skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for me here in Australia, Google AdSense ads aren't obnoxious.

Below is the result of a quick scan of a few websites in private mode. I wonder why OP has such a different experience? Maybe the ad market in South Africa is very different? Or maybe GroundUp hasn't spent the necessary time to filter out bad ads?

----- New York Times:

Cycling clothing

Microsoft Enterprise

Health Insurance

Avoid overeating

Mortgage

----- Forbes:

Unfair Dismissal Lawyers

'JobActive' - Aust govt ad for employment service

Cancer council Australia - funding drive

Commonwealth bank Australia

----- Bloomberg:

Doesn't seem to use AdSense

----- Fox News:

Save the children (charity)

Find best debit card

Business Travel saver
Compound literals are outside of C++ standard. However GCC for example supports them, but a bit differently [0].

$ cat foobar.c
#include <stdio.h>

struct foo {
int x;
int y;
};

int foobar(struct foo *f)
{
return f->x + f->y;
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
(void)argc; (void)argv;

printf("%d\n", foobar(&(struct foo){10, 20}));
return 0;
}
$ gcc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99 foobar.c -o foobar && ./foobar
30
$ g++ -Wall -Wcast-align -Wextra -pedantic foobar.c -o foobar && ./foobar
foobar.c: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
foobar.c:17: warning: ISO C++ forbids compound-literals
foobar.c:17: warning: taking address of temporary
30
$ # taking address of temporary means that it's undefined behavior

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html
Well it was meant to be humour, I guess it's wasted here.
I'm not super familiar with Cello (and I'm not sure I get the point of it overall, are there that many platforms left that you can target from C but not C++?) but in its defense it does seem to implement fat pointers and runtime checks to have a degree of type safety. Not sure how thorough it is but it's not just decaying everything to void pointers behind the scenes.

It's a pretty clever hack though, like using setjmp for exception handling. I'm pretty sure I'd never want to use that in production anywhere but it was probably fun to implement.
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Our brain isn't a computer. That's the most recent metaphor we've used to try and make sense of the three pound organ in our heads.
Except on Wikipedia, where words get disambiguated and wikilinked, slowly encouraging people towards a shared vocabulary and understanding. Robots are machines, androids are artificial people, bots are software, robo- is just a general neologism for new concepts. Nobody's hijacked robot, just derived new terms.
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I think it's the clandestine computer building and network setup people are impressed by.
and no negotiation, which would both establish whether there was a real situation and whether it could be de-escalated without violence.
After using types in Idris, types in Haskell feel like a step backwards...
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"I'm sorry, what do you think I'm avoiding discussing?"

Any observations you might have had in your life, or social education, or exposure to media or academic reports, that it is not an uncommon occurrence for people to resort to uninformed outrage on exposure to rumor, propaganda, and other such low-information sources.

"No need to infer, I told you this in a comment above."

I skimmed the fairly voluminous text again, and didn't catch a concrete reference, so mea culpa if true.
In my younger years I once put my (soft) contacts on the desk next to the bed in the hostel I was staying in. The next morning they had turned into wrinkly rock-hard bits of plastic. I massaged them with water for a while and put them in. It hurt like hell, but it 'worked'.

I like to think I'm less stupid these days, and I'm thankful my eyes seem to be doing fine.
Such as experiments in economics and sociology?
The key difference between your car and YouTube is that YouTube (or Facebook or Twitter) makes part of new media that has reach far enough for commentary published on it to shape public discourse. This is especially big thing within young democracies for which new media is de facto mainstream media.

Our markets are usually regulated to make sure monopolies don't arise, and if they do, they may be forced to downscale, split or open market for competition.

This is not the case with major social media sites, that answer only to the mighty dollar.
Yes, they come from the same proto-indo-european root! The word is still slavic, since that's how the proto-indo-european root changed in the territories inhabited by slavic people, as opposed to the changes that happened in latin. Same how "arbeit" is germanic. If you go back long enough, German, Italian and Czech are the same language, but that doesn't mean that modern classification of differences isn't relevant.
I put together a few every week for technologies that I like:

* Programming Digest – https://programmingdigest.net/

* C# Digest – https://csharpdigest.net/

* Elixir Digest – https://elixirdigest.net/

* React Digest – https://reactdigest.net/

I hope that a few people find them useful and they save them time.
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The solution to this - for PINs and passwords at least - is to scramble the keyboard layout. It's slow, but if you're typing in a 6-digit PIN it doesn't take that long.
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They should be immediately released and then hired. Apparently the prison system needs their skills.
People should realize that Ad-blocking became a way of protecting users from malware and scam that even Google includes in their system. I understand that they do their best to remove these sort of things but they are doing a shitty job.
Bash is merely a Unix shell, one of many. What you describe is the GNU/Linux userland.

They are working on people being able to execute unmodified Linux binaries on Windows machines through an Application Binary Interface that implements the Linux system calls and translates them into Windows system calls, among other things... and doing it in the most transparent way possible (not requiring specific builds of each software, like Cygwin).

This is the inverse operation of what WINE does.

No need to rush to downvote a comment that is actually correct.
I'm not saying that those money are peanuts but it doesn't compare to what they were doing (are?) with software licenses. Maybe they plan to cannibalize the desktop with subscription services and Azure.

I see things they could do with a WSL+Azure integration but I don't want to give them the idea :-) Anyway, they are collectively smarter than me (and more focused on their businesses) so they'll already thought about that for sure. That's why I'm somewhat worried.
Yep! Always a bit of fun when someone goes to use my laptop for an end-of-sprint presentation and types a bunch of gibberish infront of all the stakeholders :D
I thought you were joking, but I came across this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass#Tachyonic_particles_and_i...

and was surprised that a plausible notion of imaginary mass exists.
I have switched to WSL pretty exactly a month ago after using solely Ubuntu for about 6 years.
So far it works like a charm. The only small problem i have had was the network interface problem with nodejs (which should be solved with the new WSL). But that can be circumvented by simply running node.exe instead.
The reason for the switch was: windows in great for everything UI, bash is great for everything development.
Sorry if I am misunderstanding the concept. What is the benefit of your service vs simply putting up a PayPal donate button on the site?
Thanks very much for your comment. I hope you go and do it soon. I'd love to hear about your experiences when you do.
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Why is my observation relevant to your claim? Isn't your claim that there's "a ton of ill-informed bandwagon outrage against Uber" backed up by your own evidence? What evidence, and who are you referring to?
You'll make death come later if you adjust your lifestyle. Sport + nutrition + good sleep = better energy day-to-day and better health -> aging slower.
After 15 years with Ubuntu, I've only ever seen problems when people switched default Ubuntu packages with their own (back in the day it was often beryl, compiz or drivers).
At least here in EU the SWAT member and whole chain would go through a rigourous disciplinary action to determine why the police was shooting at someone innocent and how to prevent it.

Is this going to be the case in UK as well?
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A few years ago, I wrote a parser for some data in a loosely structured format. Its input was a google doc and its output was html, ready for copy+pasting into our CMS. The writers who produced the input took to calling it a 'robot' and the term stuck. As the sole 'technical' person in the company, I just had to suck it up and accept this horrendous misuse of the term. Unfortunately, it's not the only instance of this kind of thing; if you're a programmer working in a team consisting solely of non-programmers, you end up developing a pretty thick skin for all sorts of stuff, of which iceberg, language misuse is just the tip!
You're asking for evidence, and I believe you've seen plenty of evidence because of your being on the internet and being informed enough of the issues to make the complaints and insinuations you have; however, you're not admitting that any evidence presented is admissable, and are not providing any counterpoints. That's why your observations are relevant, because you seem to be pleading the 5th.

Also, this is another false representation:

"Isn't your claim that there's "a ton of ill-informed bandwagon outrage against Uber" backed up by your own evidence?"

That is not my claim, and your repetitious insistence of such reveals an intentionality that, shall I state it cordially, makes this game not fun.
The new Pi Zero W with Wifi and Bluetooth would be even better...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero-w/
I've also been using Cygwin for 10 years now. It's a bit annoying to install and update it, but it's far from a nightmare :)

Just run the setup.exe, click through the 5-10 pages and that's about it.

To update package, just run the setup.exe, click through the 5-10 pages and that's about it :)

Or use this: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg (I haven't needed so far, but I've read good reviews about it)

Regarding "crash prone", it used to be a bit unstable in the early days of XP, but almost all of them were due to failed updates. And that's where you needed to know a bit of magic, the "rebaseall" thing mentioned by barrkel. I haven't had to do that in a long time.

It's a lot more solid that people think it is. I wouldn't run production servers with it (even though I know folks that do...), but for desktop use it's quite robust.
Just throw them out as needed. There is no shortage of appropriate dump sites, and consumer recycling across the board is only marginally worth it at best.

https://www.bustle.com/articles/125641-is-recycling-worth-it...

(Ignore the buzzfeed-worthy title. The links within are good.)

The only consumer-side materials worth recycling as things stand are aluminum, paper, & cardboard. Everything else takes more energy to recycle than it saves.

(not counting specific, specialty recycling needs like lead-acid batteries or electronics. These cost significant money to recycle, but are done so for environmental reasons.)
Is npm down?
Running `npm whoami` and getting `registry error parsing json`. Anyone else seeing this?

Status page isn't showing anything. We're also seeing "no healthy backends" errors.

Edit: Back up.
> it is unlikely that life on Earth (or perhaps in general) is relevant to It.

Agreed. However, should there be an afterlife, then it had better not be found lest it suffer my eternal wrath.
> - Always enable --noImplicitAny and --strictNullChecks. Without these flags, the type system is barely better than using JS.

This is exactly what I did and it's the main reason I keep dropping TypeScript because I 'need to get shit done'!

It's good advice though, and I would definitely advise new TypeScript users (especially those unfamiliar with type systems) to at least try it. But if it results in giving up and going back to just js, it might be worth going with the 'barely better' approach and only enable those flags if you're more comfortable with TypeScript.
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Why would I post proprietary code in your app? I don't know about your security measures.
"Revolutionary, disruptor or change agent" also matches Genghis Khan, Joseph Stalin, and various other assholes throughout history.

Disruption is all fun and games when it stays within business context. When all you play with are abstract spending points on your bank account. When you breach that, when you start to disrupt law and social order, that pretty much always end in tears and blood for many, many people. You don't do that unless you're very, very careful or the goal is extremely important. You definitely don't root for assholes who don't give a flying fuck about society, and want to mess things up only to line up their pockets.

Uber is literally behaving like evil megacorp since almost day one. Why people would root for that is something I can't really comprehend. You don't cheer the plunderers that came to the village just because they just slaughtered the neighbour you didn't particularly like - because when they're done with him, they'll come for you.
The SWAT event was by an American SWAT team, in the USA.

The UK angle is that the guy who made the false report lives in the UK and made the call from the UK.
It's a joke because we argued a lot in that thread about electron success despite the quality of it.
The interesting bit of WSL (what the article talks about) is a Linux syscall translation/emulation layer, as well as ELF64 binary support (not specific to Linux, but not specific to GNU either). You can certainly install the Linux versions/ports of GNU tools and run them under WSL, and that's what the stock setup looks like, but an important component of WSL is about emulating a Linux (the kernel) environment.

If MS had actually ported the GNU base system to NT, then you could reasonably call it GNU/NT. They have not done that.
I have actual machines that I was able to flawlessly upgrade from 4.10 to 17.04. Can't say that about Windows. Though I did actually know what I shouldn't mess with if I want the upgrade to go through (or fix before).
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That's also due to blatantly breaking local laws. They can afford to be cheaper, because they ignore the laws other players have to follow.
It’s inheritance that is immoral, not inheritance tax
Assuming it's the same kind of "rubber bullets" used to neutralize riots, it's completely unsuitable for breaching houses. The min-range is impossible to keep to start with.
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Millions of innocent people are at risk of having their home invaded, being beaten, shot, even killed by this small private army after a prank phone call and you talk about wasting resources?

In various other countries half of the swat company would be in prison after this.
It's all fine if the files you're sharing are in the Windows filesystem. If they're in the Linux filesystem the same restrictions still apply.
What's more disturbing is that there reportedly was contact/a conversation between the SWAT team and the residents, which the team then ignored:

Officers reportedly ignored his father, Tom, and his cousin telling
them there was no hostage situation and that the so-called hostage taker
was actually asleep.
A fascinating article, thank you for sharing!
I'm trying to get to the bottom of what your claim is, and if you think it has any relevance to this Uber situation, and if so, why. I'm not trying to upset you.

I've seen plenty of things on the internet. How is what I've seen on the internet relevant to your broad claims about society at large and more specifically, Uber?

>some of the uninformed bandwagon outrage against Uber, and similar backlash against that outrage, stems from the root issues I brought up.

So is your claim that there's "a ton" of uninformed bandwagon outrage, or only a little? What amount are we talking about?
I've had one due to dropping some stucco into my eye when working on a ceiling, before I realized what happened my eye had rotated causing some pretty deep scratches. Both extremely painful and took surprisingly long to heal.
To me the biggest problem with Adsense is that I can not place the ad code to "modern" pages with ajax-loaded content.
How are they a worse taxi mafia? They provide more convenient service with fewer ripoffs and far less racism at lower prices.

As a consumer, what exactly should I be angry about?
Anything dev.

People in computing don't care that much about your background if you are skilled. You can even work remotely for/from companies in another country.

And the good news is, good devs are rare, but the demand for them keep increasing. So if you become productive and reliable with a pinch of people skills, you are pretty much guarantied to have a job in the next 20 years. And probably a good one.
Free and unlimited 'Slack' is Bitrix24. Smart people switched years ago.
It's not real negative mass, which would imply antigravity and the possibility of wormholes and time travel.

It's an experiment designed to highlight a quirky but much less interesting quantum effect.

They're light years apart - metaphorically, if not quite literally.
Legal and pushed for by the "prison industry", which has lobbyists in place to keep punishments high, tolerance low, and their low/no-wage workforce in place - whilst also getting paid by the government for housing inmates (and they send fines to government if the government doesn't meet their inmate quotas)
It's not the "crappy backoffice culture" that made them win on the market[0]. It's their decision to just ignore local regulations that made them win. Not the "modern approach to dispatching", because - maybe except the US - that wasn't really innovative (taxis in Europe have been doing apps for years now, crappy as they are). Uber could simply afford to be cheaper because they sidestepped or broke every regulation they could. Taxis can't compete if the other guy is not playing by the rules.

--

[0] - I really, really don't get why people only started caring after information about back-office sexism came to light, like if this was the worst thing Uber is doing; it isn't even remotely.
The response to this cannot in good conscience be "oh well, that's how it's supposed to work and there isn't any other way". It's only a matter of time before people get killed this way, and if you're one of the people who say that's an acceptable risk, you're just wrong.

> You can't exactly have a bloke ringing in at the door and asking if there's really an active shooter/hostage

In the context of having just a random phone call to go on, with no other sign that anything may be wrong, yes: you absolutely need to have a bloke ringing the door and asking. If you don't want to send a bloke to check on the situation, there are plenty of equivalent measures available - especially if you're a militarized police force. You can send probes, you can use thermal imaging, you can ring the phones in the house, you can even use a megaphone.

It's clear that storming in and shooting anything that moves without even so much as a thought wasted on assessing whether the individual is a danger shows a blatant disregard for human life, even the lives of hostages.
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Google Ads are shit.

But Mindtree or whatever is worse.

"Millionaire from Worcester makes $100 per hour"
> Even C++ which is a bit safer in practice is harder to link.

Not to go down the C++ evangelist route, but if you want to write libraries in C++ to use with other high level languages, you can wrap the headers in extern "C", and still write C++ as normal in your own code.
Yes, and it's wildly inaccurate as well (even without taking into account that police training is often kept to a minimum so most of them can't aim that well).
"SWAT team use has spiked from around 3,000 strikes per year in 1980 to as many as 80,000 raids a year now. A battering ram or other forced-entry device is used in two-thirds of these raids, nearly 80 percent of which target private homes. The great bulk of SWAT raids are in service of the drug war, though nearly four out of 10 find no contraband at all." https://theweek.com/articles/531458/troubling-rise-swat-team...
Cows produce way more warming gases than our petrol headed cars. Eat less meat!!!
One aspect she doesn't mention is that an inheritance tax on someone that inherits a small business might force them to wind down the business in order to pay the tax. That deserves some attention.

Otherwise fully agree with the article.
I'd go for a life of crime if it meant building a computer could get me out that easily.

I mean come on, it's not rocket science to build a computer out of parts, and nobody should be pardoned for that kinda skill without considering why they were put in jail in the first place.
I for one am waiting for Uber to finally die, and have been for the past 3 years or so. This is a shitty company led by sociopaths, that has no place in a modern, civilized society. It leaves bad example to follow for future entrepreneurs.

Why Uber is still alive is something that makes me worry about what chances the rule of law has vs. VC money.
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Cows/methane produce more global warming gasses than our petrol headed cars. Eat less meat!!!
Enums are really nothing else than a map string/integer.
Exactly. It's minimalism at it finest.
Yes, I do want to watch Uber burn. I've been waiting for that many years now. The whole sexual harassment is frankly just a tip of the iceberg with them, and not particularly the important one. Breaking laws and abusing people is their business model, and this needs to stop.
I actually don't think it was so bad, in fact I kind of credit Kalanick on engaging with the driver, he could have just asked him to STFU and drive.

The worst part about that situation is that the driver made an excellent point: "You have the business model in your hands, but you chose to buy everybody a free ride!"
See this comment, which has sources refuting your claim that "most" are non-violent drug offences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14095968
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