jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Right now 82% of the population is dissatisfied with congress and back to back presidential elections have large groups of people not believing the results. This doesn't look like a strong and stable democracy at the federal level
Yeah, from OPs response, that is what they think.

I think it amounts to "this only solves half the problem, so we shouldn't do it".

Most big problems aren't solved by just doing one thing. When global warming is finally solved, it will have been by 10 separate things that each solved 5-20% of the problem.

Also, imposing an arbitrary deadline in 2029 is horrible project management. In a commercial project it's also dumb, but at least there you can cancel the project, and people move on to do other things.

For Earth, we can't cancel the planet in 2029 if targets weren't met.
> Thanks to laziness, foldr is usually preferred, and it is not tail recursive.

With guarded recursion. foldl' has its place.
I recall seeing and hearing a group B audi during a road transit stage - the sound of the engine crackling and poping as the driver drove slowly through town was amazing
Yes supposedly that's the stolen amount. I'm asking how you go from that to a mixer getting access to the 6% in its entirety. One would need to be colossally impaired to take _all_ their earnings and put them anywhere at once. Personally I'd keep 90% or more in an offline wallet stored in many places. Then slowly launder a bit of it at a time...
Is this a (belated) reaction to Google Docs being "good enough" for many use cases?

We also just heard about Chrome OS pushing Microsoft to cut the price of Windows licenses for low-end laptops. Plus we have Nokia (soon to be Microsoft's smartphone division) releasing low-end handsets based on Android.

These may all be reasonable strategic choices (I tend to think they're at least heading in the right direction), but put the picture together and it looks like Microsoft has been pushed into playing Google's game according to Google's rules. That usually doesn't end well.
Cliche? No, it's a reminder Microsoft sells it's users down the river.

Maybe you don't, but some people actually speak up for their rights.
So restic has at least gotten somewhat better with several upstream PRs getting us past 100TB usability.
On the contrary, the amount of wasted time and effort from attrition is mind-boggling. If the level of engineering discipline were higher, it might not be so bad.
The arguments I’ve heard are IO completion ports are less “brain dead” then epoll or select/poll and visual studio is a great IDE. Otherwise I’m not sure either.
Apple's Open Source repository has the current version of Catalina's core. https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10145.html

Why is PureDarwin on an older version? Lack of volunteers? Too many hacks required?
I've tried lsp for Go and found it a bit lacking at this point. For example, does lsp for Go in Emacs allow searching for the implementers of an interface? Or the interfaces that a type implements? Guru is great with things like that but the switch to modules broke it and it doesn't look like it's ever going to be updated.
Interesting. I know people 3 year out of college at Oracle with base ~190k. Partly because Oracle doesn't do cash bonus.
Your `fn rust_qsort` takes ownership of the vector, so it frees its memory after sorting and it can't be used after sorting in the caller function.
And generic `impl FnMut` won't work in `extern "C"`, it only accepts function pointers.
Actual failure is a good way for a lot of people to lose confidence, and that carries over more and longer than leaving one rep in the tank.
Do you know alot of Haskell programmers? Because I'm enjoying my typesafe SQL queries, typesafe intra-application linking, typesafe templating, etc. Haskell is capable of far more than "pure, mathematical problems"—indeed, typed IO is a premier feature of the language.

edit: sorry, this was pretty defensive; I shouldn't have written this comment so hastily.
There's no uncertainty or doubt about it. Ghostrank reports back about how it has disabled tracking in your browser. It may be "anonymous", but Ghostrank tracks your web usage, and sells it to advertisers.

http://lifehacker.com/ad-blocking-extension-ghostery-actuall...

http://www.informationweek.com/software/social/ghostery-make...

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/19/ghostery-uses-plugin-data-to-p...

Ghostrank tracks you. Plain and simple.
Yes, however the GhostRank feature that people don't like is opt-in not opt-out.
I went back to Firefox in the last couple of months and I wholeheartedly agree. I used to use HTTPSwitchboard in Chromium (which divided into uMatrix and uBlock) and I miss it in Firefox.
A grain of salt??? More like a truckload of salt.

Have you not watched the video? Agile is a scam. Even one of the signers of The Agile Manifesto himself just admitted it on camera.

That some people will continue to give credence to an outright scam after it's been exposed and admitted to by one of its foremost practitioners is just a sad statement on humanity.
Some ad blocking should definitely be built in for performance reason then ...
I gave Ruby 2.2 a try with Rails 4.2 and the same memory problems that plagued Ruby 2.1 also occurred. I am switching back to Ruby 2.0. Rails 5 will require Ruby 2.2 and higher so I hope someone will find a way to fix this.
I never lost functionality on a site because of hosts file blocking of ads. And that is together with NoScript
For goodness sake people. You can take a comic as an attack on a particular programming language, but how is this useful? Maybe there is wisdom in this comic or not, but there is value in people reflecting and presenting a humorous point of view.

I have used all of the languages above and found the comic humorous and greatly exaggerated. But I think that there is something here. If you haven't really used the exalted languages in this comic please try them. You can only learn from the experience.

Also, if users of a particular language appear to be elitist, this does not say anything about the value of the language itself.

An open mind is going to be both happier and more capable.
Thanks, the Lufthansa CEO has changed his opinion fast. Good.
Thank you, interesting idea
Has the playing field leveled between Tesla and all others in terms of an accessible and reliable charging network now? That's still the main reason I would buy a Tesla for anything other than a city commuter but I may be behind the times.
I agree! Kudos to this gentleman for his hard work and love of the language.
BitClout has good marketing but dubious ethical execution
Yes, every time someone categorically declaims that 'floats and money should never mix', I question whether they've ever met a real accountant.

Accountants frequently spend all day in Excel. Excel uses floats for all computations (doubles, to be precise) [1].

Now, in all fairness, an accountant and developer's relationship to the numbers is rather different.

For an accountant, the risk of floats blowing up is largely mitigated by the fact that they have a close, intimate relationship with the actual numbers.

The responsible accountant should always deliver numbers they have personally reviewed, while a developer is usually automating a process, generating numbers that have yet to touch a human eye, so there is rather less room for error.

Still, it's simply untrue that one should never use floats for money. Many of the cases where floats would generate bad results are also problematic for simple alternatives. For example, fixnums are simply 'floats that can't float', so you need to be able to guarantee a fixed range ahead of time.

Understanding basic numerical analysis is unavoidable to writing correct code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_precision_in_Microsoft...
I think the answer is pretty simple: we should eat varied and follow the seasons. That many get pretty sick by going into ketosis shows how unhealthy we are. A healthy human can switch between a diet with lots of carbohydrates and one with few without problems. I'd posit that more than 99% of humans cannot switch between fat burning and glucose burning without getting sick because of withdrawal symptoms.
I'd be interested to hear what this attack ends up costing GitHub in man power, bandwidth fees and so on. I wonder if any cost will be waived - I could see, for example, a large cost if they host DNS with AWS (although it sounds like they may host DNS at Akamai - I haven't checked as I'm writing on the go).
It all comes back to what a company rewards, and how they hold people accountable.

A company that consistently rewards people for shipping sloppy code as fast as possible at the expense of other teams will get more sloppy code shipped at the expense of other teams.

Most issues like this can be traced back to misplaced accountability, or an imbalance between reward and accountability. If teams can collect rewards for bad behavior while dodging accountability for the downstream effects, the situation will continue.

Rules don't mean anything if the company rewards people for breaking them. Focus on the incentives.
Lol, maybe the crappier Arduino version. My name is Jeff though.
Excellent writing, this is a great article to show a junior frontend engineer who would otherwise spend their next years having to crystalize these ideas on their own. I wish I had read this 8 years ago.
Exactly. And now expand this to the entire world. This is now the pool of applicants.
You share a room with 20 other students at school, you can share a table with two siblings.

You don't need a computer, you can use your phone, though kids should get their own computer before a smartphone.
Cute idea. I like the idea of markdown solving for the complexity of convincing, logical argument.
> I was specifically suggesting for the non cafeteria ones that the the parent comment from a current student

And I'm saying that this category of school essentially doesn't exist. It's not that most schools have cafeterias. All schools do, except for a handful.
Transactions between banks need clearing and settling. Many systems run on a periodict (like half an hour) net settlement, some are even slower. Blockchain is a perfect firt for those usecases.

There is a reason JP morgan is developing quorum
I cited a twitter thread (et seq) relevant to our exchange. You then doxxed yourself in reply on HN. I don't care who you are or what your twitter handle is, honestly.
The other main reason it is not a currency is that it only processes 5 transactions per second and they cost a ridiculous amount of money ($60 at the peak in 2017). Which makes it only usable for large transfers of speculative value, not like, buying your daily coffee. It's not a currency.
Heck just roads. At a certain level of rural you are paving and patching 10 miles of road per person. In the city you are paving like a few feet per person.
Fiat is at the end of its lifespan. People are seeking refuge in bitcoin now. It's deflationary by design, which makes it an excellent store of value. It's value has only been going up for 12 years straight now. No bubble to be seen here.

https://hope.com

The crypto market is now just gettings its first billionaires to invest in it (Michael Saylor, Elon Musk, GrayScale, etc.), and the market cap is still small. This is just getting started.

https://bitcointreasuries.org/
That isn't a boolean flag.
Everyone in this thread should read

www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defense/criminal-offense/what-difference-between-joyriding-stealing-a-ca r
Ah yes. Fraud.
We speak to founders and see how they think about giving. This ep is on Solving Problems for Small Businesses - with Daniel Yu Founder and CEO of Sokowatc‪h‬. Would love for the community to check this out and check out Founders Pledge too! Happy to answer any questions :)
Each bit is a Boolean flag (hex, scientific, etc.)... they're just packed into an integer. (Nobody said you have to use N bools for N different flags...)
What do you feel is the core idea of the Erasmatron that is not already well-captured by modern IF, (digital or analog) consims, or (digital or analog) roleplaying games?

If the answer is "each of those does some subset of things well but the Erasmatron would do everything well" (and this is the position I implicitly ascribe to Crawford after trying to make sense of his last 15 years of writing / commentary), do you really think that kind of scope is a desirable artistic goal, let alone feasible?
pretty much this. got excited and then I need a FB account...
This means that China emits about 23x more than Australia. But considering that China's population is about 57x larger than Australia's it means that Australia emits much more that China per capita, which is actually an important metric that must go down everywhere in the world, obviously starting by rich countries, which are the ones with high emissions per capita.

Anyway, it's sad to see this 'argument' about China's emissions used again and again for (a) China bashing, and (b) to oppose emission cuts in other countries on the ground that it's useless (as this article does to oppose emission cuts in Australia).

> “Not only should Australia not proceed with a net zero emissions target, but we should withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement,” said Mr Hussey.

I think that says it all.
More helpfully, salting their db with real emails but fake contact info requires a more durable hygiene process and often isn't worth the effort for data driven shops.

You serve a variety of email domains that validate as deliverable, then you accept emails and report the sender, which hurts their deliverability.
Mine the cryptocurrency of your mind via meditation.

Discover insight tokens and trade them for inner peace.
Catch-all support starts at €8 at ProtonMail.

https://protonmail.com/pricing
dwcfgmg.sys had my heart broke
And all of this makes zero sense, given that anybody can simply tap the TPM chip itself.

All x86 TPMs are effectively pwned, and useless for their stated application.

TPM never served any real security role.

Making a system fully secure against a physical attack is impossible, and looks plainly silly to anybody knowing how computers work.

Even specially protected credit card chips cost only few thousand dollars to extract a key from in the numerous "firmware recovery" shops.
I never investigated Surface 1 & 2, but I thought they ran full versions of Windows.
Well, the basic problem is that the city councils of Valley "cities" (ie: overgrown, egotistical suburbs) keep refusing to build the kind of dense housing, mixed-price developments, and mixed-usage buildings that make real cities function. In fact, they often explicitly refuse to build any new housing at all, insisting that transplanted tech employees just find somewhere else.

So the companies have to build their own damn housing.

Welcome to the outcome of NIMBYism.
Mechanically: At one time, and perhaps still, it appeared to affect decay rate and placement of a person's new comments. For example, a person with a high average comment score might have their initial comment placed higher up the page and then fall more slowly than a person posting at the same time with a lower average comment score.

As Feedback: Because it is a moving average, it is a way for a person to get a feel for the quality of their comments and how that quality is trending. That's really more important in the long run I suppose.

The big picture: The purpose is to modify user behavior toward actions that improve or at least are less detrimental to HN.
Yes and grep isn't very good for interactive searching. There's lot of different ways you could do this, and they all have pros and cons depending on the situation. My point was that all these posts dismissing this blog post as pointless are just arrogant. Most people don't know about less +F, but it's pretty handy for some common use cases. So he didn't mention someone's favourite tool - it's okay.
Where were you for the four years of "trade war" and Pompeo calling out China about Xinjiang?
> Fission was discovered in 1938/1939 and we dropped two bombs on Japan in 1945. No chance we could do something like that in this toxic environment of today.

I think that I am misunderstanding this paragraph. You mean the speed at which a new inventions was put into production, right?

It could be my English failing me but putting it through a translator did not help.
> I wish the existing solutions on the Github side worked.

I did experience a bad outcome using act[0] for a super weird matrix-y workflow, but I'd say for the most part it behaved sanely; did you report your complaints to their issue tracker?

0 = https://github.com/nektos/act
Yeah agreed. That spacing looks like a college essay, ie, basically unreadable.
We don't need weapons or viruses or other catastrophes to end our civilisation. We just need to keep on breeding.

World population has gone from about 2 billion to almost 8 billion in the last 100 years.

We're well aware of the limited resources of our finite planet, yet the only metric of economic success is growth.

It's a pyramid scheme, and at some point, it has to collapse. Unless we expand beyond this planet, I suppose.
I am not, but I am sure you could dare Elon Musk to arm his Telsa Cybertruck and give it enough smarts to do some real damage. Maybe tweet a dare at him. I am sure the Army would appreciate some hands free suppressing fire and/or have a driverless extraction unit to go pick up friendlies.
I would've thought your first 2 items there would help increase the use of engineering judgement by reducing pitfalls previous generations encountered. Your third item is definitely a significant factor.

It's not so much that I yearn for the era of engineering judgement so much as I yearn for refocusing on work that's important. Not every little decision needs to written up in professional report, circulated around through multiple drafts, signed off by 4-5 people, briefed out in slide deck form, then never read again.
> I'm not sure all would agree with that, but I don't think it was hidden.

In the modern media cycle anything that is not actively pushed into view is hidden.

- What is going on with ebola? Did the epidemic suddenly stopped.

- What is going on with CIA torture?

- What is going on with the jet shot over Ukraine ...

And these are big ticket items that got lots of coverage. The terrible working conditions in Quatar for the world cup has been thoroughly exposed. People read, are shocked and forget.

For a news to be hidden today - you don't need to actively cover up - just to find something else for the attention of the public for the time being.
No, it isn't the same swap. If you actually understand what is going on, you'd realize it.

> May I invite you to write some code and see for yourself?

Sure. I've fixed your examples so they are analogous to each other and added the check that I described in my previous post.

C++: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9c66999844afcab15eeb
Java: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/bac324b3f3c13f263e14
Having the confidence to release your projects as open-source is excellent and something I wish more people had.

However—by your own description—HN is a place where you solicit feedback but can't be bothered to extend the same courtesy to your peers.

Think of it like a conversation. If I approach you asking for feedback on my projects but never return the favor, does that not seem suspicious?
[Pay it forward] was rediscovered and described by Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Benjamin Webb dated April 22, 1784:

I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you [...] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro' many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress.
The hinge is kinda useful to angle the display.
I am not disagreeing. I believe these crackers should serve jail time just as much as you do. I am just stating that I do not lift blame from Gawkers.
I did after once flying out of Denver, and the luggage had to be removed because the airplane was overweight for the altitude and air temperature.

Next time you're flying out of Denver, notice how long the takeoff roll is. When my father flew jets out of Denver, he'd hang the tailpipe over the back edge of the runway so he'd have every last foot of runway to get airborne.
You can always buy long-term put options. The premium is high, because of the time range.
There are a lot of business models in crowdsourced image data. For instance, Google could give away high resolution dashboard cameras in return for the right to use the video for ground truth data. With sufficient intelligence onboard higher-level information like signage, license plates, or even faces could be uploaded on demand. You'd probably even be able to bundle an insurance premium discount in.
In America, we can make pretty much any law limiting government for any reason we want, or no reason at all.

We can get a long way doing that and by definition, limiting government doesn't impact citizen free speech.
> is precisely zero to indicate that such an NFT would increase in value with an artist's popularity.

That's definitely how art works in the real world, I don't know why it would change here.

> Also, precisely zero of that value increase would go to "support the artist" - all of the profit would go to the original speculator.

Hold up, this is exactly why NFTs are interesting. They're contracts. When minting ones, you can specify that you get N% of the purchase price when its sold again.
I'm just squarely keen on learning from their acquisition integrations team, that's where the magic happens to make any good use of these acquisitions.
My intention was to point out the irony of Chinese nationals wanting to immigrate to the US, ostensibly because China is ruled by a bunch of "crazy psychopaths". When the reality is that the US is also run, at least in part, by a bunch of crazy psychopaths.

But my point was not well taken.
Maybe it's like a Bloomberg terminal as of a few decades ago?

I think access to market data is a challenge in trying to replicate more of the present-day Bloomberg terminal. First because it's so voluminous (as people elsewhere in this thread have said), and second because so much of it is commonly provided under license for a fee (and with nondisclosure obligations) (and also subject to the trend where people pay more to get or generate market data that's closer to real-time).

But in terms of the feature competition, I think people have upvoted this so much because it's an initial version of a single person's passion project that manages to put a whole bunch of financial information at your fingertips. With an active community (and modulo the important data access issues), it could easily grow and grow and grow in functionality.
Many times this option is the best option, but it's not the best available option. This is because of a lack of trust. People are worried they are going to be ripped off, so at least want some proof that a given number of hours that seems reasonable was expended and then they check that a reasonable rate was charged per hour, and it makes them feel more confident.

These people are often very frustrating to work with.
Presumably if you trust the reputation of the newspaper or journalist writing the article, you trust the testimony.
And there's ViewText as well - http://viewtext.org/help/api
That was r/the_donald I believe.
I charge users 5 bucks a month to host unlimited matches (just 1 person out of 10 pays).

I could charge more, but since I don't have the overhead of a large company, I can get by with less and my users get an extremely affordable product.
IIUC that wasn't her desktop, but rather one of a staffer. The desk the insurrectionist had his boots on in that photo was also not hers.

It was in her office, though.
What else is new, censorship is OK as long as only one side is doing it.