skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a standpoint is not pertinent to Africa (and most parts of the world) though. In the regional reality, such people, on top of their poverty, have trouble participating in society and business above a certain level, precisely because of a language barrier.

Not that different from the US, come to think of it. There are some real multilanguage countries on Earth, where two or three or more languages have an equal footing, but that is not it.

The "American standpoint" might be "pluralistic and opposed to the idea of an official language" in abstract theory and as seen from an ivory tower, but see how far an immigrant just speaking their own language, even if that's as common in the US as Spanish, or some Native American or Cajun or whatever person not well versed in English, and see how far they go. Hell, even blacks from poor backgrounds, who do speak english, and for all the lip service to equality and opportunities, have to be deprogrammed to speak whiter english, and they undergo just that in university, if they want to work in any position from PR and finance sector, to law, public sector, the news, and so on. It's not about racism, even, it's more about classism: a redneck speaking like one would in rural country, with the dictionary, accent, mannerisms, and everything, wouldn't go far in the East or West coast either.
Isn't that pretty much all LTT content? High on money and flashy-flashy, low on facts and care.
The explanation is that you see a transaction you are not recognising. You point at it and say “i didn’t authorise that one” and let them investigate.

They have the logs, you don’t. This is probably the worst day of your life or close to it, while it is just a normal regular occurence for your bank. They have policies to handle it from their side. They will ask a lot of question, perhaps ask you to make a police report.

I ask you this, if you have chest pain and shortness of breath, would you:

a; jurry-rig an oscilloscope to check your ECG, start reading wikipedia all about cardiology, and then find a nurse to tell them about how concerned you are about your QT interval

Or

b; go to a hospital and tell them that you have chest pain and shortness of breath?
A have been thinking about all the things you could do in an aqua-park on a sizeable habitat in the zero-g section. Circular rotating pools - hello up there! And think about all the slides - possibilities are endless! :D
> Each time something is updated/bricked the entire system must be revisited.

The advantage of a fully local, self-contained system is that you can treat it as an appliance - you don't have to update or tinker with it continuously. There's no reason for it to update or brick itself.

A friend of mine still has a Home Assistant set up from now almost 3 years ago running with no updates or anything - it just acts like a PLC to manage some lights, switches and toggles heating on/off based on window sensors. Nobody has to mess with it and it just works in the background.
Yes, I already am letting go of a lot (I can't, for example, remember the last time I got my car washed), but my partner continues to take on time-ful or effort-ful things that I consider "expendably unnecessary" (such as at least half of the cleaning/sanitizing she does- despite me emphasizing that the Hygiene Hypothesis is probably real) and is stressing both of us out anyway. My office is a mess that has needed cleaning for over a year. Etc.

We probably won't be having (or able to have) a second child (not to mention that time and energy for the basic biological prerequisites here are non-existent, I have no friggin idea how other parents have a second so soon after the first) but we are probably making the mistake(s) you mentioned about your first one.
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No. Zero cost abstraction was a term used by inventor of C++. It was one of the design principles. Not a side effect.

Source: https://www.stroustrup.com/ETAPS-corrected-draft.pdf

Search for "Zero-overhead abstraction mechanisms".

If you read it you will see Bjarnes goal was to provide the highest level of abstraction possible at "zero overhead". At the time he was creating the language, OOP was the newest and "highest" forms abstraction around... problems with it as an abstraction weren't as evident back then as they are now.

But yeah, I agree that you can make an argument for RAII and templating being the main differences over OOP. But Zero cost abstractions are not a side effect at all.
Presumably you mean that as a criticism but "being supported by a multibillion company" is normally a fantastic sign of success, and "a single hardware configuration" is an indicator of seriousness about guaranteeing a good UX.

Look no further than power management/sleep/awake, which is flawless and snappy on steamdeck. That's more than you can say for 95% of "supported linux laptops".
Nothing yet, but the next porsche electric drivetrain supposedly will:

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2019/technology/porsche-engi...
The proverbial “motorcycle accident 3 weeks after fully recovering from covid” was particularly maddening when used to justify virtually unlimited powers. More credibility was lost than compliance was gained, I guarantee you.
> May need to shop around

This is the one piece of friction that has prevented me from using a therapist. From people I know who use therapists, it seems like it takes months before they form a judgement of whether the therapy is having an impact or not, and by then they've spent thousands of dollars and dozens of hours. How do you possibly know based on an initial meeting when shopping around?
I haven't read the book, but I think that if he added one sentence to point 1 in his summary, the first three points are really everything you need to know to make remote work effective. Point 1 (treat everyone as remote) is the most critical, but his elaboration on "tools, meeting setup, information exchange, communication, documentation, and opportunities" should be extended further with "Provide all employees with guidance and training on how to work remotely. In particular, people need to understand that working meetings held remotely often bring out the worst in people on opposite ends of the communication spectrum (those who monopolize the floor, and those who are reluctant to participate). A meeting facilitator should explicitly facilitate participation, so that everyone who has something to contribute, does, and no one prevails simply with volume.

On point 2, about use of asynchronous communications - it probably is implied, but one key part of this is making sure that everyone in the team understands and observes the rule that you are expected to be asynchronously available most of the time, and should go dark only when it's absolutely necessary for your work. One thing I found helpful with distributed teams is making a status available on asynchronous channels called "Ping me on the hour" which is a way of saying, "I'm heads down, don't interrupt unless the world is ending, but I surface if necessary every top of hour."
Windows 98se with their Plus! themes was peak Windows era for me. I miss the sit and wait for my theme to color in and for Eudora to start up.
I just checked for instance in France it's not that simple:

"Care must be taken to ensure that advertising :

- Is not misleading or likely to mislead,
- Relates to goods or services of the same nature, meeting the same needs or having the same objective,
- objectively compares one or more essential, relevant, verifiable and representative characteristics of these goods or services, such as price.
"
Probably War and Peace. American, probably Moby Dick.
On a more realistic/localized level: my partner and I need fewer groceries and often split an entree at a restaurant because we’re not tall. It may not save the planet but saves us money.
Censoring to protect the income stream.
I'm 5'6, my wife is 5'8, and the first girl I ever went out on a date with was 5'10.

I won't say "It's all in your head", because it's not.

Attractiveness is a real and very objective thing we can measure. But "how much it bothers you", or "how much it gets in your head" is also a very real and objective thing, too.

Of course, no man/woman is going to want you if you yourself even go "Oh woe is me I'm so short and awful". Most of my friends who are alone and blame it on their height are like this.
The article’s title is misleading as it omits that the nightly version had the issue. Omitting that makes the problem’s scope sound much bigger than it actually was.
As someone that had to dabble in Scala.

Most of stuff Scala has fill me with dread. "proper macro", implicits, custom operator overloading, etc. Are extremely powerful concepts. Too powerful if you ask me.

They tend to make code utterly unreadable (without an IDE).

Why is `int` a `Date`? Don't know. Use an IDE.

What does the ~%+# operator does? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [2]

But I'm a bit conservative in language syntax. I'm against async and its in most languages already (it makes debugging more convoluted).

[1]https://lprakashv.medium.com/how-to-keep-your-sanity-working...

[2]http://www.scala-graph.org/guides/core-initializing.html
Biggest thing I got from functional programming: avoid state if you can.

Sometimes functional style isn't as clear (especially recursion for me). But things like map and filter are usually a lot easier for me to read than for loops.
Yes, exactly. Add two more: a prestige product that motivates top talent, and senior management likes these products.

Halo cars like Corvette Z06 are exactly the right analogy. They sell at most 8000/year; there is no way it’s profitable as a line item. But it gets made for all of those indirect reasons.
I certainly take your point, living in a city that has a similar climate. But in a truly walkable neighborhood, where your place of residence, place of work, and other supporting places in life (grocery store, gym, bars and restaurants, etc.) are all within walking distance, and where said distance is actually walkable -- that is, you're not walking next to eight lanes of traffic, and you're walking past shops and restaurants and all the vibrancy of a neighborhood -- the weather won't play nearly as big a role.
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These kinds of edicts don't work because they fail the most important rule of programming: do what's simplest and most clear for the code you're writing. Your language is going to have constructs for this kind of thing (polymorphic inheritance, discriminated unions, multi dispatch, etc). Pick the language-native construct that works best. In the case of Typescript this would arguably be polymorphic inheritance, but if you don't have a scenario that benefits in multiple ways from writing classes then using them would be overkill.
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That’s super cool. I hope I can see some of your progress this year. Have a good one!
Tangentially, is someone working on smooth previews for the rendered output ? Kdenlive provides preview zones where it encodes just a small selected segment so it plays smooth as opposed to at 7fps when previewing.

Encoding the entire output can understandably run slower than 1x, but transitions can be rendered on the plain decoded inputs, so I'm still hoping to see instant smooth previews in a future release.
It is also unreasonable since there are better competitors like artificial starch synthesis where you can use bioreactors to produce starch directly from CO2 and electricity at 8 times the efficiency of corn. If you add artificial lighting then vertical farming is at least 16 times worse than artificial starch synthesis.
The freed up land would allow us to then grow normal non nutrient dense food in its place instead which obsoletes the need for vertical farming.
Exactly, while an interesting exercise, that would be insane!

But built from Lunar/asteroid material ? Sure, you can build 8 by 32 km cylinder from steel with dirt for shielding with that has a standard earth gravity just fine. No exotic materials required:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder
I personally experienced check fraud about 7 years ago. 4 fake checks, $6,500 stolen. Fake checks looked real to me, as did my signature. Was confusing to me as the signature looked like mine, I did a triple take trying to figure out if I had written them. Upon further inspection the signature on all 4 checks was absolutely identical, my signature looks slightly different every time I sign, but these 4 were identical in every way (overlaid them in an image processing tool to convince myself).

Figuring they photocopied the signature from an existing check, I went through my archive of cancelled checks until I found a perfect match for the signature.
Turns out the signature was copied from a check that was written to a handyman for some maintenance work.

Brought this info to the police and the bank. I don't know if they did anything with it, as they're not allowed to discuss details with me.

Anyhow, long story short, took 3 months, but the $6,500 was eventually returned to me. Much better experience than crypto!

Lastly, I had to close the checking account for fraud and get a new one. When I asked about ordering new checks, the bank manager admonished me "haven't I learned my lesson" and not to ever use checks. All of your personal information, address, and bank account # are in one place he said.

I told him it's terrifying when your bank manager tells you not to use checks on the checking account his bank offers.

I write very few checks now. Thankfully most transfers can now be done digitally (and without crypto I might add).

Sign of the times I guess.
your example has also multiply statements. The question is more important: Which syntax to a more generally better readability. (as this is solvable in most languages)
It’s definitely cultural, but also changing culture over time. My brother and I grew up in an 1,100 square foot house, which was a standard size for a detached suburban house in America in the 1950s when it was built. But the average new American home is double that today.
This relates in no way to any statement from the comment you replied to.

Did you mean to reply to a different comment?
Rome: Realistic one-shot mesh-based head avatars
During the American invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, I was a founder of an American company. Using your logic, you could say I indirectly funded the invasion of those countries, since international customers were sending my company money.

What sort of terrorist invasions have you indirectly funded?
It all makes more sense if you stop looking at it as a "system" and just look at how it empirically works. Nobody is optimizing for anything, not even their own self-interest. We're just doing what we're doing because that's what we do.
In the History and Geography section of the 1869 test I'm struck by the emphasis on rivers. Rivers are still important for transportation of commodities, but not nearly as much. I can't see them being emphasized in a college entrance exam today. I might be able to bound the basin of the Mississippi, and state the source of the Amazon and Ganges (if I guess correctly, and have a labeled map). The rest, no chance.
Not mentioned so far: Paying attention to dreams recalled from sleep. In order to remember them, a journal and pen by the bedside is necessary, as the dreams get forgotten within minutes.

A simple DIY technique for working with dreams is to take different images in a dream and write about the image in the form "I am <image>, I <attribute or aspect of the image>. For example if I dream of an open window "I am an open window". I allow things from the outside to affect me. When it's stormy outside, I need to close. I am a window, people can see into me, whether I like it or not." (Keep going for multiple iterations.) There is a 'tingle test', where the meaning of the dream, when spoken or written, produces some kind of wordless aha. Most dreams have multiple layers of meaning, so don't stop the first time you get a tingle.
I had the same experience with VRBO. My "hosts" decided to come home at midnight and fuck loudly in the room next to me while I was trying to sleep, so I left. VRBO first told me I couldn't get my money back, but that I could leave a negative review if I was unsatisfied. The host denied everything, even though it was pretty obviously coming from inside the house, I even had to walk right past the window where they were moaning and boning, it's like okay, yep. It's not like it's illegal to fuck while you have guests in your home or something, it's just low class. Fucking Los Angeles.

Then when I left the review, I get a message a day later that VRBO took down the message. Cool, last time I ever use your service.
FWIW, I wrote up some of my experiences here: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1392213804684038150?cxt...

The key thing was for me to get my butt into a doctor's office. Prozac turned my life around.

In hindsight I got extremely lucky -- I've heard many horror stories about other drugs. But it's hard to overstate how much of an impact it had, which made me question the effectiveness of everything I'd tried to that point.
I tried the chat on http://chat.petals.ml, and it seems to struggle with the current load (as per the disclaimer at the top)

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Really cool project though, I wanted to work on something similar.
And don’t forget that many farmers take low season jobs for supplemental income to keep things afloat. Some only make profit from this extra work. Their farm is in fact underwater.

We talk about consolidation like it’s some evil conspiracy. But some farm kids realize dad is just holding into a dream that will never be true, and if none of your kids want the farm, on principle or because half a farm can’t support a used combine, then you’re going to sell or the kids will.

Gabe Brown, if I’m remembering his back story properly, ended up with about a third of his parents’ farm, split with his siblings. He got hit with hail every time there was a storm, and tried permaculture (lite) as a Hail Mary. He scratched and clawed his way out of the red and eventually reassembled the family farm buying from neighbors and siblings.

For his kids he established subsidiary enterprises and gave them to his kids instead of the land. Some stayed in At and some didn’t. One of his kids is slowly taking over management of his farm and he will get it eventually. Gabe probably has 10-15 years left in him.
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