skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I need to remember him taking that drink of water and giving himself time to respond. I respond way too quickly to things far too often. You can just see himself giving himself a second to collect himself. Brilliant.
iOS user agents aren't very identifying. Despite having multiple version numbers in them, all they pretty much tell you is 1) what type of ios device it is (eg. iphone or ipad) and 2) what ios version it is (mobile safari is updated along with ios, so the version numbers are pretty much the same for the same ios release). Considering that most ios users are up to date, you'll be hard pressed to squeeze more than a few bits of entropy from it.
> Reusing the containers will save more material and energy than fashioning new ones each time—even with all the additional shipping.

I 100% do not believe this.
> it's just the tonal contour of the original phrase, with the other details stripped out. I don't see how that differs from Punjabi syllables preserving their (originally) allophonic tone while losing their (originally) phonemic aspiration, such that the tone becomes phonemic.

because, as you elaborate, the English example you mention is really isolated - it's not enough to spawn a system of tone. Even in this case (the "I don't know" sequence), the tone isn't really contrastive.

> the phrase "I don't know" can't ever be a yes/no question

Sure it can, though the contexts wouldn't be that frequent. And some speakers have final rising tone even on non-yes/no questions.

> English has a non-vestigial system of grammatical tone at the sentence level

And of course there's more than just question-associated tone, there's also focus-associated tonal prosody.
> Context matters.

That's actually the point. In the context of software source code, "open source" still doesn't mean whatever these guys say it means.

Only in the very narrow context of their specific organization and affiliates.
and thats why im gonna patreon the shit out of him. we need more heroes like this.
This is a step in the right direction. I would like to see more regulation around who can upload ads to Facebook as well.
Ah! If VAT is not a tax, and Google's operations inside the EU doesn't contribute to EU coffers, you must be all for moving Google's EU subsidiaries offshore, and saving whatever VAT Google's customers pay?

Google recorder $40B in EU revenues in 2017. About 20%, or $8B was the VAT related revenues that EU received. Let's move all that away from the EU, since it's all one big non-tax.

Also, let's abolish VAT, as my "ignorance of how VAT on business expenses actually works" is being exploited by big-evil Google for tax avoidance. Everyone knows that paying VAT is the #1 way to reduce tax liabilities, translated, "let's all pay taxes on transactions, as a way to avoid taxes on income! Hurrahs all around for the genius CPAs".

VAT is an evil tax on revenues (transactions), that sellers conveniently pass on to the buyer. Whether you agree or not, every seller is also a buyer, and VAT merely increases the cost of doing business, while also effectively acting as a double-taxation ploy, as profits are subject to income taxes. Who ends up footing the VAT bill is immaterial, as VAT goes under "costs" that were previously $0, unless you're a company that buys nothing to sell something. And whether it's booked as "costs" or not, it's a tax that the government receives on transactions under it's jurisdiction. Buying ads from a US company as a US transaction doesn't incur a VAT cost on an EU company, hence, Google's EU presence is a net positive for EU coffers!
Not sure how one can say brave stole anything. Pretty sure i use their browser for free and buy my BAT on my own doing. And give it to publishers on my own doing
> a domain-specific language for querying your commits

Meanwhile I google "how to print commit history git" for the 100th time...
Probably because #2 and (even moreso #3) are difficult to evaluate without a great deal more nuance. There's not much of a use case for #1 except (arguably) national security.

I assume what you mean by #2 & #3 is when people collectively or individually say that an idea is not worth the paper it's printed on. In that case, there's a good lot of things that should, ideally, never see the light of day; except as examples of human folly. The anti-vaccine movement and chemtrail theories are examples of this.

I don't know the details of this case at all, but I suspect it falls under the category of the author trying to communicate one thing, but most people understanding the book in a very different way, and the author not wanting to be mis-read.
Comcast's dominance is propped up by regulatory capture, not free market capitalism.
Nobody? That is a high bar. Mechanics tend to be pretty cluey, but for the effort of getting proper lighting why nobody should be taking that sort of risk. Sight is one of those fundamental lets-feed-in-useful-information sensors for keeping situations safe.
The proof is in the (blockchain) pudding. Either the money will move (he's alive or the keys were coerced out of him before he died), or it'll stay put (he's dead).
In my experience, bugs do not happen “most of the time” (OPs words). I’ve been a software engineer for 12 years. High quality software is software that works, for the required use cases and devices.

> ... most of the time

> ... for the required use cases.
It depends on what the ship is doing. When a ship has to transit a high traffic area it generally takes at least several hours, and possibly many hours. This will happen every time the ship goes into port or comes out of port (the USS Fitzgerald was coming out of port), and it will happen whenever the ship has to transit a high traffic area to get wherever it's going (the USS McCain was transiting the Straits of Malacca, one of the most crowded shipping lanes in the world, when it had its collision). Those things are probably happening more often nowadays than they did during the Cold War, because more of the jobs Navy ships are being asked to do are close to shore instead of out in the middle of the ocean.
Don't swim against the river. If you're the only older person and not the leader or person being looked up to for direction. Don't buck the trend and go against the river, you will only make yourself visible.
Same, I think I wrote about this before on HN, but I once had my bank freeze the funds in my account, while driving across the country with my kids. We would have ended up sleeping in a park if we couldn't use a 24-hour pawn shop (yay Las Vegas!) with a super-high interest rate to get some cash overnight to pay for the hotel. We paid it back the next day, and we're still super grateful it was available.

When you ban these things, you're imposing your value judgement on others, because you think you know better than "them poor folk".

I am fine with some regulation to make it clear what the cost is, something like: "you are borrowing $100, if you pay it back in 1 month, you will have to pay back $130. If you pay it back in 2 months, touch will pay back a total of $170 etc. ..."
Surprised that LIBOR is anywhere near 390%...
I've been working on building a personal knowledge database tool recently, feel free to shoot me an email at antimatter15@gmail.com if you'd like to be one of the first to try it out.
There's no evidence that either of them follow their "all beef diet", but there's ample evidence that they charge $120+/hr for consultations based on this diet[1].

[1] https://mikhailapeterson.com/consultations/
The apology misses half of the equation. Instacart was putting a tip section of the app to fool users into thinking that improved the wage of their workers when it kept to stable. So not only were they stealing from their workers they were stealing from their customers. Where's the apology for using the word tip deceptively?

What a non-apology.
> Instead of listening to you and I (age 50) there are some young people who would rather claim that basic/low-level/first principles knowledge is irrelevant.

Yes, that sounds like the normal "folly of inexperience" -- it comes from people who don't yet have enough experience to know that they don't know as much as they think.

There's a reason that people (in any field) with less experience tend to be more certain of the correctness of their judgement than people with more experience. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

> Sometimes I still get mad or sick thinking about it.

I think back on instances like that as dodging a bullet. Can you imagine the hell that actually working with those people would have been?
This has digressed a bit. Let's recap: someone asked if ethics were an MBA requirement. I responded by asking if it was CS/CE requirement. Then someone brought up the ABET model curriculum, and now here we are.

The general point is that it started with a altogether too common dig at MBAs. I think those are usually unwarranted without any further examination. But I also found some studies that indicate leadership in a corporation is neutral to positive on corporate social responsibility (didn't share it earlier, but here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25782028).

The ABET model curricula is admirable, but the ethics requirement is not overly stringent. And there are very prominent CS/CE programs that are not accredited (http://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx, I won't name names, but they are top 10 schools, easily).

It would be great if every damn high school student had to take semester of secular ethics, let alone MBAs or Engineers. I could easily see any degree having a 1 or 2 credit hour course in profession specific ethics.

But to the original point, I just don't like people getting high and mighty over people with MBA degrees for no good reason (I don't have an MBA).

ps - and to bring it all the way back around, there were many, many people involved in this. UX design, backend development, PM, project management, testing... it's just lazy scapegoating to pin this on a hypothetical MBA pulling all the strings.
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ha! Same here. I was sent notifications from a military application once (seemed to be some SAP style system). I responded to a CCd email and they politely responded and corrected the address.

The others are more mundane. Mailing lists with dirty jokes from a group of american dentist friends. School notifications from a guy in the UK. Random baby pics.

Im not sure if there are lots of people with the same name who occasionally get their mail wrong. Or a few people with the same name who constantly do. It just seems weird though. Surely if you had a non firstname.lastname@gmail address you would take extra care to add in the extra padding.
In postgresql if you are using prepared statements and are doing a 'select star' and drop or add a column then the prepared statement will start failing. This is kind of bad when you are doing transactions because the bad statement will taint your transaction and you will need to restart from the beginning. Select star is incompatible with prepared statements and postgresql which might also explain why SQL Alchemy explicitly names columns in select statements. Rails will do 'Select star' so prepared statements are the first thing I turn off in Rails/Postgresql projects. [Maybe they have a fix now?]
It's not new.

OSI was spawned as a more business friendly reaction to the "moralizing" of Richard Stallman and other "Free Software" believers. There will always be argument over definitional identities, especially of basically philosophical movements.
I totally agree. So what does "Slack support" mean? Is he... implementing the Slack API? and Skype? and Gmail? and Discord? and Facebook Messenger?

Edit: I see now. It's just a chat app with a bunch of protocols and a clean interface.
How about adding iodine to table salt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt

Or pregnant women taking folic acid to prevent birth defects?
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/pregnancy/fo...

Or giving vitamin d to newborns?
https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/breastfeeding-special-circ...

Should these practices be stopped because they aren't "natural"? Are breast fed babies not "eating correctly"?
"anonymous administration official"
On a recent Peter Attia podcast he made an offhanded comment that any deviation from SAD (Standard American Diet) seems to improve health. So probably related to that.
At least on FB you can unfollow the main offenders. My feed is surprisingly tolerable. Enjoyable, even. The unrelenting barrage of political content comes to me from Twitter. Twitter is designed to surface popular tweets even from those you don't follow, and it's almost always low effort political tripe. It's exhausting.
As I posted elsewhere - the apology misses half of the equation. Instacart was putting a tip section of the app to fool users into thinking that improved the wage of their workers when it kept to stable. So not only were they stealing from their workers they were stealing from their customers. Where's the apology for using the word tip deceptively?
By what measure, though? What does "cheaper" mean here in terms of unit to unit comparison?

For those interested in protein, or feeling full, chicken is one of the cheapest things you can possibly buy. In NYC, fresh vegetables, and (god forbid) organic, is one of the most expensive things you can buy. In my experience, buying ingredients for a full salad with relatively fresh ingredients is almost as expensive as going to a moderately priced restaurant. It's crazy.

If what I said sounds wishy-washy, it's because no one's defined what a unit of animal product versus a unit of fruit and vegetables is, when doing this price comparison.

It might just be because the weather here doesn't give us Mediterranean-like weather conditions and a lot of stuff has to come from places like Mexico and California (it seems from what the local grocery stores are stocking).
That's the understanding they communicated to us. Basically, the inter-township roads are funded in large part by the larger funding pools (redmond+seattle) and oftentimes "Growth funding" has to trickle down from federal, state and county levels.

Apologies in advance if I'm totally off base, I'm trying to repeat near-verbatim what I heard in township/county meetings on this topic. (congestion and growth)
Neither do I, which is why I never applied the appellation "over-the-top skepticism" to "referencing research"; it was applied to the commenter's ridicule of an account of someone buying a luxury food with foodstamps.

Is there a reason you thought my appellation was being applied to something else?
They're not usurping it. They literally created it as a term (and "brand") rather than simply two words. They weren't granted a trademark, so their creation of it has no legal weight, but that doesn't mean they can't claim authority over what it means, and ask that their original intent be respected.
It's interesting that the roadmap of volt has been saying v1.0 is just around the corner for the past half year. The other roadmap items also don't change much.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180615121501/https://volt.ws/

https://web.archive.org/web/20181023093131/https://volt.ws/

It would be great if the roadmap contained realistic items. Once a user is burned by an unmet expectation he won't believe anything else on the website.
The only required supplement for vegans is B12, and that's not because of lack of meat. B12 is produced by bacteria and most of us live in sanitized environments, so there is no reliable sources of B12 any longer. It's possible that even the animals you eat are low in B12 due to cobalt deficiency in the soil[1], so I encourage you to check your levels and supplement if necessary.

Also, your argument is a classic example of an appeal to nature[2].

1: https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/livestock-biosecurity/cobalt-def...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
It's definitely not worth his time if Apple isn't going to pony up a bounty, especially if he could recoup his sunk costs easily by selling the exploit to a security research / defense contractor.
Show me the analysis. Open up the data and code.

Otherwise, I don't 100% have any idea.
I think it's more like having a low number of one precludes having a low number of the other. I may be wrong, but I think you can have a large nu.ber of borh.
It's plenty affordable to buy staples like broccoli, spinach, bananas, oranges, etc...what grocery stores are you shopping in?
>Tech scene is blowing up.

Can you expound further on this? I keep hearing this, but it seems that the big names (Apple, Switch) just have datacenters in the area. I lived in the area from 2014 to 2016, and it seemed like not a whole lot was going on techwise. I know that the Gigafactory is therenow, but it's not really employing a lot of HN type people.
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onions are disgusting
It's almost disturbing how cheap some animal products are, in fact, like chicken. Eggs are a fantastic price for their nutritional content, as well.

The market where I am pushes you towards things that are not fruits and vegetables.
"Thankfully, the biggest threat to the individual is a sprinkling of privacy invasion and the odd blackmail."

They have prison camps for political dissidents.
I doubt Zimbabwe Dollar paper is worth millions, but OK...

I'll check the value of the Reichsmark, but again, I suspect the market is limited.

Network going down: in theory you could keep it up with a Raspberry Pie, so I suppose somebody will. Although I don't know if all the mining hardware out there would make it nonviable (as anybody could start a mining attack with such mining hardware, against a Pie).

As for proving Bitcoin isn't a scam: we don't need the inventor or their plans, we have the implementations of it. That can be validated, as much as possible. I'd argue that if it still has flaws, then they weren't because of scamming, but because of technical issues nobody could foresee.

Edit: they seem to be selling notes of one billion Reichsmark for 1€ on ebay (here in Germany). Not really worth the effort.
Vagrant-lxc works for us. File sharing is a bind mount so no problems with inotifu.
So why not just make a virtual machine image and keep a pristine copy of it? I think this dates back to the mainframe era.
Like Gitea?
I read the headline and thought "Step 1 collect users, step 3 profit," and yep, that's it.

> their enormous valuations are based on the premise that if a company grows big enough and fast enough, profits will eventually follow.
This is the best advice I've seen here.

(Although you have to make it to 59 1/2 to withdraw without penalties!)
My two biggest questions about V are 1) How is memory managed?, and 2) How is concurrency done?

"V has no runtime". No GC, but you don't have to manually release memory, like Rust but much easier. Sounds great. How?

And "no race conditions ever" and "everything is thread safe". You can do that with "no runtime" fairly easily if there's no goroutine-style concurrency. I didn't see any mentioned, but I could have easily missed it.

Those two aspects of the language are fundamental enough that I would certainly want to read about them near the top of any overview of the language.
> This is from their FAQ and an example of the OSI explicitly acting like they own "open source"

No, if they were acting like they owned the term, they’d say “No, and we'll take coercive action to stop you if you do.”

What they are actually saying is (in short) “Please don't, experience has shown it causes confusion.”
A shame, although I can see the logic behind the decision. We use this on sites we build so we don't even need to show those visitors a cookie notice, and just assume they don't want Google Analytics turned on.
Slack has raised $1.2 billion and is now going to raise even more by going public. Discord has raised $280 million. Microsoft is putting who knows how much into teams.
From a purely theoretical standpoint, I’m terribly curious what would happen if we incentivized spending like that. I’m sure it’d be terrible in the long run, but it’d also have definite macroeconomic stimulus effects.
Great advice, if we could all look younger when we want, we would! A lot of it depends on genetics. We'd all exercise more if our knees and backs weren't grinding down from years of use.

Any over 50 female developers care to respond to this "look younger" advice?
>> In NYC, fresh vegetables, and (god forbid) organic, is one of the most expensive things you can buy

What isn’t expensive in NYC?

There are 310 million people in the USA who don’t live in NYC
It is unbelievably arrogant of so many people to keep ascribing motivations to other folks they haven't even talked to.

Hey, it's great that a pawn shop helped you out in your case, where you didn't have a credit card or apparently any other option. That doesn't even a little bit offset the predatory nature of payday loan outfits, and they are predatory. I have no problem with people who want to loan money to other people who have trouble getting loans. I do have a problem with turning it into a business practice that brazenly targets poorer communities and levies fees and interest rates that ensure that poor people stay poor.

But, if it helps make this a more black-and-white issue in your mind, sure, keep believing that people like me are in favor of payday loan regulation just because of our moral superiority complex.
To Andy:

I thought it was a new name for Zig seeing your name and the description in the link. ;) It actually looks about too good to be true, especially that it can handle any C++ to V conversion. I was pushing people to check out languages like ZL exactly to rid us of C++ without throwing away legacy code. If it can do that and fast compiles, I can't wait to read the full write-up later on.

Btw, I encourage you to keep at Zig for diversity in systems, language space. Plus, macros. I tell people to avoid them by default for more maintainable code. However, there's times where it's better to have them than not have them. I was happy to see D, Rust, and Julia do macros. Zig and V should have them, too, for max productivity.

To amedvednikov:

1. The name. Although Kesterel had a V language, that was long time ago. You're not stepping on anything. I just encourage you to do one people can spell and pronounce easily that isn't already taken. That will make both search results and adoption a little better.

2. Macros. Like I said above. I saw you mention Go which intentionally tries to keep a standardized language for maintainability and easy compilation. I get that. You could add a warning to the main page that macros are available but discouraged for most situations for those reasons. "Use them only when the cost is worth it." Can just do two passes: one for macros, one for regular code. Your incremental compilation should knock out most of what little slowdown there is.
The opportunity cost of firm payouts
Active-Shooter Drills Are Tragically Misguided
I admit, I do `hg help revsets` with some regularity, because I do need to look up the right functions that can perform the query I want, but it's really just a reference check, not a check on the syntax of the language.
We apologize for the lack of professionalism, the above commentor has been sacked - and apparently I have too, it's all a lie-

The voice to text program used to generate the above has been sacked.
Why People Still Don’t Buy Groceries Online
I'm surprised so many still categorize fruits and vegetables together in these studies and in general thinking, given all we know now about sugar.

Fruits in terms of calories are essentially sugar, and despite the fiber, more than 1-2 a day will start to impact insulin, fat storage etc. negatively for most people. Especially fructose-heavy fruit.

Non-starchy vegetables are not nearly as sugar or calorie dense, can be eaten in much higher volume with little effect, and as such should be thought of much differently than fruit.

(non-avocado) Fruit falls more in the dessert/candy category IMO.