skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm loving Scott Aaronson rolling his eyes at this. He actually had a whole section on this in his book for a similar experiment in 2010 on closed timelike curves https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2219. I feel bad for actual quantum computing experts, we're living through a weird quantum hype moment and they have to combat the quantum hype machine making absurd claims on one side and the quantum skeptics saying that quantum computing is useless on the other.
I agree.
The expectation is silly, the workers will produce more despite the lost hour I'm certain of it.
Why don't these Mckinsey guys freaking try it already.
Meh. I used vim for 20 years. Got to the point of tricking it all out with some of the full-blown ~/.vim configs you can just grab from GitHub. Some of the advanced tips on that site take it into the realm of being emacs. But I found that I was basically trying to get it to be... a GUI, with NERDtree and the lot. When I discovered Sublime Text, and multiple cursors, I quickly gave up on vim. I develop web applications (mostly). I'm pointing and clicking all throughout the process, since web pages are inherently graphical. I still haven't masted all of the keybindings for ST, but I think that being obstinate about keeping my hands on the keyboard when I'm editing is a waste of mental effort. YMMV. I think my lack of being able to fly through editor options without using a mouse cost me a job once, but if a place is going to fetishize that over being a deep expert with 25+ years of experience, go for it. I can solve business problems with software.

* Edited for "Sublime Text," though I don't know why I'm bothering, as this is being downvoted.
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The "g" namespace is a dumping ground for "alternate" versions of things that already have normal-mode mappings.

Personally I think most of the normal mode mappings make no sense, other than the core motions and "q". A lot of precious "one-key" mappings are kind of wasted. You can of course override them, but it feels very "bolted on"

One of my high hopes for Neovim is that eventually they will start migrating the hard-coded default mappings to something more akin to a default config layer, which will be easier to override or disable. They have already started doing this for built-in commands, e.g. :cscope has been removed.
Documentation on the <podcast:transcript> tag is here:
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m...

To see which apps currently support which Podcasting 2.0 features: https://podcastindex.org/apps (some of the apps are web apps not all that dissimilar to yours)
As someone just getting started with Nix & NixOS, I couldn't agree more.

In terms of documentation: the lines between nix-the-language, nix-the-tool, and nixos-the-system are often too blurry. Familiarity with one of the three is often assumed or implied.

Everyone seems to be using Flakes and/or home-manager; the official docs and tools all try to scare you away by labeling it unstable/experimental (if ever mentioning them at all), yet it seems difficult to find third-party resources that don't refer you to Flakes at some point.

The "getting started" manual is very good at getting you to a basic and very usable desktop system, but once you want to go anywhere beyond that, the difficulty (and complexity) immediately ramps up to crazy levels.

The references usually feel like they're complete, but I found it extremely difficult to find a simple answer to quite basic questions of the "how to do X" kind; e.g. I want to supply the same list of packages to python310.withPackages and python311.withPackages, to have both Python versions available system-wide (so I can trivially fire up an IPython shell and hack away at a simple problem). I solved this on other systems e.g. by using stupid text substitutions in a shell script, or calling "python3.xx -m pip -r requirements.txt", but it's still unclear to me how to do it with Nix - do I need to learn more of the language, or more about nixpkgs, do I stick with copy-pasting the package list, etc.

I wish the documentation was even 10% as good as OpenBSD's, but many commands don't even have basic man pages. It's definitely the most intriguing OS I've tried in many years, with a lot of promise for a return on the investment, it's just that it feels incredibly steep to get anywhere when you're just getting started.
Playing dumb and framing himself as just a kid who was out of his element appears to be his team's strategy to try and minimize his personal consequences in all of this. He is a highly educated individual that was literally born on Stanford's campus to professors. I'm not sure many will buy his Steve Urkel "Did I do that??" defence.
Asking as an outsider: what responsibility should the Trustcor related "Neil Dunbar" carry in all of this?
No, it took me a bit to understand as well. It looks like a set of host SDKs and a sandboxed runtime (guessing this is why they're using wasm) you can drop into your own software and expose some hooks that would allow your users to write their own plugins for your app in a variety of languages.
Uber- I mean Haskell for operating systems.

Like Ansible but more bdsm.

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Interesting to see how the article breaks down back of the envelope calculations, specifically in relation to data access and latency.
Only in the general case, for simple (mostly endgame) positions it is quite possible to exhaustively search the move tree and find the absolute best move. Those can be found by current engines and future engine development won't change them anymore. Such a move would therefore always be the top engine move.
I guess a lot of the early intake have retired early

I might be inclined to agree if the same held true in other "professions" but it does not.

Based on personal experince in the USA, the half life of a STEM career is about 10 years. Every ten years, half the qualified "professionals" at this experience level have left the field --- either by choice or otherwise.

This doesn't happen to a similar extent with doctors, lawyers or accountants. Have you ever seen any public service announcement encouraging young people to study law or medicine? The tech industries are different --- they are dependent on a continuous inflow of young, naive talent to be burned out and largely discarded by middle age.
That covers the technical side of why they could do it, but it doesn’t provide a legal or ethical reason why Apple must open up their walled garden more. Everyone agrees they have the right to control their ecosystem to a great extent. This is just the free market fighting out how far that limit is. It’s ultra wealthy companies using their leverage to limit their costs and improve their margins… same as it ever was.
> can't think of a proper analogy to the market power that Apple holds by having the whole platform coupled with devices that people don't have that many other choices

There are three console makers as opposed to two major phone manufacturers. How is that different?
It's on the homerow in the middle of the keyboard, equally accessible to both hands. If it were a symbol key I suspect there would be less perplexity, but because it's a letter key users are left wondering what the mnenomic is :)
> Are root cert keys not rotated?

They are but by their nature as core components of OS and devices they have to be long-lived, because they “bound” the lifetime of their sub-certs.

So root-certificates usually have an expiry of a decade or two, intermediate certs a few years (about 5), and then leaf certificate lifespans have been cut down drastically: used to be you could get a 10 years cert, then the CABF cut that down to 5, then 3, then 2, and I think now it’s a year (plus a one month grace period, so 13 months), and some registrars issue much shorter certs than that, notably Let’s Encrypt which issues 90 days certificates and basically requires automation.
The UX is surprisingly bad, and has been for a long time.
There was another thread here which I haven’t seen anyone mention or cite yet:

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...
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I wholeheartedly recommend employees to keep office laptop & equipment in the office drawers or lockers.

That was one of the main things I liked about working 100% in the office. My work computer and all my work stayed at the office and it was basically impossible for me to 'just fix a thing' after having left the office.
yep.

_leading-edge chip manufacturing_ must be seen like "defence": making money out of it is optional, but it has to stay _really_ leading-edge and should be ready to produce at scale for other failing "friendly" part of the world. Since South-Korea and Taiwan did just that, and the others not, they are now alone on the global market.

To believe the "supply/demand" rule of the economy can magically make the money flow decently and properly is _REALLY_ dangerous, it cannot apply to everything.
>Also away from games where animated interaction is part of the point, designing a good animation that works better than text+images is often not as easy as many think, and you need to contend with that before you attempt to implement the design

The places where "animation that works better than text+images" is incredibly small

I can read faster than you can animate - speed it up!

Or I want to read longer than you animate - slow it down!

Text (+images) solves this perfectly - and has for millennia
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68k assembly is pretty high level and easy to program. The instruction set looks like made for C.

Even things like post-increment (x++) and pre-decrement (--x) in addressing modes. So something like "d = *x++;" is just one instruction.
If there's a difference, it's only in degree.
Extism is a plug-in system. Plug-in systems make your software programmable by end users (such as your customers or your open source community). Currently plug-in systems are quite difficult to build and limited to certain host and guest languages. Extism makes this easier regardless of your language or domain knowledge.
steam-run is just a fat wrapper around bubblewrap fhs. If you want to optimize your system you can easily build a smaller one yourself.
One thing to point out is that we sort of have empirical evidence that this is good.

High (hyper) inflation is very bad, and hard to escape. It can also happen to developed economies. Even if you discard 2022 energy-induced inflation, look at Turkey.

Deflation - less examples, but Japan comes to mind. Deflation is associated with economic stagnation (others are commenting on causation, I'll leave it be).

There's another argument, as to whether we need GDP growth. Japan doesn't have any, and seems like a pleasant place to live, if you're Japanese at least. I'm not convinced, but the basis is, inflation around 2% is seen as a kind of prerequisite to GDP growth, which is assumed be good and necessary.
That was my thought too. Does the engine know that the other player is forbidden to play the top engine move on the next turn? Then you can't just do something like c3 Nf6 Qa4 e5 Qe4!? to hang the queen in the center, knowing that Nxe4 is prohibited, because the strongest move for white if Nxe4 is prohibited would have been Qe4!
Interesting.. I just saw an add in my Apple Maps yesterday and I was really confused at first. Had no idea they are considering moving in this direction and must already be testing it.

On a different note I attended an apple event for IT Government and Education in Chicago. Eye opening.. Apple's "privacy" stance is all just a horse and pony show for marketing. Unbelievable how open they were about tracking everything at the event.
Spotify stopped allowing in app purchases years ago before any Court said anything.
I think ultimately a lot of that maintainer-consternation is a failure to 1) decide if the project is a 'project' which is meant to be built and maintained by people over time or 2) a source-available reference for others which is actually just meant for personal use. They want the PR and cred of having a popular open-source thing, but dont actually do anything other than putting the source online in terms of fostering it.

I understand this, and I too put my stuff online a lot of times just to build up my street cred, but if thats the only purpose then you need to make that clear in your communication and how you manage the project. If you _are_ intending the thing to grow and be used you need to do that intentionally. The two biggest offenders for that tend to be 1) not moving to an organization account and 2) not fostering contributors to lessen the individual load. Again, because the project is actually a personal project not intended to be touched by others (but hey if you would use it and star it that would be great because then its even better PR for me!).

So yes, I understand its a tough spot but in many ways I view it as self-inflicted and think communication (both explicit and implicit) goes a long, _long_ way toward setting expectations.
Team lead is the definition of being between a rock and and hard place.

Management roles can be very isolating, and have minimal labor protection legally in many places.

For some reason, I kept thinking about the 1989 film "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" while in the role. ;)
The bank did create the money. There is an element of cash flow to all of this. Charlie takes the loan, uses it to start a business, perhaps by buying something from Bob. Bob uses the money to pay back Alice. Alice then buys something from Charlie, allowing Charlie to repay his loan. The economy is basically a big flywheel.
I can't say for sure but they look like matplotlib diagrams!
I'm pretty sure it was https://www.infoxicator.com/is-react-going-anywhere because I copied the path from the url to the title and capitalize it. Strange why it changed to /blog.
It adds some slack to a complex system. Rigidity won’t be necessarily better.
This has been a solved problem for twenty years. Check out Thunderbird's spam filter.
Wait until you see what they say about the sun "rising".
"death in a person with a laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 test and died within (equal to or less than) 28 days of the first positive specimen date will now be reported"

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/public-health-england-death-da...
Missing: years of potential life lost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_potential_life_lost

Perhaps a more useful metric, since so many more older people died from Covid.
Many people here seem to have rather generous views for governmental motives. I don’t.

Inflation is a hidden tax on the population. Instead of taking the numbers out of their bank accounts or dollars out of their hands, they can just print the money. This erodes purchasing power of individuals but also allows the government to spend more than they could from traditional tax hauls alone. The people think that they’re getting something for nothing, and politicians get re-elected. Additionally, such a scheme allows for the military actions that the USA loves to engage in. Without inflationary spending, the taxation becomes onerous enough that people wouldn’t passively accept it.

The other reason is “growth”. With low interest rates and a decent amount of printing, you get two major effects. First, lenders are more willing to lend because they’re not paying high interest. The price of money is lower, and therefore money is easier to part with. The second reason is a follow on from that, monetary velocity increases. Monetary velocity generally helps your local government as sales taxes get paid.

The problem with low interest and moderate inflation is that the lenders do not scrutinize things very well (because money is cheaper), so you get a lot of investments that don’t play out as a consequence. Likewise, the inflation is typically tied to assets at first (land, equities, metals) but eventually it does hit product prices and this results in moments of severe inflation. This usually occurs when the P/E ratios get bad enough and the equities markets crash. It also creates problems like 2008 given a long enough cycle. Every time these crashes occur, governments usually try to assume more power as they advertise themselves as the saviors for the problems that their own monetary policy created.

Full disclosure, in a philosophical sense I consider myself a bit of an anarchist (just straight black flag, non-aligned), but in a practical sense I consider myself a mildly left but small government person. For example, I would happily trade constant war and standing armies for a public health care option, or even trade the war on drugs for a national rehab service. Due to the realities of finance, however, I do not believe that everything can be had, and giving the most corrupt people in a society (the politicians) unlimited power is Avery bad idea imho.
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It just doesn't make sense though for that reason. You can't sneak up on an engine. There's not a single engine out there that wouldn't recognize a mate in 2 moves. Unless the opponent blunders (which actually might be forced if the best defensive move is blocked).

It just seems like you're changing the objective of the game entirely to the point where it's only slightly related to chess.
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I would prefer to not self-host as none of my family (who rely on passwords) are technical, and if anything should happen to me, they would be stuck.
As someone who grew up after the age of BBS's, it's an interesting account to read of how times have changed and interesting to reflect on how much curiosity drove so many of us into tech at a young age.
This is amazing. Well done Biden (and also even though I didn't vote for him gotta give credit where credit is due: well done Trump).

Disclosure: 100% long USA.
ECB says Bitcoin is on ‘road to irrelevance’ amid crypto collapse
Low wages and poor social mobility makes you unable to care about your mental wellbeing, how surprising.

Yes, burnout is a rich country problem, because you otherwise kill yourself at the task because you can't afford not to. Give Vietnam western european wages and within 10 years, burnout will also be a talked about problem. Just because you don't have time to look at something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Both are basically dead. The draft for TACK was made in 2013[1] and their mailing list doesn't even work[2].

[1]: http://tack.io/draft.html
[2]: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/tack
I keep thinking I should reset my passwords anyway (not moving of apples keychain tho) and should probably just move off using gmail at same time!
nixpkgs is already one of the largest package collections. There is a good chance your software is already included.

The nix language itself is pretty straightforward and if you know haskell your should feel straight at home.

You shouldn't use nixpkgs python packages as a replacement for your python development. That would also not work that great on other distros.
Saying the cause is "the pandemic" is to avoid pointing fingers

>voluntary lockdowns

Who's saying voluntary?

>The report – which covered Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – also found that about 420 million children were out of school due to the pandemic and its related control measures.

>“Given the cultural and social context of South Asia, the suspension of these services is deepening inequalities and is likely to lead to an increase in the number of maternal and neonatal deaths”

This parts of the article specifically say the closing of schools is likely to cause an increase in deaths. And, again, the closing of schools is a lockdown measure, not something COVID did

The article says that there was a drop on treatment of malnutrition and puts a number 228,000 of deaths on that cause, and in poorer countries this kind of things (along with family violence) are found primarily on schools by teachers. Which obviously can't happen when schools are closed

>"The region also suffered increased levels of unemployment, poverty and food insecurity due to the pandemic, further undermining public health, the report said"

Increased unemployment is a direct consequence of mandatory lockdowns
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What do you call the infatuation with ducking over small businesses and startups?

It's tied into the culture, tbh, but you know, at least make it easier for someone to start, fail and start again.

Even forming a company is a major struggle compared to US, UK. Nevermind the insanity after a bankruptcy.

Sole proprietorship is still very common, and of course when you are in trouble with that, you are in trouble.
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Yes it’s extremely toxic there’s a reason why manufacturing moved from the US (and probably EU/UK but I’m not certain). It’s horribly toxic and you can read this about Samsung[1].

Asia has what some would call almost slave labor and a complete lack of care for workers. Many countries don’t care about pollution either.

US and European countries will gladly clean up manufacturing at home while shifting to countries who could care less about employees or environmental impacts.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46060376
Some people are driven by more blatantly mercenary priorities than others, but most people prefer to perform work which aligns with their morality and gains them the respect of others; it's part of that whole "hierarchy of needs".

It is of course possible to meet one's higher-level needs in other parts of one's life, but if your career is actively opposing your values, it becomes that much harder to make up for what you are missing in the limited time remaining. If you can't make that balance work, burnout and depression are likely.