skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple reasons, which are used consistently throughout Swift:

Shuffled may accept arguments. First does not

The runtime cost of first is nearly zero, whereas shuffled is doing significant work (constant versus linear time)

It sort of doesn’t matter because autocomplete won’t let you do the wrong thing.
Not if you're in space on a mission.
"there is a huge amount of text, more than 100 words"

"PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers"

Would technical papers have fewer than 100 words?

If people can't be bothered to read 13 slides, what would they do with a technical paper?

If people can't be bothered to make their message clear in slides, how would they create a readable technical paper?

I don't like presentations that consist of "monotonously reading [bullets] as we read along" either. But what does PowerPoint have to do with this? I've seen such presentations done with trendy web tools instead; they don't change anything. I've also read full technical papers written in LaTeX that didn't manage to get their point through the unclear writing (and vaguely misused technical jargon buzzwords).
Samsung Successfully Completes 5nm EUV Development
The commentor is almost certainly making a sarcastic comment that the european data standards act as a firewall conceptually since some companies block europeans from accessing their services because they don't want to do gdpr.
A Look at Indian Startups Targeting the “Stay at Home” Moms for Work
After they fix VPC cold starts (the ENI issue) I hope we get Lambda lifecycle events. onDestroyed, onFrozen, onThawed, etc. You kind of get onCreated now if you put the code into global scope but that's gross
The point is that the "Amazon Choice" lock is a cheaply made Chinese knockoff of another (much better) lock.

https://youtu.be/eOJc9OiRN5A
It's quite hackable but not like Atom or Emacs.

You can find some plugins that could make Atom seems completely different, but most of the VSCode image you can find on the internet remains similar.

Just like with Emacs you can rewrite Emacs itself. And all of the changes in Atom do not require restarting, while some of the VSCode plugins require to restart the code editor (but might explain a little bit why VSCode is faster).
Rocket recycling – catching rocket stages in the air after launch
Im pretty sure you know you have just described the modern society.

Tho lets enjoy the ride while we still can.
Most languages have optionals. Swift is one of the few that has guaranteed non-optionals. Java and C(++) have null pointers but no way to syntactically declare something is non null and have the compiler confirm such
Western Union started their money transfer service in 1871. At the time they were a telegraph company that happened to have this wire transfer business. Today the telegraph is gone but the wire transfers remain as their primary business.

Probably not the absolute earliest but it's a major part of the timeline.
François-Henri Pinault Pledges More Than 100m Euros to Rebuild Notre Dame
Obviously it's both, right? Although "help" is an interesting term. It can span a lot of policies, some that make sense, others that don't. Meanwhile the degeneration of familial support networks and moral codes plays a part in a more atomized society, where falling into drug addiction with no non-state help becomes increasingly common.
I have no problem with paying people for their work, I just don't believe kickstarter is the appropriate platform for selling already completed software. (And neither does kickstarter, unless they've changed their goals recently).
I don't think the top people at amazon are aware of the issue or think it's so severe. spam in different forms is very difficult for even the most advanced companies to fix. look at gmail putting good email in spam or spam sneaking through to regular email. it keeps happening. spam comments on forum postings. amazon is facing another version of the spam problem in fake reviews, fake products, etc. it obviously competes against their agility to have more spam detection vs making it easier for people to sell stuff there.
EXACTLY. I remember us engineers getting 0% raises for years in the mid 2000's when I worked at the Evil-i. Managers had to have meetings to explain to us it was only temporary due to the bubble bursting (options from '97 were underwater until practically 2011). And what, they throw a few $k at us and that's supposed to make up for it? Glad I got out of that toxic shithole. My peers who left in the 90's tried to encourage me to leave, but I thought I'd be stable and loyal. I remember around 1990-91 when former employees who had been "wrongfully terminated" were protesting, and I was a just some mid-20something laughing at them for being slackers. Joke's on me, they were dead right.
Firefox uses http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt

see captivedetect.* options (about:config)
For the past two years I have worked in the local emergency room as a technician working on getting some clinical experience. Let me tell you, in the constant face of life and death, you really just develop a kind of "danger fatigue" and even the most critical moments become somewhat prosaic.

You begin to develop a false sense of security after nobody really does from a gunshot wound. Then, someone septic comes in, and "seems" fine, and they're dead in a few hours.

I'm not sure what this kind of logical fallacy is, but I suspect it's similar in a government environment, where you're constantly at RED ALERT. The risk of danger just seems overstated, even when it isn't.
With an illustration to go with it
Ask HN: What languages of the last 20 years are here to stay?
I am curious after reading HN so much, and seeing so many language fanatics on here, what languages do you think are going to be used for the foreseeable future?

There are so many new ones, so which of the ones from 1999-present, so you think will gain popularity, or maintain a strong niche going forward?
The upward FLOW of capital.
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The solution is simple. Lower the speed limit to 20kph, wait for the ripple to disappear and slowly raise the limit to 100kph. The reason this doesn't work in real life is lack of dynamic signage and because people don't adhere to the speed limit.
That does not prove one bit that the A team was technically performant. It just proves that bullshit sells.
They're pretty public about their "secret sauce", which is to offer a pretty neat ladder up Maslow's pyramid, especially for the parents.

Any family worried about food / clothes can come into the pantry and take whatever they need. Physiological needs, check. Barbershop available. That's really interesting.

Safety needs: see above, with heavy emphasis on dealing with conflict situations. Celebrate coming to school, make sure it's always a safe place, extra hours and days to keep them off the streets.

Belonging and love: everyone in the school are the "chosen ones", they have a tribe, the teachers are on their side, the parents are involved and accountable.

If you handle the first three levels for a person, hitting self esteem, accomplishment (at a personal level, need not be state's best or world's best) can come much easier, even with average quality of teaching. They're also making the parents baseline role models (they clean, clothed, putting food on the table and looking into their own self improvement) and plastering the environment with a topline role model LeBron James (if he can do it you could at least try as hard as he did).
We also just canceled Prime membership. This is the best way to fight back-- walk away.
I'm personally not at all attached to the 'mastodon.social' domain (i'm self-hosting my own account on a different instance), but I am somewhat surprised at this perspective on TLDs.

Most users of the internet have been exposed to TLDs other than ".com". For example, wikipedia is at a .org TLD, US government sites are at .gov domains, university websites are at .edu domains. Most non-US users will frequently interact with their country's (and neighboring countries') ccTLDs, like .de, .uk, .in, ... I find it surprising to assume that users of social networks who have already understood abstract concepts like "like vs retweet" or "like vs share" would find it difficult to understand the difference between .com and .social.

Also in a sense, it is more accurate for Mastodon to be at a .social TLD instead of a .com since Mastodon is a Patreon-supported FOSS project, and isn't a commercial entity like twitter.com or facebook.com. But yeah, I know that .com doesn't really mean "commercial" anymore, and is more of a general-purpose TLD now.

Mastodon has a number of issues that could stifle broader adoption, but I can't convince myself that the TLD is really relevant here. Most users will just be linked to Mastodon from other sites, or find it from a web search. Once its in their web history, web browsers will just autocomplete the site name in the address bar. And isn't the domain squatting and exorbitant pricing on ".com" the main reasons why the new TLDs have been released anyway?
In some ways, every third-world country in the world SHOULD do this. I say this as an Indian iPhone user.

iPhones are a luxury product. A tax on imported high end electronics is a tax on the well-off. Not only that, it's the best kind - a tax that an end-user can choose whether or not they want to pay.
Yeah, my original comment was correct unlike the very confident correction.

The problem is periodic rolling of the ID doesn’t get you anything as any tracking service is simply going to track when the value changes in all the apps, and so all different IDFA tokens can always be tied to a single individual. Rolling, automatic or not, and irrespective of frequency gains you nothing. Tracking companies have repeatedly demonstrated a complete disregard for user privacy.

The /only/ way to fix this is to remove device centric ids from the platform. Then tracking frameworks can’t tied one user to multiple different app installs.

None of this “automatic rolling” nonsense - the API should not be there at all.
I always hear how badly women are treated in SW engineering and yet in 15 years I've only seen sexist comments twice and on one occasion had a personal discussion with the guy and tried to explain it's not ok.

I don't doubt it's happening, but at the same time I'm tired of the media and other activists beating the drum of female rights (and those of other gazillions of minorities) and rubbing my face in the fact that my gender is bad and my race is bad every damn time.

I was reading a book about feminism in Germany and the whole movement jumped the shark and now they're trying to paint being male as something undesirable and actively pursue a strategy of positive discrimination for women. This is exactly what's happening in the US and many other countries with minority rights movements - they're lashing out at white men as the root of all evil, harming essentially random people.

Activists latched on to a strategy of shaming and silencing so-called opponents which is already starting to badly back-fire (as it rightly should).
Actually there was a similar situation during Apollo 13 having to do with possible damage to the heat shield. They had no way to know if the heat shield had been damaged or not by the explosion, and even if they did find out they couldn't have fixed it.

My readings of the Colombia disaster have yielded similar results, unless someone can tell me of a way to repair the tiles on the shuttle. Launching Atlantis early was, as far as I know, determined to be possible only afterwards. At the time they had no idea it could be done, and honestly it sounds like a chance to risk 14 lives instead of 7. Or at least 8, I'm not aware of how many people were actually required to fly the shuttle.
Waiting for cars in front of you is for safety and would be the case even with fully automated nationally adopted self driving electric cars.

When you're stopped you don't need a buffer so much for when things go wrong, but at higher speeds you need a bigger buffer, and having space helps avoid mass catastrophes when some freak storm knocks a tree branch onto the road or a car malfunctions or mechanical failure/wear and tear.
Carole Cadwalladr blasts tech titans at TED: Your technology is “a crime scene”
Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
They actually continued to operate two of the other reactors at the Chernobyl power plant until Unit 2 was closed in 1991 and Unit 3 in 2000. [1] How crazy is that?

[1] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chernobyl-1-3-en...
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> So insider trading on non-public information is illegal and that's not news.

This is a frustratingly common misconception, but it is still incorrect. If you ascertain material nonpublic information without breaking a confidentiality agreement or fiduciary duty, you are fully allowed to trade on that research.

Price discovery is a core function of a financial market. Without information asymmetry, there exists no meaningful way to signal new prices to a market. In the abstract, the only way to achieve alpha is to have an informational advantage over the market consensus.

This is why the SEC is generally very careful in its terminology; to wit, you will usually see the terms "insider trading" and "illegal insider trading" distinguished. The "illegal" prefix is significant. Insider trading also refers more generally to the mundane, non-criminal trading activity of any corporate insiders. Legally trading with material nonpublic data is not insider trading by definition, because you can't legally trade on that kind of information as an insider.

Take a look at the SEC's spotlight of insider trading cases[1]. Note the commonalities - a confidentiality or agreement or fiduciary duty was broken directly (e.g. by an employee of the firm involved) or indirectly (e.g. by friends or family of the employee). Likewise, consider the SEC's definition of illegal insider trading[2].

As for what Munger has said about HFT - it frustrates me to hear that he's said those things, because of the coherent criticisms you can levy against the practice, frontrunning is not one of them. It's extraordinarily frustrating to me that you're characterizing this as something debatable - it isn't! "Frontrunning" has an established, precise definition which the SEC will happily and aggressively use for litigation - HFT or otherwise. Whatever Munger's problems with HFT are, his argument would be strictly better if he dropped the inaccurate jargon and simply criticized the practice directly.

In fact, I can't find a single citation in which Munger actually provides an argument for why HFT is bad or frontrunning. There are legitimate reasons you can be concerned about HFT, but Munger doesn't seem to mention them. Instead, every source I can find has him claiming HFT is wasteful or unproductive because he doesn't like the idea of people competing on nanoseconds. His overall dislike for the practice is extremely underspecified.

In contrast, Levine is actually far more neutral about the activity than you've given him credit for. He has written extensively about HFT, Flash Boys, IEX, the various players involved and the peripheral industries and incentives. He might not be as personally successful or wealthy as Munger, but his take on the subject is - objectively speaking - much more well-constructed and coherent.

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1. https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/insidertrading/cases.shtml

2. https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersinsiderhtm.html
There's actually still a couple hundred or so traders in the pits at the CME in Chicago. Certainly nothing like what it used to be, though.
And how do you want to write it? With 'safer' JVM based languages? Rust? Go?

C++ has the best memory model out there. Why do they want to extract raw C pointers from smart ones? This seems like a bad practice if you need to do that.
Isn’t penalizing players who breach etiquette what separates games from fights?

I’ve literally never understood that idea, because it’s antithetical to what separates games from genuine conflict: adherence to social norms during contests.

Lying to make a sale is known as fraud, and “against the rules”, so to speak: enforcing that isn’t “hating the player”, it’s “protecting the game”.
If that person likes it they can go to AMO and install it like the extension that it's supposed to be. Instead of wasting space, time, and technical debt for all the users who don't want to use it.
You must be a Leo.

(You got a upvote from me.)
No, we've been over this. If they were a local news site, they would have nothing to fear, since they can't reasonably be expected to be doing business with Europeans. If they are a huge multi-national pretending to be a local news site, then the GDPR block makes sense.
Yep, but it's growing. The premium segment(above 500$) is the fastest growing segment of the market. And even the segment just below it (300$ - 500$) is a chunky portion of the market who are all potential customers for the premium segment.
Watching this frustrates me tremendously.
Neither xhr nor subdomains sound like valid features/bugs. Just because they don’t agree with changes you want doesn’t mean it’s “abandoned”.

As for why someone would request JS - you’re the one who suggested chrome/ff blockers are “more advanced”. And yet here we are on a thread about arbitrary code execution.
You know, I decided not to take your word for it, and I have come to the conclusion that you are right but not for the reason I initially thought.

The article actually does a pretty good job of explaining the field of Astrological snake oil software and the motivations behind it. VC’s are putting money in it because they seem to be able to plausibly get a fat ROI.

BUT: The New York Times also manages to twist contemporary American politics into the article, somehow, and link the increased popularity of this snake oil to the current sitting President’s election. That is to say, the New York Times can’t even write about an investment trend or fad or whatever into a very popular brand of snake oil (which you can now get a $20 monthly consultation subscription for!) without blaming it on the President.

So this article is dumb, but as a data point on the scale with which to measure the present day quality of this particular newspaper, it is actually fascinating and insightful.
The funny thing is, as local news for Louisville, GDPR doesn't even apply. (Yes, this was more than clarified already.) More than likely, they implemented some third party adtech tracking vendor, which is by default blocking EU countries from sites now, or has to for it's own compliance across it's entire network.
Be thankful your private data was just protected. They wouldn't have the block if they were not abusing users data.
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This is just Sino brainwashing in the East as workers in the West move toward a four day week. Does anyone really expect the 996ers, on their death beds, will say, "I'm sure glad I made oligarchy great again. I regret not going the extra step to be a 10-10-7 worker."

Perhaps 996 is the perfect life for a population of incels who are not going to make family a significant element of their lives.
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I believe this is pretty hard to fake realistically, plus it goes with the necessity of significantly lowering your own product score, so..
I’m really impressed with this simulation. It’s an excellent illustration of the dynamics of traffic flow.

The default examples are good too. The kind of bunching you get due to merging traffic onto higher speed roads, and the kind you get from traffic slowing down to exit on a slower speed road, both of these are great examples that come up in the real world very frequently.
Funny, I watched the embedded video yesterday. It gives a very good explanation of how the core worked, including a lot of theory and implimentation details. They wire up an actual core, and write a bit, then read it back by detecting core flips with an oscilloscope.

It's a bit long, but well worth the time to watch.
> We should be asking why they asked irresponsibly.
> I suspect that the guilt they must live with is punishment enough.
We should ask this for the sake of science. However, it is not only accident prevention here that should be at stake here. They signed off and should be held responsible. I'm not even talking about punishment here but about repairing the damages done.

This is a question of justice first of all. Punishing for the sake of punishment is not the way forward. It is true that people will think twice [before dismissing such kind of complains] if they see that you can't get away with [unintended] murder but this should be a secondary, positive side-effect only. If you try to punish to send a message it might be unjust, send the wrong message (like, silencing whistleblowers that have doubts or people from fixing their own mistakes), or both.
> India by comparison is a disaster. You don't even know which official to bribe to get the power to stay on properly. Almost more trouble than it's worth to enter that market

Oh dear. Thats patently false.
Major manufacturing usnits get their own dedicated connection along with own local grids. The power situation for large industries is as good as it gets. Smaller industries and consumers may get the shaft in some areas but this is never the case for the big ones in major manufactiruing areas.
It's not a full sized car but you might want to check out Amazon's DeepRacer which was announced at re:Invent 2018:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JMHRKQG
This seems backward.

They want ActivityPub servers to apply to a central service (keybase) to offer cross server identities.

And they want users to trust that central service to decide who is who.

It's always amazing, how strong the force of centralization is.

Even when the whole value proposition of a technology is that it is decentralized, users will soon flock to centralized services built around it and end up in the mercy of a few organizations again.

Reminds me of all the people who think they hold crypto currency while in reality they "hold" yeah-we-promise-we-owe-you-somethings by some exchange.

Reminds me of how little resistance the Ethereum elite faced when they flushed "code is law" down the toilet and forced all users to switch to a fork with rewritten history.

What makes this attempt of centralization even more tragic is that it does not bring anything to the table. If you want to run a service that let's people claim they are joedoe@host1 and joe_the_doe@host2, just let them publish two messages. "I am joedoe@host1" on joe_the_doe@host2 and "I am joe_the_doe@host2" on joedoe@host1. Neither the integration with the hosts nor the crypto spiel is needed.
Looks like the current code doesn't support it.

https://github.com/wasmerio/python-ext-wasm/blob/master/src/...

but in theory it shouldn't be too hard™
yeah fake reviews are an industry thing and it's basically not much different than advertisement and once you treat them like that they aren't such a grating issue... what is a huge problem to me instead is that their search is completely useless because everyone is writing everything on their pages, even if you look for a specific brand of items, even if you further filter by brand, nothing seem to work and a lot of junk fills up the result page.

that and commingled inventory.

currently I trust more aliexpress to deliver the product as pictured than amazon.