skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know what happens by reading the function. Pretty much any function that calls a method on some object mutates its argument. It makes little difference if you abstract this mutation behind the method, or do it directly, or do it via a helper function that takes the object as an argument.

Are we talking about functions in general, or small accumulator functions here? I would argue that mutating arguments in general is a really bad pattern that certainly will lead to weird and subtle bugs in the long run. It is also completely unnecessary – you have inputs and outputs for a reason. You might know what happens if you read the function yourself, but you can never assume that everyone else will.

> No. Most of those are usually more wasteful, because if you can't mutate objects, you'll have to throw them away at every mutation.

No, you don’t. This is an implementation detail. Libraries like immutable.js [1] (and several others, I believe) makes it possible to work with immutable data structures without cloning anything.

> Anyway, it is harmful to avoid mutation at all costs.

We can more or less agree on this one :) My comment was unnecessary bastant. I have used mutations in reducer aggregators myself. But, avoiding mutation removes a source of bugs, without sacrificing readability or functionality.

[1] https://immutable-js.github.io/immutable-js/
For several reasons, most notably: staff, build quality, standards, knowledge of building extremely reliable datacenters. Most of the people who are the most knowledgeable about datacenters also happen to be working for cloud vendors. On the top of that: software. Writing reliable software at scale is a challenge.
And the UK equivalent from the National Cyber Security Council is at:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-a...

Fun anecdote... I spent 6 months last year designing and implementing a 'Self-Service' password reset portal system and password synchronisation system for 50k+ users in a large organisation, only for the organisation in question to switch to non-expiring passwords 1 week before deployment.

Needless to say... usage of the system post deployment was almost non-existent.

Ah well, at least I still got paid.
Squirrels will carry and eat pretty much anything (rats of thre trees) including avocadoes, apples, small melons, compost, other squirrels and dead birds. If they can move it, they eat it. Plus points if it can be burried for winter.
I believe it is 1) different venue for trial (administrative vs a criminal case) and possibly 2) different standard of proof, especially for non permanent residents.

(Not a lawyer nor an immigration expert on US law, though.)
> I've several good responses and rebuttals get buried or get taken out of context unfairly as a result of this heavy handed moderation, which also often comes without warning or acknowledgement.

The comments that get detached are marked as such in a direct reply, with a link to the context.

But speaking of that, I wonder what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20040963...
An Injury is not a clean cut.
So when you use a scalpel to sever it its much easier
if the vpn is well known it gets blocked by netflix, have to experiment with what doesn't get tracked
App serves as a convenient tool for those who decide to start learning Japanese
On using political influence creatively to solve problems
I was asking numbers of reliability, durability and availability for a service like S3. What does wasabi has to do with that?
The internet used to be the preserve of people with money or a real desire to be on the internet, which either meant a desire to engage with ideas or later, a desire for variety in porn they couldn’t satisfy offline. Money and intellectualism both select for more highly educated populations.

> And if the Anglophone internet is ::gestures:: like this now maybe it’s cause it’s less of a professional-class preserve? The dividing line maybe being smartphones where “people on the internet” went from “people who specifically spend $X/mo on it as luxury” to “people with telephone service”? That’s a real possibility, that for all the “Global Village” stuff the wondrous effect of the ‘90s internet was to create a cultural space that was MORE gatekept by wealth and education.

> That’s… kind of depressing, though. “Haha you thought the world was getting better because you were eliminating elitist barriers but actually it’s cause you were making them higher, which is good because the poor and non-elite are disproportionately idiots with worthless ideas and to the extent they’re on top of things the thing they’re on top of is undermining the basis of a good society, and anyway those times were a phenomenon of a narrow early adopter base and you’ll never ever get them back unless you make the non-elite economically and politically irrelevant.” Depressing but very well precedented, that’s exactly the arc newsprint, radio, and TV followed before.

https://kontextmaschine.tumblr.com/post/185164859368/your-gr...
This is why I linked the SLA page which you obviously have not read. There are different numbers for durability and availability.
True, though that hasn't been my experience in SF. I usually see most cars with both Lyft and Uber stickers, and I'm relaying what each driver I've spoken with has told me. Admittedly it's a small sample size.
Sonarr/Radarr can acquire the media files fairly easily, requires not that much setup. If torrent is risky in your country, they also support Usenet, which has most of the recent releases as well (and can be faster in some situations).
I've been wearing an F91 for years and everyday I shower with it. Still functioning.
Terrorist groups don’t have formal rosters the way sports teams do. It is sort of like “former intelligence officer”. It is definitely a strong argument (strengthened by time and distance separation, degree of clear separation or renunciation, etc) but it would almost certainly cause delays and substantial extra investigation, if nothing else.
That is absolutely a known risk of investing in anything other than very low-risk investments (and index funds I guess?).
Thank you but I will comment as I see fit.
Please explain.

I've never seen a reCaptcha on HN. Is that because I registered my account something like 10 years ago?
I'm in Bangkok right now and they have Grab. The Grab price is over-priced by 10-30% compared to what a metered taxi will cost.

But I'll take Grab anyway. The taxi experience is really garbage. It doesn't help that there is a language issue too.
These aren't questions for prospective new immigrants. These are for visa holders. There are a good number of folks that must get a visa for a vacation, for example. These are questions for random foreigners!

In general, immigrants are less of a threat than a citizen, by the way.

This isn't even actual scrutiny either. These are stupid questions. If someone answers yes to being a terrorist, for example, congrats. You've barred someone stupid from entering the country. This is the same tactic used by "nigerian" scammers.

I'll add that some of these are completely outside of a person's control: Things your parents did. I can only imagine having a parent involved in human smuggling and then being barred from travel because of it.
they have invented the term, so probably yes :)
I'd say, back then major players realised that they need to get more careful with capital spendings.

In short term, there was a demand overshoot, but now their decision seem remarkably rational.
For any Google service with billing, always set up an entirely new account, in incognito mode, without using the same recovery phone number or email address.

That way Google won't ban your main account for non-payment.

It's the only way, especially considering Google cloud has no functionality to cap spending.
Back in the day you'd find random gear like this just thrown in dumpsters when it became obsolete or replaced. Rarely was data wiped correctly. I can see a misguided intern thinking, "someone else must be able to use this!", or it just getting into a donation pile by accident.
Fear of recession is irrational. There is no need for continuous growth.
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I always use fake data for services like Uber.
BBC, Sky Have Hidden Their Interviews with UN Expert on the Torture of Assange
> More concerning, I no longer wish to support reddit as a platform. Widespread astroturfing, manufactured controversy, politics, bullying, incessant nitpicking and arguing.

Ever since starting a project to collect and analyse the reddit firehose, I've had a series of eye opening experiences about just how manufactured the popular reddit content is. Every day, comments and posts with hundreds to thousands of upvotes get deleted by moderators because they don't fit the desired narrative. A small ring of moderators are in control of most default subs. A small ring of accounts make up for more than 50% of regular front-page content.

If you ever want to take a glimpse at the amount of manipulation going on, point something like snew.notabug.io at a popular politics or askreddit thread.

Reddit is a platform for pushing manufactured consent/controversy and guerilla advertising. It is not a platform for open speech. The reddit content that most users see often does not represent the views of the userbase.

Here's a random post I picked from an old analysis notebook where most of top 10% of comments were deleted, and then the post itself was deleted when new comments started mentioning the censorship. Should give some idea about the magnitude and scope of what's going on https://imgur.com/a/2C5Kn2R
We need a client that formats a series of twitter posts into a single blog post
Since works get taken out of streaming, you might find things aren't available next month

Either that or Netflix only has rights to the first couple of seasons (or in some cases the middle few seasons) so if you actually end up liking the show you're screwed since you won't be able to watch the whole thing.

Another annoying problem is that in some cases and in some countries Netflix only has the dubbed version of a movie or show and so you're again screwed if you want to watch the original version.
People without incomes can't afford cheap imported food.
Lisp sould ring a bell for high hackability ! (good points though)
i heard about these things but never used one myself (although i had access to a similar if ess user friendly data extraction tool called a DM3 used for nokia and blackberry forensics etc)

they were mainly for forensic or data recovery and sometimes unlocking or password removal. i can tell you that the left side will almost certainly be for various data clips/cables (usually over UART) which usually use an RJ45 although some older ones used the serial connector and a 3.5mm jack, use of RJ45 cables is still fairly common as some models can only be unlocked via UART

im also not sure the sim card slot is actually for sim cards as such but more likely a smartcard auth token for software licences, most unlocking solutions etc are sold as a "box" which is essentially a USB>UART and a USB smartcard reader with a card for the software licence, it may even have accepted 3rd party licences such as infinity etc as i believe they were meant to be a sort of all in one solution. although it may have been for sims if it was recovering contacts and messages stored on the sim

as for why it was there i guess its just ended up unused then gotten chucked out in a clear out, old kit tends to fall by the wayside in this game despite it initially being quite expensive (ask anyone in the mobile biz for any decent amount of time and they almost certainly have an MTbox/MXbox laying about) generally by the time its obsolete its more than paid for itself and is really pretty useless unless you work on a lot of very old stock

places ive worked at had dozens of old unused unlocking boxes and the like which eventually ended up in various tote boxes etc and when the business moved the majority ended up in the skip (where people soon came to try and dig out any potentially worthwhile bits) i suspect this found its way to the store in a similar fashion

it may not actually be much use in this day and age but its an interesting find
There is at least one Twitter bot (@ThreadReaderApp) which does that. People can mention its name and add "unroll" as comment and it produces a website with the tweets compiled.

Pasting a link to a tweet into a field on their frontpage gives the same result:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html

Edit: some Twitter users do not like services like this because people can neither interact with them on these pages nor will the posters get stats how often it was accessed. They consider it stealing their content.

I like them (as user, not content creator) because I like to archive interesting things as PDFs, since you never know if or when something will go away. You might want to use Firefox' reader mode or clean up the page using Stylus or the built-in web development tools before printing to remove all the junk.

When Firefox does not offer to open reader mode on some pages, you can still access it by prepending about:reader?url= to the url. It works anyways most of the time. It even works as search shortcut, so you can add something like read as keyword that points to about:reader?url=%S , usage is then read <url goes here> in the adress bar.
I've had no issues living in Norway for the past 5 years and I'm not sure if I've ever been asked if I were a terrorist. I certainly haven't been asked for my social media information. Not only that, but I could visit Europe for 2 months without a visa. No paperwork, nothing. I had passport control in Copenhaven, but nothing whatsoever in Norway. In contrast, a Norwegian citizen must fill stuff out to have the same luxury in the US.

I'm pretty sure you can't simply "get" a 5 year visa without paperwork, fees, and other such things either. IT isn't that you can't get them in other countries, it is simply that they are called different things - usually something that alludes to being a resident (which is correct).
Highly-skilled migrant. Then, after that, permanent resident also renewable every 5 years.
> The comments that get detached are marked as such in a direct reply, with a link to the context.

Not true, or not (always) true. My comment here was a response to the top comment in the thread, but it was detached without context, warning, or comment and for seemingly no reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809432
I was quoting from the article linked to by the grandparent. I presume that article provides references?
Not really suprising that there wasn't a checklist, a DP3(GPS, backup and failsafe)ship shouldn't ever suffer DP run off. Then it did. So now I suspect there are actually checklists.
Some tech-savvy people in here (Poland) also use cardsharing. Basically it's normal, satellite TV, but they don't get a legal card and set top box from the provider. Instead, some shady company hosted in the Netherlands buys them in bulk, puts it in some special module and lets multiple people use them. It's apparently one card per 3 or 4 subscribers at a time, not one card per household. Haven't tried it muself but apparently it's cheap and reliable.
I'm baffled at the fact that the answer is entirely about radioactivity. Rather than that, uranium in itself is highly toxic (I mean, chemically).
The heydays, I’d like to add Suprnova!
The ACA is already a result of a lot and even more compromise. It's even modeled after a Republican plan implemented in a red state. (In Mass. when governed by Mitt Romney, who at first vetoed it then took credit for it.)
that could be either for data recovery or sim unlocking both of which often require a diag mode or debug port to be enabled on the device
The metal can for the oscillator surely doesn't fill with oil, and would therefore crush at 1000 psi?

Filling this with mineral oil might actually reduce rather than increase its pressure withstanding ability.
Shifting from passwords to more secure systems such as MFA ignores the elephant in the room about passwords that no-one wants to acknowledge: People share passwords.

A simple example is this: A couple do online grocery shopping every week or so, depending who has time to do it, one them will log into the 'account' and build the basket. Maybe the other will then amend the basket a few hours later before the cut off time. With enforced MFA, this is not possible.

There will always be a small percentage of situations where '1 person = 1 account' will never be true. Until providers add the concept of multi-logins to the same 'account' on their systems you can't wholesale move to stronger security methods.

I have the same issue with all these 'smart home' products that need an app installed onto a phone or tablet. A lot of them are bound to a single account, which means if other people in the household also want to have the app, you have to share your account details. if it's a Google or Amazon product, that means you are sharing account details of an account that you really shouldn't be.
> So if you're claiming that cryonics has "a snowball's chance in hell" of working, then I presume that either you are (1) ignorant of the science, or (2) making some sort of statement about long-term storage prospects or the credibility of the organizations involved.

I'm signed up to be a cryonics patient when I die, but yeah, the chances are pretty much nil. Personally, I'll take a slightly diminished bank account and a potentially non-zero percent chance of further life over a zero percent chance, but I won't delude myself into thinking that there's effectively any chance of success here.
tl;dr he had ADHD. So he can't ever finish a blog post, but twitter works for him. Which is fair enough.
I like this sentence. Please elaborate or give some links, I would like to read more.

Edit: why the downvotes? I am sincerely interested to read more about the necessity of growth or the lack of it.
If you know the temperature coefficient of the wire, this isn't particularly hard to do! You can do it easily by applying a constant voltage roughly of the wanted amperage and then calculating the resistance via voltage and resulting amperage, then feedback to adjust voltage.

It's fairly popular in a wide range of applications, mostly either machines with too much current or too large areas to reasonably measure temperature or parts that are too small (vape coils for example can be used in a temperature coefficient mode).
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If you live near an ocean, just tie the watch to the end of 700m of string, and start lowering it over the side of a boat.

Pull it back again and see if it still works.

Obviously you need a deep ocean, so check a map first.
This is the right answer. The only reason we don't work 80 hour weeks for 2 bucks an hour is because the law forbids it.
Which country in Europe has has policies affecting 300M+ people (domestic) and eagerly exports it's policies to other countries?
"Economists and other happiness researchers consistently find that longer commutes are associated with unhappiness. Yet people still pay quite a lot to live in far-flung exurbs."

This feels like an over simplification — the article makes it sound like the individuals don't weigh the benefits correctly.

Anecdotally know a few people in this position who do this because they have to get up earlier but their kids grow up beside woods & heaths rather than in suburbs/city. So you've people doing something which makes themselves unhappier because it makes their family happier (in theory) which they get happiness / satisfaction from.
Cmake has kind of won the popularity contest, but you see so many alternatives popping up, because Cmake is really difficult and slow.

Blessing one build system is only the answer if you've found something that works well for everybody.

Meson is the closest I've seen to maintainable build scripts, speed, and robust builds. But it doesn't have the popularity. Cmake has the popularity but isn't that great in any of the other dimensions.
What was a massive eye opener for me was the few days in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential win, that subreddit went back to normal, it was quiet, level-headed.

After a few days the agenda pushing and blatant shilling began anew and it's been a non-stop screaming mess since.
Please tell me you just forgot the /s or were hoping most people were less cynical than me...
I'm disappointed, but not suprised, to see this post so high. Despite all the ways of watching films at home, cinema is having its most successful years ever, so clearly many people are enjoying the films Hollywood is putting out.
Not just that - you also have to tell drivers you even exist in the first place, and that level of marketing is not cheap.
I wish people would just settle on CMake. Since version 3, CMake + ninja handles everything in a reasonably cross-platform way.

Yes, debugging CMake is a pain. Yes, the syntax is unlike other languages. No, there isn't good modern documentation. Since it's been around so long people often learn old-style CMake (pre 3.0) from ancient webpages from lost corners on the internet. But right now, it's the standard that packages should settle on.
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pressurized oxygen has different effects on your breathing/vascular system ?
I've been rather to the expensive places. Maybe that's where your fellow Americans are hiding?
That question has been there for a while. I opted out of answering it (it is optional, and I read it still is), and didn’t have problems in January. Will test this again in a couple of weeks...
Apple should highly consider it. But I do feel that the app they'll develop will be limiting, sadly. Still, there's hope. Apps like EyesUp (https://eyesup.mobi) and Vero are working their way to become a reliable alternative to Facebook.
You'd be surprised how much work goes to protecting the environment in germany. Or protecting environment regulations.

And the communes take the state of their waters very seriously as well.

You'd likely also upset various environmental groups due to a lot of protected species living around.
German banks also like their 5 character passwords! Fortunately you also need a per-transaction TAN code which makes this a bit better (though many people have this on paper or via an SMS, though perhaps paper is not that bad).
There has been a section on social media accounts on the ESTA application for a while, but it was optional at least up to now.
Reader modes are usually clever enough to grab content from <article> tags, so it doesn't actually have to render the whole page. Plus they insert their own CSS, of course.
MFA doesn't necessarily mean "1 person = 1 account". TOTP codes can be shared, there can always be copies of the certificates, multiple security devices added to the same profile, etc. It differs from case to case.
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You shouldn't take that shortcut over the lawn either. There are two answers to that very basic design problem:
1. Build higher fences to force people to walk along the prescribed path. This is often met with resentment, and various attempts at climbing the fence, or even cutting it down.
2. Lay bricks along the new organic path, so that it's safer to traverse.
I like the latter choice.
The principle is just about the same in the digital world.
Seriously though, if you are one twitter, Foone is one of the best people you can follow.
About 10 years ago, finishing up High School, I had work practice at a company developing a product that would cool the brain without cooling the rest of the body.

I think they had mixed results, and I haven't seen them or their competitors launch their products.

It works though, but it seems very difficult to cool the brain without chilling the whole body.
I do the same, but I also happen to acknowledge that I slowly transition into X Developer, depending on which project I am on.

It is the usual "Jack of all trades, master of none." consulting, but it does come in handy when we need to deal with mixed stacks end-to-end.