skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure you understand what you are writing here?

Let me try to use an example, maybe we are both bad at expressing this in english

I did no say that the user that uploads has no responsibility, but if I upload the Windows code, or FreeBSD code and mark it as GPL and click I agree on the ToS , does this mean that the original license is invalid and GitHub can do whatever they want just because a random person click an Html button?
TAOCP is not job training now, if it ever was; that is trying to get the cart to pull the horse.

The point of a job, unless you're lucky enough to get a job where you can change the world, is to pay your living expenses so that you have the leisure to do things like read TAOCP and write Sudoku solvers. If that's not your idea of an enjoyable vacation, don't read it; you'll regret it.
I have a feeling the iPhone market penetration, in the named countries (Central EU vs Common Wealth) has a strong correlation with other aspects of the daily life in said markets (for example Facebook use, MSN Messanger --ok, some 10 years ago-- use of cash in daily purchase) At least that is my feeling, which of course can be completely biased. I would find really interesting a study in that.
I was keeping a tally of how many companies were offering "ClickHouse as a service" at one point last year. I think I got up to 7 or 8.

It will be interesting to watch this unfold from a code licensing perspective. Will Clickhouse Inc. move to a more restrictive license to block all these other ClickHouse services?
It doesn't help that the majority of people who bemoan the loss of games like UO quickly reveal themselves to be the sort of psychotic players who are the exact reason games like that no longer exist. You'll hear things like "I miss being able to slaughter dozens of people and take all their stuff". Ok great, but your average player hates that sort of game. And you need a high prey/predator ratio to satiate such desires.

I say this as someone who thinks of early UO as the best game they've ever played. I didn't mind that type of player, even spent most of my time fighting with/against them. But I also recognize that this segment is why we can't have nice things.
I'm not arguing that the EU shouldn't be able to pass these laws, but which markets does Apple monopolize?
Pretty good chance that the USB-C plug-design will be with us for decades to come. Even if new protocols emerge, they're likely to use the same plug.

When it comes to charging and slow transfers of data, today's USB-C sockets will probably still work.

The next realm of standardization will probably be in the wireless-charging market (where standards are already maturing).
Damn the improvement is quite huge!
No person should be detained or held at all unless there's reason to believe they will engage in imminent violence or other major crimes.
Step 1 for a commercial fork: pretend the author is dead :)
It's certainly a positive signal vs. not having a degree, in that the probability that they understand the topics that a CS degree covers is higher. Of course it's not a guarantee that they understand that content, and people without CS degrees can also teach themselves using books, online lectures, etc. And of course it's a young field, so more experienced people without degrees may have invented some of the contents of those books.

A masters degree is probably a negative signal though unless they did something completely unrelated like music for undergrad, in which case it's similar to a BS.
I've dove relatively deep into the world of NFTs in the last few months. Not the tech side, but the selling/buying side of it. The culture can easily one-up the grift ideology of the "passive income" content production world or even the MLM niches.

The constant inundation with scams coupled with a mix of kayfabe personalities who claim to believe in something while playing the game of trying to hype up stuff for their "marks" is absolutely incredible.
You have to renew your genius certificate every 2 years before expiration.
Did he get some sort of wake-up call from his bizarre Ukraine-foreign-policy poll yesterday?

I don't understand his motivations, but if you see him as a super-depressed billionaire with ADHD it makes a _bit_ of sense.
Something with wind streams partially shielding southern hemisphere from winds in northern hemisphere. So by the time fallout reaches southern hemisphere, it will be partially diluted. Of course, assuming AUS/NZ/BRA/ARG won't get nuked as well, then it might be moot.

Maybe I am overly pessimistic, but I've seen my share of corp/gov dysfunctionalities and nothing gives me any assurance current "leaders" would stop before blowing up the planet.
What do you think a reasonable form of copyright law would look like?
Online advertising is a reasonably mature space. It's unlikely that it will have any radical changes without some external change. Apple made a big impact last year with their privacy changes, and maybe we'll see some shifts in ad spend or profitability down the line, for now though, it's not as though Facebook and Google have closed up shop.

In the early days of web advertising, there was a lot of noise about how it was all a scam and no actual human ever clicked on a banner ad. Yet you still see banner ads three decades later.

Companies have marketing budgets and the people making those decisions are not universally incompetent. Marketing budgets have existed for centuries.

But assuming your premise is true and the value of hyperpersonalized ads drop significantly, which parts of the tech industry survive? All of them. A specialized business that's very dependent might fail, and big players like Facebook or Google might falter. (Facebook might not be able to fund their metaverse projects for example). The resulting landscape would be consolidated and boring, like radio. And the exciting growth would come from somewhere else.

Also, why are these stories making the rounds again? Did something actually change in the industry?

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
As an algorithms researcher, I have often been reading Knuth on the job.

Most of the time, perspiring with worry that a 1960s article might have scooped me.
Morally, you are, but unfortunately, what's moral isn't always legal.
Your point is irrelevant as Novak is suing the city, not any individual officer. This has nothing to do with qualified immunity.

Edit: the above is wrong, and I apologize. I got all hopped up thinking of the wrong case.
> Even though (let (x 5) (* x x)) is wrong, it parses.

That's not the definition of syntax.

If you're implementing a compiler, then you might use "syntax" as a shorthand for those parts of the syntax that are processed in a particular "syntax checking" stage of the compiler. But that's not all it is.

> From looking at the use, I don't know whether it is valid shape for f

That, on the other hand, is close to a definition of syntax: The rules for what has a valid shape and what doesn't.
"This document was originally called a "Code of Conduct" and was created for the purpose of filling in a box on "supplier registration" forms submitted to the SQLite developers by some clients."

From the very first line of the link.
Superior except the speed is USB2 and no one else uses it.
I know it does, and that has been cited countless times by homeopathic studies. The problem is that you still need magic for it to have a biological effect.

They dismiss this criticism as undiscovered science, in much the same way fairies and leprechauns are undiscovered animals. They'll often cite quantum mechanics and even cosmology, the more esoteric the better, to try to shoehorn science into their beliefs.
A code of conduct that covers all the bases of the gold standard for such things, the Contributor Covenant -- including explicitly promoting DEI, protecting everyone but especially members of marginalized communities from harassment, and delineating explicit enforcement procedures and committees -- is table stakes for an open source project today. Not having one presents compliance issues for companies who otherwise might adopt your project.
This is probably refering the SQLite Code of Ethics debacle.

SQLite has a Code of Ethics, which is used for ticking a box when working with some of their clients (meaning: they probably don't take it very seriously). For this code of ethics, they chose to use the christian Rule of St. Benedict[0].

When it was implemented, it ruffled some feathers in a fairly major way. While it's true that SQLite is closed to code contributions, they do still accept discussions on their forums, among other things. Those interactions would, supposedly, be bound to the CoC. The sqlite devs later cleared up that it was there for client compliance reasons, but the damage was done.

I don't think this line is in bad faith. It's basically spelled out on their code of ethics page that they basically don't care too much about it and is mostly there for ticking boxes.

[0]: https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
Wouldn’t these two average each other out long term?
This is one of those book series that I really, really want to purchase as a beautiful, matching, leather-bound set. And, yes, I would read it for pleasure, and I would treasure it.
> I think platform censorship is a completely different beast than government persecution and prosecution.

Yes but the complaint here is that of its effects on free speech. They are equivalent from that perspective, no?
The Futures of Typography (2017)
Good point! In my experience, you don't need to hire "Clojure developers". Look for good candidates that have worked with functional programming languages and you'll be fine. They'll get up to speed in a matter of weeks. Any flexible and educated developer can use Clojure, it's not magic.

In other words, it's not about hiring a "Clojure developer", it's about hiring a good developer.
SITUATION: there are too many competing SQLite forks...
That's so cool
This is precisely why those laboring under the misapprehension that the same mechanism used for this can somehow be used by them to make things more "fair" are, at best, delusional. The results will always be "more fair" only to a certain group; moreover, that group will always exist in some form or other, as precisely such has always been the actual outcome of any fascist/mercantilist/communist system: only the name and presumed principles vary, but the effective outcome is always the same and always toxic to the rest of society.
I was thinking more of a manic depressive thing.
Yeah no doubt it's gonna be China in a few years time if the current government remains in power.
What's hilarious or intriguing about it? Is it just that you're not familiar with the practice of publishing things in fascicles?
I didn't get the impression that the parent was offering such anodyne observations, to be honest.
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 with ZFS for the root and user storage, with ZFS encryption, and frankly found the performance to be annoying. Keep in mind: I'm a huge ZFS fan. One of the packages I had installed, I forget which, made basically all apt sessions take much, much longer because of snapshotting, and my system load was basically always 1-3. I ended up reinstalling with ext4+LUKS when 22.04 came out. This is on a Dell XPS 15 with i7-10750H and 32GB RAM and "PC611 NVMe SK hynix 1TB" SSD.
> moving to USB-C will mean we'll have to buy a 5-10 new bricks and cables

Why? Your computers and one of your tablets already have USB-C chargers, so you could just use those for your phones. Further, USB-A to USB-C cables exist, so you could reuse your existing USB-A bricks, too.
From a spectator's perspective it's going to be interesting to see how this all works out. SQLite's dedication to doing one thing, doing it well and staying incredibly small means it's basically my go-to example for phenomenal software in 2022. But at the same time maybe a more open model means we'll end up with an embeddable DB that's capable of even more wonderful things. I look forward to finding out.
I won't defend popsci presentations, but formally MWI is pretty precisely defined. It's defined by assuming the postulates of quantum mechanics without including the Born rule. States are unit vectors, operations are unitary matrices, systems combine using the tensor product. That's many worlds.

It's sort of like constructivist mathematics in that it involves dropping an extremely useful axiom, and then rederives basically all the same results in a more roundabout way.
Location: Brazil
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Technologies: Full-stack backend leaning, JavaScript, Smalltalk, Rust, Swift

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http://sebastiansastre.co

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Backend-leaning full-stack software engineer working remotely in diverse teams for the last 10 years.

Not in a hurry. I’m exploring career improvement opportunities where I can be sure that if I invest my passion I will feel parts of the results of it.

I’ve helped (twice) companies to scale their applications from millions of users to an architecture that can scale x10 that.

I'm happy working with JavaScript, Rust, Swift, Smalltalk, Docker, AWS or GCloud. I'm usually happier pair programming but I'm totally okay left with a task on my own too.

I prefer not to do DevOps nor operations. Being on-call is a deal breaker. I shine in development. Love to pair/mentor teammates. Specially bringing new possibilities for the app so the team can do things with it if they chose to.

My current favorite pet project is an IDE for Smalltalk with a Svelte frontend and a Rust backend.
I used them to implement an arbitrary precision math library for an embedded processor that needed to do some precise calculation in an autonomous environment. The embedded processor had no floating point capabilities.

The book showed me the method of how to do it efficiently in a manner that could be adapted to the 16 bit architecture I was working with. It also showed me how to detect and handle overflow situations, as well as when they would happen. It kept me from creating a buggy, error-prone pile of crap code that I'm certain I would have created at the time.

At the same time, it took me a couple of days of study to understand the two or three pages I was interested in. The material was the most condensed material I have consumed in computer science. Like you say, you have to learn a new machine architecture and assembly language to understand the examples. Things you learn from those books come at a high cost in terms of time and effort.

It reminds me of studying the bible, where cross checking, reading different translations, studying hebrew and greek, and the culture of the day are all necessary if you want to get the best understanding you can. The TAOCP books are scholarly articles and almost a kind of shorthand notation of computer science concepts.
It reminds me the chess memory experiment where more experienced chess players had much better recall of real chess positions than novices
and the same recall for random positions (around 4 pieces).

If it is the same phenomena then we may expect that Paul as an experienced musician should have an excellent recall for real music and an ordinary one (no better than anyone) for cacophony (random sounds).
Good catch, i glossed over history. Apparently HN wants open source projects to push morality. I am quite downvoted.
I don't think population growth is a strong indicator of demand or supply for specialized services like SWEs.

For example, automation can remove one type of labor and increase the supply for services labor, like the combustion engine w/ agriculture. Also you can have increased demand by the popularization of new software interfaces, like smart phones or AR.
I found myself asking similar questions about a year ago and stumbled upon a book called Be Your Future Self Now, by Dr. Benjamin Hardy that helped. After reading the book, I:

1. Created 1 to 3 goals that I want to accomplish in the next 1, 5, and 10 years.
2. Evaluated all my activities.
3. Eliminated all activities that aren't actively driving me towards those goals.

Once I eliminated superfluous junk from my life, I felt a lot more focused.
And the US became significant supporters of Franco in later years.
Or, his realization of the likely outcome of the Twitter trial had the paradigm of "what if we just surrender already" primed in his subconscious, hence his Ukraine tweet.
Your curious nature is really an asset which might not be apparent if you are on your 20s or even 30s.

I'm in a similar boat and for me the issue with switching activities/hobbies/jobs is that I feel unsatisfied with the lack of results that focused people achieve.

A couple of years ago (I'm 43 now) I found a way to balance focus with curiosity. I made a deal with myself that when I embark on a project, whatever it is, I will finish it. I will permit myself to do something else (if I feel like it) once I'm done with that thing, but I won't let my curiosity prevent me from finishing stuff.

I've found that all projects I embark on only satisfy my curiosity in the first say 30% of the project. After that it's just boring work which I have force myself to do. The interesting thing is that when I'm reaching the end of the project I get excited again. And when I finish, I honestly feel all the effort and grinding has been worth it. Understanding these phases I go through really helps me push through the grinding phase.
At the end of the day, English is less a language in the sense of other languages and more a pluggable framework an empire developed for adopting the vocabulary of other peoples and stuffing them into a loose sort of syntax together.
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The main problem I have with USB-C is that it is not a particularly good standard for power delivery. For one, USB-C is not "IP rated" for use in the kitchen or the bathroom, so you still need separate chargers there. Also the USB-C connector supports fast data delivery, which makes it a lot more expensive than a connector that focusses on power only.

A standard that would do just power delivery <100W and works in damp environments, so it could cheap and universal, would have been so much better.
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for original price before trial
For your analogy to be correct, it's not that you chose not to take the pliers home, but that the hardware store won't let you.
Oh, strange I’ve never had issues with this. Do you use unstable? If so that might explain it.

I tend to use stable for everything then overlay the unstable/git master versions of the packages I need.

EDIT: Actually ignore me, of course stable won’t have problems because updates are held back….

I don’t think the CI thing will help. I think what’s happening here is a build time check that prevents any new kernel version with ZFS until the upstream announces support. I don’t think this check will be removed even if there was better CI.

Also, possibly your issues might go away if you used ‘config.boot.zfs.package.latestCompatibleLinuxPackages’ (from NixOS wiki for ZFS). I think that version is only updated once upstream announces support for a newer kernel.
I tried playing uo outlands, but what really struck me was the lack of bugs. Tbh my favourite part of playing uo back in the day was exploiting bugs so uo outlands isn't really for me
I think this is not uncommon. I mentioned in another reply, that I'm "good at" what I do but I don't like doing it anymore. Saying I hate it is a bit too strong, but some days it can feel like that.
There's 6 and 7 planned too, might be a bit of a wait. It's a real shame he isn't likely to finish the series, I would really be interested in that final volume (compilers).
I want to watch Top Gun: Maverick. I go to the Amazon Store page.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B213HG4N/ref=atv_hm...

I see "By ordering or viewing, you agree to our Terms[link to terms]" Huh maybe I should look at what I'm buying before I click checkout.

https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=202095490&view-type=c...

Hmm, what's relevant to this. Ah, Digital Content, generally.

The Service may allow you to: (i) ignoring subscription talk (ii) ignoring rental talk (iii) purchase Digital Content for on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time ("Purchased Digital Content")

So obviously even "buying" the movie only gives it to me for an indefinite period of time. I wonder when it might not become available then. Let's scan more section headers to see if it talks about that.

i. Availability of Purchased Digital Content. Purchased Digital Content will generally continue to be available to you for download or streaming from the Service, as applicable, but may become unavailable due to potential content provider licensing restrictions or for other reasons, and Amazon will not be liable to you if Purchased Digital Content becomes unavailable for further download or streaming.

I don't get how this is an "undue burden" to read this before forking over $14. It is not fine print, the default styles render it pretty clearly on my screen but you can feel free to resize it to render however you wish. Its not a long document. It has obvious sections. The link to this document was a few pixels away from the Buy button on my screen and was easily visible. It took me less than a minute to understand what I would be buying if I clicked "Buy". They're not hiding this away behind some far away unrelated site or only giving you this after requesting it by mail with legal letterhead. This is pretty out there and open.

To me, suggesting that people can't read this might as well be the same as arguing people shouldn't be required to read what's on the face of a ticket. The information is right there, it is not hidden in the slightest.

> Event tickets are an established practice

Maybe to you, but maybe I've never bought one before.

If you're going by "event tickets have been sold for a while", well, so have digital movies with DRM that can make them unavailable. This isn't something that just came out this year, I bought a movie from Amazon Unbox sixteen years ago which had these limitations. How long does it have to exist before it is an "established practice"?
the impending court case is probably a bigger motivator. better to do a 180 now and control the narrative than lose in court, I guess.
I can barely find time to read 3-4 pages of a novel before I pass out before bed. I look at volumes like this, Churchill's The Second World War, Summa Theologica, and wonder if I could ever get through these things in my lifetime.
> including explicitly promoting DEI

> Not having one presents compliance issues for companies who otherwise might adopt your project.

Insisting that people adhere to your ideology through “compliance” sounds very totalitarian.
Not only that Android is cheaper but also the mean income in countries where Android is prevalent is lower than those where iOS is, with exceptions like Germany, France (I'd need to see market share data from these exceptions)
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USB-C only exists because Apple proved to everyone how nice a reversible connector is, and USB caught up years later. Lightning has some other advantages like being thinner and less difficult to break. If Apple caves and moves to USB-C everywhere it’s very unlikely that future innovation in connectors will happen.
Yeah, you'd be a glaring anomaly. Strive for the mean!
It's usually as the dark screen intro to the actual video. Not sure whether I've ever seen it as the end credits.
Having travelled the EU with Irish/UK plugs on my electronics, it's a pain in the ass unless you have swapped the plug on several power strips.

Also, basically all of the adapters say not for long term use, and they're nowhere near as stout or secure as either type of plug alone.

Anyway, the UK plug is the best one out there, except for stepping on them. They're worse than legos, and that's saying something. (and maybe size, weight, and cost. But electrically, they're good)