skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought was "cryptocurrency is fundamentally not investment but speculation they don't create anything of value but squander vast ammounts. Second is that it is multileveled frustration that both phone systems are so damn insecure like the completely insecure call identification - while international efforts to track down telefraud rings are well and good a proper system would prevent most of their tricks.
In another thread last week, someone mentioned that 1-based indexing is more common in numerical analysis, so it has appeal for languages that are "math focused". Anyone have insight on that?

As far as I can recall, I've seen both 0 and 1-based indexing in statistics.
"he wealthy simply leave (because they can afford to), and let place that they set on fire burn to the ground,"

There was a movie while ago where the rich people lived in space in beautiful habitats, had technology that could heal anybody while the rest had to labor on Earth under terrible conditions. Don't remember the name but maybe the move isn't that fictitious.
What if - and believe me this is a hypothetical - but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program?
And then increase it again by arguing that AT&T should never have made it possible for employees to do this.
Yes, but my point was that the solution is to use a closed range instead; in this case, use `i <= 255` as the loop condition. Another solution, of course, is to widen the type of your induction variable.
“You’re holding it wrong”
The answer is open shop unionization. The US is closed shop, which means you can only have one choice of union, take it or leave it.

With open shops, the unions have to compete for your membership so they actually have to do stuff in your interest, or you can make your own union to replace them.

With closed shop, you get stuff like the UAW pushing for pay caps on graduate students (really).
Sorry if this comes off as snarky, but how is this different than recipes?
> […] function returning an error, you see how the error is handled.

In practice you only see that errors get returned immediately. Most functions rightly give up rather than trying to handle errors because they don't know exactly how or where they're being (re)used.
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Nobody is suggesting there's anything magical here.

We're seeing increasing profits, increasing wages for high level management, and static wages for most employees.

The second isn't an intrinsic issue itself, but we don't have just the second, we have all three, and _that_ is the problem. If profits and wages were both stagnant, then we would be having a different problem, but that isn't the world we live in. We live in the world where profits are going up, and all of it is going to people other than the workers.
I think now that unions are disappearing and people in jobs that used to be unionized see their wages and benefits decrease, those people are slowly realizing unions are still doing heroic and great things for their members.

Too many people just assumed workers financial situations would continue to improve without unions, which is not really turning out to be true.
In one sense that's not a problem - in most cases the same body passing these laws could make new construction entirely lawful. But it does point at a root problem - that there's a meaningful chunk of the population that more-or-less wants things overpriced.
As someone who has had to do tech support for family members, I can tell you right now that anyone who cannot Google "How to Install Unsigned Drivers in Windows 10" and then follow the directions _does not need to be using an unsigned driver._
Hmm, I don't think you could say that. Wayland restricts a lot more what clients can do.
Well exactly, what would be a good comparison here? Why mention heavy long-term abuse of MDMA (which is I think very unusual compared to heavy abuse of alcohol) in an article about MDMA treatment? The MAPS PTSD protocol involves, if I remember correctly, in all cases under 20 doses of MDMA in the whole life, mostly much less.
I expect most counting for loops are one of two types: 'count from A to B inclusive' and 'count N numbers starting from M'.

We commonly have syntax for the first, or sometimes some variant of it designed to avoid the `-1' in the common case, at the cost of complicating some other cases. It's also common to have some rather over-general iterating mechanism called "for" that covers both, or tries to.

But I don't think I've ever seen anything special for the second, for some reason. And the iteration counter and the loop value could have different types - so you could count 128 int8_t values if you wanted. Though in most cases you'd just use it as a replacement for "for(i=m;i<m+n;++i) {do stuff with i}" or "(for i=0;i<n;++i) {do stuff with m+i}".

(One possible exception: the ancient 1980s computer I used as a boy had two syntaxes for saving blocks of memory. You could enter the range as "A B" (save from A to B inclusive), or as "M+N" (save N bytes starting from M).)
The messages on them are very honest and refreshing. I just hope your ideas won't be copied by the mainstream card producers and that you will benefit from your creativity.
I feel that when I eliminate forms of entertainment from my life or impose limits I can often go too far and then swing back in the other direction.

Your comment seems to indicate you manage your vices similarly. Do you also recede back into them or has this not been a problem for you?
I don't know if Protonmail do this or not, but presumably you could supply the javascript part of your web application as a browser plugin, which would render it immune to attacks on the server.
https://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/25/mars-colonies-rich-peopl...
Yes, we actually can get yearly bonuses though they are minimal and tied to the performance rating process and tenure to the agency (at least at my agency). For those that are interested, I’d check out the General Schedule pay scales on the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) website. OPM is the agency responsible for providing guidance to federal agencies on all matters related to HR. OPM’s pay scales: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

However, some agencies have gotten special permission from Congress to use another pay scale which was designed to allow agencies to pay for performance rather than guaranteed raises over time. Though I’ve heard that it doesn’t always work the way it was intended. I was actually initially offered a lot lower salary at another agency that used the pay for performance than my current agency that uses the General Schedule scale.

For general reference: GS-7: B.A./B.S. and GS-9: Master’s.

For all intelligence positions, you are required to pass and maintain a Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information clearance which takes about a year these days due to backlog. This hinders the agencies ability to recruit top talent. I recommend checking out the SF-86 Questionnaire for National Security Positions if you want to see what all is asked.

Right now, I could switch to the private sector and make a lot more than I am making now. But I stay because I believe in the mission and work of my agency. I get to do things that I would never get to do in the private sector. Maybe one day I will switch but for right now I am staying.
I remember this well. I was a teen game developer then, writing and selling games for the Vic-20 and the C-64. It seems now, looking back, it was the classic cycle of technology advancing faster than people expected. We had fairly popular coin-op arcades filled with teens spending quarters in 1980, and then within two years very low cost home computers like the Vic-20 had pixel perfect versions of a few of the same games. The Atari console and similar had "remakes" of the popular arcade coin-ops, and were only beginning to develop franchises of their own. Then the ColecoVision comes out in '82 with pixel perfect versions of every single Namco and Nintendo arcade coin-op, plus expansion hardware gave it first Atari computer compatibility, and then it's own computer branded the Atom. These developments basically caused all the arcades to close, between their reputations as "seedy" places for teens and the sudden flood of previously coin-op titles being easy to play at home, they lost their audience.

There was a lot of entrepreneurial game development in this period, and a lot of really bad games. The market was saturated, the quality was not nearly as high as during the coin-op prime, not enough revenues were being recovered by the major players, and the market collapsed soon after '83. The market seemed to move past games. Computers like the Mac were released.

Only one company seemed to be quietly persevering with a steady stream of quality titles: Nintendo.
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> Netflix has stacks of local market competition in every local market. They're just not companies Americans know of.

I'm in the UK and I can't really think of any serious competition they have here. Maybe Amazon, but I don't know anybody who's talking about Amazon Prime originals.
It’s also worth remembering that the people who designed the Constitution had to actually convince the various states to join in and accept the end result. There may have been a better way to structure the resulting nation, but if too many states didn’t like it then you wouldn’t have a nation in the first place.
I'm not aware of any underground (or above ground) system that has a 30 second headway unless you're talking about a gondola which is more close to the capacity that this system can handle.

Yes, trains can hold more, but that's not the point of this system. If you build a 1500 person train, you now have to build the stations and platforms to accommodate those kinds of crowds.
That's a relief. That MRI would have been worthless once your helium supply ran out.
It's worth noting that the '83 game crash was really a United States phenomenon - Europe and Japan's industries got along just fine during that time period.
possible duplicate of yesterday's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17768877
I'm old enough to recall the business/philosophical discussions about CEO compensation to favor stock so that the long term interests of the CEO were aligned with the long term interests of the company. When I see profits of the company being piled into buybacks, I think that whole movement failed.
"It seems as though the assumption is that higher pay for bosses comes solely at the expense of line workers."

Yeah, it does. Money given to bosses and shareholders is money not available to pay workers.
From TFA:

> Terpin was the victim of two hacks within seven months

If indeed these were separate occurrences of breaking in through the same phone account—and the article is not definitive on this—then the punitive damages seem quite appropriate. “Fool me twice, shame on me,” and all that.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)

Elysium is the film.
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> A checked exception is just an exception type specification.

A checked exception _requires_ an exception type specification. If you don't handle the exception locally, that is. It's this quality I refer to, when I say checked exceptions are similar to error codes: an API designer, without knowing the full context, requires the call site to do something about it, even if 9/10 call sites could not care less, _especially_ in big projects. Some other commenter linked to this interview [0], which elaborates on that problem.

> With big projects, this strategy is unmanageable.

Clearly, it's possible to have mantainable projects both with and without exception handling.

> You know that programs are not only http handlers, right ?

I find this somewhat condescending, but yes, I do know that. Most programs have system boundaries though, and might recover from quite severe error conditions there.

[0] https://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html
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I can accept bizarre. I think it is safe to say all drugs modify the physiology of the user in some way. The difference is if that change to the body is what induces a craving for more from a cellular level. There is no indication that depressants, as a class, achieve addiction purely in response to cell modification.

You mention cocaine versus opiates. A major difference there is that cocaine doesn't require repeated use to be addictive. It is immediately addictive and may result in drug addiction even many years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_dependence#Risk

Opiates are not immediately physically addictive. It takes repeated dosage for addiction to set in. Typically this is a result of pathological changes resulting in a combination of modified neuron-physiology and adjusted behavior. For depressants to be addictive it seems there must be some manner of behavioral persistence that drives the user to continue consumption in addition to physiological adjustments. If the drug is not immediately addictive the user must then use it repeatedly to build addiction.

There has been research that indicates this is the pattern of addiction for cigarette use even though the primary drug present is nicotine, which is a physically addictive stimulant. While nicotine is physically addictive not everybody who smokes cigarettes becomes a dedicated smoker. It takes more than the physical addiction to nicotine. This has been identified by research as well, and much of that research indicates it is a combination of certain demographics and personality profiles that most likely triggers cigarette addiction. This research indicates these individuals are identifiable and their degree of addiction prevalence is predictable.

While cigarettes are not depressants the point illustrates the difference between a purely physically addictive quality and actual addiction in practice.
> Starting at 1 is more intuitive, and therefore IMO better.

This is totally subjective. Starting at 0 is more intuitive to me.

My intuition is very simple. `x` is the name of some memory location. `x[k]` is the location `k` spaces away from `x`.
With joinmastodon.org you can try to narrow in an instance that meets your interests. I signed up for three to just explore which ones I wanted to be on. One was Mastodon.social which is fairly large, and then two more niche ones. Being able to explore the niche ones for their topics, but knowing I can hop into federated or .social is kind of like utilizing lists.

I think all of this allows you for to more easily just throw a thought out there and get some engagement since your smaller niche instances will have less noise.
The weirdest thing about these parties is some of the gormless employees love them.
You're advocating for admission to a graduate program without an undergraduate degree. It doesn't and shouldn't work that way. Possession of a masters degree indicates you have completed a prescribed course of study.
I'll be flamed or downvoted or both, but food for thought:

After a long time (most of my adult life) as a small-l libertarian believing in the rationality of free markets, the rule of the invisible hand, and heck, the sheer morality of profitability, after seeing what wreckage that has brought to societal institutions, the internet, the environment, and generally speaking, what growthism has done to our ability to plan long-term as a species, as nations, societies, and what selfishness and greed has led us all to, I have gradually come to the conclusion that the world should institute an overall personal wealth cap that specifically targets the people at the top. Concretely, I think that no human should be allowed to have personal assets of more than $~100 million in any way, shape or form.

Yeah, I know, it's unworkable. Unfair! Impossible to enforce! It won't fix our financial mess! It'll suppress growth and innovation! How do you expect people to motivate themselves if they can't make a billion dollars!?

Well I'll humbly submit that anybody who feels driven to earn a billion dollars--that's enough greenbacks that if you thumbed through them, one a second every second of every single day of every day of the year, it'd take you 30 years just to count them--has a severe mental illness called greed. A billion dollars is 100 lifetimes of living 100 years at $100,000/yr living standard. It's just insane to think that we're OK with this because they "earned it". Horseshit. Jeff Bezos's $150 billion is 15,000 lifetimes worth.

Billionaires are accidents. They are artifacts of hierarchy that we endure, cowed, because we don't have stomach to see how empty our souls are and do something about it. No billionaire has ever earned 100 lifetimes of wealth.
Suddenly that Pixies song U Mass makes more sense to me.
Why would they though? This doesn't magically happen and unions didn't magically disappear. There are strong disincentives towards forming unions (i.e. the ability to offshore labor) and as long as those exist, nothing will change.
The cause of the issue of stagnant wages is inequality in pay.

"We took all the increased profits, so there's none left for you."
I actually stopped learning new languages with these features because I started to get so frustrated they weren't available. Or I implemented then am everyone got weirded out by their 'strangeness'
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Well, it doesn't look particularly intuitive, but it can't be worse than YAML.
> It's a different story when you look at your literal neighbor and they have more representation than you.

Jealousy is not a particularly sound or convincing ideological justification.

> And actually, yes, most of this anger is linked to a feeling that people in rural areas have too little representation compared to major population centers, where most people live.

It's worth pointing out that MA is a bit of a special case nationally. In most of the Midwest, for example, the resentment (and power/money) flows the other way.
The web is dead. I think anything interesting in user interfaces is going to come from some other direction.

For instance I wrote something that downloads weather radar ahead of time so I can see something better than what is on TV weather as compared to the many weather radar web sites which practice a form of "responsive design" which means it looks fubar on all browsers all of the time.

I am getting sick of seeing Firefox put up as many boxes as it possibly can for me to X out advertising every cause in the world except the idea that hiring one more intern in San Francisco is doing the devil's work.
Yes! Thanks, I'd forgotten about KHTML blush.

I use Safari by preference and wish Apple would push harder, but perhaps my attitude is a little unfair.
that's a very important point. I've had a number of friends who struggle with addiction (whether alcohol, cigarettes, or other things), and a smaller number of friends who seemed almost entirely impervious to addiction. It's been quite frustrating to find that the latter would simply not understand the former. Some of them would suspend judgment, but others just concluded that those who were addicted simply "didn't try hard enough".

To some extent, I can understand this rather uncharitable conclusion. It's like explaining being in love to someone who hasn't been. Addiction is difficult to explain without having experienced it.

Nonetheless, what makes me side with the addicts, so to speak, and their helplessness, is that when I look at the 'whole' of their person, many of them clearly don't lack willpower or discipline in other areas of their lives. I've either seen the addiction infect the rest of their lives, or seen them being functional, even successful, in other areas despite the addiction. The only conclusion I can draw is that some (most?) people are just unusually susceptible to certain vices.
I don't know, I guess. Listen, I'm gonna go. It's been really nice talking to both you guys.
No it doesn't. Let's define the natural numbers to start with 42. Then the left side of the sequence 42, 43, 44 being represented as 41 < x is unnatural, since 41 is not a natural number.

It's clear that the author structured his essay carefully to avoid this exact assumption. He explicitly avoids considering whether the natural numbers start at 0 or at 1 until after he has chosen "a)".
Yeah, but that's in Germany. They evolved that system over a long period of time, just like we've evolved our current (dysfunctional) system over a long period of time. You can't just change; that's like telling a devout religious person to just stop believing in that religion and adopt a secular worldview. Sure, the German system may work very well according to actual measurable metrics as seen by multiple independent observers, but extremely religious people don't care about evidence and won't change their beliefs because of it. That's where we are as a society.
Not one of the posters in this thread, but I can offer my perspective. I am not anti-union per se, if people want to bargain collectively - let them! The one and only aspect I do not like about the unions is that if I - as an individual - want to work for a unionized corporation, I am obligated to join the union. I understand why it is done this way, but this is something that I find as limiting my freedom.

Disclaimer: apart from my student and TA years, I have never been in unionized industry/hired by a corporation for a unionized position, so I may not know the full reality.
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You can send it patterns in the form of code, but the hardware generates them, so I don't think you need to use WiFi once you've uploaded them.
Thanks, I'd forgotten the KHTML genesis, which is significant :-(
@mods: this is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17775906
Do you mean 100mg / kg, like the parent was talking about? 100mg total would be roughly 1mg / kg for my body weight.
The elite also retreated into their estates, away from the law. This led to perverse insentives where they would withhold fighting men from the state, illegally, as the empire desperately needed men to replenish losses.

There are many parallels to draw, not all are valid given the 1500 year difference, but... Yeah.
how do non FRUs work for onsite service? Do they just replace the whole laptop?
What kinda crappy ass crypto wallet would break if you had access to a cell phone account.
Those could be the reasons but it's probably more likely that it's just a tie-in to the events Stripe just had for female founders.

I guess it would be a bit less confusing if they'd just made the offer to folks that attended the events but it seems quite nice that they didn't.
> It's more he parked it at the dealership

I think the "cash left in the car" part captures the negligence on the cryptocurrency holder's part. One, he explicitly chose to store his wealth in a medium without reversal mechanisms. Two, he used an online account. AT&T bears some blame for his loss, but not a tremendous amount.
Ah, but if you put enough together, they start making more on their own!
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This app isn't safe or effective.
In what situations would a tool like this be useful? Asking honestly. Thanks.
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Not just a social consequence, it affects the business too but it's hard to measure, because you'd need the productivity numbers from an alternate reality. It's similar to problems caused around having less testing. There's nothing to compare to.
Did you actually stop paying for internet? It's something I've been thinking about. Were any parts surprising difficult?
This is a great idea. I wish you well!
I would assume both. That's my experience.