skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of this is the result of parents allowing children to play games unattended with games they themselves have not played to vet? With all things parenting, it ultimately falls on their shoulders on what they allow their kids to do. Not shilling for the slime balls preying on kids knowing parents are lazy, but parents are not blameless.
Ask HN: Which is the highest power USB WiFi adapter certified by FCC?
The distinction between waiving and not-exercising a right is a bit of a gradient, though. Most contracts entail at least one party incurring future obligations. Any of these obligations, by virtue of not existing in the first place, will waive one’s pre-existing rights.

There are legal limits on which contracts are enforceable by law, and perhaps mandatory arbitration should be one of them. But there is always, in principle, the ability to waive one’s rights, because there’s no other logical way to voluntarily incur future obligations.
It's not a client-side-only language. You can and people do write servers with OCaml. Here's a full-stack OCaml/Reason app that demonstrates the state of the art today in tooling and usage: https://github.com/atongen/setml
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I totally agree! My partner is a 7th grade science teacher. She is more competent from a technical perspective than most of the other teachers at her school and she utilizes Chromebooks, and Google Classroom to its fullest. She is really pleased with them as tools, because the alternatives are of such poor quality. Maybe I should go in and give a mini lesson on the privacy implications of using Google/monopolies in tech.
That’s not entirely true; it seems to depend how much effort you put into informing them that you want to cancel. If they make it too difficult, then they’re creating all sorts of legal issues. They’d have to be pretty ballsy to sell it to a debt collector at that point—it does happen, but it’s pretty rare, and I’ve never heard of anyone actually being forced to pay in the end. That BS just isn’t going to hold up in a courtroom.
It's vital to sometimes switch off that podcast and let yourself get bored
The same can be said for requiring candidates to have a github or using a college degree as a filter. Not everyone has the luxury to take out 10's of thousand in debt and spend 4+ years of their life learning instead of earning.

So unless you advocate for completely blind interviews that do not rely on a resume and only take up 3 hours of someone's day, your point is moot.
How can we design an intelligent recommendation engine
Shh don't burst the web dev's bubble
US pedestrian deaths are at a 25 year high. Be ashamed.

Or don't take the car for short journeys. Be part of a positive change.

Or don't take a job that requires long commutes. People want to live in location A and want a better job in location B and accept the fact they increase the risk of death in others, directly and through pollution, as a reasonable trade-off for their comfort.

I don't drive (34, Sacramento). Most people don't need to drive.

https://smartgrowthamerica.org/dangerous-by-design/
Opening almost all YT links in a private/incognito window does WONDERS.
Looks like that is more about closing/deleting the entire account than cancelling a subscription. I'm more interested in cancelling my subscription than to delete my profile. Still a nice website, just not really something I'd find that useful. Thanks for sharing
For those who had questions about how memory is to be managed, the documentation for that work is being tracked here:

https://github.com/FBMachine/bon/blob/auto_mem/docs/ch02-01-...

Thanks for all of the feedback!
Couldn't the messages be encrypted using the user password?
thank you for your replies. however, no one addressed the fact that as orbital radius decreases, velocity increases. and that should not be possible for light. In fact, the whole idea of light bending around a gravity well does not seem to follow the rules of orbital mechanics. Masses that come close to a massive body get a velocity boost and a slingshot to their new course. I would suspect that photons are boosted to a higher energy state and thus get a frequency boost as they are accelerated radially since they cannot get a speed boost. And more energetic photons would be more apt to return to a wider orbit-reaching an equilibrium of their orbital path.
Unless you plea bargain, or receive judicial immunity.
At this point it’s safe to say that much of the data Facebook has was acquired in ways that are questionable, and that between their treasure troves and data leaks from other companies it’s impossible to get the cat back in the bag. Simply put, your data, in current formats, is out there and it’s not under control at all.

After breaking up Facebook and punishing credit agencies whose job it was to secure data, the only path forward I see is to introduce new data formats for all the things we took for granted and push hard for the adoption of those replacements. (Facebook has all your pictures; well, do they have them in $NEW_KEYED_IMAGE_FORMAT that has your new revocable authorized keys injected by modern cameras? Facebook has your phone number; well, do they have a new 2nd-factor token that makes the phone number useless without the token? Facebook has your full name; too bad, the government has moved on to a new system that requires several new government-issued identity tokens that Facebook can’t have, making them unable to correlate your name with other aspects of your modern identity. And so forth.) Ruin it all. Make every single spec of data useless.
Well their moonshot (project X or whatever) companies/ideas say this. However, it is true that their a massive company and thus are less about disruption than start-ups. However, Silicon Valley and the people that work their seem to love to talk about "being disruptors," it seems to be quite the badge-of-honor even if your only knowledge of it is via HN.
GDPR is so poorly specified that not even its authors know how to interpret portions of it.
Interview of Steve Dower at TalkPython podcast

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/191/python-s-journey-at-...
You went way too far.
Thank you. Good read.
> I generally only see this from extremely junior devs.

He’s definitely junior in this case. He’s only in his first programming job out of college. I tried to get him to see the error of his ways but not everyone will listen to reason. :)
Even over the past ten years things have been improving. Even if you ignore the developing economies (where things get better faster) and the rest of the world, the US is still improving. Poverty in the US for example has been trending downwards for decades, including over the last 10 years. I can see how attached you are to this “everything is bad” narrative, but it’s not reflected in reality.
You can't realistically compare the practicality of cars vs motorcycles in wet/icy weather.

I say this as a cycling fan currently getting rid of his car. If it's raining, it's Uber time.
Not that much on modern Linux/BSD systems at least. The kernel is smart enough to just copy fewer pages when forking not the entire parent process image.
Well, the solution is simple -- don't give your kids your credit cards...
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Most motorcycles aren't loud. I share your hate for those that are, though.
sure it can. you make something patentable. say AR lenses. You write an iOS app in Swift. Apple copies your lenses. When you go try to sue them they point out lose the right to use Swift
Because the question is entirely reasonable.

In fact, to the extent that it's novel to the candidate and they haven't heard it before - it's an excellent question.

It requires someone to actually think a little bit, to reason about an unknown scenario, and to try to apply intelligence to an otherwise undiscovered set of variables.

Do they know the formula for the volume of a sphere? Will they consider how balls might fit in a lattice? Can they estimate how many balls fit in a cubic meter? Can they reason about how large a plane actually is? Can they even do basic math?

Can they make rough estimates, piece everything together and come up with a rough estimate? Can they parameterize the estimate?

There are any number of tangents to move along and consider.

Watching someone answer this question can tell you quite a lot about how they think, reason and communicate.

There are nary any circumstances in business that have clear data points, clear outcomes, or perfectly clear objectives and unfortunately, our current interviewing paradigms generally don't account for that.

The best question I was ever asked was during a McKinsey interview: "it's 1965, Sweden is going to switch from driving on the left, to the right side of the road, you have 2 years until this day, how do you plan it?" ... which leads to some amazing discussions. It's definitely a good consulting question.
A bit tangential, but what do people here use to input APL characters in macOS?

I've been using Dyalog's GUI, but I'd much rather be using free software from the usual terminal. It'd be nice if there were just a global input method like the ones they have for human languages.
I have the same habits. Every month, I have to enter my payment info for phone,car,etc. They always have that little check box for "save payment info for later". Nope. To the point that my car payment is now done over the phone each month because they changed their website to force you to enter a payment (checking/routing). At the rate sites are getting hacked, I will not enter any more information that required to make it work. As with my auto company, if it requires more info than I want to provide, then I don't use it.
It looked simple enough, but I was curious about the threading example on https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd/wiki/CPP-Input-Outpu...

The variable `count` appears to be incremented non-atomically from two different threads. Is that safe in C++?
1) If an individual app developer did something like what Facebook did here, then there is a better than good chance that they would be successfully prosecuted with a crime. Why is the criminal justice system so much more lenient on corporations? If it is just money, then we have to accept that arbitrariness can be bought and paid for by those who can afford it. There are a few voices here that advocate for less prison sentences with whom which I agree with, but white collar crime like the kind in the article isn't punished to the same level of severity when the organization at large is at fault. It seems that the incentives for certain kinds of problematic behavior change when your at scale.

2) If you allow this sort of behavior long enough, then it definitely seeps into the culture, the decision-making of management, and the interactions of all those who work there (full-time, part-time, contractors all included). If bad apples can spoil the bunch, then will certain people refuse to interact, do business with, or hire former Facebook employees? Is there / will there be a "blue shield" for Facebook as there is for law enforcement?
Doesn’t this have an impedance mismatch? Stdin/out are stream based. Websocket is message based. There is no guarantee you can transmit the content of a single WebSocket message inside a single os read or write call. Unless you expect that on both sides messages might be fragmented across multiple calls and callbacks. But I don’t see the docs mentioning that.
“State of Fear” was an anti-climate change book, though, and honestly one of the most laughably awful novels I ever finished.
Most recurring billing APIs provide some sort of notification or query about the status. They could reasonably do "for each payment we got yesterday, extend the expiration date of the associated account."
> I wouldn't question a button color without good reason to do so

Exactly, and I don’t think a comment about an old requirement would generally do so. Someone just gave you the new requirement which presumably replaces the old one.

But, if the comment mentions 508 usability as an issue or as you say it’s shaped like a camel, then that’s going to be an issue for any version of the website you create. Basicly, comments that make it on the minimum list are suck there and don’t become relevant when comparing different possible designs.

Code smell is about comparing designs and implementations not high level requirements. If 1/2 your customers uses JAWS then you got to do what you got to do.
If it is a common state why shouldn't we assume that it will work? Most people who tried wouldn't give it up, which means that statistically you should be happy being a parent rather than not.
I find Google less and less useful these days.

My search terms often get turned into something else for no reason. If I search for any less common word, there's a good chance the results would not contain that word by default. Maybe I'm crazy, but is Google really improving over time, or actually getting worse?
Creating Your Own Gravity and Space Simulator
Wasnt sure if it was individual humans and not 'persons'
Stop posting on HN.
in other words "while you are leaving, let us make sure you will never come back"
C++, Rust, Go Over Java for Data Intensive Frameworks
Post of the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995823 .
Damn, that website has some impressively obnoxious ads.
Backing down, Trump agrees to end shutdown without border wall money
I think this is exactly where VR will help people enormously. The game industry is already outpacing the sports industry in revenue - and in reach. Games provide people with agency, accomplishment, and a community that some people cannot get anywhere else - perhaps the very people you are describing. Its inevitable that people will be replaced by technology - no amount of government regulation is going to slow the massive tides of progress. VR is going to be a very, very important coping mechanism during this period of disruption.

edit: some words
More or less a dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18994760
As someone who did millions of $ via PP as merchant, I can say the experience is great as a consumer usually but really stinks as a merchant. We had a far higher fraud rate on PP than CC and it was a high price to pay really. Especially because after enough users chargeback or dispute, even though it was very clear they were just scamming us for free product (you could very clearly see it as they did not even tried to hide it; they knew PP would side with them), they would not go in discussion but just block our funds for 30-90 days. Lovely as a startup to have 400k usd blocked for 3 months...
JS has "strict equality" comparison. It's not the same as "identity" comparison.
> Classified ads were a damn boondoggle. $500 in a mid-metro to place a car ad.

A friend's parent just passed away. There is a state law that says that a death notice must be published in the local paper so that unknown creditors can be found. The paper charges $750 for a three-line notice that is published weekly for four weeks. The executor/executrix must retain copies of the notices as proof for the court.
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Yes, it is hard to imagine, because it would be a direct violation of their privacy policy and they would be sued into oblivion.

What FB et. al. do with your content is right in the fine print.
I don't find this true at all. Youtube is pretty biased in recommending videos closely related to what is in your history. It's pretty rare I get something that is not directly related to a recently watched video (this is clear because if I delete said video from my history the recommendations go away).
Wait, so does that mean pay would be ensured in the case of another shutdown?
> It's probably worth pointing out that reportedly, Jobs himself kept iOS devices away from his own children because he considered them "too addictive."

I have heard that his kids didn't use iPads in the early days, but I never heard what the reason is (nor do I know how old they were at the time). I'd be curious to know who has tied this behavior to addictiveness, and whether anyone knows how old they were when this was said.

Sometimes people like to latch onto facts like "Tim Cook doesn't let his nephew use an iOS device" without indicating how old the kid is. I would react very differently if execs were withholding these devices from 15 year olds than from 4 year olds.
> It's also worth noting that people dont die, jobs just shift unexpectedly. Sure it can crush a generation (see the american midwest from 1960-2020), but most people move to where the work is geographically and intellectually or just die out.

I love that you're so honest. Well, let me tell you something. AI is improving faster than the manufacture of dexterous robotics, of the sort that could, say, create an automated police force. So if things continue to get worse for enough people, I imagine that elitists like you will eventually find your backs up against a wall.
30% price drop last year.

Expected to climb 10-15% over two years.

Doesn’t seem like the party has ended. Just cooled a bit.
Or just use subresource integrity: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
I do this. it has pluses and minuses. the plus is I'm not tracked. the minus is YouTube can't recommend. Sure of course if it's a cat video then I dont want YouTube recommendations but I watch almost all videos in incognito mode to avoid tracking. I'm not sure which ones I want YouTube to know and which I don't.

Maybe I'd just prefer to get links from friends
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Youtube has started giving thumbs up and thumbs down to ads, which I think is a really good idea. I would be incredibly happy to offer information about what ads I want to see. I would even spend time out of my day to do it. This is an area which I think is sadly neglected -- they say they are collecting data to target ads, but actually they are using the same shotgun tactics that marketers always do.

It's bizarre, though. I wonder if Youtube even looks at the results of those thumbs up/thumbs down. I never, ever, ever, want to see another ad for Grammerly. Never. But I'm inundated with them anyway :-( (And in case Google is watching: I don't pay for SaaS. Never have. Never will. Stop sending that stuff to me... Heh heh... One can only hope...).
Time intervals and other ranges should be half-open (2014)
You can start with this book if you want to go straight to making a gameplay agent
https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-and-the-game-of-...
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I see BB pushing B2 more and more and it makes me sad. Instead of a Linux client (which I can’t imagine would be that difficult, ultimately, after this many years) they’re putting all resources on the pay-for-utilization model. Good for them, bad for us waiting for a Linux client.

CrashPlan is garbage. Bloated client, keeps breaking down and I get reports my devices aren’t backed up but then they say they are, after backing up 30+ TB (it took years) it says my original backup had to be reset so I had to restart the entire thing, just not a lot of confidence with them. But it is the only unlimited Linux option out there.

Also, they just removed their personal plan and do business only and per device now. If they could make their client not suck, and give better confidence in their platform, I wouldn’t complain.
printf and friends was not supposed to be robust, was supposed to be easy to use. C already provides the means to write robust libraries, if that is necessary.
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Life spans in the US have been falling during the past decade. That's a very bad indicator. Do you really have your head this deep in the sand?
USAF flies a lot higher than 30k. most single engine turboprops do not. HUGE difference. TUC at 40k is seconds...
The specific claim, unless I missed it, is no data collection for advertising purposes (page 12 and also in their other privacy policy online). That doesn't stop them from other uses of the data. Microsoft makes a similar claim with some of its telemetry. Or did I miss something? It was a long PDF, I just skimmed it
Or just use cowboy which is written is in erlang and will scale better.
That’s not an argument for Mars, it’s an argument for living somewhere other than just Earth. A distant, low-g, airless, wasteland seems like an odd choice for that. If we’re going to have to terraform, at least Venus has an atmosphere and some tectonic activity, and even space stations or asteroids would be more feasible than Mars.

So why Mars?
Aah the joys of false progressivism.

I hear that representing the absence of value as a number was invented about 6000 years ago,
perhaps we should abandon that as antiquated as well..

also, to wit, a Unix kernel of recent vintage:

$ uname -msr
OpenBSD 6.3 amd64
$ du -skc bsd.rd bsd
9664 bsd.rd
12912 bsd
22576 total

vs, say, a Linux kernel of recent vintage:

$ uname -msr
Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64
$ du -skc /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64 /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64 /lib/modules/4.9.0-8-amd64
4152	/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64
21616	/boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64
212248	/lib/modules/4.9.0-8-amd64
238016	total

yes, there are likely more drivers in the latter.
highly doubt there is an order of magnitude more though.

not to mention some 'modern' npm+webpack monstrosity.

that said, given the latter,
i can hardly fault a <10Mb go executable as 'excessive',
so you're right on that front.
> He doesn’t dedicate any significant time to discussing the phone’s internet connectivity features until more than 30 minutes into the address.

That's because, IIRC, he was doing a dramatic reveal where each set of features was discussed separately (iPod, cell phone, internet navigator). The fact that this section came last doesn't mean Jobs thought it was less important. In fact, it was arguably the most impressive part (iPods already existed, as did cell phones, but there were no good touch-screen internet-enabled devices). That's probably why it was last.
Regardless of this woman's unfortunate passing, open offices are seriously ruining millions of peoples lives.
Is there any other benefit than scaling better? Because I'm pretty sure 99.9% of projects never hit the "need to scale more" part, and if they did it doesn't seem like this would be too difficult to move off of
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If there wasn't ad supported content, people would have to buy high quality goods and services for money. That seems like a good thing in an economy.

Edit: the problem is that the 'free' ad driven business model makes it extremely difficult for non-free legitimate business models to succeed.
Homeowners bitch and moan about a whole lot more than just traffic when it comes to building more housing. Cars are a problem, but they are far from the problem.
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How's that? Vehicles use more fuel beer unit distance in city trips than highway trips.
There are even worse services where there is no UI to cancel subscriptions. You have to instead email customer support and spend another week explaining why their service sucks.

Example: Willow TV
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> Most Internet content isn't nearly as "contextual" as a nature magazine. Probably 99% of the content I read won't help target ads much at all, because it's mostly NYT news articles and the like.

The NYT cut behavioral advertising in Europe after the GDPR and still grew revenue:

https://digiday.com/media/new-york-times-gdpr-cut-off-ad-exc...

Edit: I just read the EFF post and realized this article was linked. Did the parent poster mean that 99% of what he or she read was not NYT articles and the like?
Everything is already automated if you consider the universe’s noise to be an organizing force.
Not really; IIRC forking is more expensive on NT, and *nix processes/threads tend to be fairly cheap. It might be a generally expensive model, and threads/pools are probably the better-scaling option regardless of OS.
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