skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That song really started my love for the classic rock from the 60s and 70s. Heard it on Instagram and looked it up on Spotify, Spotify's recommendations did the rest and now my playlist for that genre is ~200 songs.

The music from that era seems timeless like almost nothing else after it. I love early 2000's Pop and Hip Hop but that's soley because I grew up during that time and it's very nostalgic. With CCR, Hendrix and others, the music is just really damn good and truly timeless IMO.
If everybody had the flat land and moderate climate of the Danes then there would be many more people bicycling
On a FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE box, FWIW:

# awk -version
awk version 20210215
There is another source of firefighters and their equipment other than the military. My ex-wife's best friend was serving a sentence at the California State maximum security prison for women. It turned out that associated with the prison was a fire station which was outside the wire. It was staffed by a number of inmates and one male firefighter who was their instructor and leader. My ex-wife's best friend learned how to drive a fire engine, got her Hazmat Certificate, and much more.
Thanks for clarifying, unlikely I am able to say anything that would be of use, but it’s obvious you’re actively trying to find solution that works for you. Again, thank you!
This event happens so rarely that it would be better advice to tell people to wear a bullet proof vest and helmet when going outside. It’s more likely to benefit them than self hosting media.
Don't remember where I read it but I find the perspective useful that a corporation with its rules does "artificial intelligence" by bundling human intelligence.
Power concentration is inevitable regardless of the system because in order to enforce decentralization you would need to, well, concentrate power.

Our best bet is to shame those using products of unethical companies.
Wow! Petulant? Riot children :-)
Waking Software Engineering
When asked, "How did you get started in software?" I'll summarize my career path or share a handful of short stories about `the long, long ago` when I began tinkering with JavaScript. In reality, it's complicated (as it is with anyone's career), but there are a few key themes worth bearing since it highlights how varied paths into tech can be.
It reminds me of Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End", where one of the basic classes they have in school is how to correctly word your search queries for best results.

We might actually end up with a fancier version of that.
Please tell me there is a pseudo-logical-fallacy for inadvertently invoking a Seinfeld plot.
The subscription model is older than most people realize
Why Being Gifted Makes Life Harder [video]
One unique approach for lower volume is Gmass. It’s really good at what it does.
i avoid the term client to avoid confusion with client/server terminology. a customer is always a person. a client is often a software application.
And the original company seems, name change notwithstanding, to have stuck with the "Enterprise"-y mentality of Inprise.
FaceTime now works for android users, an iPhone can initiate the call and get a shareable link for android users.
After looking at the outputs for anything reasonably complicated, well...

If this steals our bread, then we deserve it.
Also a dramatic reorganization of global trade towards open markets.
> Can't you just display all the colors in a 2D image?

https://allrgb.com/

My favourite is https://allrgb.com/order-from-chaos.
I don't see much technical difficulties

They really are there though, even though they might not be immediately obvious!

The thing is, this is a project which essentially ties together two existing regional railway lines through a new underground core. Those two systems have existing rail traffic on them and different signalling systems on each. It's already been a nightmare to implement three signalling systems and transitions between them – a project to provide fully automated operation on two other railways lines in addition to this would ramp up the complexity even further.

Fully automated lines are totally viable – the DLR system in London works in the way you suggest and has for some time. And I'd bet that if the Crossrail project had been a new and isolated line it probably would have been using full automatic train operation throughout. But it's a hybrid between a regional railway and a metro line – ATO is way harder.
I thought no one is going to believe me I have to somehow document this
Just color? https://physicallybased.info/ I would have hoped for BRDF info as well.
What Ethereum’s Big ‘Merge’ Means in Crypto Land
... And Windows 98 I'd hope.
Interesting. But the quality seems not to be as good as e.g. https://www.deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-a-generative-model-for..., neither in terms of sound quality nor in musical logic, structure and flow.
Is use of tools like awk, m4, sed etc. common and growing, or decreasing?

I've always found that for my personal use cases, writing a little Python snippet has always been much faster and simpler than understanding what CLI tool to use, and how to use it, to achieve the same thing.
Put in a bid to port it to FP/Lazarus?

(Oh, you already did that? ;-)
0xSOMETHING is just a single word so that will usually not find something unless they have an index with all the generated codes, which is something they probably don't want.
> ...but if you happen to be a musical genius and have a musical genius as a tutor...

There's the crux of the story which I'm sure is well intended, this is the slight shortsightedness as to place this as an inconsequential part. I'm not blaming the author or any editor. I imagine they know how important this part is but it doesn't come across this way.

Without realising that "small part" for what it is (a huge deal breaker) the story comes across as either aloof or detached because it's impossible to resonate with unless you had a similar opportunity in your education at some stage.

And yes I did with my mathematical ability and will likely spend my life in awe at a professional musicians musical ability or a great authors writing style, but I enjoy understanding higher order patterns.
It's still difficult for a lot of people to get a physical exam by their GP. My own mother had her breast cancer diagnosed pre-pandemic only after she came in with an unrelated problem. Many health problems are not being caught while GPs are working from home.

Related complaint: My mum was nearly deaf for six months. She got a few remote appointments with her GP surgery. One recommended she get psychotherapy. Another said she had a "foreign body" in her ear. After six months, she finally physically met a specialist who said she had too much earwax, and after vacuuming, she now hears better than she has for years.

My parents are dual citizens, so they'll be leaving so that they can get better healthcare.
Are there still major pandemic restrictions in Britain? Lots of quotes in this piece seem to imply there’s ongoing issues here but everything I see in Europe or the US from abroad seems to heavily imply that people are “back to normal” (at least in terms of movement).

The idea here (treatment delays lead to excess deaths) seems ok, but is it really the restrictions? Isn’t it more that hospitals are still extremely full? Or is that no longer the case.

The main claim of this article feel a bit… odd to me. There’s a heavy implication about this being from the lockdowns, but in the middle there are 3 lines with a much simpler explanation: Covid infections increase risk of other health issues.
I've not heard of TFL making existing underground stations wheelchair accessible, this is really good to know about
pretty cool, lad
Uncontended mutex operations are cheap and do not require core-core communication.

Contended operations are expensive, whether they are mutex acquisitions, atomic RMW or plain writes.
It may work like that for some degrees at some schools. It definitely wouldn't have been possible at mine. In order to be able to take the exam, I generally needed at least x% across all homework assigned for the class and to attend the exercise classes.
I'm pretty sure the TFL buses in London have voice announcements built in the same way, as some of the stop names are pronounced really strangely.
> I've seen this pattern throughout educational & science systems, & seems I'm not alone.

This pattern is pervasive in any professional setting. A while ago there was a newspice on how Google had too many people for too few projects, and most of the people working at Google were scrambling to create redundant services with the explicit goal of furthering their career.

It's no surprise that people who desperately want to land a prestigious and coveted job try everything at their reach to get a foothold and pull ladders behind them.
There is harm. Is anything more valuable to a human than time?
Google isn't a government entity, it's a private company. Had there been more restrictions on what tech corporations (and corporations as a whole) could do, power could have been limited by the concentrated power of government. The issue here is that Google can dictate how we live our lives so heavily without any of its users having a say on how Google and its services should be run. The promotion of Laissez-faire capitalism here in the US promoted Google's growth into it's current position.
If the local amateur porn producers know that 1 Hour Photo won't print their pictures, then 1 Hour Photo's employees are going to be stuck looking at far less amateur porn.
> If the argument is compelling and cogent, people listen.

Yes, ... Maybe ... I hope software people do; maybe they pay a bit more attention to logic and reason.

I'm otherwise reading the book "Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion", and I no longer have such high expectations :-(

> not letting people get you down.

Good point :-)
(Thanks for the reply)
> This event happens so rarely

Does it though?

Also: I wear a helmet or a belt every single time I drive even for 1km. Should I not? I never needed them. 0% use rate so far for me, might as well not have done it.

The issue is that when it happens, you're done.

Considering that you probably don't need to keep all your eggs in one basket, why not at least try?

On this note, I wish providers were forced to provide a third-party backup mechanism for important data so that if I were to lose:

- the email: it could forward my email to at least receive them

- my photos: a copy could be kept on multiple hostings

etc
GOOGLE EMPLOYEES: Quit your jobs and do something positive for the world for a change.
I think eric4smith meant to say that on average busy is an idiom to bounce people off. Most of the time people could, but they choose not to. Very rarely I've seen people say I'm busy and have zero time to spare.
I’ve really been amazed at the lack of curiosity and ability/willingness to hold multiple probability-weighted points of view at once and examine questions like “what would have to be true/false in order for us to commit to X?”, “once we’ve started to do Y, what would be the signals for us to stop doing Y?”

I had thought that people were often impatient and disinterested in hard thinking, but the extent of it surprised me, from people of all backgrounds and abilities.
Yet that's exactly what many studies set out to do - influence/force people through medical counseling, policy, or law.
I'm talking about how many bytes it takes to store characters in these encodings, and how the lengh of these sequences changes according to each standard.

You are talking about another level of abstraction. These UTF-16 builtins are first-class citizens in .NET, and you never have to deal with the raw structure behind all of it unless you want to. C does not have these primitives, a string there is composed of smokes and mirrors using byte arrays.

In summary, you are talking about using a complete, black box Unicode implementation. I'm talking about the tradeoffs one might encounter when crafting stuff that goes inside one of these black boxes, and it's different from the black box you know.
> a survey of software engineering methodologies and the resources surrounding them (SWEBOK, CMMI 1.3) is going to help a student in industry

Yeah, no. This kind of nonsense filling it up is precisely why an MSc in SE is useless.
> I've had to admit that I'm a really slow programmer.

I am, too! Mostly the people I've worked with were much faster than me. Some are genuinely great, some just produce rubbish, and some are inbetween.

In my experience, slow programmers produce less rubbish on average than the fast ones. Perhaps I'm biased :)
The only issue with std::mutex on libstdc++ is that it is larger than it needs to be for ABI reasons. Otherwise it is perfectly adequate for many use cases.
Our healthcare system was in a very big mess before the pandemic. Now it’s in even more of a mess. So it was a case of restrictions tipping it over the edge.
> Super evil

...On the part of the Turkish Ministry of Education, which figured out that they'd get legions of young programmers all primed to jump ship to Free Pascal / Lazarus?

Naah -- smart, but not exactly evil. :-)
Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database
>> So this person should get a penalty which in some ways is more severe than what murderers get?

Being deported is way more humane than imprisonments. Personally, to me, being controlled than governments, corporations, etc logging my identity and any other information as they want is from of control I neither agreed to, nor would and would happily deport myself to a country than did not.

>> if I publish my own name and address in a public space, and then someone else who doesn't like me takes that information and republishes it in a manner I disapprove of

That would not be possible, at least in a significant way; any directly or indirectly identifiable information digitally published would require approval and would be revocable.

___

Again, might point is two parts: (1) people would never agree to this; (2) but if they did, there is nothing I am aware of the would make it impossible.
You don't need to self-host, there are plenty of alternatives for each service offered by google.
> Please explain why this is different from traveling to any other country.

My guess is that the "trigger" for "any other country" is much higher.

Criticize the US President all you like on every social network: not a problem.

Save a screenshot of Winnie the Pooh: you're playing with fire.
Seinfeld Effect:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/seinfeld-effect

>The Seinfeld Effect is a phenomenon closely related to the Family Guy Effect (the idea that when a meme is referenced on a popular television show, it dies out). The Seinfeld Effect occurs when a TV show references an in-joke belonging to a subculture (in most modern cases, the Internet) and makes it mainstream, causing the show's viewership to mistakenly believe the meme originated with that show.

>The effect is named after the 1989-1998 sitcom Seinfeld's habit of referencing little-known ideas, jokes, and phrases, such as "Festivus," "yada yada yada," or "not that there's anything wrong with that," and making them extremely well-known through the show's populararity to the point that many have the misconception Seinfeld invented these phrases (for the purposes of this article, 1992 is listed as the meme origin date, as that was when the episode "The Contest" popularized the idea of masturbatory celebacy contests). [...]

Seinfeld Is Unfunny Trope:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...

>There are certain shows that you can safely assume most people have seen. These shows were considered fantastic when they first aired. Now, however, these shows have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".

>The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it, because they were the first ones to do it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that show's genre. They ended up being taken for granted, copied and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the new status quo. It's basically the inverse of a Grandfather Clause taken to a trope level: rather than being able to get away with something that is seen as overdone or out of style simply because it was the one that started it, people will unfairly disregard it because it got lost amidst its sea of imitations even though it paved the way for all those imitators. That is, a work retroactively becomes a Cliché Storm. [...]
Covid is one aspect of this. Another is the massive. underfunding of the NHS over the last decade. This has become much more evident post-covid thanks to the backlogs.

- Getting a GP to see you in person is now quite difficult (they want to do everything via phone).
- Seeing your GP (depending on your area) can involve a 2-3 week wait and waiting in an hours long phone queue.
- When you are referred to hospital for tests you can be waiting 6-12 months for the most simple things if they’re not life threatening (even if they are life limiting in the meantime).

I personally have gotten to the point where I would not want to live in this country without access to private healthcare. I’ve had a number of treatments privately and they’ve saved me months of pain, anxiety, and in one case outright refusal for treatment by the NHS until the issue became dangerous (which was inevitable).

In the UK we treat the NHS like a sacred cow. Even people who have experienced appalling treatment feel the need to exonerate the NHS when complaining about their experience. While the people that work there are not the problem (the failures of the government are) we need to start calling a spade a spade. The current condition of the NHS is atrocious. It’s not “great/the best health system in the world” and we’re no longer “so lucky to live here with the NHS”. It’s shit and it needs massive changes. Unfortunately without a change in government we’re not going to get those and people are seemingly more concerned about refugees arriving by dinghy than health care.
> Mark spoke with a lawyer about suing Google and how much it might cost.

> “I decided it was probably not worth $7,000,” he said.

I believe it is one of the roots of the problem. How is it even possible that getting justice in court in such a trivial case costs about three months of median income?
The word "funding" does not appear in this article. The NHS has been systematically underfunded since the Conservative entered power more than a decade ago. The crisis is real, but it is a political choice.
Could you explain your workflow using BRDF, and what application you're using? I just want to know the real world use case for this kind of data.
I'm open to expanding the database to include BRDF data as well.
Undergraduates in CS can fill their senior year with 500 level courses easily. Motivated ones also much of their junior year. Why would I take the applicant who did it five over the ones who did it in four? Worrying about the “MSc” label at the end for the same work is just credentialism.
Orkney (north east Scotland) is full of neolithic stone structures and rings, you can't go anywhere on the islands without tripping over some.

Totally recommended for visit. US cruise ships dock there all through summer.
Welcome to why cryptocurrency was a bad idea touted as the biggest thing since sliced bread, and why authorities may actually push things in that direction once they have the tooling right

Y'all played yourselves tbqh.
True. The web was built on top of the internet, which gave it a huge boost. Today, it's hard to separate the www and the internet, they seem almost 1 combined entity.

I wasn't there, but the internet presumably had value before the www, by having email, ftp and usenet.

It also demonstrates how futile nationalistic feelings are on computers. We invented the internet says the USA. We invented the www, says Europe. Both are irrelevant to the point they are almost wrong. The tech got valuable only because a planet worked together.
Throw me a link or a mail, gotta see if they're still looking.
If they weren't partioned, it would be hard to preserve TSO as a core would be able to see not only its own stores out of order but the sibling hyperthread as well.

This is the case on POWER for example but it is allowed by its more relaxed memory model.
That will be dismissed off hand by most people when it happened more than a few months ago. Because Google PR claims they've improved sooo much
Just in case you're being serious: Because you believe in it, that you're working for something higher than yourself, contributing something positive to society and to science in general. Maximising your own personal gain without any regards to society is often not the main goal here.
Still remember FS 1.0 on an IBM PCjr with cheezy sounds and pseudo vector graphics, yet it was amazing. I’m grateful (and still amazed) seeing this level of tech today through my inner-kid’s eyes of back then.

One can only wonder how it will be in the next decades.

Hard to NOT at least consider we are living in a simulation too ;).
For all my service sign-ups, I use [service-name]@[mydomain] as my email which redirects to my GMail inbox. My sending address is still my GMail.

How will this solution tackle the given situation?
This was always a QALY negative treatment.

One might even conclude the reason it happened is governments seeking power (lockdowns, propaganda and censorship, travel restrictions, etc) rather than genuine public health.
People were repeatedly told to seek treatment when they needed it and not to be put off from going to A&E. It was a pretty regular topic on the daily press conferences.
There are no longer any pandemic restrictions in Britain. But there is still a huge backlog for health treatment, which was largely caused by access to non-urgent healthcare being partially shutdown over the pandemic.
And who needs prisons if the private infrastructure becomes so integral to life that they can just shut you out of participating in society.
We don't do it because it means trade schools for developers. Which, in truth, is exactly what 90% of what we do in the industry needs. But it's not glamorous; it's not a degree. Trade schools are for proles, and we aren't proles, now, how could we possibly be?
As someone who does work in similar domains as yourself, I find that making a main function which contains all of the code I want to be reproducible is a good way to achieve both high speed and running code in a clean environment.

Writing .jl files in VSCode and sending code to the integrated REPL with shift-return for playing around is great and then when I want to run code properly I just comment out my testing code, wrap my important code in a main() function (which is sometimes everything apart from the imports) and then just make sure that I'm not referring to any variables or function methods defined that are now commented. This is made relatively easy as VSCode will immediately complain about possible method errors.

It's not a perfect substitution for having fast startup and when I go back to Python or R for things like the holy grail called Tidyverse then it feels like a weight off my back, but the benefit of doing things the Julia way is that your code has a clear starting point and it helps readability as you can see what every script is supposed to do.
Also, it looks like a powerful attack vector. Just slip a questionable content onto a victim's phone - and voila, a lot of trouble is under way, probably irreversible.
unaccountable
> Vitalik is already preparing to organize social enforcement and democratic slashing for when these pools have their arms twisted to censor transactions by state actors.

I don’t see anything in the linked article that talks about Vitalik preparing to organize anything. He just replied to a tweet.

As far as I can tell, you’re misunderstanding the discussion around censorship and making some pretty big assumptions.
working as a freelancer or for small companies.