jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm a big believer in consistent, readable codebases. Anything that doesn't make it easier to understand and improve the code shouldn't be occupying your headspace. You should never have to answer "now why didn't that work" with "I was supposed to use with_scale instead of withScale."

There are of course languages where the ecosystem itself is inconsistent (like PHP) or there are no conventions to follow (like CSS). In those cases, use whatever's your favorite; however, if you are snake_casing JavaScript or camelCasing Python, you're doing it wrong.

If you're the only one who ever touches your projects, it doesn't matter, but for anyone who has to work with your codebase, you've created a pain-in-the-ass for no good reason.
I'd go ahead with debugging without the debug symbols - it's not hard at all if you know Asm and have the source code available as it's usually quite easy to figure out where in the source you are.

Then again, gdb is a relative pain to use without source so it does seem to discourage doing that.
Nothing to do with technology. Has to do with arrogant developer with no experience with financial regulation, thinking they can just ignore centuries of safeguards because they know math.
Read the damn article. The author goes through many examples of things that are eroding privacy.

Ai Weiwei lives under total surveillance. Google is producing technology for the military. Obama has to use a tent in his hotel room to block surveillance. The disney wristband tracks your movements and spending.

Surprisingly the NSA is barely mentioned at all. The author is primarily concerned with how technology is enabling surveillance, not the organizations currently using it.
I appreciate the left's desire to reduce the prison population, but they need to come up with something else that functions better before they start trying to deconstruct the current system. Otherwise, their youthful naivete may result in more incarceration as the backlash takes hold.

Also, while I understand many of the 'hit pieces' against Boudin arise from the right, please do not assume that any criticism of him, his policies, or ideologies are simply partisan attacks.
I will grant that strong_migrations is really cool, and data migrate is nice but not really that hard to implement yourself if you need that. Bullet however IMHO is a way overly complicated way to solve for N+1 queries. I would argue that eager loading associations by default is wrong and a thing ActiveRecord shouldn't do at all.

You can opt in to preloading with Ecto when you consciously want to make the tradeoff, which I think is a better default approach.
The taxes moral dilemma: the duty to contribute vs the duty not to finance corruption.

Context: I live in a very corrupted country.

Rich or not, what is the right thing to do?
Phone numbers are not secret. These service ask for it mostly to be sure to get the right one (checking is expensive) and/or to have plausible deniability of your contentment when they abuse it later.
I had a company phone about 6 or 7 years ago for a company I worked for at the time. When I was on my way out they unilaterally revoked my company-provided cellphone after convincing me I should get rid of my old private number for theirs.

I'll never do that again. It happened shortly after ditching social media and I just about all of my contact info and I haven't been in touch with some old friends because of that since then.

Even if you had the time to transfer your contacts, etc, something will inevitably get missed.

Hell, I've updated family and friends to an email address I've been using for closer to a decade and they still email the old one...
he deleted is signal account already
This is very strange. I definitely have a phone number associated with a facebook account because at some point in the past I used FB 2FA. I have not deleted that number. I have tried it in several different formats, including + country code, leading country code, with and without dashes and I am getting "Good news" message.
Throwaway account.

I currently reside in the UK, and am in the upper %'s of earners (no idea on the actual %), but my company of which I am the sole shareholder currently does around $450k profit per month.

With the planned corporation tax rises that the government has just announced, it means that the majority of my income will be effectively taxed at > 53% (corporation tax + dividend tax). I also pay the government already around $200,000 per month via VAT on my goods sold. I'll get 47c for every $1 earnt.

I understand that I'm a higher earner, and therefore naturally am going to be paying high taxes, but paying over 50% just seem wrong.

I am in a few circles with other sizable business owners, and after this tax hike many of us are now moving abroad (Malta, Monaco & Italy are the top options).

I'm currently in the process of relocating to Monaco, which although I would prefer to continue to reside in London, I simply am unwilling to pay 7 figures per year to do so.

I do wonder how much tax is lost due to people dodging/hiding or relocating, vs if the tax rates were more "reasonable"?

I understand my opinion here is probably biased, just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.
Broadly speaking, active safety systems in any industry are generally considered less reliable than passive ones due to things like software bugs, unforeseen circumstances, malicious tampering, power outages, etc.
Based on the prices here: http://www.heliny.com/

it's plausible, since only the first ride is $99. Travel time is correct too:

http://www.newyorkhelicopter.com/airport-transfers/
How old are you? This Reminds of what we thought the future would look like in the 80s.

I’d totally buy a reasonably priced car with this aesthetic.
the entire design of unix is realized in a moment when a motherboard is seen as a network.
I know no good math teachers. Most math teachers pre-college don't know the material themselves. I still don't know why something is "efficient with" (a coefficient). And every time I try to get into any math there's 79 unspecified prerequisites I supposedly need to understand all the jargon. 3blue1brown is preaching to the choir AFAIK. I get lost trying to watch his videos as they also expect you already know the material.
Let some reverse marketing lose:

Cybertruck: Not Your Urban Cowboy’s Truck
So then you just need explosive bolts, right?
Through the usual software analysis methods (reverse engineering, static and dynamic analysis, ...)
Here is an /r/apple thread on the issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/dy7c9l/16_inch_macbo...
Surf Air for helicopters!
Right, they don't own any aircraft or facilities. It's like uber pool for helicopters
Krugman's response in a letter to Business Insider. Business Insider was asking him about that quote and about his recent commentary on Bitcoin.

Well, two things.

First, look at the whole piece. It was a thing for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary, written as if by someone looking back from 2098, so the point was to be fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting; I mean, there are lines in there about St. Petersburg having more skyscrapers than New York, which was not a prediction, just a thought-provoker.

But the main point is that I don't claim any special expertise in technology -- I almost never make technological forecasts, and the only reason there was stuff like that in the 98 piece was because the assignment required that I do that sort of thing. The issues about Bitcoin, however, are not technological! Everyone agrees that it's technically very sweet. But does it work as money? That's a very different kind of question.

And the fact that people are throwing around my 98 quote actually shows that they don't get this point -- that they're confusing technology with monetary economics. -- Krugman, Business Insider Letter [http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-inte...]
Agreed, arrogating Émile Zola's battle cry for yourself is in my view overreaching. On the other hand, as Wikipedia notes, "J'accuse! has become a common expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful", so I think it has become more generic, and doesn't contain the implicit accusation of anti-semitism anymore.

> wouldn't we expect it to actually lead to worse results then that of other countries?

It might take many years to manifest itself (at university, PISA study, etc.), though. As such, an early warning by a practitioner that has first hand experience with what's happening in schools right now strikes me as valuable.
This is very very impressive ! This reminds me the efforts to reverse-engineer Super Mario 64 that led to SM64 PC (and looking forward to the Zelda Ocarina of Time reverse!)
Scala and XTend were being hyped the same way.

If Google wasn't playing dirty, they would have kept updating Android Java to be in line with Java, and let the developers choose.

Instead, they purposely stagnate Android Java on a Java 8 subset, let the Android marketing machine push Kotlin over Medium articles, Twitter blog posts, YouTube Android developers channel, Android developer blog posts, MAD training material.

And lets not forget the role of JetBrains, having had a role replacing Eclipse with InteliJ in what concerns Android Studio, now they even dropped support for Eclipse on their Kotlin support, as they are quite open that they want to use Kotlin to drive InteliJ license sales.

Kotlin is just another flavour of CoffeeScript in what concerns the JVM.
Thanks for the input. No idea if he does this with other members. WFH environment makes it difficult. Sure. Will have a 1:1
> But the company also knows the former employee (likely) isn't as aggressively courted by other companies which can pay well, so they feel they can pay that person less.

The corollary is that if you can reliably find and hire such people you’ll have a massive competitive advantage.
This may be very dependent on individual class composition too. I was always a nerd, and can say my school experience was very nerd-inclusive, bully-exclusive. I attribute this to the strong girl groups in my class who seemingly had a rather clear sense of what's right and ethical. Any bullying was shot down very quickly.

As a caveat, it could of course be that someone else in my class had a completely different experience of the same events.
It wasn't at the same time. It was approximately at the same time, but parent is right: it _started_ with the handover to municipalities, the privatisation was a few years later
No, blockchains are not the future, they are really the reason why one transaction can happen at a time in the whole world.

Even Ethereum 2.0 will have shards which will do away with this anomaly. The only reason flash loans even work with no collateral is because you can be sure nothing else is running on the “world computer” while your transaction runs, so you can roll it back with no risk except gas fees. Vitalik himself acknowledges this, the guy is quite honest and straightforward about its limitations:

Vitalik Buterin: Using Ethereum is expensive, and its blockchain is ‘almost full’ He also said blockchain's 'problem' is that every computer verifies every transaction

Actually blockchains are a first-generation technology that do global consensus for every block, which literally means all transactions in the world must go through one computer in the world (the miner) although it’s a different one each time. And the situation is actually worse, since you don’t know who would mine the next block in advance, every transaction must be sent to every potential miner! Imagine if BitTorrent had every computer store and seed every movie instead of using DHT.

The ability to send or loan arbitrarily large amounts for a fixed fee is a symptom of centralization. In a fully distributed network, transaction fees would have to be proportional to transaction size!

Almost every other protocol on the Internet does not have such bottlenecks in its design. No one asks how many emails or websites can be served per second. Blockchain is trying to secure every transaction using the entire network! That is why so much electricity is wasted just to do 7 transactions per second. The next generation of crypto will actually be able to power payments using embarrasingly parallel architecture. Until then, we have blockchain.

Ethereum is nicknamed the “world computer” for a reason. Gas fees are super high for small transactions like paying for coffee or voting in a secure election. Just one app KryptoKitties can clog up the entire network.

As one example, we built Intercoin apps on top of Ethereum (https://intercoin.org/applications) but we are not going to wait around for Ethereum 2.0 - which is blockchain also. Kik Messenger and others have long gotten off. Ripple, MaidSAFE and Solana use different technologies.
>There is no challenge in that.

While smile is also impressive, I think you are unfairly downplaying tom7's work. While it uses bigger instruction set, it never executes any non-printable instruction at all.
This is wrong (or at least incomplete) for the same reasons as the commonly heard "Businesses don't like Free Software". Yes, some businesses, usually the entrenched incumbents don't want free markets or free software, but the up and coming businesses that are trying to compete with those interests often need them to make any headway at all.
> I understood that;

You understood that you were making an ad hominem argument that was misleading?

> but the fact that these are the type of entities that supported this enterprise is telling enough.

I note that you didn't bother to tell us who supported the other side....

Wouldn't that also be "telling enough"?
Why is there no need for the snark? Do you think there is never a need for snide remarks? Choosing to use fonts that don't render well as your body font deserves contempt! It is bad for the people reading the site, and it's bad for the site owner.

It's neat and all that it's finally possible to use more fonts in webpages, but this is one trend that should be avoided until someone (Microsoft or the browser makers) figures out how to do the text rendering correctly.
I have been in your position a few times before - not with wanting to switch languages though. My experience is that if you're asking people whether it's time to quit, then it's time to quit.
What would you say constitutes good pay in California?
In a free market society, there would be no such thing as a powerful lawmaker. By saying that many politicians are incapable of resisting corruption, you are making an argument for severely limiting the power of the government.
It could also be that if she knew what Alexander knew, she'd only become more disgusted than she already is.
I'd assume that the power grid is much more vulnerable than that at least some of the time in some regions. What if due to natural load variations the network already is close to the capacity reserve (which could be measured by tracking AC phase) when somebody mounts an overload attack?

What happens if the attacker generated a (e.g. periodic) pattern of load changes that excites control mechanisms at their resonant frequency?

Maybe the book "Blackout" [1] (which I haven't read myself) has more (fictional) details about what can go wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(Elsberg_novel)
How do you find those though?
I'm speaking of posts that I see from friends.

I'm sympathetic to the problems of algorithms mediating what's seen; I'm often annoyed at the ways feeds are put together myself. I'm especially annoyed that the former feature enabling you to look at a feed of specific lists of friends seems to have fallen by the wayside.

That's distinct from the issue of whether FB is systematically demoting / hiding posts by keyword, and there's evidence that they're not doing it based off the keywords you specified.
reading a bit about him and the hack (which at some point was for example blamed on those Israeli brothers with connections to IDF hacking unit) i kind of not sure that he is the hacker ( and note that he is charged with laundering not hacking) - he in my view better fits the profile of the "investor"/"fencer" whose involvement would be to launder.

Sidenote: one of the reasons i don't touch crypto is possible laundering charge/suspicion if the tokens happens to had passed through unsavory hands/situation (which may be even unknown at the time) or God forbid 2-3 transactions after me the tokens get involved in terrorism/etc. - imagine as a minimum for example the "FBI background check" hell your GC/etc. will be stuck forever ...
Purely anecdotal, but I know a bunch of "right leaning" people who are completely done with the bullshit and share Mozilla's sentiment. You may be speaking for fewer people than you realize.
There's also a difference on a brand new user installing the app compared to an existing user downloading on their new device that Santa bought them.
I don't mean a network backup. I mean a device-to-device data transfer, for which the device passphrase and the Signal PIN together should be sufficient.

(Also, your Signal PIN can be an alphanumeric passphrase.)
That argument is as valid as the argument that I should jump off a cliff because the rest of society is doing it.
I feel like in this economically connected world, that would be a sort of global politics suicide. It would be one of the few acts that would likely galvanize... everyone. The leaders of those nations would be pariahs in a way that even a nation like N. Korea is not.

For the nation's without a vaccine, the leaders there likely would be quite motivated to act and enjoy a great deal of support at home.
Definitely cute, short and playful. It has the downside that "toot" is also used as a more polite, kid-friendly word for fart. Though I do love the thought of hearing a newscaster saying something like "Breaking news: President Trump has just tooted, and critics are calling it inappropriate and disgusting."
I would say the assumption of correctness is a "if you are so smart why aren't you rich" sort of heuristic.

Essentially if you knew that and that it was wrong then it would lead to massive arbitrage opportunities.

Personally I believe that treating value in terms of "should" is asking the wrong question. The actual questions are chains.

* What is the current production cost?
Can we do better?
* What does it cost to produce production if we can?
How long does it take to get it producing?
* Can anything substitute for it acceptably?
Here is are a couple:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r...
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/c...

Would be interested to hear of more also.
And if they have to assume it isn't water then why not handle it as such? As it stands now they have bins for travelers to discard their potential explosives (water bottles) in.
Eh? The Brexit Party Ltd is a limited company, not a political party. They are acting like a political party, but they are a limited company, regardless. See, for instance, the fact that Farage is their immutable leader - he himself has explicitly stated that there will be no leadership contests within the party, as it is not a party, and he is the Person with Significant Control, with a 60% shareholding, with four anonymous individuals or organisations holding the remaining 40%.

It is absolutely a for-profit.

They have no party members, other than the three members of the Ltd co - their supporters are merely subscribers. They have no voting power, unlike in political parties.

Here’s their entry in companies house, which makes this explicit - you’ll find no such entry for, say, the Conservative and Unionist Party, or the Labour Party, or the Liberal Democrats, as they are political parties, not companies.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11694875/officers

So, no, they shouldn’t be a .org, it’s misleading, just as it has evidently mislead you.

Frankly, I find it extremely worrying that a private company stands to potentially govern. Will their accountability lie with the public, or their shareholders?
> Even more disturbing were tools for potential terrorism, such as cell phone signal jammers.

More likely self-defense for teachers /s
> To folks saying to “Just use server logs”, it’s simply too hard to connect the dots unless you really know what you’re doing.

No it's not, just stop overarchitecting your stuff.

> Digging through my nginx logs to find that the majority of my users are dropping off at the second step of sending an invoice would be nearly impossible. Oh I could connect those logs to my api’s database, now I need a place to aggregate that data together. Maybe I could send all of that data together to elasticsearch and query with kibana. Now I need to learn how To set those things up.

You can log requests/responses however you want on your server, it doesn't have to be an nginx log. Just put whatever request data that matters to you into your database immediately after you send a response.

> Or I could use Matomo for some analytics real quick

"Not being a jerk to my website visitors is too hard."
What's the huge objection to client-side tracking over server-side tracking?
IMO I suppose as long as you brief them afterward and reassure them, maybe even counsel them, then the individual ethics come back in line.

But this is a pretty important study I'd say, almost on par with the Stanford prison experiment for "pop" awareness.
But it's not a graphing calculator and also presumably nonprogrammable.
Presumably IG is optimizing for something different than what you as a user would be optimizing for. Possible candidates would be “engagement” or sad impressions or clicks. As a user you probably don’t care to maximize how many ads you see or even how much you use the app. You just want to see things that interest you. And of course there’s absolutely no reason why IG would optimize for that.
Emacs is almost infinitely tweakable, but it's also very stable, so your tweaks tend to have long-term value. This seems to go against the grain of most nontechnical software, like Firefox or Microsoft Windows, where there is no stable UI and new versions typically break customizations with no recourse.
As an Austria I feel deeply ashasmed for that practice. Even more so as the origonal owner, Meinl himself, is known as a snobbish pile of dung.

Ironically, for many years and after WWII Meinl run a grocery store chain which provided daily necessities for the regular people.
Maybe I overstated my case, then. I am not familiar with the author beyond this piece. This piece, though, shows a very deep disdain for anyone who could be considered conservative and blatantly makes the case for statism. So, perhaps they are not left-wing, merely a statist.

I tend to think there are more than one way to skin a cat, and statism is not automatically the correct answer. Their direct statements disagree.
Indeed, I would imagine that well written Julia is on par with LuaJIT.

Even more importantly, from a cursory look online I cannot find any Lua implementation of either the Mittag-Leffler function or Inverse Laplace routines. And there is no reference to any wider ecosystem of scientific computing packages.

Sure I could call some C functions but then I'm back to facing a 2-language problem which I don't want.

Furthermore, it looks like there has been no new releases of LuaJIT since 2017. Development on it looks to have stopped.
True, just in this case we just went with Mac because we used it personally. Windows might actually have been easier because macOS gets increasingly restrictive (e.g. with Catalina). Nevertheless, glad we made it and we'll do our best to support all major OSes.
Thanks! A referral program is a good idea. I forgot about how excellent that worked for dropbox