jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's almost as if, like most people who write articles complaining about Go's lack of "expressiveness" and generics, he took a cursory look at the language, wrote some naive examples that supported his point, and squeezed out a blog post.
Windows is kinda sorta trying to do this with the Win key. It's not as consistent as what you describe - and it can't really be without breaking a lot of backwards compatibility for the users - but there's a slew of stuff like Win+M to minimize all windows, or Win+E to open Explorer.

(For the curious, look under "Windows logo keyboard shortcuts" here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcu...)
“We” is everyone who doesn’t want to work in the same industry as a sexual harasser. No one is under any obligation to help Sacca rehabilitate his image. We should all be working to keep people like him far from leadership in our industry. The tech industry is toxic because of people like Sacca and his defenders, not those who rightfully take offense to their actions.
I remember reading Stephan Jay Gould writing about multiple magisteria - science and religion. That you shouldn't use one in the domain of the other. It struck me as idealistic because there's another magisteria that he didn't mention. Politics.

Politics looks at science and religion and sees a precious and innocent teenager. It smiles and nods and knows that it can grab either or both, hand it a gun and it will happily run out to do whatever it's manipulated into doing.

My personal definition of politics is "help your friends and hurt your enemies." Anytime I read an argument from a disinterested source - science or religion - and the end result is one or both of those things I get suspicious.

It's not to say I don't agree with it. Frequently you need to one, the other or both but once it's a question of politics you have to think about the issue in political terms. You have to consider about compromises that have nothing to do with science or religion.
‘Trusting the Science’ is mostly used by people who can’t write a line of code in python or figure out basics of linear algebra. It is scientism not science, just cherry picking theories to support politicised narratives
No it doesn't. But there is every reason to expect those features would have been added at some point if VBScript had been more popular.

Indeed, if we look at VBScript's cousin, VB.NET, we find both first order functions and async functions, at least in its newer versions.

(Keep in mind that those features weren't present in older versions of JavaScript either. Async functions were only added in ECMAScript 2016. First order functions have been there from the start, but ECMAScript 2015 greatly improved the syntax for anonymous functions with its introduction of arrow syntax.)
Can you put a figure on 'pausing the global economy for 5 weeks'? How do you know it would be less expensive? The global economy is massive so you'll have to provide some well reasoned figures to support such a claim. Such a pause could easily trigger much larger problems, how do you know it wouldn't? And why did you pick five weeks? The disease won't be eliminated in five weeks of everyone doing nothing; plus a lot of the global economy is essential to human civilisation.
other systems don't just happen to fail. they were strangled by capitalism. given that, how do you really expect to find a better model with fewer drawbacks and put it in place?
That ignores the understanding problem of power struggle for resources between those that have a lot and those that don't. It assumes all actors have intentions for the "common good". The system is the way it is because it works for someone, it just seems broken to you because you are not the beneficiary..
For some definitions of communism... in the US, many would have us believe that universal health care is a key component of communism and China still has plenty of that.
> Yes but there are alot of profitable applications which dont need to be advertised. You run it in-house and make money on the output, ie. ML farms or mining. You dont take preorders for the hardware at all and just have boutique custom units and nobody knows the architecture, even if you offer some remote rental/SaaS tool.

That can work, but only up to the point that a disgruntled former employee blows the whistle.
NO, no no no, and No!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15753279/password-validat...

It's not a standard that can fix this problem, it's education, both between end users and developers.

One could devise a system that allows any password as long as the entropy threshold is satisfied.

The only limitation to passwords should be a minimum level of entropy (or at least length, to keep things simple) furthered by taking into account character sets, lists, etc...

Some people prefer only digits, other like sentences, while some are used to the systems currently in place at the moment with multiple custom rules.

Food for thought.
If you want to throw gaming mechanics into HN, sure. But then you get a situation where the only people who are able to keep up good karma scores are those who comment really frequently (or, I suppose, irregularly but always get tons of upvotes).
Software as individual expression, or as IP to be defended do not need to be in your face opposite extremes. They aren't in most cases. Open source is one middle ground, open hardware or documented hardware can be another.

I do think copyright reform has favored individual expression recently, and I don't see this changing.
I think the point is not that kernel devs (or whoever) will support obsolete platforms, but that users of those platforms can keep using the kernel if they want and are willing to put in the effort to maintain it.
i would imagine it's easier to delve deep into UE since their source is actually available. I dont know if you can step into unity's code at all.
Cool. I think we should understand the physics of our homes' use of energy. The world is full of complexity and no single person can understand everything. I don't think software is what everyone needs to understand.
What do you expect Elon to do? Tweet more about DOGEcoin and pump/dump other cryptocoins?

Or was it Shibu he was pumping last time? Hard to keep track of what he pushes.
No, a good backup best practice is to incorporate an off site point into your redundancy plan.
But RIM is a Canadian company.
I find that comparing answers make a lot of sense when you all know each other and your level of skill. I often check answers with my roommate on math problem sets, and I know we're about at the same level, so neither of us freeloads.
I went to a prepschool with a strong honor code culture. Cheating was nonexistent at the higher level classes I was in but it was pretty rampant among those in less intensive class distributions.

I think the deciding factor in successfully inculcating the value of fairness in academia is ensuring the students actually value academia. If the work's viewed as strictly an impediment by a student there's almost no way to change that.
> The danger is that they crack the server and get the list of password hashes

This isn't an argument either way. The service poorly handling passwords is even more culpable than the user with poor password complexity. Passwords should never be stored as plain hashes.
I agree. I actually often find myself only reading the top one or two comments on a thread now, whereas before I would scan down the list of comments for high point values. This is especially true of replies-in-replies, where the sort order is less indicative of agreement/value.

I miss the community-provided context of comment points.
Some TV-Channel on alpha centauri just lost a viewer. Or maybe not, since we didn't find the channel yet.
Sounds like you've already answered your own question - you don't like where you are, so you should be looking for somewhere else.

If you can get a job somewhere else that you like better, take it. If you can't, stay with what you have now and keep learning on your own time.

Never hurts to interview.
Awesome! I was an early premium user and seeing NewsBlur improve almost daily has been a real treat. Keep up the good work.
Why? If you feel positively or negatively towards a comment, then vote thusly. Abstaining to reveal the score is far too easily gamed with a secondary account.
I don't think this argument stands. There are just as many great C books out there:

* C Programming Language - by K&R
* The Indispensable Guide to C with Engineering Applications - by Paul Davies
* C Interfaces and Implementations - by David Hanson
* A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation - by David Hanson
* Graphics Programming Black Book - by Abrash with lots of Quake goodies
It didn't work for me when I dragged only my consolidated.db file. That functionality might be a nice addition.

Not everyone backs up their phone regularly, but those with jailbroken phones can easily grab the database file over ssh.
Well, it can be a webserver if you're happy serving only a single file loaded into memory at startup: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.haproxy/17962
Lorries are switching to white noise instead of beeping, because humans hear that better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8
I'd settle for that holographic puppy at the end of the video!
Because it is very dangerous to drive at the speed limit on a 55-65mph interstate.

You'll get 18-wheelers harassing you, even if you stick to the slow lane and don't mind paying extra attention to the on-ramps every mile. And those semi trucks almost never get pulled over; their job is hard enough.
a company feeding a strong addiction is a good long term bet, unlike box
I know some people who take LSD habitually and I can't imagine how they do it. Personally I'm like you, it feels amazing and is a great way to relax, but I need about a day or two afterward to really let the whole experience settle in.
I work for more than a decade now and I still am unsure about what rule to follow. Here are a few things that I have seen happening:

I once believed in transparency about that. I told my salary to a friend I just helped to get hired in the company where I already had a few years of experience. Upon hearing my higher salary, he immediately went to my boss to ask for a raise.

Due to an incredible incompetence of the HR department, I once saw the salary of a lot of different people in the 30 people company I was part of. I was not shocked by the 2-3x that a senior developer was making compared to me. I was shocked to see that our CEO had the highest salary (5x to 6x) for the job he did. That was actually one of the element that made me consider resignation and freelancing.

I think that one of the thing that hiding salaries causes is that it makes it impossible to talk about the cashflow of the company without people being able to compute if they are below or above average (and when the CEO earns the double everyone earns, the average will be pretty high) but it makes it harder for employees to understand what clients are important, what resources are available for a project, and so on.
"Do it in the right place, with the right people"

That said, it is pretty tiring...
A colleague made the point that we need more pictures of overflowing morgues and ICUs and (like is happening in LA) people waiting in an ambulance for 7-8 hours (and some of those people dying because of it).

Just like the US government banned (discouraged?) pictures of caskets coming back from war.

These images need to be on the news and on news websites 24/7.
> I think this is a corrosive aspect of the perf/promo process at many FAANGs

Disagree on personal experience with two of the FAANG Cos I have worked for.
A person content in their position, performing/delivering as expected can (and many do) coast. There was little to no pressure from these firms to "move up or move out".
Social life is impossible without the mainstream technology. Sure you can find alternatives but if no one uses it other than you, you end up being sidelined. The technology gets enforced and leaves one with no choice but to accept it or be a red flag.

Shouldn't it be possible to delete your whatsapp chat and contacts data regularly from the cloud? Eg. one could delete the whatsapp account, clear data on cloud and make a new account again. Having more control over your data stored by Facebook would give more power to the users of enforced by the government.
I think I've figured out what happened; Boris spent ages trailing "looser restrictions for Christmas" and then changed them on the 20th. However that still included "the Christmas rules allowing up to three households to meet will now be limited to Christmas Day only".

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-state...

The last minute changes are confusing to all of us. You can help by not citing anti-sources like the NY Post.
If we are at the point that we have to have "evidence" (in the legal sense) that fraud has occurred in order to resolve the outcome of an election, then the water is under the bridge. Voting process and procedures should all be designed to build and strengthen transparency, to fortify the process against actual fraud and vague assertions of fraud that can't be trivially disproved.

We find ourselves in a situation where the processes have been constructed in such a way that there is suspicion about the outcome and logistical difficulties at disproving what should be by design trivially disprovable, this just creates a terrible feedback loop of mistrust. The argument that we don't need better controls until actual widespread fraud can be proved in a court of law seems mistaken to me. We need the controls to keep us from getting to the point where a forensic analysis is needed to discern what happened during an election.

I realize that there are legitimate concerns that better voting controls can result in "voter suppression" but our haphazard approach to voting controls and process transparency has left us in a place where large numbers of people are suspicious and there doesn't seem to be any effective way to counter those suspicions in part due to the haphazard controls.
should've organised better.
~1k died in the U.K. but the US has about 5x the population
Look, it’s not like the bad apples theory hasn’t been debated to death. If you’re uncomfortable with the “good apples” being tarnished by the “bad apples”, you’ll have a better impact by working to change the pervasive culture of:

- those “bad apples” being almost universally exempt from meaningful accountability proportional to their power and actions

- those “good apples” being unwilling to lead those accountability efforts, or even to just distance themselves from the “bad apples” to set a better example

- the clear and consistent bias overall in favor of these far right/fascist actors, including numerous times being caught on camera actively coordinating and ample video evidence of such bias in plain view

If “the police” don’t want to be viewed as a homogeneous pro-fascist force, they need to not act like one.
NHS is overwhelmed every winter if the hyperbolic headlines are to be believed
There's still a focus on deaths, but greatly increased testing capacity means that infection estimates are becoming more accurate.
It's not quite the same I think. The format is very similar, yes, and I think it'd be nice if the PEX program could be made to work with this PEP. However, the PEX program bundles dependencies, which this PEP doesn't seem to be explicitly about.
Lucky! This is the worst kind of insomnia for me: so tired but can't sleep. Perhaps this is why the cold-shower trick has worked so well for me: huge negative first derivative of awakeness.
Not the same thing. I support and make technology. I think piracy is disgusting.
A slightly less harsh version I use is to remove my duvet and open the windows. Works in London where it's cold enough outside anyway.
I think that's the point of the project - to hide the details. I'm a developer of project X, but a user of git. I don't care about it - I want to see it as little as possible, because it's just another tool. Whether it's beautiful or not, I've got a work to do.

It's a bit like with the compiler: it can be pretty and all, but ultimately I just want to write `make` and get my binary. When I need the details, I know where to find them.
that doesn't wake me up/isn't that refreshing.
Came across a citation that aligns closer to the $16.8B number quoted on the video citation I provide further upthread.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/gamestop-short-sellers-are-s...

> Short-selling hedge funds have suffered a mark-to-market loss of $19.75 billion year to date in the brick-and-mortar video game retailer GameStop, according to data from S3 Partners.

Doesn't attribute losses to specific firms, but the damage is spectacular.
lisp is aweful unless you love being lost in a sea of parentheses
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I really like both Python and Mathematica, but if I have a mathematics-based task, 90% of the time I'll choose Mathematica over Python. Why? Well, Mathematica's programming language is pleasant to work with, resembling a dialect of lisp with pattern-matching built in, but the real win is in the libraries. If you have a numerical or symbolic computing task, chances are excellent that either there's a function to do it already in the Mathematica standard library, or Mathematica will let you write it in under a page of code.
"this is not quantum theory, after all..." is one of the funnier comments I've seen on a review. Judging by the rest of it, I'm tempted to guess that it was written by someone from team-PLT :)

Could either you or David put the source for the LL(k) version up somewhere? Comparing it head-to-head with parsec (or its faster cousins) something fun to do.
I think this is a bit revisionist at best. One of the defining characteristics of post-war West Germany was the embracing of free markets and de-regulated business. The most influential post-war Economics Minister, Ludwig Erhard was a fierce proponent of liberal economic theory and laid down the foundation for the decades of strong growth that West Germany experienced. He flatly rejected calls for subsidisation of industry and threw out all the price controls that had been in place.

In contrast to the UK, which went the other direction after the war and nationalised and socialised so much that it's economy was moribund by the 1970's, in complete isolation with the emerging powerhouse that was the West German economy.

Sure, the Germans have had a problem with unemployment, and youth unemployment in particular, but they enjoy a high standard of living and a stable and prosperous economy. And the unemployment rate has been dropping since the conservative-minded government has been in power. It is now lower than most US states.

So I would contend that Germany, particularly throughout the period from 1950-1980 was following a classical liberal economic philosophy more closely than just about any other Western country, the US included. And the results showed. Though I would say it was more Austrian school based than Chicago.

I also don't agree with your assertion that socialism is required to keep an industry going. For that you just need an export-led manufacturing sector, good technical training in schools, and to keep the finance sector in it's place, instead of being allowed to dominate the economy and thus wield political power.

Interestingly enough, the Germans haven't had a housing crash because there was no housing boom. And that's because there was no attempt to change the ownership levels amongst people who didn't own a home.
Oh my yes. Where's my head at. Neuromancer.
wouldn't installing just the portion that mails fines for speeding decrease speeding by 22% as well?

people aren't slowing down because they might win. they just don't want to get fined.
Using EUR 500 notes would help a bit, though even then you'd have several suitcases.
It would really help if you described the idea here. If you are considering open sourcing the project itself, then I am sure you can describe what it is without being afraid that someone can run off and copy the idea.
There were no technical problems, only political ones AFAIK.
Make it based on reputation for the matchmakers as well. So if you purposefully do bad matches, you'll eventually not be able to do any more matchmaking.
Webscrapping isn't bad per se. It's being made to look bad by parties that want to eat their cake and have it too. If you show something to a person, that person should also be able to use custom automation to view it. If you show something publicly, the public should be able to use custom automation just as well. Don't want someone scraping off your site and using it for profit? Limit the audience and sue people making profit off your data for copyright infringement.
No, as prices increase, the economic justification of switching to IPv6 increases. Businesses will watch the inflation and when their IPv4 bill gets high enough, they'll pay someone to fix their systems.

Not only will no shortage occur, but the upgrades will be performed for the least cost possible. This is the kind of resource allocation problem that markets solve optimally.
There's something funky going on with HNs cache, so hopefully this won't be my third visible reply.

His GitHub still seems to be active (https://github.com/joepie91).
The GP is free to suggest anything, but without statistical backing, it's merely that: a suggestion.

India has had the world's largest middle class emerge from poverty in the last three decades, and to somehow claim that economic (& social) upliftment has only benefitted the upper strata is mathematically false. If people were truly weighted down by caste,etc. this uplifted wouldn't be possible

Again, India still reels from literacy problems, and one's likely to see more inequity among the uneducated with regard to social strata.
I wanted one now. And yeah, the future is always brighter.

My current laptop- an HP Pavilion 2000 has an AMD APU as well- but it's from like a decade ago and it's been showing it's age for quite a while, and I needed something newer.

Ryzen 5 3550H, BTW
He's still rather active in the NixOS community. I met him last year. I think he just stopped blogging, that's it.
This is a big power hungry desktop CPU with incremental performance gains with the x86/x64 instruction set from someone not Intel and forcing intel to compete on pricing and performance.

Just that alone is newsworthy.
That's actually pretty minimal. It only looks cluttered because the desk is small. The shelves are only half-used, and mostly in proper stacks.
How do you know they don't have a button to push to make it give a false positive so they can hold people?

Cops have dogs trained to give false positives on signal and we are constantly spied on and lied to by our own intelligence agencies.

So please don't tell me this idea is far fetched, I think it's very plausible.