skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can easily cause a C/Go program to crash/abort due to runtime type errors. If you've written C, you've miscast something at some point. Go in particular relies extremely heavily on runtime reflection. Both languages have poor type systems.

Go's race detector is useful and we've caught bugs using it, but it's nicer when the compiler prevents you from having those bugs in the first place.

>quite good concurrency primitives

That's gonna be a "yikes" from me, dog: https://www.jtolio.com/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-and-you-s...

I'm not a Rust fanboy, I simply like languages where it's more difficult to represent invalid state (Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, etc.) than in the mainstream languages I suffer with in my job on a daily basis. Rust happens to have great tooling and is the most likely to make inroads on these issues I care about (runtime stability + code correctness via good type system).
I use it for Spanish vocabulary (I'm a native German speaker). A couple of days ago I realized that the online dictionary dict.cc [1] lets you export a list of translations to a text file that I can then import to Anki. So now whenever I translate an interesting word, I click it and I will learn it. Very handy

[1] https://www.dict.cc/
The New Microsoft Project
Just because people often report the experience of massive perspectival shifts after becoming a parent doesn't actually elevate their authority on the matter, or invalidate the opinions/beliefs of non-parents. That's just a straight up fallacy. I'm not saying the average parent doesn't have relatively more authority on matters of parenting than the average non-parent, but there's nothing inherent about becoming a parent that justifies radically elevating the epistemic status of their beliefs about parenting.
KDE Connect is a wonderful application for Android that covers these two use cases:

- Copy from the phone and paste on your computer, or vice versa (this is an optional feature, fortunately).

- Right-click on a link in a browser, or click on the KDE Connect icon -> send to device.

You can also send files between devices with it.

(it works outside the KDE environment too, even outside GNU/Linux apparently, and Gnome has its own implementation)
And also bear in mind that Neonics are relatively new: 25 years IIRC. They can last for years and minute doses over time will lead to death as surely as larger acute doses. So, our pollinators and we are being poisoned slowly and constantly.
It is possible to encode any kind of data as base 64 and place the result in an alphanumeric QR code. However, it won't be as efficient as the binary encoding. This is important because QR codes have size restrictions.

Concrete example: 4096 bit RSA secret keys. They can be encoded as binary QR code but not as an alphanumeric QR code with base 64 data.
Many decades ago I was coaxed into signing-up for an APL class by my Physics professor. He was a maverick who had managed to negotiate with the school to create an APL class and another HP-41/RPN class with full credit that you could take instead of FORTRAN and COBOL (yeah, it was a while ago).

One of the things he pounded into everyone's heads back then was "The most important decision you have to make is how to represent the problem. Do that well and programming will be easy. Get it wrong and there isn't a force on this world that will help you write a good solution in any programming language."

In APL data representation is of crucial importance, and you see the effects right away. It turned out to be he was right on that point regardless of the language one chose to use. The advise is universal.
It's not. But you're required to keep a copy of the check after you scan it.
The Great(er) Bear – using Wikidata to generate better artwork
I'm not aware of any data that backs up this oft-repeated viewpoint.
Google: Says "Don't be evil"

I : yippee.

20 years later

Google: This is what being evil means....okay....

I : ok. But do I have a choice....

Google: well.....if you did, we'll buy it anyway. So please fall in line....
If I understand it right, this was only publication that mixed culture and politics to sport.

All others haven't done that and kept it sport only. Which means there are multiple publications available you would like, whether this one exists or not, and is read by people who are not you.
Are you suggesting Pizza Hut should stop selling salads and drinks?
External code is better than internal code because you can reduce it to internal code just by forking it. If it is even minkscully useful, that's a win.
Does this apply to the RT-68U (which I do have)?
> As Will Wilkinson points out, the available data suggest that citizens of countries with liberal free-market economies are among the most satisfied, which explains why the United States, which exemplifies exactly the sort of amok consumerism that Layard and others worry about, is one of the happiest nations on Earth.

Pseudoscience.
But we didn't, for example, first test vaccines on the entire world population simultaneously. The scale of the potential initial risk is critical. Not "what could happen?" but "If there's an unintended consequence, how many people (or how large of an area) could it affect? I think in the case of the solar shields, the risk is beyond what most of us can comprehend.
What happens if an agency gets in deep with one of the common trusted authorities shipped with every browser, or is an authority, or just hacked their root keys, or bought access like they did with RSA? It seems like they could man in the middle all day and the only difference would be the cert issuer, which means it would be invisible if used in a limited fashion.
As an Amazon seller, I can confirm that they have tracking linked to each seller. Their system does this via their FNSKU (fullfillment network stock keeping unit) and that is unique to each seller for each product. So if I want to sell a product, that product has an ASIN that defines it specifically and then any seller in the Amazon system that wants to sell that product needs their own FNSKU that applies only to that ASIN. Those FNSKUs are tagged on the items. If you've ever bought third party stuff on Amazon, the numbers are also 10 digits long just like ASINs but they usually begin with an X. FNSKUs can also match the ASIN and that is usually given to the seller that creates the listing so that seller has FNSKU=ASIN. So if you buy private label stuff that is their own branded stuff that no one else sells, it just looks like the ASIN and you probably ignored it. But if you buy a big brand name product like Nintendo, Star Wars, or anything with multiple sellers that sell via FBA/prime, you'll probably see the FNSKU beginning with X.

EDIT - in case it wasn't obvious, Amazon uses the FNSKU barcode for fullfilling their orders. They might have 10 sellers with the same ASIN in that specific warehouse, so the Amazon employees fullfill via FNSKU in those cases, which is why they would require the FBA/prime items in their warehouse to be tagged with the FNSKU to identify which seller owns that exact item vs all the others that also have stock in that warehouse and perhaps even in that exact same shelf/bin.
My wireguard gateway is in the cloud (linode fremont). When I connect to it, the eventual gateway is my home router. If I were to use the VPS as my gateway, then my traffic would be blocked by all sorts of services.

Annoyingly, I have moved, and now have comcast so that brings problems. First, they tamper with DNS traffic. To combat this the resolver is unbound running on the Linode. This creates very occasional problems, usually in the form of a capcha. Additionally, comcast doesn't offer symmetric connections, so my VPN is slower than it should be (1Gbps/30Mbps is such a joke).
Ugh, me too!

My manager was a huge fan of Progress, such that it became the de facto tool of choice whether it fit or not.

I was less of a fan, but just checking now, it still exists!
I'm curious about this one blurb from their web site though, which proclaims, "Progress Named a ‘Strong Performer’
in The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code
Development Platforms For AD&D
Professionals, Q1 2019"

I'm not sure how a database applies to sitting around with dice and figurines, but I've never really understood that whole pro gamer thing.
Cross pollination provides diversity. It's not always a good thing, but you make it sound like it is something to be avoided.

Seems like a good way to superficially limit opportunity with that line of reasoning.
I think release frequency and stability are pretty orthoganal. I haven't had a node upgrade break my code since 0.8 (which was obvious a pre-1.0 release). Likewise, Rust releases every 6 weeks and it's rock solid.
Only after the US went first.
You don't need hundreds of megs. Use a stripper to strip put the parts you don't need.
I like the idea of putting minutes to keep track of a timeline in my notes. Now I'm wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut in Joplin to insert a timestamp.

EDIT: Just checked and there is, Ctrl+Shift+T to insert date and time.
I think this is really an article about Squeak, one specific implementation of Smalltalk, along with a few comments about GNU Smalltalk. Smalltalk is, like Lisp, really a collection of implementations sharing particular features.

ParcPlace Smalltalk was different from Digitalk SmallTalk/V was different from IBM Visual Age Smalltalk was different from CinCom Smalltalk was different from Dolphin was different from Squeak was different from GNU Smalltalk.
It can be done.
Ask HN: Are non-US, English speaking marketing gurus relevant?
Hi, I'm thinking about becoming a marketing guru - I was a part of multiple interesting projects in the US and I think there is a lot of people can learn from what I've done & learned along the way

The thing is that I'm not from the US - although my English is basically on the level of a native speaker, I'm not sure whether I'd be considered to be relevant not only for the potential audience but also for the US companies that may potentially interested in my consulting

I'm just not sure that even when I prove that I know what I'm talking about, there will be little reason for the US companies to bother with me when they have plenty of great people in the US

What do you think? I wouldn't like to spend tons of time building something which may be close to worthless because of factors that I, unfortunately can't really control

Thanks!
Because the crime of "breaking copyright" can be solved by blocking and removing the offending content. Yes, they can move it to another platform, but then again, "breaking copyright" is a crime in on itself, there is no other "root crime" that is the real issue. Every time you remove the offending posts and links, you solve an instance of this crime, which sounds fairly simple.

The crime of human trafficking, on the other hand, cannot be solved this way. You don't solve the issue by removing the posts and links, because you will just get rid of a component of the crime that advertises the "root crime" behind it. And the "root crime", in this scenario, is not nearly as easy to solve and track down.
Most Smalltalks have two types: SmallInteger and Object. And they are very strongly typed.
I am largely confused about this whole discussion. Why are we trying to figure out if the Deadspin bosses are justified in whether they want their writers to write about sports related things?

This isn't about free speech. Each one of the writers has the ability to write to their own blog, to tweet whatever they want. This is about some writers insisting that a company pays them money to write about whatever the writers want, instead of writing about what the people who are paying them want. That seems fine if the company agrees. I think some companies make that work, might even be a good idea. But if the company doesn't agree, well, I mean that's ok too, right? And the writers can quit if they don't like it (as they appear to have done), and good for them if they can achieve their vision elsewhere.

I think it would be wrong if the management was asking them to deceive people, or break laws. But presumably writing about sports is not abhorrent to any of the writers. Why all of a sudden did it become noble to tell your boss that they can't tell you what to do at work, for work related activities?

Am I a freedom fighter if I tell my boss that I'm not going to code that thing they want to get out the door next week, I have a pet project that I really like, and then me and all my other co-workers go on strike when I can't do that?
Sorry for the delayed response (no notification on mobile).

For some reason my relationship with the ceo was viewed as trusting whereas their programming team was not. I was able to get the time required (in 9 out of 10 situations) by explaining in detail why it was required.

We actually had a complete rewrite in the pipeline - an architecture written by myself - that was on the table. But they shut down before that was possible.

I don’t regret taking the position despite the frustration and difficult inherent to what I had to tackle. I got a very closeup view on technical debt that has assisted me throughout my entire career.
That’s a technique not a goal. What are you trying to do?
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I don't know the answer and won't bore you by trying to make one up on the fly. I'll just say this is a novel challenge to human society and requires a novel approach to corporate governance & accountability. What we're doing now isn't working and the stakes are as high as they can be.

We have the responsibility to insist on better from our institutions.
I find planned obsolescence to be fascinating. First-order, it seems obviously terrible, both of the companies that (deliberately) practice it and for their hapless customers.

But second-order (and beyond), particularly from the perspective of the companies, I'm less sure what's best, or if there even is a global, objective 'best'.

Consider the most radically distant point you can imagine in 'self-supporting human group' configuration space, that's still capable of making something like a MacBook. What does it look like? How is funded/financed/supported? Is it temporary, i.e. more like a one-time project like making a movie or a video game? Or is it, somehow, a 'going concern'?

The 'going concern' attribute is one that I think is perhaps under-appreciated. One thing that companies, and other long-lived organizations, do well is in organizing people with specific expertise long-term. Think about making a computer, or a washer, or any physical product. Surely the people that make those things, that have done so for an extended period, have a huge amount of detailed knowledge, and wisdom, pertaining to making the specific things they make. What would be lost by them NOT having made the same things for so long? What would our computers, or washers, or pencils, be like if they were all produced by something more like a Kickstarter project?

Imagine another possible world where the 2013 MacBooks were just as good as in our world, but also intended to last indefinitely, perhaps more easily repairable, or made of more common or standard components somehow. Say they lasted 30 years, easily, before needing to be replaced. How is Apple different in this other world? How do they retain engineers like they do now? How do Apple's competitors do this? And, maybe most importantly, how much do MacBooks cost in this other world?
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For sure, people who say stuff that sounds like they don't like any white men get a lot of attention. But, I suspect they form a very small minority, also on the Left.

Can I ask, what for you are some important examples of anti-"median-white-American-man" statements? I'm aware that there is a prevailing narrative in many parts of the media that this group is being singled out a lot, but personally I don't often see blanket statements of that sort.
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Perhaps you want nothing to do with a recruiter that cannot see the value here.
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Also of interest, drug overdoses DOUBLED over the last decade. There's a lot of reasons people turn to drugs, but lack of a solid healthcare system to address drug addiction is what's ultimately killing them.
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I know the article focuses a lot on Instagram/Android/iOS, but the underlying story is utterly ridiculous. This isn't a small group of criminal gangs who are doing this. It's the middle class and upper class of a first world nation, who are literally recreating slavery in the 21st century.

I don't understand how this isn't being cracked down in the harshest manner - no normal person would risk doing it if they faced 10-20 years imprisonment for human trafficking. Simply pass a law that all domestic workers have to report to a police station for 5 minutes every Sunday, alone, during which time they will be asked if they are being held against their will. This would likely eliminate the vast majority of human trafficking currently happening over there. It blows my mind that the government is doing so little about something so abhorrent.
People say this and then you find out it means that they brag about reducing their dependencies by 1%. How big the code base for your entire system. We're not shipping 128kB cartridges anymore.
That's a cool site! But some of those are edits made by submitters, not moderators.
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Interesting notes. Lasso is currently only focused on Mexico.
Profiting off of fear-mongering. But I suppose there's a certain amount of sales genius (albeit evil) in manipulating faint-hearted administrators to buy your product.

They need to add things like going outside, storm, thunder, lightning, raincoat and so forth to the list, since getting struck by lightning is about 600 times more likely nationwide than being shot at school.
It's hard to believe that the data in my exercise tracker has real, fundamental worth when I see so much targeted advertising that fails to leverage the data they already have. I suppose it doesn't matter to Google if someone buys a location-specific ad for a place I used to live in despite them knowing where my phone, purchases, and electoral record say I live but then why would them knowing my heart rate help them if they already know I bought a bicycle, search about bicycle parts, frequently use bicycle maps, and travel at about 15 mph?
I've once spotted a (Latin American) slave trader on a image sharing platform during a technical due diligence. They were pretty shameless about it too, uploading the photos of the girls from their own IP. All the easier for the authorities to go after them.

Please take careful note: If you do not do proper risk analysis of your platform you WILL be used to perpetrate crime and if you find that you did not do what you could have done to stop it you may end up being an accessory to that crime. More so if you ignore warnings or flags by other users of the platform. This goes for anything that allows the uploading and further distribution of user generated content (especially 1-1) and for anything that deals with money.

Your nifty platform or weekend project could easily become the vehicle for someone else's crimes.
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Yes, it's "dator". The word was initially proposed based on the same Latin -tor suffix as in e.g. doctor and tractor, so the word would fit just as well into English as it does in Swedish.
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Yum brands sells tacos, in locations branded for that. Pizza hut does not sell tacos. Similarly, G/O media owns outlets that do woke journalism - Deadspin is just not where they want that content.