skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I largely agree with the post, but using "Baba is you" as an example I think actually goes against the authors point. The art in "Baba is you" is very simple, and would likely not take much money to create, yet the game still looks very nice (in my eyes, at least). It uses simple graphics very effectively, while the author seems to use more complex graphics, and as a result the game as a whole actually looks worse and less consistent.
Amusingly enough, that’s because most of them are C99 features.
That is my point. But the simple minded view of evolution found altruism challenging. I’m saying that increasing shareholder value is the simpleminded equivalent, that we should be focused on stakeholder value.
Those decisions seem pretty reasonable from the perspective of a mostly-Django dev! Do you think >30% of users would want to install those things every time they use serverjs.io? If not it seems fine to leave them out.

I think Django supports db-backed/cache-backed/file-backed sessions out of the box, but I think Flask doesn't have native sessions at all, it's only addable with additional libraries, but I could be wrong.
It seems like you would have to prove it is gross negligence though. It's not their fault if they lost a database to a 0day or if they were otherwise doing everything reasonably correctly.
> It is also why C++ is not a strict superset of C

Can you explain? That code in C++ also scopes ‘a’ to the block.

EDIT: I see you’ve edited the code, but I think it’s still true in C++. I’ve often done that for RAII and unless I’m mistaken it works just as well when shadowing variables like you’re doing as when not.
All these systems stay proprietary, and then others can't build on top of their previous work. Seemingly any "science" which is designed to make money gets locked up in intellectual property or patents and the state of the art never progresses.

We have probably re-invented the exact same systems over the last 30 years, poorly, because companies are too bass-ackward to share their engineering work.
Don’t Ban New Technologies
Matt Levine has an worthwhile take on the new "stakeholder" mission statement:

"""
It is productive—not 100% accurate, but a useful heuristic—to assume that all corporate governance debates in the U.S. are about whether shareholders or managers should have more power to control the corporation. There are other stakeholders, sure, but they are mostly tools in the shareholder/manager fight, not power centers in themselves. 6 So when an association of big public-company CEOs gets together and declares that corporations should serve the community, take care of the environment, and be responsible to employees and customers, not just shareholders, that might be because the CEOs have thought it over and decided that employees and the environment are getting a raw deal, but it is also possible that the CEOs have thought it over and decided that shareholders are annoying.
"""

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-19/maximi...
Limitation of the particular Bluetooth version (4 vs 5?), needs to use one or the other. Believe it's addressed in a later version, either by a new profile or maybe similar to the solution you suggest. Did a little research into this after going nuts when headphone quality dropped when the mic turned on in a mobile game.
X, x^x, x^x^x, – Derivatives and Tetration
Perhaps it does. But since the majority of us here consider MMT to be insanity, your comment carries very little weight. (And some random podcast isn't very persuasive, either.)

To supply some evidence for the other side: Even Krugman considers MMT to be insane, and he's the economist who should be most favorable to it (since he's the most borrow-and-spend, deficits-don't-matter of any economist I am familiar with).
That's true in C++ as well: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/scope
E-Prime
In 1998-1999 or so, starwars.com and Homestead teamed up to make the fan.starwars.com/ wysisyg fan websites. I loved mine and it's been gone for ~20 years, with seemingly no chance at all of an archive. Hardly anyone seems to remember these in the first place, star wars fans and nerds included. Maybe some day.
This short piece is a response to the recent statement by the Business Roundtable, a group that represents CEOs of big corporations, about the "purpose of a corporation."

This piece is also the best takedown I've seen so far of Milton Friedman's influential article, "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits."[a]

Key passages:

> ...if the purpose of a business is to “increase its profits,” as Friedman argued, then it is not only “clear-headed,” but also justifiable for a business to use its political influence to dismantle the free market that Friedman cherished.

> ...the notion that the big public corporations are tribunes for the free market is quixotic. Big corporations are islands of socialism within our market economy: Their bigness protects them from competition for customers and workers.

> ...[Businesses] can (like Facebook) break promises to respect their customers’ privacy. They can (like Twitter and Google) generate ad revenue by facilitating the transmission of hate speech. They can (as Exxon used to do) propagandize against climate science. They can (like Jimmy John’s) use illegal contract terms to deter their low-skill workers from quitting low-paying jobs. They can (like the tobacco companies and now the tech companies) push addictive products onto children, or (like Purdue Pharma) create a generation of drug addicts. And they can engage in corporate lobbying. The biggest problem with Friedman’s theory is that corporations can—and, according to his theory, should—use their influence in Congress to block laws that stop corporations from causing such harms.

> ...Nor was Friedman correct that business executives are the employees of the shareholders. Legally, business executives are employees of the corporation, which—crucially—they, not the shareholders, control. The shareholders have a contractual relationship with the corporation that entitles them to a share of its profits and a vote on certain major corporate decisions. Time and again, CEOs have used their power over the corporation to bat away shareholders when they propose that the corporation should act in a socially responsible way. When an employer says “jump” to an employee, the employee jumps. When shareholders say “jump” to the CEO, the CEO sues them.

The author is Eric Posner.[b]

Go read it.

[a] https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/09/13/223...

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Posner
The preprocessor trick of passing function macros as parameters is not that obscure. I have seen it used and I've used it myself. It is very useful when you have a list of static "things" that you need to operate on.

Say I have a static list of names and I would like to declare some struct type for each name. I also would like to create variables of these structs at some point, and I would always do so for the entire block of names. You could do something like this:

#define apply(fn) \
fn(name1) \
fn(name2) \
fn(name3) \
...
fn(nameN)

#define make_struct(name) struct name##_t { ... }
#define make_variable_of(name) name##_t name;

...

apply(make_struct); // This defines all the structs.

void some_function(...) {
apply(make_variable_of); // And this defines one variable of each type.
}

Yes, it is not pretty (it is the C preprocessor after all), but it can be very useful and clean.
An analysis of Glassdoor data on interviews and offers
I didn't anywhere in my comment say this was a purely technical issue, or that I was advocating a purely technical solution, or that the societal side does or does not need to change, or really anything that you mentioned.

I said I'm apathetic because this happens too much, and that it is a problem. Where you assumed all the other stuff about me, I'm not sure.
same here! it was my “awesome homepage” and sadly I can’t find any trace of it
the part fan placement is an issue, you might have a silicone sock, that's why I didn't want to go this route.
That would assume the law wasn't subject to regulatory capture. In theory high fines exist, in practice they really don't. See the debacle with Equifax and not having any real money in the fines to make people whole for their wholesale credit history being breached.
The unease is too abstract to me.

I understand that it feels creepy at first, but personally that feeling faded away. As things stand personally, I'm consuming online services from Canada and I don't understand what's so bad about the current level of targeting.

Most of my discomfort is based on potentialities, the what-if's, but I don't think I would demand complete privacy from corporations before anything severe happens.

People distrust corporations immensely, but I'm more worried about politically motivated organizations, such as the government.
It's true that the corporation making a profit benefits the shareholders, but that doesn't mean the purpose of the corporation is to maximize this shareholder benefit. The corporation obviously wants to attract and retain shareholders, and so it must give them sufficient return on their investment, but that's it. And giving the shareholders value isn't at all the "purpose" of the corporation, it's merely something it must do. You may as well say "the purpose of a startup is to maximize return for VCs"; that's certainly what the VCs want but that's not a healthy mindset to be conducting business with.
I intentionally show up to work around 11 and leave around 4 or 5 precisely because I know I won't be productive for the full 8 and would prefer to use those last few hours to go climbing or workout, which helps to relieve stress and prepare me for the next day
what is the rate of kids dying in cages?
I was told to put on my resume an address in State B. I’ve heard from others that swear their response rate improved immediately after doing this.
It looks awesome! Best of luck.
I seem to recall stubbornness being the key reason behind the creator refusing to use Steam or other storefronts for so long, too, even though doing so made sales go up substantially.
The nice idea to having issues in your history/branches is that it easily inverts the "flow" of branch state information: most issue trackers do a lot of work to figure which changes affect which issues, and which branches those changes are in. This often requires a lot of explicit manual work like making commit notes always include issue numbers for instance and "magic" commands like "Resolves #10" to auto-close issues.

If the issues are just another source artifact alongside the code in the same git history a lot of that information flows the other direction. Instead of a magic command in a commit note to close an issue, an issue closing shows up in a diff in the commit. Figuring out which issues are still open in a given branch (what isn't in our release branch yet?) is a simple command in a branch. Figuring out which issues changed between branches (what's finished in this feature branch that hasn't been merged to release yet?) is a typical diff operation.

In terms of documenting the state and progress of an individual branch in a complex project there can be a lot of magic in having issues tracked directly inside code branches. It's a fascinating ideal for code documentation to have issue comments, changes, and workflows side-by-side the code that changed with it.

That said, issue trackers are sadly not ideal code artifacts for a lot of reasons, including that it is easy to forget that issues aren't just for coders, but also stakeholders/product owners/PMs/etc.
FCC Has No Idea How Many People Don't Have Broadband
Definitely. A mission saver for time immediate events, when you need a gift. Use it a couple of times.
Okay, can you vaccacinated the trees- make them useless to lumberjacks? As in give them a bad scent, taint them with a colour, so that they are visibly not worth anything to the market, without cutting them down?
Pass a law that says every lost user account is an X dollar fine based on data "richness" that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. For simplicity, let's say $10 in this case. 160 million lost accounts is now a 1.6 billion dollar fine. That is enough to cripple a lot of companies. It would make people think long and hard about what data they wanted to keep and how they wanted to secure it.

Alternatively, create a situation where companies are responsible in perpetuity for damages related to identity theft if a victim's credentials are lost. If company X loses my SSN and then someone opens up a fake account in my name, they are automatically responsible for any costs I incur and I don't have to prove attribution.

The purpose should be to heavily, heavily disincentivize any storage of basic data or PII unless absolutely necessary.
It can be very useful! I added a small comment with an example of how I used it once.
https://www.gnu.org/software/goptical/
BTW... jQuery was inspired by CSSQuery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CssQuery
Ford's Mustang-inspired electric crossover SUV
For numerical sequences, see dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_time_warping
Is this really necessary? Wouldn’t compiling a complete archive be a good first step?
Joules measure energy, Watts measure power
Cookies, browser characteristics, user behavior, etc. Just because a certain bit of information could theoretically be used for fingerprinting users, doesn't mean any system that uses that information is doing fingerprinting.
Yes. I'm saying they treat the nozzle like it is a cone to determine whether it'll interfere with the previous layer's top surface. But this is a little optimistic because the bottom of the nozzle is flat, so you get variable "smush" based on convexity. You can see this a bit in their pictures of prints where the surface is steep along the print line.
I wonder if they gave out medals or mission patches as part of this operation
Pretty wild!

Serialization bugs are the worst, since receiving weird, untrusted data happens all the time. People think this is about Java and class names and stuff, but it's really about receiving multimedia and decoding it in a performant way.

When will people discover all the vulnerabilities in video codecs, fonts and shaders?
Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter
Data is our century’s version of leaded petrol, CFCs [0], greenhouse gases and long-term nuclear waste containment.

Not saying those things are no longer problems, but they weren’t seen as ones until they suddenly became ones.

Like toxic waste, data always finds a way to escape its container. Data wants to be free - just not in the way we originally hoped.

Just like those early fridge manufacturers, we don’t yet know what the long-term effects of releasing so much data into the atmosphere are going to be.

The next 50 years are going to be bumpy as we find out.

[0] Fun fact: the inventor of leaded petrol also invented CFCs. He probably did more damage to the environment than anyone else ever, living or dead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
I've always scratched my head at this. ISPs really don't have this information so beating chest about ISPs needing to supply better and better data is nonsensical. Do you know who has this information? Amazon.
I'll point you to Title 8 Section 1158, 1(a), as mentioned in other places in this thread. Asylum seekers may be excused for illegal entry into the US. An asylum seeker can even use a fake passport to get through customs to apply for asylum: see Akinmade v. INS as an example.
Measuring a student's impact by a project on the number of lines of code they committed can be very misleading.

Sure, in the extremes it will give sensible results (someone wrote only 3 lines, or wrote 90% of the code base).

But minor, questionably motivated refactorings can create huge commits, while someone may come up with some great design while walking around for hours and sketching on paper, which all ultimately boils down to a short function.

Dumb metrics like this cannot replace actually talking with the students, asking questions about their choices and alternatives, having them do presentations or lab notebooks/logbooks etc.
The majority of US debt is special bonds owned by the Social Security Trust Fund. Only about 30% of bonds are owned by foreign entities. And the top foreign holder fluctuates between China and Japan.
the default setting on the starbucks app on my phone is to automatically top up every time the balance drops below $10. So starbucks basically has a permanent $10 loan from me. I'm sure i'm not the only one.

actual gift cards given as gifts though are probably more likely to be used up and discarded, instead of being set to auto-reload and carry a balance.
I as chatting with someone in UK on Reddit who has some rare disease and trying to see what he could do to improve from it. Apparently he had reached a dead end with the UK medical system but his research indicated there are some doctors in the US who knew more and was desperately trying to find a way to get the same treatment. Sadly all his parents/sibling died from that disease so he had no support network. I felt really bad for him but had no way to help him. All I could suggest is he speak to a patient advocate. What would you have told him differently?
That's a pointless sentiment, there's no social will to tackle an emergent problem until there is.
It sucks because you don't understand what k8 is doing and why.
Micron has been pursuing something similar for a while. The "CPUs" that you can put on the same die, however, are very limited in what they can do, owing to the specific lithography used on memory chips, and the general lack of die space. They also don't get uniform access to a huge memory range that you'd expect from a "real" CPU, and require you to partition work to fit within the constraints of the memory access pattern they can, in fact, support. The instruction set is very limited, floating point can only be emulated (i.e. slow AF, not that you actually need it for neural networks most of the time). The upside is the unlimited memory bandwidth and very low pJ/byte, with a few catches.

Don't know if this is similar, but if it is, it's going to be a hard sell, especially in the era when 90% of programmers can't even understand what I wrote above.
That may be part of it, but Starbucks has done a very good job of getting their regular customers to sign up for their loyalty program and online/app ordering, and to have them sign up for automatically replenishing (every time my balance goes below $10, load another $25) gift card accounts to use both features.
It's still a problem for me in macOS and it wasn't 10+ years ago. I think it's the frequency of releases, not the naming.
How do you "make it work" without someone agreeing to do the work?
New version of react-fetching-library is available“
I'd say none of the preprocessor stuff on this list is obscure--I've seen all of them in projects before.
Google Photos face grouping is finally rolling out across Europe
Found this https://www.securityweek.com/enterprise-vpn-vulnerabilities-...

> An attacker can gain the root shell on the target SSL VPN system with no authentication required! The only thing he needs to do is to send several malicious/crafted requests.
Really nice explanation of how domain-driven design can inform the architecture of browser-based plugins/microservices/miniapps.

It makes sense to separate concerns by passing messages between isolated layers, and I can see how it could apply to other domains similarly. To summarize for my own understanding:

- "Minilith" (love the term!) with a model of your system (possibly simplified) that you keep inside of the iframe

- App with its own model

- The message bus communicates changes between the two but it seldom needs to serialize the whole structure at any given time.. Eventual consistency through message-passing the diffs

For some applications where I want to give users scripting capability, I've been thinking of a simplified DSL with its own "VM", passing some isolated objects from the host app to render results. The architecture you described, of "miniliths" with their own state (or in-memory database) passing messages to the host (or to each other) sounds like a sane and flexible approach.
Are there any independent organizations which regularly audit these and other crime labs?
Well, I myself am certainly interested in going down that route, eventually (vs AngularJS, or, yikes, Angular 2+),

BUT, it appears that’s not a popular opinion on a post about Typescript and React.

I don’t seem to encounter many type and name errors when writing js, but I guess there is an audience for compile time checking, willing to pay the costs, and the industry certainly caters to them.
My old website is not here because I used Tripod.

But it was worth it.
Well... Yes. That is how it usually works.

You prove gross negligence, they pay a fine. They prove that they were doing everything reasonably in their power, they don't pay a fine.
Google to ditch dessert names with release of Android 10
Anecdotally, I've spent maybe ~$5,000 at starbucks in my life. I used a gift card for ~$25 of that and I have never given one as a gift.

For me, it is the predictable atmosphere, the AC, the WiFi, the coffee itself, the hours of operation, and the location convenience that draws my money, not the gift cards. I would be surprised to learn I'm in the minority there, as I figured I was a common starbucks demographic / customer target.
Yes, that would also make it really easy for individuals/corporations/state actors/etc. to destroy companies: secretly employ security researchers that compromise your target's database and bam, you've just crippled/ruined them.

China tired of US putting pressure on Huawei? Bam, start targeting American companies and totally financially ruin them using their own privacy laws/fines against them!

Disgruntled suicidal employee has a grudge? Take down the whole company on your way out with that backdoor time bomb you planted and let the $1.6B fine do the rest!
Mitch McConnell: The Filibuster Plays a Crucial Role in Our Constitutional Order
That's hardly obscure: it's Javascript that's the odd one out of the languages with C-like syntax, with its wacky function-level scoping instead of variable shadowing when using 'var', and falling back to global scope when not declaring a variable properly. Also, C and C++ behave identically with your given example.

A perhaps obscure feature is that you can "unshadow" a global variable like this:

#include <stdio.h>
int global = 0;
int main()
{
int global = 1;
{
extern int global;
printf("%d\n", global); // prints 0
}
}
A research based on comparison of neural nets over-fit and autism spectrum
If your data is big enough, the free 32 bit version will fall over pretty quickly. The 64 bit version will cost you...
> No offense, but you're misinformed about the individual mandate.

I'm not sure how I am misinformed about the individual mandate. I see nothing that I disagree with in your comment, so I think you missed my point, or misread something I said?
The Pikachu Programming Language – A Language for Pikachus (2017)
IP address, the client/user ID, type of interaction, timestamp and a few other bits of data like your device hardware.

GA isn't nearly as invasive as people think. The real problem is data being combined on the backed and correlated across websites by ad networks, not the analytics itself.

Edit: Worth a look if you're interested in what's being collected: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
These and amazon gift cards are indeed a medium of exchange.
I don't think that's obscure at all. That's standard lexical scoping. Do it all the time in functional languages.
Thanks for the response my only concern with it is that my current position would be fairly easy to pin point to state A because of the name of the company.