skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't this same performance boost be achieved by adding an optional "strict mode"-like flag for object literals to v8? Adding JSON.parse(…) everywhere you need an object literal seems exceptionally kludgy, even for JS.
It matters because it tells you what the actual intentions of the government are. There is a massive cigarette/tobacco lobby that might have influenced the decision since e-cigarettes were eating into their profits. Tobacco farmers had previously petitioned [1] the government to ban e-cigarettes.

[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/ban-e-cigarettes-save-...
No, there's HIPAA, but it is actually weaker than lots of people think (in part because of required regs that the executive branch simply has not bothered to develop, in part because the regs that do exist have big gaping escape-from-liability holes in them.)
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"Computers are stupid: babies know what a face is within the first few months of being alive. For a computer to know what a face is, it must learn by looking at millions of pictures of faces."

Actually this is a completely inaccurate representation. The network to understand a human face can be transferred to a computer in milliseconds. The network to understand a human face gets baked into a human over many many months. Developing that network took a computer millions of images and several hours. Developing that network took biology many eons and billions of lifeforms.
> Public transit is not viable in most of the US.

Since many US cities had public transit a century ago (and don't today), I wonder if you mean technically viable, economically viable, or politically attainable. I'm guessing the latter, and it's sad.
You're way cooler than me. I just injected rainbow css banners into my BB posts. I was too scared to try anything else.
I agree. With the current state of the government and media the doom and gloom is mostly a power grab and a further means to divide.

But I also agree there is an issue. Which I don't doubt you do too.

Having the simultaneous position of disagreement with zero credibility media and the desire for a cleaner world is possible. Although most are too blinded by ideology to see this. Hence the downvotes, and the non-discussion in many circles on these matters.
Thank you, here is a great thread as well. There is some doubt it was about the taxes coming due: https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1174179038136610817
Users like code with fewer bugs and rapid response time for new feature requests, right? If you start firing people for taking the time to write readable and maintainable code, you'll be doing a greater disservice to the users than those developers were.
Then that is their choice? Children play sports even though they break bones, people at desserts even though carbs and sugar are bad for you, people fly to island resorts for vacation even though it's destroying the planet.

On the scale of things causing negative externalities to society, e-cigs are not at the top of my list. Although, the smell of cigarette smoke and its effects on others's lungs is of course harmful to others, so I could get behind stricter regulations or banning of those.
Seeing that Disney bought Fox, it is a Disney movie now.
Gee, what is your point? Whatever the exact rules are: There are cases where the bank will not be able to distinguish an actually fraudulent transaction from a legitimate one. In those case, you, the customer, will be stuck with the loss, there just is no way around that, other than preventing the loss in the first place.
In my first-hand experience doing hiring, for every coding savant who doesn't need a CS degree, there are 10 others who just want a shortcut to SWE $$$ but don't have what it takes (motivation, skills, whatever) to get a degree. For better or for worse, when you're working your way through a stack of 100 resumes, having a degree is an easy filter.
I think fast food is a sort of health crisis in America, but comparing it to things in the category of "smoking" isn't fair. It's not like food, people don't need to smoke every day to stay alive, lack of smoking isn't affecting poverty stricken communities, etc. Of course eating and smoking overlap in ways; both require the consumer to take responsibility for their health and their decisions. That's still not an apples to apples comparison, though.
Another device to spy on people? A privacy audit needs to be done on anything FB touches or produces. They cannot be trusted.
Then they all started freaking out when people could generate their own power.
I’m a college dropout and have about 8 years of experience as a developer. I’ve been interviewing a lot lately at mostly startups (7 onsites in the last month). Every single place except for one asked me about college or why I dropped out. One place asked me incredibly difficult whiteboard problems which appeared to be to filter out people without CS degrees (very specific algorithms to implement which I’ve never heard of before). One place had me reverse a linked list on a whiteboard, and was rude and standoffish when I commented that I’d never thought about doing that before so I didn’t have the algorithm memorized.

The job I accepted is the one job that didn’t even mention my lack of a degree and gave me practical coding problems.
Does this do anything other than assert that functions return the right basic type given extremely basic inputs?

Is naive type testing a thing that people actually bother doing vs testing that the functions actually do what they're supposed to?

If a function takes two ints and returns an int that is the integer division of the two, is the evaluation of exceptions and returned types not already implicit in the evaluation of the actual results?

If you know that divide(a, b) should return c for sufficient candidates a, b, and c, then you _know_ that divide returns the right type without explicitly checking. And knowing that the divide function happens to return ints when given ints doesn't actually tell you that it's doing anything even close to the right behavior. So this both doesn't reduce the number of tests you need to write and is also obsoleted by actually writing the tests that you need.
"Preponderance of the evidence" being 5 reported deaths from "vaping related" illnesses, 3 of which involved illicit cannabis products?

Meanwhile untold numbers of people have been able to quit smoking, which we know absolutely causes harm, thanks to vapes.
just having a lot higher transmission power and a lot of supporting hardware to keep things running for seasons (have you ever used your mobile phone in -10°C for an extended time - could you?) and years. I just did a little googling and found something like "total power consumption of all mobile phones in India"x15 (can't get the link, because of, well there's another comment for that...)
I think it’s the media that identifies the group ‘gun owners’ more than individuals do.
>So unless the solution is just to let the poor and their children die

This is exactly what Americans like briandear want, and the political tug-of-war between people like him and people like you is much of why the US healthcare system is the mess that it is.

I'd say briandear proved my earlier point completely: Americans do not want anything like universal healthcare, and no, we really can't do better (by your definition of "better"). Too many Americans are like briandear for that to happen.
> just wait until Disney starts flexing.

They will savage or at least sue everyone alive until no other service will remain in the internet of the Western world, all these while hired actresses making cute faces will be throwing pink glitter at everyone involved.
And you still have to get the movies to the mobile devices and TVs....
At the moment .su is not used fro museums. You can use it for everything and it is not right.
Sorry, I interpreted it as both should be banned. I would say normal cigs should be banned, but not e-cigs. At least not before a million other things if we want to be consistent with doing what's "best" for others.
Painful last 45 minutes or so. Joe not being able to connect the probability point and "what if we're first and just haven't created a simulation yet" was frustrating to listen to, but I think Nick could have explained it a bit better as well.
Here's a probably-apocryphal story about San Francisco. The cultural tolerance and open-mindedness the city was know for happened because at some point in history the need for dockworkers was way, way stronger than any superficial differences that employers might otherwise discriminate over if the labor pool was larger. At a time when discrimination was the open and explicit norm, that lack of exclusion grew out into the societal attitudes across the city.

Tech was once a place where we lived with weirdos ranging from unconventional appearance all the way to downright unpleasant to work with. There was a lot of work to get done, and goddamn we were going to figure out how to get it done with the people we had.

Fast forward to the 2010's. We hire for conformity across the board, some places even acknowledge the strictness of that part of their selection criteria and call it "culture fit." It's a very dictionary-definition-but-not-political-alignment conservative time. The outliers have all gotta go.
No. All major airports have smoking rooms.
So, if you are craving for a smoke, you will now need to smoke a real cigarette.
> fata

you created a noun to describe "fat data" from a typo.
This isn't true for Century Link.

Lots of people in Seattle, and a growing number of other cities, have Century Link gigabit fiber to their residence. I pay less than $70 a month for this.

Comcast is losing marketshare fast in Seattle because of this.

https://www.centurylink.com/fiber/img/Gigabit-Launch-Map-res...
No, actually they didn't. The Shor algorithm applied to n bits is 72 * n^3 applied gates; for 15 that's 4608 gates; and that's leaving out quantum error correction which would require even more gates. This has never been done.

The result you cite: they don't even consider those early NMR "computers" to be quantum in any meaningful sense. They're avogadro computers.
I totally agree that inlining `JSON.parse` of string literals in source is a bad idea and I would reject it in a code review except under the most extreme circumstances (and even then try to identify a better solution).

On the other hand, knowing the performance characteristics, this is something that compilers could do as an optimization. Who knows if that's worth the effort, but this kind of research is part of determining that.
Yes, I should have phrased it better to make it clear that my point was that the negative externalities of e-cigs are nowhere near as bad as other activities, including regular smoking.
> Smart devs will just opt not to use hooks

Couldn’t disagree with you more here. Smart devs use smart abstractions. Hooks is a smart abstraction because 1) classes and inheritance don’t belong in JS, 2) they allow for more code reuse, 3) they allow you to write simpler, more declarative code.
While that's the marketing view of most of the e-cig companies, we don't actually know if either of these claims are true.

#1 e-cigs are not as harmful as normal cigarettes
It will take several decades to prove or disprove this point. However, early research points to this not being the case.

#2 e-cigs make it much easier to quit tobacco
Again, early research doesn't indicate that e-cigs don't outperform other smoking cessation techniques.

The main concerns I've heard are from a public health perspective. Most tobacco researchers and public health officials are concerned that e-cigs are essentially a "better" product. "Better" meaning perceived as being less offensive, cooler, convenient, and less harmful. The concern is that since the youth perceive e-cigs as cool and safe, while cigarettes as uncool and harmful, it's seeing significant adoption in younger people which is undoing the gains from the anti-tobacco campaigns in the 90s. Essentially, the hypothesis is that e-cigs are a slightly less (but really the distinction is minute and trivial) harmful product that is significantly more compelling to people. The net effect is the threat of e-cigarettes is that it can do significantly more harm to humans that cigarettes (since more people perceive it as safe).
I'm wondering where I'll be.

I did Chem engineering in college, but have been programming since I was 17.

Now I've moved to electrical design Engineering since it seems to be a hybrid of engineering and programming.

So far my job is understanding everything that goes into my complex system. I'm not sure if this or embedded programming is my future. What is more valuable?
Yes, and obviously OC speaks English fluently as well.

I'm not suggesting rural German farmers should start authoring novels in English.

I'm suggesting that someone who A. already knows how to competently (I hope) write novels in one language and B. is fluent in a second language should perhaps consider blending the two if they are not finding enough demand for their chosen occupation in their native tongue.

I realize this analogy is a little bit strained, but this would be like me saying, as someone that has known Python for 10+ years, I should not attempt to compete with the JS programmers who have been doing JS for 10+ years because I've only been working with JS for about 2 years. But obviously I don't think that way and I don't behave that way, because I want to make a living in my chosen profession. So I follow the demand, and where my skills are in need of improvement, I improve them.
Well, which should I give more weight to -- your anecdotal experience or the published number of subscribers for Netflix, Hulu, etc?
Some details here: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/net_neutrality/
Another neither answer:

Kotlin Multiplatform with Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.

Jetpack Compsoe might even become platform independent in the future.
Yeah, that's interesting. I know a few senior people without degrees (or high school diplomas) and that chimes with what they say.
I suspect that figure is wrong, because the Bureau of Justice Statistics does not publish the rate on prisons but on prisoners.

"As of 2016, 8.5% of the prisoners are in private for-profit prisons. Since 2000, the number of people in private prisons has increased 47%, compared to an overall rise in the prison population of 9%."

Source: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...

So, if the annual increase rate has not change since 2016, as of 2019 about 9.3% of the prisoners are in for-profit jails.
[edit: computed the rate, it is not "more than 10%"]
> which broadly concluded that dam removal would be a net positive economic impact for the region

My concern with such conclusions is that we are measuring different things. Orca survival, and environmental protection in general are not correlated to economic impact.

I haven't studied all the issues enough to have an opinion... I just get nervous when economic drivers make environmental decisions.
Ok, just got done with the Comcast technician at my home and and unfortunately Comcast is not able to provide my router with a boot config to support higher upload :( I just get the default we is still giving me 5Mbs upload and somewhat ironically I now get 300Mbs download (previously 70Mbs).

Has anyone put a custom boot config file on a home cable modem? Any resources you would recommend? Is this a fools errand?
You might be right but it sounds pretty thin. Are developers really roaming the internet aimlessly in search of something to develop on, and decide based on whether it's hosted on github or gitlab? That's not consistent with my experience, I use gitlab, bitbucket, github, gnu savannah, etc, due to various scattered projects and I don't find that the git hosting platform even registers as a consideration when finding projects to contribute to.

On switching -- from GitHub, yes you might need some compelling reasons to go through all that resetup work. Migrating to GitLab from some ageing bespoke system is a much easier choice.
I didn't compare it to AQ, I said it was bizarre. AC has a lot of anti-LGBT hate articles which alone is enough to be considered extremeist. But I'm sorry if you take that as an insult.
also probabilistic query systems like BayesDB

https://github.com/probcomp/bayeslite
Not sure you are aware but it seems you are describing "event sourcing" in point 6. [0]

[0] https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
Well Minecraft always had it's own launcher since it left beta. I think they've mostly just kept the same system for the Java version because it's what people are used to, and there's a huge community around modding it.

There is a version of Minecraft on the Microsoft Store but it's not nearly as popular.
Doesn't Netflix still do DVDs by mail? That might be a good option as well.
What about the vast legions of web developers?
This article is completely wrong headed. Any profit heavy use of energy can be a boon to decarbonization. The price of renewables has been plummeting due mostly to economy of scale but also to funding of new developments. At current prices, it only takes a nudge of incentive or regulation to push new energy use to renewables. And it's a feedback loop, the more renewables get used, the cheaper their production becomes.
The Snake River dams only account for between 5-13% of that total.

The NW Energy Coalition actually sponsored a study recently on what it would take to replace that with a combination of wind, solar, energy efficiency, and demand response.

Here's the homepage for the study: https://nwenergy.org/featured/lsrdstudy/

Some of their findings:

* It's doable.

* It'd cost about $1/mo on the average residential power bill in the region.

* Maintenance for the existing lower Snake River dams runs about $245 million/yr, whereas their proposal would cost around $464 million/yr.

* They projected a doable timeline of within the next 10 years.
The thing is though, what they seemed to object to was trying to login (not using the same session cookie) across different IP addresses. At least that was the case when I opened the site on my laptop. Maybe my phone did login on the dodgy wifi and then when I reconnected via the 4g it tried to use that session, perhaps causing my account to be flagged. I'm not really convinced though.

It clearly makes sense to tie the session to the IP address but the 10 minute delay doesn't make much sense to me.
Are all these using a full excel calculation engine behind (like SpreadsheetGear or else)?

I always thought that if I had lots of spare time, a good project would be to take a spreadsheet, specify the input cells and output cells, analyse the logic of the formulas in between, and generate automatically some code that replicates this calculation and can be compiled.

That way you can preserve the logic in excel so a business user can own it, while getting all the performance and scalability of compiled code.
Maybe.

I have worked at both startups and FAANGs.

There are developers with CS degrees who are clearly worse than those without. But I could always tell who did not have a CS degree, based on poor understanding of things like running time analysis, good systems design, more complex algorithms etc.

The best developers always had at least a CS undergrad. Though there are clearly diminishing returns with going above that, unless you are a researcher.

Still, the goal of this site is commendable. There are tons of folks who don't have degrees because they could not afford it.
I don't think it's fair to conclude that education failed just because peoples behavior deviates from the expected.

The traditional idea behind education is enabling independent reason and judgement, not promoting specific consumption patterns.
The result you cite doesn't even say what you think it says; in fact it directly says they didn't factor a damn thing.

If I'm wrong and IBM's latest "quantum computer" can actually do the Shor algorithm on the number 15 using 4608 gate operations, I will publically eat one of my shoes like Werner Herzog. Assuming I can get someone else to take the other side of the bet, of course.
If you measure outcomes, it has worked quite well. Japan's life expectancy is 84 years. South Korea's is 82. For comparison, the US is 78.5 and decreasing.
Good to know, thanks for clarifying.
Your step 1 should really be, spend enough time on the internet to gain enough clout to get invited to a private tracker, and then maintain your seed ratio so you dont get kicked off.

Otherwise if you're downloading stuff off the pirate bay it's either going to get you nailed pretty quickly for IP infringement, or you'll end up with fake files and a virus thats labeled as a codec you need to install.

Running a VPN or seedbox or any of the other numerous things to get around this (usenet is my own weapon of choice) results in what may be for you and I an easy or even fun activity, but not for my sisters kid or whatever.
yes, client js can make requests outside of the domain as long as the recipient domain allows it with CORS headers.
> "Ideally we will capture more than 50% of the market share, similar to Longmont,"

vs

> These ISPs don't want to spend money to improve or expand service into lower ROI areas,These ISPs don't want to spend money to improve or expand service into lower ROI areas,

I love competition, of course but they're both doing the same thing.
You could even use it for a universal basic income. It wouldn’t be enough to live from, but could nudge people to, for example, spend a weekend in “nice city a 100 km train ride away”, rather than “nice city a 2,000 km airplane flight away”.
People want aggregation, it will come back in some form. The new streaming landscape is much too fragmented...kind of like the Airline industry.
Sometimes they make mistakes. My wife once went to the bank office to make some operation and they unexpectedly asked a "security question" about her father's given name - something they don't usually do (the standard practice is to ask for one's mother's maiden name). She gave the answer and they rejected it, and immediately locked down access to her account without her realizing it. She only found out when she couldn't log in to the on-line interface at home. Angry phone calls were made and situation was restored, but it took a day or two and was pretty stressful.

Speaking of countries, it might be worth it to let the bank know if you're going somewhere atypical. Before my work trip to China, I phoned the bank and told them I'm gonna be there from this to this date, and didn't have any problems with accessing my account (modulo one branch of ATMs not cooperating with my card).
I think there's also a large gap for people who only have a CS education and those with a traditional engineering background.

Traditional engineering skills are very undervalued in this industry and I've met very few "engineers" in this field who understand engineering basics like control systems. IMO that's very valuable for building the systems we build -- I can't tell you how many half-baked implementations of some of the parts of PID I've seen kicking around.

And I say that as a completely self-taught, college dropout senior developer.
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This is neatly packaged, but it's not immediately clear what advantages it has over Hypothesis' native offerings for accomplishing this? ( https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/details.html#inf... and https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data.html#hypoth... )
The logical reason is that is permits excessively high nicotine dosing. This was also possible with gum and patches but they were prohibitively expensive for most people to do that.
Unlike with cigarettes, black market production of e-cigarettes sounds unlikely. They're complex electronics that need large factories to build.

Illegal importation from legal foreign factories will probably happen, but those foreign factories are going to be building to the same standard regardless, and compared to normal contraband like "plant leaves" it's going to be pretty easy to tell where they are coming from.