skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My position is only that there's a difference. In some sense we could treat it as though it's just garbage, but it's worth investigating. For example if it was written by an outside PR person who has no access to the people who made the decision, that also changes things.

It's not so pure. For example an outsider here on HN who says "A close relative of mine works at cloudflare on the team that made this decision, and he confided in me..." -- then again you have to somehow judge if this is true or not, but it is worth treating it differently from someone writing "I don't have any insider information and this is pure speculation, but maybe..."

I mean it just doesn't make sense to treat these cases as exactly the same. I wanted to give another example. say you don't trust the gps coordinates you're being given when you make an API call on a device.

would it make sense to treat it exactly the same as making the API call on a device that doesn't even have a gps module, such as a microcontroller without gps or wifi/cellular access or anything that can be a proxy for gps?

if there's a physical module and you don't trust the output, at least you can investigate. it doesn't make sense to treat it exactly the same as if the information isn't even on the same device.

it depends on the details of the process that's giving you the output you don't trust. What's the process by which getX returns its output? What's the process by which Cloudflare employees make statements about their motivations (which they do have access to)?

These are questions we can investigate. if we find that the statements are written by a PR agency who hasn't even stepped in their building and has no contact with the teams they're lying on behalf of, that's a possible result too. but it's worth looking into.
Not necessarily. When I'm interviewing new grads, I'll hold their hand firmly when walking through requirement extraction, but hit their rating like a ton of bricks for any failure in algorithm design and code mixups. When I'm interviewing seniors, I'll tell them "implement me a Shopify", but won't care that much if they get the unordered_multimap signature wrong.
Sure it is! A reputable CS degree will cover multiple programming languages and compiler implementation.

I don’t think you could study just “compilers”, say, at undergrad level. Maybe you mean postgrad or postdoc-level qualifications?

It would certainly be a pretty different world if you were only allowed to design a new programming language after getting your PhD in language design.
This is particularly annoying when using nginx to sit in front of a bunch of uwsgi (python) docker containers. if one of the containers doesn't start for some reason, nginx will abort.
I get that you don't like spam. Neither do I! I'm very keen on anything to reduce this.

What we're talking about here is not spam. We're talking about transactional email that a user wants. I know that when we fail to send order dispatch emails users shout "Scam!" because it looks like we've taken their money without doing anything. I know that users like being able to pick up their order at a local store (with a security code). I know that users like to be able to pay with a range of payment options.

We're not talking about marketing here, we're talking about the minimum of communication for a user to feel that they can trust a retailer.

Yes the industry abuses email, but these examples are not that.

As for the credit check, email is certainly not the only signal they use, but in the typical case it's an easy one to check that can provide high signal. I don't want to speak for the service provider, but this sounds like one good approach to me.

> Apple's service looks like it lacks respect for the new-norms that retailers have adopted.

Apple's service makes it impossible for retailers who respect users privacy and marketing preferences to operate the core of their business.
He's a wheelchair user, if that makes any difference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shakespeare

//edit// He is also currently Professor of Disability Research in the medical faculty at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
Click-wrap agreement and browse-wrap agreement are both contracts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browse_wrap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap
Which is sad IMO as Twitter - again IMNSHO - is one of the most overhyped and useless ideas there is.

I still have an account on mastodon thought and I'm far more active there than on twitter, mostly because new is interesting and to support a good cause.

I also sometimes follow development and hope that it might get more features from both Google+ or Facebook. Groups would be an obvious improvement in my book.

That way maybe it could become more than a twitter clone, which matters to me because in my opinion Twitter is close to useless except as a better way to receive spam and propaganda (it is even easier to ignore than the spam folder in my mail.)
A Green Battery Vision in Norway Is Under Attack
What’s the maximum number of generic parameters for a class in .NET/C#?
As a former rail fan, I’ve gotten over it. We don’t build infrastructure because we don’t value it. Not just in a “we don’t want to spend the money”—but we don’t want to make the political compromises necessary to make it easy to build infrastructure.

Dropping taxes on companies has nothing to do with it. Many European countries have lower corporate taxes than we do, and no OECD country raises significant revenue from corporate taxes. It’s a red herring and a distraction. The issue is we have a political system that makes infrastructure enormously more expensive and hard to build than in Europe (much less China). In Maryland, people are lobbying to get light rail stations torn down that have already been built! The average time spent in “environmental review” for a government project is 5 years, and its really just an opportunity for a small minority to hold up and delay infrastructure projects. But that system is a reflection of our values. We don’t build things because we would rather prioritize other values.

That is what it is. We are good at other things! We’re good at things like Silicon Valley, that don’t require centralized cooperation and people falling in line. Lots of countries have the political discipline to build rail. But there is no other Silicon Valley! (What more needs to be said about why California doesn’t have rail, beyond noting that the state’s most significant industry is based in the suburbs/exurbs of an otherwise second tier city?)
There’s Unicorn Blood in the Streets
> Companies pulled out of AW because they found out that there is no reason for a watch-app.

There just isn't enough screen real-estate for ads and it's hard/impossible to embed creepy analytics SDKs in Watch apps.
Have Microlith, Will Travel
> My best advice for anyone wanting to get connected is to not be shy.

That’s where I (fellow High School student) struggle. I’m not really at a point where I can contribute much either way.
How much are SE moderators paid?

Should I understand that people do that for free and then that this drama ensues when they are thrown away? If so, I'm not sure whether my reaction should be to laugh or to cry.
That makes a lot more sense - they should probably include those credentials instead of the place where he teaches, the way it is written now makes it seem like he isn't a subject matter expert...
> I find this 'people are but cogs in the machine' view of economics especially appalling

I resent your implication that I think people are just cogs in a economic machine.

People move location all the time for a variety of reasons. Sometimes economic, sometimes for lifestyle, sometimes for the weather.

I suggested UBI would give people more options, more choice, more power in their lives and you suggest I hold an appalling view and think people are nothing more than wealth seeking particles? Thanks very much.
GitLab something ? AFAIK the only company that is both remote and pay friendly.
I am not sure to understand what you are finding "wrong":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...

>The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe, the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953. All Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention and new members are expected to ratify the convention at the earliest opportunity.

The Convention established the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
In fast-thawing Siberia, radical warming is warping the earth
Because user code and kernel code are not the same, and printf is part of the standard c library, which is a userland application library.
It usually does, but you can disable updates in Play Store.

> The exploit works well until WhatsApp version 2.19.230. The vulnerability is official patched in WhatsApp version 2.19.244
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All the legacy software firms are grasping for straws like this.
Was on mobile and something went wrong... ;)
The GC is realistically only an issue in rare fringe cases. Early on, the competing standard libraries were a massive problem, though. This was overcome with D2, which is already more than a decade old.

When this standard library competition existed, the library ecosystem had this very weird split where half of the libraries you would have liked to use in your project used the other library you couldn't link to at the same time. This prevented me from picking up and trying D for a long time because I didn't want to deal with that. Now that this is over with and a ton of useful libraries exist, I'm glad that I started to use D because this is now a language in which I'm very productive.
I still think excel is the leader in this category. Was looking at a roadmap produced in excel the other day, somewhat amazed of what the persons working on it had been able to produce with various workarounds to get it to their liking. It still a rather blunt tool though. But is has the right elements in place, data grids, a workable visualization canvas, some limited automation capacity to tie them together.

I’m thinking the same elements presented in an environment perhaps more like Scratch could work. A kind of whiteboard metaphor where objects are independently scriptable, ad some data flow modeling and data source capacity to that and there could be something a bit less blunt
I wouldn't call it pathetic. Hypocrisy? Yes, but all countries do this. I'm a bit afraid for people living in any country believing their little piece of the planet doesn't engage in geopolitics.
you got an L6 without CS degree?

How many years have you been working in SW industry ?
Hillary Clinton says when life’s tough, ‘keep going’. I’m not so sure
I agree that all this fear-mongering is turning super counter-productive. While I do think we're in the middle of a climate crisis that is going to put a lot of lives at risk, I have to say that I've grown incredibly weary and tired of people constantly freaking out about it.
I wish they would find a new angle: if you only make it about the negative, people will tune out because it's easier than dealing with it. If you make it about the positive, people will engage and work towards it because it's more attractive. And by positive I mean - the adoption of cleaner technologies will definitely impact our economy, and I think it will be for the better. Reducing waste can also impact our lifestyles, even with small changes, i.e. using waxed paper instead of plastic film to preserve food might make food taste better, etc etc
Spin the whole "let's change our society to ensure our survival" in a positive way and there'll be a lot less climate change denial.
Here's a talk that's pretty mind-boggling, too:

Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
The further down I read this the more tremendous it gets. The author has an insight which matches my observations:

> What does this say about Forth? Not much except that it isn't for me. Take Prolog. I know few things more insulting than having to code in Prolog. Whereas Armstrong developed Erlang in Prolog and liked it much better than reimplementing Erlang in C for speed. I can't imagine how this could be, but this is how it was. People are different.

People are different. Programming is building a model in your head then transferring that to a set of machine actions. (See "Programming as theory building", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833278 ) It appears that different people's head-models are radically different, and that what they find easy is different.

This renders discussions about "intuitive" moot, because it's no longer universal. To whom is it intuitive? You can define a target audience and survey them to find it out, or you can guess that what's intuitive to you is intuitive to others - but you can't guarantee it will be intuitive to everyone.

Further down:

> This is Forth. Seriously. Forth is not the language. Forth the language captures nothing, it's a moving target. Chuck Moore constantly tweaks the language and largely dismisses the ANS standard as rooted in the past and bloated. Forth is the approach to engineering aiming to produce as small, simple and optimal system as possible, by shaving off as many requirements of every imaginable kind as you can.

This appears to be the key to the productivity claims: junking requirements along the way. That also matches the broader experience of software engineering: you can be very productive writing for yourself at one end, but on the other there are colossal state megaprojects that never work because the requirements are incoherent and immovable. Hence "agile": what agile really provides is an opportunity every week or two to chip away at the requirements until something deliverable is decided upon.

> MD5 presents a few problems for programming a Green Arrays device. For one thing it depends on modulo 32 bit addition and rotation. Green Arrays chips deal in 18 bit quantities. For another, MD5 is complicated enough that neither the code nor the set of constants required to implement the algorithm will fit into one or even two or three nodes of a Green Arrays computer.

That is .. not for everybody.
Dunno - we're very good at filling in the gaps

I remember when playing the original PS3 my brain was imaging vibrations in the controller when the screen rumbled (back when the original controllers had no haptic feedback)

Obviously it would be better to provide more feedback but I am bullish on humans being able to adapt and the brain finding means of "faking" feedback or finding second order proxies
I don't think you grok what is being discussed here.
I think this is a very limited (and limiting!) view of the world, that it should be one or the other, and that features cannot be borrowed from both.
Not sure why this is a link to stackexchange as the second answer is lifted from the previous HN discussion on the topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
We know that our minds can do so much more.

I don't agree with this. One-off savants who can do some random task like remember the order of a deck of cards after seeing it once are just optimising all their energy towards something arbitrary but not actually that useful.

i.e. Feats of memory are a waste of effort when you can just write things down.
This response reminds me of this meme:

https://randysrandom.com/wp-content/uploads/right-wrong.jpg

Neither answer may look technically wrong, but only one reflects what is actually happening here. That we don't know which exactly based on that specific data doesn't mean that both are equally valid.
Is this what Apple Shortcuts is trying to achieve?

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/shortcuts/id915249334
US courts also provide other rules, such as private property, which allow people to moderate in fairly creative ways. Whereas in many of these platforms, and Twitter in particular, there's very little.
>Sure it is! A reputable CS degree will cover multiple programming languages and compiler implementation.

Which is neither here, nor there. A reputable CS degree is an all rounder, it's not expertise in PL design and research.

>I don’t think you could study just “compilers”, say, at undergrad level. Maybe you mean postgrad or postdoc-level qualifications?

For starters, yes, but it's not about official qualifications. Someone (e.g. Simon Peyton Jones) could be a PL expert without "official qualification" in the form of such a degree.

Even writing many increasingly successful languages could do it. Starting with your first (or first serious) attempt at a language, however, is not that...

Anders Hejlsberg is another famous example. He didn't complete his university (and it was on Engineering anyway), but after decades of successful work on the field be became a major PL designer and expert.

Stroustrup, however, was hardly anything like that at the time he first designed C++.
Would You Survive a Merger with AI?
One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be flooded by a dam
It is unfortunate that Oracle can't put this effort into fixing their horrible contract management system so that I can get Oracle support quotes on time.
naive question but could we resolve this with asteroid mining?
It's not just the Republicans they'd have to worry about. For example, when the Washington Post tore apart Bernie Sander's claim that 500,000 Americans were bankruped by medical bills each year, he doubled down and demanded they retract the fact check - and a good chunk of the press sided with him on the basis that only Republican claims should be subject to this kind of fact checking. Some outlets even accused them of "partisan fact checking" and undermining democracy for not turning their fact checking into a partisan weapon.

This wasn't some minor detail either; he was suggesting his big expensive flagship policy could save hundreds of thousants of Americans a year from bankrupcy when it really couldn't. He stands by the bogus claim to this day. Now imagine what kind of headache it'd cause Facebook if they pulled a Sanders ad for using that or any other bogus debunked talking point...
Addendum: the "dead frog" comment:

> I'm the person who was dissecting colorforth, a dead frog. The comment from Jeff Fox is totally unfair. The only reason I did it was THAT COLORFORTH JUST DIDN'T RUN ON THE THREE MACHINES I HAD AVAILABLE. And he nor Chuck Moore had any consideration with people like me or would waste their time helping me get colorforth up and running. I never managed to run colorforth, until such time as others made an emulation environment to boot a floppy image under windows. (Did you know that colorforth is just a floppy image?)

Lack of adoption seems hardly surprising under these circumstances.
Chance to Join Keybase Stellar (XLM) Airdrop as New User?
Stellar airdrop is closed for exisiting keybase users for now, right? Are there any chances to proof eligibility (to be a real person, not a bot) in near future?
See update here: https://keybase.io/airdrop
A quick read to see how mediums and tech fundamentally affect "thought" is Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
Yeah. This (linked from the examples page) is OK: https://gitlab.com/rosie-pattern-language/rosie/blob/master/... ... except for the terrible color scheme. The comments on a red background make this look like a diff.
Thanks for the comment, food for thought!

> Historically more than half the budget and employees of the IRA is dedicated to Russian speaking internet users and have been involved in way more elaborate schemes directed at Russian electors. They've physically impersonated journalists and gone to the door of anti-government activists for example. The Russian government also has a tighter media machine to encircle their propaganda targets by coordinating their attacks using TV, press and internet assets directly aligned with the state.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this were true. Russia's government viewed from a distance does seem like the kind of entity engaged in this kind of 'persuasion' and operations, even through third party 'private' entities.

> In the USA sockpuppetting and astroturfing by political entities is usually discovered due to healthy democratic tensions where both camps get to freely express themselves when they discover them.

I think there's danger in this kind of statement. If one truly believes one's country to have a healthy way of resolving such operations because the balance of powers is so great, that person is prime for getting manipulated as they are letting their guard down.

> Finally the example here is less about a political operative trying to trick the American constituents than giving the FCC a pretext (or biased analysis) to say their policy was popular.

I agree, however if you ask me this gives an even smaller group of people control of the majority than if the target would be directly influencing the average American constituent. I'm not sure if I understood the idea clearly, but it seems a lot more dangerous for an entity to just be able to justify its own actions in order to influence laws in a nation, than to have to go through the hurdle of influencing the masses.
Being a math undergrad puts you in the top 1% of the population in terms of the ability to manipulate symbols.

So your semi-tangible expression tree will only be comprehensible to maybe ten thousand users worldwide, at most.

This is why "worse is better" is a thing. Most of the population is at the middle of the bell curve, and they struggle with things developers find easy. Most of the developer population is to the right using tools and languages that are sort-of-workable but not particularly sophisticated.

The people who find symbolic thinking easy and natural are on the extreme right.

I think assistive AI has limited prospects for fixing this, because the XY problem and Dunning Kruger mean that people don't know what questions they need to ask. And to some extent symbolic perception relies on experiential qualia which most people don't have access to.

AI is going to be go big or go home. It will either be a physical prosthetic, giving users direct mental experience of patterns and data through brain stimulation, or it will be external and set up to anticipate and solve problems with only the vaguest strategic directions from a user.

Current technologies can't do much because UIs are low-bandwidth and can only do a limited amount to help people with average memories and average abstractive thinking. Which is why most apps and web pages are brochures/forms/shop fronts - familiar and uncomplicated models that don't require abstract thinking.
That's terrific! I LOLed.
Instagram Now Lets You Control Your Bully's Comments
SQLite vs. MySQL vs. PostgreSQL
Thank you!

And added to the to do list :)
The "fancy" sound driver on my companys HP ZBook does use 500MB Ram but a few bytes for a correct date are still to expensive ...
Procedural Textures with Flutter
To be clear of the 12% you mentioned 10% were caregivers and 2% were unemployed and did not or could not find work.
Lethal memory fail: Why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists
Chain rule???
A man in a centaur suit still has hands so they can carry a package, and if a room has something the size of a very small table in it someone trailing a second set of legs could get there too.

Even something the size of a horse could get into most human infrastructure, if most horses weren't so petrified of everything.

The man in the article has the equivalent of a big hiking backpack on his back, he couldn't drive most cars either without leaning the seat all the way back. To turn that into a centaur just means angling the same backpack 90 degrees with another set of legs.