skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe ontopic: I would like a voice controlled system that works with me. For example: saying, "I need a loop over a list" and promptly I get served in my text editor the loop. Or "I need to open a file and read contents". Or "Create an object ThisAndThat, with three properties" ... etc. Of course ideally would even ask for more details like, what kind of list is that, or how shall the file be read.

How hard would be?
It would be fairly easy to fly and pay a carbon offset to the equivalent of your flight.
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Really, games are like any other piece of media. Engage with them passively, and uncritically and one won't get much value out of it. Engage with them actively and they can have a positive impact.

My parents didn't really care what media I consumed but cared more about how I consumed it. Plenty of games have the potential to explore and foster interesting experiences. I've learned a lot through games. In fact I'd say that two of the most important things I've learned I've learned through games: the importance of a strong work ethic, and discovering my passing for computer technology (which later led to a career in software development). Games can be mindless and intellectually numb. But the same could be said of any other piece of media.

Granted I am of the opinion that battle Royale games provide less than strategy games, and most RPGs but I am not nearly experienced enough in the BR genre to have much conviction in this opinion.
Jeremy Campbell, The liar's tale : a history of falsehood

https://www.worldcat.org/title/liars-tale-a-history-of-false...
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I am a former high school teacher working with Chicago kids age 15-22 (yes). I don't know about you, but they're children to me. They are simply not equipped with enough information to make rational choices in a system that has either by design or evolution _completely failed them_.
It wasn't dominance that people were referring to, it's the intentional heel dragging to benefit other parts of their corporate family at the expense of the web that makes Safari the new IE.
Why would you want to disable the CSS?
>It’s not the governments job to descide what speech is okay and what speech is not.

What if that speech is child pornography, or assault and threats, or intellectual property?
The "intellectual property laws" you're describing are, specifically, the trade barriers. Unless you're comparing to countries which don't honor US drug patents at all, which is a valid argument but a pretty radical one.

> Why would we waste the money importing them when we can just change our intellectual property laws to match their prices.

You're missing the point. Nobody would import anything. The price differences on either side of the border only exist because of the artificial barrier to trade. Allowing drug imports from other countries establishes an upper bound on how much the manufacturers can charge for those same drugs in the US.
But every single thing is made or transported via fossil fuels. You'd have to be living in a cave to avoid them.
Going from straightforward one-time purchases to maintaining subscriptions for an online service is a huge jump in complexity! Then throw in free trials, prorating subscriptions, upgrading monthly to yearly, etc. There are so many issues and edge cases with recurring charges on credit cards that can blindside you.
Goldman Sachs wants to pay students $100k to tackle Wall Street's challenges
But if you lived past 20, median life expectancy was in the 60's or 70's, clear back to the Neolithic. About like today!
Jeremy Campbell, The liar's tale : a history of falsehood

https://www.worldcat.org/title/liars-tale-a-history-of-false...

Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade

https://www.worldcat.org/title/confidence-man-his-masquerade...
Middle class is often defined by homeownership; this seems like an argument about definitions.
There are actual jobs, in industry, making use of this stuff. For example, here is one that I put in the "Who is hiring?" item this month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543995

Typically one would convert a binary executable into some other form, then analyze it to find all possible bugs. Of course one quickly slams into troubles like the halting problem, but it is still usually possible to gain useful understanding of the binary executable.
Which begs the question why would anyone use Edge when they can use Chrome?
Because you buy these services, you can blame someone else when they fail. That's why cloud services are favored among IT staff. You can no longer get fired for the backup failing if it's Google Compute that failed to back up your instances.
I don't think anyone past the age of puberty is a "kid." It may not be fair in any given circumstance to treat them like adults, but they're not children either. Societies have long recognized that fact. (There is a reason in Judiasm the Bar Mitzvah is at age 13.)
Why is Safari the new IE?
The cloud SaaS is basically a buisness model. The user cant just download the software and host it him/herself. When the user dont pay you can just cut off access.
So in the buisness angle its briliant. From a tecnical standpoint its stupid as Personal computers today is very capable to run most cloud software itself. And we have reliable networks for when networking is required. Most PC's are online all the time, just like servers, and have dual core processors, just like the servers. I wish there where better business models for free open source software.
Can organizations learn that the customer isn't always right?

Will Congressional investigations have the FAA and Boeing take most of the fall, and leave it up to Boeing and airline closed door negotiations for compensation (due to out of service planes) to extract the cost of the demanding roll airlines had in the 737 design? They very clearly wanted a 737, and they wanted it to have the same type certification as the NG.
Pharma firm Bayer hit with WINNTI malware
George Clooney is probably at least 1000 times richer than Joe Average. So he could provide better for 50 women than Joe Average for one.

Of course it doesn't seems as if he is taking on 50 women, so the women are stuck with Joe Average for the most part.

Just because women would prefer George Clooney, doesn't mean they can get him.

And sure, modern society (at least for a while) has made monogamy the norm. Doesn't mean it is best suited for women's preferences.
Personally, my impression is that since at least ~1-4 years, the google searches return less exact matches especially when I search for an exact match of an error message, or multiple exact matches involving the same error message (when I start to become desperate I usually tend to split the error into 2 parts...).

On the other hand the non-exact hits that it returns push me from time to time in the right direction.

Having said this, I don't know of course if A) I'm too old (40) and the mindset of the younger search-people has now changed and/or B) Google just doesn't index tech forums as much as it used to and/or C) there are just fewer forum-posts and/or D) my problems became more complex (don't think so) and/or etc... .

I tried (and still try from time to time) to use DDG and Bing but without success.

Does anybody else have the same impression?
Most of the ghost homes are owned by foreigners for whom that is their sole residential property in Israel. Penalizing the purchase of additional units is ineffective.

Furthermore, even if you could figure out a way to set up zoning regulations to achieve these aims, how would you penalize violations? Fines are just factored into the cost of ownership, just like the taxes on empty apartments.
Homework is a primary cause of stress for 56% of students
How to Draw to Communicate
> I think a conversation we need to have is how to teach people that they deserve to be treated well by their software.

I don't think we need to teach people so much as we need to teach programmer. Emacs, Perl and Python were made to do something in a better way for the user. Any esoteric technology was the result of that. Not as you often see today were it is the other way around and the use case is shoehorned in at the end. If you want to do something nice you don't start with your super advanced back-end, you start with how someone is going to use it.

> What's a more appropriate shining star, our new beacon to show everyone how Software Ought To Be?

VS Code, but that is probably a bit obvious. Maybe something like Jupyter Notebook? WordPress used to be a big one. The thing is that so many things these days are proprietary web applications, mobile applications and/or networks.
if every question begins "Are you aware..." then it sounds like Google is doing all those things, so people may start to change their answers because they don't want to appear they aren't knowledgeable. By saying "Do you expect..." it's possible that some of the things are things Google is doing and some aren't so you can't just change all your answers to yes to appear knowledgable.
Google also buys real-world credit and debit card usage and correlates that with the other information they gather, for example.

I defend myself against Google as much as I can using the methods you cite (among others), but the reality is that it's impossible to avoid their spying entirely.
I once had to sue an employer for wrongful dismissal over anonymous social media posts I didn't even write when I was in my early 20s in Canada and won a small settlement. Process took about 3 months but it was worth it. My lawyer told me most companies, even gigantic ones (i sued a large global airline) are extremely cheap, they have house counsel they use for everything and rarely seek out specialist lawyers which means that their lawyer(s) will be absolutely trounced by your employment specialist lawyer during every settlement meeting. It was amusing watching the highly arrogant Toronto lawyer that was parachuted in, with no experience in employment law, bungle and flounder around failing at every turn during settlement conferences with a judge.

You can refuse overtime in Canada unless you signed some work contract that says you agree to work overtime, ergo you need a real employment lawyer to go over your case. A real employment lawyer is somebody attached to an actual firm specializing in employment law and not the first search results in google, which if you check their name will also be the 'experts' in injury law, a bunch of other spam ads. All you need is a half hour call with them and possibly emailing them your work contract documentation if any exists. Of course they will tell you to start documenting everything like the rest of the comments here suggest.

As for planning an escape if your market is bad then recruiters have an even worse time, so find one and get them to help you. Establish yourself in remote freelance outfits like TopTal, CleverTech, or even Salesforce who hire all over Canada. Then ask your employment lawyer what to do, don't just quit maybe you need to file harassment paperwork first or bait them into firing you by refusing overtime.
Careful — increasing the number of capital crimes, and actually executing criminals, would do that as well, as would imposing more life sentences.
Diablo is orders of magnitude less successful than Fortnite (or even Overwatch, by the same company), and I'd argue the reason is exactly what you are talking about: it's just not a very good game and the things you can get out of it just aren't that valuable. Overwhelmingly people choose more teamwork based, deeply social games. This is what the numbers say.

A second premise I want to address is the idea that using games (or movies or books or whatever) as a mind numbing distraction is a waste of time or the fault of the escape itself. Tons of people are dealing with really intense trauma, and it's not really clear that there really is a better short term alternative for stress management. I think if people are doing things like slashing monsters for 100 hours in Diablo don't look at Diablo, look at what's going on in the rest of their life. Because you can take away Diablo, but you if you aren't fixing what makes them play a shitty game as a distraction for 100 hours you haven't really helped them at all.

Finally: tons of people run pathologically. I mean basically anyone who is serious about the sport does more damage to themselves than is necessary, and runs far more than the optimal amount. I don't think running is exactly the same as gaming, but it's worth examining why we as a culture have no problem discussing Larry's second hip replacement from running 10 miles a day but tremble when discussing Larry's son's 10th hour this week playing Fortnite.
Judgments about wasted time are incredibly subjective and prone to errors, not to mention unclear in relation to what might be the ultimate nature of a human's existence and life. I know some people that love woodworking for example, to me it's a waste of time. I've enjoyed hiking and going in a canoe somewhere, to someone else that'd be a waste of time they could be building a startup. That in turn could be a waste of time for someone who finds spending time with family more important. Anyway, not saying I haven't called things a waste of time, just when I'm honest about it it's really just what I think, not the universal truth.

"That 100th canoe stroke was such a waste, he could have been {0}ing." - Person who judges what other people want to do
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I was wondering this too a few years back when serverless started to gain traction. I remember thinking it sounded like a lot of mock infrastructure. Just did a search and found the following links interesting:

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-best-ways-to-test-your-s...
https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda

It seems non-trivial to set up at this point

EDIT: Still reading into it... https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/te...

Would love to here a best practice case study from someone who has deployed something like this
I see zero evidence that IPFS or Etherum will have substantially market adoption in the near future....
I think this may be one of the reasons why I've trended away from many internet-connected games as of late. I get the feeling that they're really just Skinner boxes under the hood.

Maybe I'm just a curmudgeoney old man (though I'm only 26), but older games just have this more genuine feel. They play the way they play, and while they often have rough edges, I don't get the same sense that they're trying hard to keep the player engaged. I get this nagging feeling that modern "games as a service" have this relationship with the player where they keep them engaged enough to be sucked in but refuse to have a cathartic conclusion. I've grown to appreciate games that end and say "that's all folks".
One thing about the Stripe API that I loved was that I could intertwingle it with my own admin interface, by pushing descriptions and metadata properties into stripe objects that had url links back into corresponding objects in my admin interface (like users, products, coupons, subscriptions, transactions, etc).

Though it may not be explicitly documented, Stripe's web site is smart enough to make the urls in metadata be clickable links, which is a godsend.

So I didn't have to duplicate stuff you could do on stripe's site in my own admin interface, I could just link back and forth between them!
Is eBook publishing pricing killing libraries?
Is there a keyword for that kind of version improvement?
This is exactly what they are attempting to do with solid-state batteries. Again, the whole point of the article is that Lithium Ion batteries will continue to improve and with the vast economy of scale, will continue to be a cost effective option
Funny you say that, because I have actually had all of those cases occur and my current setup handled that just fine. Guess I'm lucky ;o)
> 15 year olds are not, and never have been, "children." They're adolescents.

“Children” does not now generally exclude adolescents, but extends to all pre-adults. We have terms that are more specific that do exclude adolescents, but “children” isn't generally one of them (though in certainly contexts the term might have special definitions.)

(Historically, it may havenexclude some or all adolescents, but that's because in most cultures, adult included some or all adolescents.)

> Controlling adolescents is one of society's most important functions,precisely because of the mismatch between destructive potential and impulse control.

Arguably, but then directly contradicted by:

> Society thus expects adolescents to control their behavior

Does society deem control of adolescents an important social function because it expects that adolescents lack adequate impulse control given their destructive potential or does it not see such a gap and expect that they have adequate impulse control for self-containment? Your second statement cannot be a consequence of the first, it is an incompatible expectation.
Does cloud infrastructure have to be centralized for the foreseeable future? I'd imagine there's a bunch of people even on HN working on ways to decentralize compute, something like you run a shell command and part of your computers resources are now allocated for anyone part of that ecosystem to use.
> Perhaps? You could capture writes, but the majority of our traffic were reads which would have been unreported by logical replication.

Ah yes... of course.... forget I mentioned it... I do a lot of ERP type work so am in a very similar boat most of the time, but I'm currently doing the information architecture for a green field development project and am very focused on some other priorities, so a little work induced myopia on my part.
I like USB-C, lightning, and the new keyboards, although losing magsafe sucks. Having dockability baked into the format is great though. If they move everything to USB-C they will have me satisfied.

The dongles are whatever. I’m not convinced I need permanent ports when I’m not at my desk. Losing the iPhone headphone jack is only an inconvenience when I’m negligent about plugging my phone in and am traveling. I airplay to my receiver at home. I started using a different pair of bluetooth headphones when on the go, but the headphones I actually like, 598s and 579s, are wired. The dongles are priced right. If they were $20 I’d be more upset.

The keyboards were most surprising; as a mechanical keyboard guy, a few months and I’m finding it’s quicker due to low travel and more predictable action. I don’t even have a separate keyboard on my desk now.

I think people just underestimate the big picture benefit of letting Apple shepherd you into the experience they have designed. To them, “everyone” uses bluetooth, so the jack is irrelevant. For me, as someone who REALLY likes my wired headphones, I still get it. The seamless bluetooth experience is nice in and out of the car and traveling.

They make a top level decision like “slim, quiet keyboards!”, “no more buttons!”, or “one cable!” that is appealing to investors and consumers and stick to it. The fact that they are the only brand that seems able to strongly execute on these types of unified schemes, often requiring partners to architect to a specific API (airplay and homekit, for instance) could be proof that the only way to do that is with a lot of steam behind you and strong opinions behind design choices. I cannot wait for what is next in terms of mac/iOS unification.
Let me rephrase it then, just because men _don't_ have a fear doesn't make it an invalid fear.

(and plenty of men do have that fear, but a lot that I know do not)

A picture of a male coworker naked doesn't elicit the same workplace issues that a picture of a female one does. That's unfortunate and I wish it weren't the case, but it is the case.
This is a really interesting project and I like where you're taking it. I've played with Nim for a number of years, and I really like the no-runtime aspect of Muon and the flexibility and simplicity that you've created with it. Unlike many others in this thread, I like the whitespace decisions you've made, though I go in the opposite direction - have you thought about making braces optional?

Your roadmap looks great as well. Have you considered any of the following?:

- Lisp-style Macros (e.g. Macros as functions that transform an AST object) -- this would also answer many of the
preprocessor questions you had, especially if you can specify compile-time behavior (like in zig)

- Github-based decentralized package management system

- Owned pointers memory management options
You probably see more decline in capacitance just by running an MLCC close to its voltage rating than you do for a decade.

Many of the datasheets will show you the derating curve over voltage. Run a 6.3V X5R cap much over 3.3V, and you'll see the effective capacitance decline precipitously - 50% or more.
“Being IE” has at least two meanings: a) having a market share so big that others do not care about the other browsers and b) being technically stagnant for years (though this may be looked at just as byproduct of #1).

So Chrome derivarives might fit first criteria but neither them nor Safari fits (yet) the second one.
Yes, Safari development may be not as fast but it is still ongoing and the team is not disbanded.

The most evil thing Google is doong with their browser right now may be implementation of non-standard features which only help their business.
> FOH with this "I decide who is a kid" nonsense, as if a bunch of law-abiding white kids of the same age wouldn't be called kids by most sane people.

I'm pretty sure flipped out when a judge treated Ethan Couch as a "kid" (and rightfully so).
Would you prefer the government to take your money by force and give it to Wikimedia instead of them 'begging' for money?
It helps me because I use nested VPN chains. And because I alternate jurisdictions. With the goal of complicating log collection.

But in any case, I don't count on nested VPN chains for serious anonymity. Mostly I use them to avoid hassle from torrenting. And conversely, torrenting provides cover traffic, and as well a plausible reason for using VPN services.

But mostly I use nested VPN chains to hide Tor use from local observers. Because Tor usage is far less common than VPN usage, and so far more of a red flag for increased surveillance.
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