skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's been a tool in the history of mankind with such potential for new works of art than AI tools
They also:

- execute people

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/china-fin...

- blackmail people by targeting the family members of those that have moved abroad aka collective punishment

https://www.economist.com/china/2023/02/14/how-chinas-police...

- are on the take themselves in a way that makes all of this other stuff look like peanuts

I take it that doesn't need a source link.

- make people disappear

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64781986

It's not as if we're looking at a democratically run country where there is a failure of a private institution, there is absolutely no way that you can run something at the level of Evergrande without being 100% in bed with the authorities.

The hypocrisy is at a level that is hard to imagine, you're essentially looking at two arms of the same thing where the one is labeled 'Evergrande' and the other is labeled 'CCP' and the one arm made the other look bad so there will be reckoning. Looking at this through the lens of a Western democracy in terms of the crimes committed isn't going to help.
That is exactly it. For some reason my brain had spliced Schwartenegger into the cockpit. Funny how memory works.
I cannot upvote that series of blog posts enough. It is exactly what I'm talking about.
The right way to think of marriage for government purposes is a contract. If someone has entered in this contract, they get certain benefits. If the benefits are properly designed, they are valid only for the duration of the contract. As long as both people were abiding by the terms of the contract, it’s not fraud.
There are various EU statistical measures that attempt to be "fair". These show London is slightly larger than Paris.

Although the OECD has them at almost the same size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_...
> Your whole argument is "my side is right about everything so it's not biased to just program everything to agree with me"?

That's not my argument, at all, and it's annoying that you're making a deliberate caricature of what I said.

I'm not saying "my side is right about everything". And perhaps "valid" was a poor word choice from me - I don't mean to imply some choices are correct by a manna from heaven or something.

But if you look through the dustbin of history, you see, at the very least, that there are political movements from history that we now see nearly universally as "bad": fascism, Nazism, pro-slavery parties, etc. Even defenders of those ideologies usually defend them with falsehoods ("the Holocaust never happened"), but nearly nobody defends some of the actual consequences of some of those ideologies.

So I'm arguing that this methodology treats all political viewpoints as "deserving of equal validity", when our own human history shows that to largely be a bad idea.
... on Legacy ISA.

I'd rather a RISC-V Pinetab-V, based on the same JH7110 as VisionFive 2.
Yes exactly. If it was a direct payment they had to announce it. But it's corrupt payment and that's what pg's article is saying.
So this authors example of an ideal young systems programmer looking to get hired was one that provided (free!) significant contributions to their Golang client, their database and _an academic paper_, presumably over the course of many weeks (months?).

I don't disagree with the advice of contributing to open source, but I hope they realize that they are essentially telling readers that contributing unknown amounts of hard, free labor is the best path to getting a job in this subfield of tech.

(Meanwhile, the kid who went to Stanford will just apply and probably get an offer if their DS&A chops are fresh enough.)

(Also, I'm guessing your contributions don't count at some places if your PR/MRs don't get merged, which is the other gnarly thing about open source that complicates this advice. Big open-source projects tend to have big politics behind them, even if they are all entirely online, like working groups, the release process, general disagreements (which will happen; every contributor is smart, and smart people love friendly debate!), etc.)
The best destinations for Japanese ppl used to be Europe & America aka “the West”.
Now these places are increasingly becoming unsafe thanks to garbage progressive policies.
gRPC is too complicated to be honest (it obfuscates a simple underlying concept into mythos for $)
They are so far under water that there simply are no buyers, at all, and there likely never will be buyers. A lot of this construction was just to keep the wheels spinning. There are entire cities that are empty.
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For every good local tourist guide in the training data there is 500 garbage SEO articles. No wonder the AI sounds more like the latter. And it won't get better in the short term. Differentiating between quality articles and SEO spam is not just hard, it's an arms race. Whatever changes you make to your definition of quality the SEO spammers will simply adapt. Until we build AI-powered robots that can go visit these places themselves, I don't think this problem can be solved.
I remember working at an IT desk and trying to help a poor college student with their Surface Tablet, it would immediately thermal throttle just opening Microsoft Word, the whole unit slowed to a crawl. I helped them remove the bundled antivirus trial crapware and turn off a bunch of startup junk, but between the performance and the uncomfortable keyboard and trackpad it seemed like a miserable device to use for any serious purpose.
> Coursera unfortunately won't make the cut most of the time.

This is a truly bizarre take... Coursera offers much of the same courses you'd get in a BCS or sometimes also a MCS degree.

Add to this that most colleges are downright awful, with hilariously incompetent professors / TAs... and virtually none really prepares students for working in programming industry, (nobody teaches version control, project management, infrastructure, editing tools, quality control). There's very little a programmer can get from going to college in terms of useful knowledge.

In my opinion, it's better to pick up a few books on some theoretical aspects couple years after you have enough of practical experience with programming in industrial setting. Coursera would help here. College would be hugely problematic due to being a huge time sink (inconvenient and rigid times for lectures, workshops etc.), hugely expensive, and, in most cases, outright lower quality.

Degree is good to show something to HR, especially if you have nothing else to show... other than that? -- not so much.
>They are for instance the only ones actually doing this.

And Red Hat isn't? What am I missing?
It seems from my discussions with drivers that it is more setup to appeal to people who need extra income but have erratic or limited extra hours to apply eg to a more traditional additional job
The average cost of rent for a bachelor/studio in Ontario's cheapest cities is about double the max allowance for all expenses on Ontario Works.
That is my understanding also, numerous internal destinations that are considered appropriate for various vacation lengths and prices; after all, airline prices get high when crossing the ocean.
Aibtra: A desktop tool to refine texts using OpenAI
Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable
Methane is produced from bacteria breaking down material in the soil without oxygen. With oxygen, different bacteria can gow there, which produce less methane and more carbon dioxide. I don't think the soil retains much either way.
https://archive.ph/MaXIb
That happens all the time in the US and other countries. Banks typically try to sell off those repossessed real estate assets fairly quickly because they aren't really in the landlord business, but when there's a supply glut they may have to hold for several years.
I feel this is a weak argument. Like saying Bill Gates and Zuckerberg dropped out — but they dropped out of Harvard.

IIRC, George Hotz studied at CMU for a semester, took 4 difficult classes, got a 4.0, and won a CTF competition before dropping out.

My take is that the normal programmer (frontend, backend, systems, etc.) would benefit greatly from a CS degree.
Russian media publishes photos of new domestic smartphone, R-FON
I'm in my 40s and I really love fooling around in real life. Observing printed maps by moving my entire body or my head towards it, is more relaxing than having to actively take out my phone and finger my way to the same information on this minuscule device.

I find interacting with sign posts or humans more enjoyable than living in the matrix where I have to find the correct bus provider website, learn to navigate its crappy user interface, finally having to revert to Google maps, and then get the suggestion to go by boat.
> I shouldn't criticize those things that are horribly broken - esp. when the politicians show no signs of wanting to fix them.

Of course, they do criticize. Are you even reading German news or staying only in thelocal.de or facebook for information.

so many subs incl r/legaladvicegerman constantly critical of system. I dare you to be critical of Indian system.

see Oliver Welke's "heute-show". Like Jon Stewart's Daily show.

Any change takes time. You have some bad experiences. But I know so many Indians/ Filipinos in Frankfurt with great experiences. Getting even PR residency in 1 month and passport in 6 months.

I have a feeling from your constant repeat of "I make more money than others across many threads" - it seems like you want things to happen 24/7 as you have MONEY. That is wrong.

Even a skilled plumber or skilled IT giant like you are treated equally. You think you need to be invited to FAST track like first class in planes and given service. That is not here. Go to UAE or Liechtenstein or Luxembourg.

Germany works more or less for middle class. Everyone is treated equally.
> We couldn't get many user interviews (low response rate, long delays to schedule calls)

How is Askmore helping me with these things you mentioned?
> .. and 1.7 trillion Yuan in assets

Note that this is the book value. Probably based on some valuation from years ago and only minimally adjusted, mean while property prices have crashed.
The Alignment Problem is a human problem
It's the expected inconvenience. TFA points this out rather indirectly, but I've been hearing from Japanese for years that they are dissuaded from travel by the expected hassles of going to countries that run less smoothly than Japan (which is nearly any place).
Scheme isn't "a community project". It is an universe of many implementations. Having an agreed standard for this is very valuable. It gives a reference, which everyone will want to follow for interoperability. But by creating the standard, things are discussed, so flaws might be discovered and avoided and of course, it gives a clear definition.
> jenni ai seems interesting for doing research/thesis style work.

“Join the Jenni influencer program and earn money for your posts. Earn up to $5,000 per post. We'll send you $1 for every 1,000 views your post receives. Minimum payout $20 (20k views).” — https://jenni.ai/influencer-program

Sounds very interesting to say it sounds interesting.
https://archive.is/P9NbT
Ford has a new coal powered model? Oh, right the F-150 Bituminous Edition.. I need to pick one up!
They don’t appear to be indexed well anymore. However here[1] is a fairly recent article mentioning the existence of the space rule. If I fly with a guide dog user again I’ll be sure to find the actual rule.

[1] https://upgradedpoints.com/travel/airlines/ultimate-guide-to...
It's not like they have many other options.
It's astounding how much greener it is in the pictures.

It can take trees ~30 years to reach maturity where they can span across an entire street.

I assumed that part of the reason the nicer neighborhoods in the EU and most the US were so nice is because they had always been green and nice.

But maybe it only takes ~10 years or so?

Not familiar with London, but looking at the pictures, it looks like maybe this is a relatively new thing?

If so, that's kind of exciting, because I figured it might take way longer for other parts of other cities to become as nice and pleasant as the select few crazy expensive neighborhoods we all love.
Well, many a times, the analog method are way faster. When trying to figure out the direction of a public transport, especially underground, I like to quickly ask someone for the direction to which a train/tube is traveling to. It is way faster than using a smartphone underground or trying to find the signs that says so.

A habit I picked up when building digital/technology features -- how does this compete with pen/paper or an analog method.
Exactly. You have to be pretty technologically inclined and have done extensive research to determine how to get a data sim in a foreign country, and not get screwed by roaming costs.

Even I, an HN tech god, rely on McDonald’s Wi-Fi and the Here app, even when I do have data enabled, as it’s often painfully slow.
> But for a community project, having one blessed implementation and iterating quickly has proven to be the most successful model, in my opinion.

That's not how Scheme works, and I think it's important for both Scheme and PL research/design groups in general that they move the way they do.

Each Scheme implementation is in fact its own language, with its own goals, focus, community, etc. E.g. Racket has very different goals (like PL research, education) from Stalin (aggressive optimization), Guile (ease of embedding), or Chicken ("real world" usage). Both the RnRS and SRFI processes are more like guidelines for the implementations to follow, to enable at least some of the code (usually libraries) to be portable.

When you're writing your Scheme program, you're usually not targeting "R7RS" or "R5RS + SRFI-1" or whatnot; you're writing and running your program using Chicken, it's a Chicken program much more often than it is a R5RS program. If you later decide to port it to Racket, you will usually have much less porting work to do, but you'll still need to figure out how to do many of the mundane things omitted by the standard, like OS threads or FFI.

It's much more useful to think of Scheme as a loosely-tied family of languages, pretty much the same way you can think of UNIX-like OS's. Your average UNIX will surely give you a /bin/sh and a printf and a malloc, but the really interesting stuff (like kqueue, io_uring, DTrace, etc) is why you choose to stick with one over the other, and what motivates different groups to experiment / innovate / contribute.
TANSTAAFL = There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
Find good mentors, i.e. nice people who have a good overview but will frequently take the time to discuss things on your level. And pay them back with respect of course.

I guess for me, those are the people that I would include in the “amazing” bucket.
Until people demand their RMB, and all the bank has is piles of building materials…
I said allies.

Those people you tell, in writing, signed by your highest authorities: if your people start dying at the hands of another country, our people will start dying with them.

Talk is cheap.
I used to think that too when I was younger a way less experienced. Suffice to say, not so much anymore.

The reason, apart from US which is unique in this in worst possible way, is something else than just pure code hacking skills - these are not that important. What even the crappiest school will teach you way better than no school at all - discipline. Wading through tons of useless topics (at least in my case), its hard to be self-centered primadona.

Real work looks much more like meetings, wading through tons of documentation, accepting mundane tasks since they improve things overall but are not fun at all. Brilliant self-thought people usually require fun and challenging work or they quickly move away, which most work isn't, even in software. I'll take OK disciplined guy over stellar one which needs management babysitting re what I mentioned, any day. YMMV.

But yeah what is actually taught in school, at least in my era, was basically useless at work. The stuff that helped were my projects where I picked/created topics that actually helped me to get better at given area.
> the VIP treatment if I ever had to step into a hospital.

This is the problem for you. You got VIP treatment in India as you say you get better than FAANG salaries. No. Whether you are a plumber or $M you wait in the same queue.

For you that is painful.
VSCode and JetBrains support this in various configurations.

You can edit the code locally and deploy via ssh. Or you can edit the code via ssh; or you can run the entire IDE remotely via ssh.
I usually use panes to do things in the same folder or related to the same purpose but which I want/need in different shells. Possible example is visual comparing files or outputs. Also useful when you run some monitoring in another shell - my recent example was debugging build system rules by running cmake+make in one pane and immediately seeing what options are passed to compiler by running execsnoop in another pane. Or you may find useful small panes with something like `watch grep ...` or `watch df -h` etc.

My tmux setup looks like this: one session - bunch of windows for different purposes (for example, developing different projects), no more than 10 so you can switch between them with digit shortcuts, renamed for convenience - each window may have several panes, usually one is maximized but you can "unmaximize" it and look what was printed in other panes before (so one usage of pane is a temporary buffer for output) or run something there.
In my mind the complication in this is: given you did X, and is using X to do A, when Y is proposed and is not compatible with how X works to do A then you have the cost of migration/adaptation of whatever is using X to converge to Y while still being able to do A, otherwise you end up in the same issue with competing standards.

This can be much, much worse if it involves anything that is not purely software, you can't adapt older hardware using a standard (let's call it notUSB) to iterate over an improved notUSB-with-appendages, and if notUSB-with-appendages required modifications incompatible with notUSB you just created 2 standards that don't solve a general problem.

Standards is something that a lot of people have thought about over centuries, any improvement on the process has probably already been considered by many smart folks so I don't think there's a simple coordination solution to it.
And it's obvious that it wasn't. Don't apologise. Ignore the critics. Any real potential customer will be far too distracted by the excitement of discovering a new thing which might make their life easier; they're not going to be lingering on the moment of cognitive dissonance. Anyone who does was never going to be your customer anyway.
Notion is more than 10k typescript files and we view typecheck slowness and memory pressure as an existential threat to our codebase. Right now our typecheck needs ~12GB of heap size but the memory needs have accelerated recently.
The source does say “best case can be more than 10 years.”. I would still not use off-line SSDs as long-term archives.
>Is there a name for the aesthetic where you simulate something being rough, unfinished?

Wabi-sabipunk
The decadal History of Programming Languages conference and its proceedings are a good reference for this.
The actual seat of the Empire..
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Same here.

I have always thought it was super sexy to have all these panes available with an editor, logs, debugger opened at the same time ; but the reality is that I cannot work with 20 characters columns.

I use a 4k display set to HiDPI (1080 lines) and simply switch between my full-screen panes.

Sometimes I will split my tmux window vertically because I can deal with fewer lines but I never split horizontally.
That's the highest point that could reasonably be described as central - 137m

For the rest see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_points_in_Lond...
In italy we have a corps, the "bersaglieri", that have as main trait running and the use of the bicycle.
Here some info:

https://ditsong.org.za/en/2019/12/24/the-bersaglieri-and-the...

https://youtu.be/-N9NiEH9-vg
It came to my mind too but then I got confused, what if the type of the Result changes along the function call chain and you want to propagate Errors with minimal effort?

Then I saw this stackoverflow question and it seems that ? operator does quite smart thing and is as easy to use as possible.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31172451/is-there-a-non-...
Comparing Fivetran, Airbyte, Prefect, and Dagster
Huh. Back in my day we called Spotify merchants "musicians" -- I suppose I should keep up with the times.
My experience is that it makes a lot of things visibly blurry. Has that improved at all?
That caught my eye - but I think in most cases it's just the time of year the photo was taken. Most trees are deciduous and none of the streets are particularly green in November - March. Obviously actual building sites (like the olympic park in the first picture) excepted.
> I'm not a fan of patents, but in that case, it's not like some bigco seeking to perpetually extend monopolistic rights on some product - the inventor is alive, they made what seems like a genuine contribution to the world, and that contribution is very concrete and complete - not some hollow vaguely generic not directly usable "design".

If the inventor keeps the prices too high, then it is basically the same as ensuring that the public can't have it. That's not good. Inventors and investors should be compensated, and cheap alternatives from other manufacturers should appear.
I had a job that had me traveling a lot. I got very used to international travel, alone.

I thought I’d miss it, when I retired.

That turns out not to be the case.

The thought of getting onto a plane, turns my stomach.

I like being other places, but the process of getting there, has become a nightmare.

I’ve been traveling internationally, since I was a child.

Things have changed.
> Some people do like sour espresso, I do not, and I think I'm in the majority.

It's very hard to find a non-sour coffee where I live, and not much easier to find a non-sour espresso.
This happens all the time, they pony up the money and you pay interest on the loan.

In Dutch, interest is actually called 'rente'.