skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we, as tech workers. Most people aren't "us".
It's perfectly understandable for places like the android/apple app stores to be heavily moderated.

Same reasoning for forcing people to have their cars serviced by mechanics and not do their own maintenance in their backyards. Otherwise we'd have people driving cars without pipes and DIY break pads. I'd much rather have that enforced by megacorps/govt than by an infinite amount of businesses/individuals trying to game the system.

For most people a smartphone is an entertainment device, a tool at best, they don't give a single fuck about the underlying tech and they should not. Feel free to root your phone and install whatever you want, you can't ask people to become tech literate, it's your hobby/job, not their. Our job is to provide them safe tools, not teach them about tech. Look at your own life, chances are you don't even have surface knowledge of 99% of the things you use daily, and that's perfectly fine, nobody expects you to be a furniture designer, building safety inspector and car mechanic.
A paid app means Google gets to claim some revenues out of it.
I would like to see a system able to give me the derivative of price tolerance vs various factors.

For example, browser type, advert viewed, various on-site AB tests, etc.

It could collect all this data via two prices (eg. $12.99 and $13.99) and looking at the conversion rate for each.

I could totally collect this data myself, but I would like someone else to build a system to measure it, and present it in graphs with confidence intervals.

Pretty much this service, but in 'advise only' mode.
Better references, yes, but 0.25% is typical of a cheap reference like a '431.
What you're asking for is technology literacy, similar to science literacy. Adults generally don't care to learn this stuff. But you can teach the next generation.
That’s exactly it and I imagine a big piece of what actually makes a depressed person more tuned to reality. I’m not sure which is the cause exactly, but I could imagine a person depressed spending more time ruminating about their place and deferring to the external for answers versus trusting one’s own feelings or perspectives by default.
Is that inherent to voter ID systems, or could you imagine a world where ID issuing authorities are required to keep better hours? Perhaps we could check out Europe’s model to see how they keep their voter ID systems from regressing into a racist dystopia?
They never made the tools themselves, yes, but they weren't exclusively re-brands. Rather, their tools were a mix of in-house designs (manufacturing outsourced) and re-brands.
Xbox One Controller Design
Customers are much more tolerant of there being a fixed high price, and some customers being offered a voucher code for 'loyalty' or whatever.

People are fine with being given a discount, but don't like to be charged a premium.

Industries like car insurance have done differential pricing for decades, and consumers have come to accept it.
PDO and PDI help a lot when it comes to providing excellent and consistent ingredients.

You could grow anything in the US and there are indeed great producers for everything. The problem is recognition.

PDO/DOP Parmigiano, prosciutto and olive oil and san marazano tomatoes are in the you cannot do wrong cathegory. They are always excellent.

A pizza maker in the US will have a lot harder time discovering great ingredients made in US. Not because they don't exist, but because anyone can label almost anything.
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No it doesn't.

There has to be terms for different commination styles. Some terms relate to an increase socialization and others a decrease. People can learn more effective communication styles, improve their relationships, and live happier lives.

None of this is a value statement about any individual's character.
Adam Curtis has a good documentary about Bernays influence in the PR industry.It's a really good watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
Yes, smog is usually heavier than air (oxygen+nitrogen mix). If you do not blow it up there on purpose you can filter it and get it outside of the city.

https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/showAirContaminants.action
Interesting example, considering Chomsky was one of the early proponents on the left for keeping troops in Syria to protect the Kurds.

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/13cf816e-8e40-41c8-bb76-...

I think this is a case where the establishment/media and the left actually agree. We shouldn't abandon allies. Additionally, Rojava is running a libertarian socialist society, which leftists obviously like. Finally, 60 or so troops is all that's needed to stop Turkey, and I wouldn't really call 60 troops "predatory intervention".

I don't think the left's opinion here is manufactured consent.
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And yet games with hundred dollar microtransactions stay up fine. It's almost as if Google turn a blind eye to that which makes them richer. oh wait, that's exactly what it's like. The bastards.
In electronics terms, sink means a device which consumes current. The opposite is aptly named source. So a source supplies a sink.

The 100W 20V USB-C power standard requires a negotiation protocol to tell a source what the sink requires. This is to ensure a source is not overloaded or a sink fed the wrong voltage. So this article explains how the author used an off the shelf USB-C power chip to talk to a standard USB-C power source and request enough power to charge their laptop (the sink).
Gifts are trivially tax free in the UK excepting cases of Inheritance Tax whereby someone pretends to 'gift' an inheritance before dying instead of having it taxed normally.

It would surprise me if that were not true globally.

A donation is definitionally a gift. If it's not due to some legal wankery, rename it, doesn't matter.
I'm unfamiliar with NVC, but I've always held that you are, like you said, responsible for your emotions. I've tried with all my kids to teach them that. "She made me angry!" "No, nobody can make you feel anything, you are in charge of how you feel. What did they do that made you choose to be angry?"
I did write a lot of low-quality code if that's what you're asking.

It was a lot like preparing for an exam after you skipped classes the whole semester. You don't wonder off and you don't stop and think about the direction you're going.
For sure Google would reimburse that rake off since they have been prodigious beneficiaries.
Noise and particulate pollution are perhaps the most external of the negative externalities of automobiles, riders being mostly insulated from their own emissions and from those of their peers. It feels fundamentally unfair.
But the ventilation doesn't go to the void, it will just be blown into the same neighborhood. So unless it's filtered in the tunnel ventilation system, you still get the same fumes there.
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> Given that our deployment platform was Linux (for a .Net Core 3.0 project), I was determined to use Linux and VS Code for development. That was a fail; the verbose nature of C# and the Framework APIs make it impossible to be productive without significant help from a full-fledged IDE like Visual Studio.

I have had and continue to have the opposite experience of you. I use Ubuntu with VS Code and a few C# plugins that have greatly allowed me to navigate the .NET Core framework and write code with minimal references.

Even, with Visual Studio (unless you use R#), you will always run into issues where you aren't sure where the function or class lives. That's why you go read the documentation or ask SO.

The more you write webapi's the easier it is.

> Structural Typing

Dynamic was the closest to it, but it has significant performance issues. Tuples and structs do exist also.

> Allow functions outside of classes

No.

> Verbosity in C#

????

> most popular libraries will nudge you strongly to use
Dependency Injection throughout the app and implement everything as a class and to extract interfaces out of it.

You do realize C# is mostly a strong Object Oriented language hence why they (the libraries) urge you to do that.

If you want functional so much use F#.
ARRAY 2019: Libraries, Languages, and Compilers for Array Programming
Btw that cisgender community you speak of doesn't exist, right? You just made that up.
I'm pretty sure in Australia if you drove 90 seconds from the capital you'd (still) be in the middle of nowhere.
>Let's not drastically increase job requirements for no good reason.

If anything, job requirements for programming are way too low. I wouldn't let a mechanic anywhere near my car if I knew s/he didn't understand the basics of an Otto engine. I'm the first to admit I don't know as much about modern CPUs as I should, but I don't live in a fantasy world where I convince myself that I don't need to know it.

>Many of these platforms have undocumented CPU instructions

So we should get the vendors to publish a proper documentation. This doesn't change anything about software developers responsibilities.

>CPU-level issues

Perfectly answered in a sibling comment so I'll just leave it at that.
Do you know of a tool which allows two (or more) people to share their screens with each other at the same time?

i.e. A can see (at least) one of B's screens, and B can see (at least) one of A's screens at the same time as talking to them.

That's the tool I'm missing to be able to work productively remotely.
>Bad Oeynhausen

Town name checks out?
Type 2 Diabetes increses the chances of Heart strokes, kidney problems, cataracts, nerve issues etc.
Sounds like you might be depressed.
When you say "pizza traditionalist" you seem to mean 'someone with functioning tastebuds'.

:)
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“Click to Pray eRosary” – wearable smart device to pray the rosary for peace
While there is generally always some small percentage of apps that don't do what they promise and slip through the review I think I can be reasonably sure that if I download something from the macOS / iOS app store it'll do what they say.

I trust it enough to believe it won't start crypto mining in the background or connect to random servers and sending the content of my computer somewhere. For the average user it's probably the better option than downloading the top Google result and just executing it.
That's only for finishing the park on top, and the new parks in the vicinity that are being build in one big project but that don't really have anything to do with the tunnel per se. The tunnels and all the connector roads are done now.
In every other field people are reasonably held responsible for their failures.

As a service tech if I fill a car with tomato sauce instead of oil I pay for the car.

As a programmer I can sell all the users data, leak it to hacks, then laugh all the way to the bank.

As a furniture salesman I can requirements on materials transparency. If I break those I'm liable.

As a programmer I can totally change the rules of my application at any time.

If society wants to trust tech it will have to hold it's creators responsible.
Hey Mark, thanks for taking the time to reply. I hear you on the bookmarks queue! :-)

All makes sense. I hadn't heard of RSK until I read this comment, but I've now seen your other comment in this thread which mentions it[0], watched the "State of Redux" talk referenced there and I'm excited to try it out. Cheers!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21254525
BACS is generally cheaper at volume. In addition, BACS Bureau allows a payroll company to transfer money directly from your employer's account to yours without the money ever reaching their account.

All fixable, but payroll companies are generally chosen on price, not innovation.
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The problem of donation links from Google's perspective is that they are not getting their 30% cut. You might think that this is unfair, but the app is using their distribution platform.

It's possible to make open source applications and still ask for payment on Google Play, either as the asking price, subscription or by adding in-app payments for donations. This is the right way to do it, and will probably also have a much better return since the payment workflow is much easier.
US restrictions on tech exports have increased over last three years
Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable
Living in Sweden, I can assure you that pineapple doesn't even come close to making the top-10 of abominable things you can put on a "pizza"
Grit: You Want the Tough Stuff
oh, of course, but it doesn't have to happen on meetup.com, you can use any other service, from the many suggested in this discussion.

of course having two sites is more complex than having it all-in-one. that was the whole benefit of meetup.com, but that benefit is now going away.

one reaction is to reduce the dependency on meetup.com for groups. we need meetup.com to help get the word out, but we can use other tools for the actual group management.
>what's the point? You can't learn the platform fully if they keep that a secret.

By that logic we should never learn anything.
> esoteric details of various parts of computers (i.e. you get to see computers more realistically than idealized), the more depressed you get about the current state of software development.

Honestly the most depressing part is hearing all these older guys talk about the really cool problems they worked on during the dawn of modern computing, knowing I'm just gonna be writing shitty business apps till I retire
I don't really agree. There's a lot of value in having general revenue that can be directed toward the needs and priorities of the day— making these decisions is what our elected officials are there for. Especially when you consider the kinds of broad benefits that certain policies can have— for example, consider the billions needed for something like a new rapid transit line. Where should that come from, given that it offers mobility to people without cars, stimulates construction and job growth along the line, etc? It has a lot of broad-reaching benefits and knock-on effects that are hard to even completely quantify (think stuff like public health impacts due to air quality improvement and people making short walks to the station a part of their daily trips).

The other issue with the pots system is that it can give people a false sense of entitlement about things which benefit them. For example, consider the commonly-held belief that gas taxes pay for all road and highway infrastructure, and that roads and bridges wouldn't be falling apart if the government would stop "raiding" the gas tax pot to pay for other things. This is trivially googleable as untrue, but the pervasiveness of this belief blinds motorists to the reality of how much their preferred mode of transport is subsidized.

So people in this mindset approach a discussion about something like subsidized train fare and it's hard for them understand why it's a good deal for society.
> just talk directly to people

This is usually code when people just like to be assholes. Building software requires communication with people. Dealing with all people, even engineers, requires tact. Having a framework for how to deal with people in general is great, even better is knowing your team so well that you can adjust to each individual.
Of course, they don’t have the practical effect of preventing blacks from voting. Can we stop conflating abuses in the US with the same system that works uncontroversially all over the world? I’m not arguing it’s the most important thing to do, only that it’s ridiculous that we have a debate about whether or not it’s a problem and the solution is cheaper than investigating.
> A lot of victims that were exploited in the production of child porn

Good thing, sharing existing CP is not the same as exploiting people to create CP.

> by every dirty slimy degenerate wanting to do so

You are aware that you managed to insult even the people who want to but refuse to watch CP for moral reasons, right? You are basically calling a group of people with a certain attraction that they themselves can't change as "dirty slimy degenerate"s.

> It's also one of the reasons a lot of them commit suicide

I honestly doubt that, but if we assume that was indeed the case, shouldn't the authorities simply not inform them that their pictures/videos are being distributed online? Even then though, I still can't see this as a reason to illegalise it. Should we also make rejections(from jobs/relationships/etc) illegal because some of the people who receive said rejection commit suicide?

Also, I find it dishonest of you not to consider the people who have been unjustly jailed if not for distributing at least for possession of CP, some of which have committed suicide.

> The fact that the justice system makes even viewing this material illegal is not for nothing, but comes from a proper understanding of how child porn victimizes people.

Just like how the justice system in most countries until recently illegalised homosexuality and sex before marriage, right? There are many unjust laws, especially in the area of personal freedoms/victimless crimes (growing weed, owning cocaine, sending a nude picture of yourself from when you were underaged, etc)/copyright (piracy/unauthorised modification/breaking drm).
see terry pratchett’s definition for “knurd”: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Knurd

Consider the following scale:

Being drunk is to be intoxicated by alcohol to such an extent as to be unable to perceive the world clearly through the senses.

Being sober is to be able to perceive the world clearly through the senses, yet humans are quite capable of giving themselves illusions and little stories to make life more bearable.

Being knurd is to be (un)intoxicated with Klatchian Coffee to such an extent that all such comfort stories are stripped away from the mind.

This makes you see the world in a way 'nobody ever should', in all its harsh reality.

People generally find being knurd excruciating, as their comfortable illusions are stripped away and all of life's terrors are exposed.
After decades the road work has been finished and the missing link between Autobahn 2 and Autobahn 30 is finally in place.

It leads you around the town and it saves at least 20 minutes.
Why is it always pineapple in pizza? Why not lemon for example?

I don’t understand the whole pineapple pizza lobby, it’s just not a particularly good fruit for pizza.
There are very serious facts on the ground that entirely negate concepts such as 'manufactured' consent.

Also, I think CNN is screaming sympathy for the Kurds right now partly because they really hate Trump.
Ah, happy memories of late-night sitting at a teletype (TTY) by the IMP in the PDP-1/PDP-10 Harvard CRCT machine room, hearing the phone ring on the IMP, and a voice on the other end from BBN HQ asking me to reboot the IMP, as it was hung...

I.e, early Arpanet management was manual--no remote power-cycling equipment.

(We had some incredibly whizzy 50Kbaud leased lines between the Harvard IMP and the BBN HQ IMP.)
Female scientists were written out of history books
I have done open source development for well over a decade, thousands of hours, tens of thousands of lines of code, and I can tell you:

Considering the amount of donations I got, it would have been much more profitable to clean toilets, to just go begging in the streets, collect bottles from public trash cans for the deposit, or just sell my body.

In fact let's have a look how much I got during the past 12 months for 250 hours of work:

$0.

Had I been working as someone who climbs onto roofs and cleans the dirt off of them I would have gotten this much for that in this country:

$16500

And then, as a cherry on top, you now demand that a giant monopoly, which is trying very hard to soak up as much of people's data as possible - without paying them for it! - should get a cut from donations for my work which I genereally give away for free.

Now I can understand that you did not know this when you wrote down your opinion!

But given that you do now, do you understand how insulting this feels? :) It actually itched me so much that I created this account solely for the purpose of telling you, and I would be very happy if you could change your mind :)
For literature? Historically non-fiction titles that won Nobel prizes had a degree of artistic merit to them. Chomsky works are highly analytical, and it's hard to classify them as "literature" in a traditional sense.
Bad means spa.
I think you may have misread the code:

while (howmany != 0) {
val = random();
if( val is odd) {
out[index] = val;
index += 1;
}
howmany--;
}

vs

while (howmany != 0) {
val = random();
out[index] = val;
index += (val bitand 1);
howmany--;
}

Both of these store a list of odd numbers in out[], with "index" containing the resulting count of how many numbers are in out[]. Both will have an "index" (count) value of 0 if all inputs were even, and neither attempts to access out[index-1].
No: they are often obstacles, but they've been obstacles since the 19th century, so we have adapted the city and forgotten.

They are often lesser obstacles, since they were built when all other traffic was on foot or by horse, and routes for people had to be maintained. Some motorways were built without this consideration, in the period of 20th century motorcar idealism.
There was a delay in the Apple podcast approval, available now - https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/level-up-engineering/i...

Other apps/platforms are still reviewing the submission as per the maker. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/level-up-engineering-podca...
i expect you're being downvoted because it's likely that the cost of deciding which thread to assign work to is an order-of-magnitude more expensive than accumulating the reqiured counters.

in any case: you're right, it is of course possible. what i should have said was:

> if you are piping into wc, then you'll never see a performance gain from any attempts at parallelisation.
>Is there any software that you write whose users would not be made happier if the software performed better? Any at all?

I'd say security is a bigger issue than performance most of the time.

And most gains are going to happen within the code itself by, e.g., not writing n^2 when there's a log(n) solution or something similar.

Plus we're talking about javascript, and that's likely to be software with network concerns, so your optimizations might be a rounding error compared to performance degradation from slow network connections.

>You don't need to know any hidden instructions or secrets to take advantage of the platform.

You don't know what they do though. Some of those ops could be more advantageous to performance to use in some cases. You can't fully know the platform if there are secret ops.

You can still make optimizations with partial knowledge, but don't pretend to know the platform when the platform manufacturer doesn't tell you everything about it.

>The fixes also required no code changes outside of the firmware and the operating system, and knowing the platform is still the best way to write performant software, no matter what is going on to avoid hardware vulnerabilities.

Good algorithm knowledge and practice is the most cost-effective way of writing performant code and is more than likely going to be the lion's share of issues.
In other news, my Pixel 3 with Google Fi keeps reconnecting to Google's VPN without asking me permission.
It's from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Prejudice-Chasing-Horizons-Vol/... .
More likely blog excerpts would just be reposted on Twitter
Most range function return a "Voldemort" that preserve lazyness if you put it in an `auto` local.
Or you can use .array to get a slice out of it.
Even better, you didn't log in to a TIP--as long as you knew the phone number, you were all set. And phone numbers were generally available.
I imagine taxi drivers are much more diverse than the professional drivers you have experience with.
Edison’s greatest invention was a way of thinking about technology