skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the real issue is those who don’t want to spend or approve anything on public transit, even for others to use.

“We should build transit infrastructure so everyone else can use it and I can keep driving” would be an improvement in mindset many parts of the country.
> paleoanthologist

You meant "paleontologist" or is it a pun around anthologies?
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(I’m the author) The issue isn’t nix builds in general, those work fine on MacOS, the issue is cross compiling a Linux docker image, which can be much trickier. I usually end up just relying on the github CI to build it, but nix has some nice remote builder functionality that might also be worth looking into.
Just open omni.js and search around, shortcuts are hardcoded in code in many places. I don't know about design document, just about reality.
Have spent a couple years about 20 years ago dealing with a COBOL applications, I can tell you. Pick up COBOL (GNUCobol is fine) and a book. It isn't that hard of a language to pick up.

Then, learn about mainframes since most of the COBOL in the wild is running on z/OS or the like. IBM use to offer a free Mainframe course. You would also want to learn JCL, REXX, and a few other mainframe related tools.

The apps are no different then most things now (inventory, accounting, etc.) is is the legacy processes that will most people that biggest problems.

And checkout a YouTube Channel by moshix. Lots of great mainframe info there.

That would get you started on the path.
Thanks. Feel free to submit anything I may be missing from mine :-) always appreciate a new one.
'Game of Thrones' still one of the most popular series, data leak shows
Fewer Americans think the country is worth saving:

https://amp.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article259392144.h...

I wonder if there is some critical mass of integrated differences wherein tribalism re-nucleates and the sub-groups abandon the larger umbrella.

This, combined with fertility rates and population level mental health all point to an empire in decline. I would give it 1-200 years before collapse, all empires have.
Your answer begs the question. Yes, abortion is a wedge issue, but why is it a wedge issue? Why are people against abortions in the US when most people aren’t against abortion access in other countries.
There certainly is logic to guaranteeing women healthcare (abortion choice) during their pregnancy.
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The Nordic countries have massive housing projects from the 50's-70's and as you mention, it's relatively easy to get a non-attractive apartment -- or even a house.

It's an urban issue, and assuming ones's ready to move somewhere else then moving out is not a problem. That's what happens in many cases.
To add to these, if it's an established team:

> when was the last re-org this team went through and what was the reason for it?
I find it disgusting that any place that purports to be an "abortion clinic" has nothing to do with medicine, and is actually a thinly veiled evangelical NGO that pressures young women to have children.
Countries with good social safety nets need good economies to support it. Good economies are created and maintained with high productivity from hard work.
I had a 5mx. Bought it for a business trip where I was making up an order from a wholesaler while examining the merchandise. Invaluable tool. Would have taken me a whole lot longer without it. Found it in storage the other day. Swapped in new batteries and turned it on and it lit up with no problems.
I expect that has everything to do with what language your are using.

If it has tail call optimization and clean pattern matching syntax, then recursion tends to be the more readable (and equally performant) way to traverse data structures, especially anything more complicated than a 1-dimensional list.

These two features (tail call optimization and pattern matching) have seen a surge in popularity over the last decade, notably in Rust.
I point that out in conversations similar to ours because (in my experience) so many people who make the chemical-free argument do so because they've fallen for the Appeal-To-Nature fallacy, e.g. "naturally grown food must be better for you." The reality is that Nature only finds local maxima for some variables relevant to the organism's survival, and those variables aren't necessarily relevant to what is best for human health.

In this particular thread, my first contribution was too flippant to be constructive, so I deserved the down-vote. But I wasn't being intellectually dishonest.
I have excellent experiences with public healthcare; worst run-ins were in NL (where I am from); best experiences I had in HK, ES and PT. Fast (much much faster than NL) for routine tests (ct, rmi, scopes, radio) and everything else. And no deductible like in NL or with private.

I guess it depends where and what and how but me and my friends experiences are very different from what you say, especially after having had experiences with private healthcare in other countries with colleagues where I was present.
If you are a true connoisseur of cringe, see if you can find "The Eiger Sanction" with Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy. There's a part in that flick where Clint Eastwood's character pretends to be a gay-coded deliveryman with a package of dental floss. "What am I gonna do with this boxth of floth?" Unforgettably bad but mostly unforgettable :)
These are preliminary observations. I expect they are given only to the other party so that it can give a rebuttal, after which the final report is made.
Ever heard of hate-speech laws? To be fair, your question would need reordering:

Aren't left-wing groups changing relevant laws, then saving the information of right-wingers, then deploying state power against them?
I think it's a purely economic stance. Going full throttle on the woke train will assure you enough customer to not fail totally. Even if you are producing a shitty content artistically speaking, you prefer being sure to stay afloat financially, using political correctness and ideology validation as a security belt. In particular in the subscription world. I'm pretty sure there a lot of subscribers not even interested in the new content but keep they subscription alive like there where subsidizing a political party or lobby.
https://www.postgresql.org/ where it's referenced from?
>> the boring, soulless, pondrous killer in Friday the 13th? "

You mean Halloween, in which John Carpenter invented the genre that everyone imitated. If you haven't seen it...
I would rather work as an engineer building stuff than sit on a beach all day.

Also, there's good stress and bad stress. Treating someone with an acute cardiac arrest is probably quite stressful, but also very meaningful. Dealing with your boss having an 'episode' and needs some slide set reworked by 12 o'clock is stressful but also pretty devoid of any larger meaningful purpose.
“What does your OC rotation look like? If you get paged after hours, what actions do you take to ensure it doesn’t happen again?”

This is my favorite question since it isn’t something you can generally lie about.
The fisherman replies: "nah I'm good, I eat a mediterranean diet instead of a poisonous american diet, get plenty of vitamin D and am not stuck inside all day, have a genuine community that I'm a part of rather than being socially isolated and chronically stressed, anxious, and depressed like you are, and have a spiritual connection to nature so I'm not existentially terrified of death like you are. I'll take those odds."
because USA is not EU
Rich people from humble origins are less sensitive to the challenges of poverty
We have some evidence that Rosie is an outlier - Bilbo's parents had one kid, Frodo's parents had one kid (though that was limited). According to a glance at the http://lotrproject.com it seems the known hobbit families are large, but it is possible that they're mainly the "gentry" and the amount of single/small families was larger (however, Sam is "lower class" apparently and is the 5th of 6).
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Another one I'd ask, unless it's in a country that mandates this by law: how many days of annual leave do people get as a minimum? If you get some vague answer like "as much or as little as they need" that doesn't include a number, then assume that number is zero in practice. You might or might not still want to work there, but you should take this into account.
This really rings true for me in NYC. Any project get decried by Working Family partisans as being too pro developer, insufficiently full of affordable units, likely to cause gentrification(even in predominantly white neighborhoods), or doesn’t include enough “green jobs”. If they can’t stop it in review, they appeal to their council person to veto it. Failing that they call on the sainted congresswoman, PBUH, to intercede. If she leans on city council in public, the project dies. This is exactly how a locally popular rezoning of Industry City failed.

These so called progressives are so myopic that they cement the status quo, and working people are being squeezed out of NYC as a result.
Even with the training I had received at FAANG, there's still (and will always be) a level of subjectivity. I've seen colleagues hire candidates that didn't meet the "bar" but because the interviewer really "liked" that person, they went to bat for the candidate. Ironically that same interviewer would click "no hire" despite the candidate meeting the bar, all because the interviewee every-so-slightly rubbed them the wrong way.
Let's be real. Facebook at best is a nice to have for most of us who have nothing else to do at times than sharing pictures and bragging about our kids or vacations. When it started, I was still in college (circa 2004) and it was a cool thing since it was only for our college network (which differentiated it from the other social networks at the time like myspace, hi5, friendster etc). The wall was cool. THen it became a real business and went downhill fast.

Occasionally, I still go on facebook to check on whats happening with family/friends but it feels superficial. Some of my best friends from childhood are all there and all I do is to like a post or 2. No real contact, no real communication. It is pathetic and frankly depressing at times. But this is the world we live in.

Local facebook groups can sometimes be useful but not worth paying for in my opinion.

So no, I personally wouldn't pay for facebook. But hey, I am just one of the billion users they claim to have so who knows.
Ok? Why should we care?
Not every use case requires deployment, sometimes you just save your results to a file/database, and/or you write a report/paper/presentation etc.
I worked for a major (Fortune 5) corporation, for about a year and a half (back in the 1980s).

In that 18 months, they had three major reorgs.

After one one of them, the new VP (a lawyer), brought the team into his (very nice, very large) office, and started the intro talk with "I hate computers."

That was when I decided it was time to move on...
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I know how you feel, but it's really not so bad. It's kind of like being used to c-style syntax and then going to some other convention.

To people who are interested, here are a few things that I figured out. A lot of the weird words are actually just contractions. They kind of make sense when you think about it though. So, 'twas is "it was", etc... sometimes these are used to convey the past too.

All the thy, thee, thou kind of stuff can be the next difficulty. If you pay attention though you realize that they all mean some version of "you", and which one is used depends on the meaning. I think it goes sort of like this: Thee is when "you" is the object of some verb, e.g. "He told thee". Thy is like "you" but possessive, e.g. "Mind thy business". And thou is like "you" when it's just the normal subject of a sentence, e.g. "thou are a saucy fellow".

Actually, I didn't get Shakespeare in school at all. Then one day I just picked it up as a joke and started reading it aloud to a friend... 5 min later I'm like, "But wait, like, so what exactly happened to the King? Don't you think it's a bit sus for his Ghost to be haunting the sentinels? Clearly they all see the ghost, so they're not making it up, meaning something sketchy has happened..."
Geez, sounds like an interesting person to talk to.
Top accounting firm fined $100M after employees cheated on CPA exams
I'm tempted to agree, but that's a huge statement given the absolute torrent of fantasy novels that have been written in its wake!

I need to re-read them. It's been too long.
it says it uses Qt6 with rust, is it Qt6/c++ calling rust, or rust calling c++?

This ui looks awesome, but where can I find code samples of mixing Qt6 and rust?
Right, but which employee of the court actually goes after collection? (That's why I asked about levies and liens). It's not a fine payable to the state, but rather to the plaintiff. Just because someone gets a bill doesn't mean they will pay it. The IRS goes after tax delinquents, but they are not a court. The county tax assessor goes after delinquent property tax, but they are not a court.
I can't speak for everybody, of course, but I think there's a general appreciation among computer "engineers" (sorry about the scare quotes, I'm grumpy this morning) for good tools and workmanship in any field. I clicked out of curiousity, but then upvoted based on the appeal of the tool. Also the jargon was thrilling, "straighten out a dubbed-over bevel on an incannel gouge"‽ Wowee!
NPR has a number of articles on it that are a good read / listen to get a larger perspective and its history in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/04/1096154028/the-movement-again...

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/06/1103372543/abortion-was-once-...

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106863232/evangelicals-didnt...
Interviewee: "How much runway does the company have?"

Interviewer: "We have 86.2 billion. Should last us a while"

In these situations you should be focusing on how much support and "runway" the product or department you'll be working on has. The company at large might not go bankrupt, but I've both seen and been involved in situations where a product/project/department went 'bankrupt' and most people involved got fired.
Thank you! I forgot which one came first. Hopefully, my point still comes across.
Industrial Revolutions required many things that Frodo's world lacked:

1) Abundant and cheap coal (heat, steel making, steam engines, etc). We know this didn't exist, for why should Saruman rely on the comparatively bad fuel of green wood to power his engine of war?

2) International demand for goods via global trade networks. The societies are clearly fragmented with little interchange...polar opposite of Europe in the 1750-1900 period.

3) Abundant laborers and innovators to create necessary machines. England had a number of innovative entrepeneurs who needed steam engines to pump water out of the mine so the miners could get the coal that was slightly deeper.

4) Scientific progress on metals, machining, and scientific method. Starting with Francis Bacon, Newton, and others, England saw a very strong burst of scientific progress right before industrialization.

5) Governmental support of industry (e.g. tariffs/regs in USA/Germany). This one is perhaps the hardest to study, we don't know much about governmental policy in LotR, but it seems to be monarchical and/or authoritarian, maybe war-lord driven...not what you need for an economic-technological revolution.

LotR in Frodo's Day is a sparsely populated world that used to be grand. If the Elves and Numenorians of old, with all their splendor, didn't start a revolution, then how could the ghost-towns of men and elves?
(I’m the author) The only feature in the paid list that I’d agree with you on was support for building docker images. I thought it was silly to charge for <15 lines of nix code that do something so fundamental for a web framework, so I wrote this blog post and convinced the maintainers to make it a free feature.

Now I think the remaining stuff is fine, paying for a stripe integration and oauth libraries doesn’t trigger any alarms for me, personally.
It’s not just the parts though, it’s the expertise. Boeing has maintenance systems and programs that Russia does not have access to. The parts and schedules and materials are not really pirateable. The package needed is a combination of a part, a trained worker to do a job, a set of custom monitors/tools to do the maintenance (all owned and leased out by the US cos), and the custom parts themself. What Russia is doing right now is canabalizing their planes for used parts, which can only get you so far. Oil services is much more complicated and they’re production is going to decrease say 20% yoy for a long time as the oil services firms like schlumberger have withdrawn. I worked at an startup digitizing industrial maintenance SOPs for aerospace, oil services and manufacturing and have dealt with this extensively.
One of the great lessons to take away from a differential equations class... in my more dour moments, I think it's the only lesson to take away for most students in the course... is how common it is for iterated systems (which is almost anything embedded in "time", which is to say, everything we deal with in the real world) to be very sensitive to the strength of the feedback loop. It is trivial to construct systems that slowly, but surely, go to zero if you start with 0.5000000000000, but slowly but surely go to infinity if you start with 0.5000000000001. Small differences can be a big deal.

Also, it should be pointed out that our history is not full of industrial revolutions. There's the one that we're still living in, and arguably two or three that fizzled depending on exactly how you count and where you draw the line, and that's it. Industrial revolutions aren't easy in the real world!
>that energy was already there, we just moved it, but that's also true of the 1000W!

Isn't this also the case for any type of energy (possible exception of nuclear)? Fossil fuel energy is "already there", just bound up in chemical bonds. The analogy is doubly true when comparing it to stored solar energy in batteries. The more important feature is the systemic effects of the energy conversion and transport.
Not everyone who has had chicken pox is aware they’ve had it. That’s why everyone should get the shingles vaccine.
Investors–including WallStreet drove up home prices during pandemic housing boom
I also really appreciate Standard E-Books https://standardebooks.org. Their renditions of public domain works is better than most paid Kindle versions.
Honestly this reinterpretation is not that far from themes that exist in LOTR, given that it was partly an allegory of the wars. It's just making Mordor not represent fascism.

Reminds me of something I learned last week when I was thinking about how the Harry Potter goblins are (probably unintentionally) built from second-hand racist stereotypes. Apparently the Dwarves of Middle Earth represent Jewish faith and the Elves Christian. During the writing of The Hobbit, Tolkien was influenced by the anti-Jewish sentiment and there's a few questionable throw away lines about the warlike treasure hoarding Dwarves. Between The Hobbit and LOTR though, with an intense hatred of Hitler and having a brief and intensely close relationship with a Jewish friend he realized the error of his ways - showing the Dwarves in more positive light and making the Dwarves and Elves work together a key part of the story. Some say he was inverting the stereotypes of Wagners Ring and intentionally highlighting positive stereotypes.

This isn't entirely conjecture or revisionist analysis of the text either - he talked about how the Dwarfish language was intentionally Semite and indeed it has a Hebrew-like qualities.

So in a sense, "The Last Ring Bearer" isn't a unique idea - you can argue that Middle Earth of LOTR itself is a reinterpretation of the Middle Earth of The Hobbit.
I love the ID3 support:

ID3 Chapters

Finalizing your project by marking the project into Chapters.

When exported, Chapters are written as ID3 Chapter Frames in the audio file, which can then be picked up by supported audio players (such as Podcast players).
Has the crypto crowd moved on from Haskell alread?
Indeed. Thanks for clarifying.
Looks like you can find $600 dental x-ray machines (probably low quality but that's a low price too) on eBay (source+sensor). That would do a great device for small electronics (assuming you know how to shield, don't be that guy)
Doxing wasn't my question; I was just presuming aloud that everyone made use of the tools that Big Tech was selling. I don't see just one side being aware of the possibilities of buying data (nor do I think there are only two sides... it's a spectrum with many fronts).
It’s because the Supreme Court has imposed for 50 years an extremely liberal abortion regime on an extremely conservative country. Roe guarantees elective abortions up to viability, which is around 22-24 weeks. But by 13-14 weeks, the fetus looks like a baby—it has hands and feet and a face. It can suck its thumb and kick. Most of Europe draws a line for elective abortions (absent exceptions) around that timeframe: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268439/legal-abortion-t.... The UK is an outlier in this by the way, in drawing the line at 24 weeks. That’s the longest in Europe.

Meanwhile, the US is vastly more religious than Western Europe. In terms of people who pray every day, it’s up there with Poland and Iran (both countries where abortion is illegal). On the religiosity front, the United States is more like the rest of the Americans (minus Canada) than like Western Europe.
I think this completely ignores the moral issues of later term abortions. I am an atheist, and I am disturbed by the idea of a voluntary abortion after 20 weeks. Voluntary meaning no medical necessity.

I think Republicans have latched onto this issue and Christianity in America has adopted it, but there is far more at play here than just Christian nationalism.
Because it's not about the money.
Channable has a tech blog where you can find more details.

The most popular ones discussing technology choices (with HN discussion):

- Haskell (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782333)

- Nix (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748696)

You can find more posts on:

- https://www.channable.com/tech

- And the HN discussion with this Algolia query: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Hope those are useful to you! :-)

Disclaimer: I led DevOps at Channable for a while, but I no longer work there.
Taiwanese manufacturers’ (Asus, msi, gigabyte etc) support is typically slow and bad.
Check out the hyperlink in that paragraph to the original blogpost for some more background. But I don't think it will be more satisfying as it was still a rather arbitrary choice I will admit (https://www.channable.com/tech/how-we-secretly-introduced-ha...)

The answer mostly is: Because I liked Haskell and knew it well; and I and a colleague wanted wanted to rewrite the job scheduling system and just picked it. But as soon as we started on the project we were extremely productive and were able to launch a proof of concept within days. That really got us excited and showed us a lot of potential in continuing with this approach. Especially things like QuickCheck and testing of pure functions allowed us to write code quickly and correctly with ease.

Also most developers (and also leadership) in our team at the time already followed 1 or maybe even multiple university courses involving Haskell so we had quite a bit of 'hidden' expertise.

For the next project; the API gateway; I honestly felt it was an even better fit. Haskell's Web Application Interface and its ecosystem of middleware is top notch and makes it really easy to write very performant web proxies and servers. Though if I'd have to make the same decision today I'd probably pick Go over Haskell given Go has an even wider ecosystem of middleware; and has a way stronger story surrounding cryptography in which Haskell is severely lacking