skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the subculture. It's like any trust game. You violate trust, you won't get trusted in the future. There's long-term reputation. And that's just some of the factors behind how subcultures come to basically honor agreements like this. The concept of such agreements would be discarded and laughed at in a context where they were rarely kept. Just knowing that the concept exists is enough to know that it must have gained trust and deference in the subculture.

Listen to the This American Life episode linked elsewhere in the comments to get the context. The guy who broke his promise actually meant the promise when he said it and then felt privately ashamed of breaking it (and breaking the promise was itself a spur-of-the-moment, wasn't-thinking decision). That's not what happens if it's just mind games.
The new version wraps WinUI/UWP widgets not WPF
I find it interesting that most threads on HN lately about Windows always seems to have quite a few comments in the form "I switched from Mac to Windows, loving it!" I know no place is immune from shilling, but it does raise a particular brow.

Conspiracies aside, and probably more interestingly, I am not convinced that "this is the new Microsoft" or that Satya Nadella is some visionary CEO because while everyone has been seemingly lulled to sleep here on "the new Microsoft" on HN lately, guess what accounted for an ever growing portion of Microsoft's business last quarter? Microsoft's data mining business! Horray! So while we are out here with our pitchforks on the Google's and Facebooks of the world collecting our data and selling it, Microsoft has quietly turned around and ramped up their version of these practices seemingly unscathed.

Remember, Microsoft is still under scrutiny for continuing to collect your data on Windows and other products even after you have opted out. From my perspective, choosing to run Windows is still choosing to run a spy machine for Microsoft.

Maybe I am wrong, but Microsoft still doesn't deserve our trust, not even in the slightest.
But if they put in a warning light, then they would have had to add an item to the emergency checklist for what to do when the warning light came on. This would entail explaining about MCAS. Which would have led to discussing how a single AOA sensor could control the horizontal stabilizer of the plane.
Heya. Any windows laptop you could recommend?
Thanks
Reading this discussion, I think one inescapable conclusion is that personal experience has a great influence on what people consider a desirable coding style. Among other things, people often infer something that isn’t actually there, because such an inference would hold in the programming language(s) or the more general programming model(s) they are familiar with.

For example, there’s a big thread about the three-way comparison function in this discussion. Lots of people don’t like nesting ?: syntax to implement the required behaviour as a one-liner, but the objections essentially seem to be about the syntax of the ternary-if operator in C family languages. In another language, with a more intuitive syntax for this behaviour that doesn’t look like operator soup, the underlying idea of testing a series of conditions in order and yielding a single output value based on the first condition that matches might be perfectly intuitive to those same people.

Someone else in that thread commented that using a switch statement with conditions rather than specific values was unwelcome because then the more general conditions might overlap. Again, that view seems to be based on what the keyword “switch” means in a lot of established programming languages. There are other languages with features that test a series of potentially overlapping conditions in order and act based on the first match, and perhaps that same person might not have had the same objection to the same behaviour if it didn’t come with the baggage of the term “switch”.

At this point, I personally wish I could concentrate more on the intent when I’m programming. For example, do we need an expression or a statement here, or are our conditions a set of mutually exclusive options or potentially overlapping? My ideal programming language today would provide ways to express differing intents with some — any — reasonable syntax, but with very clearly defined semantics. Whether a language uses semicolons or syntactic whitespace or Lispy parentheses has long since stopped mattering to me. But that’s the me who’s been doing this for a long time and got tired of debates about minor details because in the end they mostly don’t matter. A younger me, one in the early years of his programming adventures who hadn’t yet seen these discussions a hundred times before and didn’t yet think in the same ways, would probably have delighted in the language lawyering and syntactic quibbles in that thread, and would no doubt have had a strong opinion on each suggestion.

And that brings us neatly back to where we came in, because it means the properties of code that is clear and desirable to me today are very different to the properties that would have made code clear and desirable to me, say, twenty years ago. So if I were writing code today and trying to be as clear as possible, my target audience would be a huge factor in the choices I’d make.
I wouldn't say that I am casually dismissing them, I am callously dismissing them.

But seriously? What is the alternative? Moving closer and closer to forced vaccinations for everyone who can be vaccinated? This will only feed their discourse.

Though I believe we both agree on the benefits of vaccination (my children are vaccinated and will continue to receive their vaccinations as recommended), I think we disagree on the nature of the perceived threat. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that you consider the lack of vaccinations the main threat here. According to me, the antivax movement itself is the greater potential threat.
It only took about 5 years to get one rendering engine for both Mac and windows, but sure it would be easy.
If you take away the steering and brakes, there is no way to clear a dead car out of traffic so everyone else can get on with their lives. Take those away and your car is suddenly blocking me because the power system shit the bed, I’m gonna be considering violence very shortly.
The way I see it, there really isn't any room for debate here anymore. We could all go back and forth about how actions to help ecosystem collapse are going to blunt our current economy, but ultimately, that won't help; our current collective lifestyle needs to take it on the chin. And we should all be afraid. Not the paralysing, indecisive type, but the kind that makes you enact lifestyle changes when you get some bad news at the doctor.
Eh, I was in this same boat as a VMWare Workstation user -- I haven't upgraded my license recently, and v14 has a number of bugs that are very annoying -- but at this point with tools like Windows Sandbox in 1903, various Hyper-V/Manager improvements, I went ahead and caved and went and enabled HyperV and removed Workstation. The fact HyperV manager can now do easy one-click installs of Ubuntu, etc, is nice.

At this rate -- for my uses, anyway -- I expect Microsoft to update and expand Hyper-V (and Sandbox, and WSL v2) in a much more timely fashion than Workstation, especially considering it's a core technology of theirs (across desktop and also server). On top of that, VirtualBox and QEMU now support the new Hypervisor APIs[1], so Workstation is the odd one out in my mind.

In the end between updating my license and sticking with this, I haven't gone back yet, but we'll see once I put Hyper-V in 1903 through the motions...

[1] I actually recently installed QEMU for Windows, followed some of those Rust OS tutorials, and booted my own disk image in QEMU's graphical mode, using the WHXP mode in QEMU (-accel whxp on Windows, instead of -accel kvm on Linux) and it all worked like a charm. Amazing how well QEMU seems to work these days on Windows.
In theory you are supposed to comply with your regulatory ratios at all time. The excess over these regulatory minimums can fluctuate, but if you are in breach, you need to notify the regulator.
I don’t think we know the mechanism by which anti biotics cause growth. I personally think the parent is correct but I don’t know why s/he implies it wouldn’t work for humans. I hypothesize that gut flora eat food in your stomach, breaking it down faster so it passes through your gut before being absorbed, and by eating the nutrients themselves. If you have no gut flora, more will be absorbed by your system.

I similarly hypothesize that you could do a poop transfusion of skinny people with excellent metabolisms to aid in weight loss for fat people with terrible metabolisms.
Lots of people want to select text as a trigger to pause the foreground process?

I'm not sure which side is misrepresented, but it sounds mad from the outside!
Vs has been the best c++ ide for a while. the debug is way better
I pretty much disagree here. Before she passed last year, I had my grandmother on linux for about 11 years. I had wine setup for the handful of old games (95 era) she liked, and made sure to update everything once or twice a year. Of course one time I waited too long. Archived her home dir, and installed the latest Ubuntu, restored her home dir, and she was up and running again.

She didn't have to know anything about linux to use it. The same is true for a lot of people. More so in a corporate environment with dedicated staff to handle the harder problems. Hell, most people in offices could get away with a Chromebook and Office 365 today.

Of course, general use laptops and proper linux support are not things that are very common. That part truly sucks. And, yeah, it's not pre-installed for the most part except for some boutique vendors and a couple Dell offerings.

Aside:

Have had a few looks at System 76 lately. May change out my mid-2014 rmbp next year. Unfortunately it's one of the last systems with NVidia, and the metal 2 support for the 750M doesn't work well at all. I'm also probably going to change my desktop to Linux in a few months. Hackintosh support is all but going away, and although I could change out my GTX 1080 with a next gen Navi for hackintosh, but I just don't want to support the mac platform anymore, and my 1080 has a lot of life left in it.
I’ll take JSON over text any day.

Email parsing can break in so many subtle and/or obscure ways that I have trouble putting any confidence in the parsing code I’ve written… it’s quite frustrating, especially since there aren’t well tested mail parsing libraries for every language/platform to fall back on.

On the other hand, JSON parsing errors are reasonably bounded and there’s well-tested highly optimized libraries for it for practically every supported platform and language. No it’s not perfect or even well suited for the task, but it’s still an improvement.
You'll need to do this with NAND-based devices as well, as NAND tends to lose data integrity as data is repeatedly read out.
> It occludes the nested structure.

The nesting is irrelevant to understanding the semantics, so this objection doesn't fly. The idiom is basically just a truth table with conditions on the left and the matching value on the right. You read it left-to-right, top-to-bottom, just like all other code. The first condition on the left that matches returns the value on right-hand side.
Over 100 Riot Games Employees Walked Out to End Forced Arbitration
Here is the post you are looking for, I think ... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-is-the-future...
They propose nearly nothing that would change anything. All I see is offering free tampons, with the claim that female prisoners are trading sex for tampons. (we call this prostitution, not rape) Unless there is something I missed somewhere, that charity looks to be busy collecting donations for nothing.

There is exactly one solution that will work. People can't get raped if there is nobody to do it. The people in solitary confinement are not getting raped.

As I understand it, most prisoners are denied solitary confinement. Supposedly this is a kindness, but cost seems to be a more likely reason. I know I'd be terrified of a cellmate, and would thus suffer sleep deprivation at minimum, so I'm not seeing the kindness.
Thanks for elaboration. I do agree with the concerns you brought up. I think the main point the $50 proposal has is this: the business model around alcohol/tobacco is targeting a normal distribution of sales. The business model of those predatory games is targeting a heavily skewed distribution, in which there's a long tail of people who just wasted a lot of their time and a bit of money, and a bunch of whales that dump disproportionate amount of cash into the games. The $50 proposal, even modified to $100 or $200, essentially cuts off 90+% of the earnings and destroys the reason for making these kinds of games in the first place.

As for the "fine line between engaging and enabling", two points. One, it's not just "enabling". Selling tobacco is "enabling", those games are actively designed to max out the addiction factor. Two, I agree the line is fuzzy, but I think the "you'll know it when you'll see it" argument does apply in this case. There is a meaningful difference between games optimized for being fun and an artistic expression - like most video games in 80s, 90s and 2000s - and skinner boxes thinly wrapped in a theme. It's hard to define what that difference is, because it ultimately is a difference of Colour[0], which is something hard to capture in laws. But I believe that we must try to discourage people from creating "games" of the "Skinner-box" colour.

To give random examples of games I spent ridiculous amount of time on as a kid: StarCraft and Fallout 1 and 2. They were "addictive" in the sense a good book or a good sports can be addictive. But they were first and foremost designed to be fun and tell a story, addictiveness was incidental. At no point they tried to use it to get more money from me/my parents.

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[0] - https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
I can't help to see similarities between this article and the recent phenomena of competitive battle royale games. Currently, Fortnite is in the midst of perhaps the largest open-entry tournaments in history[1], and seems to be establishing these sorts of norms very quickly. Although "teaming" (direct collusion, such as the event featured in this article) is explicitly prohibited with serious consequences, most players implicitly acknowledge that the competition isn't truly "winner takes all," at least at the individual match level, since there are incentives for placing in the top 5, top 25, etc.

As someone who does not play Fortnite but is interested in the social aspects of the game, one term I noticed being thrown around a lot in the competitive subreddit was "w-keying" and its impact on the competitive aspects of the game. "W-key" is a reference to the "W" on a QWERTY keyboard, or "forward" based on WASD movement, and refers to (overly-)aggressive players in Fortnite's competitive scene[2]. This term is derogatory; being called a "W-Keyer" implies a lack of tactical awareness and immaturity as well as a degree of unsportsmanlike behavior.

At first I thought this was sort of weird. "Aggression" in competitive games generally refers to a tactics-level decision, and is thus is generally accepted as part of the game, keeps other tactics in check and makes a better spectator sport by encouraging proactivity. Think zerg-rushing in Starcraft, Mono-red Aggro in Magic The Gathering or Serve-and-Volley in tennis. But most competitive games are zero-sum at the match level (one wins, one loses, or both tie), whereas Fortnite is not. In Fortnite's competitive mode, certain types of aggression is akin to "defecting" in the Prisoner's Dilemma, reducing the overall likelihood of both parties placing (due to one party being eliminated, both parties using up a significant amount of resources, and a reasonable likelihood that a third party swoops in).

I'm not going to go any deeper into the game theory aspects since I would quickly go beyond my comfort area. However, that it's essential that such phenomena are explored more deeply. E-Sports figures are the newest celebrity class, and "people famous for playing video games" has gone from a Wikipedia stub to an ecosystem that mirrors "traditional" star athlete culture. If W-Keying becomes an unwritten taboo, how will punishment for breaking this taboo be meted out? Will those who play the game The Right Way seek to ostracize these players or seek retribution inside/outside the game? Will exceptions be made for star players or would said players face even more scrutiny? What degree of governorship do the companies that put on these competitions have over this type of behavior?

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18235132/fortnite-world-c...
[2] I am not 100% sure if this term is specific to Fortnite, Battle Royale-style games or WASD-controlled games in general, I've just only encountered it in this context.
genuinely curious but how so ? because the true source IP address is masked ?
This is a service provided by the regulator...

https://www.frbservices.org/resources/central-bank/faq/exces...
You could certainly do this, using distillation or the thermal processes Carbon Engineering is doing, and it could be worth pursuing, from a business opportunity perspective. We're focused on an implementation that can scale to >300 B gallons per year, so are pursuing an electricity only path.
Trust, Privacy, and Free Software
Which was also bugged as hell at start (or still is?)
I work on Mono and used to maintain a .NET cross compiler and the Core / Standard / Framework terminology still makes no sense to me.

On the bright side unifying products and libraries and stuff will mean it doesn't have to confuse me anymore (:
Yes you're 100% spot on. That other income sources and in particular labor income grow at g is just an assumption in Piketty's theory.

If labor income is growing at a different rate, the "correct" version of the theory should have r-g(labor_income). This would probably give even more extreme because it seems like in many countries the growth rate of labor income is less than the growth rate of the economy, i.e. r-g(labor_income)>r-g(GDP).

If you're interested in the dynamics of the economy and distribution if different variables grow at different rates, see here see e.g. http://www.princeton.edu/~moll/UG-slides.pdf
We want to get to >300 B gallons per year of gasoline, and only direct air capture will scale to that level.
The Free-Speech Thunderdome
Mono existed from very early on with .Net and the core was pretty compatible. I think when MS bought Xamarin, it finally got the attention it deserved, and really did go to help .Net Core take form.
.Net Core Is the Future of .Net
Yep! Coffeescript does it too. It was always weird seeing random values pop out of functions while debugging. Also coffeescript's loops evaluate to a list, which meant that functions which ended in a loop in coffeescript would end up constructing and returning arrays that would never be used.

Rust will also only return the last expression in a block if it doesn't end in a semicolon. This can be a bit subtle when you're reading a long function, but combined with explicitly specified return types its hard to mess up while writing code. Because of the choice about that semicolon, its an explicit choice whether you want a block to evaluate into that expression or not. And for functions you can always just use an explicit return statement if you want anyway.
the user have to reenter their email, so it's opt in.

some people do expect a live response, but some also expect a bot. People have come to associate chat bubbles with chat bots I think
Could you make a perfectly safe bank if it ONLY wrote mortgages and only loaned the first 60% of the 5-year moving average of a house's price? If it require 20% down and let higher risk lender's lend the rest. Arrange it so your bank always gets paid back first.

Don't allow reselling mortgages and managers never earn bonuses for a higher rate of return. Don't even offer checking accounts, just savings accounts. Don't have branches.

Would we even need deposit insurance for such a bank?
As a very fair skinned person, this suggestion is laughable. Clothes and a hat are not an alternative to sunscreen, you just can't get the protection coverage that you can with lotion.
No really.

An ad convincing me to try X energy drink at least results in me getting an energy drink.

Games like this are selling you on a worthless digital item.
"Google, Audi, Carbon Engineering, Global Thermostat, Climeworks, and labs at universities and national labs have all done it before us. What no one has been able to do so far is do it at a low enough cost to compete with fossil fuel." So Google failed but Prometheus will succeed.

Are you just trying to make a buck in The End Times?

I have no feedback, Mother Earth has, probably a couple of hundreds of them loops... We are screwed.
*citation needed
This is actually one of the biggest reasons that socialized medicine is going to be a requirement rather than a nice to have.

Literally the cost of labor is just too high for this to not be part of a social safety net.
Neither Darwin or the BSD's (though I'm no BSD expert, I could be mistaken) have a stable system call ABI either.
Linux seems to be pretty unique in this regard.
I think describing Mono as Official is a bit of a reach. AFAIK they benefited from the patent promise but that was about it until the acquisition.

If you mean .NET Core as official open source, that's true, but it's a relatively recent thing.
We think air travel will be dramatically better with zero carbon jet fuel. That doesn't remove all of the impacts, but it's worth doing.
Populists Like Late Bloomers
Do you also have a list for why many people oppose HTTP (or better what is sometimes called "shoehorning everything in a HTTP shaped box")? I guess that the versioning and advanced features are a stark contrast with versionless TCP from the '80, but I am interested in hearing more opinions on the matter as I am ignorant of any dealbreaker regarding HTTP.
Apps may run fine, but anything that interfaces with hardware is a crapshoot.
Seaborn
> I'm not even sure if the winners are the 'best' riders

That's part of what makes it interesting, because there are so many tactics and ways of winning. It's not purely about athletic ability, but also about racing smart.
I think we decided that it wasn't constitutional, in most cases, to keep prisoners safely isolated from each other. Somehow, having the safety of a private cell is considered cruel, while having to sleep in a cell with a convicted criminal is not.
I think, for the most part, Mono is being rolled into Core. From what I've seen, it looks like large chunks of Mono were moved, migrated or otherwise refactored into Core anyway. My reading of this is that what is now the Core runtime, will be what is .Net everywhere, and that while not mentioned, Mono as a separate runtime, much like .Net framework will not see new releases in favor of a single .Net 5.
Importantly, they also have independent failure modes. I’ve never known a SAN to be within an order of magnitude of the advertised uptime — and some interesting failures have been caused by HA features. Local storage avoids whole classes of problem and has much greater aggregate performance if you can make it work for your app.
How does this compare to Scantegrity [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
No, people interacting is people talking together and then doing things together. Please don't try to act like voting or otherwise going the political route is anything like that. I will believe you once there is no government in the middle. There is absolutely no need for a third party, especially given we're talking about code sharing and not about saving dying people.