skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gf is from an ex-ussr country and I also have a lot of friends from Russia/other USSR countries.

I also have a kid that has been identified as gifted (tests give without a margin of error IQ well above 130) and bullied.

I'm from Western Europe (Portugal) but I would assume it is similar in the US/UK and other countries. The main difference I see and talk with 'eastern' europeans and westerns is the sense of community and civility. Whether you agree with communism or not, with USSR or not, there was (and still is in most places, but changing) a sense of community and the greater good. Parents knew each other and each other kids. I grew up just after my country left a dictatorship and in a more tightly knitted group. I knew if I ever bullied/hit a kid in school my parents would find out about it and most likely I would get a beating. I would also probably share a sport or some activity with them even if they weren't in my class. Nowadays here kids and parents in general don't have this relationship, which I think makes much easier for bullies to appear. If your parents met on Friday for coffee and they talked about you bullying their kid, it would be an issue for you, but now, kids have no sense of 'consequence' because their own parents don't care so much or have a sense that what is going on is affecting others (since they aren't in any kind of social circles).

I have seen this change nowadays in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia (not sure about Moscow but I can ping some friends there) and the idea of individualism is starting to gain there (as it gained here) and more problems are arising as well in those countries in the last decade.

my two cents
> Most iOS app can run on MacOS - the iPhone simulator compiles iOS code natively to x86 and links to an x86 version of the iOS frameworks.

Yeah, except no app developer ships their simulator build to customers to run in the iOS Simulator…
It may do that on the web, on a desktop machine.

That’s not what happens on mobile.
The problem is that if you find yourself needing deep accessors, something is very wrong with your scopes. You are reaching across many levels of concerns which is a code smell.

So, by making it “nice” you are making a code smell less smelly, which feels good in the moment, at the syntax level, but makes your code worse at the architecture level.

This is roughly the story for all of ES6... make it “nice” to work with bad code, allowing bad code to look more similar to good code, until everything looks “nice” at the syntax level but you are surrounded by footguns that are impossible to find, and you need more and more static analysis tools (like TypeScript) to even be able to comprehend your control structures.

Callback hell isn’t bad because of indentation, it’s bad because there are too many handoffs in a small space. Promises make it easier to pack more handoffs into a small space, and guess what? Now the problem is even worse.

This new ? operator will make it easier than ever to pass on undefined values. In other words, it will make the problem it solves even worse.
Sorry, in relation to PG&E I meant stewardship of the power infrastructure on behalf of the public.

Obviously capitalism is efficient, but when it comes to a regulated monopoly like PG&E, I see it like a cost plus government contract.
The Swift ARC is not a "full" GC; it does have a runtime effect, but a lot of the work is done at compile-time, and no need for a background process like Java's GC.

That said, technically you are correct, it is a GC, just one with a lot lower overhead than something like Java/C#/JavaScript/Python.
I think there is a silent majority of people who are frustrated by the ongoing politicization of the workspace. They are quiet not because they don't care, but feel that it's rude to be so "loud" at work.
Only if they lost in the trades. (Most of them probably did.) If they won, then they truly robbed from the billionaires. They risked billionaire VC money (Robinhood's underwriting fund) to take money from some other billionaire investor's bad trade.
I really love this: "I invested in becoming someone people want to date." Very wise words.

Although this sentence (about the kind of people people want to date) from La Bruyere's Characters flashed cynically into my mind a moment later. :-)

A man who is vain, indiscreet, a great talker and a mischievous wag, who speaks arrogantly of himself and contemptuously of others, who is boisterous, haughty, forward, without morality, honesty, or commonsense, and who draws for facts on his imagination, wants nothing else, to be adored by many women, but handsome features and a good shape.

Also it reminded me of George Clooney writing somewhere that he started getting acting work after he totally changed his mindset in auditions–from asking, pleading give me something I want, to seeing himself as offering his talents, contributing something unique to the production–he had something they wanted, or should.
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https://i.imgur.com/HFmJJov.jpg

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Redoubt_%28Switzerlan...
You're exactly right. Walmart gets gigantic tax abatements that consumers never chose.
Oh, there's a bunch of ways you can try to make reverse engineering harder, but I don't think these techniques are really that common for most software.
A lot of non self-driving cars already handle this situation well as a safety feature, despite the responsibility being the driver's. It seems like any AV should have this as a baseline requirement.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/cars-make-progres...
When I said typed FP, I meant languages with ADTs.. Elm/Haskell etc., not Typescript! :)
People sometimes develop a foreign accent in their first language after a stroke
I keep my head down in language war discussions, but when people start the usual round of complaints and ridicule of C++, this is exactly what I think: I'm not sure we're actually talking about the same language.
In this case, however, it was a posted 56 km/h - 72 km/h zone on a 4 lane road. At that speed you can't react to a person that steps out in front of you. Particularly at night.

Regardless of speed, a pedestrian who "stepped out in front" of a car is pretty clearly the one with a better view and much more manuverable -- that's the action that made the situation dangerous. Not a car driving within the posted speed.
Coinbase has an auto buy on set interval function.
Heh, well if the drug is $4k a month and you can get the equivalent 5 year supply for $100 that leaves quite a bit of money left over for testing.

There are lab services that will run samples through a mass spec and report the results.
Most people would keep doing it until they lose it all. The original guy who lost $50k was at one point up net +$20k but still didn't close out.
One of my favorite interpretations of why capitalist/free markets have been so successful is that it channels human greed into productive use that benefits society.

So I think it's fine to reward greed when it does good things - even though it's not from the noblest motive.
https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
Because Chinas current market system is just about a decade old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_accounting_standards

By all means, investors want to put money into China. It’s the amount of money you want to put into an immature market that is the question. And that’s not a dig and it’s not jingoistic, it’s just a fact, when you run a large market for over a century you kinda build solid foundations that can’t just be replicated on the spot. China’s market developing is a great thing but it’s just too young to seriously think it’s ready to be a reserve currency today.
> but some of the best selling games of all time of have been made in Java

Any examples of this other than the obvious one (Minecraft)? That is the only one I can think of.
You can do that on Coinbase. There is a blog post here https://blog.coinbase.com/easier-recurring-buys-and-sells-on...
That thing is following very carefully-planned paths, not just hunting around of its own volition like a prospector would.
There is no human-level computer vision
> At that speed you can't react to a person that steps out in front of you.

So why are you going that fast where there are pedestrians?
Last time I checked QT depended on a signal/slot mechanism that was not C++ compatible. There was a code generator.

Has this changed?
I know nothing about japan so I worked the numbers

1. Japan's debt is 250% GDP (from GP)

2. At 2% interest rates, 100% of the tax haul will go towards servicing debt (from GP)

3. 2.5*0.02 = 0.05; Japans tax take is 5% of GDP?

#3 seems off by a factor of 6. So No clue what GP was suggesting.
It's the same as attributing the Sterling crash in '92 just to Soros. He had a large position and enough to move the market but he wasn't the only player, and probably small in comparison to all the retail investors who would have lost out late in the sell off panic.
Newer versions will try to upgrade iWork '09 documents, but often they will not do a particularly good job.
Late 2017 was nuts. I recall my brother texting me “Hey should I buy XRP?” out of the blue.

Wish I had had the presence of mind to realize it was time to get out.
Ask HN: Has anyone filed a GDPR complaint against HN?
Curious if anyone has complained, as I noticed they track IP addresses and the privacy policy hasn’t been updated to cover the GDPR.
If you allow recompiles, POSIX-compliant C programs older than that still work too.
Jaywalking is one of many things cop can arrest people for if they want to harass them.
The CPUC (state regulators) already stipulate literally how much money PG&E is allowed to make, i.e. target profit margin. PG&E isn't state-owned but is largely not allowed to make its own decisions.

Especially since the CPUC is not widely understood, this structure allows elected officials to present themselves as not being responsible for the tradeoffs PG&E has to make, even as the CPUC actually makes those decisions for them.
I think it's mostly about racism /tribalism and lack of decent education. The stuff about being left behind is just air cover to make it harder to hear the dog whistles. Disclosure: I live in a rural US location. Oh and I built my own Internet (last 10 miles) because the subsidies are all tailored to big companies who already have plenty money.
Pick a dollar amount and (buy|sell) that amount of Bitcoin every week on the same day at same time.

By making a 'dumb' plan, you remove the enticement to try and time the market.

Perhaps even more than wall street markets, it's hard to day trade Bitcoin successfully: most of the advice you'll read is by people who are either lying, exaggerating or got lucky. The major issue is that there is a TON of non-public information that is much more relevant to price levels than publicly available information. Many smart players who are using 'insider info' will be able to eat your lunch.

I fully expect that someone has a very accurate model of the quantity of deposits at some exchanges via address linking, and is watching inflows and outflows carefully. I also expect employees of Bitcoin exchanges are passing data to trader friends. Knowing when a big chunk of Bitcoin is about to be tradable on an exchange is a great sell indicator, and USD a great buy indicator.
It's ironic that this comment and the article blame Walmart so much, because Walmarts are often serving the most local produce because they have focused on the supply chain (local fresh food lasts longer than shipped fresh food and costs less to ship)

It's also ironic because we blame Walmart for killing the local grocery store (Ingles, PigglyWiggly, Winn Dixie) -- but ignore that they first took down the corner produce store, butcher, etc.
I bet you can add to it...
Literally they go out of business. Best example is Barings Bank:

"The bank collapsed in 1995 after suffering losses of £827 million (£1.6 billion today) resulting from fraudulent investments, primarily in futures contracts, conducted by its employee Nick Leeson, working at its office in Singapore. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barings_Bank
There's a lot of other reasons why it can go down and it wouldn't necessarily go down because of halving. But when a lot of people expect something to go up, it can have reverse effects.

A lot of people have this assumption that it will always go up after a halving, it very well might, but at the current price point, the average person can't even afford a single Bitcoin whereas at previous halving (in 2016) that was still doable (it was on the order of a few hundreds of dollars). At this stage, you would need big investors and probably that's what companies like Bakkt will allow.
Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
Of those that are driven over by a car speeding at 30km/h 10% die, at 50km/h 80% die. (Source: drivers education Sweden). Reducing your speed just a little helps a lot.
Tests of gravitational time dilation are also within the reach range of enthusiastic amateurs using second-hand atomic clocks:

Part 4 (starting pdf page 44) of http://web.stanford.edu/group/scpnt/pnt/PNT18/presentation_f... (slides)

Or if you prefer non-PDF:

http://leapsecond.com/great2005/

http://leapsecond.com/great2016a/
The first example can happen in TypeScript; foo has type

(() => Promise<void>) | undefined

admittedly it may not be all that common to have a function-valued variable that may be undefined, but it happened in the code base I was working with.

In the last example, you're right that TypeScript will catch this at compile time. My point was to show how this compile time error can happen from refactoring to use optional chaining, and one easy solution in this case.
Didn't the MIT LISP machines achieve this back in the 80s?
Couldn't see that number in the info at the link above, is that from the full article?
It's possible I'm just used to it, but I've never found std::string more complicated than, say, python (what's up with unicode in 2 vs 3?) or JavaScript (UTF-16 = surrogate pair pain).

It's essentially a std::vector<char> with a few random convenience features bolted on.

I guess some of the confusing points are: not unicode aware, string literals aren't std::strings by default, c_str returns a pointer to a buffer with length one greater than the string length, and the usual C++ quirks like why is there both data and c_str?
Breaking the law: How 8chan (or “8kun”) got (briefly) back online
Bitcoin has a usecase that makes sense, rare, government free money.

Xrp, centralized money. Just as unreliable as government money.

To this day, alt coins seem utterly useless. (Save privacy coins)
I’ve lived in towns where it was legal unless otherwise considered dangerous
The "free market" is a myth. Do you have a mortgage? Do you drive a car? Do you use the internet? Do you eat food? Do you spend money? Go to national parks? Drink water?

You are the recipient of govt subsidies. We are a society and as such, some things are more valuable than people are willing to pay for them, but yet still essential to keeping society functioning.
> To resolve the problem, users must force-close Firefox and then, immediately upon restarting it, quickly close the tab of the scammer site before it has time to load.

Wouldn't it be easier to disconnect from the internet before reopening Firefox?
I suspect that’s overstating it. If you cross against a red while traffic is coming, I doubt they just throw up their hands and wait.
It is "highly rational" in the sense that success at their chosen career means hitting financial targets defined over short time periods.

The behavior won't change until the incentives do.
Elon Musk Used to Write Sega Genenis/Megadrive Games for a Living
Delivery-Driven Policy – Policy Designed for the Digital Age
Why doesn't Robinhood just close the positions?

I'm pretty sure you could try something similar at any broker (write options, use the premium to buy on margin, rinse repeat), not all will block the trades but they do an account exposure/margin assessment periodically (hourly? daily?) and then take action.

For example a full service broker might call you and tell you to get within limits (a "margin call"). Low cost brokers like IB will just close all your positions regardless of loss.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fascinated-b...

"My wife was making fun of me, saying she thought there were three people on the honeymoon: me, her, and Augustus," Zuckerberg told the New Yorker. "All the photos were different sculptures of Augustus."

On his fascination with Augustus, Zuckerberg said, "Basically, through a really harsh approach, he established two hundred years of world peace. What are the trade-offs in that? On the one hand, world peace is a long-term goal that people talk about today. Two hundred years feels unattainable."
> Walmart often is not going to have food as fresh as a Farmers market or community store

Supposedly, Walmart fresh produce and meat is more locally sourced than the chain grocery stores. Because Walmart focuses on supply chain costs and order in larger quantities, they order more food from the region than anybody else.
Yes, some of it was organic, but towards the end of the bubble, folks were looking at tether printing and using that as a signal to buy / sell. People even during the bull run called out tether for being the biggest risk to crypto markets and understood that without this well-timed injection of cash into the crypto markets, the price would fall flat.

Given Crypto markets' propensity to scam, I'd be shocked if finex & co didn't engage in manipulation. Maybe not to the extent that the paper's authors claim - China, S. Korea, India all banned / tried to ban crypto and I think Chinese volume drying up was a major cause for the bubble popping.
You made a blog post that 10x leverage would be good given the past 12 months (where the market has mainly been up-up-up)? Doesn't that 100% ignore the effects of drag when the market goes down-down-down?
> Even if they are proven to not be negligent and they did all the preventative maintenance, they are still liable. Under this scenario, it doesn't matter if they do preventative maintenance or not since they are on the hook either way.

Yes, there is a strict liability regime. Yes, this makes the definition of negligence irrelevant. No, this doesn't make preventive maintenance irrelevant: strict liability only applies to fires caused by their equipment, and preventive maintenance obviously effects that (that's what it is preventive of.)

But, in any case, if there weren't at least negligence involved, the behavior contributing to the fires would probably not have been found to be a violation of their criminal probation on top of any civil liability for damage caused by the fire.
Which "principle" of free speech do you mean?

Absolutism: no speech is off-limits.

Maximalism: the range of ideas expressed must be maximized.

Those two ideals of free speech are incompatible. Variety of expressed views suffers immensely when people show up to attack all groups other than themselves.

And somehow, those people always show up.
That’s amusing. Insane, but amusing.
Ask HN: Does your team use a decision tracking tool?
Our engineering/product team is feeling the pain of having inherited a codebase and product with much of the earlier team having left. There are many things for which we have no context. It would've been nice if the reasons for them were documented someplace. We don't want to repeat the same mistake.

We could just do it in just a google doc but inevitably people forget which doc and it gets lost in the noise.

Has anyone used a tool like Memorist or similar to track decisions?
Quit operating?

Who's going to provide power to 16 million customers in California?
Feel like Coinbase fees are too high... even for Pro
Not trying to be insensitive but it is a peculiar death and a first.
This sounds like it may or may not be true. Is this all because of Elon Musk?
I wouldn't feel comfortable knowing Uber cut driver wages to beyond razor thin because I'd question if the driver (who is willing to work for next to nothing) is qualified to safely drive me around.
Is the definition of a "bubble" invalidated if the stock goes back up some time after the crash? It did drop initially from $20K to a low of $3,200, which is 84%.
What does having attempted armed robbery have to do with this?
Because ALL road user (pedestrians and bikes included) have an unspoken understanding that they will not behave in ways that deviate too far from the norms.

We do not (yet) live in a zero trust society. Pedestrians do not wait for far off cross traffic to come to a complete stop before crossing and drivers do not assume any pedestrian is going to dart out without some sort of body language warning. This allows both groups to accomplish their goals faster than if they had to verify the other wasn't going to do something dumb. It mostly works out as long as at least one party holds up their side of the bargain.
This happens. Not everywhere because as you say it needs basic infrastructure: e.g a Costco within 1h, jet airport within 2h, 100Mbit connectivity, and some other things like neighbors you'd want to talk to. There are plenty of software developers around here in southwest Montana.
Yeah: "The two measurements consist of approximately 100,000 s of low-height data and 40,000 s of high-height data, and the clocks exhibit (Fig. 3) a fractional frequency change of (4.1 ± 1.6) × 10^−17."
Jesus, the language they use. Jaywalkers are people.

Uber's self-driving car wasn't programmed to not hit people.

The fact that the person was in front of the machine at a part of the road that the machine didn't know to be a pedestrian crossing is irrelevant here.

FWIW, that person could've been a construction worker, and would've been hit by Uber just the same.

Human drivers aren't taught to look out for people only at pedestrian intersections. Those are the places where drivers have to be extra cautious because the people are more likely to cross the road there. But people (and animals, and other drivers) could be anywhere on the road.

Imagine this thinking applied to other machinery:

"I'm sorry, we only made a machine that doesn't kill people wearing blue pants. That person wore a skirt, so our machine was rightfully confused. We've made many improvements since".

"Jaywalker" is a word that was invented to shift the responsibility to victims of car accidents, and it's still being used that way. It's a deliberate usage of language to spin a narrative.
The big difference is the ‘default state.’ The default state in the UK is that as a pedestrian you are completely entitled to stride out confidently into any road to cross. The default state in the US is that you shouldn’t be there. Both parties should apply common sense, but by default you are entitled to cross the road.
Intelligence agency employees engage in LOVEINT.
> Well one reason could be that you are a commercial company and you make a proprietary appliance

Any other use cases other than licensing that would make somebody want to use *BSD instead of Linux/Mac?
Self-Hosted Runners for GitHub Actions
Also prominent in college towns. You can increase your chances of getting a ticket if you jaywalk while close “enough” to an actually crosswalk.
> The problems with diagnostics are not Xcode’s fault but rather limitations of the Swift compiler diagnostics engine.

True: https://swift.org/blog/new-diagnostic-arch-overview/
We use trello and Atlassian Confluence.
I can guarantee none of these tools come even remotely close to the features of Dockerfiles, docker-compsoe.yml, docker-machine, etc.
In the US the gas tax is only covers about 20% of the road budget in most states, the rest comes from other sources like income and property taxes. Public transport however is expected to be entirely self sufficient and is held up as an example of the failure of public projects when it ends up being more expensive than driving a car if you don't account for 80% of the roads funding.