skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason for providing attribution is to create a incitement for anyone to even publish their work as FOSS in the first place.

What? You think people only develop open source simply to have attribution? Personally I publish open source because I made something others could use and I don't want them to waste time duplicating effort. I don't even care whether they list me or not, it doesn't factor into my decision to open source at all.
The comparison isn't happening because everyone is getting caught up in some language war.

I compare C++ and python because I'm trying to make a statement about types. How types are actually not as important as people think.

C++ and python are good examples because python is safer and easier to use then C++ yet python doesn't have type checking.
Public access to IBM quantum computers
Our first baby arrived premature in June 2020, middle of no-alcohol lock down in South Africa. Doctor at the time told me the hospital was uncannily quiet despite a pandemic and that it really highlighted how busy alcohol related incidents normally keep them.

South Africa is not alone here, but we have a serious culture problem around alcohol. It’s too common that people (middle class, several years out of university people included) drink stupid amounts of the stuff not caring that they become loud and disorderly and apparently often violent.

Pretty much every week I see one or more traffic lights were run over on the weekend, no doubt by people doing 100km/h+ on 80km/h roads while drunk.

But this does not even seem to be acknowledged as a problem here.

Companies like SAB Miller are a major employer, spend fortunes on advertising and probably have major political influence which I’m sure contributes to lack of media attention to the problem.

Attempting to ban it would never work (as evidenced by the lock-down ban creating a black market). But ideally, we should be working on making binge drinking culturally unacceptable.
The best thing you can do is get yourself a Seasonal Affective Disorder lamp and use it while you work on the computer, an hour or two daily in the mornings. If you dont wanna spend too much money on it, get yourself a few very powerful floodlights. The lights have to emit at least 10K lumens on 1 meter distance, the floodlights are way more powerful than the SAD lamps anyway.
> all have truly horrific stories to tell.

Unless the situation is different for women in law, or women in medicine, it still does not explain the lack of women in CS.
Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms
This is interesting. Thank you for this.

I wrote an epoll echo server which multiplexes multiple clients over each thread. The idea is that each core can scale the number of clients it serves.

Its kind of similar to libuv. I use IO threads to handle IO. It's incomplete though but a proof of idea.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/epoll-server

It is based on a multiconsumer multiproducer RingBuffer by Alexander Krizhanovsky.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lock-free-multi-produce...

I also wrote a userspace 1:M:N lightweight thread scheduler which should be integrated with the epoll server. This is an alternative to coroutines. I multiplex multiple lightweight threads on a kernel thread and switch between them fast. The scheduler thread preempts hot for and while loops by setting the looping variable to the limit. This allows preemption to occur when the code finished the current iteration. This is why I call it userspace preemption.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

One idea I have for even higher performance is to split sending and receiving to their own threads and multiplex sending and receiving across threads. This means you can scale sending and receiving.

I want to add io_uring maybe I can learn it from this repository
Once my collection of books reached 300 a higher power (my wife) ordered me to switch to ebooks and audiobooks.
I firmly believe that, had Ukraine collapsed within days of the invasion as Russia expected, they’d be in a NATO country by now. I think Putin expected NATO to turn out to be a paper tiger when it came to the Baltics, at least.

Given the reports that Trump planned to drop out of NATO in his second term, and given the ongoing tensions within Europe, it’s not unreasonable to think Russia could get away with gradual encroachment.
"People, what a bunch of bastards." -IT Crowd
Worth pointing out that this was launched some months ago, it's not related to ongoing events with twitter

They also have a peertube instance https://tube.network.europa.eu/
I think that 1990 is probably pretty close to the point where chemistry sets finally got safe(r).

I was born in the early 80s and my older brother was born in the mid 70s, and I distinctly remember preferring to play with his old hand-me-down chemistry set rather than mine. One like his could not be found in stores anywhere by the time I was old enough to be interested in a chemistry set.

But I also never gave myself any horrible chemical burns playing with my own chemistry set. So it's probably a decent trade-off, all told.
which CDN are you using?
It is possible that the cost of reducing alcohol availability during the pandemic outweighs not restricting its use.
Probably very few because you can’t just substitute intoxicants like that. People with aud aren’t dependent on being unsober, they’re dependent on alcohol. If they could be swapped like that it would have actually been an improvement because they would have stopped destroying their liver. There are lots of studies that have tried to treat aud with various substitutes as harm reduction, usually weed since the effects are similar, with little success.
The solution here is not really interesting except from a language design perspective. Go avoids this problem by having the maximum array length be int, but doing the math in uint. This won’t work in languages that lack uints (Java) or have maximum array sizes in uint (C/C++).
Emergency lane-keeping became mandatory in Europe this year, so all new cars have lane assist.
Having lived in places with annual hours of sunshine in the range of 1600-3000 my take is that it's the wind that gets you.

Coincidentally the least sunny place I lived in was also the most windy, making the apparent temperature so much lower and almost guaranteeing getting a cold in spring, when the high day temperature made people let their guard down.
Is this side hustle approved and sanctioned by your employer the FAA, or have you gone and created something possibly on company (taxpayer) time which means the FAA actually has an ownership interest in poachme.dev?
Could you list some limitations?

And are you using the blockchain co-opted “web3” here, or the general “web3”?
I love these finance articles. It’s like asking “could this recession be as bad as the 1930s?”

Like sure the stock market may fall that much but will a reduction in output cause THAT much hardship? Likely not. But if you don’t write a tantalizing title no one will open your article and make you money.

Could the house prices fall as much as 2008? Sure. Will the economy stare down the abyss to the end of modern civilization like it did in 2008? Much more unlikely.
That's a possible outcome, and was a common sight back in '08.

Another outcome is the banks take back the properties en masse (happened in the early '80s during the last inflation scare, and also in '08) and slowly sell off the properties to investors in REO[0] auctions.

0 - REO or "real estate owned" is what banks call properties they've foreclosed on and taken ownership of. They generally want to get these properties off their books as quickly as possible and in the past have been willing to sell them at or below their cost basis.
That creates a very funny visual although you forgot to mention the rings, gold chain, and serpent cane.
I moved to sunny California because of this having started out in Seattle which is known for being cloudy and rainy a lot. My mood has been way better overall and I find that spending a bit of time in the sun each day makes me feel as right as rain. I would go so far as to say my life is a lot better because of this as it prevented some self loathing behavior or unnecessarily prolonged melancholy sans medication.

Probably accurate to say I'm solar powered.
Finally! I've always wanted to play this game but could never get over the graphics.
They have some skills better fitting that my younger self! Not an exaggeration!
They say alcohol death is big right now. Then they cite stats and cause from a couple years ago.

Are they intentionally avoiding addressing the present cause? IE the crazy inflation bumming everybody out.
Binary search can be done on anything, not just arrays. Often you apply it to an algorithm and there isn't a collection at all, you just know the right answer is between some numbers so binary search lets you find it in logarithmic number of tries. If computing the number is costly then binary search is necessary to compute the result at all in those cases.
This isn't for everyone, but if you attain sufficiently severe depression due to work/relationships/existential issues during the summer months, you will not notice the effects of varying seasonal illumination. Do have to be careful for obvious reasons though. If you are new to this, you probably should try micro-dosing on depression inducing activities during the summer to see if this is a good fit.
I wouldn't go that far, but I'd seriously punish any use of official "position" accounts for self-promotion or political fighting. Social media accounts like @POTUS or official government websites should never be used for the incumbent's own political agenda. Want to tweet to announce a new law you just passed? Cool. Want to respond to criticism, bark a journalists or fight with opponents? Fuck off to your own account!
Awesome. Breathtaking.

But the imagery isn't from satellite data, is it? Must be from airplanes.
My understanding is that this is more of the equivalent of making sure you land on heads all 3 times. In that case it’s a 1/8th on 3 coin flips, no?
How about we have an informal rule that if is Mac only, or Win10 only, etc that it says so in the title?
Ok, please educate me on how Russia was “forced” to invade multiple neighbors.
Fun fact, there are some other lessons here: it can sometimes pay off to (1) generalize your function, and (2) respect the mathematical axioms you're supposed to be following.
This (obviously) isn't to say you should always generalize everything, but you should at least consider what would happen if you did so, and if the difference is small, perhaps do it. The benefit of doing so being that it can avoid problems that aren't otherwise obvious—sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

In particular, (x + y) / 2 is the wrong implementation of midpoint in general, because it would fail to even compile on objects you can't add together. But midpoint is well-defined on anything you can subtract (i.e. anything you can define a consistent distance function for)—and it doesn't require addition to be well-defined between those objects!

One obvious (in C/C++, and not-so-obvious in Java) counterexample here is pointers/iterators. You can subtract them, but not add them. And, in fact, if you implement midpoint in a manner that generalizes to those and respects the intrinsic constraints of the problem, you end up with the same x + (y - x) / 2 implementation, which doesn't have this bug.
Perhaps you get no extra respect for being a programmer, but you also do not get extra disrespect. People who disrespect a bad looking programmer would also disrespect a bad looking non-programmer. The upper management probably disrespects all their employees.
In Europe, it's not hard to get 600 EUR per day if your skills are in demand. Since you're currently a contractor, are you getting 1200 EUR per day? If that's the case, I'd probably stay and bank that money for a couple more years, and possibly into early retirement.
https://www.phocos.com/product/psw-h-hybrid-inverter-charger...

i own this solar inverter and i get to use on-grid mode when the grid is live during the day and if grid goes dark for any reason, i cut off supply outside and use the solar for home use WITHOUT BATTERIES. Been running this at home for 2 years now, 5 KWH inverter, 5.3 (i think) panels
Seriously, why should we care what General Mills does? Are they some kind of paragon of virtue and ethics? No, they are a globocorp just like Twitter is. General Mills' products are disgusting anyway.
I wonder is the result owes a lot to visual processing (a highly developed trait in most birds.) Arguably, with the symbol-pairs used here, each pair look a bit like a single but partially-obscured convex object, with the inner ones lying on top of the outer ones.
What is XR?
Impression for those that don't want to wait for the application to load: https://lucgommans.nl/tmp/prague3d.html (5MB, 10s mp4 of a square in Prague)

A bit choppy because of the basically nonexistent GPU, and I just made it with xdotool (moving the mouse straight/consistently) while recording the screen, but I'm quite impressed with the level of detail of this 3d map!
The Disturbing Rise of Amateur Predator-Hunting Stings
> Right, but that sprawl is apparently what people want.

To be honest, I'm not sure this is exclusively the case. Older neighborhoods with more density and mixed use are so in demand they will sell for 2-10x as much as suburban counterparts. It's just that they are illegal and can't be built.

There seems to be an insane demand for mixed use and medium density housing that is close to services, jobs and transportation. Imagine, never having to commute again. Living next to a walking path that is quiet and well maintained where you can take your kids for a walk. Even better, a 5 minute walk away is a grocery store and an ice cream shop that your kids can walk to safely without ever crossing a dangerous road.

There is a demand, just no supply!
> I feel bad when I see everyone around making progress with their careers. Meanwhile my only promotion happened like 15 years ago, when I went from junior to senior dev. My salary is, I bet, better than most, but salaries are secret. I'm concerned about ageism and who will hire me when I'm 50 and haven't even led a small team.

This seems to be the crux of the problem for you. You seem to want to lead a team. But how do you know this won't make you unhappy? Consider...

> I also have to do a shitload of reports (which I hate), as I'm the one with the better knowledge of the (decades old) DB. ...

Depending on the situation, team leads can spend a shitload of time doing reports, making presentations, schmoozing, stroking ruffled feathers, and generally doing things that looks like non-work from a certain perspective.

Have you considered that you've found your ideal situation? No boss. Work on interesting projects from time to time. No mortgage. Earn enough to support your growing family. Live where you want.

Maybe those people making "progress with their careers" look at someone in your situation and think, "if only..."

Have you considered doing volunteer work as a way to find out how you'd like to lead a team? Schools constantly need volunteers, as to many non-profits. They also need people with leadership skills. So you might be able to dip a toe into the water without making a big commitment career-wise. You might be surprised at how the reality of leadership differs from the fantasy.
Sounds like ESL issue
This uses a TEE (a chip that is hard to take apart contain a private key provided by Intel), so the privacy system is very boring (they think the person who owns the TEE will not be able to see what the chip is doing).
One thing that's forgotten nowadays is that the old and even older 35mm films were a lot more grainier the ones we have now. 35mm started to gain bigger traction in the 60s and after that as the film stocks improved. Also 24-36 photos for the same price are probably more inviting compared to medium format's 10-16 photos depending on the frame size.

I love to shoot medium format but have couple of 35mm cameras laying around although the 36 frame rolls are too much for me and I decided that when I get the current 35mm stash shot, I'll buy bulk loader, empty containers and start creating that 10-16 frame rolls to get the amount sane and rolls developed more quickly.
I do agree about the multithreading, but I think better menus will probably make quite a big difference to the playability. I'm looking forward to getting into weapons and armour and more of the army screens that I never bothered taking the time to really penetrate.
35 year old here in the UK and I’ve finally had enough of the weather so spend much of my time doing the same. We moved from the north to the midlands a few years a go and that helped a bit but it’s no longer cutting it sadly.

I can work anywhere but my spouse can’t - so at this point we are just working out how to make it work on potentially just one income. The joke has become “how poor are we willing to be to get away from the rain” at this point.

Oh and visa’s aren’t easy either. If only there was some simple way we could move to a European country under some kind of free movement of people act - what a world that would be.
It is reasonable to have a draft for self-defense (like Israel).

We now see that Russia has difficulties getting draftees to fight abroad, so it is hard to imagine that Poland is at any particular risk right now.
How about restricting the amount of water one is allowed to extract from the aquifer?
You can use unsigned division and addition and then go back to signed and it is still correct.
Liquid Death is going for that niche
True Seniority in Software Careers
But at least we all know 3 came before 7, 11 followed 10 etc. Vista was 8. Dunno what happened to 9 but I'll never remember the order of 'name'. Same with android....kit kat was version what now?
Indeed, something like 25cm or better is typically shot from airplanes. I don't remember what the physical limit is for image quality given a reasonably sized spy satellite (iirc it's around the 20cm mark), but commercially at least, the high quality imagery is all airplanes. Governments often commission such planes to fly ~yearly at something like 10 cm, as well as commissioning height maps[1], but the very good stuff is not released to the public for privacy reasons. I think the best I've ever seen is 15cm.

The point clouds from those height maps alone, though, I already find to be quite interesting/revealing. You can see the contours of e.g. a tree exactly, even without having any imagery laid onto them: https://snipboard.io/tPsRBo.jpg

[1] For those that can read Dutch, how the Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland is made: https://www.ahn.nl/ahn-the-making-of
I don't think this fully explains the phenomenon, but I do think there are a couple of factors you're overlooking here:

1. Control over the "distribution channel" is a major factor at least part of the time. The fields which are most notorious for low pay (e.g., books, music, photography) are the ones where the producers of the content are disconnected from the customers and instead sell via distributor. At least some of these middlemen are reaping the rewards of the low marginal cost (e.g. Spotify?), but I'm not sure if it applies to all of them (e.g., book publishers?). More to the point, software developers tend to have more direct control over the distribution channel (notably SaaS) and when they don't the distributor tends to takes a hefty chunk of the revenue (e.g. mobile app stores today, big-box retailers 20-30 years ago).

2. The "make it once, sell it infinitely" model doesn't really apply to newspapers (and maybe some of the other categories) in quite the same way. Yes, the marginal cost per view is essentially 0, so I can "sell" today's paper an infinite number of times. But the value of and interest in that content rapidly depreciates to 0 as soon as it becomes yesterday's news. The newspaper model isn't "write once, sell forever". You need to continue to "feed the beast". It's the ongoing production cost to continuously generate new content that dominates.

3. There may also be a correlation with "content" versus "services". Whether due to distribution mechanics or popular perception, it seems like application providers (e.g., Adobe, Microsoft) are able to enforce a pay-as-you-go subscription model but "pure" content providers are often trapped in a (lower-margin) advertising model because "information wants to be free" (or more to the point, is easily plagiarized by competitors or pirated by consumers). Digital or not, most of the "low pay" examples you cite fall into the content rather than service category.
The problem is not payroll, but shareholder dividends, capital gains and share buy-backs, and the corporate debt to pay for all of these.
Europe's answer to that is south of Spain, no wonder why I see cars with Swedish, Norwegian, or even Icelandic (!) licence plates here. As of today 6 Nov, the thermometer shows 28C (82F), and the beaches are packed.
You can buy a nice beach villa with its own pool for around 300k$/€. Super safe too, forgot a bluetooth speaker in plain sight in my car with rolled down windows - for a few weeks.
Conviently they just passed a digital nomad law with which you can come here long-term and pay 15% income tax.
This actually reminds me of a quote in the book The Victorian Internet about the development of the telegraph. Part of the push of the first undersea cable to connect the US and European countries was a belief that with more instant communication there would be no misunderstandings and therefore no more wars. So this belief has been going on a long time.
I'm not into dancing, but I like the upbeat music and the clothing style.
Dumping 20 tons of metal from orbit isn't a "calculated risk" its sloppy and dangerous. They could have built the rocket using 50 years of experience knowing this could be an issue, instead they just lie and say it will burn up. They already dropped one on a village.
I dont consider myself to be superstitious, but I admit that if I mistyped a command, I often get the distinct feeling that it was a warning.
Sun, even on a cloudy day gives more light measured in lumens than even strongest lamps. Windows filter a lot, so being outside is important. You can use Lux Light Meter app to measure light intensity.

Went outside to compare app results:
Not too bright living room - 10lux

Brightly lit kitchen - 400 lux.

Outside (it's 15:45 in Norway, already getting dark), cloudy late autumn day/early evening - 50lux (which doesn't really prove my point :/)

From memory:
Sunny day, direct sunlight - 40k lux
Cloudy summer day - 10k lux.

A window filters 50-80%

You see that even on a cloudy day you get as much as sitting 20cm from a SAD lamp.

With 10k lux you need approximately 30min exposure before 9 o'clock to keep circadian rhythm from drifting.