It would be more relevant to compare to bank runs. How many banks got only 90% of their deposits withdrawn and managed to go through this?
My guess: https hits HAProxy from external world, afterwards all is just http. There is no need to encrypt internal trafic.
Many other popular asset-backed stables aren't loosely regulated like Tether. They are often regulated by NYSDFS.
The startup I was in in the first bust (2001) hired/relocated people 2 weeks before laying everyone off.
When white people do it, it's a negative. Keep up. Stop being Europhobic/Anglophobic.
Tracks are an option when buying a combine. I'm not sure how popular, but they are a factory option.
I don't agree. Politicians aren't perfect, but they hear from their constituents a lot, especially the unhappy ones.
4k video is almost always 3840x2160