jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's a smart and rational decision of google to support a competing browser so that they don't have a monopoly (that may be natural) and don't get suit for abusing this monopoly.
even in Texas this situation would be a phone call away from getting addressed.
Curious if anyone had success in avoiding this, by inserting a fake number in their FB profile.
Oooh BOOOOY is that a self-unaware statement :->

While I will give full marks for your agency and initiative if appropriate, to think ANY of us (myself and all of us included) don't have a large amount of probability/luck/circumstance involved is hilarious.

Heck, I'm a refugee from a civil-war country who came to Canada with literally nothing but a loan for the ticket; I could try to make the claim that I "made it on my own".
Yet though I've certainly put in an effort, I'm extremely lucky compared to those who couldn't leave, didn't speak the language, don't have the skillset or capability, don't look or behave in career-enhancing ways, haven't been picked up by mentors and coaches, haven't moved to a country which accepts new people, with educational and business framework that's conducive to advances, haven't found or been given the same opportunities, etc. I've certainly had bad luck and obstacles and negative externalities, but I could spend all day counting things that went well too!

I mean, I agree that I don't want to necessarily go back to the office; but it's with full view of how lucky & privileged I am. Even on very granular level, even with decisions I've made and career I've chosen and skillset I've developed - I have colleagues with same skillset and position and broadly similar projects, which have not switched to remote nearly as much as my project has. That alone is luck/circumstance/beyond my control.
While I'm a vocal critic of both Facebook and Google, do they really make people buy things they don't need by manipulating?

Anecdotally, most of the marketing material and discounts that people around me get and then use to make a purchasing decision came from email. Not Google or Facebook shoving shit in their face, plain old email. Are you going to call for a ban on email?

The times I've been convinced to check out a product were only because either a.) their product was really good in the ad and b.) the ad was really good. For example, I still show that Honda R button ad to people who haven't seen it. And even though that ad was still brilliant, as I type this, my Google query (to reconfirm) was "Hyundai R button ad". That's right - that unique and famous YouTube ad that I still remember from 2015 was still not enough for me to even remember the name of the company, much less the name of the product!

Most ads are obnoxious and/or boring, and simply exasperating when they interrupt you in between, but nowhere near manipulative. Facebook and Google's major flaw is not in the advertising model but in the way they amplify voices of like minded people who are otherwise irrelevant personae.
I guess one interesting question is whether other kinds of chromatin elsewhere encode any information by favoring expression of certain genes over other.
I've found myself using this rather than come up with the equivalent `find` predicate.
The salient piece:

Microsoft deploys over 500,000 Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) internally – excluding all Azure services and customer workloads – with needs that go from back-end microservices to Big Data systems, message brokers, event streaming services, and gaming servers. More than 140,000 of these JVMs are already based on the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK.
To manage anxiety in general, I take https://goldbee.com/ . I've taken CBD before and it actually helped me feel relaxed and less stressed out. I tried the gummies they tasted pretty good! I get better sleep and feel more rested when I take them.
I thought of this as well. My thought here on the different languages was to make the programmer's skill based on more than expertise in any one language.
Thanks, bk21. We did have compensated technical reviewers, who are themselves iPhone app developers, review Vandad's book, and Vandad addressed all the concerns he raised. We calibrate the target audience level based on the topics that are covered (beginner, intermediate, advanced).

I'll review these concerns with Vandad and also ask him to tackle the problems with the project files and get these addressed quickly.

Thanks,

Brian
No, the law was badly written, at least if the goal is to limit all robocalling and not just robocalling using sequential or randomized numbers.

The law essentially says "it is illegal to call someone using an autodialer, where an autodialer is a device that makes calls to phone numbers using a sequential or randomized algorithm." It's pretty clear then that automatically dialing from a prepared list of actual phone numbers is not against this law. If they wanted it to cover the latter case, they could have easily included that in the law, even 20+ years ago.
I agree with most of this, but

> who got some outrageous bills after the storm to pay for the mistakes by their own representatives

This was only for people on market-rate plans, who were paying a flat $5-$10 connection fee and then market rate for electricity. They regularly would pay about $15/mo for 2-3kwh; I pay about $85/mo for that much on a fixed rate in Austin, which is a regulated monopoly (you cannot purchase a market rate plan).

The constituents of townships that allow variable and market rate plans _love_ spending 1/5 of the energy cost, and have been doing so for years. It's hard to sympathize with people who were actively told to disconnect and stop using power during the highest demand, chose to continue, and now have fat bills to show for it.
Perhaps, depends on your needs, risk model, pricing etc...
I use DO but couldn’t use AWS due to price for example.
Hoping platforms whenever you catch the ire of the gods is a bad CX for this problem space.
It is moot.

All I can say is your scenario does not include much that bolsters your case.

Very surprised it went to trial. Was anyone, animal injured?
I had the misfortune of having a friend in high school who could listen to something and transcribe it. I remember at band camp watching him with a cassette player and manuscript player transcribing an instrumental break from a Chicago song. He'd play a couple seconds, score it out, then play a couple more seconds until he was done.

I say misfortune because I assumed this was a binary thing: you either could do it or you couldn't, and I was in the latter category. Later in life, I found that it was a learnable skill (probably what did more than anything else for me in developing my ear was being part of the cathedral choir and doing a lot of sight singing in harmony) (another aside, having done a lot of church music over the years, it was interesting to see the level of musicianship of the cathedral choir, and I was in the larger amateur group rather than the smaller professional group—where in most church choirs, each section would have their part played at the piano and they'd sing it back, the cathedral choir would have all four parts played together at the piano and everyone would sing back in harmony. The professionals didn't bother with the piano part and just sight-sang everything, including some really tricky harmonies, like having the sopranos sing a high F against an E minor chord in the lower voices.) At my peak, I was able to work on writing music while walking without any instrument and come home and transcribe what I'd written including all the harmonizations. I've lost some of that skill from lack of practice in the years since and I had to use Capo to recover the chord progression of a piece I wrote where I couldn't remember one of the chords in the middle 8.

So bottom line, there are some people for whom this comes naturally but it is absolutely a learnable skill.
The success of these cities is due to political action that is unpalatable to most in the west. Hong Kong in particular demonstrates what happens when even vestigial western ideals and the necessary political structures for this sort of action mix.
Not everyone. I've always pronounced it "coke".
No because you know what happens? Students snicker and ask insincere questions just so they can say coq in class in front of their friends. They record their professor saying coq and splice it together and upload it to their social media feeds. Female students squirm in their seats and become disengaged, counting down the minutes until the class ends.

It’s the same reason I can’t teach brainfuck. There are 10001 languages worthy of class time and these languages disqualify themselves in my opinion.
I think you're underestimating the problem by limiting it to unarmed black men killed by police. There's a lot that a police force can do besides killing people. There's profiling and unlawful arrests and prosecution, cruel and unusual punishments in prisons and jails, along with general harassment. You should look at the results of DOJ investigations into the Ferguson and Baltimore police departments, they are absolutely scathing. In the Baltimore police department, there were incidents in which they arrested people just hanging out on a street corner for no reason (when they told their lieutenant they didn't have a valid reason to arrest them they were told "just make something up") in front of the DOJ investigators! I'd also recommend the book "Just Mercy" for examples of the horrors of malicious prosecution. Just one egregious example from that book: a mentally disabled woman was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her child. The problem? The woman never had a child, and was in fact infertile!
That is actively dumb.

If sending thanks costs too much carbon, running Python, PHP, or Ruby on servers, or generating dynamic pages when a static page would do, costs hundreds of times as much.
It's a movie quote.
How many bugs did you find in (production versions of) your applications? How many in compilers?
Nothing. Quit using it 7 years ago. No instagram account either.
As a Texas teacher's child, my answer is "what union"? TCTA (Texas Classroom Teachers' Association) appears to be toothless compared to the unions in other parts of the country: each year, my mom and every other teacher in her school district signed a blind contract that said that they could be sent to any school in the district, to teach any subject and grade level they were licensed for. In my mom's case, that could have been middle school elective Spanish (teach colors and numbers, sing fun songs, play Loteria, break up squabbling tweens), upper level high school Spanish (teach novels, mark essays, dealing with sophisticated language she hadn't since college) or 9th grade remedial US History (attempt to make surly teenagers remember important dates), the sort of change that could greatly expand her workload - hello, totally new lesson plans!

Not letting the state treat them that way would require looking at how their colleagues up north manage to get tenure and long-term contracts. But that would involve being in a true union.
It’s probably been said already, but you lose the sway you had by saying you command some high position at FAANG

FAANG: “oh you work at Apple? Please y’all I will listen to anything you say!”

Non-FAANG: “meh.”
They don't do this type of support, do they? Haven't been able to find a phone number or email address.
Ah you are the author, sorry for being so harsh. I think your collection of links might be actually quite useful, it's just the term "Visual Guide" that sells it for something it's just not.
One feature of Pernosco is that conditional breakpoints do not slow you down.
> it entirely disables Google Analytics on every site.

Some might find being tracked across most of the Internet to be a privacy concern.

People put google analytics on their site because of the 'free' data they get from google, and I suspect most don't consider that there is a cost - it's just their users that are paying it.
The branding will not change, for BDFL reasons. The best all we can do is coming to grips with Perl 6 not being a successor, but a sibling.
I thought 'suspended jacuzzi' would have been the name of a IDM musical duo.
US civil seizure laws make me incredibly thankful that I live elsewhere. Not just because these laws exist, but because they demonstrate how meaningless the US constitution really is in practice.
I'm sure Boeing has something to do with Washington's rate.
^^Agree. Kik is a BBM clone. Surprisingly badly done, actually, from what I can tell - but still, it's aiming straight for BBM.

If it gains traction, it might turn into a BBM competitor which is available on all platforms, thereby removing _the_ primary reason BBs sell like hotcakes here in Asia.

I guess I should backtrack - BB in SE Asia (and probably other regions world wide) is THE must have phone for every student, college or high school. You either have one, or you want one.

The reason for this is BBM. Clever marketing and the fact that most students already have BB make it a social must have. You either have a BB or you're out. They're selling them by the bucketloads, it's quite incredible.

Without BBM, there is no way BB would sell _any_ phones over here. So clearly they must protect it. If students somehow would get turned on to Kik, and you didn't need the - let's admit it rather ugly-looking - BB to use it, Blackberry sales in the region would die overnight.

Anyone else find it deliciously ironic that BB is now blatantly doing what Apple is usually accused of doing?
So the basic conclusion of this study is 'The evidence surrounding veganism appears to be mixed'. And further 'Overall, veganism is healthier than an omnivorous diet with respect to chronic diseases'. Did you manage to read these parts?

With respect to B12 it seems that there is clearly good evidence for vegans to take a supplement.

With regards to pregnant and nursing women the evidence seemed a bit less clear. There doesn't seem to be any mention of actual problems with vegan children, only correlations between them and children that did have problems. Despite the uncertainly It certain seems good enough evidence to take b12 supplement for vegans.

So the takeaway I get from this is that

(Vegan diet + b12/multivitamin) >> Omnivorous diet
this kind of stuff has always scared me. Its seems like it would be really easy to get confused just trying to use this stuff. Generally if i need a list i either use the void* interface and cast as neccesary, or if i want to do something like store a list of floats, or anything where i want to store the value of the item in the list (not just a pointer) then i use a 'fat' datastructure like this

https://github.com/lukesandberg/Regex/blob/master/src/util/f...

when you construct it you just tell it how big each item is then it copies the value into the stack element for storage.

Sometimes it a few extra copy/cast statements but at least its very clear what you are doing.
Unemployed programmers? Where do you see them?
This describes an open-source project. Since these developers are looking to make money from the project, their goal is to seek widespread adoption (just as a startup would), and then market themselves as (extremely) highly-paid consultants charging top dollar for their expertise in the system they designed.
> Nobody is at fault.

?!

The corporate IT people screwed up and issued a data-loss command they apparently had neither reason nor authorisation to issue. Someone's personal property was completely wiped as a result.

We don't know how much valuable personal data was on that phone, but it could have held e-mails, photographs, etc. They could have been important, have great sentimental value, even have been evidence in a legal action (e.g., photos taken after a road accident).

In any case, this is clear cut negligence. The phone wipe might not have been deliberate, but the damage was done and it is absolutely clear who was at fault.

> What makes you think the employee didn't get fair warning?

Well, for one thing, this:

"It was my account, in my name [and] I'd paid all the bills," Stanton says. "It didn't make any sense to me that somehow work could get through AT&T, who I thought controlled my phone, and could completely disable the phone and the account."

Does that sound like the employee was properly informed to you?
The problems I, as an Irishman, have when visiting the US are (1) frequently a kettle isn't available, and instead, in offices, you often have a supply of "hot" water at perhaps 95C, which isn't hot enough for good tea, or you have to jerry-rig something out of a coffeemaker with similar issues only even more tepid; and (2) American tea bags average about 2g of tea leaves each compared with an average of 3.125g in UK / Irish tea bags.

So these days, I bring a travel kettle with me, and usually my own supply of tea. If I must use tea bought locally, I use twice the regular amount to compensate.
Did you write up a post mortem anywhere? As a tea drinking hacker in SF it would be an interesting read at least.
The video just got switched to private.
With the built in ramp and their electric ATV pulling up and actually plugging into the Cybertruck was just unreal.

Ford and the rest are going to have to change things up big time.
The test before showed them dropping softball-sized metal balls onto a horizontal pane of Tesla Armor Glass from 20-25 feet in the air without any damage, so it set the expectation of impervious glass. Maybe if Musk stated that the glass was meant to just crack but not shatter, it would have made sense, but to me the impression I got was that the live demo on the truck was done on the fly without prior prep (Musk did say after the glass cracked that "at least it didn't go through", but not beforehand).
I use tail -f with tmux usually. Will less +F save the entire output into memory? In other words, if I accidentally leave it open in a tmux shell and the log grows to 300mb of output, will the server start swapping?
In Christian eschatology, one day Jesus will return and the dead will rise from their graves. For many people cremation seems incompatible with this, although one imagines a benevolent deity could just as easily reconstitute people from ashes, scattered or not. Then again a lot of religious people think this mass resurrection is going to be a pretty selective affair so that it's important to have the right address even after you're dead.
Are they still using PF code imported from OpenBSD 4.5? That code is 6 years old and has been vastly improved over the years.
GIGO. Just because they used a "Deep" architecture doesn't mean it was suitable for the task.
I feel like there's a big difference in talking negatively about a billion dollar company that pays for an advert and a small sub million dollar company. Would Microsoft even notice or care that he spoke critically about them once compared to a small startup that blew their advert money on his blog care?
What do you use i3wm with?

I like Debian and wonder if there's a best practise setup for desktop environment plus i3wm. Everyone seems to do something different and the setups I've seen have all had minor quirks (wifi tray icon, sound control, locking, etc).

Currently my main machine is Ubuntu 14.04 with Xcfe and i3wm and I have a few quirks (something about the keyboard charset picker never aligning with the Xcfe tray).
> I think that something inherent but generally unacknowledged is how Socialism and Anti capitalist ideologies rob creativity of any and all usefulness.

Socialism?

I think you meant 'communism' as practiced by those countries that have hi-jacked an otherwise pretty good idea to serve the interests of a select few fat cats.
The nice thing about Emacs is how much it's open to modification. There are compatibility modes to make it work like other editors (eg. "evil mode" to make it work more like Vi, "cua mode" to use "normal" key combos instead of having to learn Emacs's, etc.). There are often a bunch of alternative ways to do things, which have their own pros and cons, so if something seems frustrating, it pays to Google around a little to see if there's another way.

For example, running a terminal can be done with `term` (b/w) or `ansi-term` (colour), which provide a pretty standard xterm-like terminal emulator, completely under the control of whatever shell you use (eg. bash). This is useful for screen-manipulating programs like ncurses-based UIs, but is awkward to manipulate as text (a bit like the awkward copy/paste functionality in screen and tmux).

There's also `shell`, which runs a regular shell (like bash), but Emacs keeps control of the screen. This makes it useless for curses-based UIs, but great for text manipulation. For example, rather than running a pipeline over and over, tweaking the output options, we can often just dump everything to stdout then play around with it using the full power of Emacs (search/replace, regexes, keyboard macros, lisp functions, etc.).

There's also `eshell`, which is like shell mode but instead of a regular shell like bash, it uses a custom shell written in Emacs Lisp. Eshell's strength is its integration with Emacs; for example, Emacs Lisp functions can be run just like commands and Emacs buffers (including shells!) can be treated as files, etc. Eshell's weakness compared to shell is that it can't do pipes.

Personally, I use mixture of shell and eshell, plus some handy Lisp functions eg. for spawning new shells instead of always switching back to the same one. I avoid term and ansi-term in favour of a separate st terminal though, since they're pretty slow to update and their lack of decent text manipulation makes them feel uncomfortably "un-Emacsish".
...yet the same blacksmith could turn a sword into a plowshare and make society a better place.

Straw-man arguments might have their place but they are still straw-man arguments. Not every businessman starts out being mercenary, and not every practicing tradesman cares naught for his art.
Not just IDE but code editor too.
That Placebo Effect is so strong I don't even bother to debunk natural remedies. Plus, I might be throwing the
baby out with the bath water, but right now I'm very skeptical of a lot of pharmacuticals studies. They just lied
to us so many times when it comes to the efficacy of their newest drug.
I really like how Github is always pushing new features all the time.
Second, dealing with piracy is the responsibility of Dropbox. It’s not the problem of an innocent hacker who wrote some useful code that could benefit legitimate users and advocates the use of his software for “sharing photos, videos, public datasets, git-like source control, or even as building block for wiki-like distributed databases."

Could someone give me 1 example of a use case here? The only reason I can think of to share the hash of a file instead of a direct link, is because it's an illegal file, and you don't want to link straight to it. Why else would you go through the effort of hashing all 4mb blocks of the file, and sharing those elsewhere?

Of course, this is a dangerous gray legal area, but I think it's fair to say that the only reason to use this is because of illegal files. Also, they didn't take legal action (which wouldn't be right, as no one has been proven of doing illegal stuff), they just asked nicely, so it seems. Dropbox is right to act on this, as it could potentially ruin their platform.
I've spent a lot of time thinking through this problem. I agree Git is broken. So is Mercurial, Bazaar, subversion and CVS — they're just different flavors of broken (as in they each taste less broken to different groups of people).

Version control is inherently a difficult problem to conceptualize. Distributed version control is probably the biggest step forward VCS have ever seen — but it comes at a price of added complexity on top of a complex subject as is.

But then again that's why I don't focus on "making git better" — I try and focus on making collaboration and source control better. Stop trying to build aliases or tweaks to git's command line... and maybe try and build a great source control tool that just happens to use Git as it's storage engine.