skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cue the "I was from a poor family and I got into Stanford, everybody should be able to it" from people who don't understand how life, statistics, outliers, and relative effort required (for a middle/class rich kid playing in "easy mode" to succeed, versus a poor kid playing the "extra hard mode").

People who confuse what's possible but 10x more difficult for some income groups/backgrounds, to be the same as being equally possible and as easy. Or that think that just because some outliers managed to win the hard mode, everybody should be able to (and are just lazy if they don't) - while ignoring lucky breaks and mitigating circumstances in their case, e.g. you might be poor, but not have a parent sick to take care of. Or you might be an immigrant, but have parents working their ass off to get you to college. Or you might have a stable family as opposed to abuse. Or your teachers might not care at all to encourage you.

This is not about telling people not to try. This is about recognizing that even trying is not "equally easy", and that outlier success stories doesn't mean the game is not rigged against those from poor backgrounds. And perhaps finding ways to fix this issues (e.g. reducing poverty, abuse, stress factors for poor people, better educational districts, and so on).

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilswo...
'Ahead of her time': the woman who recorded the news for 30 years
Some citizens will argue that net neutrality will kill internet services that's subsidized by advertising. For example free access to Facebook. Or the social network bundles in South Africa[1][2]

Furthermore, I've met poor, conservative Americans who hate any form of government regulation. Even if it's patently obvious that they will personally benefit from some proposed regulation, they believe it will be bad for in the long run for their country. Their comments are not fake.

1: https://www.mtn.co.za/Pages/MTN-Social-Bundles.aspx

2: https://www.cellc.co.za/cellc/get-whatsappbundles

(Edited to give these examples)
1.) SLEEP!!

I hope this doesn’t sound like an ad, but I learned how sleep was last year, and I bought a Fitbit to track my sleep (but any hardware sleep tracker will do). I never realized how little sleep I was getting until I started tracking it and reading the stats. 60% of my anxiety disappeared over the course of a week.

For example: going to bed at midnight and waking up at 8am != 8 hours of sleep. The average person awakes in their sleep 10-20 times per night, even if just for a few moments. I thought I was getting 8 hours for so long, but turns out I was getting between 6-6.5... And that was on a good day! (I assumed I slept for 8)

2.) STRETCH!!

I’ve been doing a 15 minute stretch right before my morning routine, and it has changed my mood, and nervousness, anxiety, etc by SO MUCH. Getting blood flowing and relaxing your muscles first thing in the morning will make so much anxiety, tiredness, back pain, etc DISAPPEAR. I’ll post a routine below. For best results, play it at 0.75x speed to get a better stretch and more time to follow along.

https://youtu.be/L_xrDAtykMI

3.) SUPPLEMENTS!!

Most people are Magnesium deficient, and I take a Magnesium supplement before bed, and the next day, I’m so relaxed, less anxious, and at peace & focused. This is the first thing I ever started doing to help with my anxiety, and the results are night & day. Magnesium helps the muscles, so it plays a big part in the stretching routine as well. Take CBD!! 10-15mg of this in the morning will have you feeling SOOOOOOO relaxed and laid back. It’s a godsend for anxiety and stress.

tl;dr get more sleep, stretch in the morning & supplement with Magnesium and CBD. I would also mention my meditation routine, but everyone in HN knows about that anyways. Good luck dude.
> Still, go say that on TV. I'm not even sure I'm safe writing it here.

The thing to point out is that we all make the implicit choice to let people die for convenience every single day: Almost all of us could choose to pay a bit more to charity to save a life, almost no matter how much we're currently giving or what we're currently doing, or could choose to take jobs that would do more to make the world a better place.

We just rarely have to face what choosing differently would have meant, so we get to pretend it doesn't have much to do with us. And granted, most of the time the consequences are many steps removed from our choices.
As Vitalik and other people doing social-coordination research keep arguing - it's a matter of coordination and not of anybody being greedy. The feeling that your little donation means little is what keeps the whole swarm of users from donating.

This article makes a good argument to the same:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
Endeavour OS 2019.09.15: Based on Arch Linux and Using Xfce Desktop 4.14
The Fake Nazi Death Camp: Wikipedia’s Longest Hoax, Exposed
Here in France, at most protests you'd find groups of masked 'protestors' who usually have nothing to do with the protest and are just here for acts of violence against the police and random acts of degradation and looting
What is your target? I work in embedded systems: I fully expect software I write today to run for the next 100 years. This is based on experience, we have customers still using 75 year old machines to do real work (that is not collectors) and I like to think engineering has learning something about making better machines since then. I think that computers will forever be able to drop back to 10baseT ethernet, ipv4 and html 1.0.

Of course I don't expect everybody will be able to support those configurations. There are currently unknown security holes someplace in out old equipment so nobody sane will connect our old stuff to the public internet. Thus most developers are safe depending on users having something fairly new. However a few will target behind the firewall customers and they will be stuck supporting whatever that old machines supports.
Encryption is math. Can we really make a form of math illegal?

I feel privacy is a basic human right regardless of what country you live in.

I’m not fan of punishing the majority because of a screwed up minority.

People who commit illegal acts as horrible as child abuse and terrorism are not going to respect the law when it comes to encryption.

Again, you can’t stop people from doing math. The idea of making it illegal is silly.
No, this is every day in Chase. They are basically the McDonalds of the financial services industry - everybody works there at least once, most people move on to better things, what you have left are the ones who know they will never succeed anywhere else. We convinced one manager at Chase that the reason her application crashed so much was because there wasn't enough gigawatts to power the flex capacitors. The guy who they hired for IT security in my department was a bricklayer who ran around with a dog-eared copy of Computer Security For Dummies trying to find out where we were hiding the NFS so he could turn it off (we kept telling him we didn't use NFS and he didn't believe us, so the hunt continued). Probably the worst story was this really portly fellow who couldn't fit into the bathroom stalls, and was too lazy to walk across the floor to the bathroom that had a handicap stall he could fit in, so he would just sort of stand in front of the stall door and cut loose, and every night some poor cleaning lady had to deal with that and it didn't raise any eyebrows at all. Sounds like an NBC sitcom, but it was real, places like this really do exist, stuff like this really does happen.
Well, I mean... the woman died. Which really just underscores how gross it is to be advancing a "both sides" equivocation around this issue.

The driver may be inconvenienced, financially impacted by repair bills or a lawsuit, or suffer minor injuries like whiplash. The pedestrian will be seriously injured or killed. This inequality is why cars basically just do what they want and it's the implicit responsibility of people walking to jump out of the way.
Because encryption is math and knowledge. Banning it will only stop legitimate users while bad actors can still just go ahead and encrypt their stuff.

If politicians consider leaving everybody vulnerable to catch criminals, this is a incredibly high price to pay. I’d argue that the price is so high that even with evidence that this would help catch criminals we should still consider not doing it. However there is no evidence for that and my argument above explains why criminals would still be able to encrypt.

We should really stop implementing any security legislation without checking whether it actually achieves the stated goals.
If your goal is to evade biometric recognition by your local oppressive government: try makeup:) I work in the field and can tell you that 1) it’s cheap and easy 2) no presents sensor technology can detect it 3) detection algorithms will be spoofed and confused 99% of the time if well done. And it’s not a mask ;)
Not sure if this outweighs concerns with E2EE, but governments unfairly discriminate against people with reasonable viewpoints I.e. government isn't perfect. So people with contrarian views should have a way to express views/organize. Historically governments couldn't watch what people were saying/doing at all times and E2EE allows that to continue in a digital world.
There have been complaints about the UI since forever, and the developer is well-known for bristling at any constructive criticism and telling people to either accept the way he likes things, or simply don't use the application. Consequently, I am surprised that no one has forked Calibre, even if it was just to kept the backend but simply overhaul the UI.

Something that I would like to see in a future version of Calibre (or a fork) is news-download recipes changed to a plugin system that can be updated separately of Calibre itself. It is not ideal that if a news recipe becomes obsolete due to changes on the respective news website, one has to upgrade Calibre to a new version. For users whose distros package only a certain version of Calibre, it would be nice to continue running that distro-supported version but simply be able to update the news recipes from within the Calibre settings.
While I mostly agree you, I think “never valid” is a bit extreme. My uncle was hit by a drunk driver that turned left into his lane at the last minute on a straight road.

These type of incidents, which are rare and can’t be avoided, is why I took my bike off the road and only take it to the track.

Maybe the first rule of riding is “it’s not the safest form of transportation and you must accept the risk”?
I don't think that your statement about C with C++ compilers holds true anymore. I have seen quite a few codebases that are definitely C++, but use bespoke memory management strategies where required. Pool allocators and allocation-only heaps are high on the list of things that are useful in this area, for various reasons.
One of the reasons behind Iraq invading Kuwait was the latter did slant drilling into the Iraqi oil fields, underground behind the border. Another reason was several billion dollars Iraq owed to Kuwait. What's interesting, a few days before Saddam invaded Kuwait, there were talks between the diplomats, and Kuwait was willing to forgo $800M in debt as a compensation for the slant drilling. Apparently, Saddam didn't want to hear of anything less than a billion. The rest is history...
Turkey is very seismically active, they just had a 5.1 earthquake there 2 days ago.
If you're trying to preserve people's privacy, why doesn't the 1.1.1.1 VPN service also mask originating IP?
> how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?

The majority of criminals caught in transit doesn't warrant me giving up my privacy. They will still be caught in the same manners they are now, and it still offers them little protection over what law enforcement typically does.
"Do you agree there's a spectrum here (with stuff like Brainfuck being on one end)?"

I'm in complete agreement with you. My contention is that a person who works with a certain language, even Brainfuck, all day every day is going to be able to read it as easily as a person who works in a more "popular" language like Java: even if it's at 4am. Anyone who doesn't work in the language shouldn't be reading it with the goal of implementing a critical fix at 4am. That person should contact a team member who does work in the language.

I'm contending that the 4am scenario, as posed by the parent commenter, is a process issue not a language issue. If a manager requires that whoever answers the phone at 4am fixes the problem, even if the person has no knowledge of the language or requirements of the module, then his/her employees should be running to another job because that manager is bad for your health and livelihood.
>Sure, eating flour mixed with water is cheaper than vegetables. But I don't think people do that.

You'd be surprised. Ever heard e.g. of "syrup sandwiches"?

Or dozens of other ways poor people get by with no money for food?

It's not just "fast food". And even that, it's not because they "wrongly think fast food is cheaper than home cooked food" -- it's because fast food is less stressful to make when you have to work like crazy, in excruciating jobs to make ends meets, and requires less time...
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And whether it makes sense depends on your initial bias. Make sense?
Make voting day a holiday. Or just do it on Sundays like many countries do.
It's really disingenuous to sell your project as a replacement for regular expressions when it has greater expressive power than them in the Chomsky hierarchy.
What's changed is that a politician's lies used to be public. Everyone could see them and respond. Facebook allows a politician to lie peer-to-peer, without the ability for critics to respond because they never get see these lies.
I should have said "not garbage collection" instead of manual memory management.
>In most European universities CS and Engineering are intermingled.

Not at the time, when CS didn't even exist in many European universities, or was rudimentary at best.
That would gradually recruit antifungal-resistant yeasts, which can be very problematic (see Candida Auris which is thought to be the result of antifungal pressure in intensive agriculture).

re. beneficial fungi, AFAIK there are no known species that are part of our natural microbiota, but there may be unknown benefits. S. Boulardii supplements are know to help deal with gut flora disruptions like infections or antibiotic treatments.
First of all, break the assumption that encryption is for paranoid people. Ask the opposing side to defend regulation over E2EE.

You're in luck because there are no objective arguments against it. When they inevitably turn to emotionalisms like "terrorism" and "sexual abuse", cite how insignificant of a percentage "terrorists" and "abusers" are of all E2EE usage. Explain that a ban for one is a ban for all, them included, and that encryption in fact protects from people's spying on and planning over one's significant other/children/etc. Ask why politicians like Trump or Clinton can seek protection from aggressors but you, an honest-working tax-paying citizen unentitled to a private security force, should not.

Explain that criminals overtly show their psychological traits every living moment and it is the failure of the authorities to help rectify their behaviour lest they commit a crime; that it is a well-paid police proffession to monitor people for such traits. Such a profession that is gladly and frugally assisted by artificial intelligence which can be tied to any camera that sees you, any website that you visit; that the government and companies can make deterministic psychological profiles from metadata alone and some graph theory.

You can also reference absurdity by stating that, to avoid "terrorism" among E2EE, the government should simply ban "terrorists" from using E2EE. However, the Wars-On-.* have been proven not to achieve the original goal in US history but rather to cause collateral damage, much more drastic than foreign subversion could. So banning or regulating E2EE is an ambiguous goal which will fail.

Suspicious, maybe it was foreign subversion indeed. Would you like E2EE when you pay taxes and go vote? So why not for more close-to-home data such as intimate details that could be used against you by an enemy or in court of law?

And finally, the police force and government authority use and _develop_ E2EE. They ought to have hidden back doors in it. For the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars law enforcement receives in funding, they ought to have. So even if we assume they could catch "terrorists" and "abusers" more efficiently. Well, then they don't need such giant budgets from your wallets. Would you consistently pay dozens of dollars a month for private investigators to aimlessly roam the country, not even saying what they are looking for? So why let the government do it? You could purchase many sources of joy with that money.
That was the old beige computer aesthetic, it went out with the iMac.

As long as you can get a white/gray Topre Realforce, it doesn't really matter.
optionally, IIRC
Tip, when you get the urge to buy, simply add to your wishlist. Periodically (say every 3 months) go through your list. You'd be surprised at how many titles you can delete! :)

It's always handy to have a few unread books available though...
https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca
That won't necessarily be enough to save you either because the existing warnings can still change. Here's some Rust code

use foo;

fn my_function() {
use foo;
foo::other_function()
}

This used to not trigger a warning. In rustc 1.35, the existing warning unused_imports became smarter and could now detect the redundant import of foo. This resulted in several crates that had made unused item warnings into errors having the exact problem you said.

I think -Werror is a bad idea in general.
You are right. People use only what they have. They also don't contribute to things that are actively discouraged from being used.
The code base is a nightmare and still uses Python 2. I'm not surprised it hasn't been forked, although I'm a little surprised it hasn't been replaced.

Frankly, the software is just fine for most needs, and the person in charge is still active, so the desire to replace it just hasn't materialized.

EDIT: Looks like somebody actually took the initiative to port it to Python 3.
And that's how people usually react when someone is hit on 2 wheeled vehicle: trying to find a reason the rider deserved it.

It's built into the language of articles about crashes too. You'll see 'it is not known if the rider was wearing a helmet'[1] without any similar remarks about the driver of the car. Or the oxymoronic 'police are still investigating the accident'[2].

[1] I wrote this, then searched to find an example. Here: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/2018/05/vehicle_crashes_i...

[2] As above. No action being taken, yet they know it's an accident. Written 2 hours ago. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/burton-bridge-crash-...
Actually they've already made some numbers illegal in the past [0], and exporting maths had been illegal in the US [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Lots of shadowing is present in existing codebases, sometimes by design.
There are still many issues to vote on.

Also, if you live on a red state vote for a moderate. Try to influence the primaries.
Didn't know, the website name suggested otherwise. Rest of the points still stand.
And as a young person in your early 20's this is all bad enough, but I am going to read into it a little more and infer you were single. Now imagine if you had children to feed, the additional stress and additional expense probably would have broke you (financially, which happened anyway, and mentally). Not to mention knowing the effect of all this stress on your children and their developing minds.

This study is an odd way of looking at what is already established and known...instability has a detrimental cognitive and psychological effect on people, in particular children, but its not limited to children and extends to people with fully developed brains.
Java and Scala are at about the same level of what you can do with both. Clash isn't really at the same level as VHDL or Verilog. You are right that it still compiles down to VHDL or Verilog but that doesn't mean anything. Haskell also compiles down to machine code. Does that mean you might as well write machine code? Of course not.

What's your point that there are other languages that compile down to Verilog? I have tried some of them and most of them try to shoehorn a software language into digital design which doesn't fit.
> In the US the business is treated in higher regard and respect than the people compared to Europe.

I don't understand what this means. What "people" are you referring to? What is the context for "higher regard"?
When you plug your Kindle in, a big Kindle icon appears on the top menu and you can browse the contents by clicking on it. How is that unintuitive?
They are most certainly not allowed to withhold it: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...
The early template designers specified a limit of template recursion (16 IIRC) which they thought was more than deep enough for any real use, and would ensure that it wasn't Turing complete (truing complete of course requires no limit to template recursion depth). However soon after people started finding deeper template recursion depths were required for the real problems they wanted to solve.
You could also in theory use the originating IP of the DNS requests themselves. But Cloudfare messes up that as well:

https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680

> Absence of EDNS and massive mismatch (not only on AS/Country, but even on the continent level) of where DNS and related HTTP requests come from causes so many troubles so I consider EDNS-less requests from Cloudflare as invalid.
There's a second factor at work beyond memory - it's the human visual perceptive system. Bikes are not always moving across the visual field, and they aren't fitting the pattern of a bigger single-color smooth object so it's effectively camouflage.

This is an outstanding vid on the whole subject illustrating the problem and some avoidance methods. This should be taught in rider training but it's not (US).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQBubilSXU
On your Kobo go to Hamburger Menu > Settings > Accounts, then do what it asks to sign in to Pocket.

Once that's done you get a "My Articles" option in the hamburger menu, and that's your Pocket content.