jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Java is still using UTF-16, it is the internal format used since its creation. I don't know exactly how much this is a problem or not, but it shows that UTF-16 is still an important thing.
My understanding was that the real action takes place in the anonymous chat rooms on the Bloomberg terminal, But I don't know if this is true.
This is not a Shopify Billing refund but a refund for orders within a merchant's store.
I won’t mention that website, but FYI I built it and I have no idea who posted that comment.
Funny you bring that up. There's on ongoing case[1] involving New Hampshire and Massachusetts about that exact scenario that's likely to end up debated by the Supreme Court. In essence, does a state have, absent special status like 503(c), the right to apply income tax on activities/services for rendered in different state? If so, that implies that any and every money-making activity done in any part of world may be taxable even if one person in Massachusetts pays for it. This would apply whether the activity is part of an individual sale[2], employment, or contract work as would it apply, mutatis mutantis, for every other state.

[1]https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/new-hampshire-v-...
[2]Which is already subject to sales tax after the reversal of the Quill Corp vs. North Dakota decision in South Dakota vs. Wayfair
You wrote above:

> Not all sharing is good.

Try this:

---

Sara: “Hey Johnny! Want to see my new invention? 99% of it is made up of discoveries made by my ancestors. I was on the receiving end of a lifetime of patience and privilege, as my parents (and other mentors) were able to give me a lot of attention as they are privileged (non-propertied) knowledge workers under capitalism, and therefore not as stressed out as the majority of today's working class (non knowledge workers). My luck compounded into a role as lead researcher of a publicly funded research project, where I was able to do lots of experiments and make a significant new discovery which can benefit the owners of this new trade secret/intellectual property. So yeah, check out my work, but do not show it to anyone else. And here, sign this NDA, the capitalist firm I work for asks anyone to sign it.”

Johnny: “Sure, show it to me... and yeah I'll sign that NDA. Can I take this home?”

Sara: "yes, you can. But remember to not show it to others, otherwise they will 1) see how the ability to replicate my research is impossible today because of the privatization of science by capitalists (the continued assault on our shared inheritance), 2) see all the privilege I received, and lastly, 3) to see from the negative research exactly what experiments I did, and that it was not due to my own genius after all."

Johnny: “HEY EVERYONE LOOK WHAT AN AWESOME INVENTION SARA MADE. THIS IS AMAZING AND COULD HAVE SO MANY MORE APPLICATIONS IF SHARING IT WASN'T CRIMINALIZED UNDER CAPITALISM.”

Sara: "No! I told you not to show it to anyone else! Now they can see it. (Starts crying) Now I get to sue you and be backed up by the sickly rich capitalist rentiers/monopolizers who funded me."

---

You know full well that sharing a drawing is not the same as the benefits gained from new discoveries made in science, which has the potential to benefit all humans.
> That doesn't sound outrageous

how it doesn't? it does!
The experience is nothing like this in Poland. One still pays the contributions.
Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

- Seth Godin

http://startupquote.com/post/2400059848
Safari will strip identical title prefixes in tab names for exactly that case.

Perhaps other browsers should copy this.
If you're on debian this

grep -q 'www.debian-multimediaa.org' /etc/apt/sources.list || (echo 'deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list; apt-get update)

apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla
apt-get install acroread

works well. :)
Newest piece from The Onion: "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Use Adobe Products"
Just noticed one of the infographics mention a pacemaker has on average 0.5-1 million LOC. Does this look right?
Typo: "Worst Journey..."
Kubernetes chart which runs with StatefulSet so compute time would not be lost when node is going down and/or pods are being rescheduled:

https://github.com/pcktdmp/charts

This design pattern is extremely useful when running for instance on AWS Spot Instances.
If people have less and less money in average to spend on food, it is obviously going to impact the production. All the production/delivery chain will try to pull down the costs and, as a consequence, the quality all together.
Is there a better approximation?
I think this is a reasonable article, but the headline is a bit click baity, given what are and will be the health and economic consequences. This is not Levitt fault but the editorial choice.
So, for me at least, the issue was that I downloaded 1.0 (having played with Julia in the past).

When I tried to install packages, I got errors after error as a result of deprecation warnings from 0.7 becoming errors at 1.0.

Again, I really like Julia, and want it to succeed. But the 1.0 situation put me massively off, and killed my plans to start evangelising Julia at my company.

It's just a shame, that's all.
so basically instead of porting desktop apps to ARM they convince me that my mobile device is actually a desktop...
yep.... sound basic Apple to me
Like most things, the answer is... it depends.

We have several with 0% and I'm just fine with that. They're exceedingly simple. And/or they're 15 years old and only change in very slight ways every few years.

There's other classes that are 100% that I'm not fine with. Because while the code is short, the implications are complex.

I feel like blindly talking about these metrics is like saying "hey, I bought an earring for $100, did I get ripped off?"
Seriously? They didn't go with "clean up the garbage industry". Missed opportunity Wired.. I'm disappointed.
Get a good controller and use the Steam Link app as a cheap and easy way to extend your PC to wherever you have good wifi. I have a Razer Kishi and it delivers a very good switch-like experience.
> The hedge funds vs. common people narrative is ridiculous.

Is it? Without the retail investors (gamblers) nothing of that would have happened. And Melvin Capital lost a couple billion dollars while quite a number of Redditors got a massive payout, so a net win for society.

Side note: As an European, the amount of GME-related "paid my student loan" and "paid my medical bill" posts on Reddit are heartbreaking to read.
Pretty lame obituary from the Washington Post, self-styled champion of democracy.
My source for this is my professors at the TU/e in Eindhoven and guest lecturers from ASML (TU/e is the closest university to the ASML campus in Veldhoven).

Unfortunately I don't have a more reliable source on that though.
Your list isn't great. Some of the items are out of date. Some were just not knowing how to do things, like dragging something to achieve your goal, rather than right-clicking. I'd like to help you out and explain in detail, but I'm on mobile. But even if I was a Windows guy, it's not a list to show off.

Edit: One example: "Explorer shows you the path tree to the current directory, and it lets you copy that path to the clipboard."

In Finder, press Command-Option-P to show and hide the path. And instead of using the clipboard, which might have something else in it you need, in Finder you drag the filename from the path to where you need it - a file dialog, the terminal, a document, wherever.

Also, you can drag individual parts of the path, so instead of being limited to copying the entire path, you can copy just the bits that you want.

And if you Option-drag one of those items into a terminal, it actually changes the directory to that location.

Again, it's just about not being familiar with how things work. That's not entirely your fault, since some options are hidden. But that's less common these days. Almost everything is exposed in the menu bar, with its keyboard shortcut.
This is a strawman argument against Bitcoin.

The majority of BTC owners are probably not Bitcoin-fanatics or Bitcoin-maximalists as you described them. I personally know no cryptocurrency owner who only holds Bitcoin or who truly believes it is the be-all-end-all of (crypto)currency.

Maybe these people exist as a small but vocal minority, but those should be disregarded in any online community.
beagleboard started the whole SBC(small board computer) trend and sadly it did not keep up with the momentum when TI decided to downplay in ARM designs. It was the RPI then.

Best wishes to this board, I will buy one as it looks impressive, just hope it has onboard flash or eMMC for the OS and root fs as SD card quality varies.
And that'd be fine if btc was a niche product for a few people who want this control but it also comes with extreme social costs in terms of emissions. The power use argument that advocates make is that it'll be fine once btc is used by literally everybody.
DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: What?
CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.
DEAD PERSON: I'm not!
MORTICIAN: He isn't.
CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
DEAD PERSON: I'm getting better!
CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.
> What makes anyone think that 99.999% of the world's population will hand over a portion of their wealth to 100,000 cool nerds, because those cool nerds decided for everyone else that bitcoin was their one and only?

A fair question, because bitcoin has the network capacity to work securely and is less vulnerable to attack than all other coins by virtue of its sheer size. 51% attack on Bitcoin is much less likely than with any other coin. Payment processing requires using the best available network, Bitcoin wins.
774,000 / 12,000,000 = 6.45%
What app would you use? That's the best kind to write.
Yes, I will work on that today.
Oh, thank you. That does make sense then.
Haha, yes, I will try to ignore them. Actually, the comments have been relatively nice so far.
Anecdotal, but: My wife was born with limited forward vision in one eye and it has become "lazy" as a result. She always seemed to have a knack for representing physical objects on the 2D plane. She's recently begun spending serious amounts of time oil painting and her work continually impresses me, all the more so for her lack of formal training. We've theorized that her lack of depth perception facilitates the mapping from reality to canvas, so I'm willing to believe this research.
I know for sure there are microsoft employees posting here. But why is seeing microsoft content scary? I'm not an employee, but a huge fan of their dev environment and tools. Should I also mention that I'm actually wearing a Bing shirt? :) I swear I don't work for them, but I would if I could.
Just a warning: the primary reason for using PayPal over directly taking credit cards is that the latter subjects you to significant, onerous legal requirements for maintaining the security and privacy of your customer data.

Unless you have the money to spend on compliance, Paypal/Google Checkout/Amazon Payments is the way to go.

This doesn't quite answer your question, but it is a reason for not taking credit cards directly.
Obviously things like the view out the window and the amenities in the neighborhood are not always the easiest to control, and have huge impact on the price and availability of an office. So I'll focus on the little things that make a huge difference for me at work.

- Coffee, tea, and good water available. I do like taking breaks at times to run out to the coffee shop, but sometimes I just don't have time or energy or money, and being able to step into the kitchen and get what I need is great.

- Full spectrum "natural" lighting. I'm lucky that my office has tons of windows and a view, but when it gets dark or when I'm working on something detailed at my desk, a good full spectrum light is really important both for accurate color and just to be nice to my eyes.

- Dual computer monitors. I suppose this is a bit subjective but I go insane if I don't have a second monitor (doesn't have to be anything special, mine's just a small square) to put things like email and music and reference documents on while I work.

- Refrigerator space. I try to bring lunch most of the week instead of eating out, and more often than not it's leftovers from dinner with other random things thrown in... being able to just toss it in the fridge in the morning is great.

- A comfortable desk chair. I don't know about the $1200 chair (I certainly couldn't afford one at this point) but make sure it won't hurt your back after sitting for a long time.
Sure, but which ones?

iOS: Java is banned

Android: already has Dalvik

Blackberry: already paid for J2ME

WebOS: Java is non-strategic
If not in age, at least in maturity. Who else bothers with these things when there's no extortion money involved?

Seems like an interesting drill for sysadmins on both sides, though.
I don't necessarily mind them, but I find local stores to be much better than the chains.
I don't think this is unique to programming either. In fact, this is the reason why so many Narcissists and Psychopaths make it into management.
The difference is that New York, in and of itself, has more airports than Israel. Israel also pays extremely handsomely for its security. We would have to massively increase the funding for the TSA to attract better people and give them more resources.
Cocoa is pretty fat and (at least in Italy) there is a popular belief that it might cause acne.

I think it's also interesting to note that Nutella (also from Ferrero) has a history of being a post-WW2 pure chocolate substitute at a time when hazelnuts were much cheaper and easier to source. It seems to be in the company's DNA to produce chocolate-based confections while touting chocolate as the bad guy.
Imagine if you were forced to buy all your stuff from the dollar store. Pretty obviously the results would be hit and miss, mostly miss.
Agreed with the sentiment that modern companies are capable, but disagreed on the rocket comparison -- the comparison is difficult at best.

One is travelling at tremendous speed (Mach 5 or something?) and has milliseconds for course-corrections, the aspires to come to a gentle halt and can close some feedback loops over and over again for thousands of milliseconds.

Edit: If you wish to make a weapons comparison, one might note that SpaceX can launch the mother of all MIRVs over and over again. The lower cost-to-orbit changes the economic calculus of rods-from-god, opening a possibility of a conventional-weapons bombardment from the other side of the planet for the first time.
Why do we need another word?

The Genocide Convention of 1948 (a response to the Holocaust) specifically mentions “Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group” and “Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group” in the definition of genocide.

https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/vol...
I remember when Docker had some bad images show up.

There was much concern, but this isn't THAT different than any other marketplace. Gotta treat it that way.
Betteridge’s law of headlines ìs probably not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9232419

(The way you invoked this is kinda reaching.)
There have also been multiple iOS updates that block 3rd party chargers through software even though those chargers use the lightning connector.
In most of Europe you can't just fire someone for no reason, and their political views is not a valid reason to fire someone no matter if it is right wing or left wing.
Considering they have overrides in place for the AI-based version, I think only one of those enforcement options really exists.
Soon: TOR by the GAFAM ;)
I hate to be a cynic, but governments can do as they damn-well please.
For Apple, the core of "pro" is audiovisual professionals.

I mean, really, it just means "the expensive one", as in AirPods Pro, but sticking to Macs for a second: if your job is video editing, or publishing, the bigger and nicer screen is going to trump a faster processor and better battery life. The (much) better speakers are also a big plus.

Smart users in that category are holding off new purchases, if they possibly can, until the M2 (presumably) 16" MBPs drop. Especially if the rumors hold and it comes with an onboard SD card reader.
Honestly, technical reasons should be put forward why a block plainly isn't possible. It is also a disadvantage compared to anonymous internet usage in general. I am sure many Iranians used Github just fine.

Establish the the network doesn't support sanctions like this and diplomatic channels will find other venues. But free net accessibility only helps against regimes like we can find in Iran anyway.
I’m not a parent, but I have some good memories of my father teaching me how to program the game «Snake» in basic as a kid (10 years old maybe).
We started talking about what we want to build, and he showed me how to draw things to the screen. We then iterated and improved the game more and more (within a couple of hours). I had no prior experience with coding and very much enjoyed seeing how things progressed and how you can make the computer react to keyboard presses.
While I was not able to write the game myself (or properly understand how to write simple applications) it helped me to get an idea how applications are made and a basic way of thinking. Also, for me this was really motivating and inspiring.
In retrospect, I like the project-based approach—building something from start to finish in a couple of hours. If something sticks there is still enough time to go into detail and learn the basics, but learning the basics is so much easier if the motivation is high, which for me it was seeing that one can build a game oneself in a couple of hours.
All good questions, but irrelevant to the point you are refuting.

With a public health system, medical care is tied to the country's wealth - not to any individual.

In my country, a government body negotiates with the drug companies on behalf of the entire country.

That does indeed mean that some drugs are not funded - e.g new cancer drugs can take some time, or maybe never be publicly provided.

But what will (should) never happen under the public system is that a poor person is denied equivalent medical treatment to a wealthy person.

For people who want access to a higher level of care - there's private health insurance. Many have it, and use it, but anyone without it is provided the same base level of care, including free hospital treatment, available to everyone else.
House prices are driven upwards due to low interest rates, so this move will most likely only exacerbate the already high house prices.

I'm not sure about Denmark, but in Germany house prices have about doubled in the last 10 years, (with the ECB insisting there's no inflation).

Given the choice between high interest rates and cheaper house prices, versus low interest rates and expensive houses, I'd rather take the former, since rates can always come down again, allowing you to refinance and pay less for your house overall.

When (in the current environment) rates start going up again (they're basically at the lower bound now), house prices will fall, however home "owners" (with mortgages) won't pay less for their houses because their mortgages are fixed (and if they weren't fixed, they'd be doubly screwed by the high rates).
> China is not some lawless backwater, despite the fake news bogeyman in recent years.

Interesting. I always heard stories about designs being copied and sold under different names in very short time after releasing a product. And in Belgium, you have the EU courts to back you up in simple cases, but I was not aware if its similar in China (unless you had a certain amount of weight to throw around like a F500 company or something).
i would pay a LOT of money to have linux work on M1. This is incredible
First, respect for taking the time to teach her. Second, I have difficulty writing this exctly because of the last sentence, will do so anyway -

I taught myself to program in 1984, two years before finishing high school. That and being on the chess team pretty much killed my social life and any chance at carnal activities until I turned 21 (high school was followed by compulsory consription for 2 years). I struggled with that.

Today I note that impressing friends and strangers has become very big business. Influencers. Looked at one this morning on Instagram. This dude had muscles, gave thed impression of owning a Bently, a curvy girlfriend and a house in Majorca. No clue as to how he eant a living or obtained that wealth. Assuming those material posessions are his.

These things are the antithesis of what I went through, even though today I have the means to aquire everything from the Bently to the large-breatsed blonde in a house on the Costa Del Sol.

And yet that prospect fills me with dread because it's vacuous. There's no meaning or value behind it. Same goes for teaching someone something for the purpose of becoming popular or impressing others. Seriously please don't take this as criticism. ANY time spent with kids is time well spent.

I guess where I'm going with all of this is that I hope to teach my 8y/o boy to seek out meaningful, rewarding relationships and experiences that build him up. Without a need for others' approval. And I have vague ideas how I might do that but in a practical sense I'm at a loss and that scares me. And I would LOVE to teach him how to program but so far I've made no progress.

Part of being a dad I guess. Happily I've discovered that if I want a thing enough I find a way. Patience...
There's multiple aspects to what a type system can entail.

There's dynamic/static typing which is what most of the thread is about. Python is dynamically typed , which makes it really easy to pickup and make stuff in, but you get issues like runtime errors/bugs since there's no inherent type checking other than attribute access failure, or explicit isinstance calls. To the best of my knowledge, there's no advancement here in Python since it's antithetical to the language design. It is strongly typed however which is great, but not really part of the discussion since it's being assessed in the thread on the virtues of static/dynamic typing and not weak/strong typing.

Type annotation helps partially here since you can statically check the types notated post facto but this is not the type system. The type system in a language is a contract by the compiler/interpreter to enforce type safety. Annotations have no contract for correctness of description or even guarantees of being checked.

This is why I'm trying to draw the distinction between the type system vs the type annotation system. The type system itself hasn't improved much/at all in years by design. The type annotation system has however improved significantly.
It's been at least 5 years since Amazon has had competitive prices for the things that I buy.

Most of the manufactured items on Amazon are just white label products from Alibaba, and you can buy them cheaper on AliExpress.
That’s by intention.
Someone sent in $100K directly for the funds - WOW! And my personal thanks, from a supporter of this cause.
Mormons were prosecuted too. Kicked out of Missouri. They GTFO'd and trekked west and established new settlements. Jews also have a history of prejudice, yet they seem to always leave their next generation better off.

At some point people just have to fight for what's theirs in this world, not always gonna be someone to help us up.
Yes, of course. That's the cost of same-sex marriage in such a game, unless you use the House Seniority mechanic you will eventually have a game over. That doesn't make this anymore difficult than switching a false to a true in an optional fun feature, it'll just be very difficult to play the game (but not impossible!)